Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇@Noahpinion
I believe this is called the Secret Congress theory
Matt Grossmann @MattGrossmann
Congress is on track to pass up to 8 modestly significant bipartisan bills:
sex assault arbitration, violence against women, omnibus spending, USICA, congressional stock ban, electoral count act, online abuse, & posts reform
https://t.co/dKutrOD5Sl
6:10 AM · Feb 12, 2022
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Sam Freedman@Samfr
Great piece by @duncanrobinson on "Unpopulism" - the belief amongst politicians, particularly on the right, that their causes are populist when they are not. economist.com/britain/2022/0…
9:55 AM · Feb 12, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Ukraine situation has unfortunately broken the brains of some restrainers (a group I normally identify with).
Yes, the US shouldn’t go to war with Russia — but we’re not going to!
The big point is that Russia shouldn’t further attack Ukraine!!!
2:32 PM · Feb 12, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Remote work is going to pull people away from some of the priciest metros, but I’m skeptical that it’s the most-depressed areas that will benefit — it’s going to be the most amenity-rich ones.
nytimes.com
Far From the Big City, New Economic Life
3:17 PM · Feb 12, 2022
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im on here@swamp_land
Out: Jet fuel can't melt steel beams
In: Jet fuel doesnt exist
1:51 AM · Feb 12, 2022
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Alexander Berger@albrgr
Always crazy realizing how big NASA was during the Apollo era: hbs.edu/ris/Publicatio…
9:46 PM · Feb 12, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Unfortunately as America has shown over the past twenty years sometimes counties launch wars that don’t make sense.
Oliver Carroll @olliecarroll
An invasion into Ukraine still doesn’t make sense. If it happens, we’ve underestimated Russia’s current problems.
9:51 PM · Feb 12, 2022
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Kareem Rifai 🌐@KareemRifai
woooooooooosh
7:27 PM · Feb 12, 2022
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Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇@Noahpinion
Yes, this -->
Zefram Marks @ZeframM
@Hyper_lexic I honestly do think a cause of the recent increase in crime is a deliberate, decentralized, crypto-strike of police because they want to collectively punish the public for 2020. Especially in cities.
10:57 PM · Feb 12, 2022
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James Medlock@jdcmedlock
Libertarians are right about some things sometimes, and it’s important to co-opt those positions so as to not give an otherwise unserious ideology ammunition
11:24 PM · Feb 12, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
It does seem pretty bad that internet companies have created this accountability-free bazaar of stolen goods.
axios.com
Shoplifting reaches crisis proportions
1:24 AM · Feb 13, 2022
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Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇@Noahpinion
Note that they did not exempt single-family homes, @DeanPreston
tylercowen @tylercowen
"Kyoto will be the first local government to penalise people who leave houses empty for an extended period." https://t.co/Ir5n5r6TBa
3:41 AM · Feb 13, 2022
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