#Spending

Slough for Europe 🇪🇺🎪

SloughForEU

Historically and economically illiterate.Let's take a look at what the 1920s was like in the UK - as it seems that many of the issues aren't entirely unrelated to the

Kurt Couchman

KurtCouchman

House Democrats' rules package for the 117th Congress has some interesting bits and some updates. Text of the resolution here: https://rules.house.gov/sites/democrats.rules.house.gov/files/BILLS-117hresPIH-hres5.pdf, section-by-section

Putey Pute

putey_pute

“Union of equals”This does not mean Scotland is equal to the U.K. and nor should it. No country in the world operates with an inferior, sub National Assembly having a

Aaron Booth

ActorAaronBooth

Following is a quick thread list of the 20 most likely to flip #MNLeg districts between the two chambers. All 201 seats are up this cycle, so these are certainly

Austerity is Murder🌹

sdgrumbine

To tax or not to tax... that is not the question.Thread 1/x The issue is not whether the rich should be taxed more... of course they should... for a host

Michelle Tandler 🌁

michelletandler

Just dialed into my first ever SF Supervisor board meeting. They've spent the past 15 minutes allowing people to comment on the environmental review of a *single house*. Yes, this

Vetle Forsland

vetleforsland

The questions Michael Burry asked to see the subprime crisis coming: Why are home prices diverging from household income? Answer: leverage. What are the incentives for lenders to make mortgages

🌟 Finally Hopeful 🌟

QuetaAuthor

OK, the self-publishing discussion has come up on here and a few other places (goddammit instagram) so here's my general OPINION in a thread because I am cranky and over

Nate Higgins 👋

natehiggins

You know things would’ve gone so much better if the government had at any point accepted that this is a health crisis and not an economic crisis – you cannot

Andrew Redlawsk

AndrewRedlawsk

I've seen folks post about their frustration at Senate Democrats for not filibustering alongside Bernie. Here's why they aren't, in a thread no one will read: We've got 6 days

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

In my book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" I point out that the claims for Big Tech powers of behavior modification powers emanate from the companies' own self-serving boasts pitched

David McHardy 🔶

David_McHardy

[Boring Lib Dem internal chat]The reason the Layla Pamphlet is worthy of criticism isn’t that it ‘shifts the Lib Dems to the centre-left’. The potential target-vote-losing problems are instead about

paul is not paranoid

AmbulentLight

I know it's only been a couple days. But I find myself waking up in a low level state of panic, flailing about to see if any of my stuff

Senator Rand Paul

RandPaul

I’m back with some more holiday cheer...I mean #Festivus grievances! Take Congress...PLEASE! They have really outdone themselves this year with the massive special interest giveaway disguised as a relief bill.

밥 | ia a few days for holidays

yshfae

im not usually big brain enough to be a comeback-theory-nevie and idle usually has multiple themes/inspirations for their cbs but i think this one might be in part based on

Chris Stark

ChiefExecCCC

Last year, we recommended that @hmtreasury undertake a review of how Net Zero will be funded. Very pleased that they accepted that invitation.We've now got their interim report - the

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