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September 2017, Amsterdam

Alayna Treene @alaynatreene

NEWS: The deal Schumer and Manchin reached is on a $739 billion reconciliation bill 15% Corporate Minimum Tax SUMMARY of the deal & joint statement attached

Wow, great news environmental policy analysts are very excited! Plus it's got some good industrial policy stuff. My god, it's even got a plan to kill off TurboTax's evil tax filing racket. This absolutely surprised everyone, but the most delicious part is that this morning the house passed the CHIPS bill on a bipartisan vote (also good industrial policy). Why does this matter? McConnell said they wouldn't pass it if a Reconciliation bill was still on the table. So Manchin said he was done negotiating last week, then CHIPS passed, and later that day, ta-da, a reconciliation bill is back. Republicans got played. They're so angry they vetoed a veterans bill they had already voted for. Maybe Biden really did deliver more bipartisan dealmaking. Finally, to top it all off, Larry Summers claims credit for getting Manchin on board.

Health Nerd @GidMK

An interesting paper that just came out on long COVID in non-hospitalized people - the incidence of any long COVID symptoms was 5.4% in people with COVID-19 vs 4.4% in an uninfected control

nature.comSymptoms and risk factors for long COVID in non-hospitalized adults - Nature MedicineA retrospective analysis of primary care records in the United Kingdom reveals individual symptoms associated with SARS-CoV-2 infections, which persisted for 12 weeks or more after infection, as well as risk factors associated with developing long COVID.

The thread goes on further, but the key fact is that from this you can derive a rate of long COVID symptoms for 1% of people who had COVID but weren't hospitalized. Seems to be a significant correlation between seriousness of symptoms and likelihood of long-term symptoms.

M. Nolan Gray @mnolangray

Meet the mini-midrise: five stories of housing over a storefront on a 25-foot wide lot. nationalpost.com/life/homes/ris…

Sam D'Amico replied: "Hear me out: SF Victorian -> 20 story blade building when the housing element gets rejected by the state."

Senator Scott Wiener @Scott_Wiener

SF is now at 222 monkeypox infections. Virus is regularly detected in our sewage. Yet, SF had to shut down its walk-in vaccine clinic for lack of supply. This isn’t ok. We’ll continue our state budget work to support local efforts but we need the feds to ramp up vaccines ASAP.

There were some even more dire takes on the situation, but it definitely seems like we need to be getting more vaccines in arms faster.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @OlufemiOTaiwo

While Boomers were partying in their homes with affordable mortgages, we studied the avocado toast. And now that the crates are full and the barbarians are at the gates they have the nerve to ask us for help?

ABC News @abcnews

Amid an oversupply of avocados, how can we find ways to eat more? Here are some tips https://t.co/0mIn2ZWVSb

Threads

• Very interesting thread breaking down what factors make people worldwide more or less likely to support a range of climate policies, it goes on from there to describe what methods are and aren't effective to raise support for various policies. The most interesting takeaway is that scaring them about the effects of climate change doesn't seem to work, people are already very worried!

• Randall Munroe is back with more Dall-e experiments, this time it's Pokemon cards through the centuries.

• Two tweets describing a lawsuit about absolutely horrific events at an Indiana jail.

• Analyst breaks down the precise words China is using to dissuade Pelosi from visiting Taiwan. Argues that this is far from their most dire language.