Jacob Moskowitz

Gopher. Urbanist. Pringle enthusiast.

[Jacob Moskowitz @jacobmosk]

There is an old man eating a kiwi outside Trader Joe's in the rain, and he is me

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@jwigderson @DanRShafer @derrickvanorden If the courts draw a map that splits Dane 4 ways or something as obviously partisan as the current maps I promise I will agree with you. I even acknowledge that the GOP has a structural advantage. But it's not hard at all to draw a nonpartisan 5-3 map

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@jwigderson @DanRShafer @derrickvanorden When the maps the legislature drew (and which the governor was essentially unable to veto because the previous court partisanly invented the "least change" principle out of nowhere) are obviously unconstitutional I believe it's the role of the judiciary to correct that. 1/2

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@jwigderson @DanRShafer Come on, you understood I meant Wisconsin's delegation to Congress. What is your principled take?

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@jwigderson @DanRShafer 75% of representatives for 49-51% of the vote obviously does not.

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@jwigderson @DanRShafer Why do you think I said that about urban voters to begin with? I know what your position has been.

How about this for principled: I think in a conditional republic, elected officials should reflect the partisan makeup of their voters. Disagree?

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[James Wigderson @jwigderson]

I have a weird suggestion. Maybe - now hear me out on this - maybe, just maybe, Democrats in Wisconsin should learn how to win elections in rural areas again. They knew how to do it once. Maybe they could, you know, actually try to appeal to rural voters?

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@jwigderson @DanRShafer Obvious hypocrisy from you on this. Why does that only apply in one direction? I know "heads I win tails you lose" is the official Republican position, but I thought more enlightened Republicans might understand how silly it is to complain that a likely 5R3D map is "partisan"

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@jwigderson @DanRShafer If Republicans want to win 75% of seats in a 50/50 state maybe they need to learn how to speak to urban voters again?

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@eric_nehm So if they are reviewing for whether the illegal contact was prior to the buzzer, but the replay shows no illegal contact, how do they determine it was before the buzzer?

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Libertarianism: Not even once

[Jared Polis @jaredpolis]

I’m excited by the news that the President-Elect will appoint @RobertKennedyJr to @HHSGov. He helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and will help make America healthy again by shaking up HHS and FDA. I hope he leans into personal choice on vaccines rather than bans (which I think are terrible, just like mandates) but what I’m most optimistic about is taking on big pharma and the corporate ag oligopoly to improve our health. Before you mock him or disagree, I want to share with you some quotes that if he follows through show why I’m excited:

“Level the playing field for Americans internationally on drug costs…cap drug prices so that companies can’t charge Americans substantially more than Europeans pay." YES! Colorado currently has an application just SITTING at FDA for us to import low-cost prescription drugs from Canada and we just need their approval.

"In some categories, there are entire departments, like the nutrition department at the FDA that are – that have to go, that are not doing their job, they're not protecting our kids," YES! The entire nutrition regime is dominated by big corporate ag rather than human health and they do more harm than good

“We’ve got to get off of pesticide-intensive agriculture.” YES! We have tried unsuccessfully to better protect people and pollinators from harmful pesticides here in Colorado and we need all the help we can get to take on big chemical companies and improve human health and the environment! For our pollinators and our people! 🦋

He will face strong special interest opposition on these, but I look forward to partnering with him to truly make America healthy again and I hope that we can finally make progress on these important issues.

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@mattyglesias Minneapolis, many places in Colorado, Seattle. Not sure this distinction holds up.

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@barenakedladles Totally. I wish we took a more European approach and designed new neighborhoods around transit and other infrastructure rather than the other way around, but I think there is so much about our culture and governance that prevents that.

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@barenakedladles Totally agree. I just don't think certain regulation being dysfunctional definitively means all regulation must be bad. I think the sun belt is an example of deregulation leading to dysfunctional development and the ideal is somewhere between that and crazy blue state government

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@barenakedladles YIMBYs think if we just get pesky government out of the way the market will demand beautiful dense urbanism, when what it actually demands is paving over wetlands for cheap sprawl. We have proof and it's called Houston.

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@barenakedladles The YIMBY sprawl blindspot is as wide as a suburban house

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@nikicaga My theory is this is true for the same reason coastal blue states swung so far right: NY and CA are used to one-party incompetent rule by Dems. Wisconsinites know all about one-party incompetent rule by Republicans.

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@nikicaga Wisconsin too

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@Nate_Cohn Wow sounds like their labor is very important and maybe they're worth bargaining with in good faith

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@JerusalemDemsas They're sincerely held, they're just based on racism rather than self-preservation

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@AllMattNYC Do you think the ownership and management of the New York Times makes more or less than $190k