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Writer for New York magazine. Tweets with links are intended as prompts to read the linked story, not self-contained arguments substituting for the linked story

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    24 Dec 2016

    Why President Obama's legacy was broader and deeper than you think, and why it will endure

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  2. 7 hours ago

    I am not, to say the least, a Kevin Williamson fan, but this column was very, very good.

    "The middle-ground Republican consensus is that the sacking of the Capitol was at worst the unfortunate escalation of a well-intentioned protest involving legitimate electoral grievances."
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  3. 7 hours ago

    "The middle-ground Republican consensus is that the sacking of the Capitol was at worst the unfortunate escalation of a well-intentioned protest involving legitimate electoral grievances."

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    22 hours ago

    if you don't like the mandate maybe you are dating the wrong man

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  5. Sep 9

    "There's a fine line between genius and what I experienced in that meeting"

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    Will Smith tells the story about how he declined being Neo in the The Matrix! He even re-enacted how bad the Wachowskis’ pitch was when he first heard it. 😂😭 (Via )
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  6. Sep 9

    There remains one important post-9/11 belief that has yet to undergo significant revision: the comforting fallacy that George W. Bush won the 2000 election more or less fairly.

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  8. Sep 9

    By an incredible coincidence, lobbyists have discovered that the desires of swing voters in purple districts line up perfectly with the financial interests of wealthy heirs.

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  9. Sep 9

    The gross world of ex-Democratic politicians lobbying to protect the super wealthy

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  10. Sep 9

    Notes on Heitkamp

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  11. Retweeted
    Sep 9

    I have seen a lot of sketchy polls from interest groups in my time, but this might be the sketchiest ever. I wish I was shocked that some media outlet fell it, but, of course, I am not.

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  12. Sep 9

    Democrats lobbying against Biden's tax hikes on the wealthy are doing bad things and they should feel bad

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  14. Sep 8

    The great walks through the math of why the Democratic bill is not, by ordinary standards, "$3.5 trillion"

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    Sep 8

    Just for laughs, I answered each question in the most appalling, Trumpy way I could think of.

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  16. Sep 8

    "I love the poorly educated," Afghanistan edition

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  17. Sep 8

    Via , some updated stats on the Senate's heavy over-representation of white and rural citizens -- the slightest amelioration of which Daniels resists

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  18. Sep 8

    Assuming these quotes are accurate (if they're not, I'll delete the post), the logical flaw should be obvious: If denying the accusation is proof it's true, then the charge is unfalsifiable.

    Denial of racism is proof that a person is racist. "For me, the heartbeat of racism is denial and the sound of that denial is 'I'm not racist,'" Kendi told Google employees. "It's a critically important step for Americans to no longer be in denial about their own racism."
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  19. Sep 8

    Rotten borough logic can be applied to the Senate -- but to use it as a defense of the status quo, which massively overrepresents white, rural areas while underrrepresenting urban minorities -- is utterly perverse.

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  20. Sep 8

    Mitch Daniels likens DC statehood to creating a "rotten borough." A complete inversion of the truth. A rotten borough has representation but no people. DC has people but no representation.

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  21. Sep 8

    Really important point in this thread.

    There's a budgeting double standard in how we talk about D vs R reconciliation bills Recall the 2017 GOP tax law was referred to as a "$1.5T tax cut" (later revised up to ~$2T) b/c that was *net* cost of bill—i.e. how much it increased overall deficits when all provisions scored
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