@AliceFromQueens @jason_howerton So regions that pay most into the system are entitled to get the most out of the system?
Doesn’t sound very progressive.
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Disappointed Not Angry
@DisappointedNo1
Numerate and skeptical
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@jason_howerton "taxpayer bailout" is such a stupid term for the state sending 24 instead of the usual 21 billion back to NYC--the city whose taxpayers fund the state government
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“I was $2M in debt.
My father left me $2M as an inheritance.
Now I’m debt free because I’m a financial wizard.”
Do you see how stupid this sounds? Bro didn’t cut close anything, he took a taxpayer bailout. Not exactly Warren Buffet.
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@junderland There’s not one person who is genuinely excited to vote for Becerra.
There may be enough who consider him the least worst, but no one is inspired by the thought of Becerra as governor.
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no need to spin the press if you said it all on the debate stage 🤷♂️ if you can't get your points out in 90 minutes, you might have a problem
Ashley Zavala@ZavalaA
Xavier Becerra skipped the spin room tonight after NBC's California Governor debate. His spokesman tells me "he had a dinner to attend." All other candidates spoke with journalists after the debate, per @KCRAGulstanDart.
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@MattZeitlin @mattyglesias Most people don’t think LA would look any different under 4 years of Raman vs 4 more years of Bass.
So don’t expect any 4D strategic voting.
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does spencer pratt (or i guess his supporters) realize that a pratt-bass general election is *the* way bass can survive and win a second term and that the better pratt does, the more bass's odds improve
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@jbarro Didn’t you listen to the ad?
He’s going to build very affordable homes AND generate high returns.
What’s not to love?
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he wants to invest the pension funds for a below-market return, and then taxpayers will have to make up the difference through higher government contributions to the pension funds. pass.
Drew Warshaw@drewforny
It’s the State Comptroller’s job to invest New York’s $300B pension fund. But, that doesn’t mean your money is being invested here (hint: it’s going everywhere BUT here at home). That’s what I’ll do differently - growing your money while creating the largest affordable housing fund in the country. That’s 200,000 affordable homes New Yorkers can actually afford.
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@Elex_Michaelson @MayorOfLA @KarenBassLA @latimes Interview feels way too chummy Elex!
City has spent billions on homelessness. Is this what success looks like?
People receive free housing and almost half leave it and Bass has no idea why? This is her big, expensive signature program. She should know why!
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.@MayorOfLA @KarenBassLA responds to @latimes report that after $300 million spent on "Inside Safe" program, 40% of participants have returned to the streets.
Is that a failure?
Bass: "60% of the people have remained housed."
Me: "That's not a great percentage"
Bass: "It is a great percentage...I came in to a system that has been broken for 3 decades...I moved to get people off the streets...we've resolved over 120 encampments..."
"We don't know 40% left to go off the streets...we don't know where they are? We know they left interim housing...one of the fundamental weaknesses is inadequate services."
"The system was not designed to evaluate itself."
Via @CNNTheStoryIs
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@Elex_Michaelson @AGRobBonta @DrOzCMS @billessayli @realDonaldTrump @GavinNewsom Love to see this competition to arrest crooks between the feds and the state.
Keep interviewing them until this fraud is cleaned up!
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This is body camera footage from
CA’s Dept. of Justice targeting alleged fraudsters.
@AGRobBonta announced the biggest bust in CA history days after @DrOzCMS @billessayli highlighted federal arrests.
Here’s our look at the newest fight between @realDonaldTrump & @GavinNewsom
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@DefiantLs Come on now, no need to shill for the prediction vampires.
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Arizona’s gaming regulators are spending more on a lawsuit against prediction markets than on actually helping people struggling with gambling addiction.
That’s a backwards priority.
Mick Bransfield@MickBransfield
Arizona Department of Gaming reveals tribal gaming is funding it's litigation with prediction markets. $3M so far. This seems like a few steps beyond regulatory capture. I wonder what other states they're doing this in? Article below.
