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David Roberts

3 years

Some personal news! Friday was my last day at Vox. Today I'm launching a newsletter called Volts, devoted to my twin passions: clean energy and politics. (And I am now, yes, drvolts.) Drop by to learn more and subscribe!

Welcome to Volts

Clean energy and politics, electrified

www.volts.wtf

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David Roberts

@drvolts

4 years

In Whitefish, Montana, a young woman named Samantha Francine is confronted by a large white man with balled fists, shouting, "Black Lives Matter? Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!" She does not look away. This is America, 2020. (Photo by Grace Jensen)

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David Roberts

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4 years

Remember when Michelle Obama said "we should feed children healthy food" and the right freaked the fuck out about it for 8 years?

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David Roberts

@drvolts

3 years

America: where everyone knows who will get more votes, but no one knows who will win.

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David Roberts

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I randomly had a 10-hour layover in Dubai once & took a tour & it was one of the creepiest, most unsettling places I've ever been. Like the scene in the apocalypse movie just before the apocalypse. Pre-post-apocalyptic. This video captures the vibe well.

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I couldn’t imagine anywhere I want to live less than Dubai

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David Roberts

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2 years

It is so wild to me that they're holding CPAC in Hungary, openly celebrating Orban's defeat of democracy, openly planning to do the same in the US ... it's just all out in the open now. And still the media can't seem to convey it clearly to the public.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

3 years

Hot damn, AOC spits so much fire in this interview.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

4 years

how do women not die of rage aneurysms every single day?

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David Roberts

@drvolts

3 years

There were 600 marches for abortion rights in the US yesterday. How much coverage did they get relative to the tiny handfuls of people protesting vaccine mandates?

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David Roberts

@drvolts

6 months

I hesitate to even say this -- knocking on wood as I do -- but it's remarkable that Wikipedia, almost alone in the world, has remained unshittified.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

3 months

Dems feeding kids free school lunch vs. Republicans putting them to work in factories.

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David Roberts

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9 months

Does anyone in the world have an actual positive case to make for continuing to attach health insurance to employment in the US? Is there any good reason at all to keep doing this?

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David Roberts

@drvolts

4 months

I still think frequently about the fact that a pandemic came & created an undeniable moral imperative for solidarity -- for acting together, on one another's behalf -- and it caused an eruption of fury among conservatives that is still raging.

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David Roberts

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3 years

I was so completely, utterly wrong about the Biden presidential bid, from the very beginning. I could not possibly have been more wrong.

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David Roberts

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2 months

I really think people have forgotten how horrible it was to live through the pandemic with Trump in charge. He was talking about drinking bleach. Openly saying he wouldn't help blue states. Just flat out lying about the numbers. All of this, day after day after day.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

4 months

This is so embarrassing for everyone involved.

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@JeffTutorials

4 months

The Vegas Loop is operating at full capacity today! So many cars

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David Roberts

@drvolts

3 years

The idea that the child tax credit should have a work requirement -- that children's food & shelter should be contingent on Joe Manchin's judgment of their parents' choices -- is so facially repugnant to me that I hate sharing a species with the people who support it.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

1 year

I've said this before but the most pathetic thing about current RW culture wars is that they are defending a lifestyle -- giant SUVs, highways, strip malls, fast food, suburbs, poisonous/deadly consumer products -- that is 100% a creation of late-20th century corporations.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

11 months

To me the most damning part of the Trump scandal is the simple question *why*? He took all these files, clung to them, moved them around with him, lied about them repeatedly ... why? Why would he want so badly to have these files? Once you ask, the answer is obvious.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

14 days

The pedestrian plaza surrounded by shops & cafes: a basic, atomic unit of pretty much every European city; available virtually *nowhere* in the US.

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@Qagggy

14 days

POV you live in a city.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

2 years

In practice, only one kind of person in the US has ever expected -- would ever *dream* -- that they could say whatever the fuck they want in public without fear of social consequences. That kind of person is feeling slightly constrained now. Thus the current moral panic.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

2 years

The most striking thing about the entire pandemic, to me, is the raw, spontaneous, primal anger some people felt at being asked to make personal sacrifices in the name of the public good -- a kind of gut-level anti-solidarity.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

1 year

As I've said a million times: reactionaries find the thought of being held accountable for their words & actions genuinely outrageous.

Sen. Donnie Rifle, I-FL

@SteakFrankhouse

1 year

This shit is so funny

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David Roberts

@drvolts

1 year

Seems like Dems should make DC & Puerto Rico states during the lame duck session.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

1 year

It was an assassination attempt on a Democratic leader -- the third most powerful person in the country -- by a man radicalized by right-wing propaganda that is echoed by Republican officials at every level, every day. It couldn't be more plain. And it will be a 1-2 day story.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

11 months

The most painful thing on Twitter in the wake of a Big Thing happening is watching earnest liberals spend hours & hours crafting arguments & offering citations & cross-linking threads as though there is an actual good-faith debate happening.

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David Roberts

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2 years

Has anyone seen a story -- an interview, even a passing mention -- of how black Virginia parents feel about how history is taught in schools?

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@drvolts

1 year

Remember "Sharia law"? You laugh but there was a time when RW media was very seriously predicting that Sharia law was on the verge of taking over US courts. Like so many of these episodes, no one ever looked back to reassess or correct or apologize -- just on to the next one.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

6 months

Remember the rules: you can judge The Left as a whole by referencing the craziest fringe shit you can find on Twitter or in some student group, but it is unsporting & uncivil to judge The Right as a whole by referencing what its most prominent elected leaders say.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

2 years

Boy, Alito is the conservative's conservative: in a position of near-total power, with zero accountability, getting everything he wants, but still aggrieved, still whining, and still taking every opportunity to get in nasty, graceless jabs at his opponents. What an asshole.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

4 years

Just FYI, as several commenters have noted, the guy's name is Jay Snowden, 51 years old. He was arrested & charged with one count of disorderly conduct. There's video here, if you can stomach it.

Whitefish man charged after protest confrontation

A cell phone video of a confrontation at a Whitefish protest is going viral, and now we’ve learned the Whitefish man at the center of it faces disorderly conduct charges. Whitefish city prosecutors...

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David Roberts

@drvolts

4 years

Whistleblower from ICE detention facility files complaint alleging "'jarring medical neglect' within the facility, including a refusal to test detainees for the novel coronavirus and an exorbitant rate of hysterectomies being performed on immigrant women."

Whistleblower: There Were Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility | Law & Crime

Several legal advocacy groups on Monday filed a whistleblower complaint on behalf of a nurse at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center documenting “jarring medical neglect”...

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David Roberts

@drvolts

2 years

It's difficult to get perspective when you're in the middle of things, but every so often I'm struck again by a simple fact: one party attempted a coup, to hold on to power despite losing an election, and it is going to do them, to a first approximation, ZERO electoral damage.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

3 months

"Casey won't fly commercial," so the DeSantis campaign ended up spending more on private jets than on TV advertising. Never has anyone more palpably wanted to be First Lady.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

2 months

If I were in charge of a mainstream political news organization and I found out that the majority of the American public did not understand very basic facts about what Biden has done in office and what Trump would do, I would consider that a failure & try to remedy it.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

3 years

If psychedelics turn out to be as effective as they look in early trials, we're going to look back at the last 50 years of prohibition & realize we just sat by & allowed oceans of unnecessary pain.

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@ezraklein

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“Two months after treatment, 67 percent of participants in the MDMA group no longer qualified for a diagnosis of PTSD, compared with 32 percent in the placebo group.”

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David Roberts

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2 years

I despair of screaming this into the void, but voters are not primarily responding to inflation, they are responding to a massive, highly coordinated propaganda campaign across multiple media designed to freak them out about inflation.

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David Roberts

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3 years

OK, I will probably regret this, but I'm going to do a thread on Afghanistan, because something about the current discourse is baffling me. I'll lay out the situation as I see it & then hopefully someone smart can answer my question.

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David Roberts

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2 months

It's kinda wild that this entire Biden-is-old press freak-out has proceeded without a single person offering a single example of anything Biden has done poorly as president as a result of his age.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

4 years

One of the greatest mistakes America ever made was failing to utterly crush the South after the Civil War -- dismantle its power structures, imprison its leaders, expressly disavow its values & traditions, & put it under the equivalent of receivership for several decades.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

3 years

Older generations in the US do not appreciate the fact that Gen X & younger Americans have never seen functional politics based on shared facts & compromise. To them it might as well be a fairy tale. They've *only* see a conservative movement descending into reactionary madness.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

11 months

Not sure people appreciate how quickly this could turn into a stampede & how *utterly fucked* the state of Florida will be without all the tax revenue from its real estate market.

Farmers Insurance Group stops writing new property policies in Florida

The Insurance Information Institute says the replacement cost for homes has increased 55% over three years, outpacing inflation.

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David Roberts

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7 months

One of my most unpopular opinions is that gambling is terrible & we should maintain a strong social stigma against it & it should be illegal in most cases & we *sure as fuck* shouldn't be *advertising it during sports broadcasts*. The current trend is horrific.

