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@MattZeitlin

Reporter. Have written for places — buzzfeed, slate, medium, the nation, vox, the new republic — and would like to write for you. matthew.zeitlin@gmail.com

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Joined January 2008

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    What does socialism mean to Bernie Sanders? I looked at his time in Vermont in the 70s and 80s, where, even as a gadfly candidate, he realized working class Vermonters were his base and would fight with the (further) left over it if he had to

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  3. We need Paul Walter Hauser to play all these guys like Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor

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  4. Being from a normal part of the country and taking the dialect quiz is a drag, it’s all “no we don’t have a word for drive through liquor stores” and “I’ve never heard the term ‘when the devil beats his wife’ in any context, let alone when it’s raining and sunny at the same time”

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  5. Oh a militia? In Michigan? Must be a bunch of very normal guys!

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  6. Maybe I’m some kind of urban sophisticate but in modern America is “militia” really some polite euphemism. Literally the first thing I think about when people talk about them is Timothy McVeigh

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    There was tremendous media outrage over Ruth's Chris Steak House receiving PPP money. The funding was returned. Now workers at Ruth's Chris are being laid off and much of the PPP money has not been spent

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  8. Feel like any time you have to take out advertisements to tell people about your liquidity it’s a bad sign

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  9. ideal magazine story, read read read

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  12. parliamentary systems rule because the head of government often has their career end not by run of the mill election losses or retirement, but by brutal backstabbing from their ostensible allies and partners

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  13. if svetlana alexievich, bertrand russell, and winston churchill can win the nobel prize for literature there's no reason matt levine can't

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  14. one funny thing to track in all these videos is trump's description of his own condition, sometimes he didn't really have to go to the hospital, other times was "very sick" and was miraculously revived by regeneron

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  15. always interesting when people are like *this* medicine, this treatment etc should be available to everyone for free because they really need it and it saves lives. interesting!

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  16. The Tao of parking: if you go far you will may a spot, but if you circle, the spot will find you.

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  17. (two possible responses: 1. there actually is a lot of redistribution and advanced democracies tend to have progressive tax and/or spending policies. 2. there isn't as much democracy as we think)

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    We invite members of the State Department to subscribe to .

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  19. in the 19th century it was basically assumed that democracy would inexorably lead to expropriation and an egalitarian redistribution of wealth. the extent to which that hasn't happened is one of the more interesting puzzles in political theory.

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  20. The crazy thing about Eddie Van Halen is that was basically his real name

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