Favorite Rejects 2021-10-22

Aaron 🥑🚈🚰🏀 @aceckhouse

look how they massacred my boy @TribTowerViews

Hayden Clarkin @the_transit_guy

Showing Denver, CO at the same angle from 1920s and 1970s goes to show cars in urban downtowns were never a good idea. https://t.co/qL2PX9TziV

Eleanor Morton but with a sense of foreboding @EleanorMorton

Woman realises she's not hot enough to survive the horror film she's in 👻💀🎃🔪

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think the best way to think about the politics of inflation is that in political terms “inflation” means “the price of gasoline” and the price of gasoline really has gotten very high. https://t.co/iIe9GHBrIq

Josh Kraushaar @HotlineJosh

New CNBC survey: “Inflation now ties with the coronavirus as the biggest concern for Americans, up 16 points from the prior survey.” Overall, Biden approval drops to 41 percent. https://t.co/Q4ieUXk8Ca

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Gasoline!

Alex Yablon @AlexYablon

dang almost like sustained demand leads to increased capacity

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla

MORGAN STANLEY: The US is seeing “the strongest capex cycle since the 1940s, driven by business investment in equipment and intellectual property rights. In the US, capex should reach the pre-Covid trend as early as 4Q this year.” https://t.co/g43Jmfbknw

Todd Vaziri: Presented in the "Letter-Box" Format @tvaziri

Welcome, "Dune"! You're now part of the 1000+ digital vfx shots club where the quality of your work will actually be used as evidence to the 'inferiority' of digital work, joining "Mad Max: Fury Road", "Blade Runner 2049" and "Mission Impossible" films.

Katrina Taylor @2trina8

sick of people pretending this movie doesn't have 2000 vfx shots 🙄 #Dune https://t.co/wQcjxlgQyK

Dom Fracassa @DominicFracassa

Multiple conservative media outlets ran with a story suggesting the Metreon Target was closing due to rampant shoplifting. Target took like 5 minutes to respond to tell me that was not the case at all.

sfchronicle.comNo, Target is not closing its San Francisco Metreon store on Mission StreetTarget denied a report published by a conservative news outlet that it was planning to...

Nick Field @nick_field90

@mattyglesias Pictured: The only two Presidents to deliver us Dune film adaptations

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Remember, failing to keep Black communities segregated, disadvantaged, and polluted would be GENTRIFICATION, folks. We can't have gentrification, can we? 🤡

🌹Driving the ANTIFA Bus🌿 @AlisonB916

@DanImmergluck Taking down freeways in some situations would open the community to gentrification—what protects the community is the damn freeway.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

In this post, @JHWeissmann explains how Democrats refused to prioritize anything in the BBB bill, and how this has left the bill as a grab bag of underfunded badly-designed programs that are set to expire soon.

slate.comDemocrats Are Turning Their Big Spending Bill Into Absolute TrashThey could permanently improve the safety net. They’re blowing it.

Archer @archerfxx

“Take care of yourselves, especially you my Sterling.” #ArcherFXX on #FXonHulu

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Is there a good Dune review out there from the perspective of someone who hasn’t read the books? I loved the movie but wonder if it makes sense to people who don’t have that foundation.