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Josh Barro

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I write (at https://t.co/ZoyMCO4ICD) & I co-host CENTRAL AIR, a major weekly politics podcast. https://t.co/27H6dlohwT Email josh at joshbarro dot com

New York, New York Katılım Eylül 2008
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Justin Slaughter
Justin Slaughter@JBSDC·
Rep. Khanna is hinting at something that’s not really been picked up on yet outside a few circles in DC: of the Senators who endorsed Platner, Warren was the most dogged about pushing others to support him and defending him to the caucus.
Shannon Watts@shannonrwatts

Ro Khanna is the ONLY Platner endorser in Congress to publicly express regret over his decision. And all he said was, “ I wasn’t the only one. You had Planned Parenthood. You had Senator Warren. You had the entire Democratic Party. But I did get that call wrong.” notus.org/congress/this-…

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Rep. Scott Peters
Rep. Scott Peters@RepScottPeters·
Democrats want cleaner, more reliable, and cheaper energy. But to deliver renewables and transmission, we need permitting reform to modernize our ancient environmental laws to strip out needless process impediments. Renewable developers tell us that speed and certainty are more important to them than subsidies. And 90% of gigawatts waiting to be approved and connected are non-emitting. We should get out of our own way. Too many Democrats see permit reform as a negotiating *give* rather than a *get.* That’s backwards. It’s impossible to meet our energy goals without fixing the law.
Jane Flegal@JaneAFlegal

Okay, a few thoughts on the Ezra/@billmckibben podcast. It's v good that people like Bill are pushing enviro groups from "block bad stuff" to "unblock good stuff." But the rhetoric only goes so far, & the truth is that we are not set up to succeed on the supply-side agenda. 🧵

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Josh Barro@jbarro·
@RichardHanania What exactly are we measuring here? In a lot of these households where the woman earns 90% of the income, is the husband disabled or unemployed, rather than an intentional second-earner? That could be the source of the psychological distress.
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Richard Hanania
Richard Hanania@RichardHanania·
The more a woman earns relative to her husband, the more mental distress the husband feels.
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Josh Barro@jbarro·
@Tyler_A_Harper There’s a related theory of politics held by people from the same ideological zone as these academics
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Tyler Austin Harper
Tyler Austin Harper@Tyler_A_Harper·
The thing I am struck by is how rare it is for one of these elite academics to respond to criticism by saying: “these attacks on us get some things wrong and are overstated, but there is a some truth to them and soul searching never hurts.” Instead, an inch is never conceded.
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Tyler Austin Harper
Tyler Austin Harper@Tyler_A_Harper·
It’s remarkable that this is the best defense the head of a major scholarly organization—not to mention a Princeton full professor—can mount. Nonsensical arguments, shameless deflections, incoherence. How could you read this and think: “yeah these fields can reform themselves?”
Stephanie M. Lee@stephaniemlee

NEW Q&A: Is anthropology hopelessly politicized, more than any other humanistic field? That's the charge that's flying around this summer, so I wanted to hear from Carolyn Rouse, president of the American Anthropological Association. She had lots to say. chronicle.com/article/is-ant…

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Josh Barro
Josh Barro@jbarro·
He left his wife to take up with his late brother's widow and got her addicted to crack!
Vidor@Vidor1

@jbarro Hi! Can you tell us what bad thing Hunter Biden did?

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Tom Erb
Tom Erb@Erb_Tom10·
It just doesn't make sense. Dems top priority = transmission. A top impediment to transmission build = NHPA. No deal materializes until Dems accept that clean energy abundance requires major reform of NEPA & NHPA. These laws simply weren’t built for the moment we’re in.
Jane Flegal@JaneAFlegal

Let me just say, if Democrats reject a permitting deal with a robust transmission provision because of NHPA angst, I will be very, very disappointed. (Also: some of the most important aspects of NHPA analysis burden clean energy disproportionately: ifp.org/reforming-sect…).

