Friday, August 19, 2022

This is how you review something not worth reviewing

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Jared Kusher's new book is of no value to anyone. Here's why we decided to review it. — New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) Aug...
Thursday, August 18, 2022

Carpetbagging?

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This is Joseph. I think that this tweet gets the dynamics of the situation incorrect: I think that this misses just how much restraint there...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Are the Republicans more vulnerable to the internal veto problem than the Democrats?

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This is a follow-up to Monday's repost "The GOP needs the crazies more than the crazies need the GOP. " The whole piece is re...
Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Definitely not a cult (except for the child sacrifice part) UPDATED

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This just in... “Consumers should never attempt to create their own test scenarios or use real people, and especially children, to test the ...
Monday, August 15, 2022

Five years ago at the blog: there are things I'd change if I were writing this today, but the title wouldn't be one of them

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 I'd definitely address gerrymandering if I were writing this today. I don't have a good answer for why I didn't back then. Of c...
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Friday, August 12, 2022

J.D. Vance: David Brooks doing Hee-Haw cosplay

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Before we get to Vance, here's a bit of relevant personal history. My grandparents on my father's side had a family farm in the Rio ...
Thursday, August 11, 2022

A few late night thoughts on recent events and the state of the Grand Old Party

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1. The counter-intuitive take is usually wrong. That's why we have it. If the intuitive was wrong most of the time, natural selection wo...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

"That’s not the way any of this works…"

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[Meant to post something about this a month ago but things have been hectic] That’s not the way any of this works… https://t.co/NLihkmb1Lr ...
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Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Tuesday Tweets special edition

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Bad night for "Fox is turning on Trump" people. pic.twitter.com/SO5D0cnyOy — Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) August 9, 2022 I had pl...
Monday, August 8, 2022

More on the politics of protecting Social Security -- the Washington Post weighs in

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Opinion | Republicans are coming after Social Security. Democrats, take note. - The Washington Post https://t.co/phuujXX4OX — Norman Ornste...
Friday, August 5, 2022

Ten years ago at the blog -- We've been banging this particular drum for a long time

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  Saturday, August 25, 2012 Megafires, incentives and the inactivity bias One of the recurring themes of m...
Thursday, August 4, 2022

Thursday Tweets

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Today in undeleted texts news. Some insurrectionist trivia for you: Roger Stone reportedly introduced Alex Jones to Trump and arranged for ...
Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Remember when we said the data was thin? Well, it's getting a little thicker

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Very quick addition to our political implications of Dobbs thread. Just to recap... In May, we argued that the conventional wisdom was under...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

We have a winner in the 2022 high weirdness category

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This one really does have everything...     Conspiracies      Reverse-aging technology      International Qanon      Trump waiting in the wi...
Monday, August 1, 2022

Tale of two fires

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This is strange. It's almost as if what scientists and forestry professionals have been telling us for the past 50 years about active st...