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28 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The person of the year is Joe Biden
If they don’t give it to Joe that will be such BS
If it doesn’t go to him it will be “the vaccine scientists” or something but they can be person of the year next year.
Part of Joe Biden’s magic is he’s the sort of politician who might not get Person of the Year in the year he wins the presidency. But it should still be him.

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28 Nov
The brain-fog that comes from the highly unusual demographics and environment of journalists is actually worse than @DKThomp describes here. Because there is an added layer: we work in an industry that's been in recession for more than a decade. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
@DKThomp Journalists' perspective on the economy is shaped by that environment: Everything perpetually lean and getting worse, with a plausible story about the Big Tech companies being to blame. It leads to coverage that is cynical, pessimistic, and out of touch with the broad public.
@DKThomp The political facts on the ground about the economy through 2019 -- tight labor markets, good wage growth, and the best public satisfaction with the economy in 20 years -- were simply not perceptible to so many writers, in part because things sucked so much in our industry.
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26 Nov
One silver lining of this year’s smaller Thanksgivings is the opportunity to try out recipes you might not if you were feeding twelve people. Here are my herb-rubbed racks of veal, going in the fridge to rest before roasting this afternoon. Image
That’s this recipe, though I think I’m going to roast slowly on 250 and then crank up the heat at the end to brown instead of browning first. foodandwine.com/recipes/roaste…
Veal rib roast with pan gravy, green beans with garlic and thyme, Ina Garten’s savory bread pudding with apple and herbs, and cranberry pepper relish. Image
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26 Nov
5-4 but if you read the Chief’s dissent it sounds like it could well be 6-3 in the event that New York sought to reimpose the restrictions in dispute (which were lifted for now due to improving COVID conditions in the relevant neighborhoods)
The plaintiffs here have a point about these restrictions not being neutral— certainly in secular contexts, liberals have tended to notice how arbitrarily some risk activities are permitted and others prohibited— and governments may need to think on how to draw more neutral ones.
For example, there are certain aspects of religious ceremonies, like singing indoors, that pose particular risk and could be prohibited in secular and religious contexts. And houses of worship can be subjected to capacity limits in line with secular institutions.
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24 Nov
I was struck when I was working at the polls by how many voters asked me whether they needed to sign their ballots before putting them in the scanner.
Other things: Many voters were confused by New York's unusual fusion voting system, where both Biden and Trump appeared on two different ballot lines. If you vote for the same candidate twice, your vote DOES count, for the party that appears leftmost (D for Biden, R for Trump)
But if a voter does that, the ballot scanner nonetheless flags it as an overvote. And because you shouldn't ask the voter exactly how they overvoted or discuss their intent, we just had to send them to spoil their ballots and get new ones to mark only once.
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23 Nov
Feels like New York -- which has a new, extremely convoluted, possibly about-to-be-amended, and maybe circumventable commission-based redistricting process -- isn't getting enough attention in the discussions of how redistricting will affect 2022.
For decades, New York's districts have been drawn as bipartisan, incumbent-protection plans. If Democrats can wrest full control of the process, they could draw a significantly more favorable map for themselves.
The wrangling over this in Albany is going to be extremely complex and I can't really figure out what result is likely, but it's something I'd read a long reported piece about ;)
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13 Nov
While 2022 is likely to be tough for Dems, I think there's one area of upside that's being underrated -- this year, Dems are winning the national popular vote by a slim margin and thus barely winning the House. People talk like Dems have maxed out their vote share.
What Dems need to do in 2022 is what they did in 2018: Win the House NPV decisively. Obviously that's hard in a midterm year where you have the WH, but probably easier when you're not running on a big unpopular entitlement change, as ruling parties did in '94/'06/'10/'18.
The last first-term midterm where a president sought re-election while presiding over a divided congress was 2002, and that president's party gained seats. Obviously special circumstances, but the circumstances in 2022 may be pretty special too, with COVID waning & fast growth.
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