Ben Walsh

[Ben Walsh @BenDWalsh]

@JackPittBrooke reminds me of the iconic @jasongay comment about showing up to a kids game wearing adidas warm ups and a plaid shirt "looking like the soccer coach at the maple syrup academy"

[Ben Walsh @BenDWalsh]

let's call this cohort the "SALT of the earth" class

[Ben Walsh @BenDWalsh]

one thing a lot of progressive Americans don't grasp is that meaningful Scandinavian-style redistribution requires significant tax increases on the merely modestly rich

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

I've seen many people applaud the Dell move, because it's voluntary and simple. (Unlike forced taxation into the fiscal maw).

But another interpretation is that it shows how the juice from the squeeze, of simply redistributing billionaire money to the poor is fairly modest.

[Ben Walsh @BenDWalsh]

and then you can just get rid of it and move on

[Ben Walsh @BenDWalsh]

this is true, marriage gives you the freedom to discover that with a mustache, you look like a relief pitcher from the early 80's who blew out his shoulder and now sells used cars

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

"people in relationships are free, they just have to make sure one other person doesn't hate them. Which is easy since that person already likes them."

this is why i tell married men to grow out their hair, mustache etc, your wife isn't leaving you over a dumb haircut

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

Wow! What a win for public health! Now we can eat as many skittles as we want without exposure to potentially harmful dyes!

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

this is kinda the logical conclusion of the obsessions with dyes, additives etc versus simple macros. what if we had healthy skittles?

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

Back when BLS data was honest and accurate

[Ben Walsh @BenDWalsh]

it's extra ironic that the bad jobs number actually made it more likely that the Fed will cut rates

[Ben Walsh @BenDWalsh]

@DailyTaxMemes extra insane response because the guy's plan – to get certified to be employed in a high demand municipal job and then get certified to be employed in a high-paying municipal job – is pretty good?

[Ben Walsh @BenDWalsh]

Polling *already* indicates that Americans think the labor market is not in good shape

[Arthur Delaney 🇺🇸 @ArthurDelaneyHP]

The president is going to try to suppress any negative information about the economy.

People aren't dumb enough for this to work.

[tyson brody @tysonbrody]

So is it fake data created by a Biden appointee or is it proof everything is working as intended

[Conor Sen @conorsen]

Is the idea that the general public believes the labor market is strong? Because that’s not what polling suggests.

[Luke Kawa @LJKawa]

No other way to slice it: this is incredibly fucked up.

[Ben Walsh @BenDWalsh]

Some professional news:

Thrilled to be joining @sherwood_news! Can't wait to get to work with the team!

[Ben Walsh @BenDWalsh]

@JackPittBrooke the Ben Davies list is hilarious in context but I can't get past dropping in Midnight Cowboy

[Ben Walsh @BenDWalsh]

@Jon_Mackenzie also, going long doesn't mean you've "beaten the press"

[Ben Walsh @BenDWalsh]

@willystaley bragging that you're in a "Williamsburg penthouse" and then getting community notes-fact checked that "actually that's in LIC" is deeply bleak

[Ben Walsh @BenDWalsh]

@willystaley in other words, it predicted nothing less than the Long Lens Beach Photo Freakout of the Summer of 2020

[Ben Walsh @BenDWalsh]

@lizrhoffman how can you slander the director of Triple Frontier (2019) like this?!

[Ben Walsh @BenDWalsh]

a great detail is that the trading floor scenes are all filmed on the 49th and 50th floors of 1 NY Plaza with the old maroon wood cabinets/desks left by GS

[Liz Hoffman @lizrhoffman]

Margin Call is having a moment. So we called the guy who wrote it. https://t.co/oA4KL5yWuW