@thirty313 @mattyglesias Google joe lieberman. its clear you were not aware in 2008 so im gonna stop talking to you
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@MikeyToner @mattyglesias He had complete control, including a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. We could have had single payer. Instead we lined the pockets of private insurance and now have a fundamentally worse system.
The pre-existing conditions clause is all I'll give him flowers for here.
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The actual derangement is the people who don’t realize Obama is broadly popular, well-liked, and remembered fondly and was extremely popular on the day he left office as well.
Not a perfect president or a flawless administration but better than all the other ones.
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@jonathankennell @jasonc_nc Its an elevator. you are being loaded like cargo. its ok it lasts like 30 seconds
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@jasonc_nc As someone who's dealt with wheelchairs a lot, I will say - it is very uncomfortable for wheelchair users - and anyone else - if they can't turn around inside the elevator. It's another way we make wheelchair users feel less than others, forcing them to be loaded like cargo.
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@thirty313 @mattyglesias Trust me, the healthcare is better now. you arent remembering pre 08 healthcare correctly
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@mattyglesias Obama gets a pass for endless drone strikes, bombing hospitals, giving us shittier healthcare, putting Wallstreet before Main Street, but oh... we remember him so fondly. Nothing but love.
If he's so much better than all the others, sounds like we really need to raise the bar.
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@Ryan01020304061 @graeme_marshall no they dont make money. sponsors give the cities NO money. fifa intercepts it all. its the main reason chicago is not in this world cup.
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@graeme_marshall Surely with all the sponsors and people coming to the country does it not make money ? I genuinely don’t know the answer by the way
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What is this fascination with having tournaments over multiple countries now. It’s crap.
Brilliant Maps@BrilliantMaps
Host Cities For The 2030 FIFA World Cup (from the FIFA website)
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@mattyglesias @matttclement I wonder what would have been more effective? Putting every single one of the executives responsible for the worst financial crisis of the 21st century in prison for decades? Or passing a set of laws that were immediately rendered toothless by lobbyists. Moron.
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I’m glad Sirota brought this up again because:
(a) It’s not true
(b) It’s worth understanding how much left economics is grounded in this slander against the most popular and successful Dem politician of our time
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David Sirota@davidsirota
The Democratic elite has worked hard to make sure the party never reckons with - or talks about - the ramifications of Obama handing out get-out-of-jail-free cards to Wall Street. A reckoning is necessary. Kudos to @ChrisRabb for having the courage to say this.
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@cameacrossthis @MrPitbull07 craziest take ive ever heard. the sun is hot, and shade is nice!
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@MrPitbull07 Trees are a pest and a nuisance.
Over years the canopy gets large,blocking views, the sky, the sun. Living in perpetual shade: depressing as hell. Especially if nothing will grow under those trees.
Rip them all out!
Trees are like snow and mountains, best admired from a distance.
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Portland's urban forestry division misread a work order in March 2019 and planted 500 red maples along Belmont Avenue instead of Belmont Road, three miles east. Every single tree went into parking strips, medians, and corner lots that hadn't requested them. By the time the city noticed, residents had already installed benches, hung birdhouses, and named individual trees. A petition with 1,400 signatures blocked removal.
The parks department sent a crew to dig them up anyway. Forty-seven homeowners stood on their sidewalks with lawn chairs and thermoses. The city replanted Belmont Road separately. Both streets now have the highest canopy coverage in Oregon.
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@eddieenhanced1 @mattyglesias Because people don't want to live there. They want to live in nice areas like the one pictured above.
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@mattyglesias @mattyglesias I’m an Illinois, suburban moderate. Generally not opposed to this…but, if we’re supposed to believe that housing scarcity is rooted in a lack of available land zoned for multi family structures….why does the South side look like this?
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@vonmstiltson @BarneyFlames @LVMisesSupport Chart seems wrong. there is the big one, samsung but then a couple other 100B companies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_l…
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@BarneyFlames @LVMisesSupport So a large amount of its economy is just two companies, I would guess Samsung would be one? What’s the other one?
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South Korea is really weird (this shows most of their economy is in the hand of family owned conglomerates)
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@jdcmedlock @danieldbunn Steve ballmer has a whole YouTube channel doing this. USAFacts. Pretty useful
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@danieldbunn If I was a billionaire I'd spend so much money on youtube ads boosting this video
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We desperately need a national educational campaign on how marginal tax brackets work
lesbians for stewbrina@lezzymcgu1re
"This is so silly of her" no y'all its just legal tax evasion
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@ak47eating @mattyglesias @jonfavs @RebeccaKKatz @ezraklein He wasn't voted out of Congress! He chose not to run again. Just like golden
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@mattyglesias @jonfavs @RebeccaKKatz @ezraklein it's cute you think coastal elite social media poasters voted manchin out of office lol.
elon killing twitter has been good for politics, that's for sure.