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@StatisticUrban LA is great if you’re rich and relatively accommodating if you’re poor.
Middle class folks can’t buy a home in an area with strong schools and will struggle to get ahead in a region with high costs for rent, utilities, taxes, gas etc.
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The Los Angeles metro area has once again shrunk by more than any other large US metro, losing 62,454 people from 2024 to 2025. Since the 2020 Census, it’s down a total of 360,252 people.
To compare: over the same 2020-2025 period, the NYC metro has grown by 29,048.
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@cmarinucci @daveweigel @GavinNewsom Would be very tough to convince someone they need to step aside to make room for political talents such as . . . Katie Porter and Tom Steyer.
I mean what makes anyone believe that Eric Swalwell would make a fine governor?
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Some Dems have suggested @GavinNewsom should - for the sake of his party - take control and speak directly to candidates who need to withdraw. So far, it appears, he’s not moved to do that.
Ron Filipkowski@RonFilipkowski
The CA governor’s race is an absolute shit show on the Democratic side and it requires some degree of sanity to take hold at some point to get it fixed. Leadership at some point from people not in the race wouldn’t be a bad thing. Time is running out fast.
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@Elex_Michaelson Getting a debate cancelled then celebrating it as a win for maximum access is interesting framing.
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Follow up statement from
California Speaker Robert Rivas:
“I commend President Kim for making the right call. At the core of our democracy is the principle that voters deserve maximum access to the candidates seeking their support. It’s the responsibility of institutions like USC to uphold that principle, and I'm glad they recognized this before more harm was done. I'm grateful to my Legislative colleagues for uniting on this issue. Whatever our political differences, our commitment to open and accessible elections is something we all share.”
Elex Michaelson@Elex_Michaelson
Update: USC cancelled the debate. More: latimes.com/california/sto…
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@jbarro The fact that she cites Jill Biden as an amazing First Lady says all you need to know about California’s First Partner.
We are where we are because the Bidens immagined themselves to be irrepaceable.
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"First Partner" is such an annoying title choice from Gavin Newsom's wife. Pretentious and clinical at the same time.
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@Elex_Michaelson @Donald_A_Newman @CNN Politicians see you as a safe and accommodating interviewer.
When Newsom launches his canned spiel about CA being the 4th largest economy, you need to stop him and ask why that’s meaningful to a Riverside plumber.
Ask why state spending outpaces inflation so much. Be tougher!
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@Donald_A_Newman @CNN I'm sorry to hear that. What changes would you like to see?
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I had high hopes for “The Story Is” with @Elex_Michaelson on @CNN. Better to have live reporting from Los Angeles where I live than repeats. I was wrong. Elex is pleasant but the show is not very interesting. More CNN panels of opposites. And a bland interviewing style.
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@KendallHarmon6 @johnarnold Mormons baptize dead people and tithe 10% to the church.
Seems strange but I wouldn’t want to ban it.
Probably best to allow people to spend (waste?) their money as they see fit.
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@johnarnold I posted on this earlier this week, the article is a must read. It is a particularly interesting piece because the author is a Mormon and he has to get permission from his Mormon Bishop even to pursue the article..#usa #culturewatch #gambling #sportsbetting
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The Atlantic has a sobering, first-person look at the ramifications of legalized online sports betting. Here are a few of the more telling passages.
1/5
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@conorsen @asymmetricinfo Shopping is different when it’s not your credit card.
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Seems like it’s becoming the blue state Dem position that only millionaires and billionaires should pay taxes.
Katie Porter@katieporterca
0% state income tax for California families making under $100,000. That’s thousands of dollars back in your pocket where it belongs. As Governor, I’ll work the issue at both ends—lowering taxes for those who are struggling and raising them on the biggest corporations that can afford to pay.
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@JamesSurowiecki By definition, there are no second generation immigrants.
You can have parents who are immigrants but that doesn’t make you one.
It’s binary.
