· 8 years ago · Feb 01, 2018, 12:52 PM
1He’s posting again. Feb 01, 2018
2Free soil, free men, Frémont! https://t.co/hGrn3AHUvM Feb 01, 2018
3A weird thing about Trump talking about the stock market so much is people have started asking me, a political jour… https://t.co/NraNto9xJ3 Feb 01, 2018
4Didn’t Jack Donaghy warn this would happen if NBC was sold to Kabletown? https://t.co/mK6gZCUA6t Feb 01, 2018
5https://t.co/wc65v0I4Ud Feb 01, 2018
6Do they really think it’s advantageous to have us all talking more about Carter Page? More Carter Page on TV? Bet… https://t.co/197Set6Eav Feb 01, 2018
7So this memo is about alleged FBI mistreatment of ... Carter Page? Feb 01, 2018
8A related point is I suspect there’s a powerful mean-reverting tendency to approval in our polarized age. Feb 01, 2018
9The ups and downs of the generic ballot polling over the past ten months are a valuable reminder that a bunch of st… https://t.co/rk4RyrqFhE Feb 01, 2018
10@ScottElliotG Perverse incentives! Feb 01, 2018
11And while a million dollars is a lot, it’s not even close to being enough to make you rich enough to benefit from T… https://t.co/D8w2OQyRXy Feb 01, 2018
12The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Good book with a conveniently descriptive title) https://t.co/lNp5pBm59Q Feb 01, 2018
13I, for one, am positively shocked to learn that the anti-Strzok smear campaign was undertaken in bad faith based on… https://t.co/NAVJcpBjDC Jan 31, 2018
14@evepeyser To be honest, it’s my least-favorite drug. Jan 31, 2018
15THE STATE OF THE WEEDS IS STRONG https://t.co/LvuwubUQd1 Jan 31, 2018
16Has anyone reported out what led Jeff Sessions to see Rosenstein as a kindred spirit who he’d like to tap to be his deputy? Jan 31, 2018
17Real Americans eschew the effete liberalism of professional football https://t.co/0KEFYQTgEG Jan 31, 2018
18Because democracy is great, a 5.7 point win for Democrats would probably result in a GOP House majority. https://t.co/rRxTM5PqIR Jan 31, 2018
19@lkmcgann Many fine people Jan 31, 2018
20https://t.co/XUeeGxl6cM Jan 31, 2018
21“average wages of both high- and low-skilled natives increased as a result of the policy†https://t.co/AKRfYcWhLV Jan 31, 2018
22@ryanjreilly That’s why it’s called the deep state Jan 31, 2018
23@conorsen And now we finally have enough cheap, plentiful gasoline to do it. Jan 31, 2018
24@nycsouthpaw @JakeAnbinder @Atrios His 2004 campaign coverage was super-annoying. Jan 31, 2018
25@JakeAnbinder @Atrios I mean, it was written by one of their politics writers. Jan 31, 2018
26@ThatGuyFrmWork https://t.co/SJRqu96C58 Jan 31, 2018
27If you feelin' like a coal miner, go and brush your shoulders off Americans is dreamers too, gon' brush your shoul… https://t.co/Prm3OEyPlX Jan 31, 2018
28@petersgoodman Possibly France Jan 31, 2018
29@Atrios Yeah that’s fine. I just think LA folks are being a wee bit oversensitive. Jan 31, 2018
30It’s easy to get caught up in hate-reading any individual article about any individual city, but the NYT’s studied… https://t.co/9fDQ2KiGwg Jan 31, 2018
31LA people should consider not letting themselves get trolled so easily by the NYT. Jan 31, 2018
32@aterkel @PaulBlu To be fair, PPI has been more a cut-out for telecom companies than an actual think tank for years now. Jan 31, 2018
33Stocks down today on a lack of Trump tweets. Jan 31, 2018
34@jonathanweisman That’s like 150 news cycles from now. Jan 31, 2018
35Has Trump ever gone this long without tweeting during the workweek? Jan 31, 2018
36@creynoldsnc Alaska for America Jan 31, 2018
37@JohnDoc23 @ebruenig Invaluable social assistance or a campaign of forcible gentrification and displacement? Jan 31, 2018
38Greenspan was a very effective monetary policymaker but nothing he says since stepping down makes any sense to me. https://t.co/Gb5Ew6Itp5 Jan 31, 2018
39M BENGHAZI M COFVEVFE M A I L S Jan 31, 2018
40@marcscribner @DemocraticLuntz Feel free to carry on this argument without my participation. Jan 31, 2018
41@zackbeauchamp Give him a bloody nose. Jan 31, 2018
42In the world’s most boring alternate history premise, the Fed doesn’t do the 12/15 rate hike —> * growth is *slig… https://t.co/9zgTh0Hc76 Jan 31, 2018
43How Obama ended the Reagan’s war on American oil drilling, in one chart. https://t.co/V9REspyrU8 Jan 31, 2018
44I’m gonna be very interested to see what low unemployment does for health insurance premiums. Jan 31, 2018
45Want to feel old? Democrats won a Senate race in Alabama in December. Jan 31, 2018
46Also a strong implication here that expanding EITC benefits to men who are not custodial parents would have a signi… https://t.co/eSMxd7VXJR Jan 31, 2018
47Germany has a 19% Value Added Tax, after all. Cutting that would be a simple, easy to administer, and distribution… https://t.co/610HRojVnI Jan 31, 2018
48How much would opinions on the macroeconomics switch of Keynesians’ standard prescription for Germany was lower tax… https://t.co/IGQh5Q2vOg Jan 31, 2018
49Either this outlier Monmouth poll shows that public opinion has shifted much more rapidly than all the other polls… https://t.co/3HXqxpSost Jan 31, 2018
50Trump’s speech was so long because he literally spoke slowly. https://t.co/jZaS37bQoN Jan 31, 2018
51Declassifying a partisan committee staff memo over FBI objections would definitely be a new American moment. Jan 31, 2018
52Sad that Gowdy is retiring without ever having fully uncovered the truth about Benghazi. Jan 31, 2018
53The fact that bribing elected officials is now legal in the post-McDonnell world doesn’t get enough attention. https://t.co/VQB8BSgbT9 Jan 31, 2018
54@normative @AngelaKrebs444 Could it be that they kept applying, getting rejected, then applying again? Jan 31, 2018
55@normative @AngelaKrebs444 It’s amazing that with all these rejections they still got approval to tapp Trump’s phone! Jan 31, 2018
56Here’s @bankoff’s view of the state of the media industry. https://t.co/ydhlAO1gk2 Jan 31, 2018
57I like that for 2018, the writers are trying to incorporate more symbolism into the narrative. Jan 31, 2018
58UPDATE: I had assumed they were riding the Brunswick Line up to Harper’s Ferry but apparently this was a train boun… https://t.co/GaKI2cIerV Jan 31, 2018
59Perhaps after colliding with a dump truck, Republicans will feel inspired to write an infrastructure bill that prov… https://t.co/BawNpp8fo3 Jan 31, 2018
60Why were they riding a train like communists anyway? https://t.co/55UQ4DUINs Jan 31, 2018
61Corporate memo shade is the best. Jan 31, 2018
62Adult in the room John Kelly working with Trump to overrule DOJ/FBI national security objections in order to releas… https://t.co/8em62nh7Q2 Jan 31, 2018
63@reckless Can it be the speakers for my TV? Jan 31, 2018
64New Employment Cost Index shows wage growth picking up. https://t.co/4k8hk5o6iT https://t.co/8tq5vhUGoM Jan 31, 2018
65@chrislhayes It seems to work well in Germany. Jan 31, 2018
66This headline seems a wee bit overblown. https://t.co/nqmzqBQYm3 Jan 31, 2018
67Cool! https://t.co/e1mggbbE3J Jan 31, 2018
68The good news is there’s no unusually severe flu epidemic or other problems that we might want a CDC director to focus on. Jan 31, 2018
69@Jed_Oliver Gleaming. Jan 31, 2018
70Trump is the high point of American libertarianism. https://t.co/V17PhVEW5Q Jan 31, 2018
71Anyways, if an actual infrastructure plan materializes at some point we’ll see what he comes up with. But our big… https://t.co/LefDpCjb3K Jan 31, 2018
72Just to start with a basic point, the vast majority of the most useful highway routes in the United States have alr… https://t.co/LjOcgDzcbw Jan 31, 2018
73America obviously has some real infrastructure needs, but I think you should be skeptical that “gleaming new roads,… https://t.co/Ezr5obPIuM Jan 31, 2018
74@Yair_Rosenberg He tweeted something under his name that was worthy of criticism. He received criticism for it. I… https://t.co/dUfXIVP3PP Jan 31, 2018
75I agree that if we don’t attribute the Mike Pence tweet that people got mad about to Mike Pence, then the outrage w… https://t.co/gzpKyDOqiQ Jan 31, 2018
76It’s a New American Moment. https://t.co/nMrrCQyCIm Jan 31, 2018
77¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/YtON0nIi9F Jan 31, 2018
78I’m not sure who is responsible for this, but in the spirit of credit where due the Trump-era @BLS_gov twitter feed… https://t.co/KqRgfw3qM4 Jan 31, 2018
79@jonathanchait @neeratanden I should have just ignored your first tweet, I apologize for engaging. I’m going to go… https://t.co/gQiC6lH27T Jan 31, 2018
80A story I’d love to read is George Packer revisiting his profile of the Hero of Tal Afar in light of everything tha… https://t.co/IQrlKiKme6 Jan 31, 2018
81A weird meme from last night is the idea that Joe Kennedy III should be held personally accountable for his grandfa… https://t.co/Os9qHCDREl Jan 31, 2018
82But trump said last night... https://t.co/ZXOhfULj6u Jan 31, 2018
83They’re not sending their best https://t.co/vgL9l33LP8 Jan 31, 2018
84Trump’s immigration plan is an absurd gesture of economic self-harm that will leave most of us worse off https://t.co/jsFrwLnU1o Jan 31, 2018
85I think we’ll remember this box score long after we’ve forgotten Trump’s speech. https://t.co/kdu9PZZvkN Jan 31, 2018
86@HeerJeet The interplay between Trump and congress has him getting consistently pulled to the right by the Hill (ev… https://t.co/dC5s14BJxj Jan 31, 2018
87The thing is, Trump is the moderate GOP. https://t.co/qa9DdgR1Oa Jan 31, 2018
88Cool https://t.co/VGeBldzjKE Jan 31, 2018
89The New American Moment bears a suspicious resemblance to abdicating long-term thinking on every conceivable issue… https://t.co/JLASNJFhjO Jan 31, 2018
90What you’re left with is the version of Trump that won the GOP primary — basically just racism lightly leavened wit… https://t.co/CALX494GfZ Jan 31, 2018
91Trump’s actual conduct in office has entailed both economic policy that’s more right-wing than Bush and an unpreced… https://t.co/cY6jCBNWBl Jan 31, 2018
92That connected with normal people’s lives and general sense of frustration that the government doesn’t work well.… https://t.co/rRDbW0jZNe Jan 31, 2018
93Trump’s most effective general election speeches were where he somewhat muted the blood libel immigration stuff and… https://t.co/Uv5KxOWvZ2 Jan 31, 2018
94@MatthewMGlynn @TPCarney I mean, did conservatives think Trump’s speech was primarily a call for bipartisanship?… https://t.co/FPteNHlOdg Jan 31, 2018
95@LBLRLST @TPCarney I don’t subscribe to either newspaper so I won’t be canceling any subscriptions either. Jan 31, 2018
96Bernie speech is very narrowly — but effectively — focused on dismantling Trump’s broken promises. https://t.co/iZvWrJsZ7M Jan 31, 2018
97@Grizzly_Stats My view has always been that he’ll probably win reelection, just like most presidents do. Jan 31, 2018
98@BaronNoah I thought I muted you last week. Jan 31, 2018
99Next up, watching Bernie’s speech. https://t.co/iZvWrJsZ7M Jan 31, 2018
100@TPCarney I don’t think it’s rightwing or whatever I just … don’t think that’s what Trump’s speech was. Jan 31, 2018
101my god https://t.co/mh6H3Y9MpG Jan 31, 2018
102I know his mouth looked kinda weird, but it was a really good speech that captured the fundamental clash of visions… https://t.co/HD99NybMTw Jan 31, 2018
103Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. Jan 31, 2018
104This reaction to Kennedy’s speech is a good glimpse into how poorly equipped Republicans are to handle a diverse el… https://t.co/MOxe7aX1tx Jan 31, 2018
105JFK was probably the first presidential candidate to aggressively court the Latino vote, leveraging shared Catholic… https://t.co/sRnp5MAPuM Jan 31, 2018
106Hardly an all-time classic speech but relative to the degree of difficulty inherent in the SOTU response assignment… https://t.co/IlDHKWsDsu Jan 31, 2018
107Smeared black ink Your palms are sweaty. I'm barely listening To last demands. I'm staring at the asphalt wonderi… https://t.co/iod3Iuy8X3 Jan 31, 2018
108Not coincidentally, Jim Webb delivered the only other good SOTU response speech. https://t.co/1U3Ni6Myfe Jan 31, 2018
109Unlike Trump, Kennedy appears to have rehearsed his speech. Jan 31, 2018
110I don’t know much about him beyond a handful of speeches I’ve seen, but Kennedy is good at speeches. Jan 31, 2018
111This is definitely one of the better State of the Union response speeches. Jan 31, 2018
112(It’s too bad he can’t do the accent) Jan 31, 2018
113This young man almost looks like one of the Kennedys. Jan 31, 2018
114The economy’s gotten a lot better. But the country still has problems. And Trump’s only solution is to scapegoat im… https://t.co/au4PoG0WcE Jan 31, 2018
115So is that refugee from North Korea a merit-based immigrant? Jan 31, 2018
116Interestingly, Nicole Wallace is much better. Jan 31, 2018
117@JamesFallows Matthews Jan 31, 2018
118“The red meat in there was very disguised†Jan 31, 2018
119“It wasn’t aimed at that Fox News audience at all†Jan 31, 2018
120Hahahaha Chris Matthews is falling for this bullshit. Jan 31, 2018
121Trump making a persuasive case here that he is better than Kim Jong Un. Jan 31, 2018
122Tonight, James Harden became president. https://t.co/OqnGZXMT9a Jan 31, 2018
123The unlimited visas for distant relatives thing must be news to the literally millions of people suck on family vis… https://t.co/92dxd9J7Pc Jan 31, 2018
124The centerpiece of Trump’s policy agenda is an effort to curb two types of visas whose operation he can’t describe… https://t.co/oEIi4K4Bff Jan 31, 2018
125@kpomerleau @jbarro Perhaps if she’d joined MS-13 it would have been easier. Jan 31, 2018
126To be fair, so are his descriptions of all other policy domains. https://t.co/5LkVivVERd Jan 31, 2018
127This speech is a remarkable propaganda coup for MS-13. Has any street gang ever received remotely this level of p… https://t.co/CvZ8bgkhwp Jan 31, 2018
128All dreams matter. Jan 31, 2018
129@jonathanweisman I missed the speech: What were Trump’s proposals on job training, criminal justice reform, vocatio… https://t.co/GRwUZArkLe Jan 31, 2018
130Paul Ryan’s wry smile while clapping for paid family leave legislation that he knows perfectly well isn’t going to… https://t.co/l8W5nBNQeY Jan 31, 2018
131Most people don’t pay that much attention to politics, but they know whether the medicine they rely on has gotten cheaper or not. Jan 31, 2018
132When it’s 2020 and Trump has been promising cheaper prescription drugs for years without actually doing anything, what’s the plan? Jan 31, 2018
133Both job growth and wage growth slowed in 2017. Jan 31, 2018
134@BrendanNyhan @ProfHansNoel Release the memo! Jan 31, 2018
135I think Teleprompter Trump may be a Dave-esque impersonator. Jan 31, 2018
136Or perhaps Trump will reveal that Eric has been a human-animal hybrid all along. Jan 31, 2018
137TRUMP: Tonight we turn the page on the mistakes of the past, and unveil a man with the head of a lizard. #chimeras Jan 31, 2018
138@HolmesJosh So what happened here, to be clear, is that you cited 2017 stock market performance as evidence of Trum… https://t.co/yrOqRKYUpM Jan 31, 2018
139The thing is unlike the empty rhetoric you get from most presidents at these things, there really have been no huma… https://t.co/Qne52NNFBh Jan 31, 2018
140@HolmesJosh I’m asking how the stock market did under Obama. Was it up? Down? By how much? Jan 31, 2018
141No SOTU moment will ever top George W. Bush’s pledge to protect us from the scourge of human-animal hybrids. Jan 31, 2018
142@HolmesJosh How much did the stock market fall during Obama’s presidency? Jan 31, 2018
143The big speech. https://t.co/UYWyDTR3vf Jan 31, 2018
144@jbarro @jonlovett @ezraklein @AnnieLowrey @chrislhayes @jonfavs @danpfeiffer Let’s not forget the brown suit. Jan 31, 2018
145The real state of the union is tonight’s THE DISTRICT Wizards alternate uniforms. Jan 31, 2018
146@ezraklein @AnnieLowrey @jonlovett @chrislhayes @jonfavs @danpfeiffer @jbarro I always thought Obama’s position on… https://t.co/Ue4KQcUbHF Jan 31, 2018
147I hope Damon will read this thread and reconsider his position, which genuinely seems to be based on a misread of t… https://t.co/Zdo7JL45iH Jan 31, 2018
148@TheStalwart And now they agree again! Jan 31, 2018
149Some good lines on infrastructure here. https://t.co/1XlyUNbx4w Jan 31, 2018
150Why does Trump capitalize like he’s in the 18th century? https://t.co/tcl5V2eb0D Jan 31, 2018
151I guess Yoo’s viewpoint would be that instead of firing Andy McCabe, Trump should have just had him brutally tortured. Jan 31, 2018
152John Yoo, welcome to the resistance… https://t.co/7oBdxYEKos Jan 31, 2018
153@tvoti I think this means you are now King of England. Jan 31, 2018
154Win the future! https://t.co/AXzrrb0ABk Jan 31, 2018
155If you believe the aim of Trump’s immigration policy is to help struggling immigrant communities you might be in th… https://t.co/RhGq7ex9YE Jan 31, 2018
156Seems legit https://t.co/yxPswZ4Qgt Jan 30, 2018
157If conservatives “win†the DACA fight they get to make teachers being dragged out of their classrooms the face of T… https://t.co/takjjxguW4 Jan 30, 2018
158A constructive thing George W Bush could do with the strange new respect he’s enjoying would be to appear on Hannit… https://t.co/7XnCU0PEfs Jan 30, 2018
159Tired: kompromat Wired: objective confluence of interests Jan 30, 2018
160@chick_in_kiev Yeah. I would not let this guy review movies. Jan 30, 2018
161Maybe he means Republicans have chosen to work with a monstrous criminal in their effort to serve the higher cause… https://t.co/FHUSYx3Mv8 Jan 30, 2018
162The accusation against McCabe is that he wanted the FBI to follow DOJ guidelines? https://t.co/n9MA9T360N Jan 30, 2018
163Schumer does not appear to have actually watched The Silence of the Lambs. https://t.co/diycszmPR1 https://t.co/SXr9w7sbhJ Jan 30, 2018
164@jbarro There is a state ban on light rail? Jan 30, 2018
165Say stocks end 2018 down 1% or whatever. What’s Trump going to spend the year talking about? Jan 30, 2018
166Is this like the West Wing where they don’t have the budget for a sprawling cast and so a handful of recurring char… https://t.co/oLCO2zju3F Jan 30, 2018
167Do we think the RNC did due diligence on Ricketts before making him finance chair? Jan 30, 2018
168Before Trump ruined the high-minded conservative movement with his racial demagoguery. https://t.co/atRahvsA7t Jan 30, 2018
169If you referred to possession of higher education degrees as “merit†in some context other than immigration, how wo… https://t.co/vSz6KLvPYt Jan 30, 2018
170Is this about how to lie to the cops and the public after you assault a journalist? https://t.co/Nj0B5R7FEq Jan 30, 2018
171Unofficial efforts only! https://t.co/hGAi308SLq Jan 30, 2018
172In this health initiative are we talking about Berkshire Hathaway the giant conglomerate or Berkshire Hathaway the… https://t.co/Uru1MaZln9 Jan 30, 2018
173Wasn’t the point that Michael settled all the family business in one stroke? https://t.co/RRtRf9HQP8 Jan 30, 2018
174The real Trump presidency won’t start until we get a war or a terrorist attack. https://t.co/yidJJGFD13 Jan 30, 2018
175It’s time to take congressional Republicans at their word when they say they believe Donald Trump is a first-rate p… https://t.co/wKXuxDjMe3 Jan 30, 2018
176The Grasshopper Lies Heavy Jan 30, 2018
177Big, if true https://t.co/WrMrTTdPIi Jan 30, 2018
178I gave Democrats ever state where Trump’s approval rating is 40 or lower in the latest Gallup poll, the GOP gets th… https://t.co/dwmKZCJeHi Jan 30, 2018
179I picture Melania as listening to “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight†on repeat ever since the Stormy Daniels story. Jan 30, 2018
180@SeanMcElwee Oh I remember! Jan 30, 2018
181You'll be a dentist You have a talent for causing things pain Son, be a dentist People will pay you to be inhuma… https://t.co/zBnenG7kaT Jan 30, 2018
182@BrendanNyhan Mexico and Brazil seem to sustain a multi-party system with presidential institutions. I think the… https://t.co/Zlo1eQtAGn Jan 30, 2018
183When Trump faces civil suits, he countersues. When he’s under FBI investigation, he asks the Attorney General to… https://t.co/4cKTW1T5Or Jan 30, 2018
184The other forgotten political moment that sticks with me was the racist campaign against Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation. Jan 30, 2018
185Well that could mean anything https://t.co/kO1CJZ025u Jan 30, 2018
186It’s fascinating how the leaders of the anti-gay panic of the mid-aughts just slank away from their positions and t… https://t.co/fyIdeHGDnf Jan 30, 2018
187Important point from a Real American (i.e. guy who cuts my hair): “Trump is really acting guilty on this whole Russia thing.†Jan 30, 2018
188Next you’ll tel me it won’t actually pay for itself with growth. https://t.co/2OUOVm70VU Jan 30, 2018
189Next edition of this book is gonna be a doozy https://t.co/Vjbg8Uj4vi Jan 30, 2018
190Now the flipside is Trump hasn’t actually delivered on the trade policy promises he made during the campaign. But… https://t.co/RpLcvRIkyz Jan 30, 2018
191If you were inclined to vote for Trump based on his positions on guns, immigration, abortion, etc. but worried he c… https://t.co/hr3gHHKw6Q Jan 30, 2018
192The legitimate case you can make for Trump on the economy is that during campaign 2016, it was commonplace for libe… https://t.co/Zj5Dt39DG5 Jan 30, 2018
193The Virginia GOP’s takeaway from last November, I guess, was that they need to go more all-in on Trump. https://t.co/Cw75Cwz93n Jan 30, 2018
194@BrendanNyhan How many parties in the UK parliament? Jan 30, 2018
195Texas is, technically, a coastal state https://t.co/E5P7aj5Jmu Jan 30, 2018
196This chart really shows why the media focus on *gross* changes in business investment and job creation is extremely… https://t.co/BJe2vVXc2R Jan 30, 2018
197@jbarro Taylor Swift’s silence on the growing abuse of comfort animals is a problem. Jan 30, 2018
198@jbendery I mean, it’s definitely on the “breaking the rules in pursuit of a good cause†side of things. But still very weird. Jan 30, 2018
199This is an odd claim for Ryan to make. https://t.co/cznc2ylAvb Jan 30, 2018
200:thinking-face: https://t.co/3pbLUaof9f Jan 30, 2018
201The real Trump boom was in our heads. Or, rather, in the heads of Republicans who refused to see years of slow, s… https://t.co/Jr7XTB2bz5 Jan 30, 2018
202To be fair, that’s still not as tough as Rick Perry’s remarks. https://t.co/acFdjAKMF9 Jan 30, 2018
203The FBI’s secret plan to elect Hillary Clinton by holding a press conference to disparage her after she was cleared… https://t.co/hsWVByH5kx Jan 30, 2018
204@xenocryptsite If Trump was removed from office, though, that would just make Mike Pence president. Jan 30, 2018
205Cool joint profile of three women who graduated from the US Naval Academy and are now running for office. https://t.co/m6vPijJWkt Jan 30, 2018
206Free education, free land, free speech, free ballot, free lunch. https://t.co/RTuSuzZvPD https://t.co/IWwnqcirrV Jan 30, 2018
207If the strategy works so well, why is Trump less popular than any other president at this point in his term? https://t.co/9y61tVSVbE Jan 30, 2018
208@LukHamilton Which arguments? Jan 30, 2018
209I agree with this take, but doesn’t everyone agree with it? I know lots of liberals and I don’t know anyone expecti… https://t.co/qjtb32pdbr Jan 30, 2018
210@hels I’m always here for a good butt pun. Jan 30, 2018
211One possible explanation the PC Right won’t want to grapple with is that openness to experience is correlated with… https://t.co/3mE2sGzsSg Jan 30, 2018
212¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/4FiNbnkGQQ Jan 30, 2018
213Beyond health insurance, the synergies between Amazon and the US Postal Service are so clear as to make a merger the obvious solution. Jan 30, 2018
214Straightforward from here: (a) Zero-profit Amazon insurance establishes a monopoly position (b) Nationalize Amazon Jan 30, 2018
215I am bullish on the Amazon healthcare initiative because they rightly style it as a single word. Jan 30, 2018
216@ddayen So are you buying health care stocks today? Jan 30, 2018
217Two colons in one sentence! https://t.co/WvZb020NSI Jan 30, 2018
218Massive gap in knee-jerk reactions between long-time health care observers and longtime Amazon observers. Jan 30, 2018
219@TheStalwart 69% of people say they’re satisfied with their employer-based coverage, and the numbers for government… https://t.co/uuEMNvB35F Jan 30, 2018
220Early Modern Monetary Theory https://t.co/5sPqeopPya Jan 30, 2018
221What’s really going on with Trump and the economy? https://t.co/0Gh7Q6y8Hi Jan 30, 2018
222Russian military intelligence = good. Free press = bad. https://t.co/Yj2TPQn92G Jan 30, 2018
223This has to be @BetoORourke’s favorite map. https://t.co/f52yViqVQ4 https://t.co/VjscUE6dtt Jan 30, 2018
224@emma_sandoe @onceuponA YES Jan 30, 2018
225Trump’s brand of anti-immigration politics is a betrayal of American values and a formula for national decline https://t.co/CNeBei6KAO Jan 30, 2018
226Hiring @michelleinbklyn was very smart. https://t.co/LyPfkzWPWW Jan 30, 2018
227The one real crisis Trump has faced does not inspire enormous confidence. https://t.co/eQMh9P2Kit Jan 30, 2018
228(I have a longer version of what amounts to the same argument publishing later today that has links and citations t… https://t.co/XA3Cpxfv0z Jan 30, 2018
229“when you wade into the evidence you find that the case for restricting immigration is pathetically weak†https://t.co/VsVZy8qYNN Jan 30, 2018
230@alon_levy @teganandsara A few I like: Le Tigre, “My Metro Card†Raveonettes, “Aly, Walk With Me†Sleazed-Kinney “… https://t.co/NR3cxRXbfA Jan 30, 2018
231@morningmoneyben Martians? Jan 30, 2018
232The banal corruption of Trump’s Washington ends up undercovered relative to the cloak-and-dagger Russia stuff. https://t.co/vACM2nGPPa Jan 30, 2018
233Look for my forthcoming monograph “Working Toward The Donald: The Nunes Memo and the limits of presidential incompe… https://t.co/460mdwGZO8 Jan 30, 2018
234Congressional Republicans were wary of Trump when they feared he would try populist economics. Now that it’s clea… https://t.co/s9MuuCSfOS Jan 30, 2018
235Also today, the Trump administration said there was no need to oppose sanctions because Russia is already deterred. https://t.co/i0HFgfmaTN Jan 30, 2018
236I know the news cycle seems crazy now, but imagine the firestorm of criticism we’d be seeing if it turned out that… https://t.co/j3iciF11Vw Jan 30, 2018
237#releasetheothermemo https://t.co/QRfJkRKJrt Jan 30, 2018
238@HeerJeet Pee tape Jan 29, 2018
239Trump defers to congressional Republicans on every issue except sanctions on Russia. https://t.co/eTwiAho4nY Jan 29, 2018
240When the Chief of Staff does it, it isn’t a crime. Jan 29, 2018
241Connect the dots https://t.co/b17cd7roYw Jan 29, 2018
242This is right. 18 months ago, congressional Republicans were skeptical of Trump. Now they love him. https://t.co/cHJRS51ehg Jan 29, 2018
243@MattThomasNYC No. Jan 29, 2018
244@jdawsey1 @lrozen Which ones? Jan 29, 2018
245@jon_bois Welcome to college football Saturday. Jan 29, 2018
246Trump’s penchant for cruelty is a really dangerous trait in a powerful officeholder. https://t.co/DR3vn0QSDQ Jan 29, 2018
247@AshleyRParker @lrozen Which officials? Jan 29, 2018
248Dow closes lower on news of Facebook’s new emphasis on local news. Jan 29, 2018
249¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/uEmOJcLZe1 Jan 29, 2018
250John Kelly sure did fix things. Takes a top management mind to add a “don’t do anything illegal†disclaimer to one’s unethical requests. Jan 29, 2018
251Is Facebook promising to send people more local news stories, or more news stories produced by local outlets? Tho… https://t.co/EDDOLTx2Ug Jan 29, 2018
252Some personal news: I am now the Chief Content Officer for https://t.co/HuYFCsinRD’s Matthew Yglesias vertical. Jan 29, 2018
253It seems like political correctness on campus is getting out of control. https://t.co/Gll0at2Ynj https://t.co/yNZesD3HX6 Jan 29, 2018
254Planning Wednesday morning’s post-SOTU Weeds episode. https://t.co/BDKtLfVg7e Jan 29, 2018
255This story could prove to be a major thorn in the side of the Clinton administration. https://t.co/oIwlO3iorb Jan 29, 2018
256This is definitely how ethical conduct works. https://t.co/qxGTmkxkLk Jan 29, 2018
257I’m always here for some good @seanmdav content. https://t.co/MAJQBOdK5N Jan 29, 2018
258The State of the Union address should just be Trump reading the text of #thememo Jan 29, 2018
259Watching Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives is now #resistance Jan 29, 2018
260I stand with Guy Fieri. https://t.co/uhO4tAkBo2 Jan 29, 2018
261@ofsevit Gotcha Jan 29, 2018
262@ObsoleteDogma @andrewvandam Stocks are up tho… Jan 29, 2018
263A valiant effort by @JakeAnbinder to make a public choice point palatable to progressive readers. https://t.co/z7oDKetjES Jan 29, 2018
264@RevDJEsq That seems like a very confusing way to handle it. Jan 29, 2018
265Chicago’s Pink Line can’t really through-run since Lake Michigan is on the other side. But it seems like Brown/Or… https://t.co/jjxCfHy8r0 Jan 29, 2018
266Through-running is when trains enter the city center from one direction and then head out of the center in another… https://t.co/61OPatWAiK Jan 29, 2018
267Why is this so poorly lit? https://t.co/PyCdmRLyxZ Jan 29, 2018
268It’s the Cafe Milano-splainer America needs. https://t.co/kQC6BtF3i0 Jan 29, 2018
269Why doesn’t the Chicago L through-run the Orange and Brown lines? Jan 29, 2018
270Trump’s effort to carry out a purge of the security services is proceeding fitfully, but it is in fact proceeding. https://t.co/Hja7auEDJ9 Jan 29, 2018
271I feel like the Surveillance State should find a way to let FBI agents get around newspaper paywalls. https://t.co/qMPuRhtVVY Jan 29, 2018
272Not all of these were great speeches, but a lot of the designated speakers went on to have considerably upward care… https://t.co/ZkAJc5Hk5f Jan 29, 2018
273SOTU Response Duty’s reputation as a career-killer is massively overstated. https://t.co/Lea4zhyjWF Jan 29, 2018
274In the future, everyone will be Editor in Chief of the Los Angeles Times for fifteen minutes. Jan 29, 2018
275Then we got Joseph S. Frelinghuysen Sr., also a United States Senator and then after that Peter Frelinghuysen Jr.,… https://t.co/B2JfMgS3rF Jan 29, 2018
276Later his nephew, Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen was a US Senator and served as Secretary of State under Chester A. Arthur. Jan 29, 2018
277His son Theodore Freylinghuysen was also a US Senator and the Whig Party VP nominee in 1844. Jan 29, 2018
278Frederick Frelinghuysen served as a New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress and then later as a United States Senator. Jan 29, 2018
279As the ancient prophesy states: There must always be a Frelinghuysen in Jersey. Jan 29, 2018
280@Nate_Cohn @PatrickRuffini Arnold Jan 29, 2018
281The booming stock market is clearly leading a lot of House Republicans to decide they can finally afford to retire. Jan 29, 2018
282If only Mayor Quimby had Devin Nunes as an ally. https://t.co/SFTxcSqGxZ Jan 29, 2018
283Okay, folks I am rebranding as a brave and contrarian truth-teller, so I’m here to let you know that I think men an… https://t.co/9oAXfDwQi5 Jan 29, 2018
284Over the past year, how much of this has Trump fixed? https://t.co/nf6jyMzt39 Jan 29, 2018
285Wow, RINO https://t.co/v3AUZ1jAMv Jan 29, 2018
286I got a hat as a corporate holiday bonus though @Bankoff didn’t specifically attribute it to the tax law. https://t.co/1pcb5xd5Rr Jan 29, 2018
287I really want this to be true because Barbara Ledeen was Michael Flynn’s coauthor and currently works for Chuck Gra… https://t.co/TyIKiXsLoz Jan 29, 2018
288I think @ModeledBehavior should write about Borjas’ arguments against high-skilled immigration, which always read t… https://t.co/P5pUNAZXGa Jan 29, 2018
289I feel like it’s simultaneously true that: (a) Evangelicals standing by Trump makes sense. (b) The specific argum… https://t.co/t6fPvz1JSR Jan 29, 2018
290I still want to know who forged the Niger/yellowcake memos. Jan 29, 2018
291New poll of Millennials is full of disastrous results for the GOP — question for Democrats is can they get more und… https://t.co/oQP2aAJgmb Jan 29, 2018
292Trump fired Comey for being too hard on Hillary Clinton. Jan 29, 2018
293Indian and German stocks are at all-time highs along with the US and South Korea. Jan 29, 2018
294@DLeonhardt For whatever reason, Republicans have decided they’re so much better off with President Trump than with… https://t.co/a7GXBIN3yK Jan 29, 2018
295This from @DLeonhardt seems convincing to me but it’s really a question for people who are broadly sympathetic to G… https://t.co/Nwp0wDJCkP Jan 29, 2018
296Looking forward to Dr Pepper flavored coffee pods https://t.co/bdK0wuh6e5 Jan 29, 2018
297Most of the foreign policy people I know are very worried about a war on the Korean Peninsula but financial markets… https://t.co/2gkL3A3sJC Jan 29, 2018
298Joan Robinson, right about the Capital Controversy, wrong about North Korea. https://t.co/9vZkIick3J Jan 29, 2018
299@pseudoerasmus What is historical age-heaping evidence? Jan 29, 2018
300Donald Trump believes the polar ice caps stopped melted and have instead reached “a record level.†https://t.co/RNDQvDYxCN Jan 29, 2018
301Seriously, when do we get the musical adaptation of Chernow’s Grant biography? Jan 29, 2018
302https://t.co/3F0Hvbud7q Jan 29, 2018
303Steve Wynn was the Republican Party’s finance chair. https://t.co/09S2F6ezCk Jan 29, 2018
3042018: The first year in history that recording artists have mixed politics in with their music. https://t.co/4ZCBvSS7Zk Jan 29, 2018
305@HeerJeet I mostly thought it was a funny slide. Jan 29, 2018
306A word about “populism†https://t.co/D0eyIexVNi Jan 29, 2018
307What’s going on in the National City housing market that a magazine assistant can rent such a nice apartment? Jan 29, 2018
308@alex_abads Obviously, she’s the worst. But mustache guy! Jan 29, 2018
309Short of a federally built, owned, and operated next generation mobile data network one way to improve cybersecurit… https://t.co/KhjfCORGas Jan 29, 2018
310I hate the mustache guy on this season of Top Chef so much. Jan 29, 2018
311This is a good story but I have a very hard time imagining this idea really coming to fruition. https://t.co/TFB9OKhS9F Jan 28, 2018
312@jonathanvswan Okay fair enough, let me rephrase. Jan 28, 2018
313I sometimes see people say immigrants “refuse†to learn English as if it’s never occurred to them that learning for… https://t.co/8oXXKZOWSA Jan 28, 2018
314@dylanmatt @albrgr @open_phil “Treat livestock better rather than sending them to extinction†doesn’t really all that repugnant. Jan 28, 2018
315One of the truly great things about this country is that the lobby of the Smithsonian Museum of American History ha… https://t.co/0JANhA0OhB Jan 28, 2018
316I feel like it would be more polite for the wealthy donors who benefit from the unpopular tax cut to thank the memb… https://t.co/Qwy7l4oTcn Jan 28, 2018
317Political correctness on campus is a big problem https://t.co/9FrFKDMP4y Jan 28, 2018
318English classes, not deportations. https://t.co/anDX2pDYXm Jan 28, 2018
319Hannah Grant, typical overbearing mother-in-law, didn’t like that Ulysses’ wife depended on slaves to do the housew… https://t.co/08aNkwoJUp Jan 28, 2018
320@simonsays927 “The verve of Somerville†Jan 28, 2018
321@curcuas Well there you go. Jan 28, 2018
322Conventional wisdom has shifted in favor of the DC area, but the void between the Lechmere & Community College T st… https://t.co/uD1RxZOQEI Jan 28, 2018
323@MattZeitlin Nowadays we have people trying to market “men and women are different in some ways†as a courageous an… https://t.co/5g6iXGFXwG Jan 28, 2018
324The Trump/Jay-Z beef aside does anyone have an explanation for why black unemployment is at an all-time low but white unemployment isn’t? Jan 28, 2018
325Eventually, 20% of US GDP will be Apple selling stuff with a 50% markup and the whole rest will be Amazon selling t… https://t.co/VzKNdSSCug Jan 28, 2018
326For the record, Joe Manchin has to hold down a senate seat in West Virginia so progressives would do well to give h… https://t.co/sr9sXGk3FL Jan 28, 2018
327When you’re standing on line for your plain slice explaining that “downtown†is a direction and not the central bus… https://t.co/89sJkTkwQV Jan 28, 2018
328@richardmskinner Yes, though in 2013 immigration reform got 68 senate votes and was stymied in the House by party cartel dynamics. Jan 28, 2018
329In terms of who should compromise with whom, you can perhaps see why residents of California and New York are skept… https://t.co/FtQ5YLtkXh Jan 28, 2018
330Long story short, you promote inclusion by including people not by describing their relatives as subhuman or questi… https://t.co/Z0MYdbcDBd Jan 28, 2018
331Japanese-Americans, meanwhile, obviously had a *very* different experience of World War II. It’s not that they di… https://t.co/JIPW6C2NXv Jan 28, 2018
332@DouthatNYT Yes, exactly — prejudice is bad! Jan 28, 2018
333Back in the 1840s and 1850s there was a big wave of anti-immigration hysteria, too. But the Know-Nothings never w… https://t.co/VxckSwwI9M Jan 28, 2018
334My grandpa grew up in a Latino community in Tampa. He learned English in school but the Navy made him white. Not… https://t.co/c6RQlEVvs9 Jan 28, 2018
335In the interim, we of course had World War II which provided a great boost to national unity. The wartime militar… https://t.co/FXxn6xK5O4 Jan 28, 2018
336What changed by the time JFK ran in 1960 wasn’t that he magically assimilated in some way that Smith had not, it’s… https://t.co/5HW7WqoMwn Jan 28, 2018
337His nomination was greeted by a nationwide wave of cross-burnings, and for the first time since Redemption a bunch… https://t.co/ePIDBPMXPd Jan 28, 2018
338Four years later, Democrats nominated Al Smith for President. He was born in the USA. His mom was born in the USA… https://t.co/ufjozqBAiH Jan 28, 2018
339Talked about this on the Friday episode of The Weeds, but here’s a version for the Twitter audience. I think the a… https://t.co/p9ILLgqO0r Jan 28, 2018
340Japan a good look at what happens when you count on restricting labor supply rather than boosting aggregate demand… https://t.co/nh8vWpfvyA Jan 28, 2018
341Build houses of all kinds — build public housing build market-rate housing build non-profit housing — just build mo… https://t.co/kbi8CDAYqI Jan 28, 2018
342Perhaps in exchange for DACA, Democrats can offer a tough package of immigration restrictions Republicans don’t rea… https://t.co/2yw1VG3dhJ Jan 28, 2018
343At last our schools will be spared the scourge of parental involvement. https://t.co/pnie6lDbWK Jan 28, 2018
344Conor Lamb’s message in western Pennsylvania: Heroin is bad; veterans & teachers & infrastructure are good; America… https://t.co/IRkRWbujjn Jan 28, 2018
345The most impressive thing about the Trump Boom is that it’s boosted growth abroad — at times to a greater extent —… https://t.co/dnYIOaNmt0 Jan 28, 2018
346Sources close to Ivanka say she privately opposed this move https://t.co/k9ABuSj9n4 Jan 28, 2018
347This would be a good beer summit https://t.co/pwM3Zodabh Jan 28, 2018
348If you want a tight labor market, call the FOMC ... Immigration has nothing to do with it. Jan 28, 2018
349In this one context — but no other — some people claim to believe the interests of US-born high school dropouts sho… https://t.co/LpybT0wiv5 Jan 28, 2018
350And guess what? Fewer immigrants won’t work! https://t.co/bO1WoXCtwy Jan 28, 2018
351You could establish universal pre-k and childcare programs. You could expand Social Security benefits. You could re… https://t.co/VLvwc3Jky0 Jan 28, 2018
352You could raise the minimum wage. Or if you don’t like that you could raise the EITC. Or you could establish a chil… https://t.co/Et25TLxH23 Jan 28, 2018
353It’s fascinating that conservatives can’t think of a single thing to do to boost the material conditions of working… https://t.co/TvhPPvw2fX Jan 28, 2018
354I’m not saying Trump should lose his clearance (which would be absurd) but the clearance hypothetical shows that se… https://t.co/GpLroRoyNu Jan 28, 2018
355But when immigrants suddenly show up someplace unexpected, many people — people who value stability over novelty —… https://t.co/KDpVFSMU4f Jan 28, 2018
356Natives who are low on openness sort out of traditional diverse immigrant entrepôt cities, so the people who live i… https://t.co/HmClg6zi2K Jan 28, 2018
357This is especially why places that go from having no immigrants to having some immigrants experience a lot of backlash. Jan 28, 2018
358Could a person who’d secretly paid over $100,000 in hush money to a mistress get a security clearance? https://t.co/BGVVQYwTYS Jan 28, 2018
359The psychological concept of openness to experience (and its opposite) is useful for thinking and talking about imm… https://t.co/kWRhblXonq Jan 28, 2018
