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4 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Europeans love to brag about electric kettles but most of the time when you’re boiling water in a kettle you’re doing something sort of culinarily sad.
For example, you’re drinking tea instead of coffee.
Btw I’m quite happy with this machine, which does heat water electronically, but then also does the added step of turning the water into coffee. Plus it has a single-cup setting and fits well in a small kitchen. oxo.com/8-cup-coffee-m…
But I guess a French press is cool if you like to make a big mess.

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5 Dec
Bernie Sanders, so disloyal to Bernie Sanders
The craziest thing about this piece is how it attributes Sanders' loss in South Carolina to *Mike Bloomberg* attacking Bernie over intel saying Russia preferred Bernie to win. Not mentioned in here: James Clyburn, or black voters in general.
The assumption that voters #1 issue in this primary had to be foreign policy and the security state is just Glenn reflecting his own obsessions onto the electorate, in a world where all that exists is Glenn and some Russia obsessives on MSNBC.
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4 Dec
There is a lot of room for the MTA to fix its ridiculous cost structure and it should be expected to do so as a condition of the financial assistance it will need. nytimes.com/2020/12/03/nyr…
The agency is wildly overstaffed, with outdated practices including two-man subway train crews and continuing to have employees check tickets aboard commuter trains. And with this as an especially egregious example, it does not keep good tabs on its use of labor.
By the way, overtime fraud like this doesn’t just inflate the employee’s pay, it inflates a lifetime pension based on average earnings in the late years of career.
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3 Dec
Biden gaining a lot of ground on Long Island and upstate, holding steady in Staten Island and losing ground in the Bronx and Queens runs counter to some of the narratives about what was happing in NYS politics this year.
It does not look, for example, like far-left AOC-style politics alienated the suburbs or upstate from the Democratic Party (see big dem gains upstate in the state senate).
Giving up votes in the city and gaining them elsewhere is also a good trade for Democrats because it makes the distribution of their support in the state more efficient. A few more points for the GOP in the Bronx is not going to change any district outcomes.
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2 Dec
She can provide you legal *and* dentistry services!
It must be so weird to have Orly Taitz as your dentist. I just imagine she just talks and talks about conspiracy nonsense and you can't respond because she has tools in your mouth.
There's something funny about how being a dentist is impressive and being a lawyer is sort of impressive, but being a lawyer and a dentist simultaneously is suspicious.
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1 Dec
Eh. Given who isn’t quoted in this story, it doesn’t sound like Bernie world is necessarily seething that much about Tanden. Briahna Joy Gray is mad, as usual.
Calling something “a slap in the face” on background is kind of amazing.
The next on-the-record quote is from Kurt Ehrenberg. Who? He’s a former New Hampshire-specific adviser who got squeezed out of the campaign in September 2019 after butting heads with other staffers, per WMUR. wmur.com/article/top-ad…
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30 Nov
These international comparisons are virtually always incorrect, and always in the direction of overstating the generosity of foreign systems. To take one example: The Italian subsidy is 80% of wages *up to a cap* around €1,200 per month.
In fact, the US fiscal response has to date been larger than is typical in other wealthy countries, relative to our GDP. The smaller headline numbers for total spending in the European packages shows they're not as big or as universal as you think. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"Indeed, the U.S. provided fiscal support equivalent to roughly 12 percent of its GDP, data from Moody’s Analytics show, one-third more than Germany and twice as much as the U.K. Other than Australia, no large, wealthy country did more to support its economy."
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