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Political blogger and writer for Mother Jones magazine.

Irvine, CA
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Joined December 2008
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  1. 4 hours ago

    Lunchtime Photo

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  2. 4 hours ago

    "In the states that didn't expand Medicaid, they estimate that over a four-year period an extra 15,600 people died who didn’t have to. And it was all for the sake of ideology."

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  3. 6 hours ago

    "A trillion-dollar tax cut for corporations and the rich is one thing, but $50 billion for the retirements of miners and truck drivers who have been screwed by corporations and the rich? That’s a budget buster, my friends."

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  4. 6 hours ago

    Car industry goes behind Trump's back, cuts mileage deal

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  5. Jul 24

    "And yet, I’ve never read any Joan Didion. So I decided to do that. And I was surprised. What surprised me was how uninsightful her essays were."

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  6. Jul 24

    "If the Justice Department wants to investigate Amazon for unfairly monopolizing the e-commerce space, that’s fine. Go get ’em. But if the 'problem' is that consumers have a growing preference for shopping one way rather than another, then forget it."

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  7. Jul 24

    Lunchtime Photo

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  8. Jul 24

    "As much as we all hate to believe it, vagueness and pandering on the campaign trail are generally helpful."

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  9. Jul 23

    Trump and Article II, explained

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  10. Jul 23

    "Within a reasonable range of error, national health care is free. It doesn’t matter if it’s Joe Biden’s plan or Bernie Sanders’ plan or anyone else’s plan. We’d still spend $3.8 trillion. The only question is where and from whom the money comes from."

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  11. Jul 23

    Defending Al Franken for real

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  12. Jul 23

    A short primer on modern nuclear reactor design

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  13. Jul 23

    Lunchtime Photo

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  14. Jul 23

    "Where do the generic names for drugs come from?...I always figured it must have something to do with the specific chemical compound, but boy was I wrong. It comes from license plates and cat names. Yeesh."

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  15. Jul 23

    "Over the next ten years, build about 5,000 standardized 5 TWh nuclear reactors worldwide and retire all fossil-fuel plants....This would cost around $3 trillion per year, which isn’t much, and would cut carbon emissions by about 80 percent. Done."

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  16. Jul 23

    The budget deficit is all about taxes, not spending

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  17. Jul 22

    Remembering Mark Kleiman

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  18. Jul 22

    "Over the past 40 years, the total tax burden in the US has declined from about 18 percent of GDP to about 16 percent of GDP. Keep this in mind the next time you hear some Republican on TV moaning about the immense weight of taxes in our country."

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  19. Jul 22

    Why does the Wall Street Journal editorial page lie so much?

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  20. Jul 22

    "Discretionary spending has been declining steadily for four decades, interrupted only by the Iraq War and the Great Recession. The new budget deal will keep it at about 6 percent of GDP, the same as it was in 2000 and far less than it was in 1980."

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