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Carlos Mucha

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3 years

We really are the worst. Just spoke to someone who tested COVID+. If he isolates for 2 wks, no pay (& no sick leave, remember we’re the worst). I told him I’d call boss & walk him through COVID sick pay tax credit. Guess what, it expires 9/30. So he’ll be working (food services).

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It looks like both GA Senate races are going to Jan runoff. If Democrats win both they control Senate (50+VP). If they don’t, Biden’s legislative agenda is doomed. Before they spend a $ on TV ads, they better scour state for eligible but not registered voters, deadline is Dec 7.

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I like the cut of this guy’s jibe. He replaced a single family home in Los Angeles with a 33 unit apartment building and is in the process of replacing another w/ a 67 unit apt building, driving the local NIMBYs incandescent with rage. You love to see it.

This L.A. developer aims to tear down homes to build apartments where the city doesn't want them

L.A. developer Akhilesh Jha is pushing the envelope in proposing to tear down single-family homes and build apartments using new provisions in state law.

www.latimes.com

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2 years

As everyone already suspects from Hollywood movies, foreigners really do talk to each other in English when they don't think anyone else can hear them.

Jimmy Rushton

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2 years

Some pretty incredible footage of Macron talking to Zelensky on the morning of the invasion, when the scale of the full-scale Russian assault on Ukraine was becoming clear.

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Now that’s a plot twist! Ukraine’s UN Ambassador points out that when USSR collapsed in 1991, Russia took over its UN seat (which made it a permanent member of Security Council). Contrary to terms of UN Charter, the General Assembly has never voted to approve Russia’s membership.

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2 years

Ukrainian Ambassador to the UN General Assembly asking which country “voted for Russia [a newly formed country] to be admitted to the UN” after the breakup of the Soviet Union No one in the Assembly raises their hands Incredible moment in the UN. #UnitedNations #UN

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4 years

@ess_trainor @TheTattooedProf There’s a guy in your neck of the woods with an interesting background (JAX defense atty, ex-cop, ex-FBI agent) who wrote a great book about this. @DaleCarsonLaw

An Ex-Cop's Guide to Not Getting Arrested

Extremely frank tips for avoiding a night in jail.

www.bloomberg.com

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1 year

This is solid gold advice that I wish I could print on T-shirts & give as presents. Every business wants to be on a monthly subscription model that’s impossible to cancel online. Just reset billing address to CA and, b/c of state law, a one-click cancellation button will pop up.

Socially Distant Ryan 🇺🇦

@ryan_hassett

1 year

I'm going to mention again that my solution to this is to set my billing address to Howard Jarvis's old home at 515 N Crescent Heights Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90048, and, thanks to California's automatic renewal law (ARL), a cancellation button magically appears.

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@Nowooski @JacobAShell Until after 9/11 you didn’t need a passport for trips to Canada, Mexico or the Caribbean.

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Everything bagel liberalism is a cancer. When progressive activists get conservative politicians to agree w/ them on an issue, you know what that’s called? Winning. That these muppets would rather rebuke the support of unlikely allies than welcome it is insanely self-defeating.

rust belt city enjoyer

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There's absolutely no room in the urbanist movement for conservatives. The fight for equitable, climate conscious cities, worker's rights, reproductive rights, racial justice, wealth equality, and LGBTQ rights are all the same fight. It's the fight for our future.

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@sibyllacumae @jake_bittle That sucks because it’s a 99% certainty that when an adult invites a student to a nice restaurant, it’s their treat. It was inconsiderate of the interviewer not to mention that upfront since not every student has been invited to a nice restaurant before.

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@HondaWang It’d be funny if the real reason he was rejected was that he was Canadian (I would auto-deny any applicant who claimed to be in “Canada’s 30 under 30” unless the hockey team recruited him).

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I get why Biden is pushing people to stop working from home— it hurts commercial RE landlords— but it’s so contrary to the public interest (< gasoline usage, hwy congestion & carbon emissions), it’s like a President asking people to smoke more cigarettes.

A Little More Remote Work Could Change Rush Hour a Lot (Published 2021)

Peak commute time has long ruled our lives, our cities, our tax dollars. But it doesn’t have to.

www.nytimes.com

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@ryanlcooper @MatthewSitman It all makes sense if “nonviolent” is just a euphemism for white.

