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Teddy Chassin

@TeddyChassin

Manhattan born and bred. U Miami '17, NYU '22. Politics, sports, where they meet, anything else funny or interesting. RTs = unequivocal endorsements, obviously.

Manhattan, NY Katılım Haziran 2011
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Teddy Chassin
Teddy Chassin@TeddyChassin·
@JeremiahDJohns Some centrist types act as if the only reason progressives critique Fetterman is because he’s nominally moderate. I have plenty of respect for pols like Manchin, Peltola, etc. despite disagreements. Fetterman is on the other hand is just lazy and doesn’t take the job seriously.
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Jeremiah Johnson 🌐
Jeremiah Johnson 🌐@JeremiahDJohns·
Guy legitimately doesn't even want to be a Senator. Why the fuck is he there?
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Caroline Vakil
Caroline Vakil@CarolineVakil·
Asked by @lisakashinsky about the shift of opinions on AIPAC among Democrats and whether he personally would reject money from the group, @CoryBooker says “First and foremost, there is a singling out of AIPAC that is troubling to me.” Says there are Iranian Americans and Turkish Americans who bundle money, adding “There are a lot of ethnic groups that bundle money, and often for things that I don't agree with. But somehow, AIPAC seems to be drawing a lot of attention, and that's problematic to me,” he says. Goes on to say that he doesn’t think anybody should be accepting PAC money from anyone.
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Teddy Chassin
Teddy Chassin@TeddyChassin·
@dilanesper Could be, but still don’t think absent a right-wing messaging campaign the issue becomes what it is now. Impacts too few people, we’re talking about a tiny number of athletes in obscure sports. I just also think them’s the breaks in politics, whining about it doesn’t help anyone.
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Dilan Esper
Dilan Esper@dilanesper·
@TeddyChassin Broadening eligibility rules (such that Lia Thomas was permitted to happen) was the big catalyst.
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Dilan Esper
Dilan Esper@dilanesper·
I just wonder if Roberts has any kids or even likes sports. Look-- right wing strategy is clearly PART of this. Like any movement, they looked for areas where their position had support, and sports was one of them. But that support was preexisting, from parents and sports fans.
Benjamin Ryan@benryanwriter

David Roberts is adamant that the only reason the issue of transgender girls playing in girls’ sports has any salience with the public is because right-wing media manufactured a moral panic about this. In Roberts’ view, no one became concerned about this issue organically.

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Teddy Chassin
Teddy Chassin@TeddyChassin·
@dilanesper The better version of the argument Roberts is making is because the numbers are tiny, the issue wouldn’t have risen organically. Thing is, that doesn’t excuse anyone from having to take a position. Sometimes your political opponents find a wedge issue and you have to deal with it
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Dilan Esper
Dilan Esper@dilanesper·
The survey showed very strong support for sex testing and exclusion. The point is, the Right didn't concoct this issue. They tapped into a vein that has existed almost as long as there has been women's competitive athletics. It was opportunistic, but they didn't create it.
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Eki-Tiki-Taka
Eki-Tiki-Taka@trsynwax·
@EricLevitz Vox was bought by private equity in 2022 for people unfamiliar... The very people thst are subject here. I get you don't feel the need yo disclose the obvious conflict of interest so I'll just do it for you.
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Eric Levitz
Eric Levitz@EricLevitz·
Elizabeth Warren's crackdown on corporate homebuilding is wildly regressive. Not only would the policy reduce the supply of housing - it would also require some landlords to oust their tenants en masse, so that wealthier families can purchase their homes vox.com/politics/48286…
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Teddy Chassin
Teddy Chassin@TeddyChassin·
@Budowich Totally agree that Joe Kent is an unhinged lunatic. Hey, can you remind me who appointed him to his Senate confirmed counterterrorism job and kept him there until he resigned? Thanks!
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Taylor Budowich
Taylor Budowich@Budowich·
Joe Kent is a crazed egomaniac who was often at the center of national security leaks, while rarely (never?) producing any actual work. He spent all of his time working to subvert the chain of command and undermine the President of the United States. This isn’t some principled resignation—he just wanted to make a splash before getting canned. What a loser.
Joe Kent@joekent16jan19

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.

