

EJ Fagan
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@ejfagan
Political scientist, @thisisuic. Author of The Thinkers: The Rise of Partisan Think Tanks and the Polarization of American Politics. Also Yankees baseball.





Trump’s Sec of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says the solution to high egg prices for Americans is to get some chickens and raise them in your backyard.

JUST IN: President Trump says he will "demand that interest rates drop immediately."

Tammy Duckworth to Rubio: "When I first got to Senate I was pregnant with my daughter and trying to change Senate rules so I could bring her onto the floor so I could do my job and vote...not accessible to wheelchairs...You came running down to me 'I'm with you! I support you!"

It's frustrating thinking about how many arguments and debates could be solved with existing, publicly-funded data that's just hard to access because of privacy rules and regulations that don't actually protect anyone.





For most of our country’s history the federal government was funded by tariffs, there was no income tax, the budget was (mostly) balanced, and federal spending was less than 10% of GDP.









"And I would say, 'Well, what is the power of these [EJ groups blocking permitting reform]--like, what is their leverage on you?' And there was never an answer." - @ezraklein on the broken intra-Dem politics of permitting reform