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Oct 31 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
Today I am requesting the Committee on Foreign Investment — which reviews acquisitions of U.S. businesses by foreign buyers — to conduct an investigation into the national security implications of Saudi Arabia's purchase of Twitter.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
We should be concerned that the Saudis, who have a clear interest in repressing political speech and impacting U.S. politics, are now the second-largest owner of a major social media platform.

There is a clear national security issue at stake and CFIUS should do a review.
If this deal goes through, two of the most important U.S. social media platforms will be owned, in whole or in part, by China (TikTok) and Saudi Arabia (Twitter).

This is a dangerous trend, and we don't have to accept it.

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Oct 27
He was treated for mental illness. The family called police when he started acting out. The school locked the doors.

None of it stopped this.

Why? Because Missouri has some of the loosest gun laws in the nation.

1/ It's a story you need to hear.
washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10…
2/ First, it's interesting to note that Missouri used to have VERY tough gun laws. Up until the 2000s, the state had universal background checks, rigorous permitting laws, restrictions on concealed carry.

Then, the NRA scheduled their 2007 convention for St. Louis.
3/ This was the heyday of NRA power. The Republican Governor welcomed the NRA to down by repealing the state's tough gun laws.

From 2008-12, U.S. gun murders were declining. But in Missouri, after the gun laws were relaxed, gun murder SKYROCKETED by 35%.
publichealth.jhu.edu/2014/repeal-of…
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Oct 21
This is a good piece, but @tylercowen seems to take the new right's anti-elitism at face value, mostly critiquing it as naïve and dangerous.

1/ I don't buy the sincerity of the the new right's anti-elitism. I think it's all show. Total fraud show.

marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
2/ Cowen is right to point out that the new right just proposes to replace one elite (that they disagree with) with a new elite (that they agree with).

A key difference of course is that their elite would exist inside some kind of (theo)(mon)(auto)cracy instead of a democracy.
3/ I just don't think the new right cares about "elites" at all. They just don't like living in a world where white men have decreasing power

The new right hates the current "elites" only because they don't properly protect white male freedom.
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Oct 18
A quick story of how Congress is supposed to work.

1/ in January I did a meeting with pediatricians and child mental health providers about the spiraling number of kids needing mental health care.

They had a really good idea.
2/ Nearly every kid has a pediatrician. But pediatricians get very little mental health training. Often they don’t know enough to screen for and identify the signs of early mental illness. They get little training on treatment.

It’s a big gap.
3/ I couldn’t stop thinking about this. It seemed so cost effective - just skill up pediatricians and we create a whole new mental health workforce.

I set my team to designing a way to do this.
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Oct 13
1/ I support halting arms sales to Saudi Arabia, but there are two practical, immediate changes the U.S. can make to Saudi policy that will have an near term impact on the war in Ukraine.

Here me out. This is important.
2/ First, the Ukrainians are using (and need more) air-to-air AMRAAM missiles. These missiles are needed to defend against Russia's criminal bombardment of civilians.

The U.S. is scheduled to send 280 AMRAAMs to Saudi Arabia. These should be redirected to Ukraine.
3/ Second, there are U.S. owned and operated Patriot anti-missile batteries in Saudi Arabia right now. If Saudi Arabia isn't willing to take the side of Ukraine and U.S. over Russia, why should we keep these Patriots in Saudi Arabia when Ukraine and our NATO allies need them?
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Oct 13
If you’re among the thousands of former People’s United customers in Connecticut, you probably have heard about issues surrounding the M&T merger. Long story short: there have been big problems.

1/ Here’s a quick breakdown of what’s happening, and how it could impact you:
2/ Since the transition, some customers have reported problems accessing online and mobile banking resources. From barriers to logging in and accessing mobile bill pay to long customer service wait times, people experiencing difficulties have often been left without a solution.
3/ The result: serious disruptions that have left people across Connecticut without access to their money, leading to late fees and real consequences.

Even with financial compensation, people will never recoup the hours and opportunities they lost due to M&T’s mismanagement.
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Oct 5
So every Polish-American has a story. As I visit Warsaw this week, I want to tell you a part of mine.

My great grandmother, Anna Penk, had a rough life in rural Poland. Her mother died in childbirth and her father’s second wife was disinterested in raising her. Image
At 16, her father put her in his horse drawn cart and sent her away to catch a boat, by herself, to America, where her older sister lived.

She arrived at Ellis Island around the turn of the century and got a job as a maid in New York City.

Here she is with her sister. Image
Shortly thereafter, she met another Polish immigrant, Alexander Lewczyk, at a party in the city.

He lived in a thriving Polish neighborhood in a small city in central Connecticut - New Britain.

They fell in love, married, and settled in New Britain. Image
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