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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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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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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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Matthew Zeitlin
Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin·
Yale Law School….what’s going on there….
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Josh Barro@jbarro·
@PeterMeijer You can always identify a kitchen amateur from a box of Morton Kosher salt
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Derek Thompson
Derek Thompson@DKThomp·
there are a lot of things that i said in texts that i wish i'd been braver to post before this whole thing fell apart bc now it's all kind of obvious but one of them is that dudes who go to brown and yale fucking law who disparage successful strivers in politics as "vat-grown" creatures deserve to be mocked as pathetic posers, not held up as the future of left-of-center politics
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