Favorite Rejects 2021-07-25

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This is a good coda

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The explanation I heard is that some people in the administration want more travel restrictions and others want fewer so they’ve compromised on freezing in place a situation everyone agrees is outdated.

Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno

I am really interested in why the US will not open travel to EU citizens when it’s open to everyone else. Is it in order to get some economic concession? Have not heard of any other explanation

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

What are we doing here? https://t.co/17y9MbnnsS

Left Caucus @LeftCaucus

Arevia Power withdrew their application for the Battle Born Solar project. Congrats to @saveourmesa and the other activists who put in the work to keep the community healthy, safe, and whole

parker @pt

Somehow I knew before clicking through this would be a story about San Francisco.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Great thread here on the head of an “affordable housing” nonprofit that doesn’t build or manage housing but does lobby against new construction while its president lives rent free in one of its buildings while seemingly cheating on his taxes. https://t.co/KyknMAmrw9

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Many people who are acutely aware that interpretations of history that were popular in the past reflect the political fads of those bygone eras are awfully unreflective about present-day scholarship.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Okay but I have a lot of Twitter followers! https://t.co/tkm3CVdumQ

Derek Thompson @DKThomp

Nearly 50% of Americans now say they have less than four "close friendships.” In 1990, just 27% said the same. https://t.co/nmYCi3alhB https://t.co/WbLnvcv5yl

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

To be fair, I think they were mostly lying https://t.co/2Cuw2G5hgf

Special Puppy🧦🐵 @SpecialPuppy1

Remember when some people thought that the Lincoln Project would have significant influence over the Biden administration?

HatInProSe @Popehat

Wife’s Apple Watch consistently gives her fewer miles than her hiking companions get on theirs. Since she has a doctorate she came up with a logical explanation: she has an “energy field.” Naturally I am extremely respectful of this theory.

HatInProSe @Popehat

Me: So this energy field interferes with the hike function on the watch but not the walk function? Wife: that is correct. Me: I seeeeee. Does it surround us? Her: I guess? Me: Penetrate us? Wife: Gross

HatInProSe @Popehat

Me: so does this energy field interfere with Fitbits or is it like a snobby Apple-only energy field Wife: I’d need to talk to someone with a Fitbit about that Me: Yes you should share this with as many people as possible.