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AB257 would create the Fast Food Council and introduce sectoral bargaining in California - for @LongBeachPost #ab257
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Some important polling simulations here:
If you believe Senate polls today have no national bias toward the Democrats, then they are ~80% to hold the majority (based only on polls, not fundamentals)
If you think polls will be as biased as in 2020, they are slight underdogs
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I'm often asked, "If we've made progress, why are suicide rates spiking?" The answer is they're not: Worldwide, the death rate from suicides fell almost 40% in 3 decades. In the US, it's drifted up & down & at last count was a bit lower than in 1990. ourworldindata.org/grapher/suicid…
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This Mikhail Gorbachev Pizza Hut commercial is what historians will someday say marked the real end of the cold war and is a masterpiece.
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Gorbachev “was neither a dissident nor a revolutionary. He intended to reform the Soviet Union, not destroy it. But his aversion to violence and his belief in the Enlightenment were enough to finish a system held together by repression and lies.”
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"Gorbachev’s greatest virtue was arguably his capacity to fail productively, to fail yet to learn. Unlike so many leaders, he evolved," writes @MarkGaleotti
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"Lauded in the west as a hero, he was condemned by many in Russia for wrecking its economy and putting paid to its superpower status. In reality, he attempted to reform a system in terminal decline, and thereby triggered a revolution he could not control"
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Forgotten in the West, ignored in the East, reviled in Russia. And yet he was too good a man to be a politician.
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Was this an accurate translation? Because this is one of the Trumpiest things I've ever heard Xi say.
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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn