Tuesday Tweets

I know you're all tired of hearing this, but there's something strange about equating electability with white and male in 2020.

A frustration I heard from female Dems last week was that gender was getting singled out as an "electability" issue, but no other thing that voters say they're uncomfortable with. Lots of polling on gay nominee, nominee over age 70, socialist, etc. https://t.co/T2dHUKxN3E

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) January 19, 2020

Glad it's not just me.

What’s the German word for when you open twitter and you’re halfway through reading a tweet when the app refreshes and you can never find that tweet again?

— Will Swanson (@willswanson) January 19, 2020

Remember when we would have assumed this was a joke?

Start-up idea: Collect uneaten pizza crusts, rebrand and resell as Sustainable Fun Bread https://t.co/EbMEbYh25A

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) January 19, 2020

I have a feeling that this is one of those issues we should be talking more about.

National labs and others are working hard on this, but disposal remains a big issue. https://t.co/OKplnStHAo

— Russ Mitchell (@russ1mitchell) January 19, 2020

This one goes in the Wages of Strauss file.

Years ago, in a piece for an Australian magazine about the Murdoch empire in news, I wrote that denial is a constitutive feature of the company and its culture. https://t.co/BSRIXcmLwD "Denial, I think, is the key to understanding the company."

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) January 19, 2020

 
 We have to check in with the unicorns.

"San Francisco-based DoorDash raised in the past two years nearly $2 billion, cash it used to grow to more than 4,000 markets this year from 600 markets in 2018, said a person familiar with the matter. About three-quarters of its markets aren’t profitable, the person said."

— Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) January 19, 2020

You just knew there was a McKinsey connection.

McKinsey & Company’s ties to Enron, Purdue Pharma, the Saudi Government and now...the Houston Astros! The Houston GM came from McKinsey. https://t.co/eQlNZ0AeNC

— Diogenes (@WallStCynic) January 19, 2020

Finally.

The 26 richest people on Earth now own as much as the 3.8 billion who form the poorer *half* of the planet’s population.

Again, 26 people own as much as 3.8 billion people.

26 v. 3,800,000,000

— Robert Reich (@RBReich) January 19, 2020