360@DouthatNYT Perhaps because this isn’t what Stephen Miller is proposing? I personally would like Miller a lot mor… https://t.co/pqFdQZqAyB Jan 28, 2018
361Awful news https://t.co/h1XcBdmlgO Jan 28, 2018
362A great loss to the fake charity he used to avoid taxes https://t.co/FPWAQKUxsS Jan 28, 2018
363Today, Jose not only went to the potty he pulled his pants and underpants down all by himself like a big boy before… https://t.co/puUTAVv6KR Jan 28, 2018
364Pulitzer for both sidesing here. https://t.co/9d4AFoqwkN Jan 28, 2018
365@gabriel_mathy @InquisitiveMarg @JWMason1 @pseudoerasmus I didn’t say the destruction of Europe & Japan made the US… https://t.co/kEHhceVunE Jan 28, 2018
366Europe and Japan had just been destroyed by the biggest war in human history. https://t.co/tIt3FtiBxd Jan 28, 2018
367I really thought last year’s thing where they left out the Jews was a Holocaust Remembrance Day low point but Pence… https://t.co/X4g99Nc9Yj Jan 28, 2018
368Israel was founded by people who were alive. The six million were murdered — dead — they didn’t rise up and do it. Jan 28, 2018
369wtf is this? https://t.co/LX7jzTB3CS Jan 28, 2018
370This doesn’t really seem to me to be a “mistake†or a “conflict†exactly but it’s a critical dimension of political… https://t.co/rGPMxddBi8 Jan 28, 2018
371@slatestarcodex Most of us seem to be selfish, to an extent, in our political behavior. But we also don’t conquer… https://t.co/m9LWazU54u Jan 28, 2018
372This conflict vs mistake framework from @slatestarcodex is interesting but I feel like it misses a whole important… https://t.co/JmMKS2HnV6 Jan 28, 2018
373The brothers’ commitment to championing working class populism is really impressive. https://t.co/UmH3eNT4HJ Jan 28, 2018
374One of the real perversities of modern life is that everyone feels like a put-upon contrarian, even people with total banal views. Jan 28, 2018
375@jbarro Probably his commitment to bipartisanship and his inherent sense of the importance of fair play. Jan 28, 2018
376DC represent! https://t.co/lYEm1juyTt Jan 28, 2018
377It’s not just that congressional republicans haven’t been restraining Trump from this stuff, in recent months they… https://t.co/jyUZwNmtK8 Jan 28, 2018
378It’s remarkable how the conventional wisdom has pivoted from being overly harsh on so-so economic growth under Obam… https://t.co/dPwCDboA1p Jan 27, 2018
379Economic conditions really have been steadily improving but “Golden Age†is real soft bigotry of low expectations s… https://t.co/u8mZmlCMUL Jan 27, 2018
380I’m gonna go with “the speech will be hailed as a triumphant turning point but actually it won’t be.†https://t.co/miDEb12Utm Jan 27, 2018
381The time Grant’s dad tried to beg Jefferson Davis to let his son back into the Army. https://t.co/PkxH9b7PxE Jan 27, 2018
382Scott didn’t even campaign on Wisconsin. https://t.co/W4qsIjONJa Jan 27, 2018
383DC circa 1850 sounds like a New York Times article about DC. https://t.co/vikaiWHJrm Jan 27, 2018
3841840s Detroit was blighted by many vacant lots. https://t.co/8np4L5oxl6 Jan 27, 2018
385@jneeley78 Something to do with genetic engineering? Jan 27, 2018
386President Zachary Taylor was killed by eating toxic cherries. https://t.co/aUlXP6BcmM Jan 27, 2018
387No paid followers here: Bots & trolls follow me for free, most recently in a misguided attempt to spam me with lots… https://t.co/pppFHucfPb Jan 27, 2018
388So is the RNC going give away Wynn’s money and ask Republican candidates to do the same or ...? https://t.co/1rlax8xaK0 Jan 27, 2018
389The face of the NBA in China is ... White Chocolate. https://t.co/IES0bxvX6Q https://t.co/7B6kCnehVN Jan 27, 2018
390If the criteria for China bears being right is that at some point in the future there will be a recession in China… https://t.co/oRta056Yh6 Jan 27, 2018
391https://t.co/yNaPlvDeWK Jan 27, 2018
392While serving together in Mexico, Grant helped Pickett out with some spicy chili. https://t.co/7NiSuEJRoU Jan 27, 2018
393You have to ask yourself how much of what we obsess over for any given four-hour news cycle is going to seem remote… https://t.co/kfihR8I8KI Jan 27, 2018
394The sheer volume of political news seems to stress people out. I feel like a lot of folks would be a lot happier wi… https://t.co/rTKDPVByit Jan 27, 2018
395@tylercowen I’ve never seen an actual identity check, but the signs say they will check. Jan 27, 2018
396Trump’s less-discriminate approach to internal enforcement winds up filling the already-packed judicial pipeline wi… https://t.co/qTPO2of3g0 Jan 27, 2018
397Every citizen should make a plan for what you’re going to do to help if you find yourself as a bystander to this ki… https://t.co/gfbjJsRJsT Jan 27, 2018
398James Polk not a big fan of the norms of democratic governance. https://t.co/KsEoL5DORg Jan 27, 2018
399Ulysses Grant played Desdemona in a production of Othello staged in Corpus Christie during the Mexican War while hi… https://t.co/VBxIyJUWU1 Jan 27, 2018
400I’m not sure The Weather Channel providing accurate information about the weather really constitutes “trolling.†https://t.co/llvTdeHOIT Jan 27, 2018
401Is that why they’re paralyzed or do they just genuinely think what Wynn’s done isn’t a big deal? They all support… https://t.co/fmx9QHV471 Jan 27, 2018
402Keto Schumer https://t.co/odea2UWtcp Jan 27, 2018
403Goes to show how immigration is stopping real Americans from getting billionaire tech company founder jobs https://t.co/fBwuAlYw5w Jan 27, 2018
404They should reboot The Single Guy. Jan 27, 2018
405This is the weirdest burn https://t.co/oy8ska9osc Jan 27, 2018
406@DouthatNYT @yeselson @willwilkinson To me a lot would hinge on what we mean by “modest†— a 50% cut doesn’t seem very modest to me. Jan 27, 2018
407How are the Tronc people so cartoonishly villainous? Who is like this? Jan 27, 2018
408A thoughtful, well-considered rebuttal to today’s article. https://t.co/YqsGDJMdQh Jan 27, 2018
409Interesting indentation choices https://t.co/MJFStXvr5N Jan 27, 2018
410Fan mail https://t.co/IHKk1F0lRo Jan 27, 2018
411Imagine if Trump managed to not say or do anything noteworthy for a month and just let people enjoy low unemploymen… https://t.co/SM7IWJoNW3 Jan 27, 2018
412Fairfax County, VA has about triple the population density of King County, WA. Arlington County, VA is about as de… https://t.co/YqYa55Db8D Jan 27, 2018
413@karlbykarlsmith @jongeeting @riccoja @bruteforceblog White Flint! Jan 27, 2018
414That choice isn’t new: Jeff Sessions comes from a venerable political tradition defined by willingness to destroy t… https://t.co/UpP9o5Q1oH Jan 27, 2018
415My main point: America has a choice — we are a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that… https://t.co/BeKDmdKWfc Jan 27, 2018
416@cjane87 @DLind We also touch on the Jazz Age, Tom Buchanan’s favorite book, World War II, ethnic minority groups i… https://t.co/f0ohz7ge2j Jan 27, 2018
417Talking white genocide with @cjane87 & @DLind on today’s Weeds. https://t.co/IqLak7R6id Jan 27, 2018
418I love it when new research confirms my priors! https://t.co/BHlZ59w7V1 Jan 27, 2018
419Love too debunk charges of suspicious ties to a hostile foreign power by deliberately undermining the work of count… https://t.co/acXId2tvVt Jan 26, 2018
420@esoltas So in general are occupational categories becoming more gendered? Jan 26, 2018
421@jmartNYT Is he the finance chair of any major political parties’ national committees? Jan 26, 2018
422When your client has nothing to hide... https://t.co/UAXEOnN3U6 Jan 26, 2018
423TIL the share of K-12 teachers who are men has *fallen* since 1980. Jan 26, 2018
424Love @pbump’s lede here https://t.co/94sj0Uevug https://t.co/SCYXj62Egw Jan 26, 2018
425Illinois should do an ICO https://t.co/nXZEFRKXoo Jan 26, 2018
426@karlbykarlsmith I believe the answer is Washington has a stronger state role in land use and a weaker local govern… https://t.co/tjTkXY4Za4 Jan 26, 2018
427In 2017, GDP growth was faster than in 2016 but slower than in 2014 or 2015. https://t.co/Di0woxCbKh Jan 26, 2018
428@richardbmcgee @chrislhayes That’s the Steven Pinker trajectory, which I think is unfortunate. Jan 26, 2018
429@amychua I will try to say it again when the book is actually on sale. Jan 26, 2018
430@chrislhayes That’s the thing I’ve found most surprising about him since the boom started. Jan 26, 2018
431I’m watching this Jordan Peterson lecture and keep waiting for the part where it becomes politically controversial… https://t.co/iukttSjFGK Jan 26, 2018
432@jbarro Or Japantown in San Jose. Jan 26, 2018
433@jbarro Perhaps the weaker dollar will convince you to vacation here in the USA instead, creating jobs and putting America first. Jan 26, 2018
434The deficit is bigger now and the economy is stronger, but the level of media hysteria has died down. https://t.co/YFHZBMoLYl Jan 26, 2018
435Go, Seattle! https://t.co/nTI6ZUpHC3 Jan 26, 2018
436@jbview Sometimes you need to bait the people into clicking. What I’d say in a more restrained way is that he is… https://t.co/oCo2WiDyrn Jan 26, 2018
437There is a certain lack of self-awareness in some of the NYT reaction to the news that Hillary chose not to fire so… https://t.co/58ajJWlV3E Jan 26, 2018
438I do this for a living and should know better but was briefly confused just now while doing my taxes why nothing ha… https://t.co/SwK4dADh73 Jan 26, 2018
439Journalism that matters. https://t.co/y7rAuEJtDt Jan 26, 2018
440Hey guys, remember the government shutdown? Jan 26, 2018
441We’re living through what I guess you’d call the John Kelly Regency. https://t.co/ZbOmZY9DQp Jan 26, 2018
442Keith Hernandez! My childhood is dead now. https://t.co/89xJRduhNr Jan 26, 2018
443@MattZeitlin That’s why there’s so much inequality these day.s Jan 26, 2018
444The new Amy Chua book is good Jan 26, 2018
445Trump sits in the Oval Office, but he’s not actually the president and there’s no point in listening to what he says https://t.co/ZbOmZY9DQp Jan 26, 2018
446I went to Israel once, years ago, for about a week. My Jewish great-grandparents immigrated here from Eastern Europ… https://t.co/9XCSWLz1Xl Jan 26, 2018
447This is why evangelical leaders have never urged people to vote for anti-abortion or anti-lgbt candidates — the fai… https://t.co/Y2meXkjNgY Jan 26, 2018
448Is the RNC really going to just not comment on the revelations about its finance chair? Jan 26, 2018
449@OsitaNwanevu If you believed what this guy claims to believe, the moral case for universal health care at governme… https://t.co/B1HIvyTgfm Jan 26, 2018
450Is this idea as laughable as it sounds? https://t.co/h25OkjUCRc Jan 26, 2018
451Chris Cilizza’s take on the news that the RNC’s Finance Chairman is a sexual harasser is scorching. https://t.co/b7T7SWxBKn Jan 26, 2018
452This captures it well — the RNC will feel no embarrassment about having Steve Wynn as their finance chair because t… https://t.co/P6VczEbdy9 Jan 26, 2018
453He’s also one of the largest shareholders in Deutsche Bank, for those interested in that particular Trump/money ang… https://t.co/JJkiBelzMa Jan 26, 2018
454The Ramones had it boiled down to four rules for living: First rule is "the laws of Germany" Second rule is "be ni… https://t.co/qmPdojcwoO Jan 26, 2018
455@Redistrict That’s how far-reaching the cabal is. Jan 26, 2018
456One difference with the Wynn story is of course there’s no hypocrisy involved with Republicans and sexual harassment. Jan 26, 2018
457Steve Wynn is RNC finance chair. Yes, the same RNC that led a pressure campaign to get Democrats to disavow campai… https://t.co/0DPPaGZmHC Jan 26, 2018
458ooof https://t.co/bCP5XkZIRj Jan 26, 2018
459The weird thing now that I’ve actually watched some Jordan Peterson is he has this comical Canadian accent. Jan 26, 2018
460@MattBruenig @M_C_Klein Gotcha. Jan 26, 2018
461@M_C_Klein Yes, I agree with that. Having most people serve as their own amateur landlords is a terrible idea. Jan 26, 2018
462@MattBruenig @M_C_Klein Are we socializing the management companies? That’s part of what I’m asking. Jan 26, 2018
463How does the actual property management work in this scenario? https://t.co/XjwHRybP6m Jan 26, 2018
464@conorsen This policy has proven very difficult to enforce in DC in a workable way. Jan 26, 2018
46512 monkeys https://t.co/FzPhg24jeS Jan 26, 2018
466Still can’t believe this happened. https://t.co/1OnoOUkVMR Jan 26, 2018
467Energy prices went back up, leading to a big rebound in fracking spending that seems to account for most of it. https://t.co/sD37NYbDeV Jan 26, 2018
468People ask me these questions sometimes but if I knew why the stock market went up and down, I’d stop writing and g… https://t.co/24BHk3iphI Jan 26, 2018
469If you are crediting a tax bill for economic growth that happened before the bill passed ... congratulations. Jan 26, 2018
470@SykesCharlie @HotlineJosh Now I’m confused. As long as you agree that the bill is currently unpopular then I agree… https://t.co/OtNT3JExRq Jan 26, 2018
471The truth is we’ve been having steady, solid-but-unspectacular growth since 2011 or so. The 2017 stock market boo… https://t.co/dwxzTt4xlv Jan 26, 2018
472At first, Trump’s Election was taken to “prove†that conditions were worse than they were. Then a Trump-induced sur… https://t.co/Gcmff8qFVA Jan 26, 2018
473The economy really is doing pretty well, but shifts in politics are causing the conventional wisdom to move in ways… https://t.co/qppwIo6ZKB Jan 26, 2018
474@SykesCharlie @HotlineJosh So Republicans aren’t actually winning the messaging war, you’re just saying they hypoth… https://t.co/6KOhlnfAXV Jan 26, 2018
475Did people say the economy was booming in 2014 and 2015? https://t.co/hZM6gOlCU2 Jan 26, 2018
476@SykesCharlie @HotlineJosh Why does the bill poll so poorly? Jan 26, 2018
477Inventories went up in Q3 and down in Q4 which is why growth sped up and then slowed down — the underlying trend is… https://t.co/FWv7gf3kzf Jan 26, 2018
478Times and Post going with very different spin on Q4 GDP numbers. https://t.co/8C5nIIFHAr Jan 26, 2018
479Does Treasury Secretary jawboning really influence the price of the dollar at all? I have a hard time seeing how th… https://t.co/d4O4zeWJ98 Jan 26, 2018
480Why are we doing this? https://t.co/b6Fvk9HZBX Jan 26, 2018
481Imagine bragging that the President of the United States is being treated *as an equal* by foreign leaders. https://t.co/DheB8A40yo Jan 26, 2018
482@neilfrick @toad_spotted @kausmickey I’m asking what the argument is. Send me a link, write a tweet, do whatever. Jan 26, 2018
483The thing is it’s still not at all clear who is running things. https://t.co/BRWxbEhCAU Jan 26, 2018
484@kausmickey So are you agreeing with me that there’s no good reason to cut legal immigration in half? Jan 26, 2018
485Probably wrong to see McGahn here as a white knight — it’s just genuinely the case that firing Mueller would have b… https://t.co/P0B4Idkvlf Jan 26, 2018
486This is smart. https://t.co/AaPi8lHSvY https://t.co/Eo3k329xKZ Jan 26, 2018
487@kausmickey (I mean, obviously, the argument is racism) Jan 26, 2018
488@kausmickey That sounds like an argument for changing the skill mix of the immigrant population, not for cutting le… https://t.co/leWB5Tuh0w Jan 26, 2018
489Just retire and go lobby, man… https://t.co/375xsdN00z Jan 26, 2018
490I’m kinda surprised they didn’t get Ralph Northam to do the SOTU response. Jan 26, 2018
491@BaronNoah It’s been months since I’ve set foot in Brooklyn. Jan 26, 2018
492@voxdotcom I happen to think @estellecaswell is America’s leading public intellectual based on her Grey Poupon vide… https://t.co/dtMLfecbh0 Jan 26, 2018
493@voxdotcom Now there’s no reason to expect a Canadian professor to be able to outperform a digital media company at… https://t.co/EfVSfl4QZO Jan 26, 2018
494The @voxdotcom YouTube has over 3 million subscribers and multiple science videos with over 20 million views. https://t.co/O4tqLCOEzH Jan 26, 2018
495He has ~660,000 subscribers and his top video seems to have 1.3 million views. https://t.co/1WFqk2UNCr Jan 26, 2018
496David Brooks’ lede here had me prepared to be blown away by the size of Jordan Peterson’s YouTube following. https://t.co/5hxzz9lAhq Jan 26, 2018
497Looking forward to Glenn Greenwald’s appointment as White House Counsel once Trump decides to finally pull the trigger on firing Mueller. Jan 26, 2018
498In which the cucks manage to cuck themselves twice over. https://t.co/1ZcyvlWgcQ Jan 26, 2018
499It seems like Mueller’s job was saved by the fact that Trump isn’t really the president. https://t.co/fN9sWDpcGT Jan 26, 2018
500“The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be -- will be utterly submerged. It's all scientific stuff; it's been proved." Jan 25, 2018
501...white genocide... https://t.co/tvi375xezL Jan 25, 2018
502(Obviously I know why Sessions/Miller/Cotton are fixated on this, but I think it would be constructive to make them articulate it clearly) Jan 25, 2018
503@SaarioBrandon Sure Jan 25, 2018
504Plenty of room for reasonable disagreement about the balance of work visas vs permanent residency, family vs skills… https://t.co/grUqhxvccC Jan 25, 2018
505Like what is the problem that a 50% cut in legal immigration is solving? It will reduce productivity and per capit… https://t.co/y1dtqcrbee Jan 25, 2018
506The speed with which the whole GOP apparatus has come to accept a 50% cut in legal immigration as a reasonable idea is remarkable. Jan 25, 2018
507But Maureen Dowd promised me he was the dove https://t.co/pyELg6xMNT Jan 25, 2018
508I suppose it doesn’t *really* matter but it’s super annoying that they won’t just admit the campaign line was bs https://t.co/ZWO0Pidaa7 Jan 25, 2018
509So the idea here is to make a ridiculous proposal, have Democrats reject it, and then try to muddy the waters as to… https://t.co/ZBopsPEiTW Jan 25, 2018
510Will Canada pay for this? https://t.co/MyzjA3yiE8 Jan 25, 2018
511The real secret society was … Dutch military intelligence. Jan 25, 2018
512This is a fascinating story —> https://t.co/ydimMu28wx Jan 25, 2018
513Is Vietnam a shithole country too? https://t.co/RL46GJ9CuF Jan 25, 2018
514@ezraklein The best of the original microtrends was “aspiring snipers.†Jan 25, 2018
515@DLind I have no idea what that is. Jan 25, 2018
516Please RT if you want @EzraKlein to review Mark Penn’s forthcoming “Microtrends Squared.†https://t.co/HnBlr2vPxW Jan 25, 2018
517@DKThomp Maybe Democrats should point out that cutting immigration will make the deficit worse. Jan 25, 2018
518Important evidence of Russian collusion in this video. https://t.co/Ig2HsrPa0f Jan 25, 2018
519@PatKaChi I’m not in Leaned League so the rules don’t apply to me. Jan 25, 2018
520Right — what would make a difference would be if instead of drawing lines that favored Republicans you drew lines t… https://t.co/QSocOwVmAp Jan 25, 2018
521@BaronNoah When did I shit on Bernie? Jan 25, 2018
522Call me old-fashioned but I believe the US can find a way to rise to the occasion and continue ignoring deep povert… https://t.co/URVS1j1JOd Jan 25, 2018
523The fair fight map is fun. https://t.co/fCvsFnB2gM Jan 25, 2018
524@scottlincicome @CatoInstitute Isn’t a $50 price increase really small relative to a 20% tariff? Jan 25, 2018
525@Redistrict Texas Triangle Man Jan 25, 2018
526I’m still flabbergasted by the idea that Andrew Sullivan decided he’s an expert on gender differences based on his… https://t.co/hnLzF9ctyD Jan 25, 2018
527To credit wage hikes to the tax bill is dumb, but the truth reflects pretty well on Trump too.… https://t.co/l23SyQM6ON Jan 25, 2018
528Geography-based partisan advantage is a function of scale as much as of actual geography. https://t.co/rgae2l0T5I Jan 25, 2018
529Once wary, the CEO class has decided to go all-in on Trump. https://t.co/vOIW9sUDUF Jan 25, 2018
530Visual depiction of attempting to reach a DACA deal with the Trump White House https://t.co/vnYynhETkg Jan 25, 2018
531The thirstiest senator https://t.co/E8g6XI9XJi Jan 25, 2018
532@nbeaudrot I think she should own it. Pocahontas is a legendary American hero. Play songs from the movie at rallies. Jan 25, 2018
533@karlbykarlsmith @matt_levine That’s what I meant. Maybe split California or Texas into 2-3 big districts and leave most states as a unit. Jan 25, 2018
534@joshchafetz @daveweigel One way to make this easier would be to have a lot more districts. Jan 25, 2018
535Probably the best thing for progressive causes would be for Warren to run with Bernie’s support, but she didn’t endorse him in 2016 so.... Jan 25, 2018
536The number of people on here who’ve convinced themselves I was a die-had Bernie Bro is impressive. #omalleywouldvewon Jan 25, 2018
537@karlbykarlsmith @matt_levine Proportional representation seems a lot better. Jan 25, 2018
538@matt_levine If the case for compactness is that it’s nonpartisan, the fact that it has a huge partisan skew seems like a problem Jan 25, 2018
539He’s running, but unironically. https://t.co/8jAhllay9U Jan 25, 2018
540@matthewstoller That’s true. Jan 25, 2018
541Trying to pair compactness with following municipal boundaries is doubly odd since lots of cities are insanely squi… https://t.co/cLCpmMvJQ8 Jan 25, 2018
542Think about it on a state level — of all West Virginia’s problems is a relatively high surface area to volume ratio… https://t.co/djjShQ9N8m Jan 25, 2018
543It’s deeply embedded in the US political tradition but I’ve never understand the theoretical or practical case for… https://t.co/9Vrv1wRjmp Jan 25, 2018
544@MattZeitlin Breaking Bad is overrated, but it’s at least genuinely good. Mad Men is totally unwatchable. Jan 25, 2018
545@ThatTonyH @maxdeveson @JC_Scutts @missygpnyc LL was way too hard for me. Jan 25, 2018
546@ModeledBehavior Comcast is already our largest investor… Jan 25, 2018
547¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/DdOuwyRIYe Jan 25, 2018
548@ModeledBehavior What Philly needs to do is throw huge subsidies at Vox Media to consolidate our NYC & DC offices there. Jan 25, 2018
549@ModeledBehavior TCJA really incentivizes moving to Miami, though, when we need our rich people to head to Chicago and Cleveland. Jan 25, 2018
550@Redistrict Ah, that explains it — thanks. Jan 25, 2018
551@ModeledBehavior We need to redistribute rich people away from Seattle/San Francisco/New York to cities that will appreciate them. Jan 25, 2018
552Read this and consider that the current poverty debate in Washington is Trump/Ryan want to make it harder for the p… https://t.co/5CGF5zOaP8 Jan 25, 2018
553@Redistrict I’m surprised Brooklyn/Queens/Nassau/Suffolk can’t be gerrymandered even more aggressively for Democrats than that. Jan 25, 2018
554This is a tour de force demonstration of the ability of “neoliberalism†to be the root cause of anything and everyt… https://t.co/im8ZCifdOL Jan 25, 2018
555Great piece by @ATabarrok on special (typically union-related) privileged for police officers that go well-beyond g… https://t.co/smKpX7eJsV Jan 25, 2018
556This is really well-put by @jiatolentino. I’ll put it less well: The #MeToo backlash is total bullshit. https://t.co/kXya5L0Vcd Jan 25, 2018
557@TPCarney @FiveThirtyEight I think states should use proportional representation. Jan 25, 2018
558Another sign that actually negotiating with Trump or paying attention to what he says is pointless. https://t.co/sCLCuKATEK Jan 25, 2018
559A cool thing this @FiveThirtyEight feature shows is the GOP lean of the House map has nothing to do with Democrats… https://t.co/Qa7SQSubYN Jan 25, 2018
560Unlike me, @emilybazelon is in a position to have a well-informed view about judges’ conduct at sentencing. I jus… https://t.co/yc1OUXAVJr Jan 25, 2018
561Yeah, I find this argument persuasive; I had this situation wrong, didn’t really understand the context, and should… https://t.co/mmEBKIzvA6 Jan 25, 2018
562The Forgotten People of the leveraged buyout trade, left behind by decades of neoliberalism, have finally found the… https://t.co/pt56gpOcj5 Jan 25, 2018
563“there is almost no correlation between long-term interest rates and ten-year inflation rates over succeeding decad… https://t.co/GPmnriZYBN Jan 25, 2018
564Big dose of Woke Bill Kristol here. https://t.co/rtXx8csbmO Jan 25, 2018
565@conorsen Southwest is union (pilots here: https://t.co/RBincZ37Lh) — I think it’s JetBlue that’s non-union. Jan 25, 2018
566Plutocrats understand that Trump is first and foremost one of their own — if a dash of racism and a dollop of under… https://t.co/CeXeRWMPaX Jan 25, 2018
567Are they still promising to do this in a non-evil way or...? https://t.co/AHLw7eNtCb Jan 25, 2018
568Of course a Bonesman would be the Secret Society’s top choice to unseat Trump https://t.co/So0CARHQsM Jan 25, 2018
569@beckytallent What are they? Jan 25, 2018
570@chrislhayes The plane was funny, the Great Ebola Panic of 2014 genuinely pernicious, Russia is just ... an actuall… https://t.co/Q2GIxwXkaU Jan 25, 2018
571People who say cable news coverage of the Trump/Russia story is overheated seem unfamiliar with the medium’s treatment of any other topic. Jan 25, 2018
5727. get a Shake Shack burger but run to McDonald’s for fries 8. don’t literally run ever it’s bad for your knees 9.… https://t.co/vypbGRfYp1 Jan 25, 2018
573Twelve rules for life: 1. tweet more, read fewer books 2. seek out people who disagree with you and argue peevishl… https://t.co/DCSwBL8kHg Jan 25, 2018
574I think for most of us this would end up being a disillusioning experience. https://t.co/7mPkhvLoDn Jan 25, 2018
575It’s actually Learned League that’s coordinating the plot to unseat Trump. Jan 25, 2018
576This annual event is where Scroll & Key secures control of the Deep State. #secretsociety https://t.co/H892r7YhRm Jan 25, 2018
577Air Force Chief of Staff subtweeting the president. What a world. https://t.co/jzrW19Ba11 Jan 25, 2018
578Thanks to the GOP tax plan, @voxdotcom is hiring a new Associate Social Media Manager. https://t.co/IxwuuaQ4KS Jan 25, 2018
579I think we’ve learned by now that Donald Trump doesn’t speak for the Trump administration on the DACA issue any mor… https://t.co/8u7UteZHEm Jan 25, 2018
580@drfarls Didn’t Erdogan crack down on the liberal opposition under guise of averting a Gulenist coup? Jan 25, 2018
581🤔 https://t.co/LlpOdbwDNi Jan 25, 2018
582Trump should send those twelve horse soldiers back to Afghanistan — win the war fast. Jan 25, 2018
583¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/OUAnpUAprD Jan 25, 2018
584Hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen’s dedication to the cause of the midwestern working class is inspiring. https://t.co/zaZzg2k3cR Jan 25, 2018
585The Eagles-Patriot’s Super Bowl is God’s vengeance on New York City for producing Donald Trump. Jan 25, 2018
586@PoliticoKevin @NancyPelosi Which districts is Paul Ryan above water in? Jan 25, 2018
587This is a good thread that explains one of the reasons I shouldn’t have said anything earlier. https://t.co/cHi4acI8Fo Jan 25, 2018
588My favorite fact about academic politics is that Steven Pinker and Noam Chomsky are basically aligned on the big is… https://t.co/oO57irNWZo Jan 25, 2018
589As I understand it, he’s an older white guy college professor who believes that Things Have Gone Too Far With The C… https://t.co/32GETrBrCE Jan 24, 2018
590He has gone from “guy I’ve never heard of†to “guy everyone is arguing about†in record time. https://t.co/6tnA2yuwVm Jan 24, 2018
591Tough, but fair https://t.co/9iBRn625Gw Jan 24, 2018
592What’s happening to airline stocks today is a pretty good thumbnail sketch of what’s wrong with modern financial capitalism. Jan 24, 2018
593I think we have talked ourselves into doing a Weeds episode on ~white genocide~ Jan 24, 2018
594Replace pork with burnt ends https://t.co/pzAmxm9LNe Jan 24, 2018
595Just when it seemed like the US airline industry had done away with price competition, United comes along to ruin t… https://t.co/JlKqYAQ6No Jan 24, 2018
596Okay, I’m convinced. Jan 24, 2018
597@jilliancyork Fair enough. Jan 24, 2018
598@KateAurthur We’re really putting Ratio Epistemology to the test with this one. Jan 24, 2018
599@KateAurthur But the Ratio is in my favor! Jan 24, 2018
600Big opportunity for @dylanlscott https://t.co/ZDH0TUjl5J Jan 24, 2018
601@rodrikdani A tariff for revenue! How 19th century. Jan 24, 2018
602@gelliottmorris Or it’s a random walk with a slight downward trend? Jan 24, 2018
603@rodrikdani The cost seems low. How big is the gain? Jan 24, 2018
604Going out on a limb with this but I don’t think Chelsea Manning is going to win her senate race. Jan 24, 2018
605Good economic news is obviously narrowly good for Trump, but I think it’s broadly good for progressive priorities.… https://t.co/yjJYQnbRSe Jan 24, 2018
606Here is some superficial Democratic Party agitprop from me that also happens to be true and correct. https://t.co/PZORDg1cjD Jan 24, 2018
607@dr_hugh_jass Yeah, the murder rate was 5.4 before Obama took over then it fell to 4.4 by 2014 and then rebounded to 5.3 by his final year. Jan 24, 2018
608Interesting that the Mormon share isn’t growing. https://t.co/OjHlzMmfJt Jan 24, 2018
609If you’re mad about what’s happening to the Dreamers, get mad at the people actually hurting them https://t.co/j6Elu41yue Jan 24, 2018
610Gotta go all the way back to, um, 2014 to find a year when murder and violent crime fell. https://t.co/T483qHTAJT Jan 24, 2018
611I am considering buying an Instant Pot thanks to the tax cut. https://t.co/myLL9IeSzm Jan 24, 2018
612@OsitaNwanevu It’s not unclear to me. Jan 24, 2018
613Hard to believe the Trump-endorsing Pope is now saying this. https://t.co/QeQ561DUL7 Jan 24, 2018
614@Noahpinion I find that Europeans are becoming more understanding of this dynamic as anti-immigrant backlash politi… https://t.co/HSD8aVidpP Jan 24, 2018
615@OsitaNwanevu Nancy Pelosi agrees with you, which is why she doesn’t want to talk about impeachment. Jan 24, 2018
616This would be a good outcome, actually. https://t.co/1InYPE4PpD Jan 24, 2018
617@DouthatNYT @jbarro IIRC that’s what the 2007 bill did. Jan 24, 2018
618Both liberal and conservative groups denounced that bill for mostly bad reasons, but it was Actually Good and the c… https://t.co/MxuHCMCrqv Jan 24, 2018
619Gang of Whatever should consider dusting off the 2007 comprehensive immigration reform bill, which both contained t… https://t.co/pMK1oiDZ2E Jan 24, 2018
620@DamonLinker @McDeereUSA @DouthatNYT Whether or not Trump is impeached, he won’t be removed by the Senate — Republi… https://t.co/V5rcRvCT6C Jan 24, 2018
621@DouthatNYT Absolutely — we are agreeing. Since Republicans have unanimously decided that it’s good for Russians… https://t.co/UOSTY9EVJ9 Jan 24, 2018
622@DouthatNYT TO BE CLEAR: I am agreeing with you. There is not even a slight possibility that Trump will be punish… https://t.co/Gew7zBw1Jv Jan 24, 2018
623@jawillick Try to improve your reading comprehension. I didn’t say Trump stole the emails. I said (a) the emails w… https://t.co/0jmGlcmmna Jan 24, 2018
624@DouthatNYT The abetting is in the obstruction of justice. If someone steals your car without my knowledge or coo… https://t.co/myR3ljYlDY Jan 24, 2018
625@DouthatNYT I mean, the crime was stealing John Podesta’s emails. It’s not proof of either obstruction or of an u… https://t.co/sx4zQWUhgA Jan 24, 2018
626It is both: (a) Obvious that Trump obstructed justice — he confessed months ago on television! (b) Obvious that… https://t.co/nRJzWQY393 Jan 24, 2018
627@petebray Read more closely. Jan 24, 2018
628Nominal wages literally ALWAYS go up (even at the depths of a catastrophic recession) so you can always find wage h… https://t.co/hUVN75fAdw Jan 24, 2018
629@reckless @zkahn @migueldequinto @backlon @futurepaul @ezraklein @sarahkliff FAKE NEWS Jan 24, 2018
630Of course Jones got to run against a child molester, but Beto’s opponent is a legendary serial killer which seems worse. Jan 24, 2018
631Trump ran ten points weaker in Texas than he did in Alabama. Not saying it’s likely, but if Doug Jones can win th… https://t.co/RzexMFxmfL Jan 24, 2018
632@AdamSerwer @jbouie I’ve been trying to find a clear explanation in English of how the Seoul metro works. It seems… https://t.co/yNrgIf7Odx Jan 24, 2018
633Trump’s impact on the trajectory of the recovery is unmistakeable. https://t.co/1PqNk1EXLO Jan 24, 2018
634Trump is unpopular. https://t.co/hTe1DQkWQt Jan 24, 2018
635@binarybits There was a good paper about a related debt management issue recently — basically people think about th… https://t.co/CKaexq792Q Jan 24, 2018
636As I said this morning, I think this is a tough question with reasonable arguments on both sides. https://t.co/qavnuNvLiH Jan 24, 2018
637@kjhealy @dsquareddigest My trip on the M79 bus over the weekend in New York was harrowing Jan 24, 2018
638The take America needs RT @lymanstoneky: My post at @FamStudies today explains my view that anybody with no young c… https://t.co/24Q2bwoWWG Jan 24, 2018
639Hahaha RT @ByronYork: NeverTrump dilemma: What to make of Trump accomplishments? https://t.co/jfni543tFJ Jan 24, 2018
640@dsquareddigest You have to admit that would be pretty bad. Jan 24, 2018
641I’m seeing this chart a lot, but the thing that it’s measuring is kind of weird and eccentric. https://t.co/sUQp1Ku50p Jan 24, 2018
642In light of what we’ve learned about Trump and the FBI everyone who pretended to be outraged about Bill Clinton on… https://t.co/6KI1f1IPrd Jan 24, 2018
643It’s just not all that unlikely that the best team will lose one of four seven-game series even if they’re heavy favorites in each one. Jan 24, 2018
644The Warriors are not overrated as such, but I feel like their odds of winning the championship end up being oversta… https://t.co/Cjd66I48hL Jan 24, 2018
645For example: WMATA charges less for bus rides than Metro rides on equity grounds, but the cost of bus operations is… https://t.co/Da3mbpCk9p Jan 24, 2018
646tfw you hit your traffic goals with a week to spare — time for some tedious posts about mass transit. Jan 24, 2018
647I know IPOs are out of style but with public valuations soaring shouldn’t someone try one? Jan 24, 2018
648Median wages hit an all-time high in October 2016 (they’ve gone up higher since), for example, and it wasn’t a camp… https://t.co/IBTAtrO8JG Jan 24, 2018
649In the immediate aftermath of Election Day 2016, Hillary’s team seemed to regret not doing more to signal empathy w… https://t.co/dpSoL0waya Jan 24, 2018
650Comcast announcing a 21% dividend bump this morning in a press release that makes no mention of any policy changes. Jan 24, 2018
651When do we start talking about bond vigilantes again? Jan 24, 2018
652@TheStalwart I am trying to stay zen ... it is good news for America. Jan 24, 2018
653At any rate “actually, the pay increases have nothing to do with tax cuts and just reflect the generally booming co… https://t.co/zmCX5GJ7XH Jan 24, 2018
654@TheStalwart Like Apple, I think they were Democrats until the GOP gave them a big tax cut. Jan 24, 2018
655Starbucks, for example, also announced raises in July 2016. Pay is on an upward trajectory because the labor mark… https://t.co/hXqVfOjl8y Jan 24, 2018
656This is the weirdest narrative. Why can’t Republicans just brag on the unemployment rate being low and argue — ve… https://t.co/06qhk2SCq8 Jan 24, 2018
657Very hard to make universal E-Verify work without legalizing the millions of undocumented people who are currently… https://t.co/Bkc9aoMD4E Jan 24, 2018
658This brief @CJFDillow post on genetics and left politics seems correct to me, but I can never tell if this view is… https://t.co/hQl4Tta0Ak Jan 24, 2018
659This is the least-helpful opinion possible but I think the solar panel tariff issue is: Difficult, with good argume… https://t.co/mL9KZiYFmY Jan 24, 2018
660I guess it seems to me that the stock market goes up most years so it probably will go up in 2018. https://t.co/HCg3Z7sJbN Jan 24, 2018
661Info on special elections from the invaluable @DKElections master spreadsheet. https://t.co/uQ5tMdkT6O Jan 24, 2018
662With five 2018 special elections now in the bags, Dems are outperforming Hillary Clinton's results by 23 percent on… https://t.co/DtfHes1foP Jan 24, 2018
663For a real blast from the past, check out the 1996 Democratic Party platform statement on immigration.… https://t.co/fl04jJEKrX Jan 24, 2018
664Because politics has changed a lot, Giuliani even sued the Clinton administration (and lost in 1997) to try to main… https://t.co/rjByvYSeeS Jan 24, 2018
665The policy details have changed over twenty years, but Rudy Giuliani’s 1996 defense of sanctuary cities is worth yo… https://t.co/9NJBaPZWPZ Jan 24, 2018
666It encourages immigrant communities to cooperate with law enforcement agencies, and encourages law enforcement agen… https://t.co/kujb6ZYvWz Jan 24, 2018
667ðŸ‘👠https://t.co/yuBxy8nY0l Jan 24, 2018
668This stuff feels like a bad joke given what we know about the actual politics of the FBI but you look at the agency… https://t.co/1bJFSSX3EC Jan 24, 2018
669Tomorrow morning hundreds of different Republican members of congress backed by thousands of staffers will show up… https://t.co/nq9EmNS66q Jan 24, 2018
670Not great https://t.co/LLyEgprGOj Jan 24, 2018
671Best guess is Powell will continue Yellen’s successful approach but genuinely perverse of Trump to fire someone who… https://t.co/ioFsvqlSlH Jan 23, 2018
672@MikeGrunwald Fulfilling his promise to make New Zealand Great again Jan 23, 2018
673@BrendanNyhan @MattGrossmann Is that Democrats changing their minds or anti-immigration Democrats becoming Republicans? Jan 23, 2018
674@karlbykarlsmith The mall by the White Flint Metro is already leveled, which would be convenient. Jan 23, 2018
675In today’s hilarious journalism controversy a New York Times reporter stands falsely accused of accurately accusing… https://t.co/OdyZelwhvd Jan 23, 2018
676“I didn’t harass my subordinate who I saw as my soulmate and later settled a lawsuit with at taxpayer expense†is o… https://t.co/MWYOGp0pj9 Jan 23, 2018
677Perhaps LA’s “help the homeless by building homes†plan and Denver’s “help the homeless by hiring them to do stuffâ€â€¦ https://t.co/oZumDqbuvb Jan 23, 2018
678Helping the homeless by giving them jobs! https://t.co/qmwN7Oa8Nr Jan 23, 2018
679Jesus was a legendary counterpuncher. https://t.co/HD6P2ihANR Jan 23, 2018
680Text your mistress on Signal, people! Jan 23, 2018
681Helping the homeless by building more homes! https://t.co/A56upWChAm Jan 23, 2018
682@conorsen @karlbykarlsmith Amazon’s zero-profit retail model is already optimized for the scarce labor future. Jan 23, 2018
683@hels I have to return some video tapes Jan 23, 2018
684@hels Okay but American Psycho is absolutely a movie about banking. Jan 23, 2018
685This is a wise take from @briebriejoy — don’t get scared off by the trolling headline https://t.co/VMY630EJUz Jan 23, 2018
686Pro: Amtrak has installed new, better seats on the Northeast Regional trains. Con: They replaced the cheese tray w… https://t.co/B5U9zinTnn Jan 23, 2018
687Polling “Trump†and “Republicans†as separate categories leads naturally to this ~both sides~ framing. A clear maj… https://t.co/cSO06FhpV3 Jan 23, 2018
688@nbeaudrot I think LeBron’s time will come when he makes it to the Senate, but for now it’s Beyoncé. Jan 23, 2018
689We’re on a clear path to a global clean energy revolution but absent some *big* additional policy changes it’s on t… https://t.co/HkBakF2knX Jan 23, 2018
690Garthwaite & Moore find, with a credible research design, that Oprah’s endorsement was responsible for Obama’s narr… https://t.co/Zkbszo0Maa Jan 23, 2018
691One could make a case for Bobby Flay, or perhaps a composite “food network bros†character. But fundamentally we are living in Flavortown. Jan 23, 2018
692The five most influential intellectuals of our time: 1. Rupert Murdoch 2. Oprah 3. Beyoncé 4. Jerry Falwell, Jr. 5. Guy Fieri Jan 23, 2018
693How to talk to your toddler about the LIRR route map. Jan 23, 2018
694It’s totally unprecedented to have personal financial gain be the central focus of an administration in this way. https://t.co/Q8SgBls5Pu Jan 23, 2018
695@BenjySarlin Congestion tolls for traffic. Jan 23, 2018
696Is there any doubt that if this had been an immigrant from a Muslim background Trump would be making him the number… https://t.co/E82mSVWYL8 Jan 23, 2018
697Good thread here. Really good to see a legitimate monetary policy issue aired at a congressional hearing. https://t.co/II9iZmS5I0 Jan 23, 2018
698This *could* be a coincidence, but if not it would violate one of the very few campaign finance laws that are still… https://t.co/QwRMIQhDB0 Jan 23, 2018
699@guan Four-track subway tunnels! Jan 23, 2018
700The whole NYC Subway stations always feel like the lost technology of a long-vanished civilization. Jan 23, 2018
701If all turns out well for America it will be because of educated women’s post-2016 political mobilization. https://t.co/HlJj1ivY5E Jan 23, 2018
702Relevant to my interests: a children’s book that explains the origins of the term “Peking ravioli.†https://t.co/o8mYcZ9l2k Jan 23, 2018
