Favorite Rejects 2022-02-07

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think at least one (1) conservative who pretended to be outraged by Hillary's email practices should at least feign some concern about this too. "I support Trump, but this was an error in judgment and..." Something like that.

Jacqueline Alemany @JaxAlemany

Scoop: National Archives last month had to retrieve boxes of Trump WH records from Mar-a-Lago that were improperly removed from the WH. The items included correspondence w Kim Jong Un. With @jdawsey1⁩ ⁦@thamburger⁩ & ⁦@AshleyRParker⁩ > https://t.co/ZdGvEk66Zv

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The gap between these lines is filled with air conditioning.

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 @lymanstoneky

A big energy-using region like Europe with few local energy sources should be rolling out renewables and new nuclear power at a breakneck speed. Instead, Europe has rolled out renewables at.... exactly the pace of energy-rich America. https://t.co/v15OPYUGIo

Ezra Klein @ezraklein

I’m going to back a few days in Discourse Time, and say something I think has been missed the Joe Rogan/Covid mess (I realize there are now other messes). Once you’re here, all the answers are bad. They’re all bad because they all harm the thing you’re trying to protect: Trust.

RemandedHat @Popehat

That scene where Uma Thurman eats Gouda thinking it’s Cheddar and has to be revived with water crackers

Chris Sommerfeldt @C_Sommerfeldt

Adams says food is like a drug and claims people would not be able to tell the difference between “someone hooked on heroin” and “someone hooked on cheese.” He also acknowledges he does “not have great self-discipline” when it comes to food. https://t.co/wCTwKFlemt

Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇 @Noahpinion

I appreciate the response! And my response here is: If you write a story about a theory, you have a responsibility to grapple with the substance of the theory. Imagine writing a puff piece about Alex Berenson and his bold struggle to convince the world that vaccines don't work.

Jeanna Smialek @jeannasmialek

@Noahpinion This was not a literature review on what macro thinks of MMT. It was a feature story about how MMT is grappling (or not grappling) with the fact that inflation has proven incredibly hard to predict, when so much of its argument relies on predicting inflation.

Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇 @Noahpinion

The fundamental problem here is the New York Times' evolution from the stodgy paper of record into a juicy collection of great narratives.

Aaron Levie @levie

This will continue to be one of our greatest policy blunders as a country and will amount to immeasurable missed economic opportunity for decades to come. https://t.co/ja3k7UWrWO

Alec Stapp @AlecStapp

International students earned nearly half of all master’s and PhD STEM degrees awarded in the US in 2019 Insane that we're not stapling a green card to every single one of their diplomas https://t.co/INGCuq46ha

Stan Oklobdzija @stan_okl

Was in the neighborhood yesterday so I finally got to check out the only block of row houses in LA. These got banned in the 1930s when LA passed an ordinance mandating that all new homes have lawns. (NB not my picture.)

Josh Marshall @joshtpm

Peter Thiel leaving Facebook/Meta board, says he wants to spend more time with fascism

nytimes.comPeter Thiel to Exit Meta’s Board to Support Trump-Aligned CandidatesThe tech billionaire, who has been on the board of the company formerly known as Facebook since 2005, is backing numerous politicians in the midterm elections.

Shuting Pomerleau @SXPomerleau

The Biden Administration should have let the solar tariffs expire entirely to help achieve its climate goals. My new blog post:

niskanencenter.orgExtending the solar tariffs will undermine President Biden’s climate goals - Niskanen CenterIf the Biden Administration is serious about achieving its climate goals, it should have let the solar tariffs expire entirely to help deploy solar energy as quickly and widely as possible in the United States.

Chad P. Bown @ChadBown

Today, the Biden administration announced the removal of Trump's steel tariffs for a specific volume of Japanese exports. It's very similar to the deal struck with the EU in October. Here is an explanation of the economics 👇🏼 piie.com/blogs/trade-an…

piie.comBiden and Europe remove Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs, but it’s not free tradeThe October 2021 agreement to lift barriers on steel and aluminum trade was widely hailed as helping both sides of the Atlantic turn the page after a long and bitter confrontation. The accord—announced by President Joseph R. Biden Jr.