Favorite Rejects 2021-10-29
if Sens Manchin and Sinema were willing this morning to explicitly embrace the framework that had been tailored to their specifications, the bipartisan infrastructure bill would have passed tonight
for whatever reason, they simply weren't
it wasn't about the House progressives
People who disparage hydrogen just because it didn't turn out to be the most useful solution for cars need to wake up. There's a lot more than cars in our economy, and it all needs to be decarbonized. Hydrogen is crucial.
Another study confirming the paradoxical-sounding finding that averages differences between men and women tend to be larger in countries where women are more empowered.
A legacy publication “used to launder right-wing ideals.” If you do chose to read it, it should be with that in mind.
Good. Glad to see welfare being framed as investment rather than as compassion.
NewDems @VoteNewDems
If we believed in our people more, we'd understand that they have a ton of potential. Giving them money is often (though of course not always) a way of giving people a boost so they can realize that potential instead of just scrabbling for survival.
Cube Dorm will cost $1.5 billion to build. Even with the donor providing $200 million, that's still much more per bed than a similar number of regular highrise dorms that UCLA is building. 5/ urbanize.city/la/post/westwo…
Cube Dorm is literally the building depicted in Neal Stephenson's novel "The Big U", which was also a fun lampoon of 1970s wokeness.
Alfred Twu @alfred_twu
