Favorite Rejects 2021-08-21

Eli Clifton @EliClifton

Read @benjaminja on the selective accountability for the Afghanistan War and near silence about the Afghanistan Papers. responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/08/20/sen…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Black Widow does not have spider powers —>

elizabeth bruenig @ebruenig

it has come to my attention that i mischaracterized the girl superhero in the marvel movies in recent podcast ep on The Weeds with @mattyglesias. i apologize for the mistake, i have not seen any of these movies and believe this was a setup engineered by Matt to discredit me

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Backward induction!

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

It seems like if we know enough to know that Pfizer will be approved on Monday, we should know enough to approve it right now.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I’ve been driving a lot more than usual this past month being in Texas and all, and listening to lots to lots of podcasts about movies from 10-30 years ago and thinking about this tweet and just getting more and more mad. https://t.co/ATTqda5JqD

Nash Across the 8th Dimension @Nash076

Some of you need to hear this: If Marvel fails, or when Marvel is done with films, movie theaters are not going to suddenly shift into arthouse fare or period dramas or character studies or anything that doesn't have mass market appeal. It's been that way since Jaws.

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

LOL I give up if "actually, school isn't that important" is considered an astute take

Nat Bullard @NatBullard

That’s a lot of vacancy bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Some people say car prices have risen due to the unexpected curtailing of car production, but if you walk down the street there are clearly tons of vacant cars owned by speculators.