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Pollution policy is about power, money, and race, just like everything else in America.https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/6/16/21290591/trump-black-lives-epa-air-pollution-covid-19 One point I try to make in this piece (and hav
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One of the greatest mistakes America ever made was failing to utterly crush the South after the Civil War -- dismantle its power structures, imprison its leaders, expressly disavow its
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When you train cops for hostile crowd control & buy them oversized military weapons designed for hostile crowd control, they get *pumped up to do hostile crowd control*. They're excited
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1. Happy Friday! So, this week I published two pieces on the state of climate policy & politics in the US. They are long, and I know a buncha you
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The new House stimulus bill omits arguably the single most important feature -- automatic stabilizers -- for UTTERLY FUCKING STUPID POLITICAL REASONS AAAAARGH^$*!! Ahem. An important & infuriating post
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This is really good. And I have some thoughts about it -- thoughts that are, if possible, even more pessimistic than Jay's about the prospects for better political media.https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1265847315685933056 First,
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"Based on surveys from the United States, the authors found that white people who did not want to have immigrants or people of different races living next door to them
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1. Just realized I haven't done one of my This Week In Trump threads for a while. I know y'all miss that special feeling of choking, helpless fury! So let's
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This is extremely accurate & perceptive. The political press covers Dems as though they are part of a shared community with shared standards. They cover Rs like an exotic tribe
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1. Indulge me, if you will, a short thread about my mother. She was a teacher (and substitute teacher) for years, then when I was around 11, became the principal
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Oh lord, @emorwee is speaking my heart here.https://heated.world/p/the-wheel-of-first-time-climate-dudes Here's how it happens: a dude who has made a name for himself in some other field decides, "climate change is important,
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1. I don't understand the climate movement's approach with Biden. He's already got a plan that is wildly more ambitious than anything that will be possible to pass in 2020.
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