703The point here about Bill Gates is the best one, I think. https://t.co/VmGGV43CIi Jan 23, 2018
704All-star Weeds cast of @DLind, @ezraklein, and @sarahkliff break down the CR deal while I’m in NYC with my family v… https://t.co/o3Ott7rcvZ Jan 23, 2018
705tfw the president’s irresponsible rhetoric is inciting pro-regime terrorists https://t.co/Ey8BqBhffA Jan 23, 2018
706Every day, the president’s favored source of information broadcasts new calls to purge the DOJ and FBI of everyone… https://t.co/Lu6o9hvxa7 Jan 23, 2018
707Just a Supreme Court justice sitting in on a little gop senate caucus strategy session. https://t.co/JosBnlDW0y Jan 23, 2018
708By Eric Trump’s second term we’re really going to be looking back to the good old days of President Ivanka. https://t.co/RXOF7kwZPu Jan 23, 2018
709“Mommy, there a hole in my bagel!†Jan 23, 2018
710Majority Leader Schumer could have forced a vote on a CR that contained Dreamer protections. Republicans could st… https://t.co/gNWL70vnqD Jan 23, 2018
711One thing that standoff showed was that even in a 60-vote Senate, a 51-vote majority is valuable because it lets you control the agenda. Jan 23, 2018
712Good for Wray so far as this goes but it’s an extremely non-reassuring situation. https://t.co/wyyFPqNJy6 Jan 23, 2018
713It’s a little loosely structured by @alon_levy on value-capture is worth your time. https://t.co/qKMcIGGVr2 Jan 23, 2018
714Trump endorsing value capture financing could be what it takes to get liberals to see that value capture isn’t a ve… https://t.co/TY3UKz9LAY Jan 23, 2018
715The reason Democrats can’t deliver on their legislative priorities is they are in the minority. The past week coul… https://t.co/dDpYHGC1oC Jan 23, 2018
716Questions about whether or not *Democrats* caved seem to me to ignore the central role of Graham & Flake in the whole drama. Jan 22, 2018
717Bank of America is responding to the GOP tax bill by screwing over low-income customers. https://t.co/4IyWrP2ZwR Jan 22, 2018
718The 2008 Democratic Party Platform’s immigration plank is an interesting historical document. https://t.co/dXFED1efXl Jan 22, 2018
719@davidshor Yes, ironically it’s a flawed extrapolation driven by identity politics. Jan 22, 2018
720We saw in 2013 that bipartisan agreement is genuinely possible but to get a sane immigration policy what you need i… https://t.co/aggweQWETA Jan 22, 2018
721A Lamb win in this race would send shockwaves or panic through the congressional GOP https://t.co/DLI0IzdDWP Jan 22, 2018
722With the government reopened, the deck is now clear for a new round of Aziz Ansari takes. I’ll go first: Social r… https://t.co/TPRUw39wwp Jan 22, 2018
723@Noahpinion Yeah though still noteworthy that that’s the same subject matter from the other direction. Jan 22, 2018
724When you travel in ideologically eclectic but overwhelmingly white and male you find that “PC backlash†ideas have… https://t.co/YLgXItkfsq Jan 22, 2018
725I’m glad they say it; a valuable window into the mentality of the out-of-touch rich. https://t.co/WPsDHI440Y Jan 22, 2018
726Guys, it’s time for some game theory https://t.co/TN6u3qxY6I Jan 22, 2018
727@MattGlassman312 This seems like a good candidate for cross-issue trade because DREAM polls very well but the only… https://t.co/WQzr0NKmeJ Jan 22, 2018
728In general the insistence that the trade has to be “Dreamers for something on immigration†seems to me to unhelpful… https://t.co/jBEh9jr0Nz Jan 22, 2018
729They need an ESPN Trade Machine but for legislation. Path to citizenship for Dreamers + take the corporate rate do… https://t.co/JKuaNsZJnR Jan 22, 2018
730One small thing I don’t understand is why it’s a six-year CHIP extension instead of ten-years. Jan 22, 2018
731Infrastructure week arrives when you least expect it. https://t.co/C8pk24r4Mi Jan 22, 2018
732Trump took DACA hostage to get immigration concessions. Dems took the CR hostage to get DACA concessions. Republi… https://t.co/42dezPaSOR Jan 22, 2018
733Mitch McConnell, fresh from breaking promises to Jeff Flake & Susan Collins, is making more promises. https://t.co/TkiI6VSR3b Jan 22, 2018
734Feinstein doesn’t want to lose her primary https://t.co/EvNrgt8jl8 Jan 22, 2018
735The thing is ultimately the Dreamers can’t be helped if Trump & Ryan & McConnell don’t want to help them. A week… https://t.co/U8yRwSH9eR Jan 22, 2018
736Seems correct https://t.co/S8JlYLbhoX Jan 22, 2018
737@xenocryptsite @fitnr “Most people live in not-especially-dense suburban neighborhoods that are part of biggish metro areas†Jan 22, 2018
738Closing all the daycare centers in federal buildings even while deeming some of the parents essential is really Ame… https://t.co/z0yEf6OD88 Jan 22, 2018
739I have researched this and the data says people should move to the Minneapolis area. Though admittedly I have not t… https://t.co/z19EHAttdH Jan 22, 2018
740The girly-men at the FBI are notorious for their white wine spritzers. https://t.co/R5TGOyskwc Jan 22, 2018
741Trumpian “populism†in one Insta post https://t.co/3bIRnbG6El Jan 22, 2018
742A lot of executive time today https://t.co/Scsc3NfACA Jan 22, 2018
743https://t.co/39suLDNEWY https://t.co/YJ3iWl35sn Jan 22, 2018
744In the event of an emergency America is going to wish it had someone in this job who was a trustworthy source of in… https://t.co/ZgxKBvwwIh Jan 22, 2018
745I am willing to build the wall if that’s what it takes to stop the Patriots. Jan 21, 2018
746Had they done so, it’s possible that the Ed Gillespies and Paul Ryans of the world would hesitate to indulge in tod… https://t.co/5lQthPKPCg Jan 21, 2018
747For example, a factually absurd campaign of anti-gay bigotry was central to the politics of Bush’s re-election. H… https://t.co/gR374BKdbZ Jan 21, 2018
748Our inability, as a nation, to remember that George W Bush was a very bad President is a real threat to the country. Jan 21, 2018
749Trump is much more openly contemptuous of the norms of constitutional democracy, but Bush established a large-scale… https://t.co/wSrdLJ5Om8 Jan 21, 2018
750As bad as Trump is in his particular way, he has not yet either: (a) Launched an unnecessary war that led to the d… https://t.co/dQdCx62OIo Jan 21, 2018
751One of these was a political rally in support of Donald Trump https://t.co/EaI5RI4hQk Jan 21, 2018
752The Wall is a social construct, but that doesn’t seem all that crazy to me. https://t.co/YpUENxC9o7 Jan 21, 2018
753Relative to his campaign stances Trump has shifted to the right on economics and then maintained the “populist†syn… https://t.co/NKgMBU1Dnz Jan 21, 2018
754@arindube This is the thing. It’s nice that we got recognition for @vox_union but realistically firm-level bargaining is a weak lever. Jan 21, 2018
755@ggreenwald This is honestly why I opted not to respond when he sent me that quote, it’s more productive to engage… https://t.co/fIirRnTzfO Jan 21, 2018
756Some 🔥🔥🔥 from @ggreenwald https://t.co/g33tRgLpM6 Jan 21, 2018
757Well, look, this is the only way to keep America safe. https://t.co/kYHfOWvhcf Jan 21, 2018
758If the shutdown lasts two weeks does a two-week CR (proposed by Dems for unclear reasons and rejected by Republican… https://t.co/iMq3yePn9I Jan 21, 2018
759@BrendanNyhan When Cotton imitates Trump is that ignoring norms or following them? Jan 21, 2018
760¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/AQbMN1ahsd Jan 21, 2018
761Trump Campaign ad leans hard into the kind of racial demagoguery that worked so well for Ed Gillespie last fall. https://t.co/lluCI4xm7j Jan 21, 2018
762Overshadowed by other events this week but a noteworthy subplot of this winter is a lot of Dem elites angry about A… https://t.co/0KbYdR07BR Jan 21, 2018
763Blocking a deal really doesn’t make a ton of sense from a restrictionist perspective, but as a way to help GOP Sena… https://t.co/ddiULvsRwW Jan 21, 2018
764I’m guessing Pence didn’t mention that Mitch McConnell blocked Claire McCaskill’s bill to ensure that troops got pa… https://t.co/G8nmG1Q2h2 Jan 21, 2018
765@taragolshan Sleep is the real DREAM Act. Jan 21, 2018
766Tim Horton’s cut benefits in response to an Ontario minimum wage hike, sparking a backlash from many customers. https://t.co/ZzErBnLLhU Jan 21, 2018
767With our Military and Border Security crippled by the shutdown, the time is right for Trudeau to order the long-planned invasion. Jan 21, 2018
768This is right, I think ... though Republicans are swiftly moving to “Dreamers are bad and ruining their lives is a… https://t.co/aVcY53JrCV Jan 21, 2018
769I do “opinion†pieces all the time but I work with great editors who consistently improve my work and save me from embarrassing myself. Jan 21, 2018
770I don’t really understand how op-ed pages work but if a regular columnist turns in 750 totally inaccurate words on… https://t.co/JRgMMql0pu Jan 21, 2018
771Obamacare is way more popular than the Trump Tax Cuts, immigration is a close issue. https://t.co/EHXZk2Reei https://t.co/XpcbfLQbw4 Jan 21, 2018
772But that photo showed he was working hard. https://t.co/AMC5ujH8JL Jan 21, 2018
773Obviously the rallies in New York, LA, and Chicago were bigger than Bangor or Fargo but the spread of the “metro†b… https://t.co/JquSS7T6rh Jan 21, 2018
7741,000 people in Bangor, ME including a family of five first-time protestors who drove up from Ellsworth. https://t.co/qnJDo2H2lI Jan 21, 2018
775If 15,000 pro-Trump demonstrators had gathered in Tennessee to block the GOP shutdown stance that would have been n… https://t.co/JoFfa0uv0D Jan 21, 2018
776700 people marched in January in Fargo, North Dakota including a number of women who are first-time candidates for… https://t.co/WolO2W0Sbj Jan 21, 2018
777Anti-Obama “Tea Party†protestors received relentless (and credulous) coverage in 2009-2010 to the point that netwo… https://t.co/4YW3X3RNg9 Jan 21, 2018
778I know the shutdown is a big deal but I’m surprised yesterday’s Women’s March didn’t garner that much coverage. T… https://t.co/GK7EIW2GG5 Jan 21, 2018
779Agency bonds owned by Apple Ireland that finance homebuying in the United States are a form of “overseas†“cash†th… https://t.co/vbsgyjAqWJ Jan 21, 2018
780Overseas cash held by Apple is neither cash nor overseas; “bringing it home†has no impact on funds available for i… https://t.co/kUOOHlGePZ Jan 21, 2018
781when the president is a stable genius https://t.co/mrMMUDUabC Jan 21, 2018
782If a CBP agent catches me walking to the gym without my wallet and decides my last name is suspiciously Spanish am I going to jail? Jan 21, 2018
783Suppose you’re a non-driver so you’re riding the bus and didn’t happen to bring your passport (?) with you one morn… https://t.co/7U3kyJFqEe Jan 21, 2018
784Random stops and demands to produce valid papers used to happen to me a lot in Nizhny Novgorod. https://t.co/x6q64tWCnh Jan 21, 2018
785What does Trump’s team think a person working looks like? Jan 21, 2018
786I got it right but I feel like that HQ question about who appoints the Prime Minister is open to dispute. Jan 21, 2018
787@carolineframke “Vox†Jan 21, 2018
788The sheer volume of briefing materials Trump consumes on any given day is staggering. https://t.co/JetEiRpIoL Jan 21, 2018
789Flashback to 2015 https://t.co/fkAT7y99Zf Jan 20, 2018
790Trump’s shaky command over his own administration makes it hard for members of congress to make deals on issues whe… https://t.co/AoE9hHj4s7 Jan 20, 2018
791Wasn’t Mexico supposed to pay for the wall? https://t.co/qbdGGbyARh Jan 20, 2018
792Seems legit https://t.co/O4dBAYF2OZ Jan 20, 2018
7932018 https://t.co/e9QRYwzRXO Jan 20, 2018
794Everything about New York has changed in the past twenty years but somehow Jake’s Dilemma is still open. Jan 20, 2018
795Seems like the best way to resolve this would be for Schumer and Pelosi to commit to appearing on Fox & Friends Mon… https://t.co/HgCEsu6GX1 Jan 20, 2018
796“You’re being as irresponsible as I was five years ago†is a strange form of argument. https://t.co/gboLX3r7kl Jan 20, 2018
797@jbarro I am holding out for changes to the family visa program before I go. Jan 20, 2018
798“Why you leaved New York, daddy?†asks Jose, unaware that he launching a million thinkpieces. Jan 20, 2018
799I’m looking forward to the debt ceiling. Jan 20, 2018
800A conceivable way out of the logjam would be for Pence to come home and take over from Kelly as shadow president. https://t.co/KqTYZmnaPP Jan 20, 2018
801This spin doesn’t really make sense (you need sixty votes to pass a spending bill which republicans aren’t close to… https://t.co/hliLEj7HCJ Jan 20, 2018
802@jbarro Plus if your legislative demand was for unchecked immigration it would be *legal* immigration by definition. Jan 20, 2018
803In President Trump’s defense, pundit Trump was totally wrong about this. https://t.co/GoJz9M6DvN Jan 20, 2018
80453 weeks ago, Paul Ryan made a heartfelt promise to a Dreamer mom to work on a bill to let her stay in the USA. https://t.co/xdOYpDkBFb Jan 20, 2018
805tl;dr it’s time for some game theory Jan 20, 2018
806So the only Republicans actually negotiating are immigration doves (Flake, Graham) who lack credibility on their si… https://t.co/Yz931APo9M Jan 20, 2018
807But Cotton, Goodlatte, Meadows, etc are all nobodies who’d risk being outflanked by the other hawks as the “real ha… https://t.co/x233PVEKdt Jan 20, 2018
808Here’s the problem: DACA gives Republicans leverage to extract *some* concessions from Democrats on immigration.… https://t.co/Uugit5jihf Jan 20, 2018
809One year anniversary of the best-attended inauguration of all time. Jan 20, 2018
810To be fair, McConnell was also lying to Susan Collins about her market stabilization measures. And to everyone ab… https://t.co/oCMbNZRQAG Jan 20, 2018
811Can Dems keep the government closed indefinitely over the lack of a DACA fix? I’m skeptical. But if Republicans “… https://t.co/qvFsCtzRoa Jan 20, 2018
812I think Democrats are in a dubious tactical position here and Republicans in a bad strategic one. Jan 20, 2018
813@ModeledBehavior What about Fairfax & London County VA which are rich and expensive but not really that crowded? Jan 20, 2018
814To try to translate my roofer’s instincts into policy views I think he wants very harsh internal enforcement of imm… https://t.co/WAtM1eDTVO Jan 20, 2018
815I’m told migration experts *think* the border security regime will in fact keep adults from coming even as the econ… https://t.co/hEdWRqSkRe Jan 20, 2018
816There was a big fall in illegal labor migration in the late-Bush / early-Obama years when we had both a huge border… https://t.co/7bXzKwcfKn Jan 20, 2018
817It will be interesting to see if conventional adult unauthorized migration for work purposes makes a 2018 comeback… https://t.co/7fU0m7owD0 Jan 20, 2018
818I talked to one such guy yesterday (owns a roofing company) and in his mind lack of immigrant labor is an example o… https://t.co/vPWvp5NJWQ Jan 20, 2018
819Both the CR and the Durbin-Graham immigration compromise have majority support. A sensible system would be to pas… https://t.co/4qY3IlCxms Jan 20, 2018
820Crazy idea: What if the senate passed laws by majority vote? Jan 20, 2018
821It seems like given the GOP’s loss in the Alabama by-election the current coalition may be untenable. Jan 20, 2018
822Why doesn’t Kelly resolve the appropriations standoff by dissolving parliament and holding a new election? Jan 20, 2018
823... https://t.co/pkOtAY2Kuo Jan 20, 2018
824Who would blame Trump if he’d struck a bipartisan deal to protect Dreamers and increase border security spending? https://t.co/m3myUbWhl3 Jan 20, 2018
825Remember the conservative movement has a lot of principled concerns about immigration policy. https://t.co/yayFxFLPD7 Jan 20, 2018
826Windows Mail? https://t.co/BZZfrOMakW Jan 20, 2018
827The issue, it seems, is that Trump is occupying the office but not actually doing the job. https://t.co/GmfcqsR9t7 Jan 20, 2018
828@jbarro I’m actually totally confused now. I didn’t think that’s what we were talking about at all. I’m just gonna… https://t.co/dnTIbKRJGu Jan 20, 2018
829If Trump had canceled DACA and said “I’m canceling this because I think DACA is bad,†Democrats would have called h… https://t.co/GERpSuqxx6 Jan 20, 2018
830Congress usually manages to avoid standoffs over open, irreconcilable disagreements — no abortion shutdowns — the p… https://t.co/E4XJtvwgAy Jan 20, 2018
831Meanwhile, Trump Winery is looking to bring in some more guest workers. https://t.co/F9vSycGLP3 Jan 20, 2018
832Dems got a pretty extensive video file together for their spin https://t.co/h1sOcNWL5h Jan 20, 2018
833When Obama and Rahm disagreed about how to proceed on health care after Scott Brown’s election, the White House did… https://t.co/e3T5Bio8AN Jan 20, 2018
834In ways we are only beginning to grasp, Trump isn’t really the president. https://t.co/3iuR9ixTSe Jan 20, 2018
835Mueller investigation (like other federal law enforcement) continues through shutdown. https://t.co/Y8ra1bWqz1 Jan 20, 2018
836CNN’s countdown clock is now counting up. https://t.co/9HoVY2BD2U Jan 20, 2018
837No, ICE and other law enforcement agencies are considered “essential.†Also DACA renewal applications will still… https://t.co/uquvxel9Ap Jan 20, 2018
838Press Secretary blasts “obstructionist losers†in official statement. https://t.co/VNhMxHa1Hf Jan 20, 2018
839Congress (feat. The Dream) “Shut it Down†https://t.co/7jDJhvfrKE Jan 20, 2018
840Wizards turned things around tonight by going with a small-ball lineup. Maybe something for congress to consider? Jan 20, 2018
841So what happened with this? https://t.co/fcHn6g7EKP Jan 20, 2018
842This guy is really into fishing. https://t.co/UKkaESWNjZ Jan 20, 2018
843As I understand it, in fifteen minutes it’s basically THE PURGE. Jan 20, 2018
844Reading the Jacinda Ardern pregnancy stories, I keep wanting to know more about her beau’s job hosting a TV show ab… https://t.co/0MK9IZWO4o Jan 20, 2018
845Wall Street Journal has neutral partisan framing and also someone had the incredibly original idea of sending a rep… https://t.co/MAnTYIUp2T Jan 20, 2018
846If Senate Republicans “message†is they won’t deport DACA recipients then maybe … pass a law giving them legal stat… https://t.co/yPMW24KZi0 Jan 20, 2018
847Vox is pretty neutral, but also giving prominent play to Yglesias’ Trump-bashing clickbait. https://t.co/lvqgmulUFE Jan 20, 2018
848@briandevine He’s asleep. Jan 20, 2018
849Politico neutral framing; Axios has no “Be Smart†section so I don’t know what to say or think. https://t.co/Hwz70Qhd4Q Jan 20, 2018
850NYT goes with GOP-friendly spin, Washington Post goes with Dem-friendly spin. https://t.co/cb9eJE2OQl Jan 20, 2018
851@MichaelonPorter @jbarro I’m saying we’ll see where public opinion lands on the shutdown. Maybe Dems will win the s… https://t.co/fLCNAfZ3Ot Jan 20, 2018
852@jbarro Won’t it be like the last shutdown where after a week or so public opinion is clear and one party (my guess… https://t.co/shmDkxajPF Jan 20, 2018
853A German airline showed more respect for the US constitution than sworn federal agents at CBP. https://t.co/7yzSxwxexP Jan 20, 2018
854Had the ma la Tide Pods from Great Wall. Delicious. Jan 20, 2018
855THE ELEVENTH HOUR Jan 20, 2018
856If Hillary were president, the government would be shutting down for some different and possibly more stupid reason. Jan 20, 2018
857@jneeley78 This, but unironically. Jan 20, 2018
858https://t.co/ywKNoqjc0F Jan 20, 2018
859Sugar beverages are worse than Tide pods. https://t.co/H49RlUzMAo Jan 20, 2018
860Maybe I should have gone with “near Boston.†https://t.co/aPa0biLqij Jan 20, 2018
861Any spending deal should include justice for Tiffany. https://t.co/w5cqUpuhi4 Jan 20, 2018
862Want to feel old? Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury†was released about two weeks ago. Jan 20, 2018
863When THE WEEDS orchestrates a high-stakes legislative gambit, it’s going to involve a platinum coin. Jan 20, 2018
864Everything about this is wild. https://t.co/W39m0ZFM6B Jan 20, 2018
865For @MarcGoldwein and others who don’t hear enough mean stuff from conservatives. https://t.co/40wna16P87 Jan 20, 2018
866@dylanlscott @yeselson And CHIP! Jan 20, 2018
867@kristoncapps A struggling airport that’s desperately in need of revival — an inspiring story. Jan 20, 2018
868Key point about this location is the already-under-construction Silver Line extension to Dulles Airport already con… https://t.co/x2kHNacsUH Jan 20, 2018
869@dyslecix They are already building a Silver Line station right there. Jan 20, 2018
870@STrimmer They’re building a Silver Line station right there. Jan 20, 2018
871This is where HQ2 is going to go. https://t.co/YnggrNGmCD Jan 20, 2018
872@karlbykarlsmith I find @hyperplanes’ point that they are building a big data operation in Virginia to be persuasive. Jan 20, 2018
873If Democrats had threatened to filibuster a CR that didn’t include a CHIP extension, would Republicans have passed… https://t.co/uN7luwcFUZ Jan 20, 2018
874@karlbykarlsmith Why MoCo over NoVa? Jan 20, 2018
875@MarcGoldwein You guys should get some meaner conservative friends. Jan 20, 2018
87640 years ago in the immediate wake of Roe v. Wade there were 325 abortions per 1,000 births. That peaked at 364 in… https://t.co/4NP1xdAstZ Jan 20, 2018
877On the occasion of today’s anti-abortion march, I learned that the abortion rate in the United States has fallen *m… https://t.co/np7UoIeyHi Jan 20, 2018
878@normative They are calling on congress to release a memo that they themselves just wrote? Jan 20, 2018
879Pizza is always a strong choice but these are two bad picks for Chinese food. I’m ordering Great Wall. https://t.co/eJtziEKW58 Jan 20, 2018
880It’s this, and American is Mr Orange. https://t.co/dd1snNOAZy Jan 20, 2018
881BUT if Democrats win and get a deal that protects Dreamers in exchange for border security money, then Trump will h… https://t.co/PxjoGPNQIi Jan 20, 2018
8821. Trump takes DACA hostage to get the Wall. 2. Dems take the CR hostage to get DACA. 3. Republicans take CHIP ho… https://t.co/ZGhBYQuz80 Jan 20, 2018
883Must be because they let the unemployment rate get too low. https://t.co/ybc22kArkO Jan 20, 2018
884Would you be remotely surprised to learn that Trump’s paid for an abortion or three over the years? https://t.co/wF0xRbRcm3 Jan 20, 2018
885Friday Weeds has a more literary flavor than Tuesday Weeds so today’s pod features a digression into the wall and B… https://t.co/OxZtyz8F7D Jan 20, 2018
886It’s true that when Dems are trying on DACA isn’t *the same* as what Republicans did in 2013, but there’s obviously a family resemblance. Jan 20, 2018
887This seems like a really bad idea. https://t.co/646VqkOkUK Jan 20, 2018
888I’m pretty sure I’m now old. https://t.co/GUsqryoeqf Jan 19, 2018
889@TheStalwart What if they start making pods that look like bacon & eggs? Jan 19, 2018
890The economy is nice. https://t.co/sjPbyS0qQM Jan 19, 2018
891@lymanstoneky @jneeley78 That’s what I’m saying. Slacking federal workers is our core audience. Jan 19, 2018
892I think if Trump took a clear stance on DACA — regardless of what it was — he could prevail on the particulars of t… https://t.co/uxTeMywK96 Jan 19, 2018
893@jneeley78 My fear is that federal employees not being at their desk will offset elevated interest in the news. Jan 19, 2018
894On that grounds alone, I think members from both sides of the aisle should agree to a short-term CR so we can do this again next week. Jan 19, 2018
895Partisan politics aside, the shutdown standoff is really good for web traffic. Jan 19, 2018
896@chrislhayes On the one hand, I agree. On the other hand, it’s a bit hard to parse the mindset of the Heitkamp/Trump crossover voter. Jan 19, 2018
897@max_read @tomscocca @johnjcook Yeah, the big upside is that taking bribes is now okay. Jan 19, 2018
898The underlying problem here is immigration is an issue on which Trump can’t just defer to congressional Republicans… https://t.co/5oYC9WIPUJ Jan 19, 2018
899One of the odder intra-GOP disputes of our time is over whether or not the border security measures they are pushin… https://t.co/nxuJNUSaAw Jan 19, 2018
900WEEDSed with @DLind about the shithole shutdown. https://t.co/nxC3KEomSO Jan 19, 2018
901Senator Tillis on the floor saying we can’t help DACA recipients because of the opioid epidemic? Jan 19, 2018
902So the Nunes/Trump position is the out of control Deep State needs more surveillance power and the Pelosi/Schiff po… https://t.co/EQQxbTpkt1 Jan 19, 2018
903GOP infighting and lack of message discipline is probably their biggest problem in trying to win the shutdown spin… https://t.co/fCpEaC4BxU Jan 19, 2018
904Put it another way: When Cotton says the problem with Graham-Durbin is it doesn’t end “chain migration†or fully fu… https://t.co/ztIhq6mS1p Jan 19, 2018
905~stable genius~ https://t.co/UCGLXeAo27 Jan 19, 2018
906@jbarro Yeah but the DACA recipients are the people who are least likely to “self-deport†of anyone around. Jan 19, 2018
907I’m happy to believe that Tom Cotton sincerely despises Dreamers but the fact remains that making them deportable d… https://t.co/6gLqJYCCmO Jan 19, 2018
908Insisting that a DACA feature tons of new border money & end the diversity visa & end family visas just guarantees… https://t.co/QZrX3v6ciB Jan 19, 2018
909The immigration hawk negotiating posture in this standoff doesn’t really make sense and seems to me to reflect the… https://t.co/vPs52D5vgi Jan 19, 2018
910In terms of practical influence, it’s the hosts of Fox & Friends. https://t.co/88rCfk0Jgp Jan 19, 2018
911Menendez may genuinely be not guilty under the Supreme Court’s new “bribery is actually good†legal standard, but I… https://t.co/qwMjTlOlZ8 Jan 19, 2018
912Surely there’s a well-qualified, competent, not-under-indictment, not-insanely-hawkish New Jersey Democrat who’d li… https://t.co/jVe7U1V373 Jan 19, 2018
913@Noahpinion @tylercowen What does “important†mean in this context? Jan 19, 2018
914The Wall is a social construct. https://t.co/IVkyg3pp2i Jan 19, 2018
915This seems like the kind of thing that will age poorly if there’s a terrorist attack. https://t.co/gDynuBSnNj Jan 19, 2018
916Worth noting — congressional GOP is: 1) Sufficiently committed to Trump to back a partisan purge of the FBI on his… https://t.co/hvadeAGSIY Jan 19, 2018
917I don’t think Republicans have really considered the consequences of “winning†the opportunity to deport Dreamers a… https://t.co/XXAHVetgmh Jan 19, 2018
918Deporting the hundreds of Dreamers who are currently serving in the military should help. https://t.co/zgb5oRUsrS Jan 19, 2018
919https://t.co/P17Q037pio Jan 19, 2018
920Call it Mexicoin and then assert that Trump’s promise all along was that “Mexicoin will pay." Jan 19, 2018
921How about we pass the DREAM Act and pay for the wall via an Initial Coin Offering? Jan 19, 2018
922It’s like a pivot to video, except we’re not firing our writers and also the videos will be amazing and on Netflix.… https://t.co/MU4ZQMBEpt Jan 19, 2018
923VOX ON NETFLIX https://t.co/v4il2rSAni Jan 19, 2018
924The steely cynicism of Trump pretending to agree with anti-abortion activists and anti-abortion activists pretendin… https://t.co/kb6S4oOOpP Jan 19, 2018
925The most divisive issue in my feed is “should you RT Bill Kristol when he says something that’s correct� Jan 19, 2018
926Strange to think that only a few years ago President Trump, despite his genius-level intelligence and deep command… https://t.co/D5NaESng48 Jan 19, 2018
927@DouthatNYT How about a “seamless garment†of political reaction that tries to deprive low-income women and childre… https://t.co/QmBubkVazi Jan 19, 2018
928Imagine if Democrats win the House popular vote by 7 points and the GOP gets a 2-seat majority … total chaos…. https://t.co/wv9nDRbQrB Jan 19, 2018
929This captures the situation well. The White House shifted, without explanation, from being open to a DACA fix if… https://t.co/jMb3DRrK7M Jan 19, 2018
930https://t.co/AHHweKMF2O Jan 19, 2018
931This never happened. Hewitt is making things up (as is par for the course for him). https://t.co/dJqkJLgGhO Jan 19, 2018
932Catastrophe keeps us together. Jan 19, 2018
933But now Trump seems to prefer “neither wall nor DACA†to “wall and DACA†and it’s not totally clear why he changed… https://t.co/rkBSX001Q2 Jan 19, 2018
934One theory of canceling DACA was it would give Trump a bargaining chip to use to get Democrats to agree to Wall/“wa… https://t.co/9RhB3yMBNc Jan 19, 2018
935It’s worth recalling that where this stated was Trump wanted some kind of Wall (or “wallâ€) funding but couldn’t get… https://t.co/uCoexhmJXF Jan 19, 2018
936Neither side actually thinks it can “win†a shutdown, so instead both are trying to maneuver the other side into causing the shutdown. Jan 19, 2018
937The prominence of the “blame game†in this round of shutdown follies is pretty much a new development relative to t… https://t.co/rWaYbycnmi Jan 19, 2018
938@JakeSherman I guess it seems to me that a more parsimonious interpretation of events is Ryan and Meadows just agree with each other. Jan 19, 2018
939If Rep Meadows or Nunes or whomever thinks this is important they can have the memo read into the congressional rec… https://t.co/anq63aiT7F Jan 19, 2018
940@JakeSherman Who would the HFC replace him with? It seems like an empty threat. Jan 19, 2018
941I don’t get this. The Freedom Caucus controls 20-30 votes but Nancy Pelosi controls over 150. Do a deal with her an… https://t.co/RYl8jZuNoQ Jan 19, 2018
942¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/UTRrrRGW98 Jan 19, 2018
943Again, anyone who covers congress and bites on this CHIP angle is very bad at their job https://t.co/oMHBeutpgh Jan 19, 2018
944This would all make perfect sense if POTUS had a good, non-corrupt reason to travel and if you called it a “memo†r… https://t.co/fzB2Ixu9Sl Jan 19, 2018
945Rather than rush back to DC to sign the bill and keep the government open, he can keep collecting the bribes but tw… https://t.co/pxIul49ImX Jan 19, 2018
946So in theory congress could strike a last-minute deal (if only on a 5-day CR or whatever) after Trump is already in Florida. Jan 19, 2018
947Trump is supposed to leave DC at 4:30 PM to fly to Mar-a-Lago to collect a big pool of $100,000 bribes but governme… https://t.co/4yxrzPjm3P Jan 19, 2018
948I think I understand the idea about Trump averting a shutdown with a tweet that confused everyone last night. Jan 19, 2018
949I went to bed early. Shutdown? Jan 19, 2018
950@PoliticoKevin @RepMcSally Is that an accurate characterization of the situation? Jan 19, 2018
951The president is accepting cash bribes.... https://t.co/vMMOc9QAcW Jan 19, 2018
952Enough to make you think Trump and his team harbor some kind of racial animus toward Haitians and other shitholers. https://t.co/MARbHVSbec Jan 19, 2018
953Mark Steyn, incidentally, is an immigrant from Canada. One who unfortunately doesn’t seem to understand American va… https://t.co/8nmLRUs19D Jan 19, 2018
954My great-grandparents moved to Tampa, FL from Cuba. Their son, an American, fought for his country in World War I… https://t.co/ToKwCQKD3n Jan 19, 2018
955You could interpret this, um, any number of ways... https://t.co/hk40h1XbvN Jan 19, 2018
956I honestly don’t understand why being president is stopping him https://t.co/UeYhgPbGcK Jan 19, 2018
957It’s amazing that Republicans developed all this zeal about CHIP funding over the past 36 hours. Really got religion. Jan 19, 2018
958A good way to have avoided this situation would have been to not rescind DACA. Jan 19, 2018
959Curbing filibusters is a good idea but doing this would lay bare the reality that they don’t have 50 votes. A bett… https://t.co/0Ud53upwbx Jan 19, 2018
960How about a series of 36-hour CRs between now and Election Day so we can keep selling the drama? Jan 18, 2018
961An affair is an affair but the problem with secret hush money payments is it’s an invitation to blackmail. https://t.co/Q5AncxEnh8 Jan 18, 2018
962Right — I think GOP leaders could avoid a shutdown pretty easily by either: (a) Doing the DACA deal. (b) Stating… https://t.co/0QhGcBvbOB Jan 18, 2018
963I feel like in general we don’t get enough coverage of demographically atypical people’s ideas about politics. Jan 18, 2018
964I’m as sick of Trump Country stories as the next guy, but would definitely read more interviews with the 15% of bla… https://t.co/kIxTm4Oe07 Jan 18, 2018
965@HolmesJosh Is deporting DACA recipients is a good idea? Jan 18, 2018
966@willwilkinson @brianbeutler @nbeaudrot @davidfrum Closest I can think of to an objective measure here is he got ov… https://t.co/q5kzq3ISJT Jan 18, 2018
967[thinking face] https://t.co/Z6VU8fO7FA Jan 18, 2018
968It’s like that scene in The Town where they decided a government shutdown would be better than offering Dreamers pr… https://t.co/X2U29errat Jan 18, 2018
969It was the most highly attended inauguration of all time, so... https://t.co/fHBOw9twG3 Jan 18, 2018
970@ezraklein Correct answer: Proportional representation and a unicameral legislature. Jan 18, 2018
971Everybody’s looking forward to the midterms. https://t.co/pFgDAbD0Ox https://t.co/tQR7XZDqgr Jan 18, 2018
972The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club. The first rule of Senate Democrats who are deman… https://t.co/sZ0nfi3BE4 Jan 18, 2018
973Cool news for @kmanguward! https://t.co/PlxnUbcsyU Jan 18, 2018
974@jbarro Well obviously if you read my column you know I read that passage differently! But either way I think we… https://t.co/1O02iwgyqD Jan 18, 2018
975@jbarro Yeah. Admittedly, my assumption in that column was the Washington Post report — which specifically mentio… https://t.co/LZLcsMK2pn Jan 18, 2018
976@willwilkinson @brianbeutler @davidfrum I actually think that’s the problem. Flake offers “social proof†that you… https://t.co/LvW1Xk7y4u Jan 18, 2018
977@jbarro I disagree. Jan 18, 2018
978~white genocide~ https://t.co/tvi375xezL Jan 18, 2018
979Chuck Schumer was way ahead of the curve on the tide pods meme. https://t.co/t7TTVAxm9C Jan 18, 2018
980@kwcollins Would have been more helpful to that end if Trump had called Mexico and El Salvador shithole countries. Jan 18, 2018
981@drfarls The USPS did a commemorative stamp about Robeson in 2004. Jan 18, 2018
982Luv too lean on witnesses to prevent them from cooperating. https://t.co/NzqaVuSHcK Jan 18, 2018
983@kwcollins Yeah, I don’t necessarily disagree with that … the point is “Trump is a rich guy who cares about his ric… https://t.co/GUctO67Kzh Jan 18, 2018
984This is a really dumb, sad situation for the country to find itself in but Graham is probably doing the right thing… https://t.co/4C2rgDTwSY Jan 18, 2018
985The question isn’t whether Trump is racist (he is) it’s whether harping on that is a good way to defeat racism. https://t.co/dq32PAX6Ns Jan 18, 2018
986@jbview Indeed Jan 18, 2018
987Class war > race war. https://t.co/dq32PAX6Ns Jan 18, 2018
988Trump is not actually the President of the United States in the traditional sense. https://t.co/azC28iXh49 Jan 18, 2018
989The Bush-Pelosi “just send people money†stimulus bill was the 21st Century’s most underrated law. https://t.co/7RQvtd25zD Jan 18, 2018
990Who among us hasn’t done some crime in Hungary? https://t.co/wqL9ZihQnl Jan 18, 2018
991My prediction is that congress, as usual, will choose the dumbest possible option and settle on a seven-day CR. Jan 18, 2018
992If the Freedom Caucus revolts against the leadership bill, then there’s a straightforward path to a bipartisan comp… https://t.co/0AEycxJBQs Jan 18, 2018
993This is actually good! https://t.co/xl5Bta6hJ4 Jan 18, 2018
994@ModeledBehavior @hyperplanes There is already a Metro line under construction to the Innovation Center site that M… https://t.co/hmMmlvlPq2 Jan 18, 2018
995He is worried about manufacturing job losses, I guess. https://t.co/SKtxxX4Rm1 Jan 18, 2018
996@hyperplanes That … makes a lot of sense. Jan 18, 2018
997I do it because I am blindly following Ezra & Sarah’s lead but it is incorrect and to be perfectly honest it bother… https://t.co/yZiQrvIBFv Jan 18, 2018
998@Susan_Hennessey @jacklgoldsmith I understand. But I’m saying I wish you addressed an argument to someone (like m… https://t.co/MISaF5rkZO Jan 18, 2018
999It’s great that, so far, Section 702 surveillance has not been done in an abusive way. But as of three weeks ago,… https://t.co/9R9PNDL4HB Jan 18, 2018
1000Back in August 2017, @benjaminwittes described the fate of Andy McCabe as a major test for Christopher Wray. Four… https://t.co/5G6r8G1BdX Jan 18, 2018
1001My question is whether this assertion about FBI imperviousness to presidential interference really holds up. Just… https://t.co/NrdjUcqYjn Jan 18, 2018
1002@jacklgoldsmith @Susan_Hennessey I’ll say I wish this piece didn’t focus on — or even mention — Glenn Greenwald, wh… https://t.co/tM1TbB3QvY Jan 18, 2018
1003The whole thing is worth your time but here’s the nut of @jacklgoldsmith and @Susan_Hennessey on why anti-Trumpers… https://t.co/I1dysL7Oxq Jan 18, 2018
1004@jteeDC @AlyssaRosenberg Mayor Bowser put forth four suggestions of which the one she is calling Capitol Hill East… https://t.co/Vku914vbHu Jan 18, 2018
1005@PoliticalPup415 @brianstelter It’s tied up in some litigation, as I understand it. Jan 18, 2018
1006@theGreaterMarin That would have made a lot of sense. Or they could built, like, apartment buildings (with stores… https://t.co/yiLRDXrpVT Jan 18, 2018
1007The Pentagon surface parking lots RIGHT ON TOP OF A METRO STATION are really the most absurd land use. The milita… https://t.co/OuhpQsS8Gk Jan 18, 2018
1008@conorsen Harper’s Ferry! Jan 18, 2018
1009The best place for a big office complex to go in the DC area would be to relocate the Pentagon and its vast ocean o… https://t.co/LR3PHhvUnx Jan 18, 2018
1010@brianstelter White Flint Jan 18, 2018
1011The White Flint Mall has already been demolished so there’s a big site standing empty near an arterial road and a c… https://t.co/Vh34JWkMwG Jan 18, 2018
1012Where in Montgomery County would we be talking about for Amazon? The ghost mall? Jan 18, 2018
1013This is exactly why CHIP should be made an entitlement and taken out of the discretionary funding wringer. https://t.co/a9ebe6nAWd Jan 18, 2018
1014The insane Trump Show is unpopular but the banal Trump policy agenda is even less popular https://t.co/gtumq8FtFe Jan 18, 2018
1015There’s a whole great thread here on what Alabama turnout really looked like. But this is the most important one… https://t.co/4xRlI83Hzj Jan 18, 2018
1016Often lost in the collusion discussion is the bare fact that a hostile foreign power’s desire to install Trump in o… https://t.co/u8iJsLqgfh Jan 18, 2018
1017@JedKolko A few of these cities like Nashville and Columbus seem quite far from the stated criteria. Jan 18, 2018
1018This is way too long to be a shortlist! https://t.co/O8qfySY52z Jan 18, 2018
1019Folks win the Hill are assuming Trump misunderstood something he saw on TV and was not actually articulating a new policy position. Jan 18, 2018
1020Very good thread here (author did Treasury comms during the Bush administration) —> https://t.co/0pfQBf2Zkl Jan 18, 2018
1021@mtsw I’d tweeted about how I am curious about what Johnson voters think. Jan 18, 2018
1022Guys, I think it’s possible that Trump doesn’t fully understand the CHIP issue or how it relates to the Continuing Resolution. Jan 18, 2018
1023I actually did get an email from a Gary Johnson voter once. He told me he assumed Clinton would win, voted Johnso… https://t.co/3dvy9E3Ieh Jan 18, 2018
1024Ceci n’nest pas The Wall. Jan 18, 2018
1025In lieu of original content, today I will be publishing letters from Gary Johnson voters. Jan 18, 2018
1026The Fake News Awards have become so tacky and commercialized these days. Jan 18, 2018
1027If you’re concerned about the skill profile of the foreign-born population, canceling DACA will make it worse not b… https://t.co/SndGEQJnLX Jan 18, 2018
1028@gelliottmorris I agree. Jan 18, 2018
1029@gelliottmorris Glenn *likes* Bernie and is seeking to debunk the stereotype of the white, male “Bernie Bro†by un… https://t.co/UXiTpQ87Dn Jan 18, 2018
1030@gelliottmorris Due to the perversities of the discourse, this is meant as a form of praise for Bernie! Jan 18, 2018
1031DC’s historic preservation rules are a mess. https://t.co/IJXyyWpK0E Jan 18, 2018
1032Following the passage of historic tax reform, Disney announces plans for a NINTH episode in the Star Wars saga. Jan 18, 2018
10331. Cancel DACA to gain a bargaining chip. 2. Make totally unreasonable demands that make it impossible to strike a… https://t.co/ieK5HpEvuS Jan 18, 2018
1034In response to the GOP tax cut, Apple is announcing plans to release a BRAND NEW iPHONE in September. Jan 18, 2018
1035In a broader sense, the real Fake News Awards were the friends we made along the way. Jan 18, 2018
1036This 404 error has really cheapened the spirit of the Fake News Awards. Jan 18, 2018
1037Any reporter who bites on this angle is very bad at his job https://t.co/U4P1ey9Fv6 Jan 18, 2018