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Josh Barro@jbarro·
@stogachess Several women and Platner himself have described Platner as being a problem drinker
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Vincent Dowling
Vincent Dowling@stogachess·
@jbarro this is unfair to Hunter Biden, who is a smart person and at least has a plausible excuse (addiction) for his selfishness. Platner has no such excuse and just sucks in every way possible.
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Josh Barro@jbarro·
Graham Platner is just Hunter Biden with worse ink: a downwardly-mobile egomaniac whose inexplicable sex appeal makes him especially bad news. joshbarro.com/p/graham-platn…
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Josh Barro@jbarro·
@jassmine_b Yeah he hurt us by running when Gwen Graham would have beat DeSantis. Hasn’t been great to his wife either.
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CivicJass
CivicJass@jassmine_b·
@jbarro Did he hurt anyone? Seems like he’s got a substance abuse problem. Pete Hegseth is Secretary of Defense, RFK Jr is HHS. They were given opportunities. Why not show Gillum some mercy.
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David@ArgleBargleDave·
@jbarro Are clicks no longer the coin of the realm for most of the media?
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Josh Barro@jbarro·
Brian Tyler Cohen is in one of the few parts of the media that really is still a clicks business, so he advocates whatever gets video views, but the real lesson here is that “fight” is vacuous bullshit that pleases partisans, not a strategy to win.
State of the Union@CNNSOTU

Brian Tyler Cohen on Graham Platner: "In large part, he was a great representation of, I think, what a new Democratic Party needed to look like in terms of the aggressiveness, the willingness to actually fight... Obviously, what he did was disgusting,” and the Democratic Party has zero tolerance for that.

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Jeremy Horpedahl 🥚📉
Jeremy Horpedahl 🥚📉@jmhorp·
Grocery prices are up 6% in the past 3 years, not 40% And average wages are up 12%
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Leo@Leonajardinho

If you try to save money by cooking at home, you walk into a grocery store where three massive conglomerates own every brand on the shelf and have colluded to raise baseline prices by 40% over three years. If you try to cut costs by renting a modest apartment, you face corporate landlords using automated algorithmic software to artificially inflate rental rates across the entire city simultaneously. If you try to opt out of car debt by using public transit, you realize municipal budgets were slashed to protect the auto industry, leaving you with zero reliable infrastructure to get to work. You aren't making "poor financial decisions." Every single alternative route to survival has been intentionally bought out, consolidated, and monetized to extract maximum profit from your baseline existence. They don't want you to build wealth; they want you permanently trapped on a treadmill where every necessary life pivot just leads back to the exact same corporate ledger.

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Matthew Yglesias
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias·
Progressives have already made a lot of progress on getting Hispanic moderates to vote more like Anglo moderates and are hard at work on getting Jewish moderates to vote more like white gentile moderates. I guess African-American moderates are next. But what does this achieve?
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Josh Barro@jbarro·
I’m not sure Jia Tolentino is the person we need to hear from about how we’ve lost track of what matters
The New Yorker@NewYorker

“Today, the young inject their faces and look old; the old inject their faces and look uncanny; a 20-year-old got famous for hitting himself in the jaw with a hammer to become hotter; teen-agers ask strangers on the internet if a facelift is their only hope,” Jia Tolentino (@jiatortellini) writes. “The internet casually scrambles basic ideas of personhood, reframing people as commodities and stripping us for parts. But only recently has this process been encoded so specifically onto the face, traditionally thought of as a portal to our humanity. The face is separating from the person, and the person is separating from the soul, and this is happening in front of us, on our phones, in the most banal fashion, every day.” Read her new essay about our plastic-surgery nightmare: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ob5cmt

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Matthew Yglesias
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias·
This is the whole problem with the climate NGO space, it insists on waving away all genuine difficulties with building a prosperous low-carbon economy and then any time anyone points a difficulty out they are dismissed as “shills.”
Aaron Regunberg@AaronRegunberg

Yeah, folks in climate world need to stop treating groups like Breakthrough Institute as anything other than the fossil fuel-promoting Big Oil shills that they are.

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