Favorite Rejects 2022-02-05

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Labor unions poll pretty well, but the concept of collective bargaining without the term “labor union” polls even better.

Daring Fireball @daringfireball

The Atlantic: ‘The Case Against Masks at School’

daringfireball.netThe Atlantic: ‘The Case Against Masks at School’Link to: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/kids-masks-schools-weak-science/621133/

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

It’s amazing how much more money Steve Ballmer has made off Satya Nadella than Nadella himself has made — CEO as victim of capitalist exploitation. https://t.co/4i1fQUdL61

Dare Obasanjo @Carnage4Life

Happy 8th anniversary as Microsoft CEO to @satyanadella, probably the greatest value creator on Earth who's added $2T in market capitalization during his tenure. He turned around a company Paul Graham wrote off as dead over a decade ago. https://t.co/yHrE6ScSPb

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think the stories reporting good news on the subversion front tend to get overlooked, but it's important to pay attention comprehensively.

The New York Times @nytimes

The speaker of the Republican-controlled Arizona House — who supported Donald Trump in 2020 — just torpedoed a bill that would have let lawmakers reject the results of an election. https://t.co/3yMKIhCNC4

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Secretly not a vegan is a great political scandal

southpaw @nycsouthpaw

“He’s not a vegan, he’s a pescatarian,” said the staffer, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly about the mayor. https://t.co/6pwMmYp5pX

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The progressive tax on ads proposal from @paulmromer strikes me as far and away the most compelling policy response to the dueling concerns about misinformation & censorship in digital media.

adtax.paulromer.netTaxing Digital AvertisingOur antitrust defense has failed. It’s time to play offense.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Gonna start referring to my unpublished drafts as “inventory.”

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The idea that we’re going to solve vaccine resistance by being more emphatic that mainstream medical and media figures are strongly pro-vax doesn’t withstand even cursory scrutiny — need to either come up with better ideas or learn to live with the vaccination rate we have.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Relatedly — I sincerely think that in the State of the Union speech, Biden should thank Twitter for their help during the national emergency in the immediate wake of 1/6 but call for Trump to be reinstated as a gesture of goodwill and bipartisanship.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath

What’s happening in Canada with the use of trucks and tractors to create mobile right-wing extremist war lord convoys to try to shut down urban centers and terrorize healthcare workers and political opposition will be replicated in the US soon. Count on it.

Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇 @Noahpinion

I was looking for a term to capture the opposition between the progressive centrism of Biden and the bullshit obstructionist centrism of Manchin. And I think @VitalikButerin's "Bulldozer vs. Vetocracy" axis did the trick:

vitalik.caThe bulldozer vs vetocracy political axis

vanessa a. bee 🐝✌🏾 @Vanessa_ABee

what are we doing folks lol

Lucy McBride, MD @drlucymcbride

”It's time to let the young, healthy and ‘anyone who wants to move on’ from the pandemic do so,” said Dr. Stefanos Kales, a professor at Harvard Medical School. @harvardmed⁩ ⁦@Stefokali⁩

cnbc.comIt’s time to ‘move on’ from the pandemic, says Harvard medical professorMany pandemic protocols are ineffective public health measures and the risk perception among the vaccinated is “way off,” said Harvard’s Dr. Stefanos Kales.

Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇 @Noahpinion

Always read Starr on Ukraine:

Terrell Jermaine Starr @Russian_Starr

Class on Ukraine is in session! I'm gonna explain why the progressive call for diplomacy on Ukraine is hollow, lacking in facts, and devoid of context by introducing you to a piece of diplomacy that was supposed to prevent this Russian-made crisis from happening. Thread.