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David Roberts

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9 months

I grew up in a small town. I went to college in a small town. The idea that small towns are close-knit communities where everyone supports one another is hazy nostalgic bullshit. Most people I knew felt hemmed in by mean, small-minded, judgmental ppl & couldn't wait to GTFO.

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David Roberts

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2 years

I have become semi-obsessed with this subject. The car-dependent suburban lifestyle is ***so bad for kids***. They develop no spatial sense; they are utterly dependent on others to get anywhere; they have no freedom or autonomy.

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@modacitylife

2 years

With 58% of all trips nationally made by bike, teenagers are among the biggest beneficiaries of Dutch infrastructure. From a young age, they enjoy the freedom of a driver’s license; without the added stress, cost and danger. The scene outside our son’s high school this morning.

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David Roberts

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1 year

I know lots of people are saying this, but: the starving of social services, the militarization of police, the flooding of streets with guns ... fear, anxiety, & anger are not accidental side effects of these policies, they are the *point*. Reactionaries win in this atmosphere.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

2 years

"If you hold us accountable for our behavior, we will react with violence" has been the reactionary refrain for the entire history of the US. Cowering in the face of it does not improve matters. It does not even forestall the violence. Appeasement always fails.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

4 years

Sometimes I think about how Kansas elected GOP supermajorities & a GOP governor & implemented the idealized GOP economic program - no influence or interference from Dems - & it left the state in utter smoking wreckage & no one on the right learned a single goddam thing from it.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

4 years

My new post: US Postal Service trucks average 28 years old & badly need to be replaced. Electric mail trucks would be cheaper to fuel, easier to maintain, & produce radically less noise, air, & carbon pollution. Sounds like some good stimulus spending!

A no-brainer stimulus idea: Electrify USPS mail trucks

Electric vehicles for the US Postal Service would reduce noise, air, and carbon pollution in every community.

www.vox.com

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David Roberts

@drvolts

3 years

Just really, really clear that if Trump had been reelected, this country was done.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

4 months

All right, I really should be doing literally anything else with my time, but I have certain compulsions, so here's a short thread on the Harvard thing. Or actually, not about Harvard per se, because I, like most Americans, don't really give a shit what goes on at Harvard.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

4 years

To an asshole, all virtue looks like virtue signaling.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

4 years

Something everyone in US politics should understand: the GOP is the farthest right major party in any developed democracy. To find analogues you have to look to splinter neo-fascist parties in the EU.

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David Roberts

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11 months

As it becomes clear it's gonna be a Biden/Trump election, I got to thinking how there's an entire rising generation of young people in the US who have never experienced a normal election or anything resembling normal politics.

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David Roberts

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2 months

Biden came into office and ended the Afghanistan war, cut back on the drone program, brought COVID under control, engineered a rapid economic recovery, took historic action on climate, and sparked a manufacturing renaissance in the hardest hit areas of the country. Yet ...

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David Roberts

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1 year

Of all the horrors of the last however many years, the Kavanaugh hearings still stand out to me. The one thought that has stuck with me ever since: I don't think there was actually much disagreement about what kind of person Kavanaugh is.

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David Roberts

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2 years

Why is every single Dem forced to answer for the most cartoonish caricature of a slogan that only a few activists ever used, while Republicans are not forced to answer for actual elected officials publicizing violent fantasies about killing their colleagues?

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David Roberts

@drvolts

5 months

I renew my plea for a big org -- @nytimes or @CNN or whatever -- to do a simple service for voters: compare a state with a new Dem trifecta to a state with a new GOP trifecta. You want to see what the parties stand for, what they want? Look at what they do when they gain power.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

2 months

Maybe NYT could run 80+stories in 3 days on *this*.

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Justice Engeron: The Trump family's "complete lack of contrition and remorse" for their extensive fraud and egregious financial misconduct "borders on pathological."

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David Roberts

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3 years

Manchin should bring this up on his weekly call with Exxon.

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The Gulf of Mexico is literally on fire because a pipeline ruptured

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David Roberts

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Here's a media bias: If a person lied to me, again & again, day after day, for years, I would change the way I treated that person. I would greet that person's new claims with higher skepticism. I would raise the bar of proof. I would assume bad faith, pending evidence. But ...

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David Roberts

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2 years

One thing I think about alot: the exurban & rural places in which US conservatives live are utterly bereft of public spaces. Church attendance is declining. There are virtually no civic groups & associations left. These people live in *profoundly* alienating circumstances.

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David Roberts

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5 months

I've said before: perhaps the most difficult part of political analysis for the engaged & informed is keeping in mind that the American public is deeply, thoroughly ignorant of even the most basic political facts.

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Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce you to the actual American electorate.

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David Roberts

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4 years

It's pretty amazing that, starting in 2009 when Ds began pushing the ACA, Republicans have been claiming to have an alternative healthcare plan, or to be *almost* ready to debut an alternative plan. And they've kept that bullshit line going for ELEVEN YEARS.

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David Roberts

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3 years

Let's not let it be lost that deplatforming Trump from Twitter is already making a huge, noticeable difference in our political climate.

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@drvolts

3 years

GOP argument is always: 1. It's illegitimate for Dems to do anything without at least some cooperation from us. 2. We're not gonna cooperate on shit. The logic is that Dems can't ever do anything legitimate. And that is exactly the point.

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David Roberts

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2 years

Consider: have you ever, in your life, a single time, seen a piece in mainstream media framing it as a problem that the GOP has completely lost cities? That the party's brand is "toxic" in urban areas? Are any Republicans taken to task for that or forced to answer for it?

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David Roberts

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5 months

Joe Biden is going to be more politically hurt by his unwillingness to engage in theatrical "calls for" a ceasefire than he is politically helped by the fact that, behind the scenes, *he actually brokered one*. The US info environment has created perfectly perverse incentives.

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David Roberts

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10 months

Is it a common thing to feel a certain sense of dread as a big trip approaches, even if the big trip is something you want to do & fully expect to enjoy?

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David Roberts

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3 years

I forget who originally sent me this poem, but I go back to it periodically, and it's hitting particularly hard this week.

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David Roberts

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1 year

Of course Alito was the leaker. Of course it wasn't the first time. Of course all the strenuous accusations toward Dems after the last leak were projection. Perhaps some day these things will no longer surprise anyone.

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David Roberts

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Trump famously didn't read briefings, didn't show up to work until noon, and spent fully half his presidency on his golf course. And yet somehow it didn't "raise questions" or "cause jitters," because the media decided not to cover it that way.

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David Roberts

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I said it in 2016, I'll say it again: US journalism simply cannot accept a presidential election in which one candidate is clearly unfit & thus the other candidate is the only responsible choice. It recoils. It will fight that to the death. It will muddy that choice at all costs.

POLITICO

@politico

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Columnists call for Biden to drop Harris, pick new running mate

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4 years

"A right-wing authoritarian movement is engineering minority white rule" is a one-sided story. Literally the most important story in the world right now! But it makes US journalists uncomfortable. You can feel their palpable & increasingly desperate need for an "other side."

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David Roberts

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4 years

Couple things to add to this. First, here's a CNN interview with the extraordinary Samantha Francine. Her father (dead 16 years) told her, "No matter the threat, always look them in the eye so they have to acknowledge you’re human."

Portrait of courage: Samantha Francine protests peacefully while...

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David Roberts

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3 years

Reminder that in WA, OR, & CO -- vote-by-mail states -- participation & satisfaction rates are high, everyone has voted, & the count is proceeding without difficulty. All the voting problems in this country are self-generated for political purposes. They're easily solvable.

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David Roberts

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2 years

This story is genuinely amazing. It should be in a museum somewhere, to illustrate all the dysfunctions of US politics & media in 2022. Short thread:

Finger-pointing ensues after Congress fails to extend universal school meals

Democrats and a long list of school groups are blaming the Senate minority leader for taking a hardline stance against extending the waivers.

www.politico.com

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David Roberts

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I would strongly prefer a situation in which I did not need to think about Elon Musk at all.

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David Roberts

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3 years

The more I think about the Bruce Springsteen Jeep ad, the more disgusted I get. It's allegedly a call for unity, but it is drenched in a very particular culture's iconography: a Christian church (that superimposes the cross on the US flag), farms, rural living, "the middle" ...

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David Roberts

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Remember when Trump was president & he wouldn't actually start working until noon & he wouldn't read briefings & he would watch Fox most of every day & he spent half his time playing golf? You might have forgotten b/c the media hasn't made it a goal to remind you every day.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

3 years

We're going to end up locked down again, for another miserable season or two, because we're trapped in a country with a bunch of morons. And while that is happening, the morons will be incessantly whining about how unfairly they're treated.

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David Roberts

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3 years

Instead of "reaching out," why don't we take this opportunity to make very clear that racism, xenophobia, and authoritarianism are repugnant to a decent society. Let's reject them, loudly & publicly, & extend social disapprobation to those who support them.

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David Roberts

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4 years

Here's when we should get tired of RTing this: never.