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Teddy Chassin
Teddy Chassin@TeddyChassin·
@davidfrum Might be another difference between a conflict that has been settled for the majority of Mamdani's life and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict
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Drew Savicki
Drew Savicki@DrewSav·
After no tax on seniors, tips, teachers, people paying less than 100k who will be left pay to any taxes?
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Cassie Pritchard
Cassie Pritchard@hecubian_devil·
I was a barista for 4 years and a customer’s partisanship was strongly predicted by how complicated/sugary their order was (after adjusting for race, gender, and age). Black coffee orders at Starbucks are overwhelmingly driven by liberal white men.
Howard Mortman@HowardMortman

"This is a cup of Starbucks coffee. I checked: The most popular Starbucks coffee drink is a caramel macchiato. Caramel macchiato. Now I don't know what that is. I haven't had it. I generally don't drink coffee that takes ten or more words to order." -- @SenJohnKennedy

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Teddy Chassin
Teddy Chassin@TeddyChassin·
@wideofthepost No one ever claimed LIIs were a marginal investor in the SFH/duplex BTR market. The claim, and it remains accurate, is that their share of overall ownership is marginal (<1%). That means an effective BTR ban does real damage to supply without solving any problem!
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austerity is theft@wideofthepost·
The provision is also good — if anything the cap should be lower. The protestations are so dumb and bad faith, from people who spent years claiming this SFH subsegment was irrelevant, a rounding error at best.
David Dayen@ddayen

Brian Schatz, the heir apparent to Chuck Schumer in Senate Dem leadership, publicly attacked a biparitsan housing bill, never filed an amendment to fix it & didn't flip a single vote. The goal was just loudly signaling support for private equity. prospect.org/2026/03/13/bri…

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Teddy Chassin@TeddyChassin·
@mattyglesias @brianschatz I find the accusation that he didn't file an amendment particularly confusing, wasn't he just saying §901 should be struck? Procedurally, wouldn't filing an amendment be a weird way of doing that?
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Matthew Yglesias
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias·
I think @brianschatz’s goal was to get more rental housing built. I am again struck that none of the people on the other side can explain why curtailing new build-to-rent projects is a good idea, it’s just irritable mental gestures.
David Dayen@ddayen

Brian Schatz, the heir apparent to Chuck Schumer in Senate Dem leadership, publicly attacked a biparitsan housing bill, never filed an amendment to fix it & didn't flip a single vote. The goal was just loudly signaling support for private equity. prospect.org/2026/03/13/bri…

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Teddy Chassin
Teddy Chassin@TeddyChassin·
@EWErickson In the past week, Trump has said: 1) his plan for the Strait of Hormuz is for tanker captains to "show some guts" 2) we accidentally killed the people we wanted to take over Iran 3) Iran bombed its own school using stolen Tomahawk missiles Please excuse my lack of confidence!
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Erick Erickson
Erick Erickson@EWErickson·
My personal belief is that the President, his team, and the Israelis know far better than the press what is going on, and the press is so relentlessly, ruthlessly hostile to the Trump Administration that they're more likely to believe Iranian propaganda than that this is actually going well. As I noted yesterday, the ordinance dropped is on pace to mirror Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom with a combined strike of about 1000 targets a day from the Israelis and Americans. That's pretty consistent. The fact that the national press is barely even covering Homeland Security being shut down by Democrats in a time of war is just another data point. If Obama were bombing Syria while the GOP had Homeland Security shut down, the GOP obstruction would be the primary story every day in the press. But because it is Trump, the press is elevating the doubters, the haters, and the propagandists. The press has a real bias in this.
Chuck Todd@chucktodd

Anyone else fear that the Commander in Chief isn’t getting the full picture of the war’s impact out of fear by those around him of telling him something he doesn’t want to hear?

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Teddy Chassin
Teddy Chassin@TeddyChassin·
@ryangrim You’re confusing two different issues…come on man, people rely on you for good analysis x.com/teddychassin/s…
Teddy Chassin@TeddyChassin

@EricLevitz @oren_cass Best I can tell, Oren is confusing two things in this attempted dunk. LIIs make up a tiny amount of overall ownership, but a large amount of BTR starts. So banning the latter reduces SFH rental supply a lot without actually solving a concentration problem. x.com/teddychassin/s…

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Ryan Grim
Ryan Grim@ryangrim·
We spent the last few years being told by the Abundance types that the whole thing about PE buying up so many houses is a fake, made up panic. Now they’re saying the housing bill just passed is a big problem because it would crimp that build-to-rent market, which we were previously told is totally inconsequential.
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Teddy Chassin@TeddyChassin·
@EricLevitz @oren_cass Best I can tell, Oren is confusing two things in this attempted dunk. LIIs make up a tiny amount of overall ownership, but a large amount of BTR starts. So banning the latter reduces SFH rental supply a lot without actually solving a concentration problem. x.com/teddychassin/s…
Teddy Chassin@TeddyChassin

@oren_cass After spending all this time advocating for a ban on LII BTR do you still not understand that 1) LIIs make up a tiny portion of overall ownership and 2) a large portion of BTR starts? This makes a ban on BTR starts a worst of both worlds! We lose rental supply for no benefit!

