Dylan Scott
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Senior correspondent and editor for @voxdotcom. Send news tips to [email protected]. Gonna kick the darkness till it bleeds daylight.
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I feel like this poll encapsulates my problem of how we talk about polling. They went from Harris +4 to Trump +2 in less than a week. Now are we supposed to believe the race changed that dramatically in five days?. Or did nothing change except the random survey sample?.
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if somebody were crashing two trains into each other anywhere in my vicinity, yeah, Iād be there.
Between the 1890s and the 1930s, staged train crashes were a popular attraction throughout the United States. Tens of thousands of people would gather to watch two old trains be smashed into each other
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some days I think I've seen every possible weirdo opinion out here on these tweets. but then there's this.
Biden's granddaughter is three years older than her husband. This is the America that they want.
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the way Rs have memory holed Swift Boat (just for starters) and pretend Mitt Romney was the first āniceā candidate to face criticism AS A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES is genuinely amazing.
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wrong city. wrong year. wrong *continent* for the migrants . imagine being so racist you think this vindicates you.
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as much as I am loathe to intellectualize dril, this is just fundamentally correct. via @TaylorLorenz
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Now an honest assessment would tell you itās entirely possible nothing has changed, nobody has momentum, no campaign ever flips over that quickly . But of course, nobody wants to read that version of the story lol.
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the quadriennial tradition of everybody spending the week before Election Day urging you not to extrapolate too much too quickly and then everybody immediately forgetting their own advice as soon as one single indicator comes in is among my favorites in politics.
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America has decided the periodic murder of schoolchildren is an acceptable tradeoff for having the most expansive gun rights among wealthy nations and itās clear now that nothing is ever, ever, ever going to change that.
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thinking about @CitizenCohnās tweets about Harrisās care economy plan, an enormously ambitious proposal on an important issue that basically nobody in elite political media paid any attention to.
āHarris has been running on āvibesā and has failed to articulate a clear vision for the country. It might have been a good strategy if the āfundamentalsā favored her, but they donāt.ā
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I think a big lesson of this campaign MAY BE*** that the mainstream media isnāt even that useful to Dems anymore in terms of messaging or reaching their voters.
Separately, these arenāt very combative interviews but they are quite substantive ā Harris and Cooper talk in depth about sexual assault, abortion policy, family finances; her talk with Jackson/Barnes got into racial justice, at-risk children, made news on drug legalization.
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@samthielman it's nuts! isn't this what we have been begging for?! original stories that resonate with a large audience, that work both emotionally and as visceral entertainment?!?!?!.
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oh my god, the SKIP tweet is now basically real life.
I want to make one thing clear, I am AGAINST antisemitism! Listen to today's episode of @KnowMercyPod and hear why I believe there is a lack of civility in America today! The link is in the bio. #KanyeWest #KyrieIrving #civility #newepisode #knowmercypod.
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imagine your brain being this broken.
Yāall can argue over the word coup, but Biden stepping aside is the American equivalent of all those people accidentally falling out of windows in Russia.
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The Adderall shortage is the result of two forces:. 1) The increase in demand, in parallel with a better understanding of ADHD. 2) Artificial limits on production, maintained at least in part because of the opioid epidemic.
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@gay_lumberjack yes I know how they work, it would nonetheless suggest a DRAMATIC change in the race in a remarkably short period of time, in a way that defies all other political science of past elections.
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It's the biggest health policy story of the year: Millions of people are going to get kicked off their Medicaid coverage in the coming months:.
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also whom do i speak to at the wapo copy desk about this capital-D nonsense.
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So the only story here is āby his own admission, JD Vance makes up racist lies for political gainā. Glad we cleared that up.
UPDATE: Full exchange of Sen JD Vance (R-OH) speaking to CNN about cat and dog claims (longer quote offered here:). Vance: "The American media totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump a I start talking about cat memes. If I have to create stories so that the American.
