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1. Progressives get understandably annoyed when ppl arguing that ordinary Americans are really well-off use mean income numbers rather than the median, since rich people's incomes skew the mean upward.
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The most interesting player in the GameStop story has gotten little attention: the DTCC, the centralized clearinghouse for stocks. It was the DTCC that raised the collateral requirements on memestocks
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Vlad Tenev had to sell off a chunk of his company at a fire-sale price in order to raise a billion dollars in emergency cash, and Dave Portnoy is still
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So it looks like Robinhood did not prohibit customers from buying GameStop or AMC as part of a conspiracy to protect short sellers. It did it because it literally couldn't
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The problem with the "voted with Trump 86% of the time" is that it really shows how Trump toed a traditional GOP line when it came to legislative politics, not
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1. My semi-informed opinion is that it's a good thing ACIP changed its mind, and gave older adults higher priority for getting the Covid vaccine. But my informed opinion is
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The emails don’t actually show this, though - they show one Trump appointee thought herd immunity was the right strategy. They don’t show that his strategy was followed by HHS.https://twitter.com/ericliptonnyt/status/1339578713076326411
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The odd thing about vaccine allocation is that from the perspective of stopping viral spread it probably makes sense to vaccinate younger ppl, who are more likely to be going
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1. I don't want to take you too far down the Sidney Powell rabbit hole, but there are two points worth making about her lunatic theory that the 2020 election
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There are no signatures on ballots, obviously - we don’t want anyone to be able to figure out whom you voted for. The envelopes that hold mail-in ballots are signed,
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Trash from Roberts.. First, it's ridiculous to say PA or WI voters will be upset at seating Biden electors - they voted for Biden! Second, GOP legislators have no choice:
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1. This is fascinating, because it shows how what you think you're looking at profoundly shapes what it is you see. The moment in the doctored video everyone focused on,
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