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Amy

@amyliztweets

1 year

There has never been 60 pro-choice votes in the Senate or 51 Democrats willing to axe the filibuster.

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1 year

Just a reminder that Democrats had decades to codify Roe into law and they chose not to.

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Amy

@amyliztweets

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This is literally what happened to tons of women, that's one of the reasons feminists pushed so hard for a workplace where women could support their families.

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3 months

Literally this meme

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This person is a fucking statistician. Someone who works with numbers, especially quantified in weird ways. Can’t count cubes in a logic puzzle. We’re fucked.

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@amyliztweets

6 years

Japan has found the galaxy brain of strikes

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Sitting here reading my book and someone just yelled, “does anyone have a wine opener?” and someone from the other side of the park yelled, “I do.” Why would you ever live in the suburbs.

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2 months

I actually laughed out loud at this. Right wing men are so pathetic!

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Why are people so invested in believing major cities that they don’t live in are shitholes? So bizarre.

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@amyliztweets

9 months

A friend of mine couldn't get individual insurance in her 20's because she had a previous diagnosis of plantar fasciitis. People assume the pre-existing conditions folks were getting denied for were all things like cancer, they weren't.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

9 months

@revhowardarson Zoomers straight up do not believe me when I describe pre-ACA health insurance practices like policy rescission, exclusions on preexisting conditions, and lifetime limits.

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@amyliztweets

4 months

I grew up in a community where almost all the moms stayed home, definitely saw some become dependent on judges to keep them out of poverty when their husband left them for another woman.

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@amyliztweets

4 months

@BenjaminPh9122 You can't force someone to participate in a marriage (at least in a way that doesn't cause more damage to the other person in it).

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@amyliztweets

2 months

It's very hard to get sober period, much harder when you don't have a consistent, safe place to sleep at night. Housing absolutely is a key part of the solution.

T Wolf 🌁

@Twolfrecovery

2 months

This is what Fentanyl does to you until you die. San Francisco has between 4k-8k people struggling with this exact thing on its streets. Housing does not solve this. Treatment does. @LondonBreed @DanielLurie @Ahsha_Safai @MarkFarrellSF @SteveAdami

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@amyliztweets

3 years

Per NPR: in a typical year, there are 2-3 natural disasters that cause over a billion dollars of damage in the U.S.; in the last year, there have been 22.

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I need people to understand this is the future of all American cities if we don’t fix the housing supply issue.

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@LEBassett

1 month

The Brooklyn apartment hunt has jumped the shark

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@amyliztweets

8 months

Americans don't understand the definition of paycheck to paycheck - if you're putting money in a savings account, 401k, IRA, or mortgage, you're not living it.

unusual_whales

@unusual_whales

8 months

BREAKING: A third of Americans earning $150,000 a year or more say they're living paycheck to paycheck and many rely on credit cards to close the gap, per Moneywise.

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@amyliztweets

7 years

@KateHarding You know, when I pointed a knife at my intern a few times and he didn’t quit, I just sort of assumed he was okay with being stabbed.

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@amyliztweets

3 years

I'm fully vaccinated and wear a mask in public because I recognize that strangers have no way of knowing whether I am or not, and I want to contribute to a social norm of masking while 75% of the population is still unvaccinated. I don't understand why this is such a big deal.

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@amyliztweets

2 months

I was telling a friend this week, I don't think I've ever gone back to feeling fully like myself since the year and a half of pandemic isolation in 2020-2021. Am I the only person who feels like this? I feel like no one ever talks about it.

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@amyliztweets

1 year

Holy shit.

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@amyliztweets

2 years

In terms of who is out of touch with the zeitgeist, I submit that Biden was planning to nominate a federalist society member and forced birth activist judge to the federal judiciary one week before he believed Roe would be overturned and didn’t expect a backlash.

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@amyliztweets

3 months

Imagine being a normie Democrat who doesn't use Twitter and then all of a sudden you are running in a primary against Will Stancil.

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@amyliztweets

2 months

What people don’t get about pre-ACA is that, if your work didn’t get you health insurance, ANYONE could be rejected for a “pre-existing condition.” I was rejected for depression. A friend of mine was rejected for a past case of plantar fasciitis.

Bobby Kogan

@BBKogan

2 months

Hard to explain the reality of pre-ACA unless you lived through it, but: Before the ACA, if you got sick, health insurers could decide to just not cover you. Many people could not get health instance. An estimated 25-50% of America had pre-existing conditions. Obama fixed that.

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@amyliztweets

7 years

@KateHarding Frankly, if they’re alone with a woman I don’t know what they expect to happen. They know stabbing men is a biological drive for us.

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@amyliztweets

3 years

Maybe someone in elected office can give Marc Elias a hand at protecting democracy?

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@amyliztweets

7 years

@KateHarding Anyway, this one guy in my office got a promotion bc he was our CEO’s favorite person to stab. I think these men know what they’re doing.

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@amyliztweets

7 years

@KateHarding It’s very confusing and unfair for us with all these men taking our daughter’s jobs.

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@amyliztweets

2 years

Girl what on earth are you even talking about

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@amyliztweets

3 years

Elizabeth Warren on capitalism:

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@amyliztweets

7 years

@KateHarding I tell my sons to ask another man in the office to supervise all their work meetings. Not sure why others can’t do this.

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@amyliztweets

11 months

@steamyporkbuns Is that… a washer/dryer by the front door??!

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@amyliztweets

2 years

I just underwrote an office to affordable housing conversion and can now say confidently that in most cases, it’s significantly cheaper on a per unit basis to build new ground up affordable multi than to convert an unused office building.

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@amyliztweets

2 months

We’re to believe we need these guys to protect us, the ones who piss their pants at the idea of walking outside after dark or riding the subway.

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@amyliztweets

2 years

@drvolts @madsmaru The audacity to claim that the vast majority of people have EVER had the right to speak their mind free of social consequences

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@amyliztweets

1 year

There needs to be a progressive response to homelessness that isn't just asking people to tolerate it or reactionary responses will eventually win the day.

Monjula Ray 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ team 🐻

@queerBengali

1 year

Two things can both be true, the solution to homelessness is more housing and not hospital or jails and that if Dems ignore the needs of the mostly white middle class, we will handover the country to fascists. I dislike adams but state/federal neglect has squeezed dem mayors.

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@amyliztweets

3 years

Stop saying "Democrats" when what you mean is "Sinema and Manchin" challenge.

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@amyliztweets

3 months

Someone spray-painted on a building in my neighborhood, “the buildings that we lose are as important as the people, too” and no, they are not. That attitude is a big part of why people are being displaced.

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@amyliztweets

2 years

I once worked for a company that made me take a vacation day if for any reason I wasn’t butt-in-seat from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM. I wonder how much of the backlash towards being in the office is actually a backlash towards that level of controlling and disrespect of employees’ time.

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@amyliztweets

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@amyliztweets

2 years

Can someone please explain to me the theory of how landlords profit from holding empty apartment buildings while still paying property taxes and debt service payments?

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@amyliztweets

9 months

Disagree with me all you want, but I resent being called a liar.

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@amyliztweets

10 months

Wait, really?? They got this done?

Elizabeth Warren

@SenWarren

10 months

Starting in 2024, the IRS will provide taxpayers an option to file taxes for free, directly with the government. That means an end to having to hand over $240 and your sensitive, financial data to companies like Intuit and H&R Block.

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@amyliztweets

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Man the number of people in my menchies assuring me that the housing problem is undocumented immigrants, landlords holding vast numbers of units empty, or “deadbeat renters.” The fundamental problem is lack of supply. I don’t know why this is so hard to believe.

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@amyliztweets

2 years

Portland inclusionary housing policy has produced 949 affordable units since 2017, initial goal was 10,000 by 2035.

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@amyliztweets

5 months

Oh my God there's now a "Harvard's President Resigns" SECTION, complete with a timeline, on the New York Times' website.

