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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

One of the best things Trump did in office was to abandon the inappropriate hard money rhetoric of his campaign and push the Fed toward full employment. It’s not good to demand that politicians you dislike live up to your worst fears about them.

I feel like the situation is that opponents are annoyed when a politician abandons a bad idea, meaning they can't campaign against that any more, and they take some shots at the inconsistancy on the way out.

wohnBAUMoffensive @holz_bau

vienna has space for some 50,000 additional units through these vertical extensions. and there are some really striking additions to existing buildings, like this 3 story addition to a 4 story gruenderzeit building

archdaily.comRenovation and Heightening in Margaretenstrasse 9 / Josef Weichenberger Architects + PartnerA three story rooftop extension was added to an existing Wilhe lminian-times house. Plans of the four new spacious apartments - one of them a...

I think it's not a render, they really built this. There are some places in Toronto like it too. I wonder how much they have to damage the underlying structure to build the supports, the drawings seem to imply that they just stacked more apartments on top.

Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer

This speech is a real indictment of the entire strategy employed by the Facebook public policy team Years of twisting themselves into a pretzel to appease Trump only to have him through Zuck into imaginary Gitmo

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

Trump fans chant "lock him up!" about Mark Zuckerberg. "Well, they should be looking at that," Trump says. https://t.co/J4Nvgh53CT

Companies are free to do what they want in terms of policing their platforms, but making a deal with someone who so obviously never holds up his end of any bargain, this just looks like a dumb trade to have made.

Michael Kofoed @mikekofoed

Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on the plane? Me: Yes, but I'm not that kind of … Flight attendant: The pilots are debating whether controlling for occupation closes the gender wage gap. Me: Okay. I’m here.

While everything about the complexity of the 'doctor' title is annoying, this joke is great.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

I wish Americans' memory of the Cold War was less "We won, they lost", and more "Both sides realized that fighting was a losing proposition, and then the Soviet system collapsed because it was badly designed."

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Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

For example, the popular notion that Reagan did a huge defense buildup that forced the USSR to spend itself into oblivion is pure fiction. None of that ever happened. nintil.com/the-soviet-uni…

I always thought it was about the space race being a way to get them to spend too much, but the fact is, by the time of the collapse, the space race was long over.

Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok

Good piece by @ezraklein on supply-side progressivism.

nytimes.comOpinion | The Economic Mistake the Left Is Finally ConfrontingThe left needs to think as much about supply as it does about demand.

This is a really great piece, and especially appreciate the striking combination of "supply side" and "progressive".

April 2019

Because of the curvature of the bokeh, it’s hard to crop photos like this.