Favorite Rejects 2021-12-02

Jake Gotta 🚲 @jake_gotta

I am once again asking city councils everywhere to legalize mixed-use (housing on top of stores)

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Amazon hurting our small businesses by forcing them to raise wages to stay competitive. Sad stuff.

Michelle Kessel @MLKessel

Not only is today's date a palindrome, it's also an ambigram. You can read it left to right, right to left, and also upside down #nerdalert

Trita Parsi @tparsi

Belatedly, Tom Friedman has recognized the strategic insanity of Israel pushing Trump to quit the #IranDeal. Better late than never! Yet, his piece is very important as it highlights two issues that the US media largely has neglected. >>

nytimes.comOpinion | Trump’s Iran Policy Has Become a Disaster for the U.S. and IsraelWithdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal was a mistake. What comes next?

Liam Dillon @dillonliam

Majority of L.A. County voters back new state laws that push for more housing in single-family home neighborhoods, new poll says. latimes.com/homeless-housi…

Swear Trek @swear_trek

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

This is basically California enviormentalism in a nutshell. Suburban sprawl homes that require driving and destroying nature is enviormentally friendly cause there wont be a gas hookup.

Sammy Roth @Sammy_Roth

As part of a settlement agreement with environmental groups, the massive Centennial home development at Tejon Ranch in northern L.A. County won't have natural gas hookups. Instead, homes will be built with electric heat pumps and induction stoves: https://t.co/AJce7MDwgm

Andrew Ujifusa @AndrewUjifusa

Not a real shocker at this point, but in previewing CDC research, the Biden administration basically gives the fish eye to quarantining students as a COVID mitigation strategy for schools. whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

Ezra Klein @ezraklein

This is a good @ATabarrok post on why you should take the new pollution evidence seriously, and more broadly than that, how to think about when to trust striking scientific findings. "Trust literatures, not papers."

marginalrevolution.comWhy the New Pollution Literature is Credible - Marginal REVOLUTIONMy recent post, Air Pollution Reduces Health and Wealth drew some pushback in the comments, some justified, some not, on whether the results of these studies are not subject to p-hacking, forking gardens and the replication crisis. Sure, of course, some of them are. Andrew Gelman, for example, has s…

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

The anti-booster campaign by (some) public health officials was.a grievous mistake that cost many lives. Who will be held accountable?

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorva_nyc

NEW: Many public health experts were opposed to a boosters-for-all approach. The new variant is changing some minds. https://t.co/PTbpUjfb64

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

We did not do pretty well on boosters https://t.co/RKc0z8ktZn

Catherine Rampell @crampell

what happens when your comms people don't understand sarcasm

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

If this ends with a grand bargain to relocate the capital to Tucson, I can live with it.

Igor Bobic @igorbobic

Sinema’s ringtone “is the refrain from a song in the musical ‘Hamilton’ that includes the lyrics ‘you don't have the votes.’” https://t.co/E9DDmaqGll

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I’m betting conservative donors and conservative activists will recognize that this is a good strategy instead of investing time and money in trying to get candidates to pre-commit to tons of stuff.

Jonathan Swan @jonathanvswan

New: Mitch McConnell has told colleagues and donors Senate Republicans won't release a legislative agenda before next year's midterms, according to people who've attended private meetings with the minority leader. w @alaynatreene https://t.co/LeMvOBw4h0

Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt

Really interesting study on Reddit users and polarization. Main finding: "we don’t see much evidence for the platform polarizing people. Instead, new people polarized the platform in 2016."

Ashton Anderson @ashton1anderson

Thrilled to share our paper, out today in @nature, which proposes a new paradigm for the analysis of online platforms and applies it to study political polarization over the complete history of Reddit w/ @isaacwaller Paper: https://t.co/5OtxbcH31W 🧵1/n

Ezra Klein @ezraklein

Why ⁦@JerusalemDemsas⁩ changed her mind on rent control:

vox.comI changed my mind on rent controlEconomists hate rent control. But here’s how it can work.

Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast

Here’s Tucker Carlson asking Hunter biden for help getting his kid into Georgetown.

Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd

Reposting with more redaction: Lin Wood doxxed both Hunter Biden and Tucker Carlson's contact info as of 2014. Yikes. https://t.co/kL8FCGVkFj

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Missed this tweet when it came out, but this is correct.

Balaji Srinivasan @balajis

People say that the West today has no goals, no metrics, no sense of purpose by which to measure itself. Nonsense! The purpose of every politician, journalist, and intellectual is clearly to amass likes on Twitter. By extension this is now the purpose of Western civilization.