Indradeep Khan@indradeepkhan
@Noahpinion Found this quite an eye opener
foreignpolicy.com
Japan Radically Increased Immigration—and No One Protested
6:21 AM · May 22, 2022
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Andrew Exum@ExumAM
This struck me as a very balanced assessment of the big @nytimes Haiti project. The Times does great work and could have benefited — not for the first time, or surely the last — from a little more humility.
Paul Cohen @Paul_E_Cohen
on the one hand, the @nytimes in-depth piece on Haitian 'reparations' to France brings much-needed attention onto a decisive moment in world history -- and its argument that the neocolonial constraints imposed by FR and US on Haiti has helped keep ...
https://t.co/2Vovf1fkdo
2:33 PM · May 22, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
This doesn't mean Russia is winning the soft-power war, but it's doing a hell of a lot better than it deserves to be doing, even as its armies flail ineffectually on the battlefield.
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3:44 PM · May 22, 2022
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Donald Shoup@DonaldShoup
Oregon Nears Green Light for Big Parking Reform “Rarely do we get a chance to do so much good for free.”sightline.org/2022/05/21/ore… @andersem via @Sightline
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Oregon Nears Green Light for Big Parking Reform
4:55 PM · May 22, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
Left Twitter is an op
12:38 AM · May 23, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
Antifa mostly disappeared when fascists mostly stopped marching in the streets, as one would expect from a group whose name specifies that it exists only to fight fascists.
12:45 AM · May 23, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
This demonstrates that I was right to support antifa, and the cons who thought they were the vanguard of some kind of revolutionary force were wrong.
12:48 AM · May 23, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I think when people leveled these criticisms of Bush they were worried about the invasion of Iraq and the global network of secret torture prisons, and Biden really hasn’t done anything like that.
Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi
The mainstream Democratic Party project has merged in every meaningful way with the militaristic, authoritarian, surveillance-heavy vision of the Bush presidency, with woke fundamentalism replacing Bush’s “faith-based” evangelism:
https://t.co/puc60eGJfn
1:36 AM · May 23, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
254. George W. Bush's idea to create an "ownership society" was a good one. What he got wrong was in thinking this could be accomplished through cheap loans, rather than through outright transfers (as the G.I. Bill did).
1:48 AM · May 23, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
255. George W. Bush really did try to make "compassionate conservatism" a thing, in his own lame incompetent way. If he had been more competent at domestic policy he could have been the Republican LBJ - a president with good domestic accomplishments marred by an unjust war.
1:55 AM · May 23, 2022
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