Tim Burke 🌐

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

For the first year on record, wind and solar produced more electricity than coal in the U.S.

[ArmyTimes @ArmyTimes]

The Army has abruptly halted a planned deployment to Poland, bringing U.S. personnel numbers in Europe to pre-2022 levels — before Russia invaded Ukraine.
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[Tim Burke 🌐 @timhburke]

@ceilingscrack @LFastFoodOrder @JeremiahDJohns @frandalorian @grok AMI isn’t actually calculating the area median income. It’s an odd formula that is based on rents

[Zachary Donnini @ZacharyDonnini]

With a weakened Section 2, Republicans could in Georgia could adopt a map similar to this. It would flip two majority-Black seats from 🔵 to 🔴. Only flipping one seat would be safer, given the blue trending Atlanta Metro Area.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

kash patel always looks like he got his socks by sending in a proof of purchase to trix cereal or marvel comics

[“paula” @paularambles]

fell asleep in a waymo and woke up at my destination. the machines of loving grace are already here

[Tim Burke 🌐 @timhburke]

Don’t ask @JeremiahDJohns. It’s Afroman.

[Alex Vatanka @AlexVatanka]

Very much looking forward to our panel tomorrow

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@MahmoudianArman

Panel is part of @MiddleEastInst Thursday series

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[Heather Long @byHeatherLong]

JUST IN: A cool February inflation reading. Inflation remained at 2.4% (y/y) in February, the same as January. This reading was before the war in Iran began, so gas prices were still below $3 average.

-->Note that some items had larger than normal increases in February including fuel oil, utility gas, apparel, groceries and medical care.

The monthly gain (just for month of Feb.) was 0.3%.
“Core inflation” (excluding food and energy) was 2.5%

[Tim Burke 🌐 @timhburke]

@JeremiahDJohns The Shape Store

[Abby Hall @Abigail_R_Hall]

My @TEDx talk ran this morning on the main feed. The economic way of thinking provides powerful tools for thinking—and talking—about difficult topics. @UofTampa @IndependentInst

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[NYC New Liberals 🌐 @NYCNewLiberals]

Tomorrow at noon in City Hall Park! Rally in support of the City Charter Amendments! Join us!

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

I respect @ezraklein a lot, but this is dead wrong and frankly a baffling thing to say.

Charlie Kirk was the *epitome* of our modern brand of poisonous politics. Ezra tries to make the point that he went around to college campuses to debate people. And that's true, for a very tortured version of the word 'debate'.

But Charlie Kirk was not trying to build bridges. He was not trying to reach a common understanding with his opponents in the way that Ezra himself does. He was not operating in good faith, and his goal was not respectful two-way conversations where both sides can grow and change.

Kirk's goal at his college 'debates' was not to find experts on tricky issues of culture and policy and then have a Socratic dialogues and learn from them. His goal was to find a purple haired nineteen year-old sociology major with more feelings than sense, and then dunk on them. He wanted to farm clips he could use on social media to make his opponents look ridiculous, and he was good at it. When I think about how social media has changed politics for the worse, Charlie Kirk and his style of engagement is one of the main protagonists.

We live in a heavily polarized era where the parties hate each other more than they have in decades and political violence is on the rise. And while it might be distasteful to say it directly after he was murdered, Kirk was one of the people driving that hatred and that polarization. He taught his audiences to hate and fear their opponents. He egged on the public's worst and basest instincts. He flirted heavily and repeatedly with the idea of political violence.

It should obviously be said that none of that justifies killing him. Anyone who advocates for political violence is no friend or ally of mine. But for a man who wrote a book called "Why We're Polarized" to look at Charlie Kirk and say that he practiced politics the right way is delusional.

[NYC New Liberals 🌐 @NYCNewLiberals]

Renters should be neighbors with each other, not forced to compete by landlords for too few units.

[Tim Burke 🌐 @timhburke]

@JeremiahDJohns Pilot is a biblical name!

[Tim Burke 🌐 @timhburke]

@aarmlovi So I shouldn’t have left the AC on a little bit for the cats? 😬

[Tahra Hoops @TahraHoops]

Unless this gets pulled back, consumers would be seeing a large impact on prices, especially for cars, electronics, and industrial goods. The U.S. imports billions in vehicles, semiconductors, and machinery from Japan and South Korea.

[Tim Burke 🌐 @timhburke]

@Philadeliberty @jmhorp

[Tim Burke 🌐 @timhburke]

@TAMMYSZN @jmhorp No he wasn’t. It’s like complaining if Matt called a triangle a shape. I suppose you can be upset he didn’t specify which shape but that isn’t what Carlson said.