Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Impressive levels of meme awareness from Senator Wyden —>
Joseph Zeballos-Roig @josephzeballos
A decade of GOP-led budget cuts decimated the IRS's ability to conduct audits of the wealthiest Americans and go through a swelling backlog of paper returns.
@RonWyden recently compared Republicans to "the guy in the hot dog suit"
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11:12 AM · Jun 8, 2022
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Nate Silver@NateSilver538
"Crime decreased, other than murder" is sort of a literal "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln—".
3:17 PM · Jun 8, 2022
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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
My least favorite housing trend (aside from rising costs): in 2009, 46 percent of new single-family homes were in a homeowner's association. In 2021 67 percent were. Are there people who like being in a homeowner's association?
3:53 PM · Jun 8, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
As Grisham (1992) argues, the structure of the American judiciary creates frighteningly large incentives to assassinate Supreme Court justices and the fact that it’s never happened seems a bit miraculous.
4:11 PM · Jun 8, 2022
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rat king@MikeIsaac
this is extremely funny because what the hell is Elon going to do with direct access to the firehose https://t.co/lpLQ2MVn8R
Will Oremus @WillOremus
New: Twitter’s board plans to comply with @elonmusk's demands for internal data by offering access to its full “firehose,” the massive stream of data comprising more than 500 million tweets posted each day, an inside source tells @lizzadwoskin. https://t.co/7bUzemeNlq
4:37 PM · Jun 8, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
"There may be broader lessons as well."
marginalrevolution.com
When should rhetoric be racially salient? - Marginal REVOLUTION
5:31 PM · Jun 8, 2022
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💀 damned sinker 💀@dansinker
We literally created the third largest government agency, changed how airports and air travel worked forever, implemented the Patriot act that gave the government sweeping surveillance powers, and changed what they call French Fries in the Congressional cafeteria but go on.
philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_
“Airplanes were used on [9/11] as the weapon to kill thousands of people and to inflict terror on our country. There wasn't a conversation about banning airplanes,” GOP Rep. Steve Scalise says while arguing against gun control measures
https://t.co/ll5sVixuUI
6:03 PM · Jun 8, 2022
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