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It's Friday afternoon, no one's reading Twitter, so it's a good time for a THREAD. I wanna try to capture some recent thoughts I've been having & figure out if
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1. The argument from some Dems that there's no point investigating/prosecuting/impeaching Trump because Congressional Rs will always protect him & thus it won't hurt him or remove him from office
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I do not understand the conventional wisdom that Kamala Harris is a "centrist" or a "moderate." She has one of the furthest left voting records in the Senate. She supports
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My new post: the latest research on air pollution is jaw-dropping. Scientists now believe its effects on health & mortality are roughly *double* previous estimates. If that’s true, air-quality benefits
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Election wargaming: "The bad news: in each scenario other than a Biden landslide, we ended up with a constitutional crisis that lasted until the inauguration, featuring violence in the streets
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I'm grumpy & feel like arguing, so here's an unpopular take:People say, "I used to be an atheist, but now I'm agnostic," as though that demonstrates some sort of advance
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Reactionaries are utterly at sea without an opponent against which to define themselves. Hatred & zero-sum competition are the only way they have to make sense of the world. Put
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1. All right, fine, I'm waiting for a frozen pizza to cook, might as well rant about libertarianism in the meantime. I wanna focus not on the psychology of adherents
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One aspect of climate change that's not widely understood: the choice is global net-zero emissions or perpetually rising temps. We can mobilize & stay at 1.5° or delay & stay
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This is so hilarious. A bunch of House Rs who want to appear to care about climate change signed on to the climate policy framework of the American Conservation Coalition,
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I have been beating the "asymmetrical polarization" drum for over 15 years & it's starting to seem like the broader public is going to catch on about 5 minutes before
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There's a cultural phenomenon I don't fully understand. US conservatives are *obsessed* with liberals, right? RW media spends about 95% of its time bashing libs. The right has built an
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