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Megan McArdle Profile picture
@asymmetricinfo
Aug 26, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Stories of people like Jon Ponder are inspiring, but also illustrate how far we have to go in really offering convicted felons a fresh start. It's great that people like Mr. Ponder have a new life helping felons start over, but we need more success stories in ordinary businesses.
There is still so much prejudice against ex-convicts, and while that's understandable--recidivism is not zero--it's an enormous barrier that helps shove people back into a life of crime.
I don't want to take anything away from the people who do amazing work helping reintegrate felons. I just want to challenge us to do better, as a society, in finding ways to let people who did bad things put that past behind them after they've paid their debt to society.
This is America, the land of second chances ... and third chances ... and eighth chances. We are all the heirs of that grace. We can do better.

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I think this is bad, but also think it's a sign of something I thought a lot about after 1/6: it's really important for elites to uphold election norms precisely because normies won't. They'll be happy to indulge in election denial if the political elite goes along.
Democratic norms aren't a bedrock fact of democracy. They're a truce between opposing groups of political elites. Which is why it is in fact extremely important to have elites who are committed to those norms, and will swiftly crush even minor violations.
The biggest example is obviously Donald Trump. But Democratic elites dabbled too, with their little games about election certification, and their humoring of Stacy Abrams, and their looking the other way when Clinton said he wasn't a legitimate president.
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If you are making fun of how terrible all the food was in the 1950s, some things to keep in mind 🧵:

1) Many of the worst recipes are from cookbooks created to promote various foodstuffs, and probably no one except the poor domestic scientist who created them ever made them.
2) Most jello salad isn't as bad as you think.

3) People were much, much poorer--1950s housewives also preferred steak to spam, but their budget didn't.

4) Chicken and eggs used to be more expensive than beef, not a cheap weeknight staple.
5) For 6-9 months of the year, in most of the country, fresh produce other than hardy lettuces like iceberg and storeables like carrots, onions, potatoes, and apples, were unavailable at any reasonable price.
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Oct 25
I think the way to square this circle is to think of this not as a matter of people rejecting the moral values you care about, but as emphasizing different values that you both care about.
Abortion is a good example of this; people tend to think of others as not caring about [the life of the baby/the autonomy of the mother] but in fact most people care about both. They're just choosing which they care about more.
I consider Trump's character disqualifying. But my friends who are voting for Trump don't like his character. Rather, they care about other stuff--sometimes abortion, but lots of other stuff like abuse of left-wing institutional power.
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So I wrote a column on my Dad's last year, and the brutal math of caring for the elderly. Image
The column is here. I wrote it because many folks assume that we could save $$$$ by using home care to keep folks out of nursing homes, which is not really true. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…
That assumption is natural enough, because nursing homes are really, really expensive--my Dad's semi-private room (a curtained alcove with a shared bathroom) cost $16,500 a month.

The problem is that by the time you're disabled enough to need a nursing home, you tend to require 24 hour assistance.
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I don't know all the reasons for the Secret Service failures in Butler. But having written a book about failure (she said, demurely pointing to the link: ) I'm pretty sure that one problem was that ... it had been a long time since anything went wrong.amazon.com/Up-Side-Down-F…
Everything the secret service does is a tradeoff: between false positives and false negatives; between safety, and the cost that must be imposed on everyone else to make incremental safety gains; between ensuring nothing bad happens and ensuring that *nothing* happens.
If you shoot everyone who looks suspicious you make protectees safer, but kill more innocent people. If you have a massive security perimeter, it will be massively expensive and massively inconvenient. If you lock down protectees, they will be safer, but less effective
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Jul 11
Since the debate, people outside of Washington have been asking me the same question over and over: how did the media miss the Biden story?

So I asked a bunch of savvy political reporters that question, and wrote a column on it Image
I know, conservatives, you think you know the answer: Democratic journalists were covering for a Democratic president. But that's not quite right, as I wrote in my column:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…
There was no conspiracy. There were a lot of tiny decisions about what to cover today, who to trust, and how blunt to be that collectively added up to a giant mistake that left our readers in the dark.
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