sam deutsch@samdman95
it’s almost like the transit nerds were right all along
and @elonmusk was wrong
Adam Tranter @adamtranter
It turns out the congestion-busting “future of transport” is already experiencing congestion.
https://t.co/yJY9b0Nwjj
8:40 PM · Jan 6, 2022
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Steve Vladeck@steve_vladeck
As #SCOTUS gets set to hear two pairs of emergency applications relating to the OSHA vaccinate-or-test rule & the CMS vaccination mandate for health care workers, a reminder that the Court *itself* requires all attorneys appearing before it to be tested:
supremecourt.gov/announcements/…
12:53 PM · Jan 7, 2022
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Derek Thompson@DKThomp
Between Omicron (crazy transmissible! but much milder!) and this jobs report (yucky jobs growth! fantastically low unemployment!) it really is a wild time for takemongers in the pick-your-own-narrative market. Be safe out there.
1:41 PM · Jan 7, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
The establishment and household surveys keep diverging because everyone is making it big on substack.
1:51 PM · Jan 7, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Next month is the annual revision of the establishment benchmarks, and I'll be interested to see what happens there.
I think it is genuinely possible that we've seen a boom in self-employment and new small firms.
Darrell 🌐 @BlackMadness317
@mattyglesias Lol is there a real reason they keep diverging?
1:56 PM · Jan 7, 2022
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Colin McMillen@mcmillen
Celeste Ng @pronounced_ing
welp, just learned that ~1/2 the school testing pools in Cambridge taken Mon were positive, but the lab messed up and will not be able to identify which individual kids are positive, meanwhile they've all been back together at school yesterday & today
2:02 PM · Jan 7, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Everyone* hates educated liberals so much** these days that you can just write lots of obviously untrue things about them on the internet.
* Especially educated liberals
** To be clear, I hate us too
SamuelGoldman @SWGoldman
Nice formulation. "To be a member of the liberal elite today is to live a life that is as regulated as an Orthodox Jew’s and to possess a conscience that’s as tortured as a Calvinist’s."
https://t.co/eAptXt9jYW
2:43 PM · Jan 7, 2022
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Simon Rosenberg@SimonWDC
It's #JobsReport day so time to update our jobs tracker.
The topline:
34m jobs = 16 yrs Clinton Obama
6.2m jobs = 11 months Biden
2m jobs = 16 years 2 Bushes Trump
Already 3 times as many Biden jobs as last 3 GOP Presidents, COMBINED. 1/
3:55 PM · Jan 7, 2022
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Aaron Chalfin@AaronChalfin
The progressive prosecutor's gamble is that many offenders aren't nearly as motivated as we think they are, that the CJ system further entrenches criminal identity and that a lighter touch could actually enhance public safety. Could that be right? Thread 👇
5:02 PM · Jan 7, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Or to put it in vetted-by-the-CDC-process terms "there is no evidence that the CDC's obsessive proceduralism leads to beneficial public health outcomes."
7:22 PM · Jan 7, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Controversial take, but I would rather not die.
mediaite.com/tv/candace-owe…
2:15 AM · Jan 8, 2022
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