Favorites June 9 2021
Honestly liberals should be way madder at Stephen Breyer.
Rick Hasen @rickhasen
Breyer and Manchin are both engaging in unilateral disarmament, it’s absolutely crazy.
the filibuster makes it harder to do bipartisanship, not easier
Alex Bolton @alexanderbolton
There was a time I believed it improved bipartisanship, sadly it's now really clear that was incorrect.
A criminal justice idea that shouldn't cross anyone's ideological taboos would be to spend what it takes to collect homicide data in a timely way.
Right now outside of the biggest cities we have no idea how many people were murdered last year!
If you want to know how many chicks were hatched in April (and whether they were egg-layers or broilers) the federal government has you covered.
If you want to know who was murdered, six months ago — no luck.
downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-esmis/fil…
Our economic statistics are so incredibly detailed, in comparison, getting murder statistics seems like it would be cheap.
Federal job guarantee: $15/hour to call up county coroner officers and ask them how many murder victims they had last week.
I’m a big fan of this plan.
In 2011, RSA was hacked by Chinese spies, who stole the "seed" values used to generate codes on SecurID 2fa tokens, shocking the security world. Now, after 10 years, the NDAs of the staff involved have expired. This is the untold story they shared with me:
This is a wild story
Look at all that residential construction! Yuppie fishtanks, love it.