Paolo Devecchi

[Bill Clinton @BillClinton]

Happy 80th birthday to my friend George W. Bush!

Your friendship—and that of your father and your entire family—has been one of the great gifts of my life. It has always reminded me that long before we’re politicians, we’re fellow Americans and, above all, human beings.

And for the next month, I’m especially grateful to finally have someone older than me! Wishing you many more years of good health, happiness, and friendship.

Our country is stronger when we remember that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

Among Europe's policy makers there is a misguided believe that paper-trails reduce risk.

This seems to be – finally – slowly changing.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Terrible old ideas that have been forgotten, or were never known, for a generation and seen as new and exciting by young, often affluent activists. Meanwhile, the one group you can be certain despises socialism is made up of everyone who has ever lived under it.

[EuroMaximalist 🇪🇺 @euromaximal]

Here’s a reality check: no one cares about climate change anymore. It is politically dead, and it will stay that way until material conditions improve. Only way to do that is economic growth.

Europe alone won’t fix climate change. We could be net zero or carbon negative and it would fix literally nothing as long as the rest of the world doesn’t care. And the rest of the world doesn’t care. Nor will they care.

For Europe the question becomes simple. Will we continue killing ourselves for net zero even when it fixes nothing and makes our lives worse? Doesn’t seem very smart.

Climate change is here to stay. The window and willingness to fix it has closed. We either innovate a way out its consequences or we die. That’s it.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Ro, you just gave a nice little stump speech. Congrats.

I'm talking about how AI can be used to make government more efficient, less expensive and provide an option, where it makes sense , to private enterprise.

Enabling more of the revenue you collect from taxpayers to go directly to the people who need it.

Ask your GenZ and neediest constituents, if AI could reduce spending in your state and improve the quality of services offered, with some percent of those savings being deposited in their bank accounts annually, would they approve of the government using AI ?

You know the answer.

By focusing on technology that can allow government to provide better services at a lower cost, which AI will be in a position to enable, only then can you help provide for people who need help and support.

AI is new, and not easy to implement. Which is why your state and the federal government should be creating programs to give new grads, who know or can learn AI, jobs to work with existing staff to find ways to decrease costs and improve efficiency. It's an investment that will pay off.

And as far as all the things you want to subsidize, from homes to childcare to healthcare , you could take every dollar from every billionaire and trillionaire in your state and probably every state and territory, leave them broke and then eat them, and it wouldn't cover for a year, the cost of what you want to do

But

Since I know healthcare, let's start there and see how serious you are about Medicare for All ?

Who runs it and how do you choose that person?

Right now the proposed legislation from jayapal and sanders says ," at the discretion of the Sec of HHS"

What do you think would be happening right now if that had been passed ?

I'll tell you the same thing I tell Republicans who think removing government and regulation from any market will make that market bigger and more efficient ...

Ideology is not a strategy

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Gavin Newsom came for a @garryslist event at YC and we were proud to talk little tech, YIMBY, how to stop the the asset seizure tax, and how to keep California's innovation wave going while making sure things work for every Californian.

Thank you @GavinNewsom

[Michele Boldrin @micheleboldrin]

Visti i toni di questo signore (e le sue affermazioni in altri post a cui ho dedicato una piccola rassegna in separato thread) vorrei chiarire che:

1. Nessuno piange, io meno di tutti.

2. Se alcuni simpatizzanti/associati di @ora_italia protestano per il "mancato invito" la scelta e' loro. Esprimono i loro sentimenti ma non certo una linea ufficiale o un mandato del partito, men che meno mio personale.

3. Le sciocchezze sui presunti "insulti" tali sono. Chi si ritiene superiore alla "massa" ed e' privo di argomenti cogenti, spaccia per insulti le critiche precise, documentate e senza fronzoli. Per la semplice ragione che educazione, estrazione sociale, carattere e "status" l'hanno convinto d'essere al di sopra di noi, umili cittadini. Vecchia abitudine dei gramsciani "paglietta" che non ci sorprende per nulla. Il gruppo sociale e culturale quello e'.

4. Mi convinco ogni giorno di piu' (questa e' una valutazione personale) che una Unione Europea davvero forte (sia economicamente, che militarmente) e politicamente coesa nei principi di fondo si possa costruire in ben altra maniera da quella indicata da questa associazione. Ma questo e' un tema serio che su X non e' il caso di trattare.

@ora_italia

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

They did, it was called America

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

I'm glad that the author of "Rent Control Is Fine, Actually" calls themself Unlearning Economics, bc it's good to just state things clearly, such as the open animosity that many left economic populists have for the field of economics and economists themselves.

Economists aren't gods, and economics isn't a divine truth, but economists are good--better than most--at something critical for making public policy: They're good at identifying tradeoffs. "Rents are too high, so freeze them" is compelling politics. But in the absence of other pro-supply policies, if you make it illegal to increase rents, landlords will stop upgrading units and convert them to condos, which reduces the supply of units for rent, reduces mobility, and drives up rents for everybody else.

The left econ populists have some clear, and clearly stated, policy ideas:

- Rents are too high, so freeze them.
- Electricity is expensive, so stop rate increases.
- Homes are too expensive, so ban institutional investors.
- Power prices are rising, so ban data center construction.

... All these policies feel like solutions because they're brisk, they name enemies, and they take on the most visible source of frustration. But they are much better as villain-naming exercises than they are as a complete public policy. On their own, each creates other problems: less housing built, less clean electricity built, abdicating energy policy by encouraging AI firms to build data centers abroad in unsavory countries with more emissions, etc.

I can't think of a single economic populist idea that wouldn't be helped with a little dose of economics, which is why it's troubling when I see the left participating in, and even celebrating, the great unlearning of economics.

