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28 Sep, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Anti-vaxxer persuaded COVID patient in Ireland to leave hospital against doctor's advice. Two days later he had to be readmitted. A week later he was dead. irishcentral.com/news/joe-mccar…
Normally I don't share stuff about people who passed from COVID, but in this case it reflects how conspiracy theorists are using COVID to push anti-government views with deadly consequences. The "rescuer" was echoing "sovereign citizen" claims we see in US irishtimes.com/news/crime-and…
Folks, don't let conspiracy theorists make your public health decisions for you. irishtimes.com/news/crime-and…
The video is just wild. Encapsulates public institutions trying to protect people's health even as radical anti-government conspiracy theorists are dragging people to their death.
Even after the dead man's wife denounced them as "reckless" the anti-vaxxers who persuaded him to leave the hospital turned up at the funeral, refusing to wear a mask or social distance. thejournal.ie/joe-mccarron-c…

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28 Sep
If the choices are a) means-test for higher earners or b) make it harder for the poor by not making it fully refundable or adding work requirements, I would opt for a).
But partly depends on what means-testing means. Would favor just lowering income caps to keep it simple.
Purely as a budget choice I absolutely say focus money to the poor if you have to cut. But the long-term experience we have with programs is that they become more vulnerable the less universal they become.
Tradeoffs like means-testing or adding burdens may not give you the long-run political support that survey experiments suggest. Classic @jbsoss & @sanfordschram piece shows that the promised support for welfare never emerged after 1990s welfare reform cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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28 Sep
If you are concerned about threats to democracy, such as changes in election laws, you should also worry about how politicization of the career public sector will remove a protection against creeping authoritarianism.

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27 Sep
Daughter of South Dakota’s Governor Kristi Noem denied an appraisal license. Noem then calls the supervisor of the head of the licensing agency for meeting with her daughter. Daughter gets license, head of agency forced to resign. apnews.com/article/busine…
Noem spokesperson says obvious case of nepotism is actually part of South Dakota’s economic development program
This is how Noem is characterizing a report that she leaned on state employees to get her 26 year old daughter a state benefit she did not earn.
The fact that she is not denying any details of the reporting speaks volumes.
apnews.com/article/busine…
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24 Sep
This is misleading in a number of respects:
*the CDC advisory panel vote "was close" not overwhelming
*The FDA, after input from its scientific committee, had greenlit the boosters for frontline workers. Thus the CDC Chief had to choose.
fda.gov/news-events/pr…
More on the FDA decision, which underlines that there is not clear scientific consensus on boosters for frontline workers. Thats exactly the kind of case where political judgment is necessary.
Biden admin erred on side of making boosters more available.
nytimes.com/2021/09/22/us/…
A different administration, one more skeptical of vaccines, might have argued for limiting access to boosters for frontline workers. That administration lost last November.
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24 Sep
This was literally the Trump administration policy. He wrote an executive order mandating work requirements for all social programs. It was a disaster and a backdoor attack on the social safety net. washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-c…
Trump was unable to fully implement his goal of adding work requirements to "everything" but here Manchin is ready to do the job for him.
I wrote about work requirements here. We know they do little to encourage labor force participation, but will mean that the poorest - in this case the poorest kids - will not get the benefits they need. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/save-the-chi…
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22 Sep
A TN law says that teachers cannot make students feel bad about their race: parents are using this to remove discussion of Blacks experiencing racism.
Gives the game away about whose feeling are worth protecting and validating and whose can be ignored.
reuters.com/world/us/criti…
1. This makes the job of teachers even harder - any kid with a blowhard parent can’t accuse them of violating the law.
2. Chilling effects reflect the existing power structure. Teachers are incentivized to tiptoe around white feelings at the expense of Black history.
One trend I wish we knew more about is the extent to which narrow culture-war groups are socializing and running candidates for positions that are traditionally low-visibility but have high importance
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