Daniel Marans

@dmarans

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Missouri, Oklahoma, and South Dakota are uniquely vulnerable to cuts in federal Medicaid funding because they adopted the ACA’s Medicaid expansion via constitutional amendment, making it harder to undo their obligations to state residents. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/upshot/medicaid-cuts-republicans-states.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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Interesting take on the second Netanyahu visit to D.C. from The Economist's Middle East correspondent.

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"Cosmic irony" but also tragedy.

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warning: long read, personal POV i worked for years with brands, celebs, banks, investors, and foundations. i know how powerful brand marketing is in building trust and community. and as someone whose family, friends, and daily life don’t touch crypto (despite my best effort), i’m painfully aware of how bad crypto’s brand is. if you’re thinking “only XYZ is cringe,” hate to break it to you: to most people, there’s no difference between ethereum, solana or base. to them, it’s all just crypto. no amount of “man on the street” tiktoks, memecoins, or cypherpunk storytelling is going to fix that. i’ve been in crypto since 2018, and the most consistent thing i’ve seen convert skeptics into believers is simple: trusted humans. people change their minds when someone they trust shows them something they care about. maybe i’m wrong, but i still think the best way forward is what’s worked for every other network: good humans onboarding other good humans. it’s slow until it’s not.

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Chelsea kills Chloe in a death match over possession of Saxon.

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Impressive reporting /dropglobalnews https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/world/middleeast/gaza-israel-aid-workers-deaths-video.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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Todd Tucker, a pro-tariff liberal, makes a nuanced case against Trump’s tariff spree. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-tariffs_n_67f02316e4b06ba13d224c46

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I definitely saw a “fuck Curtis Yarvin” sign but didn’t snap it in time.

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A sampling of the signage at the anti-Trump “Hands Off Democracy” rally turned march in Manhattan.

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I’m a moderate social democrat. There are market failures where government needs to step in.

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The economy is tanking but my wife is scheduled to be induced this evening and give birth to our daughter, our first child. So I busted out this 26-year-old pu’erh I’ve been saving for a special occasion. L’chaim. /tea

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I hope there’s plenty of liability. More importantly, treating workers this way is a recipe for repelling talented people going forward.

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Really been enjoying @kaufman writing on green energy issues, very well done piece

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Right, but the relationship between viewership on a particular, and subscription revenue/profits, while significant, is a bit less direct than network TV.

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I'm sure they get some, though I don't know how it works for subscription channels where profits aren't measured in ratings.

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I had a hunch that Argentina President Javier Milei's dramatic austerity project would make a dent in inflation. It's basic economics. But I thought he would achieve that through extreme short-term pain. Now he's made a dent in poverty? I wonder what accounts for that. (And no, I don't support his libertarianism writ large, but in a country that mired in inflation, you do probably need a stubborn SOB neoliberal in power briefly to right the ship.) h/t the great @leefang Counter-argument seems to be that the stats, including the consumer price index, are misleading and incomplete. https://apnews.com/article/argentina-economy-poverty-milei-austerity-inflation-061bbba174706475a255c6b871953009

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It was a runaway hit by Season 1. Seems like HBO should give it a bigger budget. As for parity between actors, no argument from me. But I think the equal slices have room to be larger given the lucre of the show.

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