[Bill Clinton @BillClinton]

A great in-depth look at the real progress being made in the fight against overdoses and addiction in San Francisco, which I’ve seen for myself on the ground. We and our partners in the Clinton Foundation’s Overdose Response Network are proud to support the efforts in the Bay Area and throughout California, and we applaud the critical leadership of Mayor @DanielLurie and @CAgovernor Newsom. Let’s keep it going!
https://t.co/8zkfIrAf7G

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Bibi has been fruitlessly begging US admins to bomb Iran and unleash the animal spirits of regime change for decades, like some shitty startup striking out with traditional VCs, over and over again — and like the savvy CEO of a shitty startup idea, he finally found a dumb-money septuagenarian family office to fork over a huge check. Genuinely embarrassing shit.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

Trump believes he is threatening Iran with destruction, but it is America that now stands in danger.

If he attempts to eradicate Iranian civilization, the United States will no longer be viewed as a stabilizing force in the world, but as an agent of chaos—effectively ending our status as the world’s greatest superpower.

This would upend our economy and shatter the global order. The process is already underway, yet we still have time to avert catastrophe if Trump finds the courage to pursue serious negotiations rather than reckless rage and destruction.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Today’s Artemis II launch marks a major step forward in space exploration.

I have had the privilege of spending time with this crew and seeing their discipline and commitment up close. As they begin this mission, I am wishing them a safe journey and a safe return home.

Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy: Thank you for your service and for setting the standard of excellence, alongside the teams at @NASA who made this possible. You make the United States and Canada proud.

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

When I look up at that rocket and the four astronauts sitting on top of it, I see America at its very best. Our country is deeply divided and we have real challenges. But I'd encourage everyone to watch this launch today and be proud of our country and what we're capable of when we work together.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Let me help rephrase for you Bernie.

Need a loan for college so you can party for a semester and drop out? Taxpayers will loan you money for it.

Need an SBA loan for your business ? Taxpayers will guarantee it.

For a house ? Taxpayers will guarantee it. And local gov will give you money for your first down payment !

Get sick or are in an accident and you can’t afford your deductible, insurance company denied prescribed care or are uninsured ?

You are on your own 😤

Let me add Bernie, the one debt not a single one of us will ever pay off till the day we die ? Our health insurance premiums

And before you go in and on about single payer, ask @claudeai to take a look at your proposed Single Payer legislation.

You want the Sec of HHS to run it. You can’t have a political appointee run an apolitical position

And you expect every provider and doctor to accept whatever rate is set by Medicare. Big hospitals don’t know their costs. They couldn’t do a BOM for any procedure. They have negligible transparency.

If they don’t know their costs, and you don’t know their costs, how is it possible for taxpayers, caregivers and patients to get a fair deal ?

And the concept of “every other country does it “ ignores the fact that they all converted decades and decades ago, long before you and your peers allowed the extreme vertical integration we face now.

Which leads to the question. @BernieSanders , why have you not advocated for the Break Up Big Medicine Bill ?

[Shawn Ryan @ShawnRyan762]

Sometimes the most impactful statement you can make is a strong resignation. It's unfortunate it's come down to this. God's speed @joekent16jan19 I hope this wakes some people up.

[Nazanin Boniadi @NazaninBoniadi]

Some in the West, in defending the Islamic Republic as an authentic counterweight to Western power, revive a different kind of imperialism—one that treats non-Western people not as moral equals, but as props in a Western morality play.

In this script, the lives and struggles of millions of Iranians are flattened into symbolic chess pieces in a narrative of Western guilt and redemption.

[Daniel Lurie 丹尼爾·羅偉 @DanielLurie]

San Francisco needs a reset.

Our city charter is one of the longest in the country. It is bloated. It is broken. And it only works for the people who know how to manipulate it—not everyday San Franciscans.

Today, I’m proposing reforms to clean up our city charter and make the government, and me, more accountable to you.

Here is the breakdown.

First: we are going to fix the city’s broken contracting system to make sure that your tax dollars are being spent efficiently and transparently. By bringing contracting under one entity, the City Administrator, we can set consistent citywide standards that will cut red tape, reduce delays, and save taxpayer dollars.

Second: we are going to make our ballots shorter and simpler. That long voter packet that you received in 2024 had 15 ballot measures on it. In the same election, Oakland had 3. San Jose had 1.

San Francisco makes it so easy to put things on the ballot that our elected officials don’t have to do their jobs. The result? San Franciscans have to fill out lengthy, confusing ballots, including contradictory measures and sometimes poorly written laws.

This will ensure that ballot measures reflect real citywide priorities—and that elected officials focus on the job voters sent them here to do: delivering results for the people of San Francisco.

Third: accountability.

San Franciscans expect our city to deliver world-class services. To do that, we need to be able to hold those in leadership accountable.

But right now, our charter rewards bureaucracy and scatters responsibility—protecting those in power, even if they have demonstrated serious ethical lapses.

These reforms would change that to ensure that when San Franciscans elect a mayor, they know who is responsible for delivering results. San Franciscans elect people to run their government, and those leaders should be accountable for whether it works. If it doesn’t, you should know exactly who to hold responsible—that’s the point of elections.

This package of reforms is about results. It’s about accountability.

It’s about making City Hall work for San Francisco.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

We’re about to take back Texas.

Join us: https://t.co/Cam7Y73uqe

[Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz @bundeskanzler]

For three generations, trust amongst allies and partners has made NATO the strongest alliance of all times. In the era of great power rivalry, being a part of NATO is not only Europe’s competitive advantage. So let’s repair and revive transatlantic trust together.