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@mualphaxi You’ve persuaded me— legacy admissions must go.

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@dieworkwear Japan’s cost of housing has been flat for the past quarter century. That’s pretty remarkable.

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3 years

@JosephPolitano This is peak housing policy Joey.

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Ha ha, Prop 13 really messed up California. It’s amazing that progressives there have the votes to pass any reform in the world except the most obvious, repealing Prop 13. Imagine having that $10 million view & the state basically gives you a pass on paying property taxes on it.

Rohin Dhar

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Walked by this house in San Francisco today that was listed for sale for around $10MM. It’s appraisal value for property taxes is $300,607

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@spironoWACKtone @reemccarthy So 49 divorced straight guys and one married gay guy.

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If DOJ is serious about this, it’ll take a court order and US Marshals riding shotgun on tow trucks to clear the sidewalks around NYPD station houses. It’ll be good television. 🫡

Streetsblog New York

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BREAKING: @TheJusticeDept (citing Streetsblog reporting!) threatens to sue NYC over illegal parking by NYPD cops and other city workers:

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@abogada_laura If the little girl can’t tell you what country she’s from, how can ICE? Unless they know who her parents are, isn’t she techically a foundling, “of unknown parentage found within the United States while under the age of five”?

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4 years

This ad is amazing. Clearly the Lincoln Project consulted with a shrink and then created this ad to push every button in Trump’s abnormal brain. @DavidJollyFL

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4 years

@BresPolitico If the Speaker can order male Members to wear coat and ties in House chamber, why doesn’t she order them (and female members too) to wear surgical masks? If it requires a Rule change, she has the votes.

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@BLPMikey @ImRobKilljoy I have no idea who this dude is but he didn’t confess to murder. He recounted a story where he was a kidnapped juvenile & he stopped a sexual assault by killing assailant in self-defense. Even in GA in 1973 that isn’t murder, it’s not even a crime. Disclaimer: I’m a GA lawyer.

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@conorsen Wait, what? Since the immediate problem is a lack of affordable housing, that chart looks more like a bigger looming solution than a bigger looming problem.

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@talmonsmith In 1944, the labor market was so tight (1.2% U3) that the US Army was letting German POWs get driver’s licenses and drive work trucks. That’s full employment.

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2 years

So Trump left Biden a Medicare for All COVID cases program. If you’re a moron, you’d assume Dems would expand it to non-COVID cases. If you’re cynical, you’d assume they’d stand pat. If you assumed they actively want people to die, you knew what they’d do.

Covid-19 Coverage for the Uninsured Is Ending

With a new surge on the horizon, federal funds for treatment and testing will no longer be made available for the most vulnerable population.

www.thenation.com

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That’s a great video. The Ukrainians could’ve killed this guy in 10 seconds and taken a smoke break. Instead they did a kind thing, they used a drone to guide him to their lines so he can surrender. Like they say in POW camp movies, the war is over for you my friend.

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@razibkhan @tszzl There’s still a wife unaccounted for.

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3 years

@cd_hooks That’s crazy, just find the 30 oldest residents in town and offer it to them.

David Wallace-Wells

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3 years

These estimates are from Israel, but striking: vaccinate the 0.5% of people over 90, and total fatality risk drops 19%. Vaccinate the 2.5% over 80, and it falls by half. Vaccinate the 7.5% over 70, and it drops by 3/4. Age skew remains under appreciated.

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3 years

Every time Mitch McConnell says “socialism for the rich”, I think of this.

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I hate to say it but this is peak govt performance. The Army Corps of Engineers built the 1500 mile Alcan Highway— out in the most inhospitable climate & terrain in North America— in 9 months. Any infrastructure project, ANY, that takes longer is simply the govt half-assing it.

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8 months

Deep lore about Obama Admin is there was a congressman named Pete Stark who’s like crazy old man in a Stephen King book who’s the only guy in town who knows exactly what’s going down & how to deal w/ it. Obama would’ve nailed HC & climate change his 1st yr if he had listened. If.

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@JBSDC That was a huge sign from the aether. Pete Stark’s 58 pg “public option on steroids” Americare & 12 pg carbon tax plans could’ve passed in the summer of 2009 by reconciliation. Instead Congress wasted months on 900 pg ACA which barely passed & 1400 pg cap & trade bill which died.

