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22 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Watching this ethan/seder/crowder thing and finally starting to get the appeal of twitch and youtube politics shows — it’s basically Bravo. Makes sense now.

Somebody’s about to overturn a table and you don’t wanna miss it…
This is a more concise explanation
Trying to figure out which character I am in this youtube bravo world. I’m the mostly off screen figure everybody hates yet he doesn’t really care. Maybe I’m Kelsey Grammer from the early seasons.
Nobody should confuse what I’m saying for dogging it. I’m a Bravo lover. And this stuff exposes people to new ideas and shows there are other worlds out there…

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28 May
On one side is me & @KateAronoff talking about Marx’s reserve army to explain full employment and its value to workers, and on the other is Biden on full employment yesterday. No daylight.
Since the ‘70s, government policy, actively supported by Biden, has sought to suppress inflation by artificially increasing unemployment to keep workers competing against each other for scarce jobs. Biden’s now rejecting that entire framework.
The business-owner freakout about not being able to find workers was/is all about pushing Biden to cool the economy so desperate workers will take lower wages. For him to say the opposite in the face of that matters. From here
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27 May
The left is so turned in on itself it has completely lost sight of its actual purpose: improving the lives of millions of people. Instead campaigns are now all about the few people who work on the campaigns.
Also credit to @RossBarkan who scooped the staff implosion on the Morales campaign.
Also this. What’s going on in NY?
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10 May
The implications of this school re-opening study in Texas are ghastly when you peel it back. What it says is that children themselves didn’t cause much spread attending school, but when they did go to school, their parents then left the house for work /1 nber.org/papers/w28753
So the point is that Texas couldn’t (and didn’t actually try to) persuade parents to stay home or to let workers stay home and still collect paychecks. But if you ban kids from school, then you force parents to stay home to care for them. That’s an awfully sketchy way to do it.
Children’s well being shouldn’t be sacrificed to achieve a secondary policy goal of getting parents to stay home. If that’s your policy goal, do it directly, dont use kids as your tools.
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5 May
Western Mass media still attacking Alex Morse even after he's gone -- this time for donating surplus campaign money to a homeless shelter and other nonprofits in Cape Cod masslive.com/news/2021/05/f… Image
I can't for the life of me imagine why Morse might rather be generous to Cape Cod, where he's now the town manager, than to the place that treated him with such respect and dignity (and that sees fit to complain that his new salary is much more than he made as the town's mayor)
This is the FRONT PAGE of the paper (home page of the website, whatever) Image
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11 Apr
Anybody who's been fuming about substack should be embarrassed after they absorb this uncontroversial point from @benyt. It's just an email service provider that links to a payment processor. nytimes.com/2021/04/11/bus…
Actually, you don't have to be embarrassed, I'm embarrassed for you, so I've saved you the trouble.
Hey, subscribe to my substack.

Or don't! See how easy that was? badnews.substack.com
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11 Apr
There's a lot of competition, but my favorite Boehner story ever hasn't been told, I don't think, and I highly doubt he includes it in his memoir. So here goes:
As House Speaker, he had access to a car and driver. So after he resigned under pressure from the Freedom Caucus, he reached out to a former colleague and asked him how he got around the city without a driver. His friend, also old and not tech savvy, told him Uber...
Boehner couldn't figure out how to download it and set up his account, so his old man friend helped him.

A few weeks later, he asked Boehner how he was liking Uber. Boehner told him it was great, but found it weird that the driver would randomly pick up other passengers...
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