Favorite Rejects 2022-02-08

Aaron 🥑🚈🚰🏀 @aceckhouse

Portantino started biking a lot last year https://t.co/Q3EIu5u99p

Josh @JalbyMD

SB 932 by Portantino would make any city that is adopting a general plan include bike lanes, pedestrian improvements and traffic calming as part of their circulation plan. https://t.co/oVnMUym8j1

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Last week's jobs report was widely misunderstood — it's true we got a good result despite omicron, but that doesn't mean omicron wasn't impacting the economy. If anything it should increase our confidence that the virus has been holding back growth.

slowboring.comThe real story behind last week’s jobs reportThe virus is still driving the economy after all.

KJ Charles (needs to get back to work) @kj_charles

I get tired of talking about my job. So I ask questions to redirect the conversation. Which just led to: Hairdresser: What do you do? Me: Oh, I'm a writer, books and stuff. What do you do? Hairdresser, ie the woman cutting my hair at that very moment: ...I'm a hairdresser.

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

Differing views on this seem to be driven by Trump derangment syndrome. The Russian ads were pro-Trump while Trump was anti-TikTok, and so people sort themselves into the appropriate partisan camps.

Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇 @Noahpinion

Hope @EmilyRPeck hasn't gone through my timeline and discovered all the times I criticized Elizabeth Holmes and Marjorie Taylor Greene...this could be the moment I'm exposed 😅😅😅

Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇 @Noahpinion

In which @EmilyRPeck, markets reporter for @axios, declares that I criticized MMT not because MMT is an untestable pseudo-theory promulgated by a nasty online cult, but because... *checks notes* ... Stephanie Kelton is a woman. https://t.co/XX4VZhkoZv

Variety @Variety

Kirsten Dunst on being nominated for an Oscar alongside her partner Jesse Plemons: "It’s like a storybook." bit.ly/34Kt0XK

Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇 @Noahpinion

LOL, they exempted single-family homes from the vacancy tax

Dean Preston @DeanPreston

This morning, @DSA_SF @FIABayArea and my office announced the filing of an Empty Homes Tax ballot measure! It's estimated to bring ~5,000 housing units online in two years and raise over $38m annually for homelessness prevention & affordable housing. https://t.co/esxmrexa8C

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Turning vacant units into occupied units is great. And a great way to do it is to allow people to build more new units, which then become vacant until occupied.

Dean Preston @DeanPreston

This morning, @DSA_SF @FIABayArea and my office announced the filing of an Empty Homes Tax ballot measure! It's estimated to bring ~5,000 housing units online in two years and raise over $38m annually for homelessness prevention & affordable housing. https://t.co/esxmrexa8C

Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli

Once you understand that most incumbents in this city operate like cartels, every decision makes more sense. It’s such a limited zero sum attitude

sfchronicle.comS.F.’s Great Highway food truck experiment ends after outcry from nearby business ownersA pilot program allowing food trucks to park on the Great Highway when it’s closed to...

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

It’s interesting that when I was young all the new music was good but that’s become less true over time as I age.

Hiroko Tabuchi @HirokoTabuchi

Because people still won't believe me when I say Tokyo rents are infinitely more affordable than NYC: this light-filled, modern apartment is 15 mins by train from Shibuya, and is going for approx $1,250 a month. realtokyoestate.co.jp/estate.php?n=1…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

It's because free vaccines became widely available but a significant minority of the population has chosen not to take them — a highly regrettable course of events, but one which essentially requires us to "normalize" in the face of their obstinacy.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan

The daily average for Covid deaths in this country is still above 2 and a half *thousand.* 2.5k Americans a day. A day. And yet some say it's time to move on from the pandemic. It's 'peaked.' Back to normal. Off ramps. Etc. How did we normalize mass death in this country?