Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
The Hezbollah strategy?
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes
An increasingly mainstream message of gun maximalists is that the *reason* to be armed is so that you can use violence or the threat of it to get your way in the political sphere, basically:"People in government need to worry we'll pump their bodies full of lead if they cross us"
7:05 AM · Jun 4, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I’ve been mystified that it’s taken this long for leaks of this nature to come out.
bloomberg.com
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
3:24 PM · Jun 4, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
My best guess (an informed guess but also an unconfirmed one so don’t put too much weight on it) is the administration assumed Manchin and others would demand big cuts and thus didn’t think too hard about whether $1.8 trillion was optimal or not.
3:26 PM · Jun 4, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
The way I would put it is that if signing on to @perrybaconjr's ten-point plan made you a "Mainstream Democrat in Good Standing" even if you deviated on other topics, that would open the door to much more moderation and be very constructive.
4:52 PM · Jun 4, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I keep seeing different versions of this mistake — Russia’s trade balance is “improving” not despite the sanctions but because of them. They are now unable to import much stuff so the foreign currency is piling up uselessly.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
12:07 AM · Jun 5, 2022
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