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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

7 months

@RyanRadia is an international treasure, and you all don't appreciate him enough. There, I said it.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

10 months

I'm not sure I've ever seen/felt a place change so quickly as DC has from 2019 to 2023. It's like someone found a switch that says "Anti Social Behavior" and just turned it up to 11 sometime in 2020.

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10 months

On violent crime overall, the picture is even more grim. D.C. has seen the largest increase of any major city in America and it isn't even very close. 6/

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Chad Reese

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5 years

People: "Amazon is a faceless conglomerate that kills small businesses" My inbox every time I order something on Amazon: "Hi, I'm a small business owner, thanks for buying my product on Amazon!"

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

7 years

@kmanguward @Popehat Scene: A libertarian President has finally been elected. She sits down with with the heads of the CIA, NSA, and FBI for her first intelligence briefing CIA chief: "So, what do you think?" President: "AM I BEING DETAINED" *throws Cato pocket Constitution and flees*

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

6 years

@Cameron9704 @R3D_5T4R @gains_tweets

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

This is the face of a man playing Minesweeper while ignoring a conference call, and you can't convince me otherwise.

Justin Trudeau

@JustinTrudeau

4 years

This morning, I spoke on the phone with @POTUS Trump. We focused on the new NAFTA, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ongoing situation in Hong Kong. We also discussed the Black Lives Matter movement and the need to end systemic racism. More on our call:

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

8 months

@cdiddy513 @HPbasketball Phil Jackson: "You must win 40 games before you lose 20 to be seen as an elite team"

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

The Jones Act is one of those policies that's so obviously bad and universally rejected on the merits by all kinds of policy positions that its mere existence is almost enough to prove the necessity/value of public choice theory.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

Every few years it hits me that just having a refrigerator and a microwave inside an apartment solves 90% of all the problems that the vast majority of human beings who ever lived spent most of their waking hours trying to solve.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

5 years

A law-abiding college student was brutally beaten by police in 2014 after being mistaken for a suspect sought for a non-violent, petty crime. The government has used every tool since then to protect the officers involved from accountability.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

3 years

This is my blanket subtweet for all of sports Twitter: Never forget that the professional or collegiate athletes you are criticizing are almost universally teenagers or in their early-to-mid 20s dealing with pressure and a spotlight you have likely never experienced.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

NASCAR banning the Confederate flag before the Department of Defense is a great example of how markets generally lead on social change and government action is a lagging indicator of progress.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

@TheHoopCentral lol the look on Harden's face here is everything

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

1/ This is going to be a tough thread, but even among those who know about “qualified immunity,” we need constant reminding about just how egregious these cases are. Below, I’ll lay out some US cases highlighted in “Above the Law,” a new book from Ben Cohen.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

3 years

oh no

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

Jason and Medlock are just slowly morphing into the same entity.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

5 years

This and the fact that the Post Office sells your address changes to push junk mail are the biggest reasons why data privacy complaints about FB/Google/etc... are weird to me. You've been getting targeted ads to your *home* literally your entire life thanks to govt. entities.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

If you don't have collard greens and/or okra as a side, should you really be okay calling yourself a BBQ restaurant? I mean, you have to know you're lying to yourself as much as your customers.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

2 years

With every passing year/social media debacle, MySpace Tom appears wiser and wiser for selling for a little over half a billion dollars then quietly disappearing from public life.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

There's a real chance that DC Health made a huge error in telling everyone that certain chronic conditions were eligible for vaccine appointments starting today, but didn't update their website questionnaire to actually allow folks in that category to schedule appointments.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

@raylehmann @TPCarney The Soviet Union collapsing is probably right for many, including most Xers and older Millennials. For younger Millennials, it's very likely the financial crisis.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

6 years

@KevinOConnorNBA That last sentence should be in bold, underlined, and perhaps italicized.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

I don't believe I'm reading this uncharitably, it seems Vance's position is that we tax "anti-american" businesses at a higher rate than the "good" businesses. I genuinely can't imagine a non-dystopian way to execute on that proposal.

