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May 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
It's now been 3 months since The Free Press published a first-person whistleblower account of systematic mistreatment in a MO gender clinic. They also published a reported story in which one (1) mother of a patient went on the record to object to her child's treatment.
Meanwhile, multiple other outlets have conducted dozens and dozens of interviews with parents, employees, and patients and found no corroboration for the very disconcerting and specific allegations in the first report.
Feb 15, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Last night I talked about the East Palestine, OH train derailment and what it shows about the fundamental contradiction at the heart of modern conservatism.
Basically, the MAGA-dominated right these days is more and more dependent on a specific demographic: white working class voters outside major metro areas. Voters like those in East Palestine. And those voters have very real issues and struggle they are facing.
Feb 10, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
CARES + ARP was the single biggest infusion of cash into working and poor people's household balance sheets in...history basically. That money has now been spent down and this is the result.
But there's also a catch 22 to it all. Which is that people - understandably! - hate inflation and any continuation of fiscal support at that scale in these conditions would have been obviously inflationary.
Jan 12, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Stipulating I'm not saying anything new, nor have any special expertise, there's a very weird dynamic with the Fed right now. It's clear they're not just looking at the price level, as is their mandate, but rather Wall St / and labor markets.
If you're just looking at the price level, things are very encouraging! Instead they're viewing the stock market and unemployment rates as proxies, and, particularly with regards to the former, have locked themselves into a weird battle of wills with investors.
Dec 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Remember that Tucker kicked off this whole Kanye publicity tour, fawning over him and telling his audience that Kanye was being falsely slandered as nuts.
Even more revealing, they edited out the weird stuff he said about Jews! thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson…
Nov 8, 2022 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
While we all wait for returns, some thoughts about my expectations for today and the implications, at the broadest level, for American democracy.
First I think the Republican party poses a serious threat to American democracy and has turned away from democratic norms and towards authoritarian delusions and aspirations. That said...
Oct 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Always happy to draw the senator’s attention away from using this platform to harass random trans folks like was yesterday.
But this is, I’d dare say the opposite of propaganda. My analysis of the move is one that R’s *fundamentally agree with* - it’s good politics! (That’s why’re they’re mad.)
Oct 9, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
36 hours in Copenhagen and I'm ready to an unleash a college-junior-just-back-from-year-abroad harangue about how much better their street design is. It's a revelation!
OK so here's the thing I didn't quite realize. I've been in lots of places that are way way more pedestrian friendly than the US, but mostly that's because their cities were built before cars. So I just kinda assumed that would be the case in Copenhagen and that's partly it.
One, it's an impressive piece of rhetoric, no question. It operates at a level *miles* above what we usually see from right-wing discourse in the US, particularly Trump.
Sep 16, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Again, these people really don’t seem capable at the most basic level of actually taking seriously the basic humanity of the people at issue. The reason this is gross is that THEY ALMOST CERTAINLY HAVE NO FAMILY OR SOCIAL NETWORKS ON A SMALL REMOTE ISLAND.
Which is why, yes, there hasn’t been outrage when migrants are taken to NYC or Chicago, etc, because those are places where they can plausibly 1) make their court dates and asylum interviews 2) be connected with friends, family, or community resources.
Jul 12, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
A six hour meeting is my personal nightmare, no matter the topic.
"fine whatever, do an insurrection, can we just end this meeting?" - me, probably 4 hours into the December 18th meeting
Jul 8, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
One of the anti-abortion movement's most durable and effective tactics was to use the first amendment to protest outside private establishments in order to make the people inside them feel uncomfortable.
They were so committed to this tactic, in fact, they *very often* brushed up against the gray area that separates protest from intimidation and harassment.
Jun 24, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This is something that @jbouie and @rtraister have both been writing about. The gap between the Democratic leadership, and younger progressives on the question of “How Bad Is It?” is just *enormous*.
@jbouie@rtraister I think Clyburn, Pelosi, Feinstein et al believe, *truly believe*, that over time things get better, that the slow-boring of hard boards yields progress and that this too shall pass. Most politically mobilized people on the center-left think things are much much more dire.
Jun 21, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Saw Maverick in the theatre and absolutely loved it. Exremely entertaining. A few thoughts
The level of defense contractor propaganda is truly off the charts. From the opening scene where a penny-pitching admiral tries to unfairly nix a military contract for a fancy new jet (our hero defies him!), to the constant invocation of the unnamed enemy having "Gen 5 fighters"
Jun 8, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I've got literally a whole book of thoughts about crime/law and order as they relate to urban politics: but I'll say just two things about last night's results in SF and LA.
1) Threats to personal safety and public disorder (as open as they are to manipulation and racist demagoguery) are quite real, cut across lines of class and race, and have to be addressed forthrightly by progressives and not waved away.
Jun 3, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
An increasingly mainstream message of gun maximalists is that the *reason* to be armed is so that you can use violence or the threat of it to get your way in the political sphere, basically:"People in government need to worry we'll pump their bodies full of lead if they cross us"
In fact, under a certain (once fringe, now common) reading , that's the whole *point* of the second amendment. People should be sufficiently armed to be able to murder agents of the state en masse if it comes to that.
Jun 3, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
This is a great thread about how to think of vibrant, accessible affordable cities.
The key insight is that a lot of people want to "go back" in a way to a certain moment in urban development that, for a confluence of reasons created relatively affordable, vibrant, walkable, bohemian-friendly neighborhoods.
May 25, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I see a lot of tweets and conversation about gun violence in America that glosses over the fact that within the last 40 years the rates of it have fluctuated enormously.
Relatedly, something I tried to write about in A Colony in a Nation, police violence towards Americans and Americans' violence towards other Americans are distinct but related phenomena. America is a very violent place compared to other countries with our wealth.
May 13, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
For those of us lucky enough to be relatively healthy, I think "you're gonna get Covid once a year, but it won't put you in the hospital" is a tolerable equilibrium, but "you and your family are gonna get it 2-3 times a year" isn't really...
1) the college funding system is monstrouly perverse and needs to be changed fundamentally
2) the byproduct of that is a lot of very very bad and predatory debt that's having terrible human and economic costs that should be cancelled
3) there *will* be political backlash, of course.
4) total debt cancellation would produce some very weird and bad distributional outcomes that while relatively small would be genuinely politically toxic and substantively indefensible.
