Favorite Rejects 2021-09-20

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

We've reached the stage where people use the word "gaslighting" to mean "saying anything that contradicts my priors".

split lot tash (taylor’s version) 🇧🇷 @tashcoug

Someone on TikTok just said @JerusalemDemsas was gaslighting them by pointing out that gentrification building tiktoks were deriding affordable housing and weren’t informed by the realities of development I cannot

Colin McMillen @mcmillen

imagine being so right-wing that you think Howard Stern is "woke"

Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey

Lotta people dunking on that Breitbart op-ed (by Norte, of course, OF COURSE) without noting the funniest line in it https://t.co/Gkq2OChB5v

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

This is *even more important* than either the reconciliation bill and the voting rights bill put together.

Greg Sargent @ThePlumLineGS

In an urgent and important new paper, @rickhasen recommends reforming the Electoral Count Act as a key safeguard against a future stolen election. The gaping holes in the ECA are what made Trump's coup attempt plausible. Here's a brief explainer: https://t.co/QxnJrcqTrz https://t.co/4Xd3JCjQfq

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

We have a way to stop election theft, and we have a small window in which to do it, and nobody is paying attention to it. Come on, people.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Democrats' approach to the possibility of state legislature nullification of the 2024 presidential election:

Sen. Lemon Gogurt (I - Mic Dicta) @Ugarles

this is by far the worst biden nomination i've heard about. it should get multiple times the attention that neera tanden got, but will not.

Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec

THREAD: Biden is reportedly nominating a former judge, Keva Landrum, to be U.S. Atty in New Orleans. The history of this judge’s illegal behavior and violent crimes will shock you to the core.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Kind of bizarre to think Elon Musk is a "fraud" at this point. An increasing number of Musk projects are proving themselves to be very real and very transformative.

Plan Maestro @PlanMaestro

🤔 https://t.co/r3Uabajj9v

Jerusalem @JerusalemDemsas

I've been thinking a lot about how the role of "overpopulation" and "degrowth" discourse provides the intellectual legwork for anti-immigration policies. "This country is full" is considered xenophobic on the national stage but "This city is full" is often said by Dem voters.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Some evidence in favor of the idea that engagement, not military power, is how you export democracy. It didn't work with China, but it works less badly than anything else.

voxeu.orgEconomic integration, democratic capital, and the ‘export’ ofCan democracy be exported? This column uses a large cross-country dataset from 1960 to 2015 to show that, while the ‘top-down’ imposition of political institutions is not desirable and rarely

Warren J. Wells 🚴🏙️ @WarrenJWells

"No new housing unless it's public housing" is the same as "No one can go to the hospital until we nationalize healthcare." (h/t @drooliet)

Pew Research Center @pewresearch

48% of Americans say they get news from social media “often” or “sometimes,” a 5 percentage point decline compared with 2020. pewrsr.ch/3tViLZ2

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Breed’s answer is totally reasonable, but that simply raises the question of why her policy isn’t in line with what she sensibly does and says. https://t.co/GMUcjCMNG3

Daily Caller @DailyCaller

San Francisco Mayor @LondonBreed defends violating her indoor mask mandate while partying at a club: “I was feeling the spirit and I wasn’t thinking about a mask." https://t.co/lFTFCgzihZ

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This is fascinating

nytimes.comGlimpses of ‘Lost Tribe’ Jewish Communities in India and MyanmarOften overlooked, the communities in South and Southeast Asia complicate notions of Jewish identity while emphasizing its malleability.

Kim-Mai Cutler @kimmaicutler

Prominent Bay Area eucalyptus defender faces home insurance non-renewal as a result of neighbor's vegetation.

Berkeleyside @berkeleyside

Dan Grassetti opened a letter from @Allstate with some alarming news: His home insurance policy wouldn’t be renewed because of a fire hazard on his neighbor's lot. https://t.co/bXt5OfLJ5S

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

this is how bad Republican vote-suppression has gotten

Josh Barro @jbarro

CBC reporter doing a liveshot from a polling place in Toronto where polls have "closed" but people are still in line and being told the wait will be 2 hours to actually cast ballots. Yikes.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Guy who thinks you could end homelessness with a one-time expenditure of $13 billion https://t.co/395cpVXllo

Mondaire Jones @MondaireJones

For the cost of one aircraft carrier, we could end homelessness in the United States. Poverty is a policy choice.