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@mattyglesias So you're happy about the lack of a war powers vote that could have been called?
Sorry, you seemed to have not answered that point for some reason?
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@BuddyWells1 Love the Elon hate. but the government has made this money back from all the employees income it taxes, car sales tax and foreign investment in great American companies.
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According to a detailed analysis by The Washington Post (published in February 2025 and widely cited across sources including Fox Business, Fortune, The Guardian, and Good Jobs First), Elon Musk's companies—primarily SpaceX, Tesla, and earlier ones like SolarCity—have received at least $38 billion in total government support since around 2003.
In return Elon says he has paid $10 billion in tax in total… around 1% of his net worth.
Should we give him a trophy?
Joe Rogan Podcast News@joeroganhq
Elon Musk: “I am the largest individual taxpayer in history. I’ve paid over $10,000,000,000.00 in tax. I thought the IRS might send me a little trophy or something.”
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@russelkin @mattyglesias If only trump didn't block rollout and scaling up of off shore wind energy on the eastern seaboard
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@mattyglesias Very little wind & solar in this region, in case anyone wants to blame "renewables"
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@data_atx @Rabadash2 @MattBruenig Untrue. Dollar for dollar medicine beats gym. All insurance companies lose money on their gym benefits pay out because the cost benefit analysis is just wrong. People who use the benefit would have gone to the gym without it so there no medical benefit
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@Rabadash2 @MattBruenig To be fair though, a gym is better medicine than 99% of medicines
Should have been included in allowable expenses originally without a doctors note
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This company gives letters of medical necessity to pretty much anyone so they can commit tax fraud
a16z@a16z
America spends more per capita on healthcare than any other nation, but 90% of those dollars are spent managing chronic conditions after people get sick. @truemed is changing that. Truemed enables consumers to spend HSA and FSA dollars on evidence-based lifestyle interventions, shifting more of our healthcare dollars toward True Medicine: exercise, good sleep, supplements, movement – the things that prevent disease before it starts. Today, that includes Peloton, Eight Sleep, Barry’s, and many more. Cofounder & CEO Justin Mares has a decade of experience as a serial founder in health, and we are compelled by his mission at Truemed to make prevention become the default setting of American health. We couldn’t be more proud to be partnering with Justin and leading the company’s $34 million Series A. By @daisydwolf, @julesyoo, and Eva Steinman
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@dbinthed @mattyglesias The next marginal mw sure. But if your factory needs to run 24/7 wind is not cheaper at all. And all utilities and regulators know this and pay accordingly.
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@mattyglesias Germany can get enough gas for industrial processes from Norway.
The rest? Electrify it. North Sea wind is cheaper than imported LNG, lol.
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Remember when everyone had synesthesia? Not something you hear so much about these days
susie ꕤ@i_am_susie
cyhtia erivo “i have synesthesia” jennifer lawrence “what color is this” 😭
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@Leslie__Allison @mattyglesias yes climate activism is clearly different than environmental activism. they are 50 years apart
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@mattyglesias This is a bad take. Is climate activism distinct from environmental activism? I don’t know how we get the Clean Air Act, DDT removal, etc. without activism. Why is Gen Z more concerned about climate change than boomers? Because they admire solar panel ceos?
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@Mokidar @mattyglesias That's great, more units for people to live in and generate tax revenue to fund services. And less likely to bid up the cheaper units.
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@mattyglesias Minneapolis did zoning reform. In the wealthy neighborhoods, developers built high-end triplexes and luxury apartments, not low cost housing. No surprise - they make more money that way.
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@RichardHanania Primarily because the Paul Krugman branch of academia thought that inflation was a) not happening, and b) no big deal if it was, and that hurt people on fixed incomes the most.
I'd be happier if this was via a larger COLA for SSA benefits, but this is another option.
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The Republican tax plan gives a $4,000 higher standard deduction for those over 65! Why on earth would you do this? We’re already bankrupting the country for the sake of old people, they don’t need any more advantages.
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@stockbella @atrupar by forcing farmers to start vaccinating chickens with bird flu vaccine
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Trump: "Eggs are a disaster. The secretary of agriculture is gonna be showing you a chart that's actually mind-boggling, what's happened, how low they were with us and how high they are now." (Who does he think is president?)
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