EJ Fagan

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EJ Fagan

@ejfagan

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

Chicago, IL Katılım Şubat 2009
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EJ Fagan
EJ Fagan@ejfagan·
The Thinkers: The Rise of Partisan Think Tanks and the Polarization of American Politics, is officially published today! The book tells the story of how partisan think tanks have impacted modern policy debates. Here's why you should consider it 1/ 🧵 amazon.com/Thinkers-Parti…
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Matt Grossmann
Matt Grossmann@MattGrossmann·
Each congress, the majority party begins with large policy ambitions. They tend to get nothing on half of their largest priorities, compromise away major components of initial aims on what they are able to pass, & steamroll opposition to achieve all they want on only 1 or 2 items
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Samuel Hammond 🦉
Samuel Hammond 🦉@hamandcheese·
Open sourcing public datasets is one of the best, low-cost ways to advance the social sciences. Under the status quo, a few well-connected academics get privileged access to admin data to write blockbuster papers that are then hard to impossible to independently replicate.
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil

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.

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EJ Fagan@ejfagan·
Reporters should interpret these comments as, "House Republican advocates for eliminating Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and a standing army." It's absurd and misleading that we let politicians get away with advocating for massive spending cuts in the abstract.
Thomas Massie@RepThomasMassie

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.

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Nate Silver
Nate Silver@NateSilver538·
This is literally the opposite of what happened! Shift vs. 2020 among: ----------------------- Non-white non-college men: Trump +21 (!) White non-college men: Trump +9 Non-white college men: Trump +9 White college men: Harris +2 (!) theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Bryan Anderson
Bryan Anderson@BryanRAnderson·
JUST IN: NC Supreme Court candidate Allison Riggs has just netted 2,882 votes in Wake County. She currently trails by 2,753 votes. If this holds and is official, Riggs will overtake Griffin by 129 votes, with six counties still yet to report any provisionals. #ncpol
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EJ Fagan@ejfagan·
@pamsson It sure feels like we're heading for an Opening Day lineup with four or five league minimum salaries.
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Randy Wilkins
Randy Wilkins@pamsson·
I’ve been confident from jump the Yankees will retain Soto. I think Hal will pay up. I could end up being wrong but that’s how I’ve felt since they traded for him. What I’m not confident in is the Yankees continuing to add established and productive players beyond Soto.
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Byron York
Byron York@ByronYork·
Fox @BretBaier asks Thune about recess appointments for Trump nominees: 'It's an option, but you have to have all Republicans vote to recess.' Says GOP senators who oppose Gaetz nomination would likely also object to recess. Plus, 'you have to have concurrence from the House.'
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EJ Fagan@ejfagan·
@hamandcheese I have some visibility into one particular section of the Democratic group coalition and it's way worse than people might imagine.
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Samuel Hammond 🦉
Samuel Hammond 🦉@hamandcheese·
The outside view is that donors pay advocacy groups to support certain positions but in this case it was the advocacy groups that had captured the donor. It's more common than you might realize.
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Samuel Hammond 🦉
Samuel Hammond 🦉@hamandcheese·
I once did a panel on "supply side liberalism" and afterward talked to the climate program officer of a major liberal foundation. She lamented how hard it was to fund good supply stuff because of pushback from EJ groups. I was like "But aren't you the one writing the checks??"
Chris Elmendorf@CSElmendorf

"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

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talmon joseph smith@talmonsmith·
Alaska led with some ballot wins for laborers: -Voters approved minimum wage increases to $15 per hour in Alaska & Missouri -Alaska voters opted to ban anti-union captive audience meetings -Voters expanded workers’ ability to earn paid sick leave in Alaska Missouri & Nebraska
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