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4 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Fox Sports analysis about as insightful as Fox News
Love to get paid millions to opine how obviously incredible athletes like LeBron or Aaron Rodgers are overrated and then explain to college students how they are the lucky ones for being able to make a clutch buzzer beater.
This is obviously correct, but its no less depressing to observe how contrarianism for clicks sake has become so pervasive
Every so often I will write a thread that suggests that the normative claim that good speech defeats bad speech is empirically incorrect (e.g., below), but it would be easier to make the same point by just reminding you that Skip Bayless has a job.

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5 Apr
Aspects of the pandemic response the WI executive ran worked well (pandemic rollout). Aspects where the legislature have been involved, not so much.
Now former members of the WI legislature who are in Congress are trying to block former members of the Exec from joining the Biden admin despite her success google.com/amp/s/amp.json…
Of course, the WI GOP refused to allow the health cabinet official a confirmation hearing even after 2 years, a standard part of their attack on the executive branch google.com/amp/s/madison.…
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3 Apr
The Trump campaign was the Wells Fargo of political fundraising, using deceptive practices to empty donors bank accounts. 1/ nytimes.com/2021/04/03/us/…
Trump campaign changed the donor default to a recurring donation and made it difficult to understand.

Graph of refunds shows a campaign that made a deliberate decision to extract resources that donors did not want to give. Had to issue 530K refunds worth $64M. 2/
The Trump campaign boasted about their digital fundraising. Their secret sauce was changing donation defaults in opaque and deceptive ways.
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3 Apr
One of my papers is cited in this piece, so let me note a couple of things. First, at a normative level we should not condition access to the ballot on presumed partisan outcomes. Instead, we should support making voting a relatively easy & broadly employed right. 1/
GA Republicans, like those in many states, are adopting a law that will make voting harder, based on false allegations of fraud, and b/c they expect it will help them in close elections. 2/
Second, political parties are not always good judges of the effects of election laws. For example, historically early voting has helped Republicans, but that's not the conventional wisdom. 2/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
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3 Apr
“Policy is the outgrowth of culture” seems like a pretty good excuse to not bother investing any sort of expertise about how to actually govern.
Which seems problematic because a) good government is hard and b) makes a real difference in people’s lives.
Andrew Breitbart popularized the idea that "politics is downstream from culture." Steve Bannon ran with it, championing people who flaunted their ignorance of actual policy.
In other words, this formulation makes a lot of sense to media people w/o actual governing experience.
If you spend most of your life in front of a mic trying to build a conservative brand, it makes a lot of sense to argue that culture war issues are important because its a lot easier to generate an emotional response talking about those issues than it is to talk about Medicaid.
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31 Mar
This is another data point for the fact that the Biden admin is committed to reduce administrative burdens, and doing so makes dysfunctional programs actually achieve their promise. 1/ businessinsider.com/biden-educatio…
This is not a new policy. It was passed in 2010 as part of a broader student loan forgiveness package, allowing those with total and permanent disability (TPD) to seek loan forgiveness. But less than 3 out of 10 eligible claimed this valuable benefit. 2/ npr.org/2019/12/04/776…
Programs cannot be successful if they do not reach their target audience. Why were so many people leaving money on the table? Administrative burdens.
Biden will drop a requirement to document eligibility.
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29 Mar
Congratulations on using your 1.5M followers to attack new journalists and keep building that white nationalist brand
A new journalist wrote a story about how the Capitol insurrectionists are raising money online, which seems like a newsworthy topic. She was already being attacked even before Glenn decides to weigh in.
How members of the far right use technology to support their goals is a legitimate story. Even if you don’t like the framing, it’s insane to go on a threaded rant about how this story is all that is wrong with journalism.
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