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If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

3 years

Twitter is so painful to read right now. People want the merits of the impeachment case to matter so badly. They want the anguish & eloquence of those whose lives were threatened to matter. They want TRUTH to matter & decency to finally win a round. But it's not going to happen.

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David Roberts

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2 years

Politics rarely offers tidy morality tales, but here's one: Joe Manchin & Kyrsten Sinema are directly responsible for 3.7 million American children falling back into poverty, explicitly because they didn't want to tax billionaires. It is utterly repulsive.

Decisions have consequences

A core component of President Biden's failed Build Back Better plan was the extension of the expanded child tax credit. The American Rescue Act, which was signed into law in March 2021, expanded the...

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6 months

The thing to understand about the work-from-home debate is, there's a set of workers for whom meetings are an annoying distraction from work, and there's a set of middle managers for whom meetings literally *are* the work. You'll never guess which set wants to return to offices.

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AOC got elected & set about becoming an excellent rep at a time when there is basically no reward for doing so, when all the incentives push toward showboating & engagement-bait & red meat. She gets little credit from media, the left, or Dem leadership. She just does the work.

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The one thing I will never, ever understand is how people can look at Trump and see strength. Every single thing he does, including surrounding the White House with a #babygate , just reeks of fear. It drips off him.

The White House is now surrounded by nearly 2 miles of fencing and barricades

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David Roberts

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The political press could decide to make the fact that nazis are freely mingling with the crowd at CPAC into a thing, a narrative, by banging on it day after day & coordinating a whole slate of op-eds about it, like they did on the Harvard stuff. They just won't.

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4 years

More than 100 newspapers called on Bill Clinton to resign after he lied about sex with an intern. We recently learned that Russia put a bounty on the heads of US soldiers & Trump knew & did absolutely nothing about it. Calls for resignation so far: 0.

Russian bounties — Trump threatens the American experiment

Our existential crisis

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David Roberts

@drvolts

4 years

The US political establishment really doesn't get it. Americans WANT to transition off oil & gas to clean energy. It polls through the f'ing roof, across parties, across regions-- has for decades. It's not something Dems need to hide from, it's something they need to champion.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

3 years

They're rigging the 2024 presidential election in full view.

Glenn Kessler

@GlennKesslerWP

3 years

👀 via @daveweigel , ballots cast in 2020 that now would be tossed in Georgia under the new election law would wipe out Biden's margin of victory.

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David Roberts

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6 months

Nothing makes me feel crazier than the need to say, out loud, that Trump is very bad. No matter what you care about, he will be worse on it -- Israel/Palestine, the economy, speech, civil rights, gov't accountability ... I mean literally name it. How the F does this need saying?

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Everyone's already had a go bashing this, for lots of great reasons, but I just want to highlight what a perfect example of Murc's Law it is. Murc's Law says, basically: only the left has agency; the right is merely reacting, having its hand forced, being "pushed" or "shaped."

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David Roberts

@drvolts

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Sometimes I think about the fact that Trump called the top election official in GA, explicitly asked him to "find" enough votes to engineer a Trump victory, was *recorded doing so*, & now we're having "debates" & "investigations" about whether Trump tried to steal the election.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

11 months

I'll probably say this 5K times before the 2024 election, but: keeping a fascist party out of office is a perfectly adequate substantive case for voting for Democrats up & down the ballot. It may not be the best pitch in marketing or messaging terms, but substantively, it's fine.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

2 years

This is a trivial example, but very revealing: no one is asking CB's reactionary customers to eat fake meat. They are enraged that *other* customers are going to eat it. They are enraged it's offered at all. It's not about personal freedom -- they just don't like change.

Angelina

@whyangelinawhy

2 years

Everyone’s having a normal one on the Cracker Barrel Facebook page

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David Roberts

@drvolts

11 months

Why did Trump want any of the perks, symbols, & accouterments of power? *To show them off.* He wanted to rub them in other people's faces, to flaunt what a big deal he is. That's why he wanted these files, with all the nuclear & national security secrets: to show them to people.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

1 year

I stopped Glass Onion to explain to my family that the "hydrogen fuel" at the center of the plot doesn't make any sense, but did they appreciate the insight? No, it's all "shut up nerd" this & "start the damn movie" that.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

3 years

One thing I don't hear enough people talking about is the pretty obvious fact that this was a dry run, a dress rehearsal for the right, and they're going to try it again.

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David Roberts

@drvolts

4 years

Just completely lost in a sea of their own bullshit.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

4 years

HANNITY, March 9: "This scaring the living hell out of people -- I see it, again, as like, let's bludgeon Trump with this new hoax." HANNITY, March 18: "By the way, this program has always taken the coronavirus seriously. We've never called the virus a hoax."

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