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@amyliztweets

1 year

I just completely disagree with this. People of all income levels should be able to afford to live in any city - actually the city’s functioning depends on it!

Nick Huber

@sweatystartup

1 year

One of the most surprising things to me is how entitled people feel to live in a certain city. If you can't afford a city, move. My moving costs out of Boston MA in 2018 were significantly less than the cash I would have needed to sign on a new place there.

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@amyliztweets

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I’m not sure how many ways women can tell you that this isn’t what most of us are evaluating men on. Is he kind, empathetic, and fun to hang out with?

BowTiedKong

@BowTiedKong

1 year

Good friend is late 30's. In shape, makes over $300k/year, has a condo overlooking a great downtown. He gets consistently ghosted, ignored for days, or is told after a date or two that "this isn't working." Modern women are broken.

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@amyliztweets

9 months

Also, they could deny coverage retroactively - as in, once you have cancer they decide not to cover treatment because of a previous case of plantar fasciitis.

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@amyliztweets

7 years

@mescamilla1980 @KateHarding Hahaha! Sorry this thread is hilarious and I wanted to play too.

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@amyliztweets

1 year

These articles made me want to scream. I can tell you for a fact that landlords in the United States are not warehousing new, non-rent controlled units.

New Yorkers Never Came ‘Flooding Back.’ Why Did Rents Go Up?

Getting to the bottom of a COVID-era real estate mystery.

www.curbed.com

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@amyliztweets

1 month

Is there any actual data showing that people who live in apartment buildings owned by institutional investors like Blackstone are treated worse than those in apartment buildings owned by "mom and pop" investors?

Geoffrey Ingersoll

@GPIngersoll

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This kind of thing should be regulated. I’m extremely dubious that investment firms owning a majority of housing in America will work out well for Americans.

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@amyliztweets

11 months

Biden did the thing that people are yelling at AOC and Warren that he can't:

Michael Stratford

@mstratford

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🚨 NEWS: Biden admin will begin regulatory process to enact student debt relief under Higher Education Act, per notice posted today on Ed Dept's website:

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@amyliztweets

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@StatisticUrban Their current President basically got elected on being Andrew Tate, so probably not going to happen under the current government :-/

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@amyliztweets

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I always tell people who move to lower cost of living, lower wage areas that you better be sure - it is MUCH easier to relocate to lower COLA than the reverse

Socially Distant Ryan 🇺🇦

@ryan_hassett

2 months

I've spoken to a surprising number of Northern transplants in the South who have told me in private that they would go back if they could but between lower salaries down there and higher costs back home they feel they now can't afford to leave.

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@amyliztweets

1 year

Incredible analysis. I would have assumed race and poverty were the primary drivers of lower credit scores in the South, but the biggest factor found is the lack of Medicaid expansion. (h/t @LemieuxLGM )

Analysis | Why the South has such low credit scores

Why does the American South have worse credit scores than the rest of the country? Hint: It's not just race or income.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@amyliztweets

7 years

How are women supposed to process the fact that sexually abusive behavior towards us is still excused or seen as funny and edgy?

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@amyliztweets

3 years

Thinking about Amazon trying to come for Elizabeth Warren this morning.

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@amyliztweets

9 months

The “smaller homes” average 2,400 SF according to the article, which is still insanely big for the average household.

Welcoming Neighbors Network 🏗🏘👋

@WNNProHousing

9 months

This is a preposterous share image from @FortuneMagazine for a very reasonable way to make housing more affordable. The average home size in the USA has *tripled* since the 1950s while household size has shrunk considerably. We need many many many more modest sized homes.

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1 year

My most strongly held unpopular opinion is that Portland, Oregon offers incredible livability for a relatively accessible price, not sure there’s any American city with a similar COL that can compete.

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@amyliztweets

7 years

@miskeencore If you started a site for this, I would 100% read it daily.

