Michael Abramson

Startup lawyer. Used to kick footballs for Macalester. Stanford Law '19.

[Michael Abramson @michaelabramson]

https://t.co/Ptds1CsW5F by @patrickc

“When we’re civilizationally incompetent, it often means something like “a bus lane takes decades to build instead of weeks”. In this case, however, it could easily mean that hundreds of thousands of people die needlessly.”

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. The @NRA says its School Shield program makes it "America’s Leading Charitable Organization Helping to Protect Our Children."

According to internal financial documents, @NRA spent just $13,900 on the program in the first 8 months of 2021

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https://t.co/fWfwVkcjAz

[Boyan Slat @BoyanSlat]

Probably the craziest thing we've ever tried.

[BoldProgressives.org @BoldProgressive]

THIS is the energy every single Democrat should be bringing to the fight to protect Roe.

End the filibuster. Codify Roe.

[Michael Abramson @michaelabramson]

Sign up below for the Women's March Foundation’s voter registration training! https://t.co/7hT8bSz8Pm

[jen curran @jencurran]

Today I got the results of my vaccine response from my oncologist. Anything over 400 is great. 250 is okay. Mine was 16. They consider it “background noise.”

So just another friendly reminder that you, a healthy person, getting the vaccine can potentially save my life! 😘

[Michael Abramson @michaelabramson]

@codyrolson Also...THEY LITERALLY JUST TRIED TO INVALIDATE THE RESULTS OF THE ELECTION. It’s a litmus test for the party that you disavow Biden’s W. Narrative is very openly that the only way R’s can lose is if D’s cheat, which is itself laying groundwork to try to steal future elections

[Michael Abramson @michaelabramson]

@codyrolson Disagree on the fact that voter suppression isn’t very widespread, but would note you’re setting the bar at ‘running rampant’. It’s also a broad systemic effort—gerrymandering, disenfranchising voters, making it harder to vote, etc.

[Michael Abramson @michaelabramson]

I grew up around the block from Mays. Every year on Halloween he’d give each kid who came to the door a baseball, signing every one. He’d always bend down and take the time to have a conversation with each kid—he even played catch with me once. Such a genuinely kind person

[Spiro’s Ghost @AntiToxicPeople]

NY Giants star & future Baseball HOF’er Willie Mays, 23, in 1954 playing stickball with kids at 80 St. Nicholas Place in Harlem.

Happy 90th Birthday Willie 🎂⚾️

[Michael Abramson @michaelabramson]

@tomhousesports Beginning of Range by @DavidEpstein is a great discussion of this. Book delves deeply into this question; Epstein is a former sports journalist. Basic thesis is this is true so long as the sport/activity is ‘wicked’ rather than ‘kind’, i.e. how constrained & predictable it is

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

It's not quite so simple. Universities like Stanford, and California's policy against noncompetes, helped create the Silicon Valley tech cluster, while local culture and amenities made the region an attractive destination for engineers.

It's a two-way process!

[Michael Abramson @michaelabramson]

@HarryStebbings Could also have episodes focus on a specific question/subject/challenge in this vein, talking to multiple people and exploring from a few angles, rather than each episode being an interview with one founder/VC trying to cover everything

[Michael Abramson @michaelabramson]

@HarryStebbings Love this idea. Would it be structured to help the founder/VC better understand themselves (i.e. therapy-esque) and work through those questions, or more of an interview where they know the answer and discuss with the interviewer?

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

We need to be better bystanders, and how it takes (at least) two to create a locker room convo. https://t.co/uX1suS379W

[Michael Abramson @michaelabramson]

@lpolovets At some point, spending w/o pulling money from the system would cause hyper inflation. Taxation then is a means of controlling amount of $ in circulation, rather than to give the govt $ to spend. Given extreme concentration of wealth + tax evasion, it makes sense to #TaxTheRich

[Rachel Barnhart @rachbarnhart]

.@zeynep crammed so much into this article about our absolutely crappy pandemic response.

Lack of harm reduction, inability to discuss risk, shaming, misunderstanding of science, failing protect vulnerable, rigid rules, lack of hope...

This has it ALL

https://t.co/PMINKPojMp

[Brian Beutler @brianbeutler]

Infuriating that this culminated in a shutdown of the vaccination site, even a temporary one, rather than the swift arrest and detention of the people who blocked access to it. https://t.co/K411KthHzj

[Macalester Football @MacalesterFB]

🔊🎤Alumni Spotlight🎤🔊
Former Mac DB Michael Abramson
#HeyMac
#NextOneWins
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[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

Michelle hits this exactly right. There isn't a happy answer here. If you feel conflicted, you're right.

But that reflects a deeper fact of Trump, and those like him: They leave us with no good options.