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@TopherSpiro I guess that means if you didn't get Sen. Hatch's letter, then absolutely do not send comments to healthreform @Finance .senate.gov

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Larry Summers is one-third of OpenAI’s new board?!?

OpenAI

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We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo. We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.

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@CenturyStation @LASDHQ The real problem here Capt. is when someone in Sheriff’s Office lies & says the reporter didn’t have her credentials, by extension, it makes @LACoSheriff out to be a liar (and I don’t think Sheriff Villanueva is one). It’s obvious to everyone she’s wearing credentials on lanyard!

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Dealing with squatters who wave around fake leases (which forces cops to treat it as a civil matter) by requiring that leases be registered with state makes a lot of sense. It doesn’t really matter if general public can see registry of leases as long as police can see it.

Harry Heymann 🥑

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@bhargreaves We should also just require that leases be registered with the state just like a property deed. A clear system here wold protects both sides of the transaction.

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@JackWaltimore

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3 years

To win, Dems need mandatory voting for young but not old. Biden should announce if Dems win seats, 1st bill is $750 tax credit for voting in fed elections, those on Social Security won’t have to vote to get TC. Ads: If your friends & family don’t vote, they’re stealing your $750!

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7 months

Siri, tell me the winner of next year’s Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. @PulitzerPrizes

Shane Dixon Kavanaugh

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7 months

Samuel Gomez had been in downtown Portland all of four hours when he took this chilling photo of a financier who had just fatally shot a stranger during a road rage episode. Seconds later: The driver shot Gomez. @rogoway ’s surreal story & interview:

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@arlenparsa @opinion_left Heh, @DrGJackBrown (who interpretes body language in almost excruciating detail) is going to go to town with this one.

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4 years

@katiefitzpat @iwelsh The govt does some things so well that people forget it’s actually done by the govt. The lamp on my table is powered by cheap electricity produced by the US Army & I’m using a phone that functions b/c of GPS satellites operated by the US Air Force. None dare call it socialism.

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@travis_robert Until 1961, New York City was zoned to grow to 55 million residents. Now that would’ve been a skyline!

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@DurhamFella Until New York City’s 1961 rezoning, its build capacity was for a population of 55 million.

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That’s a hell of a leverage point, slice the pie & let Russia pick: 1. Give up Crimea, & Ukraine is neutral, 2. Keep Crimea, & Ukraine is in NATO, 3. Do nothing to keep sanctions & lose UN seat. 1971 China switch sets precedent Security Council doesn’t get membership veto point.

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@JonWalkerDC @TheOmniZaddy Sometimes the govt does such a good job providing a service that people forget it’s the govt doing the job, and none dare call it socialism. Medicare & FDIC count but my favorite example is GPS, which everyone on the planet uses every day while never wondering who provides it.

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It’s remarkable watching people get excited for Amtrak’s $80B plan & then watch hope drain from their soul when they learn it’s not high speed. Here is the only way we will get HSR: We take Alon Levy’s $300B HSR map to Japan, France & S. Korea to ask if they want a HSR franchise.

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@JonWalkerDC No one knew the real death panels would turn out to be Facebook groups.

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@tobitac @AlexanderMcCoy4 It’s wild that Earl Warren was for detaining Japanese-Americans and J. Edgar Hoover was against.

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Does it bother anyone else that sum of $1 trillion is still the mental event horizon for Senate moderates in current stimulus discussions, just as it was it stimulus & healthcare reform discussions in 2009, even though equivalent sum (adjusted for GDP growth) is $1.5 trillion?

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@mattyglesias What’s crazy is Biden was simply honoring a peace agreement Trump had reached with Taliban the previous year. Trump promised to withdraw our troops and therefore Biden is the bad guy for withdrawing our troops?

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@TopherSpiro Make sure you do not send any comments prior to May 23 deadline. You have been warned. Please forget this--> healthreform @finance .senate.gov

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WTF, Israel has an AI targeting system called “Where’s Daddy?”, it waits until suspected Hamas members are in family home & then orders human pilots (in US-made planes) to drop (US-made) bombs on building— killing the target, their family & neighbors. Rinse & repeat 1000 times.

