Favorite Rejects 2021-12-14

Matt Duss @mattduss

Max Boot is right.

Washington Post Opinions @PostOpinions

Because Trump left the nuclear deal, we might have to learn to live with a nuclear Iran, @MaxBoot writes https://t.co/rKEnTnoq3z

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Wow, I wonder if Time Magazine is a commercial enterprise that makes "person of the year" selections based on what's likely to generate buzz rather than an objective assessment of merit.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I'm not sure I agree with this ... what I do think is that vaccines became widely available in Spring 2021 and that transformed the politics of Covid in a way that Democrats have been a little lead-footed on.

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Whether or not you're convinced by this specific claim, we continue to get little hints (the Virginia gubernatorial race was another) that Trump's COVID policies were more popular than liberals assumed at the time. https://t.co/sm1P1p4RTI https://t.co/kIXrdlsQj7

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

There's now a Covid Dove coalition that combines insane paranoid anti-vaxxers with normal people are vaccinated and just want to move on. Mandates were supposed to split that coalition, but it doesn't seem to have worked and the VP is masking outdoors.

Vice President Kamala Harris @VP

Get in everyone—the future is electric. Today I announced our Administration’s Electric Vehicle Charging Action Plan. Our plan will make electric vehicle charging more accessible in communities across the country. https://t.co/JsOSEiNDsi https://t.co/hc00sai7XK

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Putin is only 5'7" but he has big Frost Giant Energy.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I'll just go on the record here that slavery was abolished in the United States in the 1860s which was, in fact, later than in most other places.

Jeffrey Sachs @JeffreyASachs

@PENamerica A new bill in Oklahoma (also prefiled last week) explicitly *requires* teachers and university professors to lie to their students about American history. I'm not making this up! https://t.co/LAFT9c9GA3 https://t.co/6pxQKNIXlb

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

The thing to remember here is that there's a huge spectrum between "this change will literally destroy the Internet" and "this issue doesn't matter at all."

Josh Barro @jbarro

Net Neutrality panic was the most insane panic. What does it do to the credibility of the media when people are told over and over that a policy poses a grave danger and in fact it turns out to have been basically unimportant? https://t.co/dF9Sfdbf4A

Mike Duncan @mikeduncan

JFK was nominated for 8 Academy awards and since its release, Oliver Stone has directed, on average, one movie every two years, securing $585M in financing and earning $792M at the box office. What are we even doing here?

Ezra Levin @ezralevin

Um, this is a big deal. Quietly a lot of folks pushing for reform have been worrying that Warner was bad on filibuster. To have him come out and publicly like this is big. Folks in VA should be celebrating him for this!

Mark Warner @MarkWarner

The Senate has shown it cannot do its basic duty and find 60 Senators to support basic voting rights, so I support changing the rules around the filibuster for voting rights legislation.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Fake.

Dr. Holly A. Bell ☕️ @HollyBell8

There’s a movement in the US to increase population density & shame people who live in single family homes. This picture of Guangzhou, China will forever be my only response. https://t.co/7KEWS2Q15L

Mike Duncan @mikeduncan

Ha! It appears this cartoon still exists in the wild. The gimmick was us evaluating the plausibility of all the different theories

themorningnews.orgAll the President’s Killers - The Morning NewsFifty years after Dallas, an illustrated guide to every person, plot, and nefarious organization ever accused of killing JFK.

SpeakerOfTheHat @Popehat

“And let me tell you something about kangaroos. I got in a fight with one in a bar in 1997. Bitch had words about my mullet. Hard puncher, but glass jaw. This is exactly why we need to stop foreigners from coming into the country and passing our laws.”

The Hill @thehill

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I rise in opposition to this resolution to hold Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress because it's being held by nothing but a kangaroo court. Congress' job is to make laws, not enforce them." https://t.co/ccbkdeMXp5