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I can't think of any better representation of America's fundamental unwillingness to protect children:.
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Vance lies as shamelessly as the top of the ticket. The actual truth:.
Vance: Donald Trumpās record on healthcare was so good that the main thing Kamala Harris talks about was actually an achievement of Donald Trump which is getting insulin down to $35. Thank Donald Trump for that. Donāt let Kamala Harris lie and take credit for it
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Iām harping on Springfield because I take it personally. I grew up in an even smaller town in Ohio. Have seen firsthand the economic devastation that has nothing to do with immigration. So it makes me furious to see these assholes endangering a town and its people for politics.
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Iām very proud we are publishing this undercover investigation into the horrific treatment of animals at US livestock auctions. (content warning).
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monarchy is bad and yet I still feel compelled to sayā¦ rip to a real one, she saw some serious shit.
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This @dankois essay on Bruce Willis made me realize how much I miss him, one of the most important actors of my adolescence:.
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āwho cares whether itās accurate, stop whiningā from a widely respected political journalist, very cool stuff!.
Every time I see one of these jags - going bananas on some digital headline thatāll be forgotten in a day if not hours - I think of the @jonfavs riff that itās a waste of energy given 90% of readers will pull Dem lever . Guess it hasnāt set in yet !.
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Something that seems to be getting lost in the Medicare drug price negotiations coverage: The projected savings from those negotiations are already being used (for scoring purposes) to pay for a $2,000 annual cap on OOP costs for Medicare patients.
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Three years into the pandemic, I asked the leading long Covid experts three questions:. - What do we confidently know now about this syndrome?. - What do we know we donāt know yet?. - Where is there room for good-faith debate?. Hereās what I learned:.
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me in 20 years every time my children ask about historic events of the past 15 years:. āwell, I was refreshing twitter andā¦ā.
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lotta weird shit to comment upon in that desantis ad but the implicit equating of ron desantis and (fictional) serial murderer patrick bateman has to be the weirdest.
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logging on to say @elonmusk is a coward and if you want Trump back on twitter, just put him back on, donāt try to justify it with an unscientific twitter poll.
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we should generally subject our public officials to ritual humiliation more often.
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So @BilgeEbiri perfectly diagnoses the problem with how we consume and talk about movies and TV:. āOur pathological superiority to everything we consume onscreen nowadaysā.
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Everywhere you look, there are new stories of small hospitals either shutting down important services (like childbirth) or at risk of closing entirely. Which raises the question: Why is it so hard for rural hospitals to survive in America?.
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California plans in the short term to sign a contract with an existing manufacturer to bring a cheaper insulin to market. In the longer term, it wants to build public factories with public workers, selling the drug at cost:.
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Guns, child poverty, child hunger, education, health care. The US is letting its kids down across the spectrum. In academia, they call it (with a grim sense of irony) "American exceptionalism.".
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What a landmark study reveals about the consequences of denying abortions.
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the people trying to tsk me because a handful of people died 125 years ago: Iām sorry to their great great grandchildren but you gotta ease up, itās Sunday night.
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EXCLUSIVE: White House warns 21 million Americans at risk of losing Medicaid under GOP proposal .
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āDazzle them with bullshitā: Ron DeSantisās pandemic response, explained.
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Turns out when you ask people to vote on whether they want more people in their state to have health insurance, they say yes:.
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i truly hope we never hear another fucking word about good guys with guns.
āāGo in there! Go in there!ā nearby women shouted at the officers soon after the attack began ā¦ the officers did not go in.ā
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and itās gotten so bad, it seems a lot of Rs have convinced themselves Swift Boat was a fair shot!. āBut the veterans who accuse Kerry are contradicted by Kerryās former crewmen, and by Navy records.ā.
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California has put $100 million behind an effort to produce a public generic insulin. It's expected to announce a contract on Phase 1 of that plan any day now:.
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my brain malfunctioned trying to process this take.
