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Economist, specializing in antitrust & damages & sport economics. Opinions my own. My firm:. Spreading the word about

Oakland (SF Bay Area)
Joined December 2008
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
5 years
Proverbs 18:2 “A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.”
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@raangood @dcwoodruff Karen always shows up when she's needed.
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Everybody’s Broke
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@chrislhayes it's the night the lights went out in georgia
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the NFC East is proof Colin Kaepernick got screwed and is still being screwed, as if you needed any more proof.
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@MichaelSkolnik @harrisonmarkey hard to blame him, as he comes from a job background where masks and other PPE were seen of signs of weakness. (wait, I'm being told he was a surgeon and wore it all the time)
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@PressSec @POTUS So you're advocating for Bolton, Mulvaney, and Pompeo to testify? I agree! Well said, Stephanie.
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@regularbarnett @tinclock I bet she would argue she’s also beaten herself once in a while.
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@poniewozik In a day or two: did I say injurious? I meant INGENIOUS!
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@Independent Remember when the GOP's fake talking point was that Pres. Obama was making us a laughingstock internationally? It's always projection w/the GOP. Even when it's a prediction of the future.
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The Independent
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Trump calls Trudeau 'two-faced', cancels press conference and leaves Nato summit early after video of world leaders laughing at him
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This is what economic exploitation looks like.
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Forbes SportsMoney
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The Zion effect: Ticket demand for Duke games has soared
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@jeffbercovici @stefanielaine it was wise to leave open the possibility he was lyin'
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@stuartpstevens @RonJohnsonWI I have one question for you, America. Are you deader off that you were four years ago?
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@AriMelber I'm not an indicted businessman, I'm an indicted business, man.
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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Tom McMillen: our ADs are worried about athletes earning money that would otherwise go to schools. Well yeah, if you are earning someone else’s value, you’d hate to lose that stream of income. Esp if you don’t see their rights as equal to yours.
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@darrenrovell fewer rules and more cheating are incompatible claims. if the NCAA rules went away, there would be no cheating. Just competing.
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@bubbaprog Many fled to Toledo after the Bowling Green Massacre, only to die crossing a river.
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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@ewarren @caguirre91 yeah, weird that a CONSUMER Financial PROTECTion Bureau would protect consumers.
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@oliverdarcy @JoyAnnReid if you are a Fox viewer, you're probably not watching it and just waiting for Sean and Laura to tell you what to think about it.
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@davidfrum (well, Trent Reznor)
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@HoooAW @webradius @haywardgallery this is what I look like on the inside too -- a young svelte man inside a gnarled old husk.
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@CMargaronis @Politidope @joncoopertweets Not if they just swab themselves in front of you and leave.
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@BrentTerhune @fakegimel I hear he committed vandalism in a house of worship and disrupted small businesses
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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@jeffreyatucker this is like saying that Christmas cards cause Christmas to happen.
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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BREAKING: Barr has told those close to Trump he is considering quitting if the president keeps tweeting about Justice Dept. investigations, per three administration officials @jdawsey1 @WPJohnWagner @rachelweinerwp
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@chrislhayes @EdgeofSports Step 1) Gather a bunch of people into one spot from higher-risk locations. Step 2) Encourage them to mingle for hours Step 3) Test them so soon after the mingling that they won't show symptoms. Step 4) Disperse them throughout the USA.
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@benwhite_97 @KariVanHorn It might actually be a form of exposure therapy to help them avoid PTSD
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@AdrienneLaF @SStossel where would "one bourbon, one scotch, and one beer" fall on the list?
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@michaelharriot what a charmin' thought.
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@soledadobrien Lowry needs to convince himself that Trumpism was a perfectly valid ideology for him to adopt, if only that pesky Trump weren’t involved. He hitched his wagon to the racist assclown and now he’s processing how little that bought him.
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@TomNamako @HannahAllam i.e., "he was white and we're trained not to think of that as a threat in that sort of situation"
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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@NumbersMuncher feels a lot like "who won the debate" and "who will you vote for" are converging, as per normal.
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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@soledadobrien and how often do you have to separate two Walmart customers for licking each other? {maybe don't answer that, given that it's Florida]
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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@darrenrovell maybe this is why I'll never get super rich, but if I'd be Jobs and Wozniak, I would have found a way to let him get back in for enough to be comfortable.
