Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
64,000 likes for a proposal to give everyone $23 bucks in lieu of working for two weeks?
12:38 PM · Jan 6, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Sincerely think Bernie should designate someone to run a boot camp for other Democratic staffers on how to take a question on any topic and within three sentences wrestle it back to an answer about billionaires.
Not always the right answer, but it's a very valuable skill.
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
1/6 is an area where I think most Democrats would benefit from a visit to the Bernie Sanders School of Mildly Reductionist Class Politics — you want to articulate to people a theory of *why* there is this large, institutionally entrenched anti-democratic movement.
3:25 PM · Jan 6, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I think this is true, but to underscore that Twitter is not real life …
… on here I’m the contrarian and the people yelling at me are the liberals, but what’s happening in the real world the mayor of chicago and the secretary of education are pushing for open schools https://t.co/2Q7R26RtPv
Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn
Twitter, as you know, is not real life. But what happens on Twitter is not isolated from reality.
A Sanders/Warren left may not be a majority of Dems, but it's real/important! You can tell on Twitter.
On Twitter today, you can tell COVID politics have shifted, even decisively
5:26 PM · Jan 6, 2022
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Greg Sargent@ThePlumLineGS
I tried to imagine how the both-sides media would cover a successful Trump coup in 2024:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
4:45 PM · Jan 6, 2022
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Mozilla@mozilla
Last week, we tweeted a reminder that Mozilla accepts cryptocurrency donations. This led to an important discussion about cryptocurrency’s environmental impact. We’re listening, and taking action. 1/4
5:30 PM · Jan 6, 2022
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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
This is an absolutely scathing report card on biden’s first year in immigration policy. Cato’s immigration scholars plausibly characterize it as Donald Trump’s second term.
cato.org
8:53 PM · Jan 6, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
I know labor force participation isn't quite back to where it was pre-Covid, but if you told me in April 2020 that we'd have a 4.1% unemployment rate in January 2022, I would have laughed at you.
This is an amazing accomplishment.
James Pethokoukis @JimPethokoukis
📈 GOLDMAN SACHS: "We estimate nonfarm payrolls rose 500k, above consensus of +444k. We believe the pre-Omicron payroll trend was much firmer than the 210k pace reported for November—perhaps as high as +600k ... We estimate a one-tenth drop in the unemployment rate to 4.1%."
9:00 PM · Jan 6, 2022
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Andrew Prokop@awprokop
It's interesting that two of the most-criticized moves of public health officials (claiming masks don't work in spring 2020, slow-walking boosters for all in summer 2021) were theoretically done in the service of managing scarce resources
Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion
Remember the "public health" people who told us that boosters "aren't the Omicron solution"?
Guess what: They were.
Get your booster. https://t.co/VqH3pM3Rlh
9:28 PM · Jan 6, 2022
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Andrew Prokop@awprokop
To prevent a stolen 2024 election, I would simply prevent Trump from being the GOP nominee again
vox.com/22870396/janua…
4:01 AM · Jan 7, 2022
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