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One final thought for the night. Kav and others claiming that his successful career proves that he can't have had a drinking problem. But he was born on 3rd base and thinks he hit a triple; also, a loyal apparatchik, and rewarded for that 1/
Also, some other people have had drinking problems but achieved great things -- while showing a level of courage and nobility of character beyond the ken of these people. To wit: 2/
But I feel bad even putting a great man and this sad, angry, corrupt, entitled guy in the same tweet storm 3/
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There's a political puzzle that has worried me for a while, and is highlighted by some of the responses to today's column. What some of the pushback against @SenWarren comes down to is "I feel like she's talking down to me" 1/ nytimes.com/2019/01/07/opi…
The reason this is puzzling is that she really isn't. She does try to explain issues, but there isn't any condescension I can find -- and nothing like the sneering contempt for his supporters that shines through everything Trump does and says 2/
Yet this is a real thing, not to be wished away. And I don't think it's just sexism -- in general, politicians who try to understand issues get grief from a segment of voters who seem perfectly happy with politicians who clearly consider them chumps 3/
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This is a mostly good summary of interesting papers presented at the ASSA meetings -- but tellingly misrepresents what the paper by @ojblanchard1 actually said 1/ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Here's how the authors put it: 2/
But if you read the actual paper, it doesn't say anything like "debt is bad but not catastrophic". It notes that in simple models a situation like the one we're in, in which interest rates are below growth rates, is one in which debt is actually good 3/ aeaweb.org/aea/2019confer…
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I was sort of startled by how much reaction this piece on top tax rates got; most of it positive, but the negative reactions were revealing 1/ nytimes.com/2019/01/05/opi…
Not surprisingly, most of the pushback came from the right, where I got a fair number of complaints that the government has no right to tax away income that people have earned. Worth thinking about that: isn't it an argument against any taxation at all? 2/
Or if you admit that we need a government, maybe it's an argument against any kind of progressive taxation (and also against any social safety net). And that's a coherent point of view -- but one the public overwhelmingly rejects 3/ pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017…
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Let's talk about how Kushner and Trump are closely connected to the murder of Jamal #Khashoggi by goons sent by the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, who goes by MbS.

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1/ Kushner & Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) have "forged a bond" the last two years. They are both about the same age, both ambitious, both the hidden powers behind their respective thrones, both men of wealth & taste. Born on third base and think they hit a triple, as the joke goes.
2/ In Riyadh last October, on Kushner's sudden unannounced trip, the two stayed up until four in the morning, “swapping stories and planning strategy."

One of the “stories” swapped, apparently, was classified information compiled from the President’s Daily Brief.
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Some commentary on the #Ropsten testnet upgrade to Constantinople: what happened this past weekend, where we’re at now, and what this means for Constantinople. Hopefully this helps get everyone on the same page. It’s long but there’s a lot of information to convey!
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#NationalComingOutDay

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I’ve been offline today because I had both a heartbreaking and life altering experience I want to share about someone near & dear to me who came out today.

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Okay, y'all, my beloved Yankees are having ... let us call it a slow start to this playoff series. We're going to get it back, of course, and crush our historic enemies into fine, red-and-white dust. But in the meantime, I'm breathing deeply and focusing on my happy place.
This seems like a good time to tweetstorm my most recent two--and I hope, final--columns on The Kavanaugh Saga.

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washingtonpost.com/opinions/there…

I think there are a few things that tie them together.
The first is just the obvious: basically all of the left who read my coverage of Kavanaugh assumed that this was a crypto-brief for confirming him. It wasn't. Right up until the end, I was emailing with other folks on the right saying I didn't know. That's still where I am.
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Okay, my new column on the Kavanaugh debacle is up: washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-par…

I'm going to lay out my position first, which is that this nomination should be held for at least a time-limited FBI investigation.

And then I'm going to detail how badly Democrats handled this.
Mitchell's questioning yesterday raised a few small questions about Ford's story. But it raised immense and infuriating questions about the cynical ways Democrats managed this.

It is now simply untenable to argue that this was not a strategic leak to try to delay past midterms.
Dianne Feinstein helped Ford get a lawyer, and doesn't give her Republican counterparts a heads up that they might have a problem?

Okay, they say "She asked for confidentiality."

Fine. Democrats are the ones who breached that confidentiality.
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45 Days Of @ElvisCostello: a twitter megathread in anticipation of the Oct 12 release date of LOOK NOW, the new LP by Elvis Costello & The Imposters

This is either a bright idea or a brilliant mistake, but this is only, this is only, this is only the beginning...
I did something similar to this 5 years ago, in anticipation of EC & @theroots' Wise Up Ghost LP, on tumblr.

(You can still find all those posts if you look, although a lot of the YouTube links etc are now dead ends. It was 40 Days Of EC then, so for 2018 I'm upping it to 45.)
Mostly I will be going chronologically from the early years right up to the present, but it feels right to start out with Costello's 2002 song, "45."

Music Video directed by @jessebdylan


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