Favorite Rejects 2021-12-13

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Guy who thinks Finland has untracked high schools slowboring.com/p/californias-…

John Harwood @JohnJHarwood

SecState Clinton used personal e-mail account for mundane stuff Trump WH used it while plotting a coup "The committee said it had questions about why Meadows used a personal cellphone, Signal and 2 personal Gmail accounts to conduct official business."

nytimes.comMeadows Was Deeply Involved in Fighting Election Outcome, Jan. 6 Panel SaysThe House committee laid out its case for a contempt of Congress charge against Mark Meadows, the chief of staff to former President Donald J. Trump.

Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis

"After deadly tornadoes devastated parts of Kentucky, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) asked President Biden for federal aid. However, the senator has a history of opposing aid for disaster victims."

cnn.comRand Paul gets called out for the aid request he sent to Biden - CNN VideoAfter deadly tornadoes devastated parts of Kentucky, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) asked President Biden for federal aid. However, the senator has a history of opposing aid for disaster victims.

TheOmniZaddy 🐵 @TheOmniZaddy

Just putting this out there

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The kind of takes you can only find on Substack.com

Ezra Klein @ezraklein

My version of this thread: In DC, the culture was forged by watching solvable problems prove impossible to solve. In SV, the culture was forged by watching (seemingly) impossible problems get (seemingly) solved. Both places overlearned their experience.

Roy E. Bahat ⠕ @roybahat

The differences between New York and Silicon Valley business culture continue to astonish me, almost 15 years after moving to San Francisco. I've seen the game in both places, and, to caricature a few differences, with as much truth as possible...

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Boomers consume luxury goods, Millennials consume luxury beliefs

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

What’s cool is that they all said it for narrow reasons of selfish personal financial gain so they have no reason to regret being totally wrong. https://t.co/hR3KkhQNXg

Simply Loving To Permanenly Be Online @BobbyBigWheel

It's very funny to go back to every Legal Academy Liberal's "Neil Gorsuch would be fine!" op ed now that he's using his position to spew anti-vaxx nonsense

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Time for conservatives to own the libs by pushing for a huge federal investment in carbon removal.

Elon Musk @elonmusk

SpaceX is starting a program to take CO2 out of atmosphere & turn it into rocket fuel. Please join if interested.

vaheder 🍞 @vaheder

#ConsumerSolar is under attack by PG&E and other utilities in California. Keeping solar affordable so more people can get it is critical to reducing climate change and pollution across the state. Please sign this petition to Gov. Newsom!bit.ly/savecasolar #savecasolar

Trevor Bedford @trvrb

@NateSilver538 We don't have primary Omicron infection sera to test against Delta. But we will soon observe degree to which Omicron infection blunts Delta at individual and population level (via secondary infections). But in general, my expectation for cross-immunity is symmetrical.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I’ve seen takes you people wouldn’t believe

Carol Roth @caroljsroth

If you were to go into your bank account, digitally increase your balance, and then use that new balance to buy things, it would be called fraud. When the Federal Reserve does that, it is called monetary policy.