Dimi Reider | dimireider.substack.com

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Full story:

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@JosephPolitano This is peak housing policy Joey.

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@AlexGodofsky It’s kryptonite to our friend the cavity magnetron.

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2 years

Spare a thought for “the most valuable cargo ever brought to our shores”, the humble cavity magnetron.

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@18airbornecorps His situational awareness was on-point. He knew the Senate chambers door behind him was unlocked but he got inside the rioters’s OODA Loop (by shoving one of them to bait the rest to chase him) so they never had time to figure that out.

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I did not fully grasp what was happening in this footage when I first saw it. Now it seems clear that this officer tricked the mob away from the unguarded door to the Senate, using himself—a Black man—as the bait. He is a national hero. And lucky to be alive.

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@lyleleander @MarxBoner69420 @nogumbofornazis British narc detected.

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Andrew Yang stepping on his dick about the odious Andrew Johnson is as good a time as any to remember what a national tragedy it was our boy Gen. Ben Butler turned down Lincoln’s VP offer in 1864, to remain in the field w/ his troops. He was a real one.

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I love how @RyanRadia has fallen into the role of Twitter’s personal Google.

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@JosephPolitano Yup, those guys know how to build a railroad (and also, affordable housing). The key housing lesson from Japan is this: Zoning reform must come from Congress. Anything less is as worthless as a sternly worded Model UN resolution.

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Gee, no one could have predicted this. 🤔

The New York Times

@nytimes

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A newly disclosed memo circulated among top census officials cites "unprecedented" interference by the Trump administration in the 2020 count, including political pressure on a crash program seeking to identify and count unauthorized immigrants.

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@FluteMagician That the Russia mind can’t grasp that no real American would brag about their state having warm water ports is hilarious. It’s like a dog trying to go undercover as a human only to be told that real humans don’t bark at strangers or sniff their butts.

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@garrettbucks @PrestoVivace Anita Hill wouldn’t have laughed at a child. #justsaying

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@bendreyfuss @TheAtlantic Holy crap, I never made the connection before that if we had to go forward with Nov 1 invasion of Kyushu, our invasion fleet would’ve been anchored off Okinawa when the October typhoon rolled in. It wouldn’t hurt Japanese morale for a divine wind to wreck an enemy invasion fleet.

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In 1914 stupid Germany gave Austria a blank check to punish Serbia for the Sarajevo assassinations. Austria took that as license to act like fucking psychos— not bothering to share plans with Berlin— and started a world war. Now we’re the stupid one & Israel is the psychotic one.

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NEW: Gaza may soon become a bigger war - US officials fear Israel wants weapons to fight in Lebanon - Israel won't share plans w/ Biden admin or Congress - Top officials discuss Iraq/Syria escalation - Aid orgs "ringing alarm bell more than they ever have"

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The brawl this weekend over MMT was ridiculous. What’s going on here is Larry Summers & other Obama Admin alum want everyone to forget they screwed the pooch in 2009. There’s no question we’d all be better if WH & Congress had listened to Stephanie Kelton & Warren Mosler instead.

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@AOC Body cams, Alexandria, body cams. If cops can be required to wear them to record every interaction with public (& they should), no reason register lobbyists can’t be required to wear body cams to record every interaction w/ Members of Congress & staff (& then upload vids online)

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@WillRinehart That these Orcas hate, above all other things, sailboats is endearing. I imagine they let passing water skiers and party boats just do their own thing, but when a fucking sailboat hoves into view then it’s on like Rae Dawn Chong.

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@RyanRadia @greg_shill I loved how @KeithBradsher got the auto industry to explain, on the record, how the average minivan driver is basically the nicest person you know and the average SUV driver is antisocial & afraid, what we’d call today a real Karen’s Karen.

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@Michaelander45 That sounds pretty unlikely. Without the US’s dozens of UN Security Council vetoes on Israel’s behalf, it would have been hit with Apartheid South Africa-style sanctions years ago. That Israel is utterly ungrateful for this stalwart support is very irritating.

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@MattBruenig The real destroyer of worlds was Janet Reno. If she had let Elian Gonzales stay with his uncle, Al Gore would’ve won Florida by a mile.

