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Charlie Anderson

@EconCharlie

EVP for Infrastructure at @Arnold_Ventures Formerly: @WhiteHouse NEC (2x) & DPC; @WHCOVIDResponse; @SenatorBennet; @USTreasury.

Washington, DC Katılım Ocak 2017
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Charlie Anderson@EconCharlie·
BIG NEWS: @Arnold_Ventures is launching a major new infrastructure initiative today, and I’m thrilled to join them as their first-ever EVP for Infrastructure to drive progress toward building faster, better, and lower-cost in the U.S. [1/x]
Arnold Ventures@Arnold_Ventures

Arnold Ventures is excited to formally announce the launch of our bold new infrastructure initiative, which will support research, policy development, and advocacy aimed at building U.S. infrastructure faster, better, and at lower cost. (1/) arnoldventures.org/work/infrastru…

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EIA@EIAgov·
Wind and solar generated a record 17% of U.S. electricity in 2025, with combined net generation accounting for 760,000 GWh of electricity. #TodayInEnergy bit.ly/4lKaiCX
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Nate Tibbits
Nate Tibbits@NateTibbits·
This is an exceptional article, expose and self-reflection that should be read by everyone with an even casual online gambling hobby or serious habit. Share it with your friends and loved ones.
McKay Coppins@mckaycoppins

Last year, The Atlantic gave me $10K to gamble with. What started as a journalistic gimmick turned into something more... unnerving. My cover story on the online betting boom warping sports, culture, politics, and the psyches of millions of young men: theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…

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Kenyan McDuffie
Kenyan McDuffie@kenyanmcduffie·
My Full statement on the Office of Planning’s draft Future Land Use Map. Rent in DC is still too expensive. Owning a home is still out of reach for too many of our residents. Making it easier to build more housing is essential to solving those problems. Unfortunately, the draft future land use map released this week by the Office of Planning is simply insufficient to the task. dc2050.dc.gov/pages/draft-fu…
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Still Top 🧍🏾‍♂️🦅
He’s dressed how Japanese people depict Americans in anime lol.
Count Dankula@CountDankulaTV

The Afroman Trial. -Cops raid Afromans house for bullshit reasons. -Steal money, break his door, fuck his house up. -No criminality found whatsoever, no charges at all pressed on Afroman. -Afroman spends the next 3 years making songs that make fun of all the officers involved by name, even using footage of the raid from his own CCTV cameras. -Songs had titles like "Randy Walters is a son of a bitch" and "Lick Em Low Lisa" accusing one of the officers of being a lesbian and sleeping with the other officers wives. -During the raid one officer looked like he was about to eat some lemon pound cake sitting on Afromans counter, Afroman made a whole album calling the officer fat. -The cops get mad and file a lawsuit for defamation. -Afroman turns up to court in a whole American flag suit. -Officers performatively mald and cry while listening to the songs really trying to oversell how badly the songs upset them. -One officer was suing because Afroman made a whole song about him saying he was fucking the officers wife. When the officer was asked if Afroman was really fucking his wife, he said "I don't know". Nuking his own case and establishing that there is a non-zero chance that Afroman might actually be fucking his wife. -As his only witness for the trial, Afroman brought a deputies EX FUCKING WIFE. -The jury ruled completely in favour of Afroman. This entire thing has been a great win for free speech and absolutely fucking hilarious.

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Santi Ruiz
Santi Ruiz@rSanti97·
Some professional news: I'm joining Anthropic's editorial team! I'll be leading the team's work on economics and policy, and working closely with the Anthropic Institute (about which more here: x.com/AnthropicAI/st…). Dramatic AI progress is coming in the next two years, and researchers+policymakers+the public alike will need the best information available about that shift. It's a big new challenge, and I can’t wait to get started. [Some important housekeeping: I’ll keep running Statecraft at @IFP as a Nonresident Senior Fellow! And will remain on the board at Recoding America/ as a journalist-in-residence at @johnshopkins School of Government and Policy. I start at Anthropic in a few weeks.] The move from frontier think tank to frontier lab is bittersweet. I’ve been at IFP for three years, and it’s been the most formative professional experience of my life. In a short period of time, IFP has become one of the most effective institutions in DC, generating a truly shocking amount of counterfactual policy impact (not all of it public). Being on this team has permanently raised my ambitions. I'm very grateful.
Anthropic@AnthropicAI

Introducing The Anthropic Institute, a new effort to advance the public conversation about powerful AI. anthropic.com/news/the-anthr…

