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27 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
What a lot of people seem to want in the argument over outdoor masking is for people on the street to stop judging them. Well, the government can't stop people from judging you. But you can control whether you care. businessinsider.com/cdc-guidance-o…
One thing I'm looking forward to about the end of the pandemic is a return to people minding their own business. You can start by taking off your mask outside if you feel like it and not concerning yourself with whether other people do likewise. businessinsider.com/cdc-guidance-o…
See, this reader email is not an example of people learning to mind their own business again. Image
The introverts are trouble, they don’t want to have to go to the parties we’re not inviting them to

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29 Apr
I am skeptical about the political power of school opening. Only about 1/4 of voters have school age kids at home. Many are in states like FL where there's full in-person. Many others are wary of reopening. But many conservative writers live in slow-opening blue jurisdictions...
Where you need to be for this to matter politically -- a slow-opening jurisdiction in a swing state, and a parent who wanted schools more open -- it's actually a very small slice of the electorate. Obviously everything is on the margin, and I support more opening on the merit.
And of course this issue will all be over by September. Even in California, you have state lawmakers talking about how they'll force the districts open in the fall.
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22 Apr
“admits” nytimes.com/2021/04/22/nyr…
Andrew Yang has confessed to naming his pecs, sentencing will be in three weeks.
Anyway look: Yang is pretty much unqualified to be mayor. His campaign is very vague. So it’s weird that so much of the critique of him is (1) he doesn’t follow the social mores of the progressive borg that dominates activism and media and (2) they dislike his personality.
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22 Apr
"Mr. Menchaca, who cannot run for the City Council again because of term limits, said he hoped to work in a Yang administration should Mr. Yang win." Yeah no shit, this is a naked ambition move, kind of hilarious. But Menchaca is bad and I hope Yang stiffs him if he wins.
It's amazing how much of NY politics is operating openly on the idea that Yang is an empty vessel you can fill with whatever you want.
Not necessarily a wrong idea, to be clear. Yang is practically hinting that he'd make Kathryn Garcia first deputy mayor and let her run the city. Which wouldn't be the worst possibility, but then the question is, why not just make her mayor?
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21 Apr
Trump literally said in an interview on Monday that people should get the vaccine. I'd like him to say it more but we should emphasize that his vaccine advocacy is current and still applicable.
Trump is also out there saying the J&J pause is unwarranted and Biden should stop withholding it from people. This is also a useful message for reducing vaccine hesitancy.
This is the thing though: A lot of liberals talking about Trump and the vaccine are way more interested in talking about how bad Trump is and how dumb conservatives are than in convincing conservatives to get vaccinated.
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21 Apr
This is just such horseshit. Conservatives who are vaguely mad about black activism but can't actually argue for Derek Chauvin's innocence have fallen back to this theoretical argument that the jury was under undue pressure. mediaite.com/tv/tucker-carl…
It's likely that people were worried about unrest if there was an acquittal. (We can see this in practice, like with LA closing vaccines sites for the day, which it should not have done.) But where is any evidence that this mattered at the margin, for the verdict?
You could theoretically have a condition where cops were unjustly convicted because people feared riots. But can people point to specific cases where that has happened? Whereas we can point to many cases where police and governments have been unaccountable.
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19 Apr
The handful of European destinations opening to vaccinated Americans are getting nonstop flights from the US: Boston-Reykjavik, JFK-Athens, Newark-Dubrovnik, etc. businessinsider.com/united-delta-o…
It seems on at least some dates Delta will be flying twice daily to Athens from JFK
Athens is very hot in July, yes?
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