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@ByYourLogic Clearly @vv1lder needs to lawyer up so she can sue @ap for workplace associational discrimination. But for her association with Palestinians she wouldn’t have been fired, that’s illegal. I suppose @CAIRNational or @MuslimLegal could help her out.

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@nypost @maggieNYT What the hell kind of clown college is Cy Vance running up there?

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@ericgarland That’s the value-added of an N-95 mask (and the similar but more widely KN-95 and KF-94 masks). Surgical masks protect you from the virus when everyone wears one. When others around you don’t wear a mask, an N-95 protects you from the virus and the stupidity.

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@kenthesimp There’s nothing abnormal about a family member moving in to help raise children who’ve lost a parent.

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No one will believe trillion dollar coin is possible until a GOP WH does it & then it’ll be safe for Dems to try it too. Trump’s Tsy looked at it after COVID to fund tax cuts but realized it wasn’t necessary since, there being a GOP WH, Congress had already suspended debt limit.

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This is dorm roomy but: Imagine a slow leak campaign to the Nyt about how the Biden team came around on some 14A coin shit. Photograph it like the bin Laden raid and make a big ole list of everything that won’t ever happen again because of GOP craziness. This could have been a W!

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The Town of Surfside, FL is about to be run through the meat grinder. This is a failure of Local Govt 101: When a city is informed of a code violation threatening life or limb, its options are 1. Stiff daily fines on owner, 2, Condemning structure, 3. 1 & 2, or 4. There is no 4.

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@davidfrum I hate to say it but that point makes Iran look like the rational one here. They needed to retaliate against Israel bombing its embassy in Lebanon without escalating too abruptly.

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@DavidAstinWalsh GPS. Children take for granted they will never have to find their precise latitude and longitude from USGS 7.5 minute maps, protractor, ruler and mechanical pencil. It’s bizarre so few people know that GPS is a public service offered by the US military to the world for free.

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@conorsen The guys who bragged about gaming the Six Flags meal plan totally blackpilled SF management. They now seem to sincerely hate their customer base.

Six Flags ends its unlimited meal plan. And it's TikTok's fault

The decision comes as TikTok personalities have bragged about eating every meal at the park, saving them hundreds of dollars.

fortune.com

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@cd_hooks @profmusgrave That no one, Not. One. Single. Person (real OGs excepted) credits socialism for that ability is kind of shocking. Classic case of “None dare call it socialism”, sometimes the govt works so efficiently & competently, everyone forgets it’s the govt. Good news, real OG sighted!

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@tompach09234046 @SpaceForceDoD @WhiteHouse No. The GPS constellation was created in 1978 by the Department of Defense and has been run by the Air Force (now Space Force) ever since. It's a military system that shares it's location signal free of charge for civilians all over the globe.

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@AnikVJoshi That Silicon Valley doesn’t look like this is a tragedy.

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Whenever you sickos whine about need for permitting reform for energy, infrastructure & zoning, you should think about what Congress did for border fence. It gave Sec. of Homeland Security authority to waive any law in the way. This is what real permitting reform looks like: 👍

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@ryanbrooks @mishaley Purge Night in your neighborhood sounds cooler than in most.

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Congress should condition subway funding on using cut & cover construction except where the Army Chief of Engineers certifies it’s infeasible (e.g. the line runs under water). The budgetary savings would be huge & watching an Army Lt Gen stiff-arm a bunch of mayors will be fun.

@Alex_Armlovich

@aarmlovi

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Being able to build subways for <$200m per kilometer would transform the urban geography of the United States (and transportation emissions). NYC could self-fund a new era of subway construction unknown since the 1930s; many midsize US cities could start up a system

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@sarahkliff @dylanlscott Trump Admin will be very reluctant to pull the trigger on NDMS reimbursement b/c Medicare for All Coronavirus patients will morph into Medicare for All as surely as the Emergency Hospital Service in wartime UK morphed into the NHS.

Emergency Hospital Service - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Good Lord, are they trying to put Trump back in WH? Let’s do the math, let’s say every American is sent instant test weekly. If they’re $5 each (< $1 in Germany but let that bide) so X 330M = $1.65B/wk or $86B/yr. We’re running $3T/yr deficit fighting COVID, $86B is chump change.

molly mary o'brien

@missmollymary

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her smirk when she asks "should we just send [a covid test] to every american?" makes me sick dude. yes, that is exactly how available rapid tests should be. jesus christ

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@JosephPolitano In retrospect the (fake) bill from 1999 to levy a 5 cent tax on sent emails was a brilliant idea we should have implemented.

