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1/🧵 Following up on our study featured in NYT today, this figure provides a macro-level view:
Dem vote shares rise with turnout parity (left) but fall with party-level ideological moderation (right). This suggests mobilizing base voters > persuading swing voters by moving to the center.
Dem vote shares rise with turnout parity (left) but fall with party-level ideological moderation (right). This suggests mobilizing base voters > persuading swing voters by moving to the center.
March 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
1/🧵 Following up on our study featured in NYT today, this figure provides a macro-level view:
Dem vote shares rise with turnout parity (left) but fall with party-level ideological moderation (right). This suggests mobilizing base voters > persuading swing voters by moving to the center.
Dem vote shares rise with turnout parity (left) but fall with party-level ideological moderation (right). This suggests mobilizing base voters > persuading swing voters by moving to the center.
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BRB, checking the history books to find out whether “tyrant starts redefining peoples’ citizenship status” usually ends well for the Jews
March 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
BRB, checking the history books to find out whether “tyrant starts redefining peoples’ citizenship status” usually ends well for the Jews
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The Trump administration is almost entirely stopping white-collar law enforcement... except for one case about UnitedHealth ripping off Medicare by adding bogus diagnoses to patients. Why is that moving forward while everything else stagnates? Great Moe Tkacik piece:
prospect.org/health/2025-...
prospect.org/health/2025-...
Did Luigi Save the UnitedHealth Case?
While shutting down dozens of corporate crime probes, the Trump DOJ seems to have jump-started a forever investigation into the mega-insurer’s billing practices.
prospect.org
March 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The Trump administration is almost entirely stopping white-collar law enforcement... except for one case about UnitedHealth ripping off Medicare by adding bogus diagnoses to patients. Why is that moving forward while everything else stagnates? Great Moe Tkacik piece:
prospect.org/health/2025-...
prospect.org/health/2025-...
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this is fucking sick
March 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
this is fucking sick
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Hundreds of Federal Employees and the union representing them are outside Consumer Financial Protection Bureau—the CFPB is shut down—DOGE employees are inside accessing the digital records.
dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/08/c...
dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/08/c...
February 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Hundreds of Federal Employees and the union representing them are outside Consumer Financial Protection Bureau—the CFPB is shut down—DOGE employees are inside accessing the digital records.
dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/08/c...
dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/08/c...
New Tesla ad really leans in
January 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
New Tesla ad really leans in
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I got to be friends with David Lynch when we were both at Universal years ago. A very kind man, he was a fan of Bob's Big Boy. So was I. I'm going to miss him. R.I.P. David.
January 17, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I got to be friends with David Lynch when we were both at Universal years ago. A very kind man, he was a fan of Bob's Big Boy. So was I. I'm going to miss him. R.I.P. David.
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A tale in two headlines.
They want to fund their tax breaks for the rich by cutting programs for working people, including lifesaving healthcare.
They want to fund their tax breaks for the rich by cutting programs for working people, including lifesaving healthcare.
January 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
A tale in two headlines.
They want to fund their tax breaks for the rich by cutting programs for working people, including lifesaving healthcare.
They want to fund their tax breaks for the rich by cutting programs for working people, including lifesaving healthcare.
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You will never succeed at fighting right wing disinfo with facts. Right wingers believe the first thing they hear & they'll believe it for life. They'll fight to the death about some inconsequential bullshit they just heard 5 seconds ago. You beat them by calling them weird assholes & isolating them
January 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
You will never succeed at fighting right wing disinfo with facts. Right wingers believe the first thing they hear & they'll believe it for life. They'll fight to the death about some inconsequential bullshit they just heard 5 seconds ago. You beat them by calling them weird assholes & isolating them
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BREAKING: AOC and other politicians have introduced a bill to ban stock trading by Congressional members and their family members.
January 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
BREAKING: AOC and other politicians have introduced a bill to ban stock trading by Congressional members and their family members.
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"Biden should publish both volumes of Smith’s report before leaving office. Doing so would serve the public interest and—most importantly—would be legal. Because, as an official action of a sitting president, it falls under the Supreme Court’s blanket of immunity." www.thebulwark.com/p/biden-has-...
Biden Has Presidential Immunity. He Should Use It.
Merrick Garland still doesn't know what time it is.
www.thebulwark.com
January 9, 2025 at 4:43 AM
"Biden should publish both volumes of Smith’s report before leaving office. Doing so would serve the public interest and—most importantly—would be legal. Because, as an official action of a sitting president, it falls under the Supreme Court’s blanket of immunity." www.thebulwark.com/p/biden-has-...
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As fires devastate LA, with over 70,000 evacuated and 400,000 without power, Drop Site’s Ryan Grim raises the point: We often ask, can we afford an effective fire department? Can we afford better schools? But perhaps the real question is: “Can we afford this billionaire class?”