JD Vance

@JDVance

4 years

At this very moment there are companies (big and small) paying good wages to American workers, investing in their communities, and making it easier for American families. Cut their taxes. No more subsidies to the anti-American business class.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

5 years

If you look at a graph showing a 10 percentage point drop in the number of Americans with "low" incomes and a *tripling* of the number of Americans with "high" incomes, and draw from that a conclusion that something is wrong...boy howdy, I don't know what to tell you.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

I gotta say, pretty great day to be on top of a mountain.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

please no

Ice Cube

@icecube

4 years

America loves to cry broke. But in America money does grow on trees.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

No tweet is ever as intriguing as the one you *almost* had time to read right before Twitter unexpectedly auto-refreshed your feed.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

7 years

There are two kinds people in the world, those who understand how trade deficits work, and those who are thousands of dollars in debt to their local grocery store.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

5 years

There, I fixed it for you, DC Twitter

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

3 years

Some personal news: decided to leave DC and become a full time waterfall troll, demanding that passersby solve my riddles or turn back.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

1 year

I sincerely hope that everyone who told us the internet would literally be destroyed without net neutrality is at least more measured this time around. For some reason, I suspect they will not be.

Bloomberg

@business

1 year

EXCLUSIVE: US FCC is set to announce plans to reinstate so-called net neutrality rules governing broadband providers, sources say

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

10 months

@pat_hedger I think that's what's most jarring. I lived in NoMa from like 2018-2022 and seeing the awesome progress just screech to a halt, 180, and turn into multiple shootings in front of/in my building in a matter of months was mind boggling.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

11 months

Your conference does not need an app. The consultant lied to you.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

@ne0liberal He did it to hurt me, specifically, and you can't convince me otherwise.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

5 years

@DarknessTurkey @kfc

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

3 years

@ne0liberal Slight edit: highlight on a map where we need more housing

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Chad Reese

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

I ran a 10k last Tuesday and a 5k tonight, both at the fastest pace for each distance I've run in over a decade, and both were done wearing a mask because I use a fairly crowded trail. It's fine. Wear a mask when you go out.

Jeffrey A Tucker

@jeffreyatucker

4 years

I've avoided the mask subject for a long time because it is pointlessly divisive. But a gentleman who uses an oxygen gauge when he crawls into deep holes in the ground came to my office and demonstrated to me what happens when you wear a mask. Very scary actually. Even nuts.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

5 years

@netw3rk Pro-tip: If you're at a Boomer's house, just ask to see the sticker that's probably still on their router.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

I was more neutral on the trade halting when I thought platforms had paused buying *and* selling, but pausing only buys while letting folks sell is, as the youth would say, pretty sus.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

6 years

Well royal dynasties shouldn't be allowed either, but here we are.

The Hollywood Reporter

@THR

6 years

Prince Harry says #Fortnite gaming "shouldn't be allowed" in U.K.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

3 years

My piece in the NY Daily News this morning: When municipalities and states #EndQualifiedImmunity , that accountability changes behavior. New York City is already proving that.

New York’s qualified immunity reforms are paying dividends

The world’s largest municipal police union, the Police Benevolent Association (PBA), quietly admitted to its members this month what civil rights advocates have long argued: Getting rid of qu…

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

6 years

Posited: Because, ideally, rivers are not made up of people.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

I'm not going to pretend to understand public health policy in depth, but I do understand the idea of risk-risk tradeoff analysis, and panicking a bunch of people about vaccines for something with an observable risk this low seems about as disastrous a policy call as you can make

Nate Silver

@NateSilver538

4 years

6 cases out of 7 million people. What a disaster. This is going to get people killed. And it's going to create more vaccine hesitancy. These people don't understand cost-benefit analysis. They keep making mistakes by orders of magnitude.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

2 years

Singer's rhetorical question-asking here is also weird because the YIMBY contingent on Twitter is probably the best Twitter subgroup for not just tweeting about their policy preference, but *actually* getting out there and pushing specific reforms/running for local office/etc...

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@CNLiberalism

2 years

My dude we just want it to not be *literally illegal* to build more housing

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

9 months

The perfect government agency doesn't exi....

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

On the one hand, I really want nanobots that fly invisibly around my apartment cleaning up all dust. On the other hand, it's only a matter of time before their AI learns how much dust is dead skin particles and proceeds to eliminate me as the source of the dust.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

5 years

Personal news: Since today's podcast release made the news public, this is as good a time as any to note that after more than 8 years, I'm leaving Mercatus at the end of this week to join the Institute for Justice in a policy role. Don't worry, the bad NBA takes won't stop.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

5 years

1. This isn't a stimulus, it's an aid package 2. How dare you make this an election calculus 3. Laffer and Moore are hacks

Wall Street Journal Opinion

@WSJopinion

5 years

Trump should beware: A big stimulus could lead to a slower recovery and might even ensure that Joe Biden wins in November, write Arthur Laffer and @StephenMoore

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

5 years

The #Apollo50th projection on the Washington Monument does not disappoint.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

@PoPville Caught a little bit of it ourselves here in NOMA.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

1 year

Imagine drawing lessons about society from a game that assumes everyone is always forced to rent any property they pass.

