Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
Alex Tabarrok is exactly right: Getting tough on crime means hiring more detectives and catching more criminals, NOT imposing longer prison sentences.
marginalrevolution.com
How to Get Tough on Crime - Marginal REVOLUTION
3:43 AM · Apr 7, 2022
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John Hamasaki@HamasakiLaw
The problem with police openly doing crimes like this is the message it sends - if police don’t follow the law, why should you? Especially considering it buts bicycle and scooter riders in danger. https://t.co/tLPp8VfjNr
Mayor John J. Bauters @JohnBauters
These SFPD officers are sitting inside Super Duper eating while blocking a Muni bus stop and cyclists weave into Market St. traffic. We reduce road deaths and reach #VisionZero not by spending more money on the empty promise of enforcement, but on safe street infrastructure. https://t.co/deHvsycrGj
4:44 AM · Apr 7, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
This is exactly what Chuck Schumer doesn't seem to get about his job.
Annie Karni @anniekarni
"Why do they hate you," @jonathanvswan asks Mitch McConnell, of his low approval rating.
Response: "I'm not running for anything, nationally." When you're running a party, you make people "irritated."
1:10 PM · Apr 7, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Schumer is an extremely skilled politician who unfortunately has continued to prioritize his *personal* political needs having stepped into a leadership role that requires McConnell Energy where you're willing to be the bad guy on behalf of the caucus.
slowboring.com
Chuck Schumer should call the Baileys
1:11 PM · Apr 7, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
As a popularist, I would advise American politicians to embrace our nation's love of hard work and French politicians to embrace their nation's love of being lazy.
1:43 PM · Apr 7, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I strongly feel the NYT should ban all its personnel from tweeting.
It would strengthen the Times' brand and credibility, and also let me gain more mindshare on twitter.
Steven Perlberg @perlberg
New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet has issued a Twitter "reset" for the newsroom, urging reporters to "meaningfully reduce" their twitter time and reminding them that tweets and subtweets attacking or undermining their colleagues are not allowed https://t.co/kM0OldIVxS
2:23 PM · Apr 7, 2022
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Chris Willis@CWillis_Worm
Please enjoy this ShotSpotter thread where an exec tries to use their burner account to argue with the OP and gets found out in the process
cc: @disnazzio
T. Greg Doucette @greg_doucette
Just sharing a casual reminder that ShotSpotter quite literally *fabricates gunshots* when requested by police: https://t.co/QNgorbnRNE
Rolling it out in Durham should be terrifying for people https://t.co/UGR2Z0s4OH
1:25 PM · Apr 7, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
Bill Clinton is right. NATO expansion was good, and prescient. If we hadn't done it, Poland and the Baltics would now be experiencing what Ukraine is experiencing.
Bill Clinton @BillClinton
I wrote an essay for the Atlantic about why I continue to believe we made the right decision expanding NATO. https://t.co/XotdxRCVao
5:59 PM · Apr 7, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
Countries that have formal military alliances with the United States of America have a habit of not getting invaded.
6:01 PM · Apr 7, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
10/Critics often trot out pie charts showing that defense is a huge part of "discretionary" spending.
But that's only because we've chosen to label health, welfare, and retirement spending "mandatory" -- which reflects the fact that we prioritize those things highly!!
6:44 PM · Apr 7, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
OMG this is true. YA has now been standardized into a bunch of rigid genre conventions designed to make 35-year-olds feel like they're reading something that was written for 14-year-olds.
James Palmer @BeijingPalmer
"young adult" being mostly taken over by adult readers in the 2000s did immense damage to the best writing for children and adolescents. https://t.co/B25yIlv3LN
7:44 PM · Apr 7, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Subsidizing gas consumption puts money right into Russia’s pocket … any other form of relief would be better https://t.co/CPp8hf5vVN
*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone
*N.Y. WILL SUSPEND STATE GAS TAX FROM JUNE 1 TO DECEMBER 31
9:04 PM · Apr 7, 2022
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Neoliberal 🌐🇺🇦@ne0liberal
7:28 PM · Apr 7, 2022
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