(Video part 2 below)
(Video part 2 below)
January 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
As fires devastate LA, with over 70,000 evacuated and 400,000 without power, Drop Site’s Ryan Grim raises the point: We often ask, can we afford an effective fire department? Can we afford better schools? But perhaps the real question is: “Can we afford this billionaire class?”
(Video part 2 below)
(Video part 2 below)
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Might be a good time to point out a billionaire couple own and use more water than every home in LA combined
January 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Might be a good time to point out a billionaire couple own and use more water than every home in LA combined
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Congratulations to Exxon Mobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips for all the work they did on the LA fires! Without their hard work, it's unlikely so much of LA would be on fire.
Thank you to everyone who works in the fossil fuel industry for everything you do to destroy human civilization.
Thank you to everyone who works in the fossil fuel industry for everything you do to destroy human civilization.
The LA fires are a profound example of what climate scientists have been struggling to prevent for decades.
I hope everyone remembers that oil and gas companies, with full knowledge, created this future, in exchange for their windfall profits and geopolitical power.
I hope everyone remembers that oil and gas companies, with full knowledge, created this future, in exchange for their windfall profits and geopolitical power.
January 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Congratulations to Exxon Mobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips for all the work they did on the LA fires! Without their hard work, it's unlikely so much of LA would be on fire.
Thank you to everyone who works in the fossil fuel industry for everything you do to destroy human civilization.
Thank you to everyone who works in the fossil fuel industry for everything you do to destroy human civilization.
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Insurance companies are simultaneously eliminating fire coverage for Californians while offering insurance coverage to fossil fuel companies that are creating the climate-crisis conditions for ever larger and more destructive wildfires. www.levernews.com/what-if-i-ca...
“What If I Can’t Insure My Home At All?”
Insurance companies are leaving homeowners at the mercy of climate catastrophes they helped create.
www.levernews.com
January 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Insurance companies are simultaneously eliminating fire coverage for Californians while offering insurance coverage to fossil fuel companies that are creating the climate-crisis conditions for ever larger and more destructive wildfires. www.levernews.com/what-if-i-ca...
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Last year, LA city council defunded the fire department by $23 million while redirecting $138 million to the LAPD. #PacificPalisades #SantaMonica #Malibu
January 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Last year, LA city council defunded the fire department by $23 million while redirecting $138 million to the LAPD. #PacificPalisades #SantaMonica #Malibu
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"There are a lot of questions surrounding the deadly shooting of a 61-year-old Laurel County man this week, by London police officers who say they were there to serve a search warrant."
www.lex18.com/news/coverin...
www.lex18.com/news/coverin...
Neighbors: Police killed man after serving warrant to wrong home
There are a lot of questions surrounding the deadly shooting of a 61-year-old Laurel County man this week, by London police officers who say they were there to serve a search warrant.
www.lex18.com
December 28, 2024 at 8:37 PM
"There are a lot of questions surrounding the deadly shooting of a 61-year-old Laurel County man this week, by London police officers who say they were there to serve a search warrant."
www.lex18.com/news/coverin...
www.lex18.com/news/coverin...
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They suspended use of bodycams in 2023. The Laurel County courts do not have a copy of the original warrant. So much cover up being done on this man's murder.
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January 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
They suspended use of bodycams in 2023. The Laurel County courts do not have a copy of the original warrant. So much cover up being done on this man's murder.
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"I never thought they'd deport *my* indentured immigrant servants," sobs man who spent $44.2 billion electing the Deport All the Immigrants Party www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Maga v Musk: Trump camp divided in bitter fight over immigration policy
Feud flared up when president-elect chose Sriram Krishnan, an Indian-born entrepreneur, as his AI adviser
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2024 at 3:24 AM
"I never thought they'd deport *my* indentured immigrant servants," sobs man who spent $44.2 billion electing the Deport All the Immigrants Party www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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Whenever you see one of these stories you learn: it was acquired by private equity, it took on debt to pay the new owners dividends, it raised prices to pay off the debt. Every time.
Party City is going out of business after 40 years, closing down all its stores.
Corporate employees were told today is their last day of employment.
Corporate employees were told today is their last day of employment.
December 20, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Whenever you see one of these stories you learn: it was acquired by private equity, it took on debt to pay the new owners dividends, it raised prices to pay off the debt. Every time.
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BREAKING: Nancy Pelosi and her husband appear to have used unreported $28 million in Covid pandemic grants to make their personal investments in a hotel profit, per RealClearInvestigations.
The two of its investors in the Auberge du Soleil, a five-star hillside hotel and spa.
The two of its investors in the Auberge du Soleil, a five-star hillside hotel and spa.
December 20, 2024 at 10:09 PM
BREAKING: Nancy Pelosi and her husband appear to have used unreported $28 million in Covid pandemic grants to make their personal investments in a hotel profit, per RealClearInvestigations.
The two of its investors in the Auberge du Soleil, a five-star hillside hotel and spa.
The two of its investors in the Auberge du Soleil, a five-star hillside hotel and spa.