Favorite Rejects 2021-12-10

Orwell & Goode @OrwellNGoode

Tonx @tonx

It’s close enough to end of the year that I can call it: declaring these Trader Joe’s mini dipped ice cream cones my 2021 snack of the year. To the innumerable other snack entrants I’ve consumed, better luck next year.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

:-( I would have liked to have seen more.

The Hollywood Reporter @THR

Netflix has canceled its ambitious, widely hyped anime adaptation #CowboyBebop after just one season: https://t.co/qaUF6tTWxk https://t.co/doVnHzjLEY

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

I multi-year federal spending commitment would give potential electric bus manufacturers confidence to scale up production.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The good news on rent is that housing production really is growing

Paul Rudnick @PaulRudnickNY

Prince William and Duchess Kate's Xmas card is both very sweet and a bit like a Utah survivalist cult

Andrew Prokop @awprokop

Trump tried to steal the election. He pressured GOP officials to make that happen. He whipped his supporters into a frenzy. When the Capitol was stormed, he was delighted, and slow to act. He explored (but did not take) more extreme executive actions. Eventually, he backed down.

Paul and Storm @paulandstorm

[P] “Paul died doing what he loved.”

Curve @Curve124

I would like to make a proposal:

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Okay by me in America

boxd.itA ★★★★ review of West Side Story (2021)If you like West Side Story you will like West Side Story (2021) because the songs are rad and the cast is good and because Stephen Spielberg is a skilled and experienced director. This movie got a lot of unwarranted pre-arrival skepticism from fans of the 1961 movie because it became faddish to sa…

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

I'm not a fan of Julian Assange, but this seems correct. The extradition and prosecution of Julian Assange for espionage would set a dangerous precedent that could easily be used against more conventional investigative journalists. eff.org/document/press…