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Jonathan Powell@jnpowell1
22% of voters have shifted in the direction of a United Ireland as a result of Brexit
7:06 PM · Dec 12, 2021
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Powell's thesis here is "Boris Johnson had done more for a United Ireland than the IRA ever did."
Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬@lymanstoneky
This is actually a really nice example of how "ideological" roots of fertility change stories fall apart. We see big declines even in subpops where preferences demonstrably did not change!
Leopold Aschenbrenner @leopoldasch
This stat still gets me: the Mormon fertility rate is falling precipitously, now barely above replacement (!!)
If even the Mormons are headed this way, what hope is there for the rest of us?
https://t.co/JQ9Swqlcqb https://t.co/sOtRjPKL7u
7:28 PM · Dec 13, 2021
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As much as people worry about overpopulation, living in a world of shrinking population is not going to be fun.
Sharat Ganapati@sharatganapati
Uniform and cheap postal mail led to more correspondence, new discoveries and inventions in formerly rural and outlying areas.
A super cool new paper by @ferdinandomonte, Hanlon, Heblich, Schmitz
walkerhanlon.com/papers/A_Penny…
11:59 PM · Dec 13, 2021
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Good things can happen when people can communicate.
Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
I see Xi as very similar to the alt-right folks who bash "neoliberalism" but whose proposed alternative is herrenvolk socialism.
Xi seems to imagine that racial/national solidarity, rather than genuine class-based redistribution, will knit his country back together.
Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs
Xi Jinping cannot admit that his country faces many of the same economic problems that have shaped the United States, writes @yuenyuenang. Rather than tackle them directly, he has launched a new campaign against inequality in China.
https://t.co/SXb4b6lhEx
8:28 PM · Dec 13, 2021
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Herrenvolk socialism is a play on herrenvolk democracy, where only the majority ethnic group participates in democracy, and minority groups are disenfranchised.
Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Prison has three purposes:
A) retribution
B) rehabilitation
C) removal from society
Grad school accomplishes all three of these objectives.
Thus, my prison reform proposal is to turn prison into grad school.
9:40 PM · Dec 13, 2021
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Depending on how you do it, this could actually be cheaper.
Ezra Klein@ezraklein
Damn. @AnnieLowrey gets results!
bloomberg.com
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
9:52 PM · Dec 13, 2021
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Here's her piece arguing for this policy, from just a few months ago!
Adam Serwer 🍝@AdamSerwer
This is correct—the absence of counterprotesters made it harder for Trumpists to muddy the waters https://t.co/r9qrGqZ3Of
Will Bunch @Will_Bunch
The Meadows email about Nat'l Guard protecting "pro-Trump" protesters also exposes a key fact about Jan. 6 that everyone forgets - the brilliant move by the left (including so-called 'antifa') to stay away from D.C. I think Trump's coup plotters were counting on leftist... 1/2
5:54 PM · Dec 13, 2021
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This is a great point.
Maggie Haberman@maggieNYT
Liz Cheney says Meadows' text messages leave "no doubt" the White House knew what was happening as the Capitol was engulfed by rioters on Jan. 6.
12:14 AM · Dec 14, 2021
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If you're interested, the list of people texting him to stop the rioters was long and surprising. Lots of interesting stuff.