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8 months

Ever since I moved to NYC, I've had to watch my budget with a level of care that I haven't in years to save, and my checking account is basically zeroed out at the end of the month. I think that's what people are talking about - but that's not paycheck to paycheck.

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@amyliztweets

9 months

Oh yeah, because rapists’ friends and family have a great track record of holding them accountable.

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These people are insane psychopaths.

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Remember when MySpace Tom sold MySpace for half a billion dollars and then just fucked off to travel the world and pursue landscape photography? What a legend.

Myspace Co-Founder Tom Anderson's New Life as a Landscape Photographer

Tom Anderson is an astonishingly good landscape photographer, for a guy who's arguably most recognizable from a grainy, postage-stamp sized photo on Myspace. That's right: Tom, everyone's first...

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@amyliztweets

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At some point, someone is going to have to be brave enough to say that in an urbanized country, it's impossible to make it affordable for every middle class family to own a single family home.

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@amyliztweets

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The fact the it's damn near impossible to build *brand new housing* that's affordable to low-income households does not mean that the market can't take care of the housing needs of most people over the long term. 1/n

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@amyliztweets

4 years

One of the most interesting things we've learned from the internet democratizing communication is that many of the most successful people are just not very smart:

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

4 years

@cyrusposting Induced demand is one of the most irrational theories I’ve ever heard. Correlation is not causation. If the transport system exceeds public travel needs, there will be very little traffic. I support anything that improves traffic, as this negatively affects almost everyone.

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2 months

Out on the mean streets of New York after ten PM 🙂

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@amyliztweets

1 year

More young people in the U.S. live with their parents than at any time in history other than the Great Depression because of housing costs - I’m sure that definitely impacts dating!

ettingermentum🥥🌴

@ettingermentum

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I’ve always had a dislike of how YIMBYs seem to interpret every single societal and even personal issue in the world as a function of the housing crisis but even I wouldn’t have guessed this lmfao

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@amyliztweets

3 years

I personally believe it's important to talk about what happened to Elizabeth Warren's campaign, and what happened to Hillary Clinton's campaign, for that matter. It's not "stan culture," it's what it illuminates about how the country treats over half the population.

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I've never really talked to anyone about how it impacted my mental health because I want to be sensitive to others who had it much worse, but I feel like because of this I never fully healed. Just sharing in case anyone else is experiencing this - you aren't alone. ❤️

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@amyliztweets

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Urbanist twitter hated Elon Musk before it was cool 😎

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@amyliztweets

4 years

@LauraERamos Please leave Warren supporters out of your narrative, polling shows they're more likely to vote for Biden in the general than people who voted for Biden in the primary. Thanks.

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@amyliztweets

3 years

Send Elizabeth Warren out on an "abolish the filibuster" press tour.

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@amyliztweets

3 years

God bless Warren, who was out here doing the work to eliminate the filibuster since before it was cool.

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@BeardsofBC @winston_chang Yeah, even if I did have the opportunity to have sex, I don’t think I’d want to risk pregnancy rn tbh

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@amyliztweets

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"A woman, but not that woman" remains the undefeated politician.

Current Affairs

@curaffairs

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became a star by taking on the Democratic party establishment. Now she’s given up being an “agitator” and become much less vocal in pushing Medicare For All and a Green New Deal. By @lefty_md :

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@amyliztweets

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There was a time when men could not only abuse women with impunity, but also be thought of as progressive. That time is ending, and a lot of men are deeply bitter about it. I'm not sure some things are any more complicated than that.

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@conoromarz Right wing media blasts propaganda that American cities are dangerous hellholes 24/7 :(

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It is really interesting that we get tons of coverage about a 50 cent per gallon gas price increase, but nothing about $500/month rent increases.

Carl Quintanilla

@carlquintanilla

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US gasoline costs, as consumer’s share of wallet: (via @MikeZaccardi ) #OOTT

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Elizabeth Warren after I told her I had figured out how to breach the Capitol

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@JasonOverstreet I like to think this is one of the girls from Elizabeth Warren’s pinky promise army.

