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 I spent more time than human being should debunking the various lies that Vivek Ramaswamy spouts about government. https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-dazzling-mendacity-of-vivek-ramaswany 
 New, from me: WI GOP voted to remove the state's nonpartisan election administrator, just as they fired her predecessors in 2015 & 2018.
Why? She refused to go along with Big Lie.
And they are still threatening to impeach a judge to save their gerrymander. 
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-heads-i-win-tails-you-lose-democracy 
 WI Republicans offered an "off ramp" to impeachment, by proposing to a "Iowa style" nonpartisan commission to draw up fair maps. But its not an Iowa style model at all, since it still gives the gerrymandered legislature final say over the gerrymander, removing court oversight.

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 Tim Gurner, a CEO and property developer went viral after calling for more layoffs to teach "arrogant" workers a lesson.
Its not his first time.
I wrote about the return of the avocado toast guy. 
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-dismal-return-of-the-avocado 
 New, from me: Recently a pair of economists from Stanford and MIT argued for universal health care, pointing to the way that the complexity of the US health system excludes people. 
Are we seeing a shift in how mainstream economics thinks about burdens? https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/is-economics-changing-its-mind-about