Liam Bright@lastpositivist
I wrote an angry blog post to make everyone hate me. On attitudes to punishment and reconciliation among leftists.
sootyempiric.blogspot.com
A Brief But Angry Post
9:14 AM · May 29, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
People who want stricter gun laws dramatically outnumber people who want laxer rules, which generates the anti-gun sentiment we see in the discourse.
But 41% of the public are happy with the status quo.
2:04 PM · May 29, 2022
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Sara Eisen@SaraEisen
This policy of Covid testing before entering the U.S. seems out of date and ineffective. via @nytimes
nytimes.com
Testing Positive and Using the ‘Backdoor’ to Get Into the U.S.
2:33 PM · May 29, 2022
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Arpit Gupta@arpitrage
This WSJ story about the crypto crash is a good time to revisit Matt Levine's favored securities regulation regime:
wsj.com/articles/terra…
3:29 PM · May 29, 2022
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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
I think thinking like this shapes a lot of the perception that living standards are falling. American culture encourages people to aim high. So people aspire to live in one of their metro area’s most desirable neighborhoods.
4:47 PM · May 29, 2022
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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
And rising wealth means that homes in the most desirable neighborhoods are getting expensive much faster than the median home. So some folks mistake their inability to buy into an exclusive neighborhood for a general decline in affordability.
4:47 PM · May 29, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I semi-agree with this characterization — "doing nothing" is good politics (there's a reason Larry Hogan and Charlie Baker and Susan Collins and Joe Manchin are all so popular!) and while that doesn't mean you should never do anything, people should have their eyes open.
9:20 PM · May 29, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Own the developers by making it see easy to get permits to build new housing by right that construction crews just do it on their own.
12:30 AM · May 30, 2022
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