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24 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
the donor model that fuels the liberal nonprofit world will never work to produce useful journalism newrepublic.com/article/155011…
but it will also never fail consultants whose primary skill is talking to donors newrepublic.com/article/156496…
i guess i need to write a third piece about how do-gooding rich people should just buy newspapers while the left figures out how to actually create proper left mass media again
(the answer probably looks more like @hasanthehun's Twitch than whatever magazine your friends run)

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24 Feb
If a liberal rich person wanted to recreate the messaging success of the right AND save journalism, they'd buy some papers and lose money on them at the rate the Falun Gong loses money on the Epoch Times, instead of introducing new Business Models and giving up after a year
they'd buy papers in bad straits and invest in them, send free print copies to every household in key regions, and also open the money hose for heavily promoted digital content. how the right does this is not a trade secret, they just consider it a different kind of investment
the thing is, rich donors don't want to do this! or else they'd be doing it!
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17 Feb
i mean assuming Yang is telling the truth in which city does he own this one home
makes sense!
again and again I think about poor Stringer carefully cultivating the local elections online left, remaining a renter his entire career, only to lose to a guy who is running for mayor of the city that is not his primary residence
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14 Mar 20
The actual gist of this story is that there is strong (and readily available) evidence that presymptomatic and asymptomatic people are driving the spread of the virus but U.S. officials are effectively denying this for some reason. cnn.com/2020/03/14/hea…
Left: the CDC website's list of symptoms. Right: WHO's. One seems designed to flag only the most serious cases, the other to try to catch everyone who might have it.
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4 Jan 20
Is there anything anyone involved in the American foreign policy creation industry over the last several decades can point to as a win?
this is basically the answer and it is stuff we could've built on and made universal ten times over with the money we spent on the other stuff
and this, like the Good Friday Accords was nearly a quarter-century ago, but those are the two answers that explain the otherwise inexplicable self-confidence of our liberal foreign policy establishment
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17 Aug 18
For our health and happiness we should be radically pedestrianizing the entire country. Instead we'll make it illegal to walk along busy roads because billionaires don't want to share space with other humans on the way to the airport.
I don't strictly mean "closing areas off to cars," I mean places everywhere where people live and work and shop should be designed so it's pleasant and safe to walk around. This doesn't require density. It can be done without demanding the exurbs become Brooklyn.
Instead we'll make a choice to design places to accommodate driverless cars that only work correctly if they never encounter children crossing a street
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