@BudgetBen

Director of @PPI’s Center for Funding America's Future. No longer an active Tweeter, so better to connect with me by email: [email protected]

 Arlington, VA
progressivepolicy.org/people/ben-ritz/
Joined June 2015
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Happy New Year! 🥳
Ben Ritz@BudgetBen31 Dec 2022
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Gotta say, it’s hard to imagine a more fitting coda to my time on Twitter than being the lead quote in this article nytimes.com/2022/12/21/style…

If Twitter Fails, They’ll Be Free (Published 2022)

For some of Twitter’s most prolific users, the platform was often a “hellsite.” Now they contemplate a life without it.

nytimes.com
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Well my friends, I think this is it: I’m out. No more Twitter for me starting in 2023. I won’t delete my account for now just in case something changes my mind down the line, but at this point you should assume that I am logging off at midnight tonight and won’t be coming back.
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It’s bittersweet for sure. I’ve made some of my best friends and professional contacts through Twitter. But I was starting to hate the kind of discourse it fostered even before becoming The Elon Show and at this point I really think we’d all be better off if it just went away.
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This kinda went under the radar in the year-end crush, but congrats to the @SaveStandard folks who successfully defeated Marco Rubio time. Can’t imagine him getting another sneak attack through the Senate like he did this year & I don’t see how it makes a comeback anytime soon.
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You should just get a car with no toxic historical baggage, like a Ford or a Volkswagen latimes.com/opinion/story/20…

Contributor: I bought a Tesla to help the environment. Now, I'm embarrassed to drive it

It’s a beautiful car with no carbon emission, and initially, I was proud of owning it and being seen driving a vehicle that displayed my concern for the environment.

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1/8. A point which is often lost in discussions of inflation and central bank policy. Inflation is fundamentally the outcome of the distributional conflict, between firms, workers, and taxpayers. It stops only when the various players are forced to accept the outcome.
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Especially true of Twitter users
Matthew Yglesias
@mattyglesias30 Dec 2022
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The internet has made the media landscape much more competitive and empowered customers to get what they want — the big problem of media is that the consumers of media have bad taste and don’t care about the truth!
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The internet has made the media landscape much more competitive and empowered customers to get what they want — the big problem of media is that the consumers of media have bad taste and don’t care about the truth! – at Washington, DC
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Houses are the least “affordable” since 1982 when 30-year mortgage rates were over 14% calculatedrisk.substack.com/…
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"My sins here are *embellishing* my resume." To “embellish” is to adorn, decorate, enhance, gild, beautify, and festoon, and, on occasion, it means to “exaggerate.” This Santos did not do. He just made shit up out of whole cloth. open.substack.com/pub/mornin…
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What a great story. I wish every member of Congress was half as intellectually curious as @RepDonBeyer, we are very lucky to have him representing us in VA08
Laura Vozzella@LVozzella28 Dec 2022
Fun story by ⁦@Meagan_Flynn⁩: A 72-year-old congressman goes back to school, pursuing a degree in AI washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/…

A 72-year-old congressman goes back to school, pursuing a degree in AI

The U.S. congressman aims to apply his artificial-intelligence knowledge to his legislative work as the technology evolves further.

washingtonpost.com
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Dude read more books in 2022 than I’ve read in my entire life, and that’s on top of pursuing a Master’s Degree in AI and being an above-replacement member of Congress. At 72! Absolutely wild, inspiring stuff.
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10 failed concepts of 2022: DeFi Meme stocks Zero-Covid Russian military MMT Transitory Defund SPACs Herd immunity ESG
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Remember if your flight gets cancelled most airports have a secret fleet of backup planes with lots of seats but they’re only available if you’re mean enough to low-level employees.
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Lord Andy@andyyidana24 Dec 2022
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Some of us are more excited for Christmas than others
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Thank you @POTUS. It's an honor for me to visit 🇺🇸, to address the 🇺🇸 people and Congress, to meet with the leader of the country that helps us stand. And win! This visit showed our countries stand together on the side of good, democracy and justice. Creating the future together!
President Biden Archived
@POTUS46Archive23 Dec 2022
Ukraine and the Ukrainian people don’t just inspire us – they inspire the world. It was an honor to host President Zelenskyy at the White House.
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