āIf Democrats really do want Trump to go away, they should just ignore him,ā says @EWErickson in a chat with @DouthatNYT and @KSoltisAnderson.
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@KenGoodrich amen, but nobody whoās invested in people taking polling averages and election forecasts seriously wants to have that conversation.
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āWe stand alone and we have for decades in terms of our disinvestment in children,ā Jennifer Glass, a sociologist at the University of Texas at Austin, told me. āYou muck it up for the first 20 years of that kidās life, you canāt come back and remedy it.ā.
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why has nbc not locked steve kornacki and dave wasserman in a room and charged people to watch the livestream, do i have to think of everything.
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Medicaid expansion looks to go 7-for-7 with voter ballot initiatives in November, this time in SD:.
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one way to consider the timing of Taylor Swift's endorsement, from a colleague. "I mean my gen z child didn't watch the debate but she sure just texted me about Taylor swift and Harris".
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I am now older (35) than my father was when he died (34). that is a very strange sensation, on an already strange morning.
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The upcoming SCOTUS case on Medicaid is premised, as best I can tell, on the idea that nobody should be able to challenge the improper administration of a public program. Seems bad. More from @imillhiser:.
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I promise you, I will not be spending an hour every day in the metaverse in a few years, I have never been as sure of anything as this.
The stakes are high: @McKinsey projects metaverse spending could reach $5 trillion by 2030, while @Gartner_inc says weāll be spending about an hour in the metaverse daily in a few years.
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I'll be back with more later, but for now:. Vox published a suite of stories on open enrollment, which is getting underway! We were guided by two big questions: Why the hell do things work this way and what are the consequences of such a strange system?.
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obviously a lot of MSM people disagree and think Harris is sabotaging herself by not talking to them . but whether that is astute analysis or a self interested industry trying to insist upon its relevance remains to be seen.
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it blows my mind that in the year of our lord 2022 televisions still come preprogrammed with motion smoothing that ruins the picture unless you turn it off . who is asking for this????????.
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tired: squinting at polls.wired: aggregating an index of seven election forecasts.inspired: listening to jon ralston, ann selzer and no one else.
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Isolation is killing Americans. It's time to treat the loneliness epidemic like the public health crisis it is:.
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i know this should not be a surprise given [gestures at the last six years] but how can the richest person on the planet be so desperate for attention and admiration?.
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But I really donāt know what you do with people who say āsure, we had the wrong city, the wrong people, the wrong time and the wrong animal but thatās all a TECHNICALITYā. these folks donāt care about living in a shared reality, they just never want to be wrong.
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I am literally begging Elon to make it as easy as possible for me to leave this site for good.
More news from Twitter today: Elon Musk and David Sacks have both discussed putting all of Twitter behind a paywall eventually, @platformer has learned.
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not the highest profile race, but a Dem gov winning reelection in KANSAS in a midterm election with a D in the White House is. a thing that happened last night.
Kansas governor's race update: With all precincts unofficially in, per the SOS website, Gov. Laura Kelly leads Republican AG Derek Schmidt by 14,255 votes #ksleg . Third party candidates, FWIW, sit at roughly 30k votes combined.
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nobody does it better.
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Why everybody you know is sick right now ā or soon will be.
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The EpiPen cost crisis hast mostly faded from the headilnes, but thousands of American families are still spending upward of $700 a year on an essential medicine:.
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with all due respect, no editorial page has warranted this much attention for at least 50 years.
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The United States, the world's richest nation and its most important developer of Rx drugs, shouldn't run out of medicine. But it does. All the time. Why?.
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Insulin is way too expensive. California has a solution: Make its own.
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How did we get from DeSantis urging people to be "spiritually together but socially distant" in April 2020 to his surgeon general being accused in April 2023 of manipulating to push an anti-vaccine agenda?. I tried to answer that question:.
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And I think there are a lot of hard questions to ask about that plan, they are going to require hard choices and that could be interesting grist for coverage . But these guys are content to decree āshe has no visionā and keep repeating the same three lines over and over again.