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@ReidChalker I posted a photo of walking in NYC at night and they were fantasizing about when they could come back and say I told you so after I got hurt! Sincerely deranged behavior.

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@amyliztweets

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@EMukumbo Every woman should have a stash of money that’s not intermingled in any way with any man. Retrograde, but even as a millennial, I’ve seen enough bad situations to believe it’s still necessary.

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I’d like to participate in a pro-Palestine protest, but I don’t want anything to do with people like this. I wish movements would be more discerning about what viewpoints they allow in their tent.

Jason Curtis Anderson

@JCAndersonNYC

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“When we finally deal that final blow to destroy Israel. When the state of Israel is finally destroyed and erased from history, that will be the single most important blow we can give to destroying capitalism.” -Manolo De Los Santos speaking at The People’s Forum in NYC.

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The Senate will never have 60 votes to codify Roe vs. Wade. If you don't support abolishing the filibuster, you don't support protecting abortion rights for women in red states. That includes the President.

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@amyliztweets

2 years

Oh so now the lady politicians are too strict with electronic data protocols for you people?

Alex Thompson

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NEW: Kamala Harris has long felt that Bluetooth headphones are a security risk. So, she insists on using wired ones, 3 fmr campaign aides told @rubycramer and me. That Bluetooth phobia remains (if you look closely, you'll see the clump of wires in hand)

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As of tonight I’ll have made it a year alcohol free! Almost bought some champagne for a midnight toast and then realized I don’t even like drinking all that much anymore.

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@JacobPritchett It’s not! AND it was in defense of ordering meals from Door Dash - fine for the migrant making sub minimum wage to risk their life so you can have the restaurant food you require, per this dude.

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@corporatecake Oh man, I remember having the “please don’t put this in your notes” conversations with doctors when I was buying my own insurance pre-ACA!

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@AlyssaFranke @ewarren My God. Thank you for your service and I'm sorry.

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A city cannot "democratically redistribute" land in the United States - you'd have to have a constitutional amendment to even make that legal. You might as well suggest moving to Mars as an alternative for how feasible this is.

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@TomBenthin Another great stat: the infrastructure bills allocate about $4.5B to climate change resilience, versus the past year we’ve sustained $100B in damages from natural disasters.

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If the electoral college didn’t exist, candidates wouldn’t be competing over who loves fracking more when the West Coast is on fire.

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Nabes.

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Mass timber column (right) after three hours of fire (left) - still load bearing.

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Some of solving the housing affordability and homelessness crisis will require getting over ourselves: "Relative to residents of other rich countries, Americans and Britons are unusually hostile to the idea of living in or near apartment buildings."

Is Apartment-phobia Driving America’s Housing Crisis?

Or is the problem that Americans speak English?

nymag.com

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Contrary to popular belief on here, this is also the population where Israel's current far right government got the most support.

khalid

@khalid390465965

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the antisemitic pogroms which drove out the Mizrahi were a true own goal by the Arabs. Had they not mistreated them and integrated them into their societies, Israel would be a much weaker and smaller country

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@amyliztweets

2 years

I think people who vote for Democrats would care a lot if someone was violent against an elected Republican, and people who vote for Republicans mostly don't care if someone is violent against elected Democrats.

Will Stancil

@whstancil

2 years

I mean, what do Dems think is happening here? Do they think they’re just unlucky? Or do they think maybe, just maybe, the way they choose to prosecute their politics creates these asymmetries?

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Wait, right wing 5th Circuit judges are *sworn in* in billionaires' private estates? This is a bit too on the nose.

Justin Elliott

@JustinElliott

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A detail from our story today: Ted Cruz tweeted this photo of Clarence Thomas swearing in 5th Circuit Judge James Ho. Turns out this is in billionaire Harlan Crow's private library, and flight records show Crow's jet dispatched to DC and back to Dallas before + after this event

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@amyliztweets

2 years

I can’t believe we have Democratic control of both houses of Congress and the presidency for the first time in twelve years and we’re just not going to use one of our two reconciliation bills.

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