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Eric Levitz
Eric Levitz@EricLevitz·
And to be clear, my view is that institutional investment in build-to-rent single family homes has had only a marginal impact on rents and prices nationally, largely because it is all but non-existent in many regions of the country. But it is a significant source of new homes in some regions. And the impact of most discrete policies in this space is marginal. In my understanding, the provision wipes out a good chunk of the bill's projected benefits, though would love to see more estimates x.com/aarmlovi/statu…
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Oren Cass
Oren Cass@oren_cass·
Well, the retreat is in full swing. Yesterday’s disastrous effort to “choke off investment in the construction of *new* single-family rental properties” is today’s “small/marginal” impact, really just a drop in the bucket when ya’ think about it.
Eric Levitz@EricLevitz

"Some financial firms want to invest in build-to-rent single family homes" is true. And such investment is good as it expands the supply of rental homes. But the impacts are small/marginal, since Wall Street-owned SFHs comprise a tiny fraction of the housing market

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Teddy Chassin@TeddyChassin·
@oren_cass After spending all this time advocating for a ban on LII BTR do you still not understand that 1) LIIs make up a tiny portion of overall ownership and 2) a large portion of BTR starts? This makes a ban on BTR starts a worst of both worlds! We lose rental supply for no benefit!
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Teddy Chassin@TeddyChassin·
@MattBruenig @mattyglesias He gestures at this when he tries to justify a BTR ban by referencing "your typical family," but yeah to this point he hasn't quite outright said it.
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Matt Bruenig
Matt Bruenig@MattBruenig·
@mattyglesias Anyways, it's weird that Oren doesn't just confidently say something like "SFH owners don't like to be around SFH renters and that's OK and a legitimate preference." Oren of all people has the ability to just say the cultural point directly. That's his whole heteredox bit!
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Teddy Chassin@TeddyChassin·
@oren_cass 1) this is wrong for a familiar reason--you use the phrase "typical family" synonymously with "Oren Cass' view of a family." In reality people buy condos a lot. 2) you seem to concede there's a market for BTR homes on the demand side, so why reduce supply? Who does this help?
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Oren Cass
Oren Cass@oren_cass·
7/ I'm also perplexed by people asking "why are BTR apartment buildings OK but BTR houses not?" Um, because your typical family can't buy an apartment building, never has bought an apartment building, doesn't want to. Nor are they built in the same places.
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Oren Cass
Oren Cass@oren_cass·
1/ Folks, Build-to-Rent isn't some indispensable source of supply in a healthy housing market. It's mostly a recent phenomenon, driven by arbitrage opportunities, and leading toward a bad equilibrium. 🧵
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Teddy Chassin
Teddy Chassin@TeddyChassin·
@trsynwax @ryangrim What is the point of allowing LIIs to own and rent out any kind of home except SFHs/duplexes, thereby taking these homes off the rental market? What goal does this serve besides squeezing the rental supply a bit overall, but somewhat significantly among SFHs/duplexes?
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Ryan Grim
Ryan Grim@ryangrim·
Something is off here. Schatz comes in at the last minute and casts a meaningless vote against this housing bill that passed by a mile. Feels like a signal that he’s gonna play ball with K St if he becomes senate leader. Warren denies this is a drafting error. What’s going on here @brianschatz?
Eleanor Mueller@Eleanor_Mueller

Schatz says on the Senate floor "there is a problem" with the housing bill. "There was an original idea to go after hedge fund ownership of housing. ... There is also a section that does a very bizarre thing, which is ... anybody who owns and rents out more than 350 units ... must sell."

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Teddy Chassin@TeddyChassin·
@JerusalemDemsas As best I can tell, Oren Cass and co. are only referring to owners when they talk about “families.” I won’t speculate as to what might be behind that, but none of their arguments make any sense if you acknowledge that families do indeed rent homes. Quite frequently, in fact!
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Jerusalem
Jerusalem@JerusalemDemsas·
I am agnostic on whether the marginal home built goes to an owner occupant or renter but I think progressives who have a strong intuition towards the former should think a bit harder about what it means for their politics.
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