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4 Sep, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Catholics - what’s going on there?
As a normal person (New York Jew) I have a hard time deciding whether Catholics or Protestants have more weird shit going on
I guess they are both relatively young, immature faiths and thus are going through something like adolescent mood swings
Maybe Catholics and Protestants will finally chill in a thousand years, once they spread around the world and become a diaspora
Thanks to @mikebuha for sharing this absolutely incredible video (that nonetheless lets the Catholics off too easy)

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Hey, my @nytimes debut!

Amidst excruciating negotiations over "paying for" infrastructure and climate legislation that falls far short of what's needed, I look at proposals to cut the Gordian Knot by having the Fed backstop muni bonds for green projects nytimes.com/2021/07/16/opi…
@nytimes That sounds a bit wonky, so I'll explain: the federal government's ability to spend dollars is unconstrained: we guarantee our own debt with the Fed's money printer. But for political reasons we are all familiar with, centrist Democrats and the GOP refuse to acknowledge this fact
But markets know this is obvious. So they buy US government debt, ESPECIALLY in a downturn when tax revenues are falling, because they know that it's guaranteed. Who cares about tax receipts? Uncle Sam has a money printer.
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28 Jun
"He's going to continue saying a ton of really weird shit"
If I had to predict the most likely continuity between a de Blasio-Adams mayoralty, it would probably be the city's executive murdering large rodents, either by blunt trauma or by poisoning them in large buckets
Wiley and Garcia fell short in the first round because they aren't weird enough for New Yorkers
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9 May
New from me: Biden wants to pay for a climate plan with taxes, not the deficit, to calm the eldritch demons of finance: bond vigilantes. This limits the scope of his package.

But in the 21st century, markets will punish failure to spend ENOUGH on climate businessinsider.com/biden-reshape-…
Bond vigilantes, so the old scary story goes, will demand higher interest rates as the government does more deficit spending, which is believed to increase the risk of default. Higher rates will eat up the budget, making deficit spending counterproductive.
Except there is no indication investors actually can or want do this to the federal government. After a years of deficit spending, inflation adjusted treasury interest rates remain negative. No one thinks the federal government will run out of dollars, because it makes dollars.
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26 Apr
ughhhh
expecting it to be struck down by the originalists citing Scalia's terrible Heller decision, nevermind the fact that local bans on concealed carry are as "longstanding" (the Heller standard) any other kind of gun restriction smithsonianmag.com/history/gun-co…
That said, what would such a decision mean for violence, crime, and daily life in New York City? A lot depends on just how expansive the majority's opinion is, but it's not clear to me this would immediately translate into much higher rates of gun carrying and violence.
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6 Aug 20
You can draw a straight line from @mikespiesnyc' reporting on the NRA's self-dealing thetrace.org/features/nra-f… to Tish James' announcement today
Read my story from last year on how the NRA's bylaws and senior officers' personal fealty to Wayne LaPierre made it impossible for the group to reckon with its own corruption thetrace.org/2019/07/nra-re…
As a NY nonprofit law expert told me last year, Tish James' legal strategy could be a risky one and it's not clear that even if the suit succeeds, it would truly mean the death of the organization. thetrace.org/2019/05/heres-…
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4 Aug 20
a story: once in chicago's humboldt park nabe, i was walking to a friends house w some beers. i passed two teenagers with their girlfriends who made a joke about me giving them a couple. half a block later, they ran up behind me and tried to grab the beer out of my hands...
it was their bad luck that they happened to do this in front of an alley where a CPD cruiser ambled towards us. the cops saw chased the kids and caught them. afterward i told the cops i was fine, that they hadn't even managed to get the beer out of my hand.
two months later i showed up cook county juvenile court for the kid's court appearance. the prosecutor went over the police report. the cops lied about almost every detail of the encounter.
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