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@anup_malani @AnupamBJena Anyone done a study on how summarizing marathon studies impacts someone’s ability to do basic arithmetic?
It’s 0.3 deaths, not 3. Kind of a big difference.
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Marathons kill people.
Not the runners — the people having heart attacks nearby. Blocked ambulances arrive 4.4 minutes late. Mortality rises 13%.
For every 100 elderly heart attack victims on marathon day, 3-4 more die than would on a normal day.
@AnupamBJena studied 11 major U.S. marathons (NYC, Boston, Chicago, etc.) over 11 years.
1,145 Medicare patients hospitalized for cardiac emergencies on marathon dates. Mortality: 28.2%.
Same patients on control dates? Mortality: 24.9%.
The difference: street closures.
Here's what makes this interesting: We think of marathons as creating value (health, civic pride, tourism).
But we don't properly account for the costs. 3-4 cardiac deaths per marathon don't show up in city planners' calculus.
Incomplete cost-benefit analysis.
The policy question isn't "should we ban marathons?" Obviously not.
It's: "Are we doing the full cost-benefit calculation?"
Right now: benefits are celebrated (civic pride, tourism). Costs are invisible (3-4 deaths per marathon, never measured).
Runners know they benefit. City planners see tourism revenue, civic pride, media coverage.
But the 80-year-old having a heart attack in Brooklyn while the NYC Marathon blocks the bridge? That's invisible to everyone making the decision.
Jena et al. (2017, NEJM): "Delays in Emergency Care and Mortality during Major U.S. Marathons"
Open access: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC55…
The externality isn't just that it exists. It's that we don't count it when deciding whether to hold the event.
cc @arpitrage
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@StatisticUrban Are you under the impression that the equator has something to do with population distribution?
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In AOC's defense, the equator *seems* like, absurdly far south when you look at it. 87% of humanity lives north of it.
David Weigel@daveweigel
Venezuela is above the equator. Depending on your TL you got very different takes on AOC’s Germany talks but she had a number of clangers that I expect to see for three years in meme video comps
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@GBBranstetter The article was about AOC launching herself on the international stage then stumbling on an obvious question.
Would be editorializing to clean up the quote in this context.
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I always find this annoying because I know reporters clean up quotes all the time so when they make the conscious decision to include "umms" and pauses it's very clearly editorializing
Adam Wren@adamwren
“I think that, uh, this is such a, a — you know, I think that — this is a, um — this is of course, a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said," writes @Kellen_Browning, "before saying that the country should try to avoid reaching that point with China in the first place." nytimes.com/2026/02/13/us/…
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@mateosfo Many of us voted for HSR when it was promised for $33 billion to be completed by 2020.
18 years later, the imaginary budget is 4x the original and completion date no one can even guess.
At some point, you have to say enough.
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LAX is currently undergoing a $30 billion taxpayer-funded capital plan, which brings total cost of its construction to ~ $70 billion in 2026 dollars.
SFO is currently in midst of $11 billion upgrade, bringing total cost to around ~ $30 billion.
That doesn't include the planes.
David Burge@iowahawkblog
Let's say, generously, those 130 flights all have 200 people on them, and a flight segment costs $200. For the $135 billion pricetag on you beloved choo-choo, you could fun 71 years of free flights between LA and the Bay.
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@jbarro It’s weird theater.
“We’re finishing the job” he says while knowing there’s no funding nor timeline to finish the job.
He pretends to believe it so all the people around him must pretend to believe it too.
Feels very Trumpy.
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The most preposterous thing about Gavin Newsom is the way he talks about California HSR as something to be proud of. It's a bunch of viaducts in the Central Valley that someday might carry trains from Merced to Bakersfield.
Governor Newsom Press Office@GovPressOffice
High-speed rail means no TSA lines, no removing your shoes — just fast, clean travel. While Texas canceled its project, California keeps building. 463 miles are now ready for construction. We’re past the hardest part, and we’re finishing the job.
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