Microblogging: August 23, 2012
RT @pamspaulding: RT @thinkprogress: Trump prepares for role at GOP convention by spreading dangerous myth that vaccines cause autism http://t.co/jODYDsF5
RT @AmandaMarcotte: F#@$ me, people are uneducated. RT @umamijones: So if they don’t make it to the implantation stage, it means the eggs are unfertilized. | http://bit.ly/Rhqvx5
RT @marieharf: How can Ryan say he disagrees with the sequester when he voted for it, praised it, and helped sell it to other Rs? http://t.co/8oBXHOWu
Wonkette: Maybe This Shot-Up Navy Veteran Lady Will Think Twice Before ‘Startling’ A Sheriff In Her Back Yard Again http://t.co/DPI2vOqh
RT @grossdm: Coin Harvey, of course, being an awesome fin de siecle figure who wanted to abandon gold standard for silver #attendedhistorygradschool | http://bit.ly/NM092N
RT @dailykos: Ann Romney retroactively rebuts Mitt’s newest excuse for tax return secrecy http://t.co/nrkOTsxG
RT @oliverdarcy: Send @campusreform a VIDEO of your LIBERAL PROFESSOR & we will pay you $100 if it leads to a news story. | http://bit.ly/NM0anh
RT @RafalcaRomney: #BlessObamasHeart He thought Congressional Republicans might have wanted to put America’s interests ahead of the Koch Brothers’ profits. | http://bit.ly/NM092w
RT @sfpelosi: Network convention cuts mean Americans will have seen more of @RafalcaRomney than Romney family? This will not end well. | http://bit.ly/Rhqvgv
RT @jamisonfoser: Kinda hilarious Party that whines Obama wasn’t “vetted” in ’08 is nominating dude who won’t talk about taxes or abortion. | http://bit.ly/NIZaEJ
RT @DemocratMachine: Can’t wait for the Debates when Romney picks the questions he’s willing to answer | http://bit.ly/NIZaEF
RT @ddayen: Bucking the trend, California passes Election Day voter registration http://bit.ly/NIZ93z will @JerryBrownGov sign it?
RT @AriBerman: RT @aclupa: Good news! PA Supr. Ct. agreed to expedited schedule for #voterID appeal. Oral arguments week of 9/10 (no specific day yet) | http://bit.ly/NIZaol RT @emptywheel: Shorter Romney: It’s my business what you do with your reproductive health, but it’s not your business what I plan to let you do. | http://bit.ly/NLXqGz
RT @DougHenwood: @_CB01 As a letter-writer said to The Economist years ago, its strength is offering tomorrow’s conventional wisdom today. | http://bit.ly/NLXplW
RT @emptywheel: @JoeSudbay And look how that turned out. If people can ask questions, Presidents might evolve or something. | http://bit.ly/NIXV8u
RT @markos: RNC: It depends on what no abortions ever, under any circumstances, means http://t.co/njHL0Yw1. Funny how they want to change the subject | http://bit.ly/Rhmmcy
RT @BrianCBock: @MittRomney had a dog strapped to the car roof and a ferret in the dishwasher. Sounds like an Erma Bombeck story gone wrong. @LOLGOP | http://bit.ly/Rhmmta
RT @ddayen: Look on the bright side: unlike the last VP candidate, Romney has no problems taking on tough questions like “what newspapers do you read?” | http://bit.ly/O9g5Lu
Funniest Political Line of the Day http://t.co/k8iEhV2V RT @owillis: #DontAskMitt why his candidacy is so weak he has to declare certain topics “off limits” to reporters | http://bit.ly/OYULb4
Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown: “I don’t need Elizabeth Warren talking, or speaking, or commenting on my votes” http://t.co/ByZ4zwCU
RT @Wolfrum: You can’t see Mitt Romney’s tax returns because of his Mormonism. And you aren’t allowed to talk about the fact he’s Mormon. | http://bit.ly/R4wIbH
Michigan GOP Governor Snyder To Partner With Federal Government To Set Up Insurance Exchange http://t.co/w9VB5VhZ
Eschaton: “Since one can’t have an informed opinion about Ryan without interviewing him, its imprudent to vote for him” http://t.co/TcVhGVFO
Preview of Joshua Hausman’s Economics Job Market Paper, Courtesy of Miles Kimball: Effective Expansionary Fiscal Pol… http://t.co/pB00V12V
David Weigel: The CBO and the End of Deficit-Mania http://t.co/j7yd7kO0 RT @JeffMuskus: 1 in 3 American kids are on Medicaid. 30 million kids. Read that again. http://t.co/g8NgyKRv
RT @jbarro: Though there’s a strong case that status quo Medicare works better than our status quo insurance system for under-65s. | http://bit.ly/R4oYpV
RT @afrakt: 3. Romney did pass a health reform in Massachusetts. So, credit for that. Was it brave? | http://bit.ly/Rhc8c4
RT @afrakt: 1. I thought it was rather brave of Obama and the Democrats to spend so much political capital on health reform. | http://bit.ly/R4lZ0S
