Jeff Stein
@JStein_WaPo
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Chief economics reporter for The Washington Post. John Brown podcast @ https://t.co/fcYKyU9RMG. Founder @ithacavoice. Signal: 9178872891
Joined July 2011
Some personal news: I will be off work & twitter* for the next many months on book leave, writing the definitive biography of Bernie Sanders It’s going to be about The Big Questions in America & you won’t want to miss; sign up for when it’s ready https://t.co/K61iUBV3R7
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Never want to hear about “defending the Constitution” again from people so staggeringly unfamiliar with its most fundamental principles
I fully support deporting Zohran Mamdani. I’m tired of pretending citizenship is a right for foreigners. He’s not assimilated into our culture. Not with his habits, not with his religion, and not with his ideology. The federal government should be able to much easier strip
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Agree or disagree with those positions but does anyone think they’re not defining asks of the left?
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Baffled by the “why did progressives flock to Platner to begin with” takes flying today He’s been vocally for Medicare for all, a tax on billionaires, called Israel’s war a genocide, & sworn off corporate PACs and AIPAC - all big progressive priorities Not that complicated
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What is life? • Dostoevsky: It’s hell. • Socrates: It’s a test. • Aristotle: It’s the mind. • Nietzsche: It’s power. • Freud: It’s death. • Marx: It’s the idea. • Picasso: It’s art. • Gandhi: It’s love. • Schopenhauer: It’s suffering. • Bertrand Russell: It’s
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Maine Senate Democratic Primary Graham Platner: 58% Janet Mills: 24% D. Costello: 1% Jordan Wood: 1% @UNHSurveyCenter | 1015 LV | 10/16-21 https://t.co/dRxLrvzRwC
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incredible work here by @danielkolitz
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Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation
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Bernie Sanders with a new line today: “I am talking about the incredible danger of the richest people in this country pouring many hundreds of billions of dollars into artificial intelligence and robotics which, in the next decade, will decimate tens of millions of jobs for the
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New: Recent official remarks & federal contracts reflect ICE intends to use some of its growing, powerful surveillance tools to probe what the administration defines as ‘Antifa’. Civil-rights watchdogs say ICE may now have broad authority to surveil dissenting Americans
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In recent weeks, ICE has purchased a string of surveillance technologies including iris and face scanners, spyware that can remotely hack smartphones & cellphone location data that otherwise would require a warrant, according to a review of recent contracts.
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Cuomos response: I don’t even know what parades don’t exist. Moderator: it could be ANYTHING This is a Kantian line of questioning
UNHINGED line of questioning at this debate: “Are there any parades that don’t exist that … you think SHOULD?” Sliwa feels VERY strongly about this
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For people not also writing a Bernie Sanders biography, his first mayoral campaign slogan was: “Burlington Is Not for Sale”
Inbox: Zohran Mamdani, Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are doing a "New York Is Not For Sale" rally at Forest Hills Stadium on Sunday, Oct. 26, as early voting gets underway.
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.@AOC w/ Bernie Sanders when asked why the right’s message is resonating online: They are able to radicalize and target and exploit a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others
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It’s time to talk Zohran Mamdani. My @NYTmag profile of the NYC mayoral candidate, the changing city he may soon lead, and the Democratic Party he upended. https://t.co/hyFMv6CKG1
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The story of the man most likely to be the next mayor of New York City — and the promise and peril his ascent poses for the Democratic Party.
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Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?
Stephanopoulos: Did Homan keep the money or give it back? Vance: He did not take a bribe… Stephanopoulos: Are you saying he did not accept the $50,000? Vance: I’m sure that in the course of his life he has been paid more than $50,000 for services. The question is did he do
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My most fervent hope is that this belongs to a BOJ official who moved to the US
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Not sure why the markets are reacting negatively to the tariffs when Trump has clearly said he’s secured $17 trillion in new investments?
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