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Highly recommended www.nytimes.com/interactive/... - a clear and compelling case for a reform that experts (including me) could genuinely improve our politics www.newamerica.org/political-re.... My most preferred reform and it's not close.
Interactive piece on proportional representation in the NYT today 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | How to Fix America’s Two-Party Problem
Proportional representation could help restore American democracy.
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Highly recommended www.nytimes.com/interactive/... - a clear and compelling case for a reform that experts (including me) could genuinely improve our politics www.newamerica.org/political-re.... My most preferred reform and it's not close.
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People don’t have a good concept of just how rich the super-rich are.
Elon Musk’s net worth is about $360 billion.
To spend that much money, if you spent $10,000 per hour, day after day, and year after year — $10k *per hour,* w/out interruption — spending it would take approximately…
4,115 years
Elon Musk’s net worth is about $360 billion.
To spend that much money, if you spent $10,000 per hour, day after day, and year after year — $10k *per hour,* w/out interruption — spending it would take approximately…
4,115 years
December 10, 2024 at 4:34 AM
People don’t have a good concept of just how rich the super-rich are.
Elon Musk’s net worth is about $360 billion.
To spend that much money, if you spent $10,000 per hour, day after day, and year after year — $10k *per hour,* w/out interruption — spending it would take approximately…
4,115 years
Elon Musk’s net worth is about $360 billion.
To spend that much money, if you spent $10,000 per hour, day after day, and year after year — $10k *per hour,* w/out interruption — spending it would take approximately…
4,115 years
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Can’t stress enough if you plan to attend a protests, turn your phone off miles from the site & don’t turn it back on until you’re miles away. Go ahead and buy a faraday bag. It’s not crazy.
NEW: Trump selects Russ Vought, architect of Project 2025, to lead White House budget office
Vought helped Trump craft plans to purge the Justice Department, deploy the military to quash civilian unrest, & massively expand presidential power over spending
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Vought helped Trump craft plans to purge the Justice Department, deploy the military to quash civilian unrest, & massively expand presidential power over spending
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Trump selects budget chief to 'dismantle the Deep State’
The president-elect selected the author of a chapter of Project 2025 for a senior administration posting.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2024 at 12:52 AM
Can’t stress enough if you plan to attend a protests, turn your phone off miles from the site & don’t turn it back on until you’re miles away. Go ahead and buy a faraday bag. It’s not crazy.
If you’re watching us from outside the United States, it’s pretty much as bad as it looks.
November 17, 2024 at 8:14 PM