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Chait on charter schools. I have some points of disagreement but agree with the parts of this that will make people mad.https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/01/unlearning-democrats-answer-on-charter-schools.html Because I'm obsessed wit
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imo a useful gut-check is to imagine a world in which there is no such thing as “developers” but there are still plumbers, carpenters, electricians, architects, etc profiting from the
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The extent to which activists are, in effect, contract employees of grant-making institutions rather than representatives of grassroots constituencies is underrated and journalists tend to be too credulous about it.
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I thought this was going to be about something else entirely, but it’s extremely correcthttps://twitter.com/m_c_klein/status/1345495905152077824 The checks are imperfect in various ways but as @MattBruenig has been saying they compare
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I’m impressed by the ingenuity involved in finding ways that everything is Democrats’ fault, including the failure of ideas they backed but that Senate Republicans refused to hold a vote
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I would love to see participants in “make kids read the classics” vs “assign more diverse works” debate try cite one (1) piece of relevant research to support either position
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You see how free-floating various ideological descriptors are in the knowledge that this has become a standard critique of Biden in "socialist" media.https://twitter.com/micahuetricht/status/1342152386786320384 I'm for a modes
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The debate over using entrance exams to screen students into special schools is happening with a real shortage of evidence on both sides; I'm seeing mostly woke gobbledygook vs status
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I think there’s a lot of forgetting as to what the real political calculation around impeachment was. Agree or disagree, here’s what happened.https://twitter.com/markmobility/status/1339931498359754752 Starting *before* the Ukraine stor
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I have now finished jumping through the hoops, but the ACA architects' idea that people would prefer shopping for insurance plans to being auto-enrolled in something is genuinely one of
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Can someone write down for me a clear explanation of what the “civil military relations” problem with retired generals serving as Secretary of Defense is exactly? I’m happy to believe
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imo the big problem with “defund the police” is that defunding the police is a bad idea — austerity is bad, public services are good, policing is important, and better
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