1038The sobering truth is that John Kelly has been Trump’s second-best chief of staff. Jan 18, 2018
1039IIRC the official Clinton estimate was half deplorables https://t.co/8KM6pAWCqm Jan 18, 2018
1040If Trump had done a simple “wall†money for legal status swap six weeks ago everyone would have hailed him as a sta… https://t.co/eeGoGSyg4N Jan 17, 2018
1041Tired: Make companies manufacture products in the US instead of China. Wired: Swap tax cuts for flattery. https://t.co/FJguTH0pVR Jan 17, 2018
1042I once received a Koch-funded trip to scenic Murfreesboro, Tennessee so feel free to implicate me in any conspiraci… https://t.co/3YYgt8CSkU Jan 17, 2018
1043What a world https://t.co/NzwidQ08Pg Jan 17, 2018
1044I doubt there are a ton of Trump superfans among the rank-and-file employees of big tech companies whose executives… https://t.co/5oxzXoWIId Jan 17, 2018
1045Apple’s capex plans as of November. In that context, nothing in today’s announcement reflects an actual change in… https://t.co/BsKJNOyKUL Jan 17, 2018
1046At least Trump doesn’t listen to those neocons.... https://t.co/hLxKodUPTS Jan 17, 2018
10471. No grasp of big picture either 2. Only ever gets pulled right 3. See 2 4. The issue is he’s lying about his he… https://t.co/oTdxEenuAJ Jan 17, 2018
1048People mostly think Oprah shouldn’t be president, and also Oprah would beat Trump in a landslide. https://t.co/3rwagCpAPS Jan 17, 2018
1049Nobody knows who Kirsten Gillibrand is. https://t.co/AKikUfRGOS Jan 17, 2018
1050Bernie Sanders is less popular overall than the hard-core Berners like to say but a lot more popular with African-A… https://t.co/tqleAhtyni Jan 17, 2018
1051@Susan_Hennessey @lawfareblog @jacklgoldsmith Good to know … I’m not that well-versed in this issue, but the past 1… https://t.co/4TC5Omagpx Jan 17, 2018
1052The FSB’s real kompromat is a tape measure that shows Trump is 6 feet tall. Jan 17, 2018
1053@conorsen @karlbykarlsmith More houses allow a more efficient allocation of labor. Jan 17, 2018
1054@mtsw @mdcohen NBA does both measurements. But that we know Steph is 6’3†in shoes only makes the comp better since… https://t.co/IACM0htTq5 Jan 17, 2018
1055How does last year’s action to allow cable and telecom companies to sell users’ web browsing data help make the typ… https://t.co/9I9HnfPHYD Jan 17, 2018
1056I don’t want to go all tinfoil hat on you guys, but Steph Curry is listed as 6’3†https://t.co/b6yfQMRxfK Jan 17, 2018
1057Probably Trump had an affair with Stormy Daniels and then secretly paid her hush money, but also that’s the only wo… https://t.co/ZYK65VK5U1 Jan 17, 2018
1058Democrats must refuse to fund the government unless we get an objective measurement of POTUS’ height and weight. Jan 17, 2018
1059@TimothyNoah1 @thehighsign @chrislhayes I believe Chris accidentally coined it by asking if anyone else had done so… https://t.co/wpUOO0TErN Jan 17, 2018
1060This is some real galaxy brain stuff. https://t.co/sWlOwKcu8n Jan 17, 2018
1061@taragolshan PELOSI: If you having base problems I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but an intra-caucus rebellion ain’t one. Jan 17, 2018
1062@lawfareblog If one takes the view that not only is Trump dangerous, personally, but that congressional Republicans… https://t.co/goKiJvWNkT Jan 17, 2018
1063More than anything they’ve said about Trump per se, it’s takes like this that I find hard to reconcile with the… https://t.co/ZX88258yFA Jan 17, 2018
1064The approach that “worked†for Trump on taxes and failed on health care was to simply defer to GOP congressional le… https://t.co/wJ6OAuWeMX Jan 17, 2018
1065One problem with a president who has no experience in politics appointing a chief of staff who *also* has no experi… https://t.co/sTnlm8UyFf Jan 17, 2018
1066But all 29% of the strong approvers are Old-Timers At The Diner, aka the only voters who count. https://t.co/NvsrWUsReS Jan 17, 2018
1067Oh, wait, this "new Apple campus†sounds like a call center for tech support. https://t.co/fYz8E0GX8B Jan 17, 2018
1068@hyperplanes Tempting. I’d like to learn more about the Scythians. Jan 17, 2018
1069Shouldn’t they go to John McCain’s office or whatever? https://t.co/FfQ21rAoEY Jan 17, 2018
1070@tylercowen Annandale here I come. Jan 17, 2018
1071California, a big alleged loser from the GOP tax plan, seems set to receive a huge windfall of capital gains and co… https://t.co/nIIAawZgXy Jan 17, 2018
1072@TheHell_Podcast Well, my dad lives there so I think I’ll stay with him. Jan 17, 2018
1073I am prepared to establish Yglesias HQ2 in whichever city offers me the most subsidies. Jan 17, 2018
1074An interesting one for the @DouthatNYT files — huge gender gap in perception of Trump as a racist. https://t.co/rcGv86eAVk Jan 17, 2018
1075Kudos to Kevin McCarthy for following President Trump’s lead and trying to get to the bottom of Obama’s birth certi… https://t.co/tWuz0VYUUt Jan 17, 2018
1076@conorsen It’s awfully sunny in Los Angeles. Jan 17, 2018
1077Amazing hire — a great talent destined for big things. https://t.co/TgU6wMDkw8 Jan 17, 2018
1078Religious liberty is a fundamental value, deeply important that small businesses be able to express their profound… https://t.co/9w8TAWjkEf Jan 17, 2018
1079It’s kind of upsetting how good Axios has turned out to be. https://t.co/x7ZWoGihiK Jan 17, 2018
1080@kristoncapps Turning the North Woods into an Obama Library would be a good idea. Jan 17, 2018
1081@Nicole_Cliffe What’s an RA? Jan 17, 2018
1082@realTomPurcell @Noahpinion Drive to Haiti? Jan 17, 2018
1083Obviously a Russian infiltration campaign could never make inroads with this gang of geniuses. https://t.co/d0BED261BI Jan 17, 2018
1084@imillhiser “to preserve as many full service stations as possible†https://t.co/7R6J7oXn0Q Jan 17, 2018
1085This is genuinely the dumbest law. https://t.co/JZJHcOtz4t Jan 17, 2018
1086@DouthatNYT @RonBrownstein Ed Gillespie and Roy Moore, for example, did not seem to be gaining any support among bl… https://t.co/e69mxPN90W Jan 17, 2018
1087Very interesting @DouthatNYT column, but he’s hanging a lot of interpretive weight on some very fine-grained demogr… https://t.co/byfCzrPryV Jan 17, 2018
1088I am currently working on a column urging Democrats to keep the focus on actual policy issues but honestly I can’t… https://t.co/bHWwUY46kn Jan 17, 2018
1089Sounds populist https://t.co/1JlqXlBZ2L Jan 17, 2018
1090Small brain: Trump is 6’3†& 239 pounds. Medium brain: Trump is lying about his weight. Big brain: Trump is lying… https://t.co/Dgw49Qz40E Jan 17, 2018
1091Go downstairs to the mezzanine level and wait there! https://t.co/4XM6MfyWCD Jan 17, 2018
1092Jeb Bush is 6’3†https://t.co/5S2WFtIvyV Jan 17, 2018
1093@brianbeutler @DLeonhardt @ThePlumLineGS I think the more parsimonious explanation is that most Republican Party le… https://t.co/9kpaUfl2tZ Jan 17, 2018
1094That a 40% approval rating is good news for Trump — and it legitimately is — is itself remarkable. Obama’s low point was 42%. Jan 17, 2018
1095@TimFernholz It’s very confusing. Jan 17, 2018
1096No, the Trump polling recovery is visible across a number of different pollsters. https://t.co/ZC6FYx9tHE Jan 17, 2018
1097Interesting contrast between Trump recovering some ground in the polls even as last night’s specials in Wisconsin w… https://t.co/aEfGyszBie Jan 17, 2018
1098This is quietly one of the most important economic policy issues in the country. https://t.co/VOSRpDwM8j Jan 17, 2018
1099Bold to use a pie chart in prestige media in 2018. https://t.co/ALYR91XZeI Jan 17, 2018
1100The share of voters who want less immigration is actually falling over time, but shifting elite allegiances and par… https://t.co/76JsM2vLRt Jan 17, 2018
1101Trump’s was 6’2†in a driver’s license that was issued over five years ago, and old guys tend to shrink. Jan 17, 2018
1102The sophisticated girther view is that Trump is telling the truth about his weight but lying about his height. Jan 17, 2018
1103Nothing produces more impressively ghoulish mental gymnastics than the ongoing conservative effort to paint Medicai… https://t.co/WBT2lxQmDf Jan 17, 2018
1104This does not strike me as a productive line of journalistic or political inquiry. https://t.co/MuwzIMqxcD Jan 17, 2018
1105The White House is pursuing a legislative compromise so zealously that the Chief Staff isn’t paying any attention t… https://t.co/dvp15FNj2l Jan 17, 2018
1106Martha McSally is a weird mismatch of personal biography and the political moment. Feels to me like if she were a… https://t.co/C8mM4x1uzX Jan 17, 2018
1107The Gang of 6 deal does all of these things! It’s impossible to have a compromise if people won’t state their goa… https://t.co/4AbM2i0bVV Jan 17, 2018
1108A thoughtful, nuanced explanation of what’s going on with Aziz Ansari and what everyone’s mad about. https://t.co/fX2buZfsXC Jan 17, 2018
1109New immigrants to the USA are better-educated than the native population. The whole skills/merit panic makes no se… https://t.co/2HGmlbpOkj Jan 17, 2018
1110Trump’s plan to win the midterms is really scary https://t.co/yUC4btc1LF Jan 17, 2018
1111Caro needs to write a three-volume biography of Aegon V. https://t.co/2BCXpBsdx5 Jan 17, 2018
1112I will be wearing black to the Dishonest & Corrupt Media Awards to honor the victims of accurate reporting that hap… https://t.co/7UsIoztqbI Jan 17, 2018
1113This is an idea so ill-conceived that it wouldn’t even achieve the goal of creating a new red state. https://t.co/9hd8IcUIfz Jan 17, 2018
1114Time to dole out more subsidies to Taiwanese companies? https://t.co/2nmL72hHl5 Jan 17, 2018
1115@conor64 Other times you get a guy like Mickey who over the years has become steadily less assimilated to American… https://t.co/KzPlFLAQ2V Jan 17, 2018
1116DACA recipients aren’t illiterate new arrivals. They’re long-settled in the country, high school graduates, etc. I… https://t.co/oqz2zMPvD3 Jan 17, 2018
1117I am all-in on girtherism. https://t.co/2XajGsseVP Jan 17, 2018
1118There are lovely people from all kinds of places all around the world but that is, objectively speaking, the most garbage place in America. Jan 17, 2018
1119This guy represents northwest Florida! https://t.co/JLxPNgCtxr Jan 17, 2018
1120Cool. Cool. Federalism. Limited government. Cool. https://t.co/diazwKPPle Jan 17, 2018
1121Attempting to drive from downtown to the suburbs during the PM rush hour may be the worst mistake I’ve ever made. H… https://t.co/zZDsE4OvhI Jan 16, 2018
1122When they hear he actually said shitHOUSE countries, people will realize Trump is good. https://t.co/OaXsHqzCEV Jan 16, 2018
1123At a June 8, 2012 press conference Obama said “the private sector is doing fine†but state/local layoffs were dragg… https://t.co/YofcFrASd8 Jan 16, 2018
1124idk https://t.co/vuXbiskmky https://t.co/M0Csnz0W2D Jan 16, 2018
1125Andrew Cuomo is a lot more popular with the electorate than he is on Twitter. https://t.co/xTVA4Vcmtn Jan 16, 2018
1126I think Trump’s *floor* is the numbers he’ll reach if we get a recession. https://t.co/mFshGI1ANS Jan 16, 2018
1127I wrote this right after the election and I think it holds up. Trump will survive or fall on banal policy stuff, no… https://t.co/N3uDCvVo8m Jan 16, 2018
1128Two weeks of focus on Trump being a maniac seems to have improved his approval ratings relative to when we were talking tax policy. Jan 16, 2018
1129@jonathanchait But Trump is a great athlete (according to Trump). Jan 16, 2018
1130Alex Ovechkin is 6’3†and 235 pounds. Jan 16, 2018
1131I don’t believe Trump is 6’3†and 239 pounds. No way. Jan 16, 2018
1132Fake news about dietary fat from the briefing room. Sad. https://t.co/cyXqc8brmX Jan 16, 2018
1133@willwilkinson I hope negotiations continue but if Trump’s condition for a deal is “Tom Cotton has to like the deal… https://t.co/czd9Q08CiF Jan 16, 2018
1134At least Trump never gave a paid speech to a bank. https://t.co/bOUwkh5OJA Jan 16, 2018
1135Obviously if Obama were credibly accused of paying six figures of hush money to a porn star conservatives would say… https://t.co/3RbrlhGgPZ Jan 16, 2018
1136So much drama in the F-E-R-C. Jan 16, 2018
1137Context for Trump’s statements on Norway is he’s long been an enormous fan of Henrik Ibsen’s plays, especially The Master Builder. Jan 16, 2018
1138I really think Jared Kushner is the answer you’re looking for here. https://t.co/zatqGkqOf9 Jan 16, 2018
1139Remember when Trump paid over $100,000 in hush money to a porn star to keep their affair under wraps? Jan 16, 2018
1140Having the cabinet secretary who says a bunch of risible nonsense about Norway be named Kirstjen Nielsen is, once a… https://t.co/rYlTHecfCW Jan 16, 2018
1141The Doocy-Durbin compromise. https://t.co/0dlOovkkD6 Jan 16, 2018
1142@MarketUrbanism “Quickly†is doing a lot of work here. Jan 16, 2018
1143@MarketUrbanism I think for electoral purposes he wants businesses to move to Buffalo, Rochester, Binghampton, etc. Jan 16, 2018
1144“Harvard Man†is a weirdly terrible movie, so I guess he maybe was actually spending all his time focused on assaulting women. Jan 16, 2018
1145How did he have time to direct movies? https://t.co/Bc6rj9mXk6 Jan 16, 2018
1146Interior Decorating https://t.co/XPfUV9LsRd Jan 16, 2018
1147Cuckald Reagan https://t.co/eSMI05pZ3i Jan 16, 2018
1148Tired: Pay for CHIP Wired: Balance CHIP with more business tax cuts https://t.co/8d0ojWm5EX Jan 16, 2018
1149If only the czar knew https://t.co/iYq6fxCQBL Jan 16, 2018
1150It seems bad to have a Homeland Security secretary who is unwilling or unable to describe US immigration policy acc… https://t.co/bGyp8HtQXJ Jan 16, 2018
1151“Kazakhstan is doing very well.†Not a shithole, apparently. Jan 16, 2018
1152Forget it, Jake. It’s Infrastructure Week. Jan 16, 2018
1153Trump’s concern about shithouse countries was actually an appreciation of China’s “Belt & Road†efforts to invest i… https://t.co/NRgsJDoD6V Jan 16, 2018
1154@annanorthtweets I also recommend @JillFilipovic’s take. https://t.co/guB8cIVnIY Jan 16, 2018
1155Aziz Ansari situation spawned a lot of bad takes but also some good ones like this @annanorthtweets piece. https://t.co/R4dSEm9wkH Jan 16, 2018
1156It’s what the forgotten people of the rust belt wanted. https://t.co/L9PjFcSGxx Jan 16, 2018
1157🤔🤔🤔 https://t.co/GQpvpOxVQ3 Jan 16, 2018
1158Disappointing. https://t.co/HissmeTSe7 Jan 16, 2018
1159I was watching TV yesterday and saw WMATA was spending money on ads touting their “Back 2 Good†efforts. Perhaps… https://t.co/8hTywNQBMQ Jan 16, 2018
1160@alon_levy @JonCoppage CES says the middle quintile pays 34% of after-tax income on “housing†as a broad category t… https://t.co/5B0R11QSeO Jan 16, 2018
1161The way this math works is domestic terrorism doesn’t count as terrorism but foreigners captured abroad and extradi… https://t.co/Zk4tgRG61G Jan 16, 2018
1162@alon_levy @JonCoppage Looks like pre-tax but I should go back to the Consumer Expenditure Survey tables and check… https://t.co/9jrO9AjRL1 Jan 16, 2018
1163@alon_levy @JonCoppage Back in 2014, median US household spend ~25% on housing. https://t.co/AfpDkrPtYT Jan 16, 2018
1164We’re living in a country whose leaders wake up ever day and work tirelessly to whip up panic, racism, and xenophob… https://t.co/2SkPzXVWUD Jan 16, 2018
1165@alon_levy I did until I had a kid. Jan 16, 2018
1166This is what Blue America is getting wrong — systematically excessive market rents due to broad undersupply of hous… https://t.co/fYliYo3qSl Jan 16, 2018
1167Because Senate Republicans filibustered it in 2010, and because House Republicans refused to allow a floor vote on… https://t.co/DQKE1Sxwje Jan 16, 2018
1168But instead, the Trump administration’s position is it wants to seriously impair the lives of hundreds of thousands… https://t.co/P4XgFQ1LPj Jan 16, 2018
1169If deporting Dreamers isn’t going to be a priority, then the reasonable thing to do is give them legal permission t… https://t.co/iqOCCbLeBJ Jan 16, 2018
1170@DavidMDrucker Is it true that Democrats “want to shut down the government over amnesty for all� Jan 16, 2018
1171Philip Roth on one of the stranger than fiction aspects of our current situation. https://t.co/cZuzUMGSeL https://t.co/9EAgZ3gls6 Jan 16, 2018
1172@Pinboard You’re from one of the good countries, though. Jan 16, 2018
1173Legal immigrant from Africa: “I didn’t cause middle class wage stagnation!†Trump: “I don’t care." Jan 16, 2018
1174@ExumAM @PerneInAGyre Granting that the Saudis and the UAE don’t just take orders from the United States, they do s… https://t.co/vPAhatmiWG Jan 16, 2018
1175Trump wants a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and shit… https://t.co/NdQjNKOM7K Jan 16, 2018
1176Trump is too lazy and ignorant to do the job — and congressional Republicans like it that way. https://t.co/0jAzyI7PHQ Jan 16, 2018
1177The conviction that Trump’s unpopularity has nothing to do with his pursuit of unpopular policies is bad for Republ… https://t.co/P9Mj5bF80q Jan 16, 2018
1178On this theory, which of Trump’s policies are popular? https://t.co/VllOxYFOUX https://t.co/O8CSUxp0AO Jan 16, 2018
1179Bring back the Mooch. Jan 16, 2018
1180“policies aiming to reduce low-skilled migration with the purpose of favouring native middle-class labour market op… https://t.co/HoNaRbLxaB Jan 16, 2018
1181The wrongest takes of all were the ones about how John Kelly was going to fix everything. Jan 16, 2018
1182If only we’d listened, the whole drug overdose crisis could have been avoided. https://t.co/rQ8PCckvo6 Jan 16, 2018
1183David Brooks: Trump runs good meetings. Trump’s staff: Don’t let Trump run a meeting or he might get tricked. Jan 16, 2018
1184Did Obama’s staff fear to let him meet with members of congress lest they “trick†him into endorsing the wrong poli… https://t.co/no3eUttxcA Jan 16, 2018
1185What assholes https://t.co/973VxJXhIp Jan 16, 2018
1186@ebruenig I think this treatment of sex is a legitimate example of a thing where the “neo†and traditional version of liberalism differed. Jan 16, 2018
1187HQ is doing a very woke MLK Day bit. Jan 16, 2018
1188Not only is this @ebruenig take good, it is possibly history’s only instance of an article that would have been imp… https://t.co/DmkEPRQoH6 Jan 16, 2018
1189Am I getting this news cycle right? 1. Someone writes an article about Aziz Ansari. 2. Nothing bad happens to Az… https://t.co/Bs3AdQOAu1 Jan 16, 2018
1190Hiring @michelleinbklyn was very smart. https://t.co/gIRJxDIrUu Jan 16, 2018
1191After all that, Senate Democrats struck a deal with Senate Republican immigration moderates and then the White Hous… https://t.co/mInGEhrCr5 Jan 16, 2018
1192Senate Republicans filibustered the DREAM Act in 2010, House Republicans refused to hold a vote on the Gang of 8 bi… https://t.co/wn79v1sBxz Jan 16, 2018
1193You can feel already that despite everything there is going to be massive resistance to admitting that there’s no D… https://t.co/lf4u3HcC1H Jan 16, 2018
1194Can’t really have one if the president’s candid view is he wants to minimize the country’s nonwhite population eith… https://t.co/0Kdn4cU3Y9 Jan 16, 2018
1195Thornburg broke a huge story that the authorities were trying to cover up. Stay woke, people. Don’t fall for this… https://t.co/coI5eiihY2 Jan 15, 2018
1196I appreciate Flake’s sentiments but using the committee process to conduct meaningful oversight > speeches. Lots… https://t.co/cfChZWbLQ4 Jan 15, 2018
1197Die Hard 2 is the best journalism movie. https://t.co/W0ZoQCGzfW Jan 15, 2018
1198Those who golf also serve. https://t.co/vR8ARlgGs1 Jan 15, 2018
1199This Spurs-Hawks game is full of immigrants with no college degrees taking American jobs and depressing wages. Jan 15, 2018
1200What does this mean? https://t.co/CohlzdXmKA Jan 15, 2018
1201She can always follow AG Sessions in citing a made-up privilege to avoid discussing it https://t.co/63PYRIk1Vd Jan 15, 2018
1202It’s gonna be 52 weeks of three-week CRs so neither side admits that it’s blinking, isn’t it? Jan 15, 2018
1203@nbeaudrot Issue salience matters is one lesson, I think. Jan 15, 2018
1204@nbeaudrot Yeah, Democrats decided they were tired of losing elections over guns and then came Sandy Hook. Jan 15, 2018
1205No pity for Trumpkins but representing the White House in Spanish language media is a truly thankless job and this… https://t.co/JEsqILi1fV Jan 15, 2018
1206I guess when the target voluntarily goes by “Dick†it’s hard to come up with a good insult-nickname. Jan 15, 2018
1207@jbarro I think those fans will like him more if he wins. Nobody likes a loser! Jan 15, 2018
1208@Nicole_Cliffe I can’t believe you watch football now. Jan 15, 2018
1209Say he loses with 45% of the vote in 2020 instead of winning with 46% percent like he did in 2016. He’ll have held… https://t.co/pDWpp86c5P Jan 15, 2018
1210It’s gone on long enough that it’s just become background noise but I can’t really understand why Trump’s team is s… https://t.co/R8B8NN7am4 Jan 15, 2018
1211This is an amazing story with pretty broad significance https://t.co/v5YnvIj59v Jan 15, 2018
1212Is Pop going to be on the trail with Beto once the playoffs are over? https://t.co/sMkWk3T244 Jan 15, 2018
1213Batman and Superman take on Trumpism. https://t.co/564mG5XcyE Jan 15, 2018
1214Are we going to be in for months of annoying “Chelsea Manning runs for Senate†takes now? Jan 15, 2018
1215It’s below freezing again outside, but the takes are hotter than ever. https://t.co/DzTWRVRZdz Jan 15, 2018
1216When the president is extremely fit for high office and his allies in congress know it. https://t.co/HWHqfFeK0j Jan 15, 2018
1217That’s all from this great document. https://t.co/MIQfbRzalQ Jan 15, 2018
1218Both the March on Washington in particular and mass demonstrations in favor of civil rights were unpopular. https://t.co/EAXH5dfk50 Jan 15, 2018
1219The Freedom Riders were unpopular, and as of 1961 most people professed to believe that civil disobedience was coun… https://t.co/9OlXVwFuxv Jan 15, 2018
1220MLK was controversial but more popular than unpopular in the lead-up to the Civil Rights Act but became very unpopu… https://t.co/w8EGryflUc Jan 15, 2018
1221The song/video combo for “Zombie†made an incredibly strong impression on me in middle school. https://t.co/qjvzwPVA8k Jan 15, 2018
1222@NateSilver538 @SeanTrende OTOH, it seems reasonably likely that economic growth will slow down in 2018. Jan 15, 2018
1223I feel both safer and more prosperous. https://t.co/KMCmnN2gK8 Jan 15, 2018
1224Wow, RINO https://t.co/b1mJNl0R42 Jan 15, 2018
1225@conorsen Time to deport some people back to El Salvador, I guess. Jan 15, 2018
1226At this point even if the Bay Area massively upzoned (which they should) it might be hard to find workers to actual… https://t.co/uynbd2ThcD Jan 15, 2018
1227Calista Flockhart should have people churning out takes on whether the name “Supergirl†is condescending or a kind… https://t.co/idaPZm7YqB Jan 15, 2018
1228Affording this apartment on an entry-level journalism job is the real super power. Jan 15, 2018
1229Did she use a kryptonite needle to pierce her ears? Jan 15, 2018
1230@shani_o Even when my mom worked at Newsweek in the eighties and they paid for a car service to take everyone home… https://t.co/SOzVRhgeFH Jan 15, 2018
1231I’m years behind the curve on this but Supergirl is going to give young people some unrealistic expectations of how… https://t.co/ZZ5YrVLpAW Jan 15, 2018
1232It was six days ago that reporters said Trump put doubts about his fitness to rest by becoming confused in an on-ca… https://t.co/sGqaQ7WPHG Jan 15, 2018
1233When the Kingdom of Bavaria sends its people they aren’t sending their best https://t.co/cqSaGl0WGp Jan 15, 2018
1234Elites say you shouldn’t blow tackles on game-winning plays but the important thing is that Marcus Williams’ base still likes him. Jan 15, 2018
1235@alon_levy It must have been 15-20 years ago so you’ll have to remind me. Jan 15, 2018
1236The scope of the con is breathtaking. https://t.co/gCzImGejw3 Jan 15, 2018
1237The same holds for yanking Salvadorans’ Temporary Protected Status — it’s a kind of cruel “vice signaling†that wil… https://t.co/KrmfTcGmIR Jan 15, 2018
1238Often lost in the DACA debate is that yanking these people’s legal status doesn’t change the fact that the pace of… https://t.co/lKu89bAcLY Jan 15, 2018
1239If we’re going to have a reality TV show host be President it should definitely be @PadmaLakshmi. Jan 15, 2018
1240@candrews @attackerman @kristoncapps @heybecks It was a simpler time. Jan 14, 2018
1241A tech company explicitly making editorial content? https://t.co/XUALH6e4OZ Jan 14, 2018
1242Apparently the Google Arts & Culture app has other features? Jan 14, 2018
1243The Republican position, as I understand it, is that Trump didn’t say Africa was a shithole whose people are all un… https://t.co/kARL9YcJba Jan 14, 2018
1244The only way to stay in Trump’s good graces is to lie aggressively, rapidly, and shamelessly. Kellyanne Conway do… https://t.co/JwePgfbG9f Jan 14, 2018
1245¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/EZREFklsvv Jan 14, 2018
1246Portrait Mode is not nearly as good as iPhone X users seem to think. It’s obviously a promising idea but I’m a li… https://t.co/BRvytUDw5y Jan 14, 2018
1247Of course the only serves as further confirmation that we are in the Bad Place. Jan 14, 2018
1248Blake Bortles getting the Good Place bump. Jan 14, 2018
1249Internet Explorer, my God... https://t.co/Zio8Q7dPL1 Jan 14, 2018
1250@jbarro True. I guess it depends in part on what headings actually turn up. Jan 14, 2018
1251Nixon under pressure signed a bunch of progressive legislation. Jan 14, 2018
1252I kind of think that if Dems take the House they may find they prefer keeping a corrupt President Trump around and… https://t.co/dMMQ3PQIkj Jan 14, 2018
1253The Cotton/Trump RAISE Act is a disaster, but the old SKILLS Act proposal was a good idea that achieves their state… https://t.co/ln3Gze0Ieu Jan 14, 2018
1254It looks like relative to all legal permanent residents, recipients of diversity visas are disproportionately likel… https://t.co/3Ztlq1SOml Jan 14, 2018
1255The app matched Jose’s face with a painting in the national gallery so we took him there this morning to be photogr… https://t.co/Wfmz92WWUh Jan 14, 2018
1256There is room left for labor market improvement and the Fed should tune out overstayed boom rhetoric and be patient. https://t.co/hNeMTdnE36 Jan 14, 2018
1257Suppose Trump had said “I’d have†rather than “I have†— how is it any less nonsensical? Jan 14, 2018
1258This is right on. There’s be a Dem wave if the election happened next week, but it’s happening in November and even… https://t.co/qvOtcmQXRJ Jan 14, 2018
1259All too real https://t.co/duy8SA5Fvi Jan 14, 2018
1260This kind of poor memory seems like a bad quality in a key official. https://t.co/BJuGZdn9qH Jan 14, 2018
1261Jose wants to know why they only use the doors on one side of the Metro car. #spanishsolution Jan 14, 2018
1262Democrats reached a deal with a number of senate republicans before Trump scuttled it to start ranting and raving a… https://t.co/askzB9PwpU Jan 14, 2018
1263Trump “would†have a good relationship with Kim Jong Un if ... what? Jan 14, 2018
1264Meanwhile from the same story, Trump’s plan to win the midterms is to hope thousands of Americans are murdered by f… https://t.co/muIIbwHjj1 Jan 14, 2018
1265Beyond the avocado toast and trigger warnings, Millennials have been fighting America’s wars and “at least a half d… https://t.co/MgwiDm03kL Jan 14, 2018
1266What I like about this video is it keeps the focus squarely on big structural issues that have spanned administrati… https://t.co/CobjkGkKJV Jan 14, 2018
1267After today’s mishap in Hawaii I’m wondering if everyone has prewritten war with North Korea content ready to go. Jan 14, 2018
1268Wizards are taking Polish Heritage Night surprisingly seriously. Jan 14, 2018
1269Polish Heritage Night! Jan 14, 2018
1270https://t.co/hJmbAHb58O Jan 13, 2018
1271Thread, as the kids say —> https://t.co/FBXEiMMdjL Jan 13, 2018
1272One of the funniest things about politics is Tom Cotton thinks he’s going to be president some day. Jan 13, 2018
1273@SeanMcElwee @Susan_Hennessey Yes, a terrible term mostly used by the worst people. Jan 13, 2018
1274@ggreenwald I think the best I can offer is a broad shot at anti-Trump people not recognizing the dissonance plus a… https://t.co/HKMG41meyz Jan 13, 2018
1275@thew0wguy @ggreenwald I’m sure his mistake was sincere, I would just like to correct the record. Jan 13, 2018
1276@ggreenwald I would be happy to pursue a debate with you about the thing we actually disagree about here at some po… https://t.co/XkAbTI10NC Jan 13, 2018
1277@ggreenwald It’s true, I disagree with the emphasize you place on the actions of the minority of Democrats who vote… https://t.co/1iHzt87zun Jan 13, 2018
1278@ggreenwald But I did criticize people who voted for the bill. The difference is that while you and I have the sam… https://t.co/UUlBQGRjvo Jan 13, 2018
1279@ggreenwald Glen, you and I (and most House Democrats!) all have the same position on the FISA bill. Jan 13, 2018
1280Clearly, the only way to get to the bottom of this is going to be for the Trump family to open a golf resort in Hawaii. Jan 13, 2018
1281White House statement says there was an exercise in Hawaii, seeming to contradict state officials who described som… https://t.co/RAVmgNhAa2 Jan 13, 2018
1282@cascamike @SeanMcElwee Great Jan 13, 2018
1283@SeanMcElwee This was a good take. https://t.co/sacB35nuu4 Jan 13, 2018
1284The product work on the NYT Cooking section has become really consistently amazing. https://t.co/FYzO8TmldW Jan 13, 2018
1285This would be the perfect time for a surprise missile attack. Jan 13, 2018
1286Having tried and failed to achieve political power through a campaign of relentless racial demagoguery, Ed Gillespi… https://t.co/Yw6EdBhI6R Jan 13, 2018
1287@Gladwell Email servers. Jan 13, 2018
1288This is a dumb thing for @Harpers to be lying about. https://t.co/w0zUokWUQ7 Jan 13, 2018
1289Small brain: Trump’s vulgarity is bad. Medium brain: Trump’s policies are bad. Large brain: The GOP’s fusion of w… https://t.co/9XCy1Luybc Jan 13, 2018
1290Thanks to the traveling press pool system, we are always kept apprised of POTUS’ whereabouts in case of a crisis. https://t.co/1Y8T6mbnwN Jan 13, 2018
1291Unfortunately, we learned last week that this administration literally cannot organize a conference call. https://t.co/jGnhdjSTOq Jan 13, 2018
1292In my day, they used to test the Emergency Broadcast System with a message that said “this is a test of the Emergen… https://t.co/6dm3CUDe5u Jan 13, 2018
1293You drill should probably not include pushing the text “THIS IS NOT A DRILL†to everyone. Jan 13, 2018
1294This seems like a bad emergency alert system. Jan 13, 2018
1295Reliably the source of the worst takes on here. https://t.co/jWDz4pzwkT Jan 13, 2018
1296Republicans spent eight years pretending to object to Obama’s crony capitalism. https://t.co/aScvN0b4wy Jan 13, 2018
1297A bill Obama supported passed the senate in 2013 with 68 votes and John Boehner wouldn’t bring it to the floor for… https://t.co/UOlFQ0E7MA Jan 13, 2018
1298Imagine thinking “profanity†was the issue. https://t.co/YQD9fPCHXq Jan 13, 2018
1299147 million people say they’d like to emigrate to the United States. https://t.co/9ypC1oU2oE https://t.co/uZDx2LunG8 Jan 13, 2018
1300I’m all for universal health care and paid family leave but a lot of American liberals and leftists have an overly rosy view of Europe. Jan 13, 2018
1301Nobody on either side of the aisle seems too upset about it but there’s a big difference between: (a) Working with… https://t.co/dIXz8HADcK Jan 13, 2018
1302In terms of shitholes versus Norway it probably stands mentioning that the First Lady seems to have worked illegall… https://t.co/ptUU4CtvnR Jan 13, 2018
1303The whole point of America is that people move here from “shitholes†to make a better life for themselves and their families. Jan 13, 2018
1304We’ve seen over and over again (most recently on FISA) that ultimately Trump does what congressional leadership wan… https://t.co/cKRGk95VIE Jan 13, 2018
1305Trump’s, um, “colorful†rhetoric is more striking than these leadership machinations but there’s no reason to think… https://t.co/NvaRaCBGMA Jan 13, 2018
1306And in that they are merely following the trail that John Boehner blazed way back in 2013. Time and again the most… https://t.co/hiNIc3qqAe Jan 13, 2018
1307For all the focus on Trump, the fundamental issue is that Ryan & McConnell are letting Cotton & Goodlatte drive the… https://t.co/cSMvQKChmc Jan 13, 2018
1308@DouthatNYT Because he isn’t, really. Jan 13, 2018
1309Trump is extremely responsive to flattery but also incredibly unpopular around the world so it’s mostly dictators w… https://t.co/FuAXTehbwo Jan 13, 2018
1310TIL Fresh Pond out by the Alewife T Station was once a major hub of America’s ice-exporting industry. Jan 13, 2018
1311Bismack Biyombo scored 18 points in the first half to rebut Trump’s smears against African immigrants. Jan 13, 2018
1312This seems like a false choice. https://t.co/3iYPdU27we Jan 13, 2018
1313The good news for Republicans, I guess, is that Trump managed to bury news about yet another broken promise about Medicaid cuts. Jan 12, 2018
1314¿Porque no los dos? https://t.co/EUAjsZdyOr Jan 12, 2018
1315@cjane87 @voxdotcom Can we do a TNG podcast? Jan 12, 2018
1316@MattZeitlin Wolf Warrior 2 Jan 12, 2018
1317Who will file the first dispatch from a Mingo County diner about how people think Trump was right about the shithole countries? Jan 12, 2018
1318Live, from the shithole: https://t.co/EK8zQ78PMR Jan 12, 2018
1319b e n g shtihole a z i Jan 12, 2018
1320@Nicole_Cliffe @Choire I think of myself as a twitter activist these days. Jan 12, 2018
1321Like Sullivan is misrepresenting what @Nicole_Cliffe was objecting to while also mis-identifying her … in a magazin… https://t.co/ZX8MVLzaUU Jan 12, 2018
1322Very strange paragraph. https://t.co/QQfnsPfPDj https://t.co/RvxXU1VlMs Jan 12, 2018
1323@jneeley78 Well, as with everything it seems highly mediated by education. Jan 12, 2018
1324Look, folks, these CHIP kids should have worked harder if they wanted health insurance. Jan 12, 2018
1325I want to read an interview with these two McMullin voters. https://t.co/B3cZbt6lJw Jan 12, 2018
1326Russell is even ranked #1 in the text so it’s not a disagreement about who is the best. https://t.co/2QgRyDfNy0 Jan 12, 2018
1327It says so much that Bill Russell is not on the cover of this book. https://t.co/2jX6SSa5io Jan 12, 2018
1328"Among Hispanic men older than 50, Trump’s approval— strikingly—exceeded 40 percent" Jan 12, 2018
1329Fascinating —> "black men are one of the few groups for which Trump’s 2017 average approval rating significantly ex… https://t.co/75d9cuGUSr Jan 12, 2018
1330"No matter how stupid it sounds … the dominant issue of the 2016 campaign was email server management†https://t.co/DSvH8rKEEF Jan 12, 2018
1331Bring back the Mooch! https://t.co/1UIAujgX2A Jan 12, 2018
1332Like, yes, a robust solution to the problem of workplace sexual harassment might also end up barring some basically… https://t.co/9EhcGYZqNw Jan 12, 2018
1333When a problem is really serious, you take for granted that solving the problem will involve incurring some costs.… https://t.co/Met7NImbNb Jan 12, 2018
1334The suppressed point of disagreement in #meetoo vs the backlash is whether sexual harassment in the workplace is ac… https://t.co/gAAzcDjPhZ Jan 12, 2018
1335@HeerJeet Mostly! Jan 12, 2018
1336Trump has so far mostly avoided saying racist stuff about Asian people, but I guess that’s done. Jan 12, 2018
1337“Where are you from?†Jan 12, 2018
1338"If we compare the sixteen immigrant groups from that time for which we have data, it is the Norwegians and Portugu… https://t.co/tce158A8Lj Jan 12, 2018
1339Although thinking about it, if I'm 30 years from retirement I’d probably be better off with a cheap stock market so… https://t.co/PGA76tz3S7 Jan 12, 2018
1340Checked my 401(k) and realized Trump is actually good. Jan 12, 2018
1341It doesn’t really matter whether Rep. So-and-So condemns the remark or not. What matters is whether they break wi… https://t.co/DTaE8LJw3g Jan 12, 2018
1342The issue isn’t the racist remark, it’s what the remark revealed about the racist approach to immigration policy. Jan 12, 2018
1343It’s coming later today. https://t.co/CV46VgrdzV Jan 12, 2018
1344I checked a map and Georgia is definitely a coastal state. https://t.co/qTYKMC1FV4 Jan 12, 2018
1345Every day I check my email at some point and it’s always a mistake. Jan 12, 2018
1346I’m not a Christian so I guess it’s not my business but I did go to a Christian school for 10 years and the number… https://t.co/0xkGHXDxUm Jan 12, 2018
1347More like the Cuck Department. https://t.co/T6CBo9tpko Jan 12, 2018
1348Is Cuba a shithole country that we don’t want people to come from? Jan 12, 2018
1349@xenocryptsite Everyone has status quo bias, but America has more than (say) Japan. Jan 12, 2018
1350@jennablan Is that a plausible estimate? Jan 12, 2018
1351Permitting and tax issues have left US home solar costs way above what they are in Australia. https://t.co/46q9qcuGhf Jan 12, 2018
1352The core finding of that book was that status quo bias in the legislative process is so overwhelming that it swamps… https://t.co/F4IqlSw4GP Jan 12, 2018
1353That’s consistent with the finding of my favorite book on the subject, “Lobbying and Policy Change.†https://t.co/qbE6oQrAT5 Jan 12, 2018
1354Some new statistical evidence that corporate lobbying expenditures are a waste of money. https://t.co/MsurGAUoXV Jan 12, 2018
1355One concrete problem with the president’s racial prejudices is it’s helped inspire him to leave the entire island o… https://t.co/CsGhR8eVYp Jan 12, 2018
1356@winterjessica Your own @laurenzcollins did the best investigation, but it was inconclusive. https://t.co/sSKiNUWkvn Jan 12, 2018
1357It looks like the US and Norway actually have similar foreign-born population shares, which is probably why Trump’s… https://t.co/rAeBNizqZH Jan 12, 2018
1358Heard about this on Prodigy forums! https://t.co/rrjeQuBHDz Jan 12, 2018
1359The interesting thing about a Trump/Mueller interview is that if past depositions are any guide, Trump *won’t* do t… https://t.co/pVeYzypqMY Jan 12, 2018
13601864 Republican platform: — Racial equality — More immigration — High-speed rail construction — Fiat money… https://t.co/YR3jTl1Ivm Jan 12, 2018
1361Sometimes when you’re on, you’re really fucking on. Jan 12, 2018
1362Executive time https://t.co/HS71Av9lt5 Jan 12, 2018
1363So are we still going with the “Trump is good now†interpretation of the televised immigration meeting? Jan 12, 2018
1364Arizona is the white-hot center of everything that matters in American politics https://t.co/CjaDWxKDhy Jan 12, 2018
1365We’ve been more or less hitting the inflation target lately — part of the overall good news trend.… https://t.co/7sc3TuGcM9 Jan 12, 2018
1366Lincoln on immigration. https://t.co/cp462Kr76c https://t.co/h76fzwKB2j Jan 12, 2018
1367“House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) spent 30 minutes on the phone with the president explaining the differences be… https://t.co/or4PpE6SBn Jan 12, 2018
1368@benthompson Yeah, I’m just I don’t see why maximizing short-term Mac profits is an important strategic goal. They… https://t.co/7X2n5OfIXn Jan 12, 2018
1369Delightful story of normal politics in a normal country: Trudeau under attack for his fancy vacation habits, appro… https://t.co/OEa3KIH9EI Jan 12, 2018
1370Trump has put the diversity visa lottery and family visa sponsorship at the center of the American political debate… https://t.co/9s2ftfSk9l Jan 12, 2018
1371@jonfavs Have you visited the no-go zones? Jan 12, 2018
1372Another undesirable with a family from the shithole of Haiti come to this country to steal our running back jobs. https://t.co/DXIUV58Mhk Jan 12, 2018
1373Macs and Apple TVs could have much higher market shares if they were cheaper, and a stronger base of users of those… https://t.co/tWIixVqVwZ Jan 12, 2018
1374It always feels to me like Apple and its shareholders would be better off in the long-run if the company did fewer… https://t.co/YTpX0TrIi9 Jan 12, 2018
1375The booming European stock markets are perhaps the Trump administration’s most impressive achievement. Jan 12, 2018
1376THE CULLING (I think this is healthy for media, though obviously an adjustment) https://t.co/U4Kqz1pjJn Jan 12, 2018
1377Tampa 👀 https://t.co/MV9ENZh9HS Jan 12, 2018
1378To advance restrictionists ethnic purity goals, the RAISE Act pairs changing the legal immigrant skill profile (a r… https://t.co/npKO2loby1 Jan 12, 2018
1379Relative to all foreign-born US residents, African immigrants are younger, speak better English, and better educate… https://t.co/n2R9uzOMuU Jan 12, 2018
1380Excited to take my first ride on the new 59 Bus this weekend. https://t.co/wA9U1gaHzG Jan 12, 2018
1381Executive Time https://t.co/zf09a6rB6q Jan 12, 2018
1382@michaelbd That’s what I’m saying — you’re not blind, you’re just pretending and I don’t understand why. Jan 12, 2018
1383It’s curious that the self-described “best athlete†was unable to serve in Vietnam due to his bone spurs. https://t.co/wc9UOLmFDa Jan 12, 2018
1384Can’t shake the devil’s hand and say you’re only kidding. Jan 12, 2018
1385@michaelbd Why are you pretending not to see what the problem with Trump’s statement is? Jan 12, 2018
1386Tucker always seems a little confused — as am I, frankly — as to how he came to me American television’s most promi… https://t.co/MkHY8Wmk71 Jan 12, 2018
1387It’s getting to the point where you can hardly make sweeping, derogatory statements about black people without the… https://t.co/yFl85IGQ8J Jan 12, 2018
1388The highest concentrations of immigrants from Africa are in the DC and Minneapolis metro areas. https://t.co/VVT2W45Qjg Jan 12, 2018
1389Reasonable people can disagree about how to allocate visas. But factually speaking, African immigrants to the Uni… https://t.co/SNsiJjQAfx Jan 12, 2018
1390I think all this “because of tax reform†stuff is nonsense, but there really has been a lot of good economic news t… https://t.co/rGxEKHMymd Jan 12, 2018
1391I’m not really asking for super-hostile interviews of Trump, but wouldn’t “Mr. President, could you explain the dif… https://t.co/gez6RupxTk Jan 12, 2018
1392Back to the Wall Street Journal interview, wtf is this? https://t.co/doOPPYTdKd https://t.co/f6X1qQVKWO Jan 12, 2018
1393A phrase you need to use a lot with Trump is “it’s shocking, not surprising.†Jan 12, 2018
1394I’m glad that The Weeds has always been an adult podcast so @dlind and I will have no problem saying “shithole†on… https://t.co/lEqY6imao6 Jan 12, 2018
1395Of course not all African immigrants are highly educated. We have many Ethiopian restauranteurs in my neighborhoo… https://t.co/Hyt6xF2fTP Jan 11, 2018
1396At any rate, Trump’s knee-jerk racist view of the immigration from Africa situation reflects neither reality nor public opinion. Jan 11, 2018
1397Immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa (“shithole countriesâ€) are better-educated than native-born Americans and also m… https://t.co/LzEJcMs3x7 Jan 11, 2018
1398Per @aedwardslevy there’s no reason to believe *most people* agree with Trump’s racist base about “shithole†Africa… https://t.co/hsgBNiEbu7 Jan 11, 2018
1399There is a lot of disagreement about Trump but people are not actually disagreeing that saying racist stuff plays w… https://t.co/fcxIz7MubE Jan 11, 2018
1400We had a Norwegian intern back in the day at @theprospect who I guess was taking job opportunities away from American college students. Jan 11, 2018
1401It sounds absurd today but back in the day there was hysteria against Norwegian immigrants, who allegedly refused t… https://t.co/Gb9zkUgJpn Jan 11, 2018
1402The technical term is anxious about the economy https://t.co/7yLclIxifH Jan 11, 2018
1403Makes you think. https://t.co/d5trFhUK92 https://t.co/wCvDHgi0Cz Jan 11, 2018
1404Fact check: ARCHIMEDES is history’s greatest expert on wedges and other simple machines. Jan 11, 2018
1405Like is there some kind of context in which this Kim Jong Un comment makes some kind of sense? Jan 11, 2018
1406Is the WSJ going to release a full transcript? Jan 11, 2018
1407No politician understands all the issues, but the amazing thing about Trump is he doesn’t understand his own signat… https://t.co/O1DHPpEEQh Jan 11, 2018
1408Trump approval rating keeps inching back up with every day that the GOP doesn’t propose any actual new legislation. Jan 11, 2018
1409@jbarro The president said he wanted an act of love! Jan 11, 2018
1410@EllaMcC I see it! Jan 11, 2018
1411@schnufflerowner Union Station theater was great. Jan 11, 2018
1412I block people with over 1k followers, mute those with under. Jan 11, 2018
1413Objectively, this was not a good place to see movies. But nostalgia beckons! https://t.co/pO2GkFWBLb Jan 11, 2018
1414If the reality of watching Trump in action isn’t enough to turn you against warrantless surveillance then I can’t really imagine what would. Jan 11, 2018
1415@conorsen @DKThomp It’s all very dumb, but this is how the cycle kicked off. https://t.co/XlTC0QvRV1 Jan 11, 2018
1416@conorsen @DKThomp It’s not that every economic data point is a political talking point, it’s that the political ta… https://t.co/Sgw0KmGSu1 Jan 11, 2018
1417@conorsen I’m looking forward to it. Jan 11, 2018
1418@conorsen I want to hear from more restaurant chains about labor costs. Jan 11, 2018
1419The tax bill is already working? https://t.co/MrHO4vhQlt Jan 11, 2018
1420Do it on a postcard https://t.co/ei6x7CD3KZ Jan 11, 2018
1421The long version, from @DLind the other day. https://t.co/ufNogcY1ut Jan 11, 2018
1422The way a “bipartisan deal†works is you don’t cater to the demands of the single most extreme senator. Jan 11, 2018
1423If the standard is you need not just a bipartisan deal, but a deal Tom Cotton will sign off on then you’re not going to have a deal. Jan 11, 2018
1424Budget deficit rising as the economy strengthens even pre-TCJA. https://t.co/RpPOqFLMvO Jan 11, 2018
1425My computer has started autocorrecting “rowhouse†to “townhouse†which seems really pretentious to me. Jan 11, 2018
1426The great @germanrlopez on Executive Time https://t.co/8fHgkn7S8G Jan 11, 2018
1427Shocked by Trump’s win, Marcy D’Arcy is inspired to finally take a shot at a run for state legislature. Jan 11, 2018
1428Urkel and Carl Winslow have a serious disagreement about Black Lives Matter. Jan 11, 2018
1429Elaine breaks up with a guy because he insists on voting for Gary Johnson. Jan 11, 2018
1430Now I want to know about the partisan political views of other 1990s sitcom characters. Did the Taylor boys grow… https://t.co/RU3ImhGggd Jan 11, 2018
1431@hels Worse are the people who know perfectly well they don’t but are pretending not to. Jan 11, 2018
1432@alon_levy That’s how good Trump is. Jan 11, 2018
1433Trump not actually in charge of his own legal team, his administration’s position on FISA, or the design of his pha… https://t.co/GUHjka0TE0 Jan 11, 2018
1434Like for some reason @Susan_Hennessey has decided that not only does she disagree with Ron Wyden about the bill, bu… https://t.co/2fpNcUpFCh Jan 11, 2018
1435I have to say the zeal that Former Intelligence Community Twitter has in favor of this surveillance bill makes me suspicious on a gut level. Jan 11, 2018
1436"I involved a fact-checker in the reporting process†??? Jan 11, 2018
1437@AshleyRParker @jdawsey1 @mattzap Is it appropriate for an Attorney-General to be frantically trying to get back in… https://t.co/5v8slSD0Qc Jan 11, 2018
1438@AkshIye Of course Jan 11, 2018
1439The most impressive thing about the tax bill is it actually traveled back in time and caused Walmart to raise wages… https://t.co/dzKUMfTINW Jan 11, 2018
1440I grew up in a pro-Sandinista household that, due to some confusion, did not allow me to play Contra.… https://t.co/Nlx5F6BY7c Jan 11, 2018
1441"women get significantly less credit than men when they co-write papers with them†https://t.co/1eFUNdOViJ Jan 11, 2018
1442It’s going to go on and on. Low unemployment won’t fix everything (child poverty, drug overdoses, traffic jams) b… https://t.co/qQOdNhn5MW Jan 11, 2018
1443Skills mismatch? Well, when companies start needing to pay more to attract workers they’ll find that it also pays off to invest in training. Jan 11, 2018
1444Good manufacturing jobs getting replaced by shitty retail jobs? It turns out that when unemployment gets low, even… https://t.co/qzQzUh46rC Jan 11, 2018
1445So much of what was debated over the past 5-10 years as intractable structural problems in the economy is going to… https://t.co/3sfWCu2zxk Jan 11, 2018
1446Does Trump know? https://t.co/rrx3X2gNQ9 Jan 11, 2018
1447@xenocryptsite Where’s the thread? Based on that summary, I think the reverse is probably true. Jan 11, 2018
1448Now that wages are rising, it’ll be interesting to see if that spurs some real productivity-boosting business investment. Jan 11, 2018
1449@TheStalwart @Wertwhile @conorsen Maybe Trump is bad after all. Jan 11, 2018
1450@TheStalwart @conorsen Nobody is denying that the levels are good. I’m saying rates are more important for drivin… https://t.co/uvLIMGWkCz Jan 11, 2018
1451Putting further layers of bureaucracy in front of people who need health care is just wrong. Jan 11, 2018
1452I’m following in my father’s footsteps and becoming a member of the @WGAEast! https://t.co/Zges71EESo Jan 11, 2018
1453Ignore the tax reform angle, the real (and very good) news in Walmart’s wage bump is the labor market is finally he… https://t.co/9j4cQn9hA3 Jan 11, 2018
1454(Like Donald Trump, I do not have a well-informed opinion about the substance of the FISA issue; unlike him I will… https://t.co/t0tjelZTer Jan 11, 2018
1455Their worst nightmare is that Trump will wake up one day and start working hard at his job, informing himself about… https://t.co/xZnvVEWORA Jan 11, 2018
1456This morning, Trump unwittingly publicly tweeted against the Trump Administration’s position on FISA reauthorizatio… https://t.co/wU7HkpjKdm Jan 11, 2018
1457“Doesn’t Trump realize the same Quinnipiac poll said people give Obama credit for the economy?†https://t.co/8wUNyzRUJH Jan 11, 2018
1458Executive time is happening https://t.co/aeWu4uCY73 Jan 11, 2018
1459Hiring a campaign chair who has massive debts to a shady Russian oligarch seems a little more careless than using p… https://t.co/hE9uL0rmou Jan 11, 2018
1460Democrats are weirdly consistent about this — why did so many think Obama was fudging the numbers? https://t.co/bKNC00wTjL Jan 11, 2018
1461What the hell have you got to lose? https://t.co/85GNKqkJWL Jan 11, 2018
1462Life expectancy fell in 2015, then fell again in 2016, and all signs point to another fall in 2017 ... congress’s b… https://t.co/lKfF0oLoDF Jan 10, 2018
1463~voices from the bog~ Jan 10, 2018
1464Small government, now with more state-sponsored killing. https://t.co/esLniCY5CG Jan 10, 2018
1465YES https://t.co/iSMKmaR7K7 Jan 10, 2018
1466Good idea https://t.co/wX4OPfbBoP Jan 10, 2018
1467Interesting chart here from MTV/PRRI — note that even Latino youth rate immigration as less important than economic… https://t.co/oPiuo3vC50 Jan 10, 2018
1468Trump said Norwegian electricity comes mostly from hydropower, so I assumed it wasn’t true but then I looked it up and he was right. Jan 10, 2018
1469"Grassley’s lawyers asked Simpson literally zero questions designed to increase their own understanding of Russian… https://t.co/EWAcz4cunZ Jan 10, 2018
1470@MarketUrbanism The one-way pair downtown isn’t great. Jan 10, 2018
1471A good way for Trump to put questions about his mental fitness to rest would be to let @sarahkliff interview him about health policy. Jan 10, 2018
1472There’s content confusion about this, but young college graduates are *less* likely to favor speech restrictions th… https://t.co/2gN88pH99l Jan 10, 2018
1473@DKThomp @jbarro Right — young white men are to the left of white men overall but not to the left of America overall. Jan 10, 2018
1474@DKThomp The 28 percent of young Hispanics is in some ways more interesting. Jan 10, 2018
1475I sincerely hope that Trump is not appointing federal judges who will change *libel jurisprudence* but that’s the i… https://t.co/keNUMcXfq1 Jan 10, 2018
1476🤔🤔🤔 https://t.co/cLZL7bnJWM Jan 10, 2018
1477@jeffhauser @dylanmatt Fair enough but you’re the one who asked Jan 10, 2018
1478@jeffhauser @dylanmatt If you want to read a broadly similar argument about measuring wealth inequality, this is th… https://t.co/rpSDxi3im7 Jan 10, 2018
1479He’s a very stable genius. https://t.co/DiaXV0u4tx Jan 10, 2018
1480@DouthatNYT @jbarro @dylanmatt Yeah, I don’t feel comfortable just adjusting this away even though I also see the p… https://t.co/svjAZftzSb Jan 10, 2018
1481@dylanmatt I hope Auten & Splinter will extend this research to try and show what’s happened to median income, top… https://t.co/1M8o6DlMjQ Jan 10, 2018
1482This seems like an overly dramatic way to pursue what’s basically an audit. https://t.co/CdicT1J5lf Jan 10, 2018
1483@jbarro Exactly Jan 10, 2018
1484Very helpful explainer from @dylanmatt on the latest inequality research. so much depends upon a house size adjus… https://t.co/jx2b591DwJ Jan 10, 2018
1485In general, Carter and Reagan did a lot of deregulation and Clinton did a little. Under Bush and Trump regulation… https://t.co/bypeoQOowD Jan 10, 2018
1486Obviously you can question the merits of that deregulation, but it was a totally different policy approach from “do… https://t.co/ib0wyHwaMi Jan 10, 2018
1487When the Carter administration deregulated airfares, they changed it from a thing that was regulated into a thing t… https://t.co/Z1WWQG7cGE Jan 10, 2018
1488This is persnickety but it’s too bad we’ve lost the distinction between de-regulating something and simply regulating it more laxly. Jan 10, 2018
1489This is basically the only feel-good story about Trump-era policymaking. https://t.co/kmHMzhSjjL Jan 10, 2018
1490The bar has been lowered for Trump to the point where he can demonstrate total ignorance of his signature issue and… https://t.co/h7y0dzshjR Jan 10, 2018
1491I am Mad Online at the journalists who’ve spent the past 24 hours praising Trump for not peeing his pants while he… https://t.co/wvzvwzG7dJ Jan 10, 2018
1492The learned helplessness of senate republicans is remarkable. https://t.co/3qvHZz7FfS Jan 10, 2018
1493This seems right. Dems’ chances of picking up two *gross* senate seats are decent, but they need two *net* senate… https://t.co/wgxXBqHzd1 Jan 10, 2018
1494Executive time! https://t.co/DjqYZ9Ycjl Jan 10, 2018
1495The Woke Bill Kriston content you’ve been craving. https://t.co/jE3kNbSLst https://t.co/eQb6KNrpqo Jan 10, 2018
1496@Redistrict I’d want to see some statistical analysis rather than eyeballing maps. Jan 10, 2018
1497Issa retirement moves the seat from “Dems are definitely gonna win†to “Dems are definitely gonna win without spending any money.†Jan 10, 2018
1498Trump fixed crime. Remarkable. https://t.co/Gfvzd5DvC4 Jan 10, 2018
1499To be clear, this literally happened. I am not exaggerating for effect. https://t.co/pSotUXK3bW Jan 10, 2018
1500“Community of Hope†followed by “Chillin†is such an emotional rollercoaster. Jan 10, 2018
1501Yesterday, professional journalists praised Donald Trump for remembering the names of members of congress who were… https://t.co/ESj8vGbPkH Jan 10, 2018
1502@JHWeissmann @MattBruenig I was not a Sloppy Steve fan. Jan 10, 2018
1503Every time I listen to “Community of Hope†I’m blown away again by how savage it is. In the end, they never even built the Walmart. Jan 10, 2018
1504I think Trump’s nickname work has declined since the heyday of Lil Marco. Jan 10, 2018
1505The Chamber of Commerce thinks white supremacist ideology and wanting to regulate banks are roughly the same. https://t.co/S182CE7Ah1 Jan 10, 2018
1506Trump is really mad that you can now learn the truth about why the FBI started investigating him https://t.co/WFvnCjpVUs Jan 10, 2018
1507I wake up every day amazed that they haven’t launched a Trumpcoin yet. Jan 10, 2018
1508Seems legit https://t.co/p5CJDCs9Vy Jan 10, 2018
1509Like if she announces for president flanked by Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil, that would be bad. But she gave a good speech… https://t.co/rVDyUWKhcu Jan 10, 2018
1510I am officially declaring my stance as anti-anti-Oprah. Jan 10, 2018
1511The top-two primary system is bad https://t.co/OjZws4XzKg Jan 10, 2018
1512A funny thing about Oprah and politics is she was seriously floated to fill the Illinois Senate vacancy in 2009. I… https://t.co/6pAC9Gz60P Jan 10, 2018
1513Imagine being alive in 2018 and dunking on Democrats for being hypothetically unable to block Oprah Winfrey from wi… https://t.co/5H3vWGeFDy Jan 10, 2018
1514Sometimes my toddler goes as long as three days without accidentally peeing on the floor. https://t.co/yz1UM9eXwJ Jan 10, 2018
1515Rather than a dog-and-pony show with Trump it does seem like congressional leadership should negotiate directly wit… https://t.co/MaR370db3g Jan 10, 2018
1516The amount of bar-lowering we saw for Trump yesterday was remarkable: — He appeared totally uninformed about DACA… https://t.co/7hf1RrAcR4 Jan 10, 2018
1517The other way of looking at this is it goes to show left politics can be broadly appealing when it wants to be. https://t.co/yfTOUC2lSk Jan 10, 2018
1518Note that we did not achieve this extraordinary success by cracking down on immigration. https://t.co/kwg3wHmHvL Jan 10, 2018
1519Kodak stock rose 117% yesterday on this announcement. https://t.co/RD3kfWBHMg Jan 10, 2018
1520Florida didn’t get a special drilling deal because they have a Republican Governor (so do ME, NH, MA, MD, SC, and G… https://t.co/mQJYPPLxBp Jan 10, 2018
1521@MJB_SF Huh? Jan 10, 2018
1522DEA field office gerrymandering is fascinating. https://t.co/zL3vGKLFZ8 Jan 10, 2018
1523Liberals need to come to terms with the fact that conservatives on Capitol Hill, in the executive branch, at intere… https://t.co/AAj9o4OAGT Jan 10, 2018
1524The stable genius needs his staff to issue misleadingly edited transcripts of his negotiations to avoid giving the… https://t.co/WHXsCrigej Jan 10, 2018
1525He’s running https://t.co/KD91J7xET2 Jan 10, 2018
1526There is a lot of tourism on the coasts of California, Virginia, and every other state. This is absurd. https://t.co/1Xtcq4TLpo Jan 10, 2018
1527No legal merit to this whatsoever, but deep-pocketed plaintiffs filing harassing lawsuits to intimidate the media i… https://t.co/im4zbh34Ja Jan 10, 2018
1528This is certainly an interesting scoop about a Thiel crony serving on Trump’s National Security Council proposing a… https://t.co/VnFytfhUDo Jan 10, 2018
1529Trump seems confident that Bannon doesn’t know where any noteworthy bodies are buried. Jan 10, 2018
1530“At least 90% of poor writing stems from the writer not knowing exactly what it is they mean to say.†https://t.co/WMYv3ddk51 Jan 10, 2018
1531When Jared & Donald Jr. heard about a Russian intelligence operation targeting American citizens they ... did not b… https://t.co/6lLbWicC2e Jan 09, 2018
1532It’s time for Bannon to commit to a Brock-esque pivot mediated by a couple of “odd couple†China/trade pieces co-by… https://t.co/GooV3XgosC Jan 09, 2018
1533You can do this in my pressure cooker https://t.co/4BwnAeOcnt Jan 09, 2018
1534The real infrastructure week was the friends we made on the way. https://t.co/SzROSEe93Q Jan 09, 2018
1535Is an Instant Pot just a pressure cooker? Jan 09, 2018
1536On the other hand, we’re stripping hundreds of thousands of Latino immigrants of deportation protection which is a… https://t.co/ZQWevWg0aQ Jan 09, 2018
1537At long last, the WEEDS episode about weed that you’ve been asking for. https://t.co/HHiOGEJHp7 Jan 09, 2018
1538Good offer here —> https://t.co/ypjwaQLK7F Jan 09, 2018
1539Steve Bannon, welcome to the resistance. Jan 09, 2018
1540@DKThomp Berniemania was a slippery slope to full Europeanization. Jan 09, 2018
1541@ewstephe @PoliticoKevin @louisjnelson Gotcha. Jan 09, 2018
1542Here’s a question I’d like to see asked: How does deporting Dreamers help the typical native-born American? Jan 09, 2018
1543@ewstephe @PoliticoKevin @louisjnelson What aspects of his performance did you guys find particularly impressive? Jan 09, 2018
1544The President of the United States put knee-jerk racism about non-white immigration at the center of his campaign l… https://t.co/rO5nA6Ghmx Jan 09, 2018
1545In this meeting — that many people, bizarrely, say was an impressive performance — Trump revealed that he has zero… https://t.co/wuNLlN1K6C Jan 09, 2018
1546“The reverse of what I previously argued was scandalous is true, and that’s the REAL scandal.†https://t.co/mphtPPPXVX Jan 09, 2018
1547@MattZeitlin Until Trump, Lincoln was the least-qualified president. Jan 09, 2018
1548@conorsen The time-series chart doesn’t seem to support that. https://t.co/Na7PoHB1rH Jan 09, 2018
1549Some dire age trends for baseball here. https://t.co/mW5qkXmPcD Jan 09, 2018
1550Trump strings together three or four coherent sentences while announcing he’ll sign whatever agreement congress doe… https://t.co/BJdRud7e4V Jan 09, 2018
1551The most telling thing is Republicans didn’t want you to know this https://t.co/fECF7uCTrz Jan 09, 2018
1552Lotta folks really lost the plot today. https://t.co/Qu9sd0qIG6 Jan 09, 2018
1553@ezraklein Trump passed a big tax cut, which has convinced all the formerly critical voices on the right that he’s… https://t.co/4wHP6PqZks Jan 09, 2018
1554The paucity of Latino voices in the media really shows through on certain days. Jan 09, 2018
1555I really don’t think this is what happened. https://t.co/8wJ5ZJmacX Jan 09, 2018
1556Congressional politics got more leadership-driven and less transactional, so they got rid of earmarks. It didn’t be… https://t.co/ZTA48zuJxj Jan 09, 2018
1557I’m all for giving it a shot, but I think the “bring back earmarks†takes are getting cause and effect backward. Jan 09, 2018
1558With Slack down, I’m going to take some executive time. Jan 09, 2018
1559Remarkable, indeed. https://t.co/WsRwoSzFFq Jan 09, 2018
1560They relentless drive to discover a “new Trump†is really something. https://t.co/D3lrK4NQ8J Jan 09, 2018
1561The creatures outside looked from cuck to man, and from man to cuck, and from cuck to man again; but already it was… https://t.co/OXQHgji9z8 Jan 09, 2018
1562“A real Halloween special.†Jan 09, 2018
1563Pages 175-176 of the Simpson testimony are interesting. Jan 09, 2018
1564@SenFeinstein PEE TAPE https://t.co/VWxCd0vyuP Jan 09, 2018
1565Bold, correct move by @SenFeinstein to release the Fusion GPS testimony. https://t.co/qVfr86H5A8 Jan 09, 2018
1566Trump would sign whatever, but congressional leadership will only sign a bill that has Trump’s clear approval and n… https://t.co/krNqt4HGtf Jan 09, 2018
1567I think the upshot of this is as long as Republicans control the House, nothing is going to be done and the Dreamer… https://t.co/kTETPBilWS Jan 09, 2018
1568Coastal elites may not get it, but the Allen & Company fleece is typical hillbilly gear. https://t.co/x32JG82rmW Jan 09, 2018
1569Coming soon to HBO: BLEEDING KANSAS. https://t.co/ZUAoZrXJGg Jan 09, 2018
1570Arpaio ran well behind Trump (who won Maricopa County) in 2016 and seems like he’d be a really weak nominee. Jan 09, 2018
1571😕 https://t.co/0ibnuvDToM Jan 09, 2018
1572These are Trump appointees https://t.co/Hbc7sUvhJG Jan 09, 2018
1573QUIT RATE UNCHANGED AT 2.2 #jolts Jan 09, 2018
1574Trump is good now. https://t.co/hN2gt3PzVw Jan 09, 2018
1575@tylercowen Yes, the North Koreans are bad. Jan 09, 2018
1576I’m not a huge Michael Wolff fan by any means, but if the book is all fake then how come it precipitated a breakup… https://t.co/uHRuQvxeLo Jan 09, 2018
1577Does anyone doubt that if this had been a Muslim immigrant who came over on a family unification visa that Trump wo… https://t.co/xaRkz0e0hf Jan 09, 2018
1578Alternatively, imagine if the North Korean government leaked plans to bomb a couple of American targets to “give us… https://t.co/dTH2TghmMq Jan 09, 2018
1579Think about the North Korea "bloody nose" attack analogy for a minute. There’s a guy you know, and he’s weaker tha… https://t.co/qzGyWn9CVb Jan 09, 2018
1580Schlozman & Rosenfeld (2017) has a lot to teach us about the Oprah 2020 buzz. https://t.co/8nc9fnL1X9 Jan 09, 2018
1581Trump’s kayfabe war on the media https://t.co/E54iFyDpHZ Jan 09, 2018
1582If you’re a billionaire considering an anti-Trump run in 2020, you should first consider which downballot candidate… https://t.co/ptcd82tAnI Jan 09, 2018
158330 degrees has never felt so nice. Jan 09, 2018
1584Wasn’t Mexico supposed to pay for the wall? Jan 09, 2018
1585Great news for CBS and for @jdickerson! https://t.co/04XaOQlrTB Jan 09, 2018
1586Billionaires are extremely enthusiastic about the new populist GOP and its working class agenda. https://t.co/UaiOddEVUD Jan 09, 2018
1587Trudeau has a totally different political persona than Trump but is also suffering from bad approval ratings amidst… https://t.co/awpv24O0Ka Jan 09, 2018
1588Good chart here on DC’s mania for historic designation. https://t.co/JloFD5iBnE https://t.co/Ns8OYVD8Ob Jan 09, 2018
1589I would not put it this way at all, but I think David Brooks gets something profoundly right here. https://t.co/4JB1yYB0iE Jan 09, 2018
1590@DouthatNYT Would it vote differently on any issues? Jan 09, 2018
1591For better or worse, the most dangerous trends in Trump-era governance aren’t coming from erratic tweets or whateve… https://t.co/KVuCCy27LJ Jan 09, 2018
1592When Oprah runs she’s going to need a reassuringly dull, competent VP with deep experience in public administration… https://t.co/unLjaXGxmM Jan 09, 2018
1593Meanwhile, Trump, Fox News, and the congressional GOP are forming a closed loop of propaganda around these meaningl… https://t.co/NTzyWFwmpR Jan 09, 2018
1594This seems like it will do ... nothing. The issue with building broadband in rural areas is the per user construc… https://t.co/7Jc17DCdRK Jan 09, 2018
1595Trump’s rural broadband executive orders don’t feature any funding for building rural broadband or do anything to c… https://t.co/LvpYIjBKQf Jan 09, 2018
1596O’Malley Would’ve Won https://t.co/n0ZUkmciIx Jan 09, 2018
1597My god https://t.co/IQxNrR57J7 Jan 08, 2018
1598After the kid is in bed I like to schedule some executive time before mopping up work I didn’t get to at the office. Jan 08, 2018
1599My idea for a TV show: It’s about an FBI agent who is partnered up with another FBI agent and together they invest… https://t.co/LPLDpxfyDh Jan 08, 2018
1600@jbarro The whole world economy is shockingly normal right now, except for the cryptocurrencies. Jan 08, 2018
1601A lot of House GOP committee chairs are quitting. Often safe seats with no 2018 implications but it’s kind of weird. https://t.co/a2toKwZRck Jan 08, 2018
1602@JStein_WaPo @RameshPonnuru I think the Bannon/Moore alliance showed that Bannon himself ditched “Bannonism†even b… https://t.co/LGPigCxj23 Jan 08, 2018
1603This seems like too many people. https://t.co/nt4nCuZgyn Jan 08, 2018
1604Please clap. https://t.co/87RY3osuVh Jan 08, 2018
1605Nobody demonstrates less respect for heartland voters’ intelligence that Republican Party politicians. https://t.co/KVSjLCHc9j Jan 08, 2018
1606The @RameshPonnuru “Fire and Fury†take is really good. https://t.co/Jaz5GVnvf9 Jan 08, 2018
1607I don’t think it’s fair for everyone to do the con take if nobody is actually writing the pro take. https://t.co/9IaXXeuC78 Jan 08, 2018
1608The Fed should manipulate the HQ prize pot as an unconventional monetary stimulus. Jan 08, 2018
1609@JustinTLogan It’s pretty odd. Jan 08, 2018
1610Watching Kucinich repeatedly fail to catch fire with the Dem base helped prepare me to underestimate Bernie in 2016. Jan 08, 2018
1611Has forgotten about that guy https://t.co/xftoiQwKyt Jan 08, 2018
1612If Oprah ran on a platform of good ideas that would be good, but if she ran on bad ones instead that would be bad. #takes Jan 08, 2018
1613I’m not saying she should run — I would want to know what she thinks about the issues! — but a lot of these anti-Oprah takes are wrong. Jan 08, 2018
1614The racial gerrymandering of American school districts. https://t.co/srYgRAQ8aD Jan 08, 2018
1615Working toward the Donald. https://t.co/dg0plXjfjj https://t.co/tcTjRiBWrr Jan 08, 2018
1616@HeerJeet The conclusion of that article is that Oprah 2020 is a bad idea. Jan 08, 2018
1617Somebody should commission a piece that really aggressively makes the case for Oprah 2020 so that all the anti-Opra… https://t.co/037T8RF9oY Jan 08, 2018
1618@KennethBaer This doesn’t seem very rational to me. Jan 08, 2018
1619I’m not going to throw them any hate-clicks but…. https://t.co/cosu0EWPB8 Jan 08, 2018
1620An argument ran today in Foreign Policy magazine that United States should bomb North Korea. Rather than deny that… https://t.co/Qbe98IzJAA Jan 08, 2018
1621Instead of spending money to help with the desperate situation in Puerto Rico, the Kochs are investing in political… https://t.co/vMvtb2csD0 Jan 08, 2018
1622@jbarro I guess it depends on what they are trying to achieve with the teen exemption in the first place. Jan 08, 2018
1623@Noahpinion Someone needs a paper that combines them! Jan 08, 2018
1624Denmark’s age-based minimum wage disemploys a lot of 18 and 19 year-olds. https://t.co/ARnbtybAFg Jan 08, 2018
1625TIL “North Texas†does not encompass the northernmost portions of the sate of Texas. Jan 08, 2018
1626This is a cool finding but a somewhat odd interpretation. https://t.co/h2Tfktfqh4 https://t.co/9rMHvUz81F Jan 08, 2018
1627I propose a better idea at the end of the article. https://t.co/nypbC4Jfwn Jan 08, 2018
1628Seems like a good idea. https://t.co/yBm8dHajhe Jan 08, 2018
1629I think there’s too much focus on Trump-specific problems relative to broad GOP ones. But also within the universe… https://t.co/G64Mfijs8a Jan 08, 2018
1630Border adjustment makes a guest appearance in @jasonfurman’s latest presentation on the tax bill.… https://t.co/fKKqC2QE6G Jan 08, 2018
1631They are still pretending you’re going to be able to do taxes on a postcard https://t.co/do5hXQnzqY Jan 08, 2018
1632I want more Eminem 2020 speculation. https://t.co/mrHkCNhIca Jan 08, 2018
1633I’m glad that idle speculation about Oprah Winfrey has been successfully assimilated into refighting of the 2016 Democratic primary. Jan 08, 2018
1634@TheStalwart “Executive time†Jan 08, 2018
1635@Nicole_Cliffe I created an auto-replace thing. https://t.co/DYRgevLYTO Jan 08, 2018
1636This is going to be a great opportunity for unemployed former coal miners in West Virginia who’ve been itching for… https://t.co/sB57jY6FhW Jan 08, 2018
1637That’s also why he’s pushing a tax bill that will explode inequality, it’s why he’s imperiling children’s health in… https://t.co/VkUkeEE2Xp Jan 08, 2018
1638A serious point: Trump isn’t threatening DREAMers and Salvadoran earthquake refugees with deportation because he’s… https://t.co/NYwfFuEG8i Jan 08, 2018
1639The Deep State endorses Oprah 2020. https://t.co/fxQBTXbbhn Jan 08, 2018
1640After facing some backlash over this, a few years later when Oprah did another big giveaway (of trips to Australia)… https://t.co/WimFr5zp7A Jan 08, 2018
1641The intersection of Oprah and tax policy, from Stephanie McMahon’s “Principles of Tax Policy.†https://t.co/L1bj39Hf27 Jan 08, 2018
1642@ryanlcooper Did she? Jan 08, 2018
1643@DouthatNYT @ezraklein I’m on board. Jan 08, 2018
1644He’s not running. https://t.co/eSTlJp6hAx Jan 08, 2018
1645What does Oprah think about the revocation of TPS for 200,000 Salvadorans? Jan 08, 2018
1646Woo! https://t.co/7iOnRxZKqs Jan 08, 2018
1647Really fascinating look at state collapse in Mexico by @Max_Fisher and @amandataub https://t.co/VGPUsPNlUJ Jan 08, 2018
1648@Max_Fisher This is the kind of problem we need Oprah to fix. Jan 08, 2018
1649This policy makes a lot of sense if racism is near the core of your politics. https://t.co/MeWUhbJXuW Jan 08, 2018
1650Policy > gossip https://t.co/EjvMAGUWPo Jan 08, 2018
1651https://t.co/HuYFCsinRD will be restricting Oprah coverage to our Entertainment vertical. Jan 08, 2018
1652Guys, obviously a billionaire known primarily for her television show with no real background in politics and publi… https://t.co/4W0OCugiLw Jan 08, 2018
1653Oprah is devoted to Quine’s naturalized epistemology https://t.co/IXpLPseAnG Jan 08, 2018
1654What does Oprah think about housing density? Jan 08, 2018
1655Looking forward to “Episode IX: The Wolf Warrior†as Disney tried to revive the franchise. https://t.co/rY8KTxJu8r Jan 08, 2018
1656Idea: A weekly @MattGertz column called “Executive Time." Jan 08, 2018
1657I feel safer https://t.co/zqZ0ejYGrd Jan 08, 2018
1658Fire and Fury: Three Toddlers Wait for the Elevator Jan 08, 2018
1659@JacobHeilbrunn @joshtpm I think Bannon is more a left-deviationist than a Bukharin. Jan 08, 2018
1660“Changes in economic conditions account for less than one-tenth of the rise in drug and opioid-involved mortality r… https://t.co/PXjcxEnjJz Jan 08, 2018
1661In lieu of a written statement why not just refer Mueller to Trump’s various tweets pronouncing the whole thing Fake News? Jan 08, 2018
1662For example, my friend @sam_rosenfeld’s forthcoming “The Polarizers: Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era†could… https://t.co/NvmlHmeeFr Jan 08, 2018
1663Anyone with a non-fiction book coming out in the next month should just keep the same subtitle but swap-in “Fire an… https://t.co/U4QSZjLv0O Jan 08, 2018
1664I spend a year trying to figure out Michael Godwin’s email address and he ... just tweeted it out. Jan 08, 2018
1665@DLind @dylanlscott To be clear, I was already in Brussels for work so it’s not like it was a huge deal to get ther… https://t.co/QX0X8VWl34 Jan 08, 2018
1666@dylanlscott It inspired me to go to Bruges (which is like a fucking fairytale). Jan 08, 2018
1667This movie about how twelve guys on horseback rapidly won the war in Afghanistan 16 years ago looks amazing. Jan 08, 2018
1668Wonder if these guys will get some consideration during the Fake News Awards or maybe the administration will keep… https://t.co/DmATvl1PWk Jan 08, 2018
1669Executive time https://t.co/DPu9eqwUUR Jan 08, 2018
1670Democrats won control of the Washington state legislature in November, moving fast to expand voting rights. A smar… https://t.co/6t09FzNKXF Jan 08, 2018
1671@tjl Gotham Steel Grill also sounds promising. Jan 08, 2018
1672@WillOremus Sounds like an Essential Air Service program Jan 08, 2018
1673Steve Bannon barely played a role in the Trump operation besides being CEO of the campaign, announced as a co-equal… https://t.co/c1tEKSpU8K Jan 08, 2018
1674I’d never heard the “executive time†euphemism before. Between this and “deep work†I’m changing my whole Google Ca… https://t.co/1mNOM2duat Jan 07, 2018
1675It’s understandable that a man of Trump’s age and wealth doesn’t really want to work hard, but that’s why most sept… https://t.co/ERritniIPN Jan 07, 2018
1676Remember Bob Corker? https://t.co/otYhh0ymHU Jan 07, 2018
1677“He’s not really interested in policy†is what one too Senate GOP staffer told me during the 2016 campaign as part… https://t.co/r4z8wofY10 Jan 07, 2018
1678Critical dynamic here: GOP congressional leaders see Trump’s incapacity to do the job as a feature that lets them c… https://t.co/PRveaP0H6Q Jan 07, 2018
1679On the trains to the MAGA Re-education Camps, guards and prisoners alike will enjoy sharing a chuckle over tweets dunking on Eric Garland. Jan 07, 2018
1680A mean prank you can play on your friends with kids is to buy the little ones some Paw Patrol stuff as a gift. Jan 07, 2018
1681@davidshor @albrgr @alon_levy @BrankoMilan I think the key move leftward was the DAPA stuff during Obama’s second t… https://t.co/JNzGnv5zVp Jan 07, 2018
1682Also I guess New Deal-era Democrats lost in the Rust Belt because they embraced neoliberal dogma on free trade. https://t.co/sdiutbmos0 Jan 07, 2018
1683Truman’s lapels were amazing. Plus the fumbling around the then-new idea of a televised speech is interesting. https://t.co/LT5jg7po56 Jan 07, 2018
1684@leighblue Obama was boring! Jan 07, 2018
1685Welcome to infrastructure week. https://t.co/9w16X9Fi2j Jan 07, 2018
1686@davidshor @albrgr @alon_levy @BrankoMilan Relatedly, the extent to which Democrats have potentially lost votes by… https://t.co/bw4ZtkjIYN Jan 07, 2018
1687@jonathanchait Plus, I mean how hard could it be to beat a guy with a powdered wig and false teeth? Jan 07, 2018
1688Very low-energy https://t.co/sIKFsJLPPT Jan 07, 2018
1689@davidshor @albrgr @alon_levy @BrankoMilan I know Trump won, but the polling trend on immigration in the face of a… https://t.co/MYLM51nDMD Jan 07, 2018
1690Star Wars Episode IX: The Stable Genius Jan 07, 2018
1691The kid with the ring at the end of The Last Jedi is the real stable genius. Jan 07, 2018
1692@davidshor @alon_levy @BrankoMilan Tax migration, and use the proceeds to finance a generous foreign aid program? Jan 07, 2018
1693@JakeAnbinder There needs to be a Museum of Museomology where the evolution of that concept can be explored along w… https://t.co/HR5nFaQBP8 Jan 07, 2018
1694Specifically, there’s an interactive game about climate change in which any effort at mitigation (transit investmen… https://t.co/Hg4AfoYg3Z Jan 07, 2018
1695The album is titled Lust For Life which of course is also the name of an Iggy Pop song that kinda seems to have cop… https://t.co/HwrwepaZBu Jan 07, 2018
1696@AMNH There’s a really bad climate change thing at the Smithsonian @NMNH’s Koch Hall of Human Origins, too. This is a not a coincidence. Jan 07, 2018
1697“Get Free†doesn’t sound that much like “Creep†to me, but I don’t understand what the legal standard is here. Jan 07, 2018
1698This is very troubling. Have loved @AMNH my whole life and am looking forward to taking Jose there soon, but they n… https://t.co/cPupzAguWl Jan 07, 2018
1699@davidshor Kind of disappointingly on the nose that it’s specifically the Italian immigrants who were driving the problem. Jan 07, 2018
1700There’s a good payoff here. https://t.co/oF5irqggAh Jan 07, 2018
1701And a 2017 update by @AlexNowrasteh https://t.co/mySzzj5kjw https://t.co/XgF93tISRB Jan 07, 2018
17021896 American Journal of Sociology article correcting the then-prevalent misconception that immigration raises crim… https://t.co/o7kOoI4Mwz Jan 07, 2018
1703What is Miller’s accent? That’s not how people from Southern California speak. Jan 07, 2018
1704@emmaspan Yeah that’s a heavy burden to carry and mom doesn’t seem to be taking it very seriously. Jan 07, 2018
1705Beatrix Potter’s books are much weirder than I remembered. Jan 07, 2018
1706@cascamike Very confusing treatment of time travel Jan 07, 2018
1707Discovering the Patrick Ewing cameo in Dragons Love Tacos 2 really made my day. Jan 07, 2018
1708The tactics that won Luther Strange his senate seat. https://t.co/HdGCFNZVTx Jan 07, 2018
1709Alzheimer’s? https://t.co/99OrNQguoZ Jan 07, 2018
1710The study Jeff Sessions used to cite to bolster the claim that sanctuary policies boost crime actually says the opp… https://t.co/B7EhorfZJ9 Jan 07, 2018
1711@AlecJKM Interesting! Jan 07, 2018
1712This entire policy agenda is based on an entirely fake crime problem. New York City, an immigrant haven if there… https://t.co/VyaMBvRP86 Jan 07, 2018
1713Trump’s cruelest legacy — more suffering for the most vulnerable people on earth. https://t.co/IpwQH41j7z Jan 07, 2018
1714We need the brutalism explainer by the end of the week https://t.co/NHFNHbio1P Jan 07, 2018
1715Pfizer is reacting to the tax bill by increasing buybacks, laying off workers, and cutting back on Alzheimer’s rese… https://t.co/sUbEJpbWe6 Jan 07, 2018
1716The sad punchline is that the school district adopted a new method for identifying gifted students, it substantiall… https://t.co/P9MypWHZO3 Jan 07, 2018
1717@jbarro @kausmickey Also: outflanking the racist party in terms of racism is not a great idea if you think racism is bad. Jan 07, 2018
1718Every once in a while I’m reminded this law exists and I get mad all over again. https://t.co/v6vxjhbeu8 Jan 07, 2018
1719DC’s actual peak employment area around Farragut Square isn’t even the arguably nice-looking part of downtown — not… https://t.co/CCGcagTOP9 Jan 07, 2018
1720The 395 decking project north of downtown is cool but it’s kind of crazy we’re doing something that expensive inste… https://t.co/0bVc3owDok Jan 07, 2018
1721Truly no clearer sign of mental incapacity than bragging about going to Penn. https://t.co/1kOLzvKUPR Jan 06, 2018
1722Well, for the record: I think the Fed should show restraint in raising interest rates and allow for some “catch-upâ€â€¦ https://t.co/nnBsSzcrff Jan 06, 2018
1723Huh https://t.co/Yp9VS0JRxs Jan 06, 2018
1724I feel safer https://t.co/nmfEtGOmA5 Jan 06, 2018
1725https://t.co/dkLovW2l1D Jan 06, 2018
1726@JeffYoung Bush + Trump are not making a strong case for non-drinking presidents. Jan 06, 2018
1727@Nicole_Cliffe If there is a God, then why does He allow Reddit debates? Jan 06, 2018
1728“Subtract other deductions†https://t.co/btnolzj5lh Jan 06, 2018
1729Also: The first random guy Arnold Schwarzenegger runs into is wearing a jacket big enough to fit him. Jan 06, 2018
1730Most implausible thing about The Terminator is the idea that you could just look up a random person’s phone number and address in a book. Jan 06, 2018
1731Doing a retreat with your party’s congressional leadership makes sense. Doing a retreat with your national securit… https://t.co/5y2Wn24Mh3 Jan 06, 2018
1732Importance of role models pops up in a variety of contexts…. https://t.co/pzRYPgabrD Jan 06, 2018
1733Beyond the attire this is a telling photo of who’s in the room when big national decisions are made these days — al… https://t.co/JJ3Xz022f4 Jan 06, 2018
1734You might be wondering how I ended up in this situation. https://t.co/jxMB2hluyY Jan 06, 2018
1735I think if the Mad King is going to wear a tie the rest of the court should, too. But at a minimum avoid what McC… https://t.co/WdbiIaAfzx Jan 06, 2018
1736@conorsen I know you don’t, but I am trying to explain what I think. Jan 06, 2018
1737@conorsen It’s the opposite — I think the jobs deceleration (which isn’t Trump’s fault) makes Trump’s weak approval… https://t.co/YhwuSgvwpR Jan 06, 2018
1738A month ago I’d say congressional republicans would ignore this. Today it’s clear they’ll seek to actively impede i… https://t.co/7tUqfAyrqw Jan 06, 2018
1739My toddler, a very stable genius, persuaded me that we should go out for a walk. Jan 06, 2018
1740I think all of us — Trump included — should consider the possibility that a person of above-average general intelli… https://t.co/wd1J10byDL Jan 06, 2018
1741Very stable genius https://t.co/BkPPLONxuz Jan 06, 2018
1742It’s honestly not that cold today as long as you don’t go outside or near any of the drafty parts of the house. Jan 06, 2018
1743The issue is that there are a bunch of people on Capitol Hill who know he’s unfit but aren’t doing anything about i… https://t.co/8IjdqCpi4G Jan 06, 2018
1744I am also a very stable genius who, like most very stable people, is very comfortable bragging about my very stable genius status. Jan 06, 2018
1745Trump was seen as ideological moderate on economics during the 2016 campaign but now he’s seen as hard-right. https://t.co/fiw9J4EZ10 Jan 06, 2018
1746Obviously “Your Racist Friend†and “Sold My Mind to the Kremlin†are the main TMBG songs you need to understand con… https://t.co/IrbtDsHRez Jan 06, 2018
1747Made sure the tariffs fell And made the English sell The Oregon Territory He built an independent Treasury And ha… https://t.co/qoSN9bYPrH Jan 06, 2018
1748Sad for Paul Ryan if he ends up torching democracy without getting to starve any poor kids for his trouble https://t.co/LRaKNV4bj5 Jan 06, 2018
1749There are 51 GOP Senators and all 51 of them have decided that Donald Trump is a good president. https://t.co/sAbks9f2eD Jan 05, 2018
1750New WEEDS — we explain the winter. https://t.co/lae6DuH0M8 Jan 05, 2018
1751The thing everyone underrates about American politics is the depth and sincerity of Republicans’ belief that taxing rich people is immoral. Jan 05, 2018
1752I believe the allegation is “politically inconvention for Donald Trump in the second degree.†https://t.co/6vBY3PM5Vq Jan 05, 2018
1753@markberman You should go some time Jan 05, 2018
1754Why old people are so nutty about politics, in one chart. https://t.co/tsfOS4xB27 https://t.co/MaYNKa7jCF Jan 05, 2018
1755Nailed it https://t.co/IQlTOHX7dW Jan 05, 2018
1756@DLind Yes, that’s telling in its own way. Jan 05, 2018
1757@jbarro @Wertwhile Right, they are leaping at the opportunity to defend the honor of a racist monomaniac. Jan 05, 2018
1758@jbarro @Wertwhile I think the fact that a person who has terrible ideas on his main area of policy interest is con… https://t.co/Dx1ykNXUFr Jan 05, 2018
1759@jbarro @Wertwhile His poor command of policy is reflected in the substance of the order! Jan 05, 2018
1760@jbarro On the specifics of Wolff, I think they hold Miller in such high esteem and are so eager to go to bat for h… https://t.co/eFJ8s89ZMd Jan 05, 2018
1761There’s a definite sense in which it’s true, but there’s also a different — profoundly more important — sense in which it’s wildly false. Jan 05, 2018
1762It’s incredibly telling to me that conservative journalists believe — with complete sincerity — that Stephen Miller… https://t.co/VaoFg0V6jA Jan 05, 2018
1763Personally, I choose to believe that the pee tape is real. https://t.co/RFbPM6uPxv Jan 05, 2018
1764Contrary to myths on the left and the right, the Steele Dossier hasn’t been confirmed and wasn’t the source of the… https://t.co/97AwJYkCgv Jan 05, 2018
1765@kdrum You were so confident the other day that America would be alright. Jan 05, 2018
1766Steelesplainer https://t.co/I3l1nbLgut Jan 05, 2018
1767If a single Republican Senator cared at all, they could try to do something about this…. https://t.co/BUcDam1TC4 Jan 05, 2018
1768We never found out who forged the Niger/yellowcake memo. Jan 05, 2018
1769Eric Trump the independent businessman running a company totally separated from the government? https://t.co/q5JBVIVE3I Jan 05, 2018
1770In retrospect, I think the J.D. Vance fad may have been the most embarrassing aspect of media Trumpmania. Jan 05, 2018
1771Remember J.D. Vance? https://t.co/DEHdyU9XVe Jan 05, 2018
1772@conor64 @eleanorbarkhorn I think people should publish good articles and not bad ones. Jan 05, 2018
1773@conor64 You remember it differently than I do. Jan 05, 2018
1774@conor64 When was that? Jan 05, 2018
1775The most impressive thing about the Trump Stock Market Boom is that it’s so powerful it’s also lifted Japan, Europ… https://t.co/NKwxvg445E Jan 05, 2018
1776Am I confused about something, or is Christopher Steele British? Is the idea that the UK should extradite him to… https://t.co/jj7PA5mxHV Jan 05, 2018
1777The Lindsey Graham heel turn is a 2017 plotline that hasn’t been explored very much. Jan 05, 2018
1778@nickconfessore @maggieNYT What do you guys make of those developments? Jan 05, 2018
1779@ddayen Here is my one and only point to make about Hawaii today: It seems to have a low unemployment rate. Jan 05, 2018
1780I would watch The Gorilla Channel. Jan 05, 2018
1781There’s been a huge amount of re-writing of this history, but the Mueller appointment was hailed at the time by con… https://t.co/9S88bdpcNT Jan 05, 2018
1782When Trump fired Comey there was a political backlash. Congressional Republicans decided (rightly) that a special c… https://t.co/u7IR20VFK1 Jan 05, 2018
1783Mueller’s investigation doesn’t exist because of Jeff Sessions, it exists because for a time congressional Republic… https://t.co/2ltoul26BM Jan 05, 2018
1784On the one hand, Pruitt seems terrible On the other hand, Sessions also seems terrible. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Jan 05, 2018
1785I’m not sure I understand why I’m supposed to regard the prospect of replacing Jeff Sessions with Scott Pruitt as alarming. Jan 05, 2018
1786@mtsw There is a regulatory angle and a building material angle, but some of the building material costs are driven… https://t.co/RHp1GLN66B Jan 05, 2018
1787@Nicole_Cliffe There’s still a lot of Dem money on Wall Street, but the balance of giving shifted pretty substantia… https://t.co/XfPcc6wLR5 Jan 05, 2018
1788Hawaii has a 2.2 percent unemployment rate…. https://t.co/gsEpbcxpIz Jan 05, 2018
1789Two points: (a) It is clearly not Trump’s fault that job growth is slowing down. (b) It’s odd for Trump to be bra… https://t.co/bzI5bY0YdM Jan 05, 2018
1790Even George Borjas — an extreme outlier in the immigration economics literature — can’t come up with a study in whi… https://t.co/GpIzpCznbv Jan 05, 2018
1791Here’s my article on The Case for Immigration. But the research on this is really remarkably clear, which is why… https://t.co/qHKqm4r7Hx Jan 05, 2018
1792Tom Cotton wants to cut legal immigration in half — an economically ruinous policy approach — because he wants to p… https://t.co/i0fpM0Imhf Jan 05, 2018
1793Taking the economic interests of American workers seriously when making immigration policy is a great idea — it lea… https://t.co/VB9ELVEfSg Jan 05, 2018
1794This take would be a lot smarter if it cited any actual research about immigration economics. https://t.co/KtTjgIXxik Jan 05, 2018
1795@tylercowen Too bad. Jan 05, 2018
1796The swamp https://t.co/0GlZ9lYU2w Jan 05, 2018
1797If Democrats take congress in 2018, legislative bargaining may get really weird. https://t.co/pI3b5Jolfc Jan 05, 2018
1798Well there you have it. https://t.co/aeM3lVujrf Jan 05, 2018
1799@tylercowen I don’t follow this stuff as closely as you, is there a new video game paper I’ve missed? Jan 05, 2018
1800We’re deep into the banana republic zone. https://t.co/Oj9gO1vbnd Jan 05, 2018
1801@tylercowen So are they going to do some new papers extending the video game research agenda? Jan 05, 2018
1802For the listener, who listens in the snow, And, nothing himself, beholds Nothing that is not there and the noth… https://t.co/oohEd0ovIG Jan 05, 2018
1803@ModeledBehavior God bless. Jan 05, 2018
1804Is anyone at #ASSA2018 looking into what accounts for the ongoing decline in video game quality over the past couple of years? Jan 05, 2018
1805My favorite part of Michael Wolff’s book is where he reveals that work requirements for Medicaid will increase hard… https://t.co/hge2EMI9wO Jan 05, 2018
1806@jonathanchait It could happen ... but at the time Greenspan’s call to keep interest rates low was very controversi… https://t.co/nsYcur5JbH Jan 05, 2018
1807@MattZeitlin Doesn’t the slowing pace of job growth means video game quality is declining, just at a decelerating pace? Jan 05, 2018
1808@MattZeitlin Yes!! Jan 05, 2018
1809The issue going forward politically is going to be that the economy is in good enough shape that it’s hard to gener… https://t.co/Q1rm9xbdRh Jan 05, 2018
1810As I tried to warn @IvankaTrump last night relying on the ADP advance estimate is a fool’s game. The real jobs num… https://t.co/j4QmUkkQNf Jan 05, 2018
1811@MattZeitlin This is a face turn! Jan 05, 2018
1812@joeposner @alittlelilypad Why choose? Jan 05, 2018
1813Another really dishy thing I found in Wolff’s book is that systematic rollback of environmental regulations risks h… https://t.co/irfYLVZQHB Jan 05, 2018
1814Be smart: Jan 05, 2018
1815Folks, Kramerbooks is open until 1AM every weekday ... it’s nothing to do with the Wolff book. https://t.co/Qyq2LZ6fQx Jan 05, 2018
1816@shadihamid Life is too short to spend on books that are “hastily written and too of the moment†imo. As you say, p… https://t.co/3mKGMb2DEN Jan 05, 2018
1817@shadihamid It sounds like you’re saying the book is bad, though. Jan 05, 2018
1818Guessing we won’t see a presidential tweet about this one https://t.co/8wRE4okbit Jan 05, 2018
1819Wow, according to this juicy section of Michael Wolff’s tell-all book, Republican foot-dragging on CHIP reauthoriza… https://t.co/kpIrBM4IxT Jan 05, 2018
1820Congressional Republicans are all-in on ensuring impunity for Trump. https://t.co/y44S2ElsOA Jan 05, 2018
1821@MarcGoldwein I never said that about Bush! Rubio, meanwhile, is serving as a United States Senator and does not… https://t.co/HM4T3lf5K3 Jan 05, 2018
1822Have to think Kurt Cobain would still be alive today if he’d heard this peppy, upbeat song. https://t.co/XOyt9TAIvr Jan 05, 2018
1823So Trump had Rosenstein gin up a fake reason for firing Comey because Trump’s own lawyers lied to him and said he needed cause? Jan 05, 2018
1824@BDeHaven616 I do, it’s ridiculous. Jan 05, 2018
1825Can’t believe they’re making an action movie about commuter rail — hope Liam Neeson kicks ass while convincing them… https://t.co/OSaGy9Ed3Q Jan 05, 2018
1826A serious request for information: What’s the point of the FBI Director having a statutory fixed 10-year term if… https://t.co/D0s0HZmM56 Jan 05, 2018
1827As Trump becomes less and less popular and the truth about his administration becomes more and more scandalous, the… https://t.co/WfiA8yYQGP Jan 05, 2018
1828@millerben You should watch the Warriors-Rockets game! Jan 05, 2018
1829Bannon should do a Brock-style pivot, starting with a trade policy column in the American Prospect. Jan 05, 2018
1830Without the Mercer family’s patronage, Bannon may only be able to afford to wear one shirt at a time. Jan 05, 2018
1831@shani_o Fortunately, I have a lot of experience with bad tweets. Jan 05, 2018
1832Seriously, though, don’t rely on the ADP advance estimate — just wait for the real number! Jan 05, 2018
1833Deleting a tweet. Ivanka is relying on the ADP estimate which, though unwise, is not scandalous.… https://t.co/EvXThYY3DB Jan 05, 2018
1834Eyes emoji: https://t.co/Xvdt1cCNzL https://t.co/EsCaw5hHrQ Jan 05, 2018
1835@ferenstein That’s very much not @MarketUrbanism’s take on the impact, though I’m happy to hear the other side. Jan 05, 2018
1836What do you call it when someone keeps trying to obstruct things? https://t.co/3ny65Ogy4z Jan 05, 2018
1837It’s amazing how fast we went from “Trump speaks for the Forgotten People Left Behind By Neoliberalism†to constant… https://t.co/8a1Mfm2lD2 Jan 05, 2018
1838@swinshi @MarcGoldwein @karlbykarlsmith If Marc is right about deficits why did your boss vote for the tax bill? Jan 05, 2018
1839Why would a television network put Sean Spicer on the air? He’s not an important person. He’s certainly not a trus… https://t.co/dfCD1dZ6Jo Jan 04, 2018
1840Hedge fund heiress pulls the plug on “populism.†https://t.co/yVkW9y4gZ4 Jan 04, 2018
1841@AlyssaRosenberg @MattGertz Congratulation!!! Jan 04, 2018
1842A lot of journalists who are dunking on Bannon now that he’s powerless were a lot more flattering when he was in of… https://t.co/6ebDgqVBGP Jan 04, 2018
1843Sellouts. https://t.co/JIJeheJDQP https://t.co/J9gOOTq0BE Jan 04, 2018
1844A funny think about the Trump White House is his team won’t even bother to pretend that POTUS is spending time lear… https://t.co/ihTh8WviRF Jan 04, 2018
1845@pbump @fmanjoo Penalty kicks. Jan 04, 2018
1846This works on so many levels. https://t.co/upf7WDWRKu Jan 04, 2018
1847@hels Good book imo. Jan 04, 2018
1848@DLind 1 = the real wall is the wall in our hearts Jan 04, 2018
1849A woman HQ host. What will be next — lady soldiers? Senators? Jan 04, 2018
1850@JStein_Wonkblog An underappreciated classic! Lol. Jan 04, 2018
1851I thought this image was fake the first time I saw it. https://t.co/GMO6dpSEMP Jan 04, 2018
1852Regardless, this is a great chart. White college graduates are supportive of progressive economics.… https://t.co/Q6gxd18Xwt Jan 04, 2018
1853His new column is basically write in line with what lame pundit Matt Yglesias said in June.… https://t.co/5N7GyGAk78 Jan 04, 2018
1854Definitely endorse this piece. Don’t care for the way this series forces him to exaggerate how contrarian his conc… https://t.co/CxIoUOgpYH Jan 04, 2018
1855Trump has installed “acting†cronies — without senate confirmation — to run the IRS, Treasury’s financial crimes un… https://t.co/Hd2phnNqZ8 Jan 04, 2018
1856It’s interesting that for all his disrespect for norms and decency, as far as we know Trump hasn’t brought back Bush-era torture. Jan 04, 2018
1857Working to rule. Jan 04, 2018
1858“Only during the first and second world wars did rates of return drop much below growth rates. “ https://t.co/eSuPQmEfJ0 Jan 04, 2018
1859@TheStalwart Look, I don’t drink pour-over coffee or do yoga but I still pay a premium to live in a neighborhood wi… https://t.co/Ot2sm6kaAm Jan 04, 2018
1860@TheStalwart Proximity to pour-over coffee. Jan 04, 2018
1861@matthewstoller @BenSpielberg @SuperVikArya @MattBruenig I would profoundly appreciate being taken off this thread. Jan 04, 2018
1862I’ll give you fiscally and internationally but not constitutionally. https://t.co/9NkhsYSxdz Jan 04, 2018
1863@hels Actually, not *everyone* acknowledges it. Jan 04, 2018
1864Cory Gardner’s approach on marijuana is exactly what Flake, Corker, etc. should do if they’re really worried about… https://t.co/CEIS5hjI7W Jan 04, 2018
1865"Trump, his inner circle, and political allies are all currently cashing in on the short-term upside of a massive l… https://t.co/DSZkX9ExO2 Jan 04, 2018
1866@MattZeitlin @TheStalwart @reason [Puts on his Mercatus hat]: That’s why you need a James Buchanan-style constituti… https://t.co/xzuGlY3BCj Jan 04, 2018
1867Look! A Senate Republican actually using his powers of office in an efficacious way! https://t.co/1iFTlA7HmH Jan 04, 2018
1868@alpert How much of DC is within a half-mile of frequent transit service by this standard? Jan 04, 2018
1869We need to deport the hogs. https://t.co/5RLigazwSS Jan 04, 2018
1870As ever, Trump’s policy guidance is a bit unclear…. https://t.co/WQ0tKqMxZd Jan 04, 2018
1871Yeah, what @brianbeutler said. https://t.co/mKGVa3RCch Jan 04, 2018
1872@Whoda_Ida @zsitter @Scott_Wiener When was that? Jan 04, 2018
1873This is insane. https://t.co/ob0ABnon2o https://t.co/YbQNNemif6 Jan 04, 2018
1874The most impressive thing about the economic growth Trump has unleashed is that it’s happening in every major country simultaneously. Jan 04, 2018
1875@Brian_Riedl @MarcGoldwein What proposals do Republicans have to fix those problems? Jan 04, 2018
1876@MarketUrbanism People like that hot hot weather. Jan 04, 2018
1877I think @jbarro was explaining that the Virginia election showed gerrymandering isn’t important. https://t.co/3LpsaEVafN Jan 04, 2018
1878@MarketUrbanism Wouldn’t cheap California exurbs attract the people who are moving to suburbs of Phoenix and Las Vegas today? Jan 04, 2018
1879@nbeaudrot @Scott_Wiener Water and also transportation infrastructure, I would think. Jan 04, 2018
1880@Scott_Wiener Too often, I’ve seen advocates start with what they think of as a reasonable compromise only to see i… https://t.co/MlWxiHw59d Jan 04, 2018
1881This @Scott_Wiener bill is exactly the kind of thing housing advocates should be pushing — a visionary, game-changi… https://t.co/QoOCUaJeGt Jan 04, 2018
1882What everyone keeps missing is that if you price the Dow in a reliable store of value like Bitcoin, these aren’t new highs at all. Jan 04, 2018
1883@conorsen Paul Ryan is a pretty successful politician. Jan 04, 2018
1884Zuckerberg is definitely the best politician of the current crop of tech CEOs. https://t.co/XpFhbuuzA9 https://t.co/XLTm99zXbb Jan 04, 2018
1885There is a big specific scoop in the book about Steve Bannon’s view of the Mueller investigation. But the broad p… https://t.co/khg8JQppup Jan 04, 2018
1886I’m confused by some of the Wolff takes both pro and con … … it broadly paints the exact same picture of White Hou… https://t.co/Am8a9CO6hn Jan 04, 2018
1887Getting the federal government permanently out of the marijuana prohibition game should be a no-brainer for Democra… https://t.co/WiXI0CME97 Jan 04, 2018
1888Apparently Ed Markey is running for President https://t.co/nLCpuqjjhy Jan 04, 2018
1889Immigration boosts native-born children’s high school graduation rates. https://t.co/Ny1n8ijo0F https://t.co/4H4s3Wfnbo Jan 04, 2018
1890Based on a couple of conversations I had this morning, a lot of folks are going to be surprised when they do their… https://t.co/IA3BhuFiqn Jan 04, 2018
1891This year’s midterms are make-or-break for America https://t.co/S2WdJFT6NI Jan 04, 2018
1892In @PressSec’s initial statement she said that she had signed an executive order disbanding the vote fraud commissi… https://t.co/CzXtnosmmx Jan 04, 2018
1893Chadwick Moore, Conservative Journalist looks like he’s right where he’s always wanted to be. But Tucker is as confused as the rest of us. Jan 04, 2018
1894The great thing about Tucker is his face always betrays a certain amount of puzzlement as to how he ended up as Ame… https://t.co/fpW62ANaNB Jan 04, 2018
1895@jneeley78 Perhaps a poor hiring decision. Jan 04, 2018
1896Seems like a bad sign when members of your legal team quit because you’re obstructing justice https://t.co/Vn71CVX13f Jan 04, 2018
1897Someone set up us the bomb cyclone. Jan 04, 2018
1898We’re about to learn that right-wing “populism†is nothing without its billionaire patrons. https://t.co/2CJZaSTJL6 Jan 04, 2018
1899I’ve got to tell you, I personally do not believe that this news had any kind of emotional impact on Trump at all. https://t.co/f1xjYuVFkh Jan 04, 2018
1900Is four percent a lot or a little? https://t.co/rZ1iI2WwTb Jan 04, 2018
1901Why would you take policy guidance from Donald Trump? https://t.co/PwDIliw3ww Jan 03, 2018
1902The boos Trump would get at a Wizards game would be amazing. Jan 03, 2018
1903Every New Yorker in DC is at tonight’s Knicks-Wizards game except Trump. Jan 03, 2018
1904To me the big plot hole here is why didn’t Bannon either write his own book or else deny everything and accuse Wolff of lying? Jan 03, 2018
1905Difference between Iran and North Korea is there’s no constituency in DC for a war with North Korea and a big one f… https://t.co/VHafpyXZ18 Jan 03, 2018
1906They idea that if you ignore questions about the president’s fitness for office the problem goes away is oddly wide… https://t.co/AoXeXQ0O31 Jan 03, 2018
1907Today’s episode was borderline incoherent and did absolutely nothing to advance the Looming War With North Korea pl… https://t.co/pyZyfQLigJ Jan 03, 2018
1908It’s interesting that all this anti-Bannon rage doesn’t really address the whole treasonous angle. https://t.co/kbr6nHKGK6 Jan 03, 2018
1909@DLind If we’re talking about legal immigration changes, I think that’s really more a case of metonymy. Jan 03, 2018
19101. Make your friend’s wife get mad at your friend. 2. ??? 3. Profit! Jan 03, 2018
1911How does the rest of this plan work? I don’t get it. https://t.co/WtJP6sulcA Jan 03, 2018
1912Who will be in charge of Breitbart once Bannon gets fired? Jan 03, 2018
1913I really don’t understand what today’s Bannon news cycle amounts to. Jan 03, 2018
1914@jbarro Downside is you’re dead. Jan 03, 2018
1915Parker Molloy, welcome to the Irony Resistance. https://t.co/AgoTrIUXbw Jan 03, 2018
1916@ScottElliotG I wonder if anyone with political influence in the United States is also a real estate tycoon. Jan 03, 2018
1917@NateSilver538 It’s definitely gotten better… Jan 03, 2018
1918Shocking to hear that a member of the Trump team would say something inaccurate. https://t.co/hRhIXlyr0V Jan 03, 2018
1919The appropriate skepticism journalists are giving to self-serving Steve Bannon leaks, but for self-serving Javanka leaks. Jan 03, 2018
1920Steve Bannon was basically just Carter Page’s assistant coffee getting guy. Jan 03, 2018
1921Hassan Nasrallah, welcome to the resistance. https://t.co/REBvHyUHsG Jan 03, 2018
1922@germanrlopez I can’t believe you think failure to acknowledge that is the only cause of internet debates. Jan 03, 2018
1923It’s like the Röhm Putsch, except everyone involved is a moron. Jan 03, 2018
1924Another day of Donald Trump hard at work on solving the nation’s most urgent problems. Jan 03, 2018
1925@ClaraJeffery These seem like the people least-likely to want to talk politics at a diner with a strange reporter. Jan 03, 2018
1926The multi-faceted internal GOP battles continue to have no policy content. Jan 03, 2018
1927JUSTICE FOR MANU https://t.co/ZJyaniyjVa Jan 03, 2018
1928Is Michael Wolff Good or Bad? Jan 03, 2018
1929That todays two new senators are named “Smith†and “Jones†is another sign that the writers have gotten disturbingly lazy. Jan 03, 2018
1930The Resistance! https://t.co/b34VW6CVCL Jan 03, 2018
1931Sad news; a great anchor of the neighborhood I grew up in. https://t.co/jOFIpLxru6 Jan 03, 2018
1932@aminatou @shani_o @lkmcgann I want Trump’s thoughts on the tiny house people. Jan 03, 2018
1933Steve Bannon is still full of shit imo. Jan 03, 2018
1934The cost curve was bended and nobody cares. https://t.co/NpYbtjpDem Jan 03, 2018
1935My view on SOFTWOOD LUMBER: — The US is right on the economics; Canadian lumber exports are subsidized. — The tra… https://t.co/0m3XpvB6rS Jan 03, 2018
1936SOFTWOOD LUMBER https://t.co/CySBJh9nsg Jan 03, 2018
1937I think I’m the only person who feels this way, but I’m super-excited about the Winter Olympics. Jan 03, 2018
1938Half of South Korea’s population lives in the Seoul metro area — is that the most concentration of any country? (I… https://t.co/ufBhbO9JJO Jan 03, 2018
1939Tell @sarahkliff what The Impact should be covering. https://t.co/6B7ABrJete Jan 03, 2018
1940The scary thing about Trump’s tweets is what they reveal about his sources of information https://t.co/GIo6ioJ4Yz Jan 03, 2018
1941Neoliberal shill @MattBruenig makes a good case against the SALT deduction. https://t.co/4iUkCNVhO8 Jan 03, 2018
1942I think Trump gets too many “tough†questions about Russia and not enough easy ones about why he changed his mind o… https://t.co/bf7wJMAWlj Jan 03, 2018
1943@kyledcheney @maggieNYT @Jim_Jordan What is the significance of any of these questions? Jan 03, 2018
1944It’s odd to me that we don’t talk any more about Trump’s frequently made promise to do something about this. His… https://t.co/zxXupbAEFW Jan 03, 2018
1945Credit where due: At least Trump made air travel safe. Jan 03, 2018
1946Preview of coming attractions if Democrats hold the House majority next year. https://t.co/uo03zcIROl https://t.co/GOoe4ERz9e Jan 03, 2018
1947Amazing https://t.co/RZxC5wbgGn Jan 03, 2018
1948At least Trump isn’t doing anything truly dangerous like using his personal email for work. Jan 03, 2018
1949If you’re South Korean you have to be wondering at this point how exactly the US alliance is making you safer, right? Jan 03, 2018
1950Peace t-shirts? Jan 03, 2018
1951Has anyone explained the seriously/literally thing to Kim? Maybe Peter Thiel wants to go to Pyongyang and break it down for him. Jan 03, 2018
1952It’s in the constitution that you have the right to an all-white jury if you want. Look it up. Jan 02, 2018
1953I’m starting to think Jared isn’t going to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after all. Jan 02, 2018
1954This is correct. The issue is that they’ve abdicated any interest in oversight or the rule of law. https://t.co/AZIgAJFxEv Jan 02, 2018
1955@jonathanchait I heard Kristen Gillibrand is testing “Death to Trump, Death to America†as a slogan. Jan 02, 2018
1956A Romney Senate bid could be the latest front in a GOP Civil War that so far has consisted of unanimous support for… https://t.co/Emz82rjrrT Jan 02, 2018
1957This is triggering. https://t.co/2xEhhGP50H Jan 02, 2018
1958@HeerJeet Got some links? Would much rather read about this than write something. Jan 02, 2018
1959@Max_Fisher Who is stopping you? Jan 02, 2018
1960Into the WEEDS on the important subject of DEATH. https://t.co/dREZUfYFLO Jan 02, 2018
1961Trying to come up with an article pitch today, I successfully came up with a solid idea for a high school paper on Melville and race. Jan 02, 2018
1962This this this https://t.co/MI1QJND1EY Jan 02, 2018
1963MA-Gov in 2002 https://t.co/4aZfky4ipf Jan 02, 2018
1964@jneeley78 I meant currently serving — I voted for Hillary and for John Kerry but they’re both gone. Jan 02, 2018
1965Correction: I voted for Tim Kaine for Vice President in 2016. Jan 02, 2018
1966If he runs and wins, Mitt Romney will have the distinction of being the only US Senator I’ve ever voted for. Jan 02, 2018
1967I think The Ratio is a Gettier Case. Jan 02, 2018
1968@NateSilver538 In practice, he won’t. Jan 02, 2018
1969She’s running https://t.co/5apU2kzFTH Jan 02, 2018
1970I’m not just trolling about this whole “Mitt Romney lives in Massachusetts†thing. https://t.co/BItgFIKSGv Jan 02, 2018
1971Orrin Hatch retiring, paving the way for Senator @Nicole_Cliffe. Jan 02, 2018
1972At a minimum, running for Governor of Massachusetts seems like a counterintuitive choice for a Mormon Republican who lives in Utah. Jan 02, 2018
1973Doesn’t Mitt Romney live in Massachusetts? Jan 02, 2018
1974Lil’ Metro Fare https://t.co/FoasryEFkl Jan 02, 2018
1975https://t.co/7jDrhrT8oK Jan 02, 2018
1976They need to bring back Seinfeld just so Elaine can confront this machine. https://t.co/k161jNiPpr Jan 02, 2018
1977In all seriousness, kudos to Trump for making the “do more bad tweets†resolution that we were all hoping for. Jan 02, 2018
1978Feel free to credit me with both Otto Porter’s continued development and Marcin Gortat’s remarkable durability. Jan 02, 2018
1979My New Year’s resolution is to find more obviously implausible things to take credit for. Jan 02, 2018
1980Actually, I’m the one who made Commercial Aviation safe. Jan 02, 2018
1981We have anti-heroes everywhere these days but an actual subversion of heroic moviemaking tropes is fresh and interesting. Jan 02, 2018
1982@flngn It is Jan 02, 2018
1983So upsetting to discover that someone you like has the Wrong Opinion about the Canto Bight plot. Jan 02, 2018
1984YES https://t.co/ePCB5sgdv8 Jan 02, 2018
1985So I think it’s probably right to say that an economy near full employment can squeeze a little extra growth out by… https://t.co/uogPZ45NBd Jan 02, 2018
1986Even a very poorly supervised financial system probably won’t generate a crisis in any given year, but when banking… https://t.co/5B6wCWuufa Jan 02, 2018
1987I think a more reasonable thing to say would be that there are tradeoffs between the short-term and long-term. If… https://t.co/WNAhyWvjhP Jan 02, 2018
1988Headline: Trump fixed the economy with lax regulation. Deeper in the article: There is no evidence that lax regula… https://t.co/OMxNlMjpgl Jan 02, 2018
1989@chrislhayes @colinmeloy What is the appropriate age for a good tortured and buried alive yarn? Jan 02, 2018
1990The Baltimore PD Pawn Shop Unit is real. https://t.co/trpRk6eMSf Jan 02, 2018
1991If the welfare reform proposal on the table were to spend more money on cash benefits I bet the political left woul… https://t.co/Z9p5NOudLI Jan 02, 2018
1992No strong view on the specifics of Iranian politics but it seems to me that it would be very normal for a large pol… https://t.co/t44KdtkgO6 Jan 01, 2018
1993Feels unfair to Bush who wasn’t refusing to acknowledge the existence of a problem months later. https://t.co/fHWGjBDWOn Jan 01, 2018
1994Times has its flaws but it’s still an incredible achievement every day and the Sulzberger family has been a model o… https://t.co/kNuBbZVbwb Jan 01, 2018
1995@dandrezner What’s your thinking on (2)? Jan 01, 2018
1996The difference is the dynamics of the federal tax bill now frame state-level optimization as a politically salient… https://t.co/zEPMjdnohP Jan 01, 2018
1997@jbarro Conveniently, 100% of constitutional law jurisprudence is political posturing. Jan 01, 2018
1998@jbarro Seriously? Lol. Good luck with that! Jan 01, 2018
1999@jbarro I’m not sure this claim genuinely requires a lengthy and detailed rebuttal. Jan 01, 2018
2000Melville explains why today’s coastal cities are bastions of cultural pluralism. https://t.co/vH8qVt9y0C Jan 01, 2018
2001“Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.†Jan 01, 2018
2002Melville is amazingly “woke†for a white guy writing in the mid-19th century in a way that I don’t think my high sc… https://t.co/7khvjA5Nwq Jan 01, 2018
2003This edition of Moby Dick retains Melville’s use of what we’d now call the British spelling of “center†which you o… https://t.co/OVt0Tx83kE Jan 01, 2018
2004A+ job. https://t.co/JtM0qwELPK Jan 01, 2018
2005I have this vague sense that well-done modern translations of 19th Century Russian novels are more accessible than… https://t.co/RYPSyVNROI Jan 01, 2018
2006When people translate Shakespeare into foreign languages do they normally translate it into deliberately archaic fo… https://t.co/tb3GRR5CL6 Jan 01, 2018
2007@DLeonhardt I remember the handful of times I’ve gone hiking all too well! Jan 01, 2018
2008@DLeonhardt There’s a lot of sitting around waiting for things to start or other people to get in position. Seems… https://t.co/0cXN023mLJ Jan 01, 2018
2009I liked this @DLeonhardt column, but I kind of want to defend sending email on your wedding day which — whatever el… https://t.co/BttkAfX15g Jan 01, 2018
2010A plausible hope for 2017 was either: (a) Political prudence will force Trump to restrain his worst impulses to bo… https://t.co/APajdfOgg8 Jan 01, 2018
2011According to my international holidays calendar, tomorrow is the Day After New Year’s Day in Québec. Jan 01, 2018
2012Now that it’s 2018, the generation that thinks the Star Wars prequels are good will be voting soon. Jan 01, 2018
2013@attackerman @eosnos Lucky for us this guy didn’t immigrate to the United States after finishing his degree! Jan 01, 2018
2014I would make the opposite point: America’s big metros offer lots of great suburban places but their downtown place… https://t.co/iH5MZa6RGc Jan 01, 2018
2015This is true but I think it’s only true because Fox News and a handful of major talk radio hosts have decided to se… https://t.co/ihmb91K7r6 Jan 01, 2018
2016The true message of The Last Jedi is that O’Malley Would’ve Won. Jan 01, 2018
2017Some good points here but I don’t see the relevance of preferring Fairfax to DC.... Fairfax County is part of the… https://t.co/TyhcmXUvWR Jan 01, 2018
2018Great Recession reduced racial wealth gaps for low- and middle-income households by destroying everyone’s wealth. https://t.co/UUNy7QzBhI Jan 01, 2018
2019Looking forward to Trump taking credit for strong wage gains in the first quarter of 2018. https://t.co/OwEvsPNarC Jan 01, 2018
2020I kinda feel like the SALT endgame is a 2019 bill that substantially lifts the $10,000 cap and passes the senate with 87 votes. Jan 01, 2018
2021@albrgr @housingforla @voxdotcom The right person to pitch would be @cshea4 Jan 01, 2018
2022Invigorating https://t.co/ZGCjCvWurj Jan 01, 2018
2023I love the authentic, accessible, reality-show approach that Trump has brought to nuclear diplomacy with Iran, Pakistan, and North Korea. Jan 01, 2018
2024I think the real question is whether everyone changes their mind about this again when Democrats are in office... https://t.co/W0onTkmb8H Jan 01, 2018
2025New Year’s resolution: Solve Afghanistan with a single trenchant tweet. Jan 01, 2018
2026I am mostly glad to not live in New York but it does pain me to think my son will grow up calling plain pizza “cheese.†Jan 01, 2018
2027Jose’s great achievement of 2017 was learning to ask if we can eat pizza instead. Jan 01, 2018
2028The white jacket is the populist option. https://t.co/OU3DstVSUW Jan 01, 2018
2029Quits Rate is back up to the mid-aughts peak but still below 90s boom level. Seems like the right assessment of th… https://t.co/jie8aH3GZ9 Jan 01, 2018
2030The difference between Responsible Dad Matt and Fun Twentysomething Matt is I am not going to ignore my cold and go out and drink. Jan 01, 2018
2031Hating on NYE is cool these days but I am home sick tweeting instead of out with my friends and I think the party option would be more fun. Jan 01, 2018
2032My two great regrets of 2017 are getting blocked by Smash Mouth and William Shatner. Jan 01, 2018
2033Let’s definitely take this guy’s word for it. https://t.co/Xyjc9lEwnF Jan 01, 2018
2034A postcard from Obama’s “aloof†presidency. https://t.co/3KKYa2xd3a Jan 01, 2018
2035@IChotiner Well, they are a lot richer. Idk how much good extra money really does guys in their position. But they seem to want it. Dec 31, 2017
2036I rewatched American History X the other night and in a great pivotal scene Avery Brooks’ character asks Edward Nor… https://t.co/hVR4fF8PTJ Dec 31, 2017
2037And it’s also not a coincidence that Donald Trump’s donors and personal friends ask — and receive — more of him tha… https://t.co/foM2KDgRga Dec 31, 2017
2038It’s not a coincidence that the places whose politics have historically been most dominated by overt white supremac… https://t.co/p2Q85h2v8S Dec 31, 2017
2039@jbouie Gambling addicts get real psychological benefits (and maybe even comped drinks!) from pursuing their wagers… https://t.co/aqA7u6Wb6K Dec 31, 2017
2040The point (made by @jbouie and others) that the white working class derived real psychological and other benefits f… https://t.co/0vtJE4Tm72 Dec 31, 2017
2041Oh man @SheaSerrano gets the Obama bump (great book btw) https://t.co/IXy39qBb9L Dec 31, 2017
2042@kristoncapps LA Dec 31, 2017
2043Shot/chase https://t.co/A1mhy2d4Rg Dec 31, 2017
2044And in ~2 years we’ll have soldiers serving in Afghanistan who weren’t alive on 9/11/2001. https://t.co/LtjCMFseHc Dec 31, 2017
2045@nathansnewman They’re going to take your red rose away for that kind of talk. Dec 31, 2017
2046I think that’s bad. It was bad behavior from a candidate and it’s *scary* behavior from a president. In Trumpocrac… https://t.co/jksEaR7U9Y Dec 31, 2017
2047Donald Trump has always been very clear that he welcomed that crime — he thinks it was a good thing to do because i… https://t.co/esrmVciPm5 Dec 31, 2017
2048But we weren’t talking about a whistleblower revealing some dreadful secrets here. One of the published emails wa… https://t.co/IBH6IrjehP Dec 31, 2017
2049The common sin in a lot of coverage of this, from the moment the emails were first leaked, was not taking the invas… https://t.co/ZAOaN5IXOd Dec 31, 2017
2050If Paul Ryan and Glenn Greenwald feel like it’s not a big deal then that’s their prerogative and maybe something wo… https://t.co/cGTYON0TIV Dec 31, 2017
2051A crime was committed with the aim of helping Donald Trump, Trump publicly welcomed the criminal act, then after ta… https://t.co/buGoIUyKW8 Dec 31, 2017
2052The weird thing to me about the Trump/Russia investigation is everything was proven months ago — capped with Trump’… https://t.co/YjA9vaugyr Dec 31, 2017
2053Trump is so authentic he champions working class interests from his expensive Florida beach club where wealthy busi… https://t.co/AmhuPy5KrP Dec 31, 2017
2054Gateway is expensive to be sure but relative to the overall price tag of Trump’s fake $1 trillion infrastructure sp… https://t.co/CrHd70jAxe Dec 31, 2017
2055Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me https://t.co/gZKpfPugjq Dec 31, 2017
2056I get the sense that the White House doesn’t fully understand what a vulnerable position they’ll be in if they lose… https://t.co/gV344853ws Dec 31, 2017
2057Cold weather + toddler = I have read the entire Munschworks Grand Treasury three times today. Dec 31, 2017
2058What a matchup. https://t.co/TUauZdkjiJ Dec 31, 2017
2059Personally, I never found Trump rhetoric on trade to be politically appealing. But it seems to me it was somethin… https://t.co/3IUGuOct8U Dec 31, 2017
2060I’m sure I got a lot of stuff wrong in 2017 but what sticks out at me is I thought Trump would follow through on hi… https://t.co/OeBDE024tr Dec 31, 2017
2061This is a wild thing for an erstwhile journalist to tweet. Lots of great people working in the news sections of t… https://t.co/kuuO7xRkMO Dec 31, 2017
2062If I ever stop being sick, I’m going to try to understand yield curve flattening and decided whether we should be a… https://t.co/VQJZEe7CDL Dec 31, 2017
2063@ModeledBehavior @hyperplanes And there are cases like Portland, ME which is doing very well and is by far the bigg… https://t.co/wYwBv4rIQv Dec 31, 2017
20642018 will be the year that people finally admit O’Malley Would’ve Won. Dec 31, 2017
2065@ModeledBehavior This could use a clearer definition of which cities are the small ones. Dec 31, 2017
2066Trump should tweet his top stock tips for 2018. Dec 31, 2017
20671) Molests kids, openly defies the rule of law. 2) Kinda boring generic Democrat without much pizzazz. 3) Assault… https://t.co/95N3RtRY2z Dec 31, 2017
2068Every single Republican Party member of congress wakes up every single day and decides to abrogate constitutional r… https://t.co/Z7VbsYM0TH Dec 31, 2017
2069Stand with the Iranian people by barring any of them from getting a visa to enter the United States. #maga Dec 30, 2017
2070The only more foolish choice is Finns. https://t.co/9wmYUVOWJe Dec 30, 2017
2071@reckless She can swap with me for my 7 if you guys want. Dec 30, 2017
2072One of the most explosive controversies of Obama’s first term was when he said it was stupid of a police officer to… https://t.co/Weiu1Sr0o5 Dec 30, 2017
2073In retrospect, Harry Reid was totally right but few believed him because he blew his credibility on the Romney/taxe… https://t.co/MxnpWwzE36 Dec 30, 2017
2074I’m just a dummy who doesn’t know anything about Iran but despite a lot of punditry neither the nuclear deal nor As… https://t.co/TyWCS7Hzop Dec 30, 2017
2075The downside of population growth is it leads to housing scarcity and traffic jams. But we do possess the technol… https://t.co/SjLideH2aA Dec 30, 2017
2076In a modern service economy, most people work providing local services to other people. The more local people the… https://t.co/EuOyrG6iRW Dec 30, 2017
2077@nycsouthpaw @nytmike I think he was trying to “make news†— it’s a pretty common technique. That’s where the Musli… https://t.co/dWEfHJW2H6 Dec 30, 2017
2078@davidshor @Noahpinion The vast majority of people work providing local services so I wouldn’t discount the local demand effect. Dec 30, 2017
2079On the other hand, their compliance with federal IT guidelines has been beyond reproach. (Maybe ... none of the pe… https://t.co/P5dFZAKbW1 Dec 30, 2017
2080One year ago today was Twitter’s finest moment. https://t.co/bWN0YZx686 Dec 30, 2017
2081Here’s a theory: Maybe Trump fired Comey to try to shut down the Russia investigation because he feared it would ex… https://t.co/q1DEnoGkzu Dec 30, 2017
2082@jbarro A letter to congress from the FBI that Clinton had juicy dirt on her secret email server that was now in th… https://t.co/FOTaUxwJ74 Dec 30, 2017
2083@jbarro They came to believe that was the case but decided for some reason not to inform the authorities? Dec 30, 2017
2084There was no collusion. Collusion isn’t a crime. The crime of lying to the FBI doesn’t count as a real crime. Soo… https://t.co/LPTZxeRkLD Dec 30, 2017
2085The whiteness of the whale https://t.co/lM7v1jeTaC Dec 30, 2017
2086An encouraging trend. I went to fancy private school myself but am hoping to enroll Jose at our local public scho… https://t.co/W4UaE8hf6T Dec 30, 2017
2087Striking a deal with a Russian intelligence operative then getting drunk and telling an Australian diplomat about i… https://t.co/GnXmtZ4yIc Dec 30, 2017
2088Not to question Saint James of Bridgewater Associates but I’m struck that the FBI Director felt the need to offer r… https://t.co/4QtnbvrLiC Dec 30, 2017
2089Yet in practice it obviously doesn’t work that way. Clearly neither MTA leadership (but also the Port Authority) no… https://t.co/fApkaC1NgL Dec 30, 2017
2090That would be a big win for the public, and also for elected officials and for glory-hungry agency chiefs but it’s… https://t.co/mHB0nrAzoU Dec 30, 2017
2091In terms of economic logic, if you can figure out how to build more cheaply you ought to build a *lot* more and tot… https://t.co/XhtEMjseWW Dec 30, 2017
2092Beyond the details, there’s some kind of high-level disconnect in the political economy of American infrastructure projects. Dec 30, 2017
2093It’s a weird sign of the times that Trump would lie in order to exaggerate how extreme his policies have been rathe… https://t.co/9K5eW3J4RL Dec 30, 2017
2094New research: College counselors know what they are doing and dispense useful advice. https://t.co/l7DGI22pIn Dec 30, 2017
2095@KGeee I’ve got toddler dump truck underwear in my coat pocket, so I think you win this round. Dec 30, 2017
2096Remember when Trump randomly blew a gasket during a call with Australia’s prime minister? Dec 30, 2017
2097Speaking of which I apparently mispronounced “antipodes†on the most recent podcast — my apologies to the Southern Hemisphere. Dec 30, 2017
2098The Australian ambassador when made aware of a Russian intelligence operation aimed at the United States alerted th… https://t.co/2FdcnhLi9K Dec 30, 2017
2099Beyond that, the whole case hinges on the fact that Trump’s campaign chair spent years working for a Russian proxy… https://t.co/Ij8wotr20b Dec 30, 2017
2100There’s basically no evidence of Trump/Russia collusion except for the multiple instances of Trump campaign officia… https://t.co/X6PbWkCkWj Dec 30, 2017
2101Raw water? Dec 30, 2017
2102Professional philosopher 👇 https://t.co/ohYZYkI23N Dec 30, 2017
2103The immigrant vendors selling MAGA shirts to Trumpy tourists by the mall is peak America. Dec 30, 2017
2104Doesn’t the ACS already do this? https://t.co/cquFp45y1C Dec 30, 2017
2105Trump’s own White House staff finds the corrupt set-up at Mar-a-Lago to be troubling but every single day every sin… https://t.co/7wTl1UcPD6 Dec 30, 2017
2106Hahaha https://t.co/nuee1QpQNU Dec 30, 2017
2107Missionaria Protectiva https://t.co/6X5aR6we7c Dec 30, 2017
2108I can vaguely remember a time (November?) when I wasn’t sick. Dec 30, 2017
2109Yes, governments should respect people’s rights to express themselves. https://t.co/l1C1TSEmyO Dec 30, 2017
2110Right now DDOT is in the absurd position of proposing to change the “Potomac Avenue - Skyland Line†so as to serve… https://t.co/AYYUrA3gSd Dec 30, 2017
2111The other DC transit change we really need is for the proliferating Circulator lines to have some kind of actual na… https://t.co/oWr4vFPB6e Dec 30, 2017
2112@devin_mb @alon_levy Yes that’s my dream — a one-seat ride to Ikea! — I just can’t in good faith claim it’s a good… https://t.co/gR9KpcgoAw Dec 30, 2017
2113@alon_levy I sentimentally want to make a boosterish case for a Rhode Island Avenue line, upzoning, new development… https://t.co/HWbQVf0ZBd Dec 30, 2017
2114Great post here and @alon_levy is correct that I am wrong and even a stump Blue Line would need some new infrastruc… https://t.co/EH4WyVVhot Dec 30, 2017
2115Movie does a much better job than all these “Trump Country†stories of sympathizing with racists without making exc… https://t.co/qLfnFgwBGM Dec 30, 2017
2116I also hadn’t realized until reading the Wikipedia entry just now that for some reason the director totally disavowed this excellent movie. Dec 30, 2017
2117Rewatching American History X, which is really am amazing film about our current political moment especially when y… https://t.co/ngSnqrJgmZ Dec 30, 2017
2118@AnnieLowrey @costareports I think stating that explicitly in framing the piece would have made people happier. “I… https://t.co/nEqGdxREjw Dec 30, 2017
2119@AnnieLowrey But you can’t pin Trump down. In January he sat down with @costareports and made a firm, totally unamb… https://t.co/QEBWlawF5i Dec 30, 2017
2120Obama sat for a lot of interviews with a lot of different outlets and people took a lot of different approaches.… https://t.co/3XM7VUh6F6 Dec 30, 2017
2121Another way of looking at the interview question is … what is the point of doing an interview at all if the intervi… https://t.co/c0DU7YkHEG Dec 30, 2017
2122@devin_mb @ggwash @alon_levy Beautiful. Dec 30, 2017
2123@tylercowen If that was the claim then fair enough … it’s not exactly how I remember the issue. Dec 30, 2017
2124The US one-two punch of close alignment with Saudi Arabia paired with criticizing Teheran on human rights grounds h… https://t.co/42aYVcsxJy Dec 30, 2017
2125@dylanmatt It was always mostly pool tables and treadmills … but there was also a computer lab! Dec 30, 2017
2126@mjpesquire I did! But now my wife’s at the Wizards game and my kid’s in bed. Dec 30, 2017
2127The really odd thing about these Trump interviews isn’t the interviewers — it’s Trump. This was not a set of answ… https://t.co/ooMZt5uboZ Dec 30, 2017
2128At the end of the day, there’s no way to conduct a presidential interview that makes everyone happy. You need to m… https://t.co/wuVyrkGWqf Dec 30, 2017
2129That’s what you want in an audience — people who really value good work. And when that audience has grievances, t… https://t.co/7TuYohxOOQ Dec 30, 2017
2130Look at the response to the big MTA exposé that hit labor unions and Democratic elected officials — you don’t see l… https://t.co/AUIHwZfiSx Dec 30, 2017
2131I think I understand why that is, but I think it’s a counterproductive attitude — it makes more sense to listen to… https://t.co/rtcSc0r8Zj Dec 30, 2017
2132New York Times reporters generally seem more respectful to criticisms from conservatives who appear to genuinely wa… https://t.co/znHPhEcDbe Dec 30, 2017
2133Update: Trump has nominated three people for the nine vacancies but the senate hasn’t held votes. https://t.co/Rf3mhs3KkD Dec 29, 2017
2134@ezraklein It’s no silver bullet though Dec 29, 2017
2135A much bigger deal than the fate of Robert Mueller per se is whether federal law enforcement writ large is able to… https://t.co/QB00QrPRPp Dec 29, 2017
2136Julie Ruin, “Crochet.†https://t.co/at2YOh3Yyq Dec 29, 2017
2137@cartoon_soldier @maggieNYT I think that would probably be a mistake, though I personally wish Trump got asked more… https://t.co/5vGcMxRKvM Dec 29, 2017
2138@JStein_Wonkblog So criticize Trump in what you think is the appropriate way! Dec 29, 2017
2139All nine presidentially appointed slots on the USPS Board of Governors are currently vacant ... instead of tweeting… https://t.co/84ya5zgQj8 Dec 29, 2017
2140My main question about this is does Trump know he can appoint the people who run the Postal Service? https://t.co/GiHywZ8NVH Dec 29, 2017
2141@alon_levy I totally messed that up and there’s no good way to correct an email. Dec 29, 2017
2142Does Kelly have some videotapes to return? I don’t get this. https://t.co/hEKwKQbw06 Dec 29, 2017
2143This WMATA loop proposal = a *ton* of new tunneling for a marginal improvement in service. But there is a better… https://t.co/YrJRIcu7WS Dec 29, 2017
2144For the final WEEEDSMAIL: Separated Yellow Line > Separated Blue Line. https://t.co/7j9FbTRYf9 Dec 29, 2017
2145@benwikler @BlakePater Yeah why would you submit a hard copy? Dec 29, 2017
2146@jbview I considered trying to argue that it’s easier for an outsider to beat a big field than a unified party esta… https://t.co/9dEUlpmjvA Dec 29, 2017
2147Cab driver take: “People call Trump dumb but if he were dumb, he wouldn’t have beaten all those candidate.†Dec 29, 2017
2148@Nicole_Cliffe I can’t believe that was an actual thing you could do — stalker city. Dec 29, 2017
2149@Nicole_Cliffe Using that snooping function where you could see where other people were logging on from? Dec 29, 2017
2150THE FINAL WEEDS OF 2017 https://t.co/ZVvjoW02Eh Dec 29, 2017
2151“They say the most valuable part of the college experience is the people you meet while using Pine in the Kirkland House basement.†Dec 29, 2017
2152It just occurred to me that college dorms must not have computer labs anymore and also that I am super-old. Dec 29, 2017
2153Meanwhile, sensible people are celebrating the fact that a visionary O’Malley administration initiative to upgrade… https://t.co/8iznq75rTM Dec 29, 2017
2154I’m sorry to report that today the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primary is now focused on a second-order cont… https://t.co/Lg30YMBzkc Dec 29, 2017
2155Even so, Republicans would win the bulk of the land area which is what really counts. https://t.co/C2SHt77Yrm Dec 29, 2017
2156One of my takeaways from 2017 is that the president having no idea what he’s talking about turns out to make less o… https://t.co/ko5QJeVSvv Dec 29, 2017
2157¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/RFyRKuZYPb Dec 29, 2017
2158@kdrum I will never give in. Dec 29, 2017
2159@jbouie Welp, too bad I only know one thing about pie crust. Dec 29, 2017
2160I hate to endorse a chart with two y-axes, but this is good regarding Heather MacDonald’s claim that NYC is safe ag… https://t.co/18Ca8uUfEM Dec 29, 2017
2161@jbouie Use a dough with a *ton* of butter in it. https://t.co/8fGtoiHcJw Dec 29, 2017
2162This whole article is incredibly racist, but the reliance on family structure as the causal mechanism is also incre… https://t.co/7HMOwH4E4X Dec 29, 2017
2163@Noahpinion Fortunately (??) nuclear weapons make it unlikely that a war would be all that protracted. Dec 29, 2017
2164@ddayen I didn’t totally understand that part of the article; why so few bids? Dec 29, 2017
2165Steve Kerr. https://t.co/5kDkoiFbs6 Dec 29, 2017
2166You don’t hear much about “zero marginal product workers†these days. Dec 29, 2017
2167@ATabarrok @TPCarney I don’t think this test would be in any way relevant to what we are disagreeing about. Dec 29, 2017
2168@TimDuy @TheStalwart @ModeledBehavior The lesson, as always, is that it’s a mistake to tweet. Dec 29, 2017
2169@TimDuy @TheStalwart @ModeledBehavior I can see how you’d read it that way, but I only intended to make a much weaker claim. Dec 29, 2017
2170@TPCarney It’s Friday and I’d really like to wrap up my actual work and go see my family so I’m going to stop with this. Dec 29, 2017
2171@TPCarney It’s a fine summary, you know that it’s a fine summary, you know *why* it’s a fine summary, and you know… https://t.co/o4AU0ag496 Dec 29, 2017
2172@TimDuy @TheStalwart @ModeledBehavior I’m not claiming anything at all about the cause of Trump’s low approval ratings. Dec 29, 2017
2173@TPCarney I sincerely respect your intelligence too much to even slightly entertain the possibility that you honestly believe that. Dec 29, 2017
2174I don’t think this was even slightly unclear but for the record, I was set off by Tim’s tweets about the tax bill. https://t.co/NBpo5kpWeb Dec 29, 2017
2175@TPCarney It was your tweets about media coverage of the tax bill. Dec 29, 2017
2176@emilykholcomb @TPCarney @ScottAdamsSays I have read it, yeah. Dec 29, 2017
2177Anyway, I hope in the New Year we’ll get recommendation for the @vox_union! (Also the German codetermination system is good) Dec 29, 2017
2178The upshot is that in America, the default “pro-union†stance ends up being to defend whatever jobs exist in the re… https://t.co/lWiyisDghR Dec 29, 2017
2179But in America, the vast majority of jobs aren’t unionized. So if MTA projects got less overstaffed and the worke… https://t.co/exPZSNEAgj Dec 29, 2017
2180If a French tunneling project employs fewer people and the workers go get different jobs, those new jobs will *also… https://t.co/ahfk5KPogs Dec 29, 2017
2181@brianmrosenthal When I say I’m pro-union, what I mean is that I’d prefer most American workers to be represented b… https://t.co/gaCb1EKA7E Dec 29, 2017
2182@brianmrosenthal He quotes Jim Peregoy saying “I’m not anti-union at all†but then criticizing what the unions do t… https://t.co/UeZVP0p2zF Dec 29, 2017
2183One of the things @BrianMRosenthal’s exposé of extensive featherbedding at the MTA highlights is the ways in which… https://t.co/6P9mabOfvT Dec 29, 2017
2184@ModeledBehavior @TimDuy Whatever we think *should* be most important, there’s an extensive political science liter… https://t.co/0dmObkOsQB Dec 29, 2017
2185Why NBA players can’t have it all. https://t.co/GOouVw6f4I Dec 29, 2017
2186@TimDuy There, too, the unemployment is quite low now (which is great) but the pace of improvement is not especially fast. Dec 29, 2017
2187I don’t see any reason to believe it’s Trump’s fault that job growth is slowing down, but it’s definitely slower in… https://t.co/NGoeRxsiXD Dec 29, 2017
2188It gets a little confusing because Trump himself keeps saying the economy is booming, but Trump’s unpopularity is l… https://t.co/ChMQdQtZhb Dec 29, 2017
2189One wild thing about this is Singapore’s construction costs aren’t low by any means. https://t.co/VuUj4Tz8RR Dec 29, 2017
2190@TPCarney It’s frightening to me, on a personal level, as well as being almost shockingly immoral. But on a purel… https://t.co/TMKTA1lrni Dec 29, 2017
2191@TPCarney It’s seriously not a bad job at all. You guys are very smart, very hard-working, and have the difficult… https://t.co/IFbW8Zjguk Dec 29, 2017
2192For the pop-up newsletter’s final day, I am going to steal ideas from @alon_levy and @ryanavent about where WMATA should build stuff. Dec 29, 2017
2193@YIMBY_Princeton He was behind in all the polls because he got way fewer votes than his opponents! I agree with yo… https://t.co/Cs96zXUGan Dec 29, 2017
2194The economy has done fine under Trump, but … 2012: 2.2 million jobs 2013: 2.2 million jobs 2014: 2.6 million jobs… https://t.co/9exJQx8pW4 Dec 29, 2017
2195Such a great idea for an article. https://t.co/oOjr5hmyfl Dec 29, 2017
2196Every day I read a staggering variety of takes that amount to: “yes, Trump is bad but the *real* problem is some pe… https://t.co/9ndjeps5L6 Dec 29, 2017
2197Working class heartland voters’ prayers answered at last. https://t.co/UlY8pkcnrJ Dec 29, 2017
2198Trump lies at a completely unprecedented volume, and the brightest minds in conservative media are dedicating their… https://t.co/02VUXUs4QV Dec 29, 2017
2199USPS package business is doing well. https://t.co/zwkrNCq1DY Dec 29, 2017
2200@kaysteiger What’s up with Al Franken? Dec 29, 2017
2201What people want, of course, is for Trump to break down on camera and admit that he’s guilty. But he did that mon… https://t.co/HAF4P0HSeR Dec 29, 2017
2202If I got to interview Trump I would drop the Russia questions (he’s been asked about this a lot) and go all-policy,… https://t.co/qBRV9i4b7w Dec 29, 2017
2203I don’t have any problem with the interview style the NYT uses during their interviews with Trump, but we should se… https://t.co/j3J1tyrQvB Dec 29, 2017
2204This deserves more attention ... a primary example of congressional Republicans (including Flake, Corker, etc) abdi… https://t.co/igW1A4rcRp Dec 29, 2017
2205The corrupt bargaining at the heart of Trump’s Washington — he ditches populism, and Congress lets him be corrupt af https://t.co/iq8NNobDZX Dec 29, 2017
2206Tech utopianism mostly hasn’t panned out but it really is inspiring how a couple of determined people with blogs an… https://t.co/F7kurJmrcZ Dec 29, 2017
2207@lydiadepillis What’s interesting is this form of anti-solidarity politics seems to happen exclusively in white communities. Dec 29, 2017
2208German business loved Hitler’s domestic policy but was wary of his protectionist instincts on trade. https://t.co/DJm3cPDFIx Dec 29, 2017
2209@adam_tooze It contains the very relevant finding that stock market prices are not a reliable indicator of whether… https://t.co/QHQrOl5t1k Dec 29, 2017
2210I think my favorite book of 2017 was @adam_tooze’s “The Wages of Destruction†which is like 10 years old but isn’t… https://t.co/ycGEJi6Rnc Dec 29, 2017
2211I’d been thinking “how do they get theaters to discount tickets enough to let $9.95 per month cover unlimited movie… https://t.co/VQzjGfEdJn Dec 29, 2017
2212@dylanlscott Now you have associations. Dec 29, 2017
2213Today was the first time I read a clear explanation of MoviePass’s business model and ... wow ... it’s literally lo… https://t.co/N4X8Sw44hu Dec 29, 2017
2214Trump’s plan to improve Americans’ health care. https://t.co/kpUKn4wwPZ Dec 29, 2017
2215Like “Can you walk us through what’s happening with personal exemptions versus the standard deduction and why you’re making that change?" Dec 29, 2017
2216I wish this moment in the interview had been followed up by an effort to ask Trump to describe some of the provisio… https://t.co/hMa6laLNuU Dec 29, 2017
2217Democratic government will always be under threat with this attitude in the White House. https://t.co/WOD5yqgJe3 Dec 29, 2017
2218The piece also does a great job of appropriately contextualizing MTA claims that the issue is simply that New York… https://t.co/XTLrVxQ0a9 Dec 29, 2017
2219@Max_Fisher I keep hearing that all the good stuff happens in private chats these days, but nobody invites me to an… https://t.co/da7UDnrK1y Dec 29, 2017
2220Great NYT look at New York City’s catastrophically mismanaged contracting and construction prices.… https://t.co/E3qi58ogCQ Dec 29, 2017
2221The undocumented population stopped growing years ago and of course Trump wants to take credit for having secured t… https://t.co/Kj9XPtH1X8 Dec 29, 2017
2222Trump: It’s really cold out. NASA: 2017 was the second-warmest year on record, surpassed only by 2016.… https://t.co/2WslFlP0xK Dec 29, 2017
2223I see Eric Garland tweets in my feed constantly, for example, but almost always because leftist tweeps are dunking… https://t.co/YIJXCfz2to Dec 29, 2017
2224In a weird way, I sometimes think there’s *too little* ideologically cocooning on social media and too much of peop… https://t.co/AMvRxCqO1Z Dec 29, 2017
2225More fun than opioids, that’s for sure. https://t.co/LSHsNwMfo0 Dec 29, 2017
2226Not that this is necessarily a representative sample, but I get a lot more cranky pro-Trump emails from people work… https://t.co/wW0Wjz1nUZ Dec 29, 2017
2227Puerto Rico is an important story in its own right, but also a chilling reminder of what we on the mainland have in… https://t.co/bNwqzwwNRa Dec 29, 2017
2228Perfection. https://t.co/SdflLy1Fdm Dec 29, 2017
2229"Banks aren't the winners†is an amazing thing for the top bank lobbyist to say about the bank lobby winning a bunc… https://t.co/dxHvezOZHd Dec 29, 2017
2230Tight labor market conditions in 2018 are going to be brutal on contingent labor “tech†startups. It’s time to piv… https://t.co/dLfMqvZOyx Dec 28, 2017
2231Either way, there’s a dangerous dynamic: Trump wants foreign leaders to flatter or bribe him, but that’s much easi… https://t.co/myL2fAoQYt Dec 28, 2017
2232One of the many odd conventions of Trump-era journalism is it’s conventional to say he likes foreign leaders who “f… https://t.co/fSGjnzpV3z Dec 28, 2017
2233@TheStalwart “Hahaha, I’d have to be high as a kite to endorse this overwhelmingly popular position.†Dec 28, 2017
2234Legalizing marijuana is the issue Democrats need for 2020. https://t.co/FebALLH0U0 https://t.co/D85IvYafCL Dec 28, 2017
2235@KPinDC Oh yeah this is terrible for me personally. Property taxes = $$$$ Dec 28, 2017
2236@JakeAnbinder When I went to Philly for the convention I was surprised to see they were still using subway tokens,… https://t.co/swiWQLMWnA Dec 28, 2017
2237Good, provocative thread ... build on and copy proven solutions, don’t spend all your time dreaming of a game-chang… https://t.co/ATjbXVBic5 Dec 28, 2017
2238@NateSilver538 Seems right Dec 28, 2017
2239New York, for example, has almost all of the infrastructure in place to run a German-style S-Bahn system but is lig… https://t.co/6ui0w3kpR2 Dec 28, 2017
2240Killing Consensus Politics by Sam Rosenfeld is a great history of the people who built the modern US political orde… https://t.co/7ME9tnL5MI Dec 28, 2017
2241What a weird thing to say. NYC could learn a lot from German transit operations. https://t.co/0kQgIQACmU https://t.co/hyB2MFn7qc Dec 28, 2017
2242@TPCarney @BenjySarlin @chrislhayes No, I don’t agree with any of that. Nor do I believe that you are troubled —… https://t.co/IGa90X3dyF Dec 28, 2017
2243@TPCarney @BenjySarlin @chrislhayes One way for Republicans to avoid creating the impression that they were raising… https://t.co/kuFDiccPOw Dec 28, 2017
2244@TPCarney @BenjySarlin @chrislhayes As all of the participants in this conversation are aware, the bill — if fully… https://t.co/mZZVGPktrL Dec 28, 2017
2245@TPCarney @BenjySarlin @chrislhayes But you know that. I know that you know that. You know that I know that you kno… https://t.co/nrRjtgVd9C Dec 28, 2017
2246@TPCarney @BenjySarlin @chrislhayes The fact that Donald Trump and Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell and Orrin Hatch li… https://t.co/LqeRZGXtdy Dec 28, 2017
2247@BenjySarlin @chrislhayes @TPCarney Why are the two of you playing along with Tim’s obviously bad faith complaints about this? Dec 28, 2017
2248@FrankEPotato1 I don’t think that will work. Dec 28, 2017
2249I really did not foresee a socialist podcast becoming a million dollar a year digital media business. https://t.co/dKeFdabaMz Dec 28, 2017
2250Great post from @ATabarrok but I think this may be better accounted for by Robert Gordon’s “1978 macro†argument ab… https://t.co/GWggl20ezN Dec 28, 2017
2251I don’t think liberals are ready for the crop of hard-right white youths born in the 21st century and receiving mos… https://t.co/Qav8SBQtAn Dec 28, 2017
2252Thanks to the recently passed tax cuts, @Voxdotcom is poised to hire a bunch of people to help us make a new TV sho… https://t.co/VyTaeCsWfH Dec 28, 2017
2253“Nuclear war with North Korea†twitter is going to be amazing. Dec 28, 2017
2254My greatest shame as a Fred user is I don’t really know how IVA and CCAdj work. Dec 28, 2017
2255@MattZeitlin Those horse soldiers won the war and kept us safe. Dec 28, 2017
2256A very nice appreciation of @larrymishel from @ddayen. Have learned a lot from him and EPI over the years, though… https://t.co/HQput3hUF3 Dec 28, 2017
2257@conor64 @jonathanchait I’m engaging in a little provocative framing on Twitter whose format pushes in the directio… https://t.co/rVzHBpHZg7 Dec 28, 2017
2258@jonathanchait @conor64 I know he’s not advocating safe spaces. I’m encouraging him (and you!) to take your (corre… https://t.co/RPP6PRcdfU Dec 28, 2017
2259@pnashjenkins @conor64 Right: My position is that political correctness is good, and some of the same consideration… https://t.co/OXffoecEsd Dec 28, 2017
2260For those who haven’t been following: In one silo, the video proves all opposition to Clinton is sublimated misogy… https://t.co/CCQELOHWg6 Dec 28, 2017
2261@WBrennan10 @conor64 No, Conor should realize that political correctness is good. Dec 28, 2017
2262How many of us would have predicted back in December 2015 that two years later the 2016 Democratic primary would st… https://t.co/FC6Z6JxRSL Dec 28, 2017
2263@Neil_Irwin It’s pretty good! Dec 28, 2017
2264@conor64 Perhaps you can explain at greater length then. But it seems to me that you’re right about “the next gen… https://t.co/C7yXab56qo Dec 28, 2017
2265@saramead What about for little kids who stand to inherit an estate worth over $11 million? Dec 28, 2017
2266@conor64 We need to create safe spaces for young, insecure white men where they will be sheltered from potentially… https://t.co/TtU7AU1r97 Dec 28, 2017
2267Important to do this pour encourager les autres. https://t.co/qELoPhh2Lz Dec 28, 2017
2268The Hitch stans trying to convince themselves that he wouldn’t have been loudly pro-Trump are funny. https://t.co/JSDgINBY4V Dec 28, 2017
2269Is it possible that Donald Trump knows what “the Court of St. James†is? Dec 28, 2017
2270I would read an article in which a reporter voyages to Trump Country diners and asks everyone for their thoughts on Vanity Fair. Dec 28, 2017
2271Large banks are (finally!) finding that they have some influence in Washington. https://t.co/9rqjAxL31j Dec 28, 2017
2272I sometimes think about how annoying Christopher Hitchens’ “contrarian†pro-Trump columns would be if he were still alive. Dec 28, 2017
2273@TheStalwart No, I’m too lazy to do that. Back when I was supposed to pay estimated taxes I was too lazy and just paid fines instead. Dec 28, 2017
2274@TheStalwart It all started by looking at house prices in San Antonio…. Dec 28, 2017
2275The culture war aspect of this is also less clear-cut than it’s often made out to be. Washington has no income ta… https://t.co/gWDiX3DcW0 Dec 28, 2017
2276In particular, the biggest monetary impact is going to fall on the richest people who are precisely the ones who ar… https://t.co/yUBMeIheMO Dec 28, 2017
2277This SALT change is not as big of a deal as the press is making it out to be. Dec 28, 2017
2278We badly need to get stricter with the house of lead. https://t.co/zGPRKHJt18 Dec 28, 2017
2279@YIMBY_Princeton @yversary I have no explanation for either the big rise in crime between 2012 and 2015 or the shar… https://t.co/9fQnJbweVX Dec 28, 2017
2280The story of 2017 — resistance works. https://t.co/QhcKjFp4hJ Dec 28, 2017
2281@YIMBY_Princeton @yversary Lead in water pipes is bad, but most lead exposure in America came from leaded gasoline. Dec 28, 2017
2282Oh boy. https://t.co/e6Wu1Rl9VY https://t.co/eKVszhG3AL Dec 28, 2017
2283@familyunequal I think it’s even lower than that — we’re up to 680,000 people or so, so 2017 murder rate should com… https://t.co/fBfjjMEMRo Dec 28, 2017
2284DC murders on track to fall 16% this year after falling 17% last year, but still considerably higher than the low p… https://t.co/sxIVVfRh2q Dec 28, 2017
2285Resistance works https://t.co/JKUS89xZ4f Dec 28, 2017
2286@sam_rosenfeld Back in the aughts, National Review generally criticized Bush’s gestures at domestic moderation whil… https://t.co/w6exVmFKIC Dec 28, 2017
2287@jbouie He filled judicial vacancies, the greatest achievement of any president in history. Dec 28, 2017
2288Winter Discourse Advisory: As the temperature drops, the takes get hotter to compensate. Dec 28, 2017
2289@guan @TheStalwart Should bring that offshore cash back to the US now that we have the tax cuts. Dec 28, 2017
2290It’s reminiscent of the time the Warriors unexpectedly jumped to light-speed and destroyed the 2007 Mavericks’ cham… https://t.co/KCBoEA9g17 Dec 28, 2017
2291EXCLUSIVE: It is cold outside. Dec 28, 2017
2292The top brass managed to talk Trump out of his skepticism of America’s huge military footprint by appealing to his… https://t.co/3N6naadHb3 Dec 28, 2017
2293Trump could say “now that I’m president I see that giving my predecessor a hard time about golfing was a mistake an… https://t.co/UembMT3g3O Dec 28, 2017
2294I guess I don’t care that Trump holds but I also don’t think accepting the president’s routine dishonesty as unwort… https://t.co/UVrUBTjboH Dec 28, 2017
2295The continuing NYC crime decline suggests: (a) DeBlasio’s much-derided end of stop and frisk was the right call.… https://t.co/OQOg12Ouyy Dec 28, 2017
2296I’m still a believer in the lead-crime link — what the New Zealand study shows is there was never much lead in New… https://t.co/ZUnA3OpfG7 Dec 28, 2017
2297I feel like the real issue here is declining family size not changing tastes. More kids = higher odds than someone… https://t.co/AQSyJUHRXX Dec 28, 2017
2298I suppose this is what I get for keeping a copy of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions on my bookshelf but I do… https://t.co/ZQqLTJ7SOU Dec 28, 2017
2299Had an elaborate dream in which I woke up one morning and decided I wanted to drop everything and pursue a PhD in the history of science. Dec 28, 2017
2300@alon_levy Oh I see — yeah this is a good idea. Dec 28, 2017
2301@alon_levy Won’t that just overtax that arm of the red line? Dec 28, 2017
2302@alon_levy A new north-south trunk would definitely be better for me, personally so I am eager to be persuaded this… https://t.co/pXrKyQGx7Q Dec 28, 2017
2303@JoshuaMound @pashulman @Econ_Marshall I will agree that whatever proposal Marshall was criticizing was bad if in e… https://t.co/wAbU2HK0Zq Dec 28, 2017
2304@alon_levy In principle it seems like we should dig a new east-west tunnel and run the Orange Line in it, but inste… https://t.co/I5zBYEu8sc Dec 28, 2017
2305@JoshuaMound @pashulman @Econ_Marshall You are referencing a critique I haven’t read of a proposal I haven’t made s… https://t.co/fsrHWa9Bks Dec 28, 2017
2306@HeerJeet https://t.co/hTEUy3ak6M Dec 28, 2017
2307@alon_levy The system definitely needs more core capacity somewhere but I’m trying to think through the best way to… https://t.co/K05P4ElIAR Dec 28, 2017
2308@JoshuaMound @Econ_Marshall Republicans like to pass bad laws that’s true. Dec 28, 2017
2309@JoshuaMound @Econ_Marshall It’s only an oxymoron if you try to make it the *only* tax. Dec 28, 2017
2310@alon_levy Yeah, I guess that makes more sense — the track is there so you may as well run something on it. Dec 28, 2017
2311@BrandonMagner Which column? Dec 28, 2017
2312An even hotter take is we should take away the military-industrial complex’s vast array of Arlington County surface… https://t.co/3e98i4g5yj Dec 28, 2017
2313WMATA should close the Arlington Cemetery station, drop the Blue Line service concept, and serve Franconia-Springfi… https://t.co/tA6TD62Bzl Dec 28, 2017
2314@dmtrubman I think they’re all vegans or something. Dec 28, 2017
2315I used to think of myself as a Labor Zionist but then I got bagels with Isaac Herzog in Tel Aviv and it was all very disillusioning. Dec 28, 2017
2316@dmtrubman Yes … by contrast, when I’ve visited Central Europe people eat stuff my grandma used to cook. Dec 28, 2017
2317The real scandal is they made a Jewish state and it’s hard to find good bagels or pastrami there. https://t.co/YUsZb1Z5EP Dec 28, 2017
2318Clint Capela’s field goal percentage is … nice. https://t.co/a5B8rL41zd Dec 28, 2017
2319“Thermostatic†is the official political science jargon for this but nobody understands that word and I have a todd… https://t.co/xRcLxBqUsd Dec 28, 2017
2320@SeanMcElwee It’s really an all-purpose critique of everyone’s election commentary not left-wing commentary in part… https://t.co/xRnI5QsClE Dec 28, 2017
2321@rmc031 Mueller won’t save you from bad tweets. Dec 28, 2017
2322@willmenaker No they didn’t. Dec 27, 2017
2323The SAT three years into the Yglesias regime: Spice : space travel :: _______ : car travel a) Tires b) Oil c) St… https://t.co/1Ddr2poTkQ Dec 27, 2017
2324My can’t lose platform: 1. Replace President’s Day with Super Bowl Monday as a day off. 2. Add Dune to the Common… https://t.co/qxO8QMCDxj Dec 27, 2017
2325@chrislhayes @cjane87 It was like they took the ship to lightspeed in an unexpectedly destructive way. Dec 27, 2017
2326@libbyanelson @Nicole_Cliffe Time to sell my Prius Dec 27, 2017
2327Instead of counting on Robert Mueller and the Deep State, Democrats should stop Trump by embracing all of my prefer… https://t.co/wv8R8ygwJl Dec 27, 2017
2328I have to say that I think if Andrew Breitbart were alive today I think he’d be extremely proud of the way his lega… https://t.co/jjrr66iMb8 Dec 27, 2017
2329“We appointed a deranged liar to serve as National Security Advisor†is certainly an argument that one can offer. https://t.co/BAyxiL91Af Dec 27, 2017
2330Congestion charges are a good idea — and not just for Uber https://t.co/sVJFrtEAKx Dec 27, 2017
2331@alon_levy @xenocryptsite Here you go: Federal spending less Social Security, Medicare, defense, and interest. https://t.co/UzbkHXOrhe Dec 27, 2017
2332@MattZeitlin The first two are good. Dec 27, 2017
2333People (including me) should probably spend less time criticizing things they don’t like and more time praising goo… https://t.co/GkGpmXkHPD Dec 27, 2017
2334A+ job https://t.co/IkgL0UZKjz Dec 27, 2017
2335@marcatracy I think a reasonable question for anyone to ask is “do I have something new to contribute here?†and at… https://t.co/M8au9XaomH Dec 27, 2017
2336Or you could try to dig deep and only interview vote-switchers, who are interesting. But even in a town (or count… https://t.co/UHS6GmfgEl Dec 27, 2017
2337Obviously one *could* craft a whole story based on talking to consistent partisans and that would get at something… https://t.co/OWontQRj7l Dec 27, 2017
2338I met a woman with a Trump bumper sticker on her car in a town in Maine that voted for Obama twice and then flipped… https://t.co/4Zrs1xkXwG Dec 27, 2017
2339Part of my objection to these pieces, I think, is that traveling to a place and asking a handful of people to talk… https://t.co/TdfTbafUyf Dec 27, 2017
2340"Joss Fong and her team at Vox produce videos throughout the year that make me go, 'Damn, I wish I made something l… https://t.co/GmX0nbpCz2 Dec 27, 2017
2341@JakeAnbinder It’s a little of both. They are redeveloping one of the malls in Pentagon City to incorporate more housing. Dec 27, 2017
2342When US presidents make their cabinet, for example, it’s normal to have some people who are primarily politicians (… https://t.co/ME0jHkgP4p Dec 27, 2017
2343I think it’s unfortunate that “technocrat†has become a term of abuse rather than a useful distinction. https://t.co/olVaEsXuHC Dec 27, 2017
2344@conorsen Tweets don’t pay the bills. Gotta get those clicks. Dec 27, 2017
2345tfw you have a great headline but don’t want to actually do the work of writing the article Dec 27, 2017
2346@ronanfitz22 @dsquareddigest The *policy* trajectory under Trump has basically been driven by congressional Republicans, so not really. Dec 27, 2017
2347@sunraysunray You can if your country uses the Electoral College. Dec 27, 2017
2348But if it’s (1) then Trump won because of car dealership owners and dentists who don’t like paying taxes and DGAF about anything else. Dec 27, 2017
2349If it’s (2) then Trump won because of building trades workers who will rally behind a platform of broad upzoning and increased construction. Dec 27, 2017
2350Which of these is the right way to play this Take Game? 1) Trump won because of [demographic group I wish to expr… https://t.co/bBI3ULBkfc Dec 27, 2017
2351Me, during hurricane season: Deeply concerned about climate change. Me, when the temperature is below freezing: Drill, baby, drill. Dec 27, 2017
2352I wonder what kind of Pelosi-Trump deals we might see in 2019: Municipal fiber everywhere but we have to call it TrumpNet? Dec 27, 2017
2353One nice thing about low unemployment is we’ll all remember that productivity growth is the foundation of prosperit… https://t.co/mSI3PgIhHU Dec 27, 2017
2354@MarcGoldwein He is definitely more passionate about hurting the poor. Dec 27, 2017
2355Fake public comments — the same play we saw with net neutrality. https://t.co/PUCJiqCQ1h Dec 27, 2017
2356Book pile is feeling cheery today https://t.co/AUljWRp2UL Dec 27, 2017
2357If Paul Ryan wants to say “I have decided that my years-long campaign to cut Americans’ Social Security and Medicar… https://t.co/j6HpwN8pxU Dec 27, 2017
2358My best guess is Trump’s infrastructure proposal will end up being bad on the merits. But I wouldn’t turn down a… https://t.co/BB13OmSaug Dec 27, 2017
2359@conorsen It’s like how my gentrifying neighborhood is full of black-themed condos like The Ellington and The Langston. Dec 27, 2017
2360I feel like it would be *much* healthier for the country for everyone to agree that this is the case and move forwa… https://t.co/DqlS1hFF8c Dec 27, 2017
2361@conorsen The ideal is what they have in Texas — lots of people living in what are clearly suburbs, but wearing boo… https://t.co/eyuYOoI64d Dec 27, 2017
2362Drag this asshole —> https://t.co/YeIYwYQ0iG Dec 27, 2017
2363@MarketUrbanism I’m not sure if I should be trying harder to publicize this, or if it’s better to let them do it quietly. Dec 27, 2017
2364I still can’t believe that we’ve spent all of 2017 hanging our hopes on the idea that in a moment of crisis a guy n… https://t.co/WMbzL9GEEZ Dec 27, 2017
2365@xenocryptsite People seem to be nostalgic for the days of more discretionary spending and less spending on retirem… https://t.co/9Um97NZCMQ Dec 27, 2017
2366@DrGlam @Nicole_Cliffe Listen, I have no idea what a telomere is and I don’t intend to start learning. Dec 27, 2017
2367I am against the backlash to the backlash to the Vanity Fair Hillary video. Dec 27, 2017
2368@Nicole_Cliffe He didn’t say he refuses to date women born in the 1980s, just that 90s ladies should open their min… https://t.co/oyanLuWVxB Dec 27, 2017
2369@Nicole_Cliffe The telomeres. Dec 27, 2017
2370There are surely more important instances of structural sexism in the world, but Hollywood’s reluctance to hire wom… https://t.co/p5AFzb0CZk Dec 27, 2017
2371A big corporate income tax cut should fix this. https://t.co/hHy2d1GPys Dec 27, 2017
2372@fullmetalninja @Atrios Some people like Hillary a lot. Others hate her. It’s a big country. Dec 27, 2017
2373It’s always important to distinguish levels from rates of change, but both are interesting things to look at and understand. Dec 27, 2017
2374Not that much changes from election to election and most Trump voters were also Romney voters. But the thing that… https://t.co/4jwed6KbmS Dec 27, 2017
2375I’m not sure I understand the perceived ideology stakes in this controversy. Trump won narrowly and got votes fro… https://t.co/Ix0gCWaYrG Dec 27, 2017
2376@davidshor Well it’d be fine for Prime Minister Corbyn to knight him on those grounds. Dec 27, 2017
2377@SeanMcElwee @cskovron How does “abolish ICE†poll? Dec 27, 2017
2378Really helpful chart and post here about the actual history of retirement in postwar America. https://t.co/1mqBUAsp6V Dec 27, 2017
2379Congressional Republicans' behavior since Trump won reminds me of my dad's movie Fearless. https://t.co/kSVr5YM2bB Dec 27, 2017
2380Amazing self-own. https://t.co/y1rq7zezEx Dec 27, 2017
2381My understanding is that the high fixed costs deter new entrants, since the price-hiking monopolist can always cut… https://t.co/0AJuMlOzMR Dec 27, 2017
2382Somehow they didn’t even get the Tories to pledge not to run against their vulnerable incumbents. All because the… https://t.co/d5YyFs5aIU Dec 27, 2017
2383The Coalition was really an extraordinary thing. Lib Dems marketed themselves as a left party during the campaign… https://t.co/qFf48m2YkS Dec 27, 2017
2384Nick Clegg is getting knighted for what exactly? Extraordinary achievement in destroying your own political party? Dec 27, 2017
2385From Trump pretending he’s not golfing during his visits to golf resorts to Paul Ryan pretending he wrote a middle… https://t.co/IFYWXBWAIX Dec 27, 2017
2386We’re faced with people who lie — willfully and constantly — about important things and trivial things about easily… https://t.co/LXGtHTCCd0 Dec 27, 2017
2387How people watch Trump and his fans revel in birther conspiracies and an obviously fake war on Christmas and then c… https://t.co/LqBymqFaNt Dec 27, 2017
2388Pam From The Office: Accurately characterizes a measure House Republicans voted for that she doesn’t realize was re… https://t.co/W4npHNo5qE Dec 27, 2017
2389Not sure I understand why we are holding Jenna Fischer’s statements about the tax bill to a higher standard of fact… https://t.co/cnJYQkwbAR Dec 27, 2017
2390Defined benefit pensions are in decline but it’s important to note it was never the case that most people had one —… https://t.co/StdkFTR8Tj Dec 27, 2017
2391Really glad someone finally had the idea to do a story on this subject. https://t.co/L6iJs4OevP Dec 27, 2017
2392I don’t think we’ve talked enough about “join me, please.†Such a perfect line. Dec 27, 2017
2393Pop explains the declining marginal utility of money and why hyper-inequality is inefficient. https://t.co/LS4J0dt5Q6 Dec 27, 2017
2394I don’t think Martin Luther would have made light of the sacred Jedi texts. https://t.co/Nf19DsyhLu Dec 26, 2017
2395The “Dave Thomas Circle†article is great but I think the Florida/Rhode Island/New Jersey clusterfuck is an even wo… https://t.co/aOW907B6Ho Dec 26, 2017
2396What if *all* congestion-inducing private vehicle rides incurred a fee rather than just Uber rides? https://t.co/aIqGTyciBn Dec 26, 2017
2397Populism https://t.co/LRdE7XBj3a Dec 26, 2017
2398It really tells you something about the conservative policy agenda that it can be effectively advanced by an ignora… https://t.co/RRjsOwm18h Dec 26, 2017
2399Great profile of @kenjilopezalt — can’t wait for his next book. https://t.co/hFxA3KAsI4 Dec 26, 2017
2400@CardiffGarcia @JohnHCochrane ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/EIugqlTqRW Dec 26, 2017
2401@CardiffGarcia @JohnHCochrane That’s certainly the argument ... but is it true? Dec 26, 2017
2402Not sure about this one Google. https://t.co/HlV0OmdaIl Dec 26, 2017
2403And this SEO post about the September Apple event. Really nailed the optimizations on this one. https://t.co/QSw9pqSPlw Dec 26, 2017
2404Actually, this take about how Angela Merkel was going to have a hard time with coalition-formation was very informa… https://t.co/KHiEJqJPI4 Dec 26, 2017
2405I’m gonna be honest with you all, I didn’t write any good articles this year so no year-old links to share. All m… https://t.co/vtiC2UbjZw Dec 26, 2017
2406@TheStalwart @jneeley78 Hard to account for the Rudy Gobert joke on that interpretation. Dec 26, 2017
2407“Why you drinking so much coffee today, daddy?†(I was drinking a totally normal amount of coffee, he just usuall… https://t.co/RJBoYekUyj Dec 26, 2017
2408Someone should do a feature article where they visit a small town where most people voted for Trump and detail how… https://t.co/y2DJ5iDiwy Dec 26, 2017
2409I think this attitude is dangerous and naive. Trump certainly has an inept side. But he’s consolidated power over… https://t.co/b0e84qotqe Dec 26, 2017
2410It’s fascinating to me how many people are working to help Trump consolidate an authoritarian regime while telling… https://t.co/D79iuVV46u Dec 26, 2017
2411He has transformed an agency that used to enforce environmental laws into one that doesn’t. https://t.co/FX8WI1UaM4 Dec 26, 2017
2412A cheap babysitter https://t.co/N7EgnGrc0p Dec 26, 2017
2413If you like paying direct cash bribes to Donald Trump in exchange for the opportunity to personally lobby but don’t… https://t.co/mO1aBGDpyY Dec 26, 2017
2414Every single Republican Party member of congress and every single Republican Party senator wakes up every day and d… https://t.co/BhBZCfcGm1 Dec 26, 2017
2415While the President is in residence at his private Florida beach club, wealthy individuals who want favors from the… https://t.co/96PrZhLDFA Dec 26, 2017
2416When you haven’t read the article https://t.co/C5RFotwRdV Dec 26, 2017
2417In general, Americans’ overall poor level of foreign language skills leads to toleration of way too many “expertsâ€â€¦ https://t.co/vc38Kt6Lw6 Dec 26, 2017
2418The unexpected end of the Trump era will come when Meghan Markle seizes power as Queen of America. https://t.co/G8kfRxEAU4 Dec 26, 2017
2419Trump is hard at work on behalf of the American people, live-tweeting Fox & Friends. Dec 26, 2017
2420@TheStalwart My grandma bought me a bunch of bearer bonds from the Treausury when I was born in 1981 and we still h… https://t.co/9n17czCN08 Dec 26, 2017
2421I had the Bannon-as-Gruber take back in February. https://t.co/g03EaMwMGo https://t.co/08DXBv8Ogj Dec 26, 2017
2422@dylanmatt @willmacaskill #AllLivesMatter Dec 26, 2017
2423My recollection is that in the mid-aughts, low unemployment and very intense military recruitment was making it har… https://t.co/K6YFWpJW2L Dec 26, 2017
2424Public sector labor shortages are a real thing since “just raise wages†normally isn’t something department heads h… https://t.co/ZYTVxTL6As Dec 26, 2017
2425“Tosche Station,†a coming of age film about a group of friends growing up in Anchorhead, Tatooine and trying to fi… https://t.co/T85sLr9cAE Dec 26, 2017
2426Greta Gerwig should direct a trilogy of mumblecore films set in the Star Wars universe. https://t.co/gW0zea7bhH Dec 26, 2017
2427@MattZeitlin Kobe is the reason for the season. Dec 26, 2017
2428@Laur_Katz Not sure this is Christmas-appropriate content. Dec 26, 2017
2429Wizards beat Cetics! https://t.co/sUdVcFGYmq Dec 26, 2017
2430Beating Boston is the only Christmas present I need. #DCFamily Dec 26, 2017
2431Here in the USA, Fox News and Sinclair Broadcasting provide this service for free. https://t.co/7kQlzQcUVX Dec 26, 2017
2432@JakeAnbinder Hm ... how was it? I’ve never been there. Big fan of the dumplings at Express. Dec 25, 2017
2433@JakeAnbinder Chinatown Express? Dec 25, 2017
2434@heyapm It’s what was playing at the Chinese restaurant Dec 25, 2017
2435Enes Kanter is the hero Trump-era America needs. Dec 25, 2017
2436@CulbertCindy @matthewjdowd Ada Twist, Scientist is good. Dec 25, 2017
2437@JimPethokoukis This should be @DouthatNYT’s next book. Dec 25, 2017
2438All the more unfortunate that the city (like virtually every American city) reserves most of its residential land f… https://t.co/CF261NLaCF Dec 25, 2017
2439He’s running https://t.co/duwK1FINj8 Dec 25, 2017
2440Chinese television is dunking on America’s total diplomatic isolation over the Jerusalem issue. Dec 25, 2017
2441NBA basketball is the reason for the season. Dec 25, 2017
2442@davidshor @xenocryptsite Gary Johnson voters! Were they surprised by the outcome of the election? What do they make of the past year? Dec 25, 2017
2443I hear they serve tasty lamb to visiting journalists https://t.co/dltrkL7wft Dec 25, 2017
2444Reminder: Back when he was Trump’s top national security aide, now felon Michael Flynn was secretly in the employ o… https://t.co/2bmOWmdBCm Dec 25, 2017
2445I don’t care what the critics say, real fans know that Dragons Love Tacos 2 is derivative, overly long, full of plo… https://t.co/kJj7ggny3B Dec 25, 2017
2446(((Happy Holidays))) Dec 25, 2017
2447Sopapilla time https://t.co/dNnCXHnfKI Dec 25, 2017
2448deep state —> https://t.co/iIceU6i6xA Dec 25, 2017
2449For generations, Jews dreamed of establishing a homeland for ourselves where we could say “Merry Christmas†to own… https://t.co/gIgPg9RO7G Dec 25, 2017
2450And the Archangel said unto the shepherds: “we’re going to say ‘Merry Christmas’ again†and they rejoiced. Dec 25, 2017
2451At any rate, you can see the roots of the 1980s S&L crisis in the attitude embodied by this movie. Sadly since tha… https://t.co/jlYoAQh7IT Dec 25, 2017
2452Why are the Building & Loan’s reserves on deposit at Potter’s bank anyway? Dec 25, 2017
2453Letting undercapitalized banks with cooked books engage in weird self-dealing housing development is not a path to… https://t.co/bcSgf50sBk Dec 25, 2017
2454Loans create deposits, people! Dec 25, 2017
2455The whole Bailey Park scheme also seems illegal. Dec 25, 2017
2456“It’s a Wonderful Life†is a shameful effort to turn bank fraud into something cuddly and sentimental. Dec 25, 2017
2457“Own the libs by saying ‘Merry Christmas.’†— The Orange Catholic Bible Dec 25, 2017
2458Merry Christmas! https://t.co/J9GBRN5hWD Dec 25, 2017
2459Thinking of prewriting a post headlined “Trump Just Tweeted Something Wildly Inappropriate†for tomorrow just in case. Dec 25, 2017
2460@estellecaswell This is amazing — you are living the dream. Dec 25, 2017
2461Even better: Next week try saying “happy new year†and cherish the tears of Jews, Muslims, and Chinese people wit… https://t.co/2Hdm4ouiwo Dec 24, 2017
2462Say “Merry Christmas†to a lib this year and watch his reaction superficially seem totally normal as both you and h… https://t.co/2nHEV4S27X Dec 24, 2017
2463It’s true that Die Hard is a Christmas movie, but Under Seige is the *best* Christmas movie. Dec 24, 2017
2464I am blessed that nobody has ever mispronounced Yglesias. https://t.co/0PhbzYYcWa Dec 24, 2017
2465The grit and determination these folks demonstrated in the face of relentless persecution will inspire countless fu… https://t.co/9YPGuk7Akh Dec 24, 2017
2466It’s so incredibly dangerous to have a regime in power that views violent crime as a propaganda opportunity to expl… https://t.co/pQxj8nsGmt Dec 24, 2017
2467Maybe this time is different? https://t.co/4dEv88vCVe Dec 24, 2017
2468https://t.co/uY6rdQs2T6 Dec 24, 2017
2469Big cities are more conducive to mass protests and other forms of anti-regime politics. https://t.co/ulPMioPNNh Dec 24, 2017
2470The Umayyad melting pot. https://t.co/dh0AsHBZrO Dec 24, 2017
2471The most interesting thing I’ve learned from “In God’s Path†(about the early Arab conquests) is how poorly documented it all was. Dec 24, 2017
2472There was no room at the inn, so they separated the child from his parents to deter future migrants. Dec 24, 2017
2473It’s like rain on your wedding day. A free ride when you’ve already paid. A fiscal expansion, two years too late. https://t.co/PZFirJHQEs Dec 24, 2017
2474@Joryls The idea is to minimize the extent to which new immigrants compete in the labor market with the children of… https://t.co/VIsAp03Wyj Dec 24, 2017
2475The Arab Caliphs kept trying to subdue Afghanistan but were repeatedly frustrated by mountainous terrain and the en… https://t.co/GclreuvXyM Dec 24, 2017
2476Virtually every House Republican did in fact vote to do this and you can feel free to hold it against them when you… https://t.co/bNSf3L80Rx Dec 24, 2017
2477If only poor Pegleg had been taught about the social construction of race it might have saved his life. https://t.co/FG8OvDbtoW Dec 24, 2017
2478neoliberal shill https://t.co/vWDHjqsKFk Dec 24, 2017
2479My read of the economic evidence is the optimal immigration policy would be to maintain consistently high levels of… https://t.co/s7YCjn9FqV Dec 24, 2017
2480E-Verify leads to: a) Worse outcomes for undocumented workers. b) Better outcomes for legal Mexican immigrants an… https://t.co/nEUWFwgxbj Dec 24, 2017
2481The good news is people who inherit estates worth over $11 million are going to pay less in taxes going forward. https://t.co/x0S95n3xf3 Dec 24, 2017
2482Do North Korean officials have intense debates over whether the Trump administration is rational and subject to deterrence? Dec 24, 2017
2483Eventually one of these Trump retweets is going to lead to a Supreme Court ruling on whether or not RTs = endorsements. Dec 24, 2017
2484“White Christmas†is a great song about the strong trend of net domestic migration toward the sunbelt. Dec 24, 2017
2485tl;dr there was a House special election in California that Democrats won in a landslide while improving on Hillary… https://t.co/DVrdMsnL7Q Dec 24, 2017
2486But Trump got 10.7 percent of the vote in the district and Romney got 14.1 percent — that’s not very much, but it’s… https://t.co/kiqat7e0fD Dec 24, 2017
2487The conceit of the “5-0†myth is that since Morrison failed to make the runoff (or, indeed, even to come close) the… https://t.co/K9zgAXijdK Dec 24, 2017
2488But as a reminder: On April 4, 2017 California staged a jungle primary for the seat vacated by Xavier Becerra.… https://t.co/S5yLctC1y1 Dec 24, 2017
2489It’s remarkable to me how many Republicans have convinced themselves the California 34 special election didn’t happ… https://t.co/YsP0Hg87iA Dec 24, 2017
2490As someone who shares the affliction, I respect the president’s commitment to remaining Extremely Online throughout the holidays. Dec 24, 2017
2491Trump is putting Director Wray’s integrity to the test this weekend. So far, he is failing. https://t.co/NdjyKEkfzT Dec 24, 2017
2492Perhaps cocaine smugglers are the true heroes of our era, trying to save people from the scourge of heroin. https://t.co/40SkLIHB4t Dec 24, 2017
2493He told the truth for once https://t.co/IiJAqVj7qb Dec 24, 2017
2494Time for some thinkpieces on campus political correctness https://t.co/xjeW6nehOC Dec 24, 2017
2495Out at a bar for the first time in a million years and Surf Nazis Must Die is on TV. Going out is more fun than I remembered! Dec 24, 2017
2496As a Christmas miracle, the Wizards bench is playing well. Dec 24, 2017
2497The Wizards’ war on Christmas. #DCFamily https://t.co/5FHHwxcr9Y Dec 24, 2017
2498Meanwhile, the Deep State continues its War on Christmas. https://t.co/mvowlSnzAA Dec 23, 2017
2499Opioid overdose deaths appear to be accelerating for all major population subgroups. https://t.co/Xotjctv1Gr Dec 23, 2017
2500@lkmcgann It’s visceral Dec 23, 2017
2501“Nobody knew Lagos had all these apartment buildings, it’s amazing!†Dec 23, 2017
2502The eventual Trump presidential visit to Africa, The Land of Huts, is going to be amazing. Dec 23, 2017
2503So much follows from the question of whether or not people who aren’t white Christians are or are not authentically… https://t.co/xHZVPIp5Zs Dec 23, 2017
2504I hope Mueller will be allowed to do his work but the lesson of this week is congressional Republicans won’t let th… https://t.co/ILnUin0BIX Dec 23, 2017
2505I don’t think Republicans have any cynical reason to back Trump. They’ve decided, after watching the past 12 mont… https://t.co/T5HioxAmgD Dec 23, 2017
2506As recently as six months ago, at least some congressional republicans would speak up for the idea that the FBI sho… https://t.co/rwWIl5N4Tj Dec 23, 2017
2507Harrison Ford is as old today as Sargon of Akkad was when Indiana Jones was first released. Dec 23, 2017
2508The narrow focus on saving Mueller’s job is misleading. Republicans are carrying out a partisan purge of the FBI… https://t.co/GZHqNF4ZIa Dec 23, 2017
2509To waste only $563 million out of a total budget of $3.5 trillion is pretty damn impressive. https://t.co/PcMW3mjT26 Dec 23, 2017
2510I do think the paucity of Latino voices in the media (even fewer than black ones!) shows through in a lot of covera… https://t.co/5u6Xig9Vrv Dec 23, 2017
2511It’s boring to express anew frustration with mainstream reluctance to explicitly acknowledge Trump’s racism, but I… https://t.co/gYQEOZbmJx Dec 23, 2017
2512Can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding. Dec 23, 2017
2513@Noahpinion Tragically, later generations of Hofstadter’s DAR lady learned to use exclusionary zoning to fix this. Dec 23, 2017
2514Obviously once Trump reopens all the mines we won’t need any skilled immigrants from West Africa or anywhere else t… https://t.co/v3LKjmo4ZL Dec 23, 2017
2515Gregory Clark finds that, in general, Americans with West African surnames (i.e., descendants of immigrants rather… https://t.co/6Gq2jq9NyO Dec 23, 2017
2516In case anyone wants to relay this information to the White House, Nigerian-Americans have much higher educational… https://t.co/06tFGMbbtn Dec 23, 2017
2517Based on this NYT exposé it sounds like Vice is going to have to reassign a whole bunch of people off the White House beat. Dec 23, 2017
2518Glad to see that immigration policy is being made on the basis of a sober read of the research rather than the cran… https://t.co/fnDt9N97qi Dec 23, 2017
2519If putting an impulsive, irresponsible, corrupt, egomaniacal racist in charge of your party doesn’t change the poli… https://t.co/8oCZL5GmbV Dec 23, 2017
2520This is accurate but also incredibly damning about “ordinary GOP stuff.†https://t.co/MK6OtnWvxb Dec 23, 2017
2521Scott Pruitt is both the Trump appointee doing the most long-term harm and also the Trump appointee whose views are… https://t.co/k3w0gxFsS6 Dec 23, 2017
2522@DCDPR But which Harrison is it?!? Dec 23, 2017
2523I’m not deeply versed in this, but having heard Cornel West lecture on philosophical pragmatism years ago I think s… https://t.co/DXtUxmLICx Dec 23, 2017
2524Convenient! https://t.co/4RO8paMwpZ Dec 23, 2017
2525One unfortunate side effect of Obama banning the phrase “Merry Christmas†is that his whole eight years in office n… https://t.co/wql76dzGQW Dec 23, 2017
2526@DCDPR In general, we could use a lot more historical signs. Let’s teach people who Dupont Circle and Farragut Squa… https://t.co/NFSE6D6njf Dec 23, 2017
2527At some point liberal MSNBC will be 18 hours a day of former GOP congressman Joe Scarborough. https://t.co/IJX0g4aYsX Dec 23, 2017
2528I wish the sign at Harrison Playground and other @DCDPR parks indicated who it’s named after. I’m guessing Benjam… https://t.co/FKg2XwrLyL Dec 23, 2017
2529This is why Canada is the best country — good appliances *and* universal health care. Dec 23, 2017
2530A neoliberal is a social democrat who’s been mugged by European major home appliances. https://t.co/NKvQV04jkI Dec 23, 2017
2531Jose’s grandparents showed up with a bunch of gifts for him so the tax bill’s benefits must be already trickling down. Dec 23, 2017
2532People who put their faith in Trump ended up betrayed. No way to predict that except by looking at any of his pas… https://t.co/4mj6CR7D7Z Dec 23, 2017
2533Sounds like we need some more takes about Political Correctness On Campus. https://t.co/xOrDAXW2G0 Dec 23, 2017
2534Good illustration heeled of how WMATA branching leads to wasted capacity. https://t.co/F0bnPtpIK8 Dec 23, 2017
2535@nycsouthpaw Pivoting to Bitcoin? Dec 23, 2017
2536Not to slight the obvious thing, but this also looks like some pretty shoddy photoshop work. https://t.co/njPR16s8OP Dec 23, 2017
2537One reason for the misperception that Latino families don’t assimilate is that assimilated Latinos are less likely… https://t.co/0nesSB50M5 Dec 23, 2017
2538@NathanClark56 @maggieNYT It’s a great article, I don’t know what you’re talking about. Dec 23, 2017
2539@maggieNYT Imagine if Trump had delivered an actual middle class tax cut instead of aggressive spin about an unpopu… https://t.co/JHUf35jzk7 Dec 23, 2017
2540It’s amazing that amidst all the infighting @maggieNYT recounts here, nobody seems to even consider the idea of pur… https://t.co/cOMkU2QrX9 Dec 23, 2017
2541Sometimes it’s the people you absolutely most suspect. https://t.co/K86ihADmjv Dec 23, 2017
2542Well when you’re up against the top-notch competition provided by the Brooklyn Nets these things happen. https://t.co/qyTqTRO1J7 Dec 23, 2017
2543The Rockets are insane. Dec 23, 2017
2544@HolmesJosh Which bank? Dec 23, 2017
2545Probably not going to credit the tax bill for this in a press release. https://t.co/WKPTxRBX3l Dec 23, 2017
2546Demanding cash payment to get out of jail is an odd way to run an anti-corruption campaign. https://t.co/ZVe3db71xP Dec 23, 2017
2547Anyway it’s fine. They’re great movies. But if a couple of instances of questionable plot logic are ruining The L… https://t.co/ugUdydsR0K Dec 23, 2017
2548A New Hope is compelling on its own terms and Empire Strikes Back is so good that one doesn’t dwell on what a hash… https://t.co/LrAve73JB6 Dec 23, 2017
2549If you want to talk plot holes ... ... Obi-Wan Kenobi’s big plan was to hide Luke on Anakin’s home planet in the c… https://t.co/bxG0ku4BtQ Dec 23, 2017
2550“You all smell terrible!†— Ezra Klein, toxic coworker. https://t.co/34VZIfte1C Dec 23, 2017
2551The Alabama playbook https://t.co/dDGhjKxwMu Dec 23, 2017
2552Most of these states have at least some coastline and thus don’t count. https://t.co/r01OVopPGR Dec 23, 2017
2553@ModeledBehavior @tylercowen :( Dec 22, 2017
2554@ModeledBehavior If you get it, you could keep $10 billion for yourself and forward the rest to me. Dec 22, 2017
2555I hope the extensive — and somewhat success — effort Republicans have been putting into turning the FBI into a tool… https://t.co/drXjAHYgtc Dec 22, 2017
2556@jbarro Are people saying she got fooled or that she was trying to fool people? Dec 22, 2017
2557Relatedly too much attention is given to Jill Stein and her voters relative to the much more numerous Johnson voters. Dec 22, 2017
2558Rather than asking if Trump voters are still happy with Trump, it would be useful to ask how Johnson voters feel about what’s happening. Dec 22, 2017
2559One reason the media focus on Trump supporters is misguided is that consolidating the “non-Trump†vote from 2016 is… https://t.co/hdp3bNsCaO Dec 22, 2017
2560My wife has trained our son to say “exterminate! exterminate!†like a Dalek. Dec 22, 2017
2561@nbeaudrot Boring Dec 22, 2017
2562He literally replaced E Pluribus Unum with Make America Great Again. The writing this season is way too heavy-han… https://t.co/nCiy8chNaP Dec 22, 2017
2563She’d have to deposit the check somewhere and when she did we’d have an instant demonstration of the loanable funds fallacy. Dec 22, 2017
2564The most fun way to increase the deficit by $1.5 trillion over ten years would be to have the IRS pick one person a… https://t.co/bZZNMJndiq Dec 22, 2017
2565@MarcGoldwein Yeah ... and the deficit should be a boost at first and a drag down the road. We’ll see. Dec 22, 2017
2566It’s all idiocy chasing its own tail but the point is permanent fiscal commitments are an absurdly expensive way to… https://t.co/mkWaC8sVyU Dec 22, 2017
2567Yes that’s a one-year cost versus a ten-year cost, but the White House is the one that started the game of touting… https://t.co/YaZAeYJLEW Dec 22, 2017
2568@MarcGoldwein I don’t see the bonus announcements the White House is celebrating promising to repeat this exercise for ten years. Dec 22, 2017
2569To give each of America’s 125 million households a $1,000 holiday bonus would cost $125 billion. The tax bill costs $1,500 billion. Dec 22, 2017
2570SantaCorp announces plans to deliver gifts to children in light of newly passed tax legislation. Dec 22, 2017
2571JCT says that in compromising the House and Senate bills, Republicans came up with something that does less for gro… https://t.co/EO9vwm5Ori Dec 22, 2017
2572Republicans spent years demanding the JCT start doing dynamic scores of tax bills. Then they decided to pass their… https://t.co/QKIt8lUAJX Dec 22, 2017
2573The real cost of the Republican tax bill https://t.co/4eXsY7Lgwa Dec 22, 2017
2574Security guard wished me a merry Christmas and I briefly thought he was going to be sent to the FEMA gulag but then… https://t.co/6eYJORHaSx Dec 22, 2017
2575Mulvaney’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau no longer defines protecting consumers as part of its mission. https://t.co/7xWUi656gl Dec 22, 2017
2576The less popular Trump becomes, the more tightly congressional Republicans bind themselves to him. https://t.co/1fd4dcIbdo Dec 22, 2017
2577EXCLUSIVE: Scoop-obsession sometimes breeds myopia about what’s really important. https://t.co/4Opf1jrleb Dec 22, 2017
2578Last year, about 40% of private sector workers got a bonus of some kind. https://t.co/KPGhM3D64b Dec 22, 2017
2579Companies paying out holiday bonuses — a totally normal thing companies regularly do! — and then spinning them as t… https://t.co/uMTy7zSsjH Dec 22, 2017
2580Or better yet, in October 2018 put out press releases promising that employees will get bonuses in November if Republicans hold congress. Dec 22, 2017
2581All these CEOs should be saving their “vote Republican so we can keep getting tax cuts†bonuses for October 2018. Dec 22, 2017
2582@WardDPatrick @maggieNYT @realDonaldTrump @Patriots Is it true that Kraft’s personal taxes will increase or is that just something he said? Dec 22, 2017
2583@cFidd Jesus Dec 22, 2017
2584The shocking truth is that Eli is one of the very smartest and most rigorous thinkers in American conservatism toda… https://t.co/GH0oEmvnWk Dec 22, 2017
2585@cFidd Wait do people seriously argue that? Dec 22, 2017
2586In between, we had the moment when Trump said a neo-Nazi parade contained “many fine people.†Dec 22, 2017
2587If that feels like a long time ago, how about the time Trump hosted Sergei Lavrov in the Oval Office, talked about… https://t.co/o4V9k42Wa3 Dec 22, 2017
2588Remember when Republicans lost a Senate seat in Alabama (!) and decided the best fix was to rush ahead with an unpopular tax bill? Dec 22, 2017
2589Literally everyone predicted this. https://t.co/e5I4yDE5GC Dec 22, 2017
2590¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/uDo0jSybws Dec 22, 2017
2591@TimothyNoah1 As you started out by saying, getting taken off the tedious White House beat is not really punishment. Dec 22, 2017
2592@TimothyNoah1 Or maybe next time victims will be more reluctant to come forward, having seen how the powers-that-be circled the wagons. Dec 22, 2017
2593@TimothyNoah1 Will he? I dunno. The ruling seems to have been that a little groping’s not so bad. Dec 22, 2017
2594Amazing feature here. https://t.co/l01UZyaUYB Dec 22, 2017
2595@TimothyNoah1 Should the Times do anything to ensure the safety of his coworkers? Dec 22, 2017
2596He covered up the large-scale sexual abuse of children. https://t.co/rx5b7mvRZf Dec 22, 2017
2597@nbeaudrot This is so much deadlier than AIDS and with a less-stigmatized population. Dec 22, 2017
2598There’s a decent chance Trump will end up running for re-election as the first president in a century to preside ov… https://t.co/tt7Akj4CAO Dec 22, 2017
2599Trump had a chance to address something that legitimately went really poorly under his predecessor and instead he p… https://t.co/B67VRk4XU6 Dec 22, 2017
2600The ongoing political inattention to the opioid overdose epidemic amidst mounting evidence that it’s getting worse is remarkable. Dec 22, 2017
2601tfw passing a bill that polls at 25% is a high note https://t.co/080o4nB6rx Dec 22, 2017
2602I am a sophisticated consumer of political news who will not blame the GOP tax law for this, but it’s conceivable s… https://t.co/RIIFjakg2z Dec 22, 2017
2603A lot of the people offering this take have an excessively simplistic view of how withholding works. My paycheck… https://t.co/HRzYax3fjq Dec 22, 2017
2604The Last Jedi is good. It’s not perfect and some of the specific criticisms seem right. But don’t overlook the a… https://t.co/9xDhkDivng Dec 22, 2017
2605I saw: — Girls in hijabs holding hands and skipping down the street. — A police officer helping an old white lady… https://t.co/F7ZjQPmBBx Dec 22, 2017
2606Being taken to see a “rough neighborhood†in the Netherlands was one of the more hilarious experiences of my life. https://t.co/5qiCmnsgc4 Dec 22, 2017
2607@benjaminwittes What if Chris Wray went to work for Donald Trump because he thinks Donald Trump is a good man and h… https://t.co/rCkKUOkgny Dec 22, 2017
2608Trump himself is reactive, short-sighted, and doubtless obsessed with Mueller. But guys like Jim Jordan play for b… https://t.co/w3s7p94OFr Dec 22, 2017
2609We ought to read the ongoing (and seemingly successful) Republican push for a partisan purge of the FBI as about mo… https://t.co/2nN9ML2H7t Dec 22, 2017
2610The good news for Republicans headed into 2018 is not only is the economy doing well right now, but macroeconomic f… https://t.co/8Lze1ibTin Dec 22, 2017
2611@squarelyrooted Google “human high culture†Dec 22, 2017
2612@humantransit @alon_levy This certainly seems like a problem with our Silver Line here in DC. Dec 22, 2017
2613@humantransit @alon_levy I suppose they have low operating costs, too. Dec 22, 2017
2614Why do the Chinese build metro systems with no branching? (@alon_levy @humantransit) Dec 22, 2017
2615@awprokop Gotta assume Kennedy relishes the opportunity to write a 5-4 decision that Saves The Republic At some poi… https://t.co/wXWViHHOKA Dec 22, 2017
2616I took a class in college where we read it *and* Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War.†Should have been called How To Impres… https://t.co/5uB0BjROAi Dec 22, 2017
2617Thucydides’ “History of the Peloponnesian War†has inspired more bullshit artists than any other work in human hist… https://t.co/jEXLFIwBLt Dec 22, 2017
2618Brown seems, um, kinda crunchy for the Ivy League? If you go there, get your parents to take you to Al Forno for dinner when they visit. Dec 22, 2017
2619I can fake my way through a conversation about all these topics except Brown University. https://t.co/xdbBfe8hR6 Dec 22, 2017
2620This seems like excellent news for the city — good for @Markein https://t.co/OBlqvQCKJO Dec 22, 2017
2621@chrislhayes Seems very unlikely to me that Senate D caucus would hold the line on that. Dec 22, 2017
2622@sahilkapur @jonathanchait @SethHanlon I feel like there’s been a kind of weird Great Forgetting of the extent to w… https://t.co/QTOiZAvlpd Dec 22, 2017
2623On Planet Earth, the FBI threw the election to Trump by ginning up a totally bogus October Surprise out of Anthony… https://t.co/pqPUn373R1 Dec 22, 2017
2624@sahilkapur @SethHanlon I think the vintage-2010 Democrats were thinking they favored cutting Medicare, unaware tha… https://t.co/V6lrScSWR2 Dec 22, 2017
2625Merry Christmas, everyone! https://t.co/DGCfbPts4i Dec 22, 2017
2626I’m gonna do some #takes on how Trump is bad. https://t.co/PxvzfPeaYr Dec 22, 2017
2627Yes, his three non Star Wars movies are all great. https://t.co/xfJCZxYLc9 Dec 22, 2017
2628@tvoti FYI: If you haven’t seen it, “Brick†is an amazing film. Dec 22, 2017
2629I’m finally gonna see The Last Jedi so I can find out whose takes are right. I love spoilers so I read @tvoti’s g… https://t.co/tWfBEA6L4H Dec 22, 2017
2630@chrisgeidner Now I’m really curious about Van Accessible Parking Spaces. Dec 22, 2017
2631I have been mostly conked out with NyQuil but for some reason people have been fighting in my mentions about Nina Turner all day. Dec 22, 2017
2632Way more racial discrimination settlements and way fewer sexual harassment ones than I’d have guessed. https://t.co/2KhZi5eY62 Dec 22, 2017
2633Does the New York Sun exist? https://t.co/un9GLvoNVt Dec 22, 2017
2634Clearly frustrated about the economy. https://t.co/VXCYZ6j8Fw Dec 21, 2017
2635@QuirkySquark @ModeledBehavior Rather than providing a service (writing) his pass-through could produce intellectual property that it sells. Dec 21, 2017
2636@ModeledBehavior I will need to do an interview with his accountant to fully understand the new plan. Dec 21, 2017
2637I seriously doubt the rushed JCT scores and other basic modeling approaches have a handle on the coming explosion o… https://t.co/PQ92OQiImM Dec 21, 2017
2638My dad told me today he really is reorganizing as a pass-through entity so the tax law is already working. Dec 21, 2017
2639They won’t even say Flynn was a mistake https://t.co/XsMXFkxy9p Dec 21, 2017
2640The internet has produced too many Last Jedi Takes and not enough Blade Runner 2049 Takes. Dec 21, 2017
2641Bannon kind of reminds me of myself as an incredibly pretentious 17 year-old. https://t.co/4lV7A70i7J Dec 21, 2017
2642He’s running https://t.co/9VarOM5CS1 Dec 21, 2017
2643“Even if it goes down 25 percent I’m still way up†Dec 21, 2017
2644Couple of bros sitting next to me checking their cryptocurrency profits on their phones. Dec 21, 2017
2645Moby Dick which covers all these topics and much more! https://t.co/1wNJt3juwu Dec 21, 2017
2646Everything should be indexed to the GDP deflator don’t @-me. Dec 21, 2017
2647Whatever they ask you, just say: “That’s an interesting point, but the REAL issue is that frequent service matter… https://t.co/9ZQBSgG41q Dec 21, 2017
2648Introducing explicit randomness would also cut down on pernicious “Will Of The People†type overreadings of every election outcome. Dec 21, 2017
2649I sometimes think we should decide all elections probabilistically where your share of the vote becomes your odds i… https://t.co/tfkFaOxwJi Dec 21, 2017
2650@binarybits This article has a few examples — the move back then was to put .com in the name. https://t.co/HoNvhsTYw4 Dec 21, 2017
2651Pew poll from April before the tax debate started: — People were mad corporations & the rich paid too little. — P… https://t.co/28VbiHGQeX Dec 21, 2017
2652Welfare reform. https://t.co/VlubvsMCd1 Dec 21, 2017
2653Obviously Ivanka has never filed her own taxes and hasn’t thought about this much, but in April people will be doin… https://t.co/tYsnqEgm4S Dec 21, 2017
2654Idea: Blockchain migration Dec 21, 2017
2655You will be shocked to learn that this is not really how it works https://t.co/k39vwYshXy Dec 21, 2017
2656Definitely not a bubble https://t.co/afhaCdV5sO Dec 21, 2017
2657@lkmcgann Make it a 23 percent rate and you’d have better social engagement + more room for middle class tax cuts. Dec 21, 2017
2658Sounds like we need a corporate tax cut https://t.co/JuqdqcNqqM Dec 21, 2017
2659It’s so generous of all these billionaires and CEOs to invest in propaganda for a tax cut that mainly benefits the… https://t.co/wRUZ6nkdpH Dec 21, 2017
2660Comcast is celebrating the tax cut with higher prices https://t.co/McikKzstDQ Dec 21, 2017
2661It’s weird that the raise Wells Fargo announced today because of the tax cut was also announced back in September. https://t.co/6oQggjwtpD Dec 21, 2017
2662This spectacle has me ready to go full communist. https://t.co/0FLK3gprLV Dec 20, 2017
2663If Republicans wanted coverage to emphasize middle class people getting a tax cut they could have written a bill th… https://t.co/AxtiHFOdu0 Dec 20, 2017
2664Trump’s budget proposes cuts to Social Security https://t.co/5LfhOs5Agd Dec 20, 2017
2665They had to get a trillion dollar corporate tax cut done as a Christmas gift to their donors, so Republicans ran ou… https://t.co/fc4xHctdby Dec 20, 2017
2666@dylanmatt What could possibly go wrong with genetically engineering deadly viruses? Dec 20, 2017
2667This was a Pew poll in August. It showed little public support for cutting taxes on corporations and affluent hou… https://t.co/zftbmGqOg8 Dec 20, 2017
2668tfw you sold the white working class on populist nationalism and delivered a trillion dollar corporate tax cut https://t.co/bUxblknIlI Dec 20, 2017
2669At last? https://t.co/bZC4n7qihB Dec 20, 2017
2670“Hey everyone, meet the new guy. We decided his past harassment didn’t warrant firing so instead we’re making him w… https://t.co/jDQQuY39ls Dec 20, 2017
2671AT&T workers got a bonus thanks to their union. AT&T executives want the world to think it was thanks to Trump’s t… https://t.co/vEXFyYCbHn Dec 20, 2017
2672It’s nice, I guess, that we’re now maybe sometimes going to hold people accountable for extreme outlier misbehavior… https://t.co/i4ZmUDo5zm Dec 20, 2017
2673This is why victims don’t want to come forward. They end up put on trial and most likely nothing happens. Better… https://t.co/oSmFK3nFef Dec 20, 2017
2674Out sick today and I’ve been asleep all afternoon ... for now I’ll just say: what she said —> https://t.co/m3UPJkwz0I Dec 20, 2017
2675DC still growing fast. https://t.co/wHIiK8JboC Dec 20, 2017
2676@conorsen Four states have something like a third of the country’s total population. Dec 20, 2017
2677Everyone’s moving to … Idaho? https://t.co/xc6EmqIgIR Dec 20, 2017
2678This is a good, forceful, but appropriately polite response. https://t.co/KtSPHBfquk Dec 20, 2017
2679Imagine writing this sentence. https://t.co/xQ8qgLe1qt Dec 20, 2017
2680I know! https://t.co/SpGtBkH6lg Dec 20, 2017
2681In some ways, presiding over a good economy is a handicap for incumbent politicians because it’s harder to demonstr… https://t.co/KfrN4cPeNl Dec 20, 2017
2682Reasonable people can disagree as to whether the mass public’s preference for rates over levels makes sense, but it… https://t.co/tWLXkFC7LG Dec 20, 2017
2683Actual economic conditions in 2017 have been MUCH better than they were in 2012, but the *pace of job growth* has been slower. Dec 20, 2017
2684Obama was able to win reelection in 2012 because even though the economy was incredibly shitty, it was getting bett… https://t.co/rlUQXk9B9J Dec 20, 2017
2685Something people keep forgetting about Trump and the economy is all our evidence suggests that what matters to publ… https://t.co/VE1hiefVu9 Dec 20, 2017
2686wut? https://t.co/gOVT7fUrcK Dec 20, 2017
2687The Democrats won office through the underhanded tactic of letting American citizens vote in elections. https://t.co/0b8kHYYkGe Dec 20, 2017
2688@guan @TheStalwart WSJ is the populist alternative to the FT Dec 20, 2017
2689Yeah the Lead Poisoning Generation that conducted an unprecedented crime wave in its youth has now aged into positi… https://t.co/AhXSskAEOh Dec 20, 2017
2690@karlbykarlsmith I get that but “interest rates are low so the deficit isn’t a big problem†is a pretty good story! Dec 20, 2017
2691Anyways, Democrats are way too hung up on deficits and Republicans have departed contact with reality. It’s not an… https://t.co/26oLRAEoSf Dec 20, 2017
2692Like I sure hope Susan Collins is lying about this and hasn’t just totally lost her marbles. But she seems sincere, right? Dec 20, 2017
2693Increasing the deficit is not the worst thing in the world but the number of senators who seem to have to sincerely… https://t.co/Q2ARNPhoRO Dec 20, 2017
2694This map of stark economic segregation in the DC area showed I live in a pretty integrated neighborhood.… https://t.co/bYGozn7FbK Dec 20, 2017
2695Adventures in framing: This research presents itself as skeptical of the idea that fixing food deserts can fix nutr… https://t.co/rwbWPBksH5 Dec 20, 2017
2696“construction is expected to be simultaneously performed on 20 different subway lines, measuring a total distance o… https://t.co/UZSaMSzAqy Dec 20, 2017
2697I guess maybe we’re supposed to believe if we deport some DREAMers that will change everything for the better somehow. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Dec 20, 2017
2698There was a time when they said the problem with the Bush years was they didn’t pay enough attention to the deficit… https://t.co/dfXvHmIKIU Dec 20, 2017
2699Another answer was that somehow the whole crisis was the fault of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but they’re not doing… https://t.co/SHJKTuh5pb Dec 20, 2017
2700One answer was that Bush-era tax policy lacked permanence and relied too much on on phase-in phase-out gimmicks but they’re back to that. Dec 20, 2017
2701I would love to hear a Republican try to explain what was wrong with US economic policy 2001-2009 and how their new… https://t.co/vj0LB37rET Dec 20, 2017
2702There are just fantastical quantities of short-term thinking embedded in this bill. https://t.co/3zzEYIrPmT https://t.co/I5b5gHdAxu Dec 20, 2017
2703@chrisswartout I grew up next door to Cinema Village Dec 20, 2017
2704Quad Cinema > Lincoln Plaza Dec 20, 2017
2705The benefits trickle down https://t.co/NY2IMqtITw Dec 20, 2017
2706@BrendanBuck How much should I expect my paycheck to grow next year? Dec 20, 2017
2707@RichardRubinDC The price is REIT? Dec 20, 2017
2708What we should do is have five different definitions and then let the public bid, with the auction-winner becoming… https://t.co/rEc0s2whWe Dec 20, 2017
2709I *think* the SEC could do this by ruling it’s a form of market manipulation. https://t.co/ztXydSHXCI Dec 19, 2017
2710Dreidels should be like AD&D dice and come with different numbers of sides for more complex gameplay. Dec 19, 2017
2711All this has happened before and all this will happen again. https://t.co/3335OW8ZYN Dec 19, 2017
2712I don’t approve of ripping off Barbara Kruger. https://t.co/LHmXf028Xq Dec 19, 2017
2713New WEEDS on the tax bill. Find out if we love it! https://t.co/pWhd2T0sOY Dec 19, 2017
2714@nbeaudrot It’s a different way of accomplishing the same thing. Dec 19, 2017
2715This is a lot less of a “historic†moment than Paul Ryan’s media fan club wants you to think. GOP majorities passe… https://t.co/1ntBbBjkLX Dec 19, 2017
2716I find this bravado odd … … Democrats can run on canceling Trump’s scheduled middle class tax hike and paying for… https://t.co/2eNlknCzHE Dec 19, 2017
2717What "affordable housing" really means https://t.co/v9mCLV2WSe Dec 19, 2017
2718@brithume @jmartNYT So the “arcane rules†had nothing to do with it is what you’re saying? Dec 19, 2017
2719@brithume @jmartNYT What about the budget rules prevented them from making the middle class cuts permanent and the… https://t.co/EbTjG16sHy Dec 19, 2017
2720JCT: When fully phased-in, families earning less than $75,000 will be paying higher taxes. https://t.co/TsrSx2NffI Dec 19, 2017
2721Republicans are Mad Online that the AP accurately described what the legislation does. https://t.co/RCtGdZZZ2O Dec 19, 2017
2722Do people do this intentionally? https://t.co/6VxJgurkEf Dec 19, 2017
2723Does the citrus farmer bailout fit on the postcard? https://t.co/Y5QNzGYKqj Dec 19, 2017
2724Don’t tweet out quotes of public figures lying without providing the context that they are lying! https://t.co/5GgUg0ucmW Dec 19, 2017
2725If only she’d done infrastructure first. https://t.co/dj1VLgvDJe Dec 19, 2017
2726@drvox I enjoyed that thread, but this tax bill is very unpopular! Dec 19, 2017
2727Stocks are down today because nothing matters. Dec 19, 2017
2728Paul Ryan has been working for this tax bill for years. — The tax bill does not achieve any of Ryan’s stated simpl… https://t.co/yU66osP2m0 Dec 19, 2017
2729@briebriejoy @jonathanchait But that’s what I mean — you are searching for optimism (and finding it in a class-firs… https://t.co/yTJyh9yihV Dec 19, 2017
2730Like if your boss has announced plans to give everyone a $4,000 raise when the tax cut passes. RT if not. Dec 19, 2017
2731There is nothing that Paul Ryan can do that attenuates the credulousness of Paul Ryan press coverage. It’s amazing. https://t.co/9Z5GYN8iFH Dec 19, 2017
2732It’s like that scene in The Town when they decided robbing banks was hard so they should take money from the middle… https://t.co/vOgviOpTRh Dec 19, 2017
2733Don’t forget the last part! They’ll be removed, the bill will pass, and some seriously ill people will end up goi… https://t.co/7KdVnpV3Ny Dec 19, 2017
2734@DouthatNYT @tylercowen When will you write your column about how we should ban porn? Dec 19, 2017