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So does anyone know what's going on at GOOD? Is it just money problems? 2 minutes ago via TweetDeck
+1 RT @resnikoff: This is an enormous bummer. is.gd/BYY2b0 Someone else should snag @annfriedman pronto. h/t @irincarmon 3 minutes ago via TweetDeck
maggiekb1 I got to write the introduction to the @NYTimes Magazine's awesome "Innovations" issue. Check it out nytimes.com/interactive/20… 25 minutes ago via web Retweeted by drgrist and 4 others
@greenspacenotes You also have decoupled utilities. WA doesn't yet. Nerd win for CA! 23 minutes ago via TweetDeck in reply to greenspacenotes
@GlobalEcoGuy I've asked that Q many times. I've yet to get a coherent answer. 25 minutes ago via TweetDeck in reply to GlobalEcoGuy
My wife bought a bottle of Bulleit Bourbon at Safeway today. Thanks, I-1183! is.gd/joiwk2 26 minutes ago via TweetDeck
@jimgeraghty Stimulating a down economy is basic, textbook economics. No passion required. 30 minutes ago via TweetDeck in reply to jimgeraghty
@jimgeraghty But conservatives decided in 2008 (odd, that) that stimulus is now some odd, alien, socialist concept. 33 minutes ago via TweetDeck in reply to jimgeraghty
@jimgeraghty It "worked" to prevent a much deeper, longer dip. It wouldn't have worked better if there was more, then & since. 34 minutes ago via TweetDeck in reply to jimgeraghty
That's a tornado, all right! is.gd/97gi8x 35 minutes ago via TweetDeck
@G_Portmanteau Bran's still on the loose, so ... #probablynotright 36 minutes ago via TweetDeck in reply to G_Portmanteau
@jimgeraghty So are you telling your GOP friends in Congress to drop their opposition and pass more stimulus? 41 minutes ago via TweetDeck in reply to jimgeraghty
Fact: RT @HarMarSuperstar: No one has EVER ordered a Pepsi. 42 minutes ago via TweetDeck
Duck, y'all. RT @capitalweather: Tornado warning for WASHINGTON DC, western Prince George's co til 5:15. Take cover now, esp E side of DC. 43 minutes ago via TweetDeck
@jimgeraghty I refuse to believe you're a dumb as you're acting. 43 minutes ago via TweetDeck in reply to jimgeraghty
@jimgeraghty Because he would have done it if not for you guys! 44 minutes ago via TweetDeck in reply to jimgeraghty
@jimgeraghty Point is, it's rather absurd to blame O for not doing things that GOP fought then & has fought ever since, tooth & nail. about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck in reply to jimgeraghty
@jimgeraghty You're being dense. Conservatives wanted modest, all-tax-cut stim. O's team want v. large stim. Snowe was arbiter in middle. about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck in reply to jimgeraghty
Fan: "Why do you kill all my favorite characters?" GRR Martin: "Give me a list of your surviving favorites and I'll see what I can do." about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck
@jimgeraghty This is well-documented history. Several books about it. Size of stimulus was constrained to what Olympia Snowe would accept. about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck in reply to jimgeraghty

Name David Roberts
Location Seattle, WA
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Bio Seattleite transplanted from Tennessee; now blogging for Grist about energy politics. Climate hawk, deficit dove.