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wapo comments section once said of me - 'the only thing worse than being Mormon is being an economist'

[B Layton @BenLaytly]

@binarybits Seems Waymo likely they are going to get hurt or hurt someone else driving than being driven by a computer.

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@USMNT Desperately needed that - hopefully kicks back into form, especially with in form striker options, which he certainly has not had in 2026.

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@DCCelebrity Ok? It was a crosswalk with a stop sign...

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@DCCarViolence @billyez2 @mattyglesias Transferred to the park police because they were headed towards Rock Creek, park police were like, "but you saw them on DC roads," smh

[B Layton @BenLaytly]

A speeding dc driver intentionally almost ran my partner and I over in a crosswalk. Got the plate - 1500 in unpaid tickets. Ridiculous these people are on the streets. Called nonemergency and got tossed around and eventually just told "we'll look out for them". @mattyglesias

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

California was the first state to mandate later school start times for K-12.

This was a good idea.

It allowed students to get more sleep, and simultaneously, they started to perform better on tests!

If suspensions are any indication, they might even act out less!

[B Layton @BenLaytly]

@JohnJSSoriano 1. Acemoglu
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@PoPville @maustermuhle

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@Lostmyinhaler2 @oucmecalling311 @mattyglesias Insane - this is legitimately a dangerous criminal with consistent recorded bad behavior with DC plates, so the city knows exactly who they are and where they live, and they are doing nothing about it.

[B Layton @BenLaytly]

@cutiegurlk8 @mattyglesias Like what are we doing?? DC knows where they live, the citations are right there. It's like someone with a gun shooting into the air every day and the city saying, oh well, nothing we can do.

[B Layton @BenLaytly]

15k in penalties and if these weren't camera violations license would be revoked (and should be) - what are we going to do about drivers out here actively flaunting the law and threatening to run people over??
@DCPoliceDept @MayorBowser @Janeese4DC @kenyanmcduffie

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@CrystalLNosal @Chris__spc @mattyglesias Seriously. If they gave points for camera violations, this person would not have a license (and they should not). Car should be impounded.

[B Layton @BenLaytly]

@transient511 @PatrickHeizer And therefore have a net worth >$1 million...

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

If someone has MORE THAN A HUNDRED VIOLATIONS, the time has come to permanently take their driver's license and throw them in jail.

This is "300 professional criminals do the majority of all shoplifting" but for cars. Don't let insane people kill us with their cars.

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

"The legalization of mobile sports gambling in America was a policy mistake and that the evidence is now clear enough to say so."

[B Layton @BenLaytly]

@mattyglesias What's the actual underlying reason we aren't building old school facades? Is it that we are so behind on supply that ppl will live in anything new, or is there explicit demand for those "ugly" buildings? Or is cost a real factor? Different solutions for those things.

[B Layton @BenLaytly]

@MenInBlazers Looks exactly like every goal against the usmnt honestly 😵

[B Layton @BenLaytly]

@BlackOutSpartan @conorjrogers The original plan basically was light rail like the purple line

[Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA @DrDiGiorgio]

Finished our taxes and came to a realization:

In a two-physician household, one spouse's income is entirely confiscated by the government.

[B Layton @BenLaytly]

@ENPancotti @mattyglesias Sure, but hard to engage w stuff like this. Zoning regs by definition are a hard cap. The question is whether that is a binding constraint and what is likely to happen when removed. This piece doesn't engage with that lit at all. Just odd 'logic' arguments w/o empirical evidence