This building is a couple of blocks from me. DC's historic preservation board is trying to force low-income residents to pay $10,000 to $28,000 each to restore decorative balconies on this 100-year-old apartment building. Outrageous.
The frustrating thing about these math education debates is that the people trying to cancel math (yes, this is a loose figure of speech) seem to believe deeply and instinctively that American kids are dum-dums who can't learn math, so we should give up...
The Contact Hypothesis rules everything around me
Ethan Mollick @emollick
Manchin has been pretty defensive today. If he were totally comfortable being seen as killing BBB he'd just say that. He's not, so there's still an opening.
John Bresnahan @bresreports
Yes, I think it's not just that teachers (wrongly) think their kids are too dumb to learn math, but that some also think (wrongly) that they themselves are too dumb to TEACH math. IQism all the way down.
Very Concerned Citizen Kane @Quinnsanity22
Trust the political science — people care a lot about gas prices https://t.co/BuUT2JkYP4
Matt Grossmann @MattGrossmann
The fork in the road was Dems' decision to respond to Manchin's cost cap by keeping almost everything in for fewer years, rather than doing fewer things.
It seemed the latter path would have made too many constituencies mad, but looks like we'll end up there anyway
Benjy Sarlin @BenjySarlin
This tweet is getting mocked a lot but we're talking about a tiny amount of money and it's important to think at the margin. Doubling congressional salaries wouldn't eliminate temptations to behave corruptly. But if it made Congress 10 percent less corrupt it would be a bargain.
Timothy B. Lee @binarybits
The ACLU is experiencing Activist Mission Creep. @JeremiahDJohns wrote about this phenomenon earlier this year, and why it's a bad idea:
exponentsmag.org/2021/05/20/aga…
ACLU @ACLU
It is worth noting that the biggest anti-poverty effects of BBB's child tax credit provisions (extending it to poor and nonworking families previously excluded) are pretty cheap.
The expensive part is the bigger credit for middle and upper-middle class families
Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur