Chris Fleming

[Chris Fleming @FlimFlem]

@ElectRyanDorsey 70% is crazy. Is the council able to free any of that land up?

[Chris Fleming @FlimFlem]

@ElectRyanDorsey What about improving the existing inventory? Why is it so easy for properties to sit in shambles and for so long? Is that all zoning? Sincere questions from this middle class Dem. Population decline surely a factor, no? at least for Bmore and i suspect Pitt. re that chart...

[Library of Congress @librarycongress]

Something to ponder as you head out to vote today, for free. In the Library's Rosa Parks Papers collection, there's a receipt for the poll tax she had to pay to vote in Alabama in 1956. Poll taxes, a Jim Crow-era voter suppression tool, were not abolished federally until 1964.

[Heather Long @byHeatherLong]

Lingering inflation is largely due to higher rent prices.

"The shelter index increased 5.2% over the last year, accounting for over 70% of the total 12-month increase in the all items less food and energy index."

You can see the price DECLINES in energy, commodities and many goods (e.g. cars).

[Jack Stelzner @jackstelzner]

As we wait to hear more details about the reported school shooting at Apalachee High School, let's check in with the member of Congress who represents that area.

[Chris Fleming @FlimFlem]

@iowahawkblog Did you even read it? It's about price gouging laws meant specifically for natural disasters.
Does seem price controls, like Nixon's ESP, likely don't produce the intended effect overall, though the evidence is a bit ambiguous regarding hospital prices 11/71-01/73.

[ProPublica @propublica]

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.

https://t.co/vPYzvKTtQC

[Chris Fleming @FlimFlem]

@mcbridetd I hear you. The pundit class is transfixed; general public probably not. It is funny the Biden campaign wanted an early debate, given the result. It's not funny his folks are either in denial about his state or plan to continue to stage manage him. That is suspect.

[Chris Fleming @FlimFlem]

@mcbridetd @ezraklein Can pledged delegates vote 'no preference' and force the issue on the convention floor? Was wondering about this after the debate...Haven't looked too far but seems possible?

[Farzad Mostashari @Farzad_MD]

Meticulous methods, exhaustive data wrangling, systematic elimination of alternative explanations. a tour de force of research that quantifies what most health policy folks have long believed

hospital price increases (eg through market power) hurts people, employers, communities

[Chris Fleming @FlimFlem]

@PKikos lol

[Chris Fleming @FlimFlem]

@RossSTLBoss @JaneDueker It's not. Not for the year (2024), anyway, which is what I assume she was trying to report. Looks like about 75 in STL vs about 87 in KC.

[Chris Fleming @FlimFlem]

@AoDespair @JeffreyReeves44 @katieporteroc quick edit for the digital ether: her statement ain't going to change anybody's opinion on *the conduct of elections*

[Chris Fleming @FlimFlem]

@AoDespair @JeffreyReeves44 @katieporteroc And i don't think her statement is going to change anybody's opinion on that. Sour grapes I guess. For me too - can't believe she got so many fewer votes than Garvey and Schiff. One of the better questioners during hearings, imo.

[Chris Fleming @FlimFlem]

@AoDespair @JeffreyReeves44 @katieporteroc She characterized the election process in CA as "beyond reproach." I'll stop because I know I am in the extreme minority on this, though, as friends have pounced as well. Just sick of the right swinging its d**k any way it wants while the left, well, you can fill in the blank.

[Chris Fleming @FlimFlem]

@AoDespair @JeffreyReeves44 @katieporteroc Her last sentence makes it clear she is not referring to vote counting etc. Is it irresponsible to say the right rigged Citizens United? Also, do you think this is going to spawn new election deniers? I'm skeptical. Or do you think it will keep Dems home? Skeptical there too.

[Chris Fleming @FlimFlem]

@JeffSharlet GW won 2 on performance, to your point. I think Biden can as well. You may be right on young folks' predispositions-tough to quantify. Trump's GOTV efforts with young need to be unbelievably strong, though. Plenty of older independents have had enough of Trump's act imo.

[Chris Fleming @FlimFlem]

@JeffSharlet This logic also works for Biden, though, re performance. See Earth Rider brewery performance - who wouldn't want a beer with that guy. It's a two-way street for independents, and there are plenty of people who like his performances and his ability to be empathetic.

[Sarah Kliff @sarahkliff]

New: seven companies have quietly billed Medicare over $2 billion for catheters that patients never ordered — or even received.

Watchdog groups, doctors, and beneficiaries all suspect a major scam is underway. From me and @katie_thomas:

https://t.co/7lt0NSv2F6

[Chris Fleming @FlimFlem]

@mcbridetd You'd think a body loaded with septuagenarians+ might have considered the issue sooner, given US demographics. Hi Tim!