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Mar 20 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
In case anyone is still covering the IVF question, today's new Republican Study Committee budget specifically endorses the idea that embryos have the full legal rights of persons under the 14th Amendment. Image
They're not going to say "we support Rep Mooney's bill to ban IVF" but that's a ban on IVF as well as a national ban on all abortions at any week with no exceptions.
Also importantly while they say they are going to pass a law, you don't actually need new legislation if you can just put judges on the bench who agree with that interpretation of the 14th Amendment.

We know Trump loves his Federalist Society judges.
They're also backing a bill to ban mifepristone (again, something you could achieve through judicial or executive branch action as well) Image
They're banning abortions for military service members Image
They want to ban abortions on campus Image

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Feb 13
Braindead rightists are enraged by my suggestion that people worried about the budget deficit should support the candidate who has proposals to reduce the budget deficit.
To be clear, I’m not even asking anyone to vote for Joe Biden.

If your priority is corporate tax cuts and such then by all means vote for Trump!

But don’t run around pretending to be motivated by the national debt while you do that.
If you are just incredulous about my claim and also too lazy to check, then good for you — nobody needs to spend their time become informed about the issues if they don’t want to — but again, I’m just asking you not to lie to me (or to yourself) and pretend you care.
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Feb 11
One notable thing about the 2024 primary is it’s easy to find polling evidence that Nikki Haley would be a stronger candidate than Trump, but GOP primary voters and most conservative influencers apparently don’t care.
Conversely, in the 2020 primary there was a good deal of polling evidence that Joe Biden was a stronger nominee than Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and it seems like Dem elected officials — and ultimately voters — cared a lot about this.
Evidence is everywhere, meanwhile, that voters are currently bothered by Joe Biden’s age.

So I keep looking for clear evidence that some different younger candidate would do better in a matchup against Trump — it seems like a reasonable hypothesis! — but it’s hard to find.
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Feb 4
The context for something absurd like “Woke Kindergarten” is that 10-20 years ago there was a lot of interest in trying to advance equality by improving basic schooling which generated stakeholder demand for reasons why pushing schools for measurable results was actually racist.
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This is also related to the effort to get people to stop saying that diversity (or lack thereof) in the workplace is in part a downstream consequence of stuff that happens in school.

slowboring.com/p/why-progress…
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In the real world, schools aren’t magic and can’t single-handedly redress every inequality in the world.

But it’s still the case that school quality matters a lot — especially for kids from less privileged backgrounds.

slowboring.com/p/good-schools…
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Jan 7
Really interesting paper on the realities of household financial decision-making

nber.org/papers/w24161
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A related one — while in theory high interest credit products could be serving a useful market niche, in practice the people using them don’t know what they’re talking about.

nber.org/papers/w18969
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This kind of thing helps explain why rising living standards, low unemployment, etc don’t cure all forms of financial distress — in the presence of uncertainty + credit, bad decisions + bad luck can put you in trouble at any income level.
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Dec 18, 2023
What happens to grocery prices if the government spends a bunch of money on deporting 14% of the agricultural workforce?

slowboring.com/p/trump-wont-m…
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If you’re a native born American who specifically aspires to go pick fruit in the Central Valley or work in a slaughterhouse this program will raise your wages, but for anyone who works in a store or an office or construction site or factory it just means higher prices.
I think it’s important for the 2024 campaign to not just fixate on whatever outlandish thing Trump just said but to try to take people’s complaints about the world seriously and really ask if Trump’s program will fix them.
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Dec 3, 2023
“Smarter people have more extreme views” holds pretty generally, which is why you see much more psychotic takes from Princeton students than from kids at normal colleges.
Robert Nozick was a brilliant teacher but I remember him sketching out some elaborate scheme for replacing government safety regulation of canned food with a group of competing canned food certification firms.
It sounds paradoxical but people with this “take a few facts and premises and run with them to places any normal person would find absurd” skillset really is who you want handling your complex civil litigation.
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