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1/It's interesting that Trump's hardcore support base is turning out to be, not Boomers, but conservative Gen Xers.As a Xennial (almost old enough to be Gen X), I feel like

1/I haven't yet read @mattyglesias' book, "One Billion Americans". But this book review, by @jakebackpack, contains what I think are a number of conceptual mistakes, so I thought it would

Today's @bopinion post is an ode to Pandemic UI, the boldest and most successful U.S. economic program in many decades.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-09-08/u-s-renewal-of-pandemic-jobless-benefit-is-crucial-for-workers-

1/OK, just for fun, let's take this tweet seriously, and think of a list of ways that the world has progressed since the 1970s. 2/The first category he names is

The most consistent math error on Twitter is people not having any idea how much money Jeff Bezos has. The total amount of wealth in the world is $360 trillion.

1/Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving Prime Minister, is retiring due to ulcerative colitis.Today's @bopinion post is about what he achieved during his tenure in office.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-28/shinzo-ab

1/Today's @bopinion post is about America's loneliness epidemic.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-25/how-to-end-america-s-loneliness-epidemic?sref=R8NfLgwS 2/Tons of things that are crucially important to human life

1/This was an interesting and controversial post. I sympathize with the guy who doesn't want to be a landlord. I will try to explain why...https://twitter.com/colinmort/status/1296252785164509186 2/I don't see anything inherently

Today's @bopinion is about the simple, quick, easy, reliable, low-risk way to fix our entire messed-up health care system overnight: Lower the Medicare coverage age to 0.That's it! That's all

1/Today's @bopinion post is about big cities, and why they might not bounce back triumphantly after COVID is gone.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-10/new-york-san-francisco-u-s-cities-will-struggle-after-covid-19 2/COV

1/At this point, Trump's main election pitch is that all the stuff that his supporters don't like about his presidency would be EVEN WORSE under Biden.https://twitter.com/kathrynw5/status/1290426879690694657 2/Massive protests again

I've decided that the 1920s, not the 1950s or the 1800s, are the era of "greatness" that Trumpists want to return us to.1. white supremacism as an explicit, widespread ideology2.