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22 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Very strange article in the Washington Post, about a town that declined to use pretextual zoning to violate the rights of a church with offensive practices, that doesn't even speak with anyone who argues that following the First Amendment is a good thing. washingtonpost.com/religion/2020/…
We get this quote from a Northwestern sociologist who says the First Amendment is racist, nothing from anyone about how it protects the rights of disfavored minorities.
I understand that news outlets are hiring staff who disproportionately subscribe to a very specific, left-wing ideology that is heavily influenced by academia, but they should still understand that's not the whole audience they're writing for.
On a smaller note, I'm unclear what justification there is for offering anonymity to this source who only expresses an opinion. WaPo policy contemplates anonymity for *information* that is important to a story, not for opinions. washingtonpost.com/news/ask-the-p…
Really this is on the editor. You could easily cut these two paragraphs, you don't need to convince the person who said this banal thing to go on the record.

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23 Dec
What Klobuchar said is an attack on every American is Trump’s suggestion he might veto the relief bill. Just endless bad faith commentary about this process from left-wing commentators who prefer Trump over mainstream Democrats.
People are waiting on all sorts of provisions that are in this package. Unemployment benefits are about to expire. The idea this is a productive opportunity to reopen the package negotiations is nuts. We have seen Trump float things like this before, it is not a real negotiation.
What Pelosi is doing is a clever political tactic. And I’m sure she’d be glad to send up a bill to increase the size of the checks. But it doesn’t mean Pelosi wants or is asking for a veto, let alone that she’d want to sustain it, and that is all completely obvious.
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20 Dec
ACIP has taken another crack at recommending vaccine priority after healthcare workers. Instead of essential workers before seniors, it’s 75+ together with the most exposed workers, followed by 65+ with other essential workers & people with co-morbidities. cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/…
I don’t know if this is exactly right (and it’s just a recommendation) but it clearly makes more sense than the last version.
Here’s how they define the approximately 1/3 of essential workers who are “frontline.”
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19 Dec
Oh good lord. This is how a fake progressive councilman justifies blocking an eight-story residential building (which would be required to contain affordable housing) in a census tract with a median income over $200,000 right next to downtown Brooklyn. “Context”
There’s always some goddamn story
Oh not here, not on MY precious block, the context!, the context!, I can’t be near a tall building in NEW YORK CITY!
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18 Dec
You're not allowed to pee anymore, but fortunately this is yet another joint state-city thing so Cuomo and De Blasio will be able to blame each other for you not being allowed to pee.
This rule, of course, is insanity. The reason we prohibit indoor dining is people sit with their masks off and spray aerosols in each other's faces. Walking through a restaurant to a garden or using the bathroom is no different from entering a retail store, which is allowed.
Update: New York has relented and you are allowed to pee again. ny.eater.com/2020/12/18/221…
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16 Dec
CNBC needs to take the ticker off, it's blocking the scales on Jay Powell's slides
I remain confused how the Fed intends to put off rate increases until inflation is set to exceed 2 percent for some period and yet the Fed's economic estimates don't show inflation getting over 2 percent at any time.
I guess the theory is that inflation will be over 2 percent at some point beyond the fed's window of annual projections (2024 or 2025?) but the "longer run" inflation expectation is still 2 percent
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11 Dec
What a lot of people are looking for here is the thing that finally makes Republicans stop claiming Trump won, or that finally provides an authoritative and *uncontested* account of the election. As Josh notes, that can't happen because some people won't hear of it.
What you can get, and will get, is Joe Biden's inauguration. That's what I'm looking for and that's why I feel at peace. If you're waiting for Donald Trump to admit he's a loser who sucks, or for his party to treat him like one, you're just going to make yourself mad.
The most valid worry people have here is that this is setting precedents that will undermine future elections. I worry about that some, but not as much as other people -- I think mostly our institutions have shown they work well. But that risk would be *exacerbated* if...
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