Aaron 🥑🚈🚰🏀@aceckhouse
Portantino started biking a lot last year https://t.co/Q3EIu5u99p
Josh @JalbyMD
SB 932 by Portantino would make any city that is adopting a general plan include bike lanes, pedestrian improvements and traffic calming as part of their circulation plan.
https://t.co/oVnMUym8j1
5:49 AM · Feb 8, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Last week's jobs report was widely misunderstood — it's true we got a good result despite omicron, but that doesn't mean omicron wasn't impacting the economy.
If anything it should increase our confidence that the virus has been holding back growth.
slowboring.com
The real story behind last week’s jobs report
11:49 AM · Feb 8, 2022
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KJ Charles (needs to get back to work)@kj_charles
I get tired of talking about my job. So I ask questions to redirect the conversation. Which just led to:
Hairdresser: What do you do?
Me: Oh, I'm a writer, books and stuff. What do you do?
Hairdresser, ie the woman cutting my hair at that very moment: ...I'm a hairdresser.
11:17 AM · Feb 8, 2022
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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
Differing views on this seem to be driven by Trump derangment syndrome. The Russian ads were pro-Trump while Trump was anti-TikTok, and so people sort themselves into the appropriate partisan camps.
3:20 PM · Feb 8, 2022
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Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇@Noahpinion
Hope @EmilyRPeck hasn't gone through my timeline and discovered all the times I criticized Elizabeth Holmes and Marjorie Taylor Greene...this could be the moment I'm exposed 😅😅😅
Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇 @Noahpinion
In which @EmilyRPeck, markets reporter for @axios, declares that I criticized MMT not because MMT is an untestable pseudo-theory promulgated by a nasty online cult, but because...
*checks notes*
... Stephanie Kelton is a woman.
https://t.co/XX4VZhkoZv
6:46 PM · Feb 8, 2022
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Variety@Variety
Kirsten Dunst on being nominated for an Oscar alongside her partner Jesse Plemons: "It’s like a storybook." bit.ly/34Kt0XK
7:01 PM · Feb 8, 2022
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Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇@Noahpinion
LOL, they exempted single-family homes from the vacancy tax
Dean Preston @DeanPreston
This morning, @DSA_SF @FIABayArea and my office announced the filing of an Empty Homes Tax ballot measure! It's estimated to bring ~5,000 housing units online in two years and raise over $38m annually for homelessness prevention & affordable housing. https://t.co/esxmrexa8C
7:53 PM · Feb 8, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Turning vacant units into occupied units is great.
And a great way to do it is to allow people to build more new units, which then become vacant until occupied.
Dean Preston @DeanPreston
This morning, @DSA_SF @FIABayArea and my office announced the filing of an Empty Homes Tax ballot measure! It's estimated to bring ~5,000 housing units online in two years and raise over $38m annually for homelessness prevention & affordable housing. https://t.co/esxmrexa8C
8:12 PM · Feb 8, 2022
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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍@wafoli
Once you understand that most incumbents in this city operate like cartels, every decision makes more sense. It’s such a limited zero sum attitude
sfchronicle.com
S.F.’s Great Highway food truck experiment ends after outcry from nearby business owners
10:21 PM · Feb 8, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
It’s interesting that when I was young all the new music was good but that’s become less true over time as I age.
12:58 AM · Feb 9, 2022
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Hiroko Tabuchi@HirokoTabuchi
Because people still won't believe me when I say Tokyo rents are infinitely more affordable than NYC: this light-filled, modern apartment is 15 mins by train from Shibuya, and is going for approx $1,250 a month. realtokyoestate.co.jp/estate.php?n=1…
11:20 PM · Feb 8, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
It's because free vaccines became widely available but a significant minority of the population has chosen not to take them — a highly regrettable course of events, but one which essentially requires us to "normalize" in the face of their obstinacy.
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan
The daily average for Covid deaths in this country is still above 2 and a half *thousand.*
2.5k Americans a day. A day.
And yet some say it's time to move on from the pandemic. It's 'peaked.' Back to normal. Off ramps. Etc.
How did we normalize mass death in this country?
2:05 AM · Feb 9, 2022
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