Colin McMillen@mcmillen
and that's why Arizona needs more money to beef up security on their land border with [checks notes] China
11:42 AM · Apr 20, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Granting that there are some logistical snags with distribution as well as public ignorance, I think people who want to do more to protect the vulnerable from Covid should focus on *solving those problems* so people can get the medicine they need.
Quantian @quantian1
Not to go all Yggy on people, but it *is* wild that we have a straight-up cure for Covid now and people are just not taking it
2:26 PM · Apr 20, 2022
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Rebecca Klein@rklein90
New York state has allotted millions of dollars to turn hotels into affordable housing. But onerous zoning laws has made the plan impossible to implement, via @SamMellins
nysfocus.com
Zoning Laws Are Blocking the Conversion of Hotels into Affordable Housing - New York Focus
4:39 PM · Apr 20, 2022
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Maria Snegovaya@MSnegovaya
Big news from Russia today is that China's payment system UnionPay which was widely advertised in Russia as an alternative to Visa/Mastercard, has refused to cooperate with Russia's largest bank Sberbank our of fear of being sanctioned by the West.
t.me
NEXTA Live
2:28 PM · Apr 20, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
Most importantly, due to sanctions, these vehicles are mostly not getting replaced.
Blake Allen @Blake_Allen13
Russia has now lost 3k, visually identified, military vehicles. The toll this war has taken on their armed forces is staggering. And we still have multiple regions where we don’t know the true scale of Russian losses (and new losses are being found every day in the north) https://t.co/RYpeKyfR83
5:00 PM · Apr 20, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
WRT Netflix, I think people are underestimating the extent to which further growth is inherently hard once you reach a certain scale.
The Slow Boring growth curve has flattened out a lot; my best customers already signed up.
9:31 PM · Apr 20, 2022
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Mike Duncan@mikeduncan
If you look at birth years of presidential candidates back to 1789 they typically follow each other by 4-8 years as you'd expect (1732, 1735, 1743, 1751 etc)
Then in 1992 we hit people born in the 1940s and it just grinds to an absolute halt...
10:20 PM · Apr 20, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
Musk actually did fight Putin for the future of Ukraine...but it wasn't a boxing match.
Rob Lee @RALee85
The performance and role of SpaceX's Starlink in Ukraine is one of the most interesting aspects of this war. It also demonstrates the huge advantage the US has with innovative high-tech private companies. https://t.co/wzS0tBLmoQ
11:00 PM · Apr 20, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Unless they sent @DonaldShoup, exporting US parking regulations is probably the most dangerous thing we could do short provoking a nuclear war.
Michael Tracey @mtracey
The US has been so granularly embedded in the governance of Ukraine that it even created a plan for street parking https://t.co/BXbDZQZqWn
2:31 AM · Apr 21, 2022
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Mike Duncan@mikeduncan
I guess that explains why the Second International didn't implode in 1914 and instead went on to usher in a new age of international solidarity.
Richard D. Wolff @profwolff
In World War 1 leading leftists rejected both sides. Eugene Victor Debs (US) and Vladimir Lenin (Russia) urged their respective working classes not to support or fight and die in what they called a capitalist war.
4:11 AM · Apr 21, 2022
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