Matt Magnasco

A southpaw with a fountain pen and Sagrantino. Fastidious user of the Oxford comma and two spaces after a period in sentences.

[Matt Magnasco @MattMagnasco]

@reason “Government officials shouldn’t meddle in things they don’t understand” covers roughly 93% of governmental policy.

[Matt Magnasco @MattMagnasco]

Goedemorgen from Amsterdam Centraal.

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

Put rental bikes inside train stations.

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@StephenM I'm sorry that the Fourth Amendment is so inconvenient for you.

By the way, that's a feature of the Fourth Amendment, not a bug.

[Matt Magnasco @MattMagnasco]

Certificate of need laws suck -- one of @CarolinaJournal's favorite things to point out to the General Assembly.

[reason @reason]

Is This the Dumbest Health Care Law? https://t.co/o8SHbmO3VD

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Someone missed a golden opportunity here to price tickets from to HEL @goingtweets

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@Prettypetebjj @justinamash Yeah, no.

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Comic sans? Really?

Come on, #spammer. At least try.

[Matt Magnasco @MattMagnasco]

@LawrenceShaheen Already addressed by NC Const, Art 5 Sec 2

(5) Purposes of property tax. The General Assembly shall not authorize any county, city or town, ... to levy taxes on property, except for purposes authorized by general law uniformly applicable throughout the State, ...

[Matt Magnasco @MattMagnasco]

@reason Appropriate remedy? Yes.

Odds of a conviction? Exactly 0.00%.

Too many sycophants, enablers, and eunuchs (not that those are mutually exclusive groups) in Congress to do what's right.

[Matt Magnasco @MattMagnasco]

@reason "Incapable" is not the word. It implies capacity. Mike isn't lacking capacity; he certainly has the capacity to stand up to him. He's lacking balls.

"Unwilling", while lacking the appropriate scorn, is better.

"Enabling by not..." is better still.

[Leslie ن 🇺🇸☦️ @LADowd]

So good.

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@Boenau 6-wheel steering
Can drive diagonally while going straight
Lift kit, wheels, and extra steering probably cost north of $200,000

What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

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The cringe is strong with this one.

Or, what could POSSIBLY go wrong?

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So in other words, rather than restraining all future presidents from the excesses, corruption, unilateralism, abuses of power, and defiance of the Constitution of Trump 47, future D presidents should just be able to be just as authoritarian to serve their own ends.

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

Rampell asks about Dems limiting executive power; Casar says he's wary of dis-empowering a Democratic successor to Trump.

"We need for the next Democratic president to act very aggressively to rebuild everything that DOGE tore down."

[Matt Magnasco @MattMagnasco]

@reason (Dis)honorable mentions:

NFIB vs. Sebelius
Buck vs. Bell (which I had never heard about until I started looking for dishonorable mentions)

[Matt Magnasco @MattMagnasco]

@reason Kelo vs. New London
Korematsu vs. USA
Wickard vs. Filburn
Dredd Scott

[Matt Magnasco @MattMagnasco]

@bankertobuilder Look at the glass as being 1% full rather than 99% empty:

Instead of there being N surplus parking spaces in that sea of asphalt, now there are only N-6 or N-8.

[Matt Magnasco @MattMagnasco]

Or to paraphrase General Patton, "an imperfect plan executed today is better than a perfect plan next week."

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

We don't have to wait generations for generational change. I wrote about quick builds for @FastCompany

https://t.co/2scxmT4Qei

[Matt Magnasco @MattMagnasco]

Suburban poverty traps America's senior citizens https://t.co/b5FhHdkmao @Boenau

[Matt Magnasco @MattMagnasco]

Statics problem for aspiring engineers: Calculate the additional moment created by the motorcycle dangling on the end of tue mast arm

Steel design problem: calculate the factor of safety used in designing the mast arm that is allowing it to carry the motorcycle.

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

Primary suspect: the mall, trying to generate buzz.