Matt@tiredgenerally
the problem with progressive language is that it’s a collection of shibboleths not a real set a policy priorities. you can use it to describe anything. the most racist HOA’s on the planet now talk to the press like they’re marxist urban planning students.
Joe @JoePostingg
Feels like there's a trend where people use woke language to excuse pathological \ antisocial behavior.
5:23 PM · Jan 4, 2023
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Semi-Pro Storm Chaser@soulfocussports
Capitola Beach and Pier are under siege with tide and surf still rising. https://t.co/Z7lu3zUe5y
3:42 PM · Jan 5, 2023
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Scott Lincicome@scottlincicome
"President Biden has announced one of the largest expansions in legal migration in decades.... This is the first serious intentional effort to use legal migration to secure the border since the 1950s Bracero Program." - @David_J_Bier cato.org/blog/bidens-ne…
7:53 PM · Jan 6, 2023
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
This @ParkerMolloy take on why I’m bad struck me as pretty reasonable.
Relative to a lot of people in the takes game I’m friendly to the status quo — I think Americans in 2023 enjoy some of the highest living standards of anyone anywhere in history.
readtpa.com/p/thomas-zimme…
9:00 PM · Jan 6, 2023
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
What her take misses is the other thing that’s “centrist” about me is that the issue where I do favor very large departures from the status quo is land use regulation, an issue that doesn’t happen to be strongly aligned with partisan activist blocs.
slowboring.com
Housing reform shouldn’t be a super-polarized partisan issue
9:11 PM · Jan 6, 2023
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Either the debt ceiling will be raised and things will be fine, or else the debt ceiling will be ignored through one means or another and Republicans will be able to sue and lose if they want to.
But there’s no universe in which the country defaults or they win concessions.
9:25 PM · Jan 6, 2023
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Exactly so — Joe Biden has a solemn constitutional obligation to spend all the money already required by law and no money not required by law.
The putative debt ceiling is plainly unconstitutional and irrelevant.
Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank
The entire argument is for cutting Congress out of the process of funding the federal government, which is the most essential function of the House & was given to the House specifically to make the power of the purse turn on the continuing outcomes of biennial elections. https://t.co/m3mApjvBta
10:47 PM · Jan 6, 2023
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
The existing set of appropriations will expire when they expire at which point the House and Senate will either agree to extend them with a continuing resolution, update them with no appropriations bills, or else they won’t and the government will shut down.
10:49 PM · Jan 6, 2023
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Justin Mares@jwmares
1990: zero states with obesity rates above 20%
2018: zero states with obesity rates below 20%
Not to mention an explosion in chronic disease, cancer, ADHD, inflammation...
Something has to change. And that something is our broken food system.
7:38 PM · Jan 6, 2023
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