Will Carty @carty

Canadian Texan. FinancePolicyMusicArtSportsPolitics. #Xword nerd. Policy Owl. Ex-Senate & House. Ps are mine. Qs are others’. Texas & Ontario Joined October 2010

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Will Carty @carty

5 hours ago

Diddly Squat Farm @ClarksonsFarm1

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'Why is a flat-screen TV affordable and a college education not?...Because Congress has spent 60 years trying to make college affordable and has spent zero years trying to make TVs affordable.' By @reason's Aaron Brown, Michael Mendelson, @CliffordAsness thedispatch.com/article/afford…

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Mike ter Maat @miketermaat_

a day ago

Voting used to be about choosing how much freedom you wanted. Now it feels like choosing who gets to take it… and how. Maybe we should go back to the first version.

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Will Carty @carty

a day ago

“Up to you.” #pride

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Will Carty @carty

a day ago

Um. When?

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Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff

3 days ago

“Protect the children” too often becomes “show me your papers.” Britain’s age-verification push and Washington’s online-safety bargain risk building speech-control infrastructure in the name of safety.

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Will Carty @carty

3 days ago

“Sentient Sun” 🤯

Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca

3 days ago

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NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga

7 days ago

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving. Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free. I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these." "They just come with the table, man." They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner. This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat. I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared. "Did we…?" "Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless." Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined. My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude." Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man. I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy. Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived. I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most. Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

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Dirty Texas Hedge @HedgeDirty

6 days ago

Over 4000 workers just became millionaires by owning the means of production and the socialists are pissed

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

6 days ago

With $1 trillion in net worth, Musk could give everyone on earth around 125 bucks and thereby solve all problems forever.

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Will Carty @carty

a week ago

Just crazy.

Jeremy Horpedahl 🥚📉 @jmhorp

a week ago

People act like it's a mystery or fraud that caused federal spending to explode since 2015 Here's the breakdown of the increase Interest: 30% Social Security: 20% Medicare: 13% Medicaid: 10% Non-defense discretionary: 10% Defense: 5% That's 90% of the increase

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Library of Congress @librarycongress

a week ago

The Committee of Five—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman—was appointed to draft the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago today. Jefferson's draft of the document is here at the Library, and will be featured in a new exhibition opening July 3.

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Orin Kerr @OrinKerr

a week ago

Someday the Supreme Court is going to grant cert on this.

Laz @lazpch

a week ago

v thankful for Times New Roman

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a week ago

A perk of being politically tribeless is being able to declare that Donald Trump, Ken Paxton, and Graham Platner are all personally unfit for office without having to twist myself into a pretzel trying to explain some hackish partisan double standard. Principles over party.

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McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

a week ago

Coolest @TheAtlantic cover in a long time:

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ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports

2 weeks ago

Dawn at the Alamo, by Henry Arthur McArdle, late 19th c, 📸 by @gwephoto

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Will Carty @carty

2 weeks ago

@PLFTX @KXAN_Weather I thought the same thing up here!

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Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie

2 weeks ago

A government that can't count votes in a timely manner shouldn't be allowed to run so many aspects of our lives.

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Will Carty @carty

2 weeks ago

@whignewtons Perfect. No notes.

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Sonny Bunch @SonnyBunch

3 weeks ago

Anyway, a Senate with Collins and Talarico is probably better than a Senate with Platner and Paxton, but we’re more likely to wind up with latter because we’re deeply unserious people.