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Sophia ❣️@KeruboSk·
Millennials are the elite generation because they cranked out 12-page essays the night before they were due. No ChatGPT. No Claude. Just lo-fi beats playing in the background, Black coffee at midnight, footnotes that were somehow correct, and pure delusion. Grade was an A minus. Period.
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Daniel Gross
Daniel Gross@grossdm·
Pretty astonishing. In Texas, between 10:00 am and 4:00 p.m., 80-90% of electricity comes from carbon free sources. And storage is already a significant contributor in the early morning and evening
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Aidan Mackenzie
Aidan Mackenzie@AidanRMackenzie·
Very useful measure of pre-NEPA delays. Federal agencies measure NEPA timelines from Notice of Initiation (NOI) to Record of Decision (ROD). But sponsors and agencies do years of work *before the NOI. This is widely known but rarely measured. x.com/ThomasHochman/…
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Thomas Hochman@ThomasHochman

Today, @joinFAI and @ShopFloorNAM have a new joint report outlining the permitting barriers to manufacturing in America. We sent a survey out to NAMs 14,000 member companies. The result is a trove of new data and detail on the national permitting picture. 🧵 on findings:

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Inclusive Abundance
Inclusive Abundance@InclsvAbundance·
NEW in The Abundant Future: The Senate just passed a housing bill that was originally focused on building more rather than a rehashing of the usual subsidy playbook. But at the last minute, it included a provision that could kill new construction – prioritizing a popular talking point over good policy. Our own @BailleeBrown on how the abundance movement should view this win, our frustration, and what comes next:
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Buffy Wicks
Buffy Wicks@BuffyWicks·
Over the past six months, I’ve become a total geek about factory-built housing (FBH). At this point I have probably toured more housing factories than any other lawmaker in the country. If FBH can flourish elsewhere, why not California?
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Jonathan Berk
Jonathan Berk@berkie1·
"There is now unambiguous, solid economic evidence, not just abstract economic theory, that rent control would make the affordability problems facing [Massachusetts] worse, not better." - Jon Gruber, Chairman of the Economics Department at MIT
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Mikli@CryptoMikli·
Caleb Hammer explains why rent control doesn’t work “It’s one of those policies that sounds really good and really moral. You want to support it, landlords make less money and people pay less rent. But everywhere it’s been enacted, permitting has dropped significantly, and rents have gone up even faster for the average person, except for the few lucky ones in subsidized housing” “Units go untouched and aren’t maintained at all. I think something like 10-20% of rent controlled units in New York are empty because they can’t be brought up to standard, since it’s not worth investing in. In Massachusetts, rent control was a complete disaster and had to be repealed. In San Francisco, the moment they introduced it, permitting dropped. It just hasn’t worked”
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Dean W. Ball
Dean W. Ball@deanwball·
A great nugget from @ConnorTabarrok in a post about developing-world water and sanitation infrastructure: "State capacity need not exist within the state." This will be a recurrent theme of US political and institutional life, just as it already is in the developing world.
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Matthew Yglesias
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias·
There are no real “fix everything” buttons in life, but proportional representation for state legislatures would solve a lot of problems in state government caused by partisan monocultures. slowboring.com/p/could-the-se…
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Alexander Berger
Alexander Berger@albrgr·
Made a big mistake not putting this chart in the thread lol
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Alexander Berger@albrgr

.@coeff_giving directed over $1b in 2025, the most in our history. I wrote a more personal annual letter this year, focusing on what a decade of grantmaking has taught me, how I'm thinking about AI, and how we're grappling with giving at this scale. 🧵

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Benjamin Miller
Benjamin Miller@BenMillerise·
Over the past 2 years, we’ve owned and developed 10,000 housing lots in “for-sale” housing. Everyone is thinking about it like building a single house, but the typical development is 20-50 acres for a community of hundreds of new homes. The biggest risk is the horizontal land development because it takes 2-4 years and costs millions to turn 20-50 acres of raw land into finished lots (with power, water, roads, grading, etc). Build-to-rent provided a backstop for the land development in case the housing market crashed. We included it as a backup alternative in our underwriting. Now that BTR is banned, we would not take the land development risk and I bet we’re not the only ones.
Mike Palicz@Mike_Palicz

The Home Builders lay out a straightforward argument that the forced sale provision for Build-to-Rent homes would lead to 40,000 less constructed homes per year. Cass should have the decency to explain why he thinks they’re wrong, or why this is an acceptable trade off.

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Charlie Anderson@EconCharlie·
Worth a read by anyone, but especially people working in philanthropy.
Alexander Berger@albrgr

.@coeff_giving directed over $1b in 2025, the most in our history. I wrote a more personal annual letter this year, focusing on what a decade of grantmaking has taught me, how I'm thinking about AI, and how we're grappling with giving at this scale. 🧵

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Jason Furman
Jason Furman@jasonfurman·
I could never pull off a metaphor this well. (Although the nice firefighter doesn't seem to be in any hurry to show up.)
CSPAN@cspan

Yale Budget Lab Exec. Dir. @marthagimbel on the shrinking appeal of U.S. debt: "We are currently the boyfriend at the beginning of the Hallmark movie in the big city, where the girlfriend is still going out with him even though she knows that it's wrong."

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