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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So a basketball player having an agent was a threat to "amateurism" yesterday, but is not today, as long as you are really good, but if you are not really good, it's still a threat. And if you play football, it's still a threat. Got it.
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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Senator Tester just asked a D1 athlete if she was a full-time student. All D1 athletes are required to be full-time students. Tester is going to crafting a law based on that level of knowledge.
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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@tressiemcphd I got carded buying some alcohol at Target today and said "why thank you" and the woman added "we have to card everyone sir, no matter how old"
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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@JRehling @KagroX Trump gave the SATs an STD?
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@ElieNYC The best day to schedule a vacation is the first or second scheduled trial date, as it never sticks
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@MollyJongFast he's technically saying he'll cancel Social Security.
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@sahilkapur I wonder how much time travel historical fiction he's read.
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@MollyJongFast non-UK, obviously. University of Louisville is not allowed either.
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@sahilkapur oh, haha, no I don't. he doesn't read.
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@Wealthsimple @KatieMGrimes @SkyDigg4 it sounds like the solution is to have LeBron eat a WNBA highlight.
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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@rebeccaballhaus now? 2011 would like a word
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@AndrewDesiderio @lrozen can we vote to make that permanent?
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@gtconway3d Be careful! If you keep insisting on being rational, George, you may have to become a Democrat.
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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An under-appreciated American hero.
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St. Louis Cardinals
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On this date in 1938, #CardsHOF outfielder Curt Flood was born. A three-time All-Star, Flood manned CF in St. Louis for 12 seasons (1958-69), winning seven consecutive the Gold Glove Awards.
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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@burgessev collins seemed more focused on lowering the total bill than thinking about what the goal of the money is.
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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@jaketapper which probably shows she's more of a Trumpist than your consultant friend thought.
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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The best way to ensure a level playing field once CA athletes can earn NIL rights is to ensure every athlete can earn NIL rights.
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The NCAA has just released a statement on the bill
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Say it with me: Amateurism does not improve competitive balance. #AmateurismIsACon
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Tony Barnhart
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This an incredible stat: This is the 13th straight season that Alabama has been ranked No. 1.
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Weird how athletes should consider themselves lucky to get a $35K scholarship but when schools lose the athletes' services, they claim they've lost far more than that as a measure of their victimhood.
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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Former adidas employer James Gatto, previously sentenced to 9 months in prison (on bail during appeal) has now also been ordered to pay back his "victims" $342,437.75 for denying them the services of 4 "amateur" athletes.
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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@byjoelanderson It’s either doing the work of n-word or n-word-lover depending on how it’s used and at whom.
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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The NCAA has got to do something about this transfer epidemic.
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Elko finalized his decision shortly after midnight, per sources. We should get formal announcements today.
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@PabloTorre As long as your wife the baby are healthy , this will end up being a hiccup, Pablo. As I said to Bomani last night, i am sure your next thing will end up entertaining us, and hope it's also rewarding to you.
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They are just regular students.... until they are treated like employees and fired.
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Cameron Teague
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Breaking: Louisville dismisses three men's soccer players after party leads to COVID-19 outbreak, suspends three others. This will update.
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@SarahSpain @JayBilas she's wrong. As Ramogi Huma said during the hearing, if FB surplus revenues are required to have non-revenue sports, there's no way to explain D2 sports existing. Or FCS, or D3, or NAIA.
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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Should we really be angry at college-aged people for not taking COVID-19 seriously on the theory that they need to recognize that despite being young, they are at risk, when we're also saying CFB should be played b/c the health risks are not that great for college-aged people?
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@MollyJongFast The good news is I think the UK has banned non-UL citizen travel from the US, so we're mostly safe by their fear of us.
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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I'm of the view that Amateurism is utterly incompatible with a Covid-19 world. A business relationship b/w labor and management is needed to navigate the difficulties of keeping safe in a pandemic. Being amateur is inherently unsafe and just magnifies the exploitation.
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@JayBilas They have a right not to engage in the NIL space. They do not have a right to be insulated from the market impact of that choice. Chick-Fil-A is closed on Sundays. They lose revenue. They don't get to make everyone else close on Sundays to insulate them from that choice.
