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20 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I’m just imagining Eric Adams soaking in a bubble bath in Fort Lee, New Jersey with a huge smile across his face
“Eric Adams wants more bubbles,” says Eric Adams.
Eric Adams has the “lovable scamp” thing going that helped Trump glide through so many “outrages.”
Like when Adams gave that tour of what was obviously his son’s apartment, pretending it was his own — you’d have to have a heart of stone not to be rooting for him to get away with it.

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20 Jun
Another sign of “voter suppression” having become a meaningless term like “virtue signaling” and “neoliberal”
It’s “voter suppression” when candidates try to convince people to vote for candidates other than Eric Adams, I guess
Anyway to summarize my thoughts: I find this tactic from the Eric Adams campaign to be gross; I nonetheless find him personally endearing; please vote for Kathryn Garcia because she would be a good mayor and he would not.
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18 Jun
Good! Problems in the Mideast should be problems for the US to the smallest extent possible. wsj.com/articles/u-s-m…
The Mideast is not nearly as “strategic” as people make it out to be, or as it used to be.
I am not an isolationist. I am very concerned about China and, to a lesser extent, Russia. Part of having a robust international strategy is knowing where *not* to expend so much capital, and we are way overweighted to Mideast concerns.
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18 Jun
I think it’s more a matter of strategic panic. Democrats genuinely wanted a farther left judge, ACB will do things they oppose, so the strategy is to turn the panic dial to 11 on every nominee, even as some are more right-wing than others. Same deal with elections rules.
Republicans do the same thing, but not in the same areas.
One thing that has mitigated the effects of Trump’s picks is that when Gorsuch moderates he does it by being rigid, and when Kavanaugh moderates he does it by being flexible.
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10 Jun
I never want this mayor’s race to end
LOL politico.com/states/new-yor…
Although if Adams wins we’ll have at least four years of this sort of entertainment.
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9 Jun
A Bayesian analysis of whether Eric Adams lives in Fort Lee, New Jersey
I’m leaning “he doesn’t” because I can’t imagine anything sadder than secretly living in New Jersey.
Also commuting from Fort Lee to downtown Brooklyn sounds like a goddamn nightmare.
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8 Jun
I don't love all of ProPublica's analysis on billionaire taxes, but the core true point is too much of the wealthiest Americans' income isn't showing up on tax returns. We can fix that, and Joe Biden is focused on closing two loopholes that would do so. businessinsider.com/propublicas-bi…
We should repeal rules that let you avoid tax on gains by holding assets until you die, and stop letting rich people double-deduct charitable donations. And if you do those things, you can set higher capital gains tax rates and still stop avoidance. businessinsider.com/propublicas-bi…
The charitable deduction thing is a little headache-inducing to understand, but the short version is, if you give away appreciated stock instead of cash, you effectively get to deduct the unrealized gain twice. It makes no sense, and we can change it. businessinsider.com/propublicas-bi…
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