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Yeah, this is the crux of it. The permitting and planning system in this country is broken. This action is time sensitive, and we need both increased state capacity and BAAJA's reforms if we want to decarbonize quickly.
a certain kind of environmentalist will tell you we have ten years to decarbonize and then defend a review process that uses seven of them. the planet is on fire, please submit written comments before the close of the 90 day window
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The potentially catastrophy for our country is that voters really believe prices must come down and proceed to angrily oust the incumbents every election.
We can't have a reduction in price level without horrific economic consequences. Nothing will be good enough.
voters actually expect something to happen with prices, not an "affordability agenda" that is prices adjacent
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It's important to realize that folks like Stoller and Teachout are not good faith interlocutors. They will happily ignore the anti-trust case if they see an opportunity to attack their opponents and protect their own standing.
I find military history fascinating because wars are engines of uncertainty. Political, social, and economic outcomes are contingent not only on battles but how wars are fought.
Perhaps my favorite example of this comes from the American Civil War.
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The land grant university system was born during these years. This system created arguably the best, and certainly the largest, system of higher education in the world. American scientific and industrial innovation has been driven ever since by it.
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I think this is correct. Biden's relatively small public footprint made them by default more important communicators. You want a charismatic president and boring leaders in Congress.
A lot of the Jeffries/Schumer drama seems to stem from a belief that the legislative leaders are/should be the face of the party. That feels pressing (really ever since '16 as the party has lacked a strong leader) but will almost certainly dissipate as the 2028 pres race starts.
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Watching this man run committee hearings is excruciating. Everyone is about to get to see a lot of a truly terrible person. He makes Mike Johnson seem like a nice, reasonable guy.
Nvidia also gave up entirely on the consumer market, despite persistently high demand. There isn't even a clear business interest case to be made from their perspective for reduced export controls.
One difficulty for Jensen is having to explain his insistence to sell to Megaspeed when there was a huge backlog of orders for his chips. He could have sold his chips to these customers easily and as lucratively rather than getting himself into this complicated situation.
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My "we can't release the Epstein Files because of national security" t-shirt is raising a lot of questions answered by my t-shirt.
Speaker Mike Johnson claims the Epstein files can’t be released unredacted because they contain intelligence-agency material that falls under national security.
He says it’s dangerous to force the DOJ to declassify documents they didn’t create, especially when they involve other agencies like the CIA or NSA.
Johnson warns that releasing the Epstein files unredacted would put national security at risk.
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I think this is a bad idea, but I don't know exactly what the impact of the cap will be. Are credit lines going to dramatically shrink? Will credit cards even be available to most people at that rate? Has someone done an economic analysis of this?
Let’s cap credit card rates at 10%. Take action on affordable housing. Protect rural hospitals. End price gouging.
Democrats have the bills ready.
@SenWarren says now it’s up to Trump to work with us and get things done.
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This is really funny. "You can veto legislation, but only as a means to slightly inconvenience the legislature."
Last week, Democrats won enough House seats to block the Republican legislature from overriding Gov.-elect Amy Acton's vetoes.
Today, GOP Rep. Ron Ferguson has introduced a joint resolution to lower the floor for veto overrides. He proposes allowing them with a simple majority.
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Mike "Chaotic Circus" Johnson with the most objectively funny take he could have.
Speaker Mike Johnson on Republicans losing the majority: “Sorry that voters made the wrong choice. I really do believe these next two years is gonna be a bit of circus, it’s going to be chaos and I hate to say that, but I think that’s where the Democrats are going to lead the House.”
W/ @LuisaClausen
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