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  1. 9 hours ago

    Elizabeth Warren has lots of plans, but this, right here, is her core policy pitch, the riff she turns most questions back to. The middle-class benefits a 2-cent wealth tax on fortunes can buy, and how much that bargain could change American politics.

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    11 hours ago

    Learned more than I'd care to admit from this pod with Michael Lewis. Well worth the listen for any writer or aspiring writer

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    Jun 11

    A shocking number of women reported experiencing mistreatment during childbirth in a new study: • one in six women surveyed • 33% of Indigenous women • 25% of Hispanic women • 23% of black women • 14% of white women

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  4. 10 hours ago

    Sometimes people look at these numbers and say Trump was polling poorly at this point in 2015, too. I think that analogy is flawed. He was a political unknown at this point in 2015. Now he's the best-known quantity in American politics.

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    13 hours ago

    By the end of the week, California lawmakers are expected to pass a budget that would expand the state’s Medicaid program to 138,000 young unauthorized immigrants.

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    14 hours ago

    A tiny remarkable thing in this interview of : She mentions that she insists that the house lights be up for town halls and other events because they should be two-way conversations, and she wants to see people’s faces.

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  7. 16 hours ago

    It's worth reading Joe Biden's answer here, and then reading Elizabeth Warren's answer to a similar set of questions:

    Here is Biden’s answer when I asked why he’s so confident that the Republicans who blocked the Obama-Biden agenda wouldn’t just block the Biden agenda if he beat Trump.
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  8. 18 hours ago

    “This business that Democrats play by one set of rules and Republicans play by a different set of rules, those days are over when I’m president,” told me. This is Warren’s most important plan: her plan to pass her plans.

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  9. Jun 11

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    "Seeking asylum is legal." - "The border has become a constitution free zone. As you approach the border the power of the Executive extends to war powers. This happened after 9/11 when they took immigration out of DOJ to DHS." -
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  10. Jun 10

    "To me, the very nature of it is that it is a cesspool, it will always be a cesspool, that's how it's built." — , speaking about Twitter, to Twitter's product lead and head counsel.

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  11. Jun 10

    Elizabeth Warren has a plan for, well, almost everything. But what's her plan for passing those plans? Which bill comes first? How will she convince Senate Dems to ditch the filibuster? I asked Warren to explain the plan behind her plans, and she did:

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  12. Jun 4

    Endlessly amazed at how often I switch from one program to the other with a specific task in mind (find this email, check this paper) only to end up distracted, wondering five minutes later what it was I went looking for in the first place.

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  13. Jun 4

    Tweeps who’ve written a book! When you get stuck on a chapter, do you: * Keep banging your head against it till you break through * Head elsewhere in the book and come back later * Something else entirely? Asking for a friend, who is me.

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    Jun 3

    YouTube’s algorithm has been curating home movies of unwitting families into a catalog of semi-nude kids, we found. YT often plays the videos after users watch softcore porn, building an audience of millions for what experts call child sexual exploitation

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  15. Jun 3

    Institutional money in politics is corrupting. Individual money in politics is polarizing.

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  16. Jun 3

    You know what's bad for school performance? Poverty. You know what solves poverty? Money.

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  17. Jun 3

    One thing and I discuss here that I wish was more accepted: the single most effective thing we could do to improve kids' educational outcomes is cut childhood poverty. And unlike so much else in education, we know exactly how to do it.

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  18. Jun 3

    "You are the person. You are not the costume you wear." Such a beautiful essay by Emily Todd VanDerWerff. Proud every day to be her colleague.

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  19. Jun 3

    1. Michael Bennet’s radicalization at the hands of McConnell is a startling political transformation 2. His theory of stopping McConnell lacks the clarity of his anger 3. His plan to end extreme childhood poverty is excellent and deserves more attention

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  20. May 30

    In particular, really interested in anything teasing out the cross-pressures between ideological money and transactional money...

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