Favorite Rejects 2021-10-06

Film The Police LA @FilmThePoliceLA

Hollywood Blvd, Saturday, 11:22 AM: ANTI-VAXX PROTESTER: Do you see all of these homeless people around. Are they dead in the street with COVID? Hell no. Why? HOMELESS PERSON (walking by): Because I’m vaccinated you dumb fuck.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I am a liberal and I am in fact laughing at this take.

Jacobin @jacobin

Liberals may laugh at it, but people’s willingness to take unproven COVID treatments — even those not meant for our species — is based on the inequities created by profit-seeking pharmaceutical companies. https://t.co/41xkfqIQrf

Elizabeth May (semi-hiatus) @_ElizabethMay

I still think about this tweet a lot. possibly too much.

Amir Mizroch @Amirmizroch

Every word in this headline didn't exist 5 years ago. I feel old. @ediggs you feel me?

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Columbus was a terrible person, but I do think people should appreciate that in its historical moment Columbus Day was a "woke"/"PC" gesture designed to make Italians specifically and Catholics generally feel included. Basically a "1492 Project" to decenter Anglo-Protestantism.

Matt Bateman @mbateman

Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples' Day is coming up. Some thoughts, from an educator. 1. Columbus did amazing things, but he's beyond flawed and not in my pantheon. When we teach him, we present his mixed record. He's a bad symbol for whatever he's supposed to symbolize.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

My dopey dream is nuclear powered container ships https://t.co/GFnHndjXbt

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

I am pro nuclear power. But the time to build nuclear was in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. We're in the age of solar and batteries now, and we need to realize that -- and celebrate it! (Subscribers only.) https://t.co/OBaLpFtxfH

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

Shorter Tucker Carlson: free market in housing bad, Chinese Communist Party's housing policies good (really! listen to the end!)

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

Tucker Carlson comes out against "greedy developers" saying SB 9 which eliminates the ban on multifamily housing will turn California into a "slum" with "overcrowding." https://t.co/KcknvmGXgZ

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Mitch McConnell has been daring the Dems to kill the filibuster for decades now. Time to take him up on it.

Manu Raju @mkraju

McConnell told his colleagues he’s concerned about pressure on Manchin and Sinema to gut filibuster in order to raise debt ceiling, I’m told. He pointed to this as reason why he is floating short-term increase in order to ease pressure on and push Democrats to use reconcilation

David Roberts @drvolts

Every word I read about Sinema lowers my estimation of her further. nytimes.com/2021/10/05/us/…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think the key move is to raise it to google dollars, thus avoiding the “all numbers that end in -illion sound the same” problem and anyone who tries to talk about it will sound like they’re talking about Google.

Josh Barro @jbarro

@jbview As an added bonus, if you make the number big enough, it sounds so silly it doesn’t even work in attack ads anymore. “Senator Smith voted to borrow a duodecillion dollars!” She did what now?

Josh Barro @jbarro

@mattyglesias googol