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to me, the great challenge in pharma development and payment that nobody seems to talk about much or have great ideas for fixing is the US effectively subsidizes *global* pharma R&D by paying far higher prices than other countries (including the wealthy) that have price controls.
I find the libertarian view on Medicare prescription drug pricing to be really confusing ā I fully accept the case against price controls, but libertarians donāt think Medicare should exist at all so why is it bad to limit what the government will pay?.
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my 4-year-oldās idea of a light monday morning conversation starter:. ādaddy, what existed before there was anything?ā.
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@snowmanomics I do recall that ā I try not to get too surgical with my polling assessments, my overriding argument is we need to account for way more uncertainty than we currently do when discussing them.
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continually amazed by peopleās capacity to get so fucking mad about things that donāt really matter rather than the things that do.
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soā¦ Twitter no longer has a block function . itās so funny that @elonmuskās strategy for this site is so bad and so busted that he just keeps making changes that will continue to drive people away. very big genius businessman.
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my writing crusade is I believe we could collectively use āthatā about 75 percent less.
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Okay, what I really want to know is whether Chris Rufo paid $5,000 for a video of somebody grilling a chicken. I really hope so.
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you wanna talk about revisionism, this is absolutely Olympian.
In fact, the entire focus of the race became an attempt to distort a comment he made at a private fundraiser to pretend one of the most generous men in politics doesnāt care about poor people.
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What, exactly, is the point of crypto?. You'd think, given its ubiquity, that would be an easy question to answer. But despite @EmilyStewartM's best efforts, it's surprisingly hard:.
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Went long on the struggle to place new doctors in medically underserved communities and the underground movement that is trying to work outside of the traditional Medicare pipeline to do it:.
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My family has been sick for the last month, maybe yours has too and if not it probably soon will be. I wrote about what the hell is going on and whether this nasty start to cold-and-flu season is our new normal:.
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is there something Iām missing or did this police chief admit he waited to tell the truth about crime statistics until the election was over???.
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Why are dental benefits siloed off from the rest of our health insurance?. It goes back centuries, to "barber dentists." Dentistry itself was cordoned off from the rest of medicine. Read more from @emilystewart:.
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āAll these companies that are screaming about theft, theyāre kind of complicit in it because they keep reducing staff.". Americaās shoplifting problem, explained by retail workers and thieves:.
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@emilcDC yep and itās genuinely really know how youāre supposed to extrapolate based on those you do get! so much alchemy involved, and yes, people who know know this, and yet they never hesitate to speak confidently about polling anyway.
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Nearly 60 percent of working-age Americans get health insurance through their work. How did we end up with a system unlike any other in the developed world?.
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watching independence day and randomly furious again that amy adams was snubbed for arrival so the academy could give meryl streep a nomination for florence foster fucking jenkins.
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I do think we live in an odd paradoxical reality where itās genuinely unclear how much the polls are helping you understand the state of the race . (except in the most general āitās close!ā sense).
My main takeaway is: A lot of discourse stems from small poll movements. But it's good to remember that the volume of polling that gets thrown into the averages is just quite reduced (esp. the sort of polling you'd want to rely on, & that's less likely to herd) & that matters.
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literally every single time i eat an almond i think about that anecdote that obama would only allow himself seven almonds as a snack.
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Who in America does not generally have medical debt, though they have the most clinical need?. People over 65, who are on Medicare.
New: 4 in 10 adults have health care debt. It can affect anyone, young or old, insured or uninsured. Those least likely to have health care debt? People over age 65, who are covered by Medicare.
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Republicans are pushing bills that would require doctors to make unscientific claims to discourage medication abortions:.
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iād worry more about ai if i didnāt deal with apple autocorrect every day.
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My best guess whatās happening right now under the hood with Trump and Vance: The caravan fear-mongering didnāt work in 2018, 2020 or 2022, so they are escalating for their final-stretch āmessageā this year.
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