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Feb 13

Inflation impacts people. It’s reality, and we have to face it. But rather than stepping up to help combat it, Republicans are cheering it on. So let’s look at some of the causes, and what can or can’t be done to help. (Thread)

@RandPaul

1. One cause of inflation is a market recovery. People have more money to spend, due to relief efforts and booming jobs. While someone like @RandPaul thinks giving Americans funds to stay afloat during a pandemic was a bad thing, people with more money to spend is positive.

The good news: this one will level off. Coming out of a pandemic, it’s like opening a dam. The water pours out hard and fast—but the market catches up, and the flow will find a normal rate soon, absent forces working to keep it artificially high.

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Feb 13

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When we watch someone like @RepKatiePorter work, we marvel at how clearly she breaks everything down. She is brilliant—but shouldn’t we expect this from everyone we elect? If, when confronted with a problem, someone starts throwing out buzzwords, ask yourself why. (Thread)

Finding solutions to seemingly intractable societal problems is hard—but it gets infinitely more so when you don’t take time to understand the problems. An elected official should start there: what is the problem? What causes it? What solution would help?

When you hear most Republicans speak these days, they are doing one of four things: they are (1) making up problems that aren’t really problems; (2) working to divide people; (3) working for the interests of their donor class; or (4) shouting utter nonsense into the wind.

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Feb 11

https://twitter.com/lindyli/status/1491985801399439363

Freedom of the press exists to protect democracy by keeping citizens informed. The freedom stems from the notion that an informed populace is essential for voters to be able to hold government officials accountable, and to make informed choices at the ballot box.

https://twitter.com/lindyli/status/1491985801399439363

What Haberman did here flips that on its head. She used her access as a journalist not to inform the public, but to increase her own ability to profit off of hoarded information. This isn’t free press; it’s complicit press.

This nation’s mythology reveres individualism and a person’s power to succeed. But when the institutions of democracy silo off access to information and power for the benefit of insiders, it makes that American Dream unachievable. You can’t aim for something you can’t see.

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Dec 10, 2021

The DC Court of Appeals opinion released today that shoots down Trump’s increasingly frivolous executive privilege claim is another excellent piece of legal writing and reasoning. Worth a full read if you have time, but distillation follows here. (Thread)

cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opini…

First, the upshot: Trump has no right to have his documents withheld. He has 14 days to appeal, and he will, to the Supreme Court. While the Court has a disturbingly partisan streak right now, bowing to a wholly specious argument seems a bridge too far for most of the Justices.

In terms of the legal arguments, Trump’s position deserves little more than “Motion for injunction denied, because this claim of executive privilege is meritless.” But the Court isn’t writing for Trump; it’s writing for posterity when this country has to decide what it will be.

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Dec 9, 2021

This is an interesting article, and not wrong, but I think it’s a little beside the point. Whether Biden is treated better or worse by the press, he is simply a qualitatively different president from Trump.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

The press should be an active force to reveal the truth in our cities, states, nation, and world. They don’t owe it to any politician to be positive or “nice.” The problem is that they are continuing to treat this as merely opposing political forces with different ideals.

That simply isn’t the state of our nation. The former president is a liar and a fraud, who served and serves only himself: his power, his financial interests, and his ego. But his daily idiocy provided shiny objects for the press to chase, for clicks in a 24-hour cycle.

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Nov 29, 2021

For those who believe voting doesn’t matter, because “both parties are the same,” “there’s no real difference,” or some version of this, I get it. You want to see a difference in your life, and don’t care about squabbles in D.C. But there are critical differences. (Thread)

1. Republicans want you to believe government doesn’t work, so it should just be Freedom, O.K. Corral style. Democrats want to create laws and policies that make government work to help people.

2. Republicans believe the richest Americans need tax breaks to work harder and get richer. Democrats believe taxes are an investment that allows government to work better—and it’s fair to ask those to whom America has given the most to pay their fair share.

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