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Portland now. Detroit before.
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A good way to think about the housing crisis is landlords pocketing essentially all the consumer surplus the last 40 years
Between 1980 and 2024 the basket of 50 basic commodities become cheaper and more abundant. To be precise 70 per cent cheaper and 238 per cent more abundant. If we hadn’t messed up housing costs we’d be collectively very well off. Source: buff.ly/U8lZZkc
July 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Oh, gee, what big issue might he have relented on that the south was really pushing for? Very hard to pinpoint.
Trump: "The Civil War -- it always seemed to me maybe that could've been solved without losing 600,000 plus people."
June 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands.

Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
June 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening

historians: that thing is definitely happening

star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it

news outlets: these protesters are out of control
June 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Citizens united and now this
I’m on the Senate floor right now urging my colleagues to vote no on the GENIUS Act.

There is no excuse for Congress to pass a crypto bill that will turbocharge Trump’s corruption and undermine national security, consumer protection, and our financial stability.
Senator Warren remarks on GENIUS Act
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
www.youtube.com
May 20, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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I’m on the Senate floor right now urging my colleagues to vote no on the GENIUS Act.

There is no excuse for Congress to pass a crypto bill that will turbocharge Trump’s corruption and undermine national security, consumer protection, and our financial stability.
Senator Warren remarks on GENIUS Act
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
www.youtube.com
May 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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JD Vance - If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.
February 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Like what is the point of Congress fighting over appropriations if the president’s buddy can just entirely unappropriate an entire agency, with zero announcement or warning whatsoever, just vanished
February 2, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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ICE just adopted new policies making it harder for Congress to prevent deportations, per memo leaked to me:
January 31, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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I wish someone would ask if they’re talking to RFK Jr. himself, or the worm. Just for the record.
January 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Maybe kinda here. Depends
January 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM