I wrote about how Biden can lead a multi-trillion dollar rebuilding project for America, building the industries of the future and creating high-wage jobs in every congressional district in the country--even without Dem control of the Senate.
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My latest in Forbes lays out the 'game-changing' significance of Ro Khanna's and Marco Rubio's National Development Strategy and Coordination Act of 2022, announced today.
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Imagine a world in which powerful executives like Rupert Murdoch collaborated with government officials to suppress coverage of damaging information about the President of the United States on the most popular and important cable news network.
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This profile of me in the came out really well, if I do say so myself (thank you, !)
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Railroad workers are too important for our economy to let them strike, but not important enough to have the basic human dignity of sick days.
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In 5 weeks, Elon Musk has made Twitter a true replacement for mainstream media. There is now more navel gazing here than The New York Times.
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Any talk of nationalizing oil and gas companies, or setting limits on corporate profits, is deemed unthinkable. How dare the government get involved in private markets!
But as soon as workers threaten a strike, we have 0 qualms of getting involved swiftly and decisively.
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So the government imposing work conditions on people organizing freely is somehow not government overreach?
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The Squad and -backed members stood with rail workers, flexed their bloc, and began turning Biden and Democratic Party leadership around on this one.
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BREAKING🚨:
SBF used a loophole in the Citizens United rule to donate $37M of "dark money" to Republicans
"I donated about the same amount of money to both parties this year ... I just didn't disclose the Republican ones bc the media would freak the f*** out"
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How are we able to build nuclear power plants on ships faster than on land?
"Powered by a pair of advanced A1B nuclear reactors, the ship has nearly three times the power of America’s existing supercarriers, about 300 megawatts of electrical power"
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Wow. was stealing his crypto clients’ funds and sending all the $$$ to the Democrats!!!
At least the Republicans are clean here, right?
No way they got bought off, right?
Right?? Right???
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Folks I launched a little site to let people leave Twitter publicly in blocks. We'll announce when each cohort of 1,000 leaves. Join the movement at LeaveTwitterTogether.com #RIPTwitter #TwitterShutdown
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Controversial take: this place is the best it’s ever been
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Noob engineer mistake
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Dems walked away from Oregon 5 after Jamie McLeod-Skinner beat right wing Dem Kurt Schrader. They said she was too progressive and had no shot and spent money of Sean Patrick Maloney instead. Instead her race is incredibly close and they need it for the majority.
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Dems path to a House majority:
-In good shape in 209 seats
-Ahead in WA-3/8 and CA-47/49
-Tenuously ahead in AZ-1, CA-41, CO-3
Adds up to 216
-Then need to come from behind in 2 out of CA-13 (less than a point down), CA-22, OR-5 (both tougher)
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Fetterman does a bit of economic populism, wins PA. Biden is a little more ambitious than past Presidents, Dems have a historic midterm.
The answer can’t be more obvious, Dems. Go big and lead and you will win more.
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I’m all for companies trying stuff, but how does Elon not realize you can try new feature without releasing them to everybody?
Oh, he probably fired the person that would have done that.
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I’m all for companies trying stuff, but how does Elon not realize you can try new feature without releasing them to everybody?
Oh, he probably fired the person that would have done that.
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Who at Tesla kept Elon from randomly releasing idiotic stuff? Who stood up to tell him no when he wanted to put a hot tub on every Model S?
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Barnes lost by 27K votes; was outspent by outside groups by $27 million.
$29 million of that spending came from one group, funded by three billionaires that Johnson personally created a massive tax break for.
No reporting of this race is complete without these basic facts.
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NEW THIS AM: With 100% in, Sen. Ron Johnson is leading Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes by 27, 374.
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One consequence of the new Twitter Blue stuff is I legitimately cannot tell what is real and what is satire.
really has made Twitter funnier than it’s ever been.
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Trump is not evacuating and will stay at Mar-a-Lago through storm although the club has closed, per @jdawsey1.
Read more: wapo.st/3tgKHHu
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. makes a point I haven't seen enough attention on: that full employment is actually super popular politically, and Democrats shouldn't forget that.
From a Q&A we just posted: theintercept.com/2022/11/09/ale
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Then just make Twitter a paid service instead of making the blue check the badge of a sucker.
If people don’t “understand” your product, you are doing it wrong.
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i think people somehow still don't understand the point of paying for a checkmark. no one is interested in buying the status that no longer exists. the point is this feature is going to be used to filter bots and spam. without it, you will be filtered with the bots and spam.
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The real issue with Republicans is that they have no platform beyond hating trans people, hating old CDC requirements and hating 2020 protest footage. No economic platform whatsoever. It can only get them so far.
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A moment of silence out of respect for all the prewritten “Progressives Went Too Far” columns that won’t see the light of day
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The blood moon rose last night. My prediction is Richard Nixon wins today.
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Is Birdwatch just gonna be Elon’s personal subtweeting mechanism?
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Ok I take it back this is hilariously passive aggressive.
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Really good thread on the details/difference between Prop D and Prop E. Vote yes on D, no on E.
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28/ *coming in hot* Props D and E:
These are competing ballot measures that both claim to be about streamlining process in order to build more apartments. Only one is *actually* that, and that's Prop D. Prop E is yet another predatory delay tactic by anti-housing supes.
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I think Prop 30 is great because it's so clear what the money is going to. A tax to fund fighting wildfires and electrifying California. Wealthy people are constantly saying they'd love to pay taxes if only they could be sure the tax money wasn't being wasted. Now's their chance!
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It's disappointing to see people paint Prop 30 as just benefitting Lyft. It's a blanket credit for electric vehicles. You do realize ANY credit for electric vehicles will benefit Lyft, right? Should we not have passed Biden's IRA either then?
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prop 30 is a disappointing effort funded by and benefiting @lyft to pay for its transition to electric vehicles.
CA will presumably at some point regret driving a large fraction of its revenue out of the state by even entertaining stuff like this. extreme short-term thinking.
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You know all those stories about residents and environmentalists blocking offshore wind farms?
Well, it turns out many of them are being funded by climate deniers and fossil-fuel companies.
Let's take a look at some of these groups and see what's going on here.
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It really isn't. Gotabaya was, if anything, the US friendly politician. Dude was a US dual citizen when elected.
Truth is, the only foreign powers vying for influence in Sri Lanka are India and China. But this protest is just what happens when you starve a nation for months.
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There are reports that the Sri Lanka revolt is a CIA backed coup.
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If anything, one of the best things Sri Lanka could do for itself in the long term is get off oil and gas entirely so it isn't as dependent on USD. This goes for basically every non-US country in the world.
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