Nina Turner

@ninaturner

1 year

There’s literally a children’s board game that demonstrates that “free-market capitalism” always leads to one person controlling everything.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

3 years

Marrying someone with significantly better hearing than you is a good way to ensure you both feel like you're going insane much of the time.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

Do yourself a favor and go hang out on top of mountains every now and then. If you live anywhere near Virginia, these places are just sitting there waiting for you to go explore.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

Just, like, in general, or....?

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

@jbarro Because NYC Twitter is a bitter, angry place.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

For everyone who woke up today thinking our institutions are broken, recall that Congress reconvened last night and concluded its business. American democracy is imperfect, but it is robust, and while it's spent several years in an unnecessary stress test, it is still standing.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

3 years

We all make fun of Twitter here, and for good reason, but watching a young policy expert rightly and cleverly dismantle a very dishonest "hot take" from a Nobel Prize winning economist is a wonderful example of the benefits of reducing barriers to entry in policy conversations.

Alex Muresianu

@ahardtospell

3 years

Just putting this out here for reference

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

5 years

Had my first real "Millennials are old now" experience at work as I desperately tried to explain "gettin jiggy with it" to younger coworkers who legitimately had no idea Will Smith ever had a music career.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

@SloaneSays @Thinkwert How dare you disrespect the scorpion throne like this.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

A friend of mine recently observed that web browsing is one of the few tech-related things that has actually gotten worse over the last decade or so, and I laughed until the next time I saw a screen like this.

Patrick McKenzie

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4 years

Not a new story, but it occasionally blows my mind: ~15% of this screen is actual content.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

@jmhorp A big part of the issue libertarians face is that it's de facto a contrarian political view in a 2-party system. As a result, it attracts a non-trivial number of folks who are simply contrarian or find themselves outside the 2 party system for some unrelated reason.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

3 years

If you want to know why the finreg community often harps on things like "chilling effects" and "regulatory uncertainty." This thread is a pretty brutal example of why innovation is extremely hard under a murky enforcement regime.

Brian Armstrong

@brian_armstrong

3 years

1/ Some really sketchy behavior coming out of the SEC recently. Story time…

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

3 years

Remember, we all have a role to play in stopping @jbarro 's bad food takes. Do your part, for America!

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

6 years

@ComfortablySmug This is the most outrageous thing you've ever said.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

5 years

@RadioFreeTom Trump: "...hypersonic missiles..." Elon Musk: *sits up from bathtub covered in empty wine bottles and toy cars* "Wha...what? I sense a disturbance in the hyperforce."

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

2 years

@RiverTamYDN "I did something at work. My boss stole it and refused to give me anything other than the previously agreed-upon benefits package for doing this precise thing."

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

5 years

@ne0liberal Shortcut: 1. Go to r/badeconomics using a throw-away handle 2. Trash the economist using intentionally poor interpretations of their work from a wikipedia page 3. Take all the corrections you get from the thread and just study those

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

5 years

@calebwatney Love is a (constant) choice and an action verb, not a state of mind. Love how your partner needs to be loved, not just how you want to love them. Ask for forgiveness, even you're not 100% sure you're in the wrong.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

@AdamSerwer Check memo line: "Various crimes"

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

6 years

@chips_and_kso @KevinOConnorNBA "If you eliminate his worst month and only measure the shots that should be high-percentage shots anyway, he's not bad!" Dude is like 200th+ on catch and shoot 3s (for players who took at least 1.5 threes/game) across the league. He's bad.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

Some don't understand why other cities are angry. Some don't understand why protests turn into riots. It's not the only answer, but qualified immunity is part of it. Groups victimized by police abuse have systematically been denied justice for too long.

Police act like laws don't apply to them because of 'qualified immunity.' They're right.

There's a legal obstacle that's nearly impossible to overcome when police officers and government officials violate our constitutional and civil rights.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

5 years

I'm literally eating McDonalds alone in my car listening to The Silmarillion and I still think I've got it better than all the people live tweeting the debate. (This is not a cry for help)

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

Technically, they're only Tusken Raiders if they're from the Tusken region of Tatooine. Otherwise, they're "Sparkling Sand People."

