Director of @PPI’s Center for Funding America's Future. No longer an active Tweeter, so better to connect with me by email: [email protected]
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Gotta say, it’s hard to imagine a more fitting coda to my time on Twitter than being the lead quote in this article nytimes.com/2022/12/21/style…
Well my friends, I think this is it: I’m out. No more Twitter for me starting in 2023.
I won’t delete my account for now just in case something changes my mind down the line, but at this point you should assume that I am logging off at midnight tonight and won’t be coming back.
This kinda went under the radar in the year-end crush, but congrats to the @SaveStandard folks who successfully defeated Marco Rubio time.
Can’t imagine him getting another sneak attack through the Senate like he did this year & I don’t see how it makes a comeback anytime soon.
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You should just get a car with no toxic historical baggage, like a Ford or a Volkswagen
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1/8. A point which is often lost in discussions of inflation and central bank policy. Inflation is fundamentally the outcome of the distributional conflict, between firms, workers, and taxpayers. It stops only when the various players are forced to accept the outcome.
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The internet has made the media landscape much more competitive and empowered customers to get what they want — the big problem of media is that the consumers of media have bad taste and don’t care about the truth! – at Washington, DC
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Houses are the least “affordable” since 1982 when 30-year mortgage rates were over 14%
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"My sins here are *embellishing* my resume."
To “embellish” is to adorn, decorate, enhance, gild, beautify, and festoon, and, on occasion, it means to “exaggerate.”
This Santos did not do. He just made shit up out of whole cloth.
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What a great story. I wish every member of Congress was half as intellectually curious as @RepDonBeyer, we are very lucky to have him representing us in VA08
Fun story by @Meagan_Flynn: A 72-year-old congressman goes back to school, pursuing a degree in AI washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/…
Ben Ritz retweeted
10 failed concepts of 2022:
DeFi
Meme stocks
Zero-Covid
Russian military
MMT
Transitory
Defund
SPACs
Herd immunity
ESG
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Remember if your flight gets cancelled most airports have a secret fleet of backup planes with lots of seats but they’re only available if you’re mean enough to low-level employees.
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Thank you @POTUS. It's an honor for me to visit 🇺🇸, to address the 🇺🇸 people and Congress, to meet with the leader of the country that helps us stand. And win! This visit showed our countries stand together on the side of good, democracy and justice. Creating the future together!
