Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@mattyglesias @RyanDEnos Sure, it's fine as a descriptive matter in examples like that but push it further and tends to break the analytic frame in the COVID examples — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@RyanDEnos lots of reasons in this case. their places on the infection curve are often different, the demographic risk profile often changes, it's hard to draw comparative conclusions about causal political mechanisms because of different available powers, etc — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@smsaideman Exactly! I saw another person try to compare Texas' stats to Canada's national stats and my first thought, after my head recovered from slamming into my desk, was "ok now do Texas v. Alberta" — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

👏 Comparing 👏 countries 👏 to 👏 sub-national 👏 units 👏 makes 👏 no 👏 analytic 👏 sense — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

The number of tedious "what if you took out New York" responses I've gotten to my piece on US-Canada comparisons have convinced me that people do not understand the first thing about cross-national comparisons — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@ishaantharoor ban literary intellectuals imo — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@theturner @AaronWherry Thanks for flagging this. Talked it over with my editor, we concluded this reflects some idiomatic differences in political terminology in American and Canadian political writing. We updated the language (in consultation with a Canadian) to make it sound more appropriate. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@cjane87 I'm sorry, the International Zionist Conspiracy's HR department has been furloughed due to coronavirus — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@HeerJeet Thanks! I wanted to talk about the economic response but had to cut it for space 😢 — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

"The biggest public health threat to Canada right now is importing cases from the United States” is a truly remarkable statement https://t.co/5dZ3f0B1cM — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

I got so many harsh quotes like these from Canadian public health experts. The highlighted one really sticks with me https://t.co/5dZ3f0B1cM https://t.co/Y1gyynmBMF — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Why is the Canadian infection rate half of America’s? Because its political system actually works. https://t.co/HoeLWbA641 — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@elisefoley @taragolshan it's actually "breadtor," this is dictionary official, please don't check me — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@DenisonBe @dandrezner oh yeah, 95 percent of the time it's boarding passes or CVS reciepts. the other five percent is mostly parking tickets, to remind me of my shame. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@dandrezner chaotic good or lawful neutral all day — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

If you don't know what I'm talking about, count yourself blessed. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

The tweets were bad, the column is bad, and everyone involved deserves each other — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@HeerJeet We all have brain worms, it’s a question of how many — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

I feel a little uncomfortable that we’re all witnessing a man’s mental breakdown in real time — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Hey it’s my mom @fadenethx killing it on MSNBC, talking about her plan for compensating health care workers forced to do frontline COVID care https://t.co/e0kjse3oFb — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

I will not look up the Anne Frank/Becky tweet. I won't do that to myself or look at it. I will say, however, that this kind of minimization of anti-Semitism — which borders on anti-Semitism itself — is uncomfortably common in some progressive spaces. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

The mayor of Prague is a super hot (!) member of the literal Pirate Party (!!) who is currently under police protection from a suspected Russian assassination plot (!!!) https://t.co/xxBhcBNXY9 — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Don't just take my word for it. When you look at deaths and cases per million, there's a huge gulf and no trend line suggesting Canada is moving towards the US https://t.co/ngZKCBMcSy — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Spent the week talking to Canadian public health experts and it's worth noting their read is utterly at odds with Nate's. They think — and the numbers back them up here — that Canada has performed decently well and consistently better than the US. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@mattyglesias or, uh, canada — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

A reply to my critics on the Sanders campaign and left electoral strategy https://t.co/0bNy3oSYRu — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Turned on real TV for the first time in a while to watch the Parks and Rec reunion and it’s wild how every commercial is corona-themed — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

My day 1. Calls mortgage company to ask why they haven't provided legally mandated COVID forbearance despite request ten days 2. Navigates two robot systems to reach a person 3. Person refers me to a specialist 4. After waiting, no specialist shows up, call ends mysteriously — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@jenn_ruth @AlexWardVox https://t.co/lY5DR47dVZ — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

He says, citing an article in *the New York Times* calling for more coverage of the Reade story — PolitiTweet.org