Favorite Rejects 2021-11-23

Brendan Nyhan @BrendanNyhan

Interesting claim of party asymmetry nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Colin McMillen @mcmillen

i think i've said this before like, over a year ago, but you are probably significantly safer wearing somebody else's discarded mask off the ground than wearing no mask at all. yes, it feels gross, but that feeling is probably irrational. humans are not good at evaluating risk.

Matt Ford @fordm

Just watched a teenager at a bus stop realize he didn’t have a mask on him, pick one up off the ground, and put it on to board the bus.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

If you found out today that you got Covid, and someone offered you a guaranteed-authentic course of Pavloxid under the table you'd take it right? I sure would.

Jordan Grimes 🚰 @cafedujord

Imagine reply-guying the California Department of Housing and Community Development after they come at you for violating state housing laws 🤦‍♂️

Dean Preston @DeanPreston

@California_HCD Your stated mission: “HCD helps to provide stable, safe homes affordable to veterans, seniors, young families, farm workers, people with disabilities, and individuals and families experiencing homelessness.” Grandstanding for housing for millionaires isn’t in there. 🤦‍♂️

-Boulet- @Bouletcorp

Letterboxd @letterboxd

Hayao Miyazaki is coming out of retirement with a new movie, described by producer Toshio Suzuki as “fantasy on a grand scale”. ✨ https://t.co/OjMpwPEgQj

Ian Bogost @ibogost

Disintermediation is always always always a myth. It only means replacing a previous intermediary with another, supposedly more deserving one. This is the way.

Jeff Kosseff @jkosseff

One of these things is not like the other.

Mike Scarcella @MikeScarcella

NY judge extends New York Times ban on publishing certain Project Veritas materials at least until Dec 1 -- https://t.co/GCmFcZ3vqO

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

There are all these small, parent-hostile aspects of how schools work — no school the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, no aftercare the Tuesday before Thanksgiving — that were invisible to me before I had a kid.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

At the risk of sounding immature...SUCK IT, NAZI SCUM

Jonathan M. Katz @KatzOnEarth

All of the white supremacists have been found liable in the Charlottesville lawsuit. Damages in excess of $25 million.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Much of what rich countries will do with higher GDP is just to rewild much of the world we despoiled during our early years of growth.

Timothy Taylor @TimothyTTaylor

"Sixty-four years after being declared “biologically dead,” London’s River Thames is in the midst of a revival, boasting lower levels of chemicals and making it inhabitable for seals, sea horses and even sharks." https://t.co/SCG8zlrW4j

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Oh and btw, this is one more reason degrowth is stupid. Make people in rich countries poorer, and they'll just be more desperate for material gain, even at the expense of the environment. When people get rich, they prefer a better environment.

Merlin Mann @hotdogsladies

Whoever made a mess in the bathroom is still at large, but I have a pretty good idea what color the suspect’s hair is.

Ezra Klein @ezraklein

"These swing voters didn’t agree with what they thought the liberal position on race in schools was. However, it wasn’t as salient as the fact that they felt Democrats closed their schools and didn’t feel bad about it."

Jon Favreau @jonfavs

Everyone who participates in Democratic politics should take a few minutes to read this analysis of a Biden-Youngkin focus group from northern Virginia and Richmond: https://t.co/GOACI8eWbX

Ezra Klein @ezraklein

And to be clear, I'm not arguing that all COVID policy should be poll-tested. But Dems can't pretend COVID policy doesn't have political consequences, and there'll be a lot of on-the-margin decisions they need to make about masking and school ordinances in the coming year...

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Black fly in your Chardonnay