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

Me, in DC, to all my loved ones who are very kindly checking in on me.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

5 years

Given the number of people on Twitter who apparently had *zero* idea that feral hogs are a legit problem for many rural Americans, I suggest we replace Charles Murray's entire "bubble quiz" with the question "Do you understand why some Americans worry about feral hogs?"

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

@besttrousers I actually think Econ in One Lesson is a fair spot to start. True, you need to transition to a textbook quickly or risk becoming an Internet Economist(tm), but you also need a book that makes the subject interesting enough to learn the dry parts.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

1 year

Saw maybe the most "DC" thing imaginable when the lady in front of me at the beer garden used her State Department ID to get out of paying sales tax for her drink.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

@ne0liberal His best (only good?) takes are the ones specifically targeting the niche issue of ivy league legacies.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

3 years

Claiming that something paid for with tax revenues is "zero dollar" or "cost free" is mind-boggling levels of rhetorical shenanigans.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

3 years

@jbuhl35 @scottlincicome

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

@TheStalwart *furiously scans lease agreement to determine legality of storing oil barrels in living room of 1 bedroom apartment*

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

@nominalthoughts @ahardtospell "Countercyclical policy is fine, but if you mess with prices, so help me, God..."

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

Hello, yes, The Pentagon? This is Chad calling. Some F-22s just flew by, and I understand you paid for "stealth fighters," but you should know they are very loud and not at all stealthy. I would ask for a refund. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

All the kids who leave the kitchen light on even though dad tells them 1000 times to turn it off when they leave the room.

Matt Ford

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4 years

The universe is twice as luminous as it should be, and scientists can't figure out where the rest of the light is coming from.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

6 years

Dang. Looks like @ne0liberal got to Pitbull.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

5 years

No opinion/knowledge about the specific plans, but it feels odd to count private health insurance premiums as part of the "total tax rate" here when you previously argued *against* using even tax code transfers like EITC in initial charts claiming US tax system was regressive...

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

5 years

Fun fact: I ordered my @WashMystics championship hat Oct 14, just a few days after their title win. I've since received two emails (the last one 9 days ago) from the @WNBA store telling me they still don't have a shipping date for me. A hat. The @WNBA can't deliver a hat.

Lindsay Gibbs

@linzsports

5 years

The Washington Mystics won the WNBA title just over 3 weeks. Yesterday, I went on a quest to find Mystics championship gear — or any Mystics gear, period!— in the DMV area. Five hours. Eight stores. Zero luck. Subscribe and read Power Plays for more:

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

3 years

@MattGertz How could we possibly utilize this feature without running afoul of campaign finance laws, Congressman?

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

Me and the boys rollin' up to get our freshly-approved COVID vaccines

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

I would like to re-up my White House security proposal from several years ago: If officials insist on a static barrier around national landmarks, please consider starting with a lovely hedge maze to slow down would-be invaders before moving to unsightly fencing.

Scott MacFarlane

@MacFarlaneNews

4 years

PERMANENT SECURITY FENCING coming to US Capitol. New statement from acting US Capitol Police chief: "Vast improvements to the physical security infrastructure must be made to include permanent fencing"

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

3 years

NYC took concrete steps to push back against qualified immunity and the IMMEDIATE result was guidance that officers make sure what they're doing is actually legal. Institutions matter. Incentives matter. Accountability matters. #EndQualifiedImmunity

Clark Neily

@ConLawWarrior

3 years

Remember that scene in A Few Good Men when Jack Nicholson admits he ordered the code red and Tom Cruise is so shocked he doesn't even know what to say next? This is exactly like that. #AbolishQI #EndQualifiedImmunity @AbolishQI

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@ChadMReese

4 years

Is...is this a joke? "Label says 5, but I reckon we can squeeze 6 maybe 7 shots out this bad boy!"

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

2 years

@Popehat May I humbly submit "OccasionalErraticHat"?

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

1 year

@CNLiberalism @ne0liberal Auction off the @ne0liberal handle you cowards

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

Your infrequent but important reminder that "the economy" is just "people doing stuff."

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

11/ It erodes trust between government officials and the communities they serve, making it harder for good public servants to actually do their job, all while insulating bad actors and poisoning the culture of government agencies and police departments.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

10 months

@JeremiahDJohns Make a consolation bracket where every loser goes back on the board, but must face a separate Elon tweet.

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Chad Reese

@ChadMReese

4 years

For those just tuning in to the topic for the Judy Shelton confirmation drama, let me assure you, the answer is "Yes, monetary policy is always this exciting!" Welcome to the coolest policy area, please follow @DavidBeckworth to begin your journey!

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