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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@RGIII Well, in short: there is a sizable portion of the Republican Party that is opposed to using the power of the gov't to fix problems, another portion that dislikes any program that might redistribute wealth even slightly, and others just opposed to $ going to black people. So...
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Someone asked me to jot down what I think would be important if *I* were crafting NIL legislation in Congress, coming from my personal perspective as someone involved in this space for 20+ years, and working with @the_pcleague . My thoughts follow in this thread.
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@hilaryluros I like how Trump doesn't realize he's agreeing that his voters are irrational?
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@gtconway3d don't insult gnats
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@ksecus @JoyAnnReid The scent of treachery
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@chrislhayes How can you expect a busy man like Trump to think proactively about something other than his own immediate gratification, Chris?
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@steve_hanke love the man. iffy on the hat.
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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The Ninth Circuit just issued the mandate to enforce the injunction against collusion in the Alston v. NCAA case. I think this means large chunks of the NCAA rulebook related to limits on benefits, are now unenforceable & ongoing efforts among schools to coordinate are illegal.
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@JaneMayerNYer @thegarance I’m not comfortable with our male president
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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Check out the latest prototype for my euro-style board game based on College Football Recruiting.
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@michaelharriot they led us to believe that EVERYBODY would be kung fu fighting.
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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The same guys who argue “no one put a gun to their head, if college football guys don’t like the deal, don’t play” are also the ones who hate the idea that a guy who didn’t like the deal anymore decided not to play.
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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Yet again, something that, per NCAA's own legal claims would have destroyed college sports yesterday, is now totally hunky dory.
@RachelAxon
Rachel Axon
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NCAA to allow elite Olympic athletes to receive compensation for training and travel expenses via @DanWolken
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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I’m not sure I’ve encountered a university President who combines a dogged determination to ignore data with wafer-thin skin like this before.
@KevinLive5
Kevin Bilodeau
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Hey @UofHartford & @HartfordHawks instead of threatening kids not to boo that joke of a president at graduation, maybe you guys should stop doing the things that make everyone want to boo!!
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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That athletes' selling their own shoes is cause for punishment but shunting athletes into fake classes is not tells you everything you need to know about why I live my life focused on what I focus on.
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@davidfrum I think the word order got jumbled. #BREAKING : Kremlin to suggest Trump 'stupid,' says a Russian agent
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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@RobGeorge you're going to ruffle some feathers with that fox in the henhouse sort of thinking
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@soledadobrien @nytimes we need to find the experts who did not think it was dangerous and encourage them to be the beta testers
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@NikkiHaley We should hold the person in charge of the country accountable then, right?
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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every parent knows that if you don't tire your toddler out, they're likely to have a serious meltdown.
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@burgessev as was the scheduled elongation of her nose.
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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Mark Emmert explains why having fifty state labor laws makes it impossible for a national firm like McDonald’s or Walmart to exist.
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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This morning's newsletter from @StephanieKelton (which you can subscribe to here: ) features the best one paragraph analogy for why fiscal deficits are not a concern for a country which issues its own sovereign currency.
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@McFaul lock 'em up
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@RepSwalwell just wait until you hit 50. oy!
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@NateSilver538 Dirt don't vote.
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@janesports it sure as hell was a noose. Posting here so if you get trolled you have the receipts.
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@joshtpm America will be collectively united in apathy.
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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@AndrewDesiderio @Bencjacobs so can I bring my phone and see the SCIF? First time's free?
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@Joyce_Karam God works in mysterious ways.
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@chrislhayes the House managers should call Mike Lee as a witness to clarify what he said.
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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@LindseyGrahamSC Have you checked with your 🍊 golfing buddy about that stance?
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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@gtconway3d Witness: "Yes we took other people's money from the bank vault. But in my view we weren't stealing." Giuliani: This testimony is totally exculpatory of these falsely accused bank robbers
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Andy Schwarz, sponsored by Envelopes of Cash
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If I ran a US university I would offer a mandatory on-campus 1 credit course for all intl students during the distance learning phases. It would meet outdoors in a socially distanced way for five minutes a week.
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