RT @TheDailyEdge: Ryan says his view on forcing daughters to bear their father’s child are a “side issue” compared to Mitt Romney’s lack of an economic plan | http://bit.ly/RhcaRe
RT @radleybalko: Unarmed man killed during pot raid. http://t.co/0RCcF2y3 But Daryl Johnson says if police militarization bothers you, you’re an extremist! | http://bit.ly/R4lXpE
RT @foxjust: voters smart RT @davidmwessel: WSJ/NBC poll: Voters aren’t confident that either Romney or Obama can fix economy. http://t.co/wFoL6aGt
RT @ThePlumLineGS: Yup RT @FixAaron Well that should just about do it: Huckabee digs in behind Akin. http://t.co/w42tZMFY
RT @crampell: Since the recovery officially began three years ago, median household income for people age 55-64 has fallen almost 10% http://t.co/d79Ew3Yr
RT @TheStalwart: Impeach RT @jonswaine Docs show that as part of his supposed ‘99 retirement package, Romney has a stake in a Bain entity established in ‘02 | http://bit.ly/NIlC0M
Adam Weinstein: Flowchart: “Can I Get Pregnant?” | Mother Jones http://t.co/QIHWvtey
The Technological Level of Westeros
Shorter John Cassidy: “The GOP nominee has to run as a Republican. And that, right there, is the problem” http://t.co/QvJWCjRx
Shorter Prairie Weather: “As long as the party doesn’t exclude the weirdos, it has to battle an integrity deficit” http://t.co/QvJWCjRx
Greg Sargent Decodes the Obama Campaign’s Theory of the State of the Electorate http://t.co/tLOgZ2F7
Where Is My Kindle Version of Beckworth, ed., “Boom and Bust Banking”? http://t.co/IEmiOe0L
Should men bank their sperm at 18?
RT @joneilnyt: @delong Just brilliant; should have been his hed! “The fire engine does not drive slowly to the fire to encourage others to be careful.” | http://bit.ly/P3NQDj
Streetsblog New York City » Times Poll Confirms: 66 Percent of New Yorkers Like Bike Lanes http://t.co/g6pk6O86
Paul Krugman: Ryan told CBO not to analyze his roadmap http://t.co/n5Cc8epG
Paul Krugman: Francisco d’Anconia on Money http://t.co/YchMfnTd
Simon Wren-Lewis: The Root Cause of Europe’s Depression http://t.co/7CTxm7IW
Facts & other stubborn things: Me and the Jigsaw Puzzle at Project Syndicate (and apparently I’m an economist, too!) http://t.co/hynLXXPC
RT @AdamSerwer: When you say your model “correctly predicted” the results of previous elections, most people think “at the time,” not retroactively | http://bit.ly/SrufNW
Virginia Burrus: Akin, Rape, and the Early Church http://t.co/hLlmm0bQ
RT @YAppelbaum: We’re “enlightened enough to send an African American to the White House, but not…to accept a black man as…president.” http://t.co/uEBhqwr6
RT @foxjust: Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new Atlantic article (‘Fear of a Black President’) is the must-read of the day: http://t.co/Tam1EmE4
“Good god, I thought, seventeenth-century forensic medicine is alive and well in Missouri” http://t.co/pAumMkjo |
RT @mattyglesias: Pluots are amazing, and their existence refutes the myth of technological stagnation. | http://bit.ly/TWMQzW
RT @TheDailyEdge: Romney: “America can achieve energy independence by 2020 and as we retreat from rising oceans we can all huddle in Kansas for the end times” | http://bit.ly/SqNztk
RT @mattyglesias: The invention of Broccolini in the 90s is in some ways even more impressive than the pluot: http://t.co/szjPayjp
Alex Pareene: “Niall Ferguson trolls everyone in Newsweek: Getting every single fact wrong in a magazine cover story i” http://t.co/oCvlHD5x
RT @haroldpollack: @delong thank God NF is not Maroon-American. Signed, everyone at the University of Chicago. | http://bit.ly/OWJdFh
Nick Rowe: Proper Monetary Policy
“few people associated with Harvard are at this moment beaming with pride over the association with Niall Ferguson” http://t.co/9kiyeH6J
“The eurozone will almost certainly slip back into recession, according to surveys of business activity” http://t.co/Etmejsjw
Jon Cohn: An Effort To Cut Through Romney-Ryan Doublespeak And Explain What They Really Want To Do
Thomas Frank: Obama’s squandered hope http://t.co/a0Lgemai
RT @Poynter: Big correction: While Newsweek eliminated its fact-checking department in 1996, Time magazine still has fact-checkers http://t.co/Ljmim3Ql
RT @KagroX: Of the 52 measures Akin has introduced during his [11 yr] career, just 3 have been signed by the president. They all renamed post offices. | http://bit.ly/PIrCF0
This Year’s Arctic Icecap http://t.co/9x51sQMh
RT @brianbeutler: Next RNC convention to be held in giant volcano crater (cc: Bobby Jindal). | http://bit.ly/Oxl0bi