Email Surcharges

www.snopes.com

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@libbycwatson It’s crazy that a 3% wealth tax on billionaires is politically unthinkable yet there’s already a 100% estate tax on the poor and nobody cares.

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@whstancil Come on Will, this isn’t rocket science. Biden doesn’t have to do anything— except order our UN Ambassador to take a smoke break whenever UN Security Council votes on Israel. But for our dozen of UNSC vetoes, Israel would be under Apartheid South Africa-style sanctions by now.

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ex-Rep. @DavidJollyFL reminds of that friend in college who should annoy you for being super organized, motivated & smart but never did b/c of their fundamental decency & kindness to everyone. When I was in college, that friend actually WAS David Jolly.

Ex-GOP Rep rips 'racist' Trump and his defenders: He's consistently 'expressed an ideology' where...

Former GOP Rep. David Jolly on Friday tore into Donald Trump and his defenders, calling the president’s “sh*thole” remarks “racist” and arguing he’s consistently “expressed an ideology” where white...

www.rawstory.com

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@tempest67 @sibyllacumae @jake_bittle That’s a good point. Reminded me of this NY Times Magazine story I read years ago but has stuck with me (the lecturer may rub you the wrong way but she’s on to something).

The Class-Consciousness Raiser (Published 2007)

In the nation’s classrooms, middle class teachers increasingly encounter poor students, often with disastrous results. Ruby Payne says she has the secrets to help them cross the great divide.

www.nytimes.com

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@JoshuaSteinman Obama received a Secret Service detail in May 2007, 18 months before the election. I get that RFK Jr. doesn’t have a chance of winning but his father & uncle were both murdered by political assassins, it looks petty that the Biden Admin hasn’t given him a Secret Service detail.

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@LANow English already has a gender-neutral word on point, you know.

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@TheStalwart Unquestionably the most hilarious outcome would be the Supreme Court rejecting the 14th Amendment argument on grounds the Administration had failed to exhaust its administrative remedies (i.e. mint the coin) before asking the Court to declare an Act of Congress unconstitutional.

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@TheStalwart The cell phones we all use work because FCC land use lawyers steamrolled anyone who got in their ways. Apparently this is an esoteric secret that no one in Washington is aware of.

Carlos Mucha

@mucha_carlos

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@AlecStapp It’s like our World II CNO Adm. Ernest King said, “When the shooting starts they send for the sons of bitches”. Does the White House want to fix NEPA reviews (and local zoning too)? They need to send for the Federal Communications Commission.

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@DavidJollyFL Who’s going to tell him what admiralty law is?

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@wanyeburkett Now I’m genuinely curious how many people look ahead to their senior years & value their pelvic floor health over the prospect of spending their senior years w/ children & grandchildren. 🤔 Of course you can have your cake & healthy pelvic floor too, you can always adopt.

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@nycsouthpaw My absolute favorite moment on Twitter... Gen. Yeager answering a question that’d bugged me for 20 years. If it didn’t bother him, I decided it should no longer bother me.

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@ddale8 We’re not going to mention who the CEO of Exxon was in 2016, huh? Not that there’s any chance he’s telling the truth.

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@DaveyNolsey @_ReaalAmerican_ @JohnBaskind @4everNeverTrump @GregStohr Until the Civil War, policy was adding a new justice for each new circuit court (at that time there 9 circuits). There are now 13 circiuits, so returning to old policy would mean adding four more justices.

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@BradKutner @LarrySabato Not to do Larry’s work for him, so put on the commission the only member of Congress w/ authority to issue committee subpoenas on his own signature. That will get you all the docs; hard cases that refuse to testify before commission can be hauled before subcommittee. cc @ossoff

Carlos Mucha

@mucha_carlos

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Fun fact, the only Senator with the unilateral power to issue subpoenas is Jon @ossoff , who was just named chairman of Joe McCarthy’s old outfit, the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (of what’s now called the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee).

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