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David Roberts@drvolts
He's literally saying that the filibuster -- an accidental addition to Senate procedure that no one ever intended & the Founders explicitly rejected -- is more important than the world's richest & most powerful country defaulting. Absolutely fucking deranged.
Manu Raju @mkraju
Manchin says he’ll not support carve-out of filibuster rules to raise debt ceiling in Dec. Says he has a “difference” with his party on using reconciliation. Says two sides need to cut a deal. “The filibuster is the only thread we have in America to keep democracy alive and well” https://t.co/o3i5xEgtk3
4:01 AM · Oct 8, 2021
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It's not in the constitution, it's not even codefied in law, beyond the rules the senate chose to put on themselves in the last couple decades.
Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart
MISS: Just 194K jobs created in the month.
However, the unemployment rate fall to 4.8%
Ongoing story of seemingly slow job creation and tightening labor markets at the same time.
bloomberg.com
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
12:31 PM · Oct 8, 2021
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So much for the theories that excessive unemployment benifits were hurting employment, since they just ran out.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Not directly related to this month’s jobs report, but Goldman Sachs notes that the collapse of visa issuance during the pandemic has significantly shrunk the labor force.
12:50 PM · Oct 8, 2021
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Yglesias has an article about issuing 'catch up' green cards, to make up for periods like this where we issued fewer than usual.
fry@anniefryman
The New York Times published a 4000+ word story today on post-suburbia, backyard homes, multigenerational living, and developer vs. homeowner capitalists… by following a handful of characters in a plain San Diego neighborhood.
@ConorDougherty’s latest:
nytimes.com
Where the Suburbs End
7:27 PM · Oct 8, 2021
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Conor Dougherty@ConorDougherty
I've wanted to do a big story on ADUs for like a year, because the permit data is bananas. They're up by a factor of ten and now account for >10% of CA housing production from near zero when I started covering housing. WHAT?
10:59 PM · Oct 8, 2021
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These numbers are absolutely wild, to some extent I also hope that as they become more popular, we'll get better at making them, and more people will notice it as an option.
