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Dana Houle

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6 Mar

Cutting the weekly unemployment benefit by $100 per week is a much, much bigger deal than not providing reduced stimulus checks to households with adjusted gross income of $150,000-$200,000 per year.

The $400 weekly UI bonus should have stayed $400 (or increased). But this is still one hell of a great bill.

https://twitter.com/sally2cat/status/1368011207211290624

This is also really important. And it’s worth remembering back to CARES that eligibility expanded significantly. A lot of gig workers & people who haven’t earned much or worked many weeks are getting UI they wouldn’t have were it not for this change

https://twitter.com/sally2cat/status/1368011207211290624

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Dana Houle

@DanaHoule

5 Mar

Members of Congress who are the only earner in their household & file jointly are in the group that received a stimulus check last time but will not receive a stimulus check this time

*I don’t know if members of Congress received stimulus payments; there are certain benefits, such as unemployment insurance, for which they are not eligible, so it’s possible they weren’t included. But they gross $174K per year, w for a household AGI would put them in that group

And bc I find this stuff interesting (even though 99% of people don’t), in inflation-adjusted dollars this is the least members of Congress have made* since the early 1950’s

*It’s even less when you consider that in earlier eras graft was commonplace & ethics rules were lax

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Dana Houle

@DanaHoule

5 Mar

I once argued that Glenn Greenwald was not a liberal or progressive, & a bunch of generally smart people flipped out. But most of what are now obvious problems have always been there (including his openness to a billionaire strongman)

I wrote it in 2011 rootedcosmopolitan.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/gle…

Although, to be fair, a lot of people on Twitter who call themselves socialists are really just anti-Democratic Party. So in that sense Greenwald isn’t 100% wrong.

Maybe Greenwald has a point by referring to nationalists like Trump and Bannon as socialists. One might even describe them as national socialists.

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Dana Houle

@DanaHoule

22 Feb

https://twitter.com/benspielberg/status/1363721742993166336

Let’s keep going back: did she derail Matt Breunig’s career by making him say she “tried to starve me and my mother” by working on Clinton welfare “reform” (which she never worked on), then calling her a scumbag, then refusing to apologize, which is all he had to do to keep...

https://twitter.com/benspielberg/status/1363721742993166336

…his job at Demos (which I’m not sure he was even supposed to have, given that—unknown publicly—he was also on staff at the NLRB)?

The demented obsession w Tanden goes back to her firing current National Review contributor Ziad Jilani (which was obviously prescient!)…/2

…her getting rid of Lee Fang, who ended up as Glenn Greenwald’s ally at The Intercept, & had to apologize after being accused by a co-worker for racist behavior (again, prescient!).

So, those are Spielberg’s “social justice advocates.” (BTW, forgot to mention Bruenig…/3

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Dana Houle

@DanaHoule

21 Feb

In-person school begins in Chicago on March 1. Our kids are going in person, & we do most of the academic stuff ourselves, so these changes won’t affect us much. But for parents relying entirely for Chicago PS this move will put MORE burdens on the parents of the 80% of kids…

…not attending in person, bc CPS is lengthening the day, so the total time they have to be there as their kids do online school is doubling. And bc that longer day, the kids going to school 2 days per week be online as much as they are now, so parents’ net gain of time is zero/2

So, unquestioned belief nothing is more important than getting kids back at school is—w online school day for 5-7 year olds going from 2.75 hrs to 5.5 hrs, student/teacher ratio for online classes doubling half the week, & parents responsible for same or more online time—is BS /3

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Dana Houle

@DanaHoule

13 Feb

I think Dems should’ve called witnesses. I think this is a mistake. But we should acknowledge it wouldn’t have flipped votes. It would’ve been the right political move. But we should also find out if McConnell would have blocked all other Sen biz until the impeachment was over /1

Also consider that the White House may have signaled that they want this to end ASAP. /2

Big problem with today is that yesterday afternoon few expected Dems to call witnesses. But Dems were still elated over the case put forth by the managers. Then the Herrera-Beutler news came out, people got excited at possible witnesses, & now the emotion is disappointment /3

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