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It’s a slippery slope from using “liberal” in this way to calling rich people “middle class” because they don’t have hereditary titles and next thing you know you’ll be saying the fancy places that charge tuition are public schools.

Peak performance is when the outside dining area is so well-sheltered from the wind that there’s no air flow, but the plastic stuff is still terrible insulation so it’s very cold.

I mean it was pretty obvious at the time that the whole primary season policy debate was insanely detached from the reality of senate politics — Dems ended up with more seats than a reasonable 2019 forecast would have predicted. https://t.co/480gsSRbBp

Jeff Stein @JStein_WaPo

Everyone gets mad if you say this but the median senate seat is R+6 so it’s going to be extremely challenging to pass any progressive legislation — you can either give up, or else try to come up with ideas to shift the electoral geography and reduce the education/density skew.

I think it’s good that everyone wants to claim this legacy, no matter how implausibly. https://t.co/XpB0XUggkI

FBI @FBI

Compare the 2020 and 2008 platforms (never mind, say, 1992) and that's an *exceptionally* hard argument to defend.
presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/2020…
presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/2008…

Peter Daou @peterdaou

Houston: Lack of tenant protections plus ample housing = unstable housing
Sweden: Strong tenant protections plus lack of housing = unstable housing
Japan: Strong tenant protections plus ample housing = stable housing




Hope this is wrong. But notable that Teixeira was one of the guys who wrote the famous book claiming that demographics made a Democratic majority inevitable, so it's good to see him worrying about this!

Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani

Keto-ing myself to Master Race status

Jenny @Jenny_Trout

Huh. The Texas synagogue attack was international terrorism, it turns out. The dude was British. He flew all the way to another hemisphere to take some Jews hostage.


"A Gun Company Is Now Selling a Handheld Semi-Automatic Railgun" | #NewRoaring20s

Futurism @futurism

Wait, this makes CRT sound totally metal and awesome

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @realchrisrufo