Eliot Higgins@EliotHiggins
Just a reminder this morning that in the last 24 hours Russian back separatists have been caught red-handed fabricating the pre-text for a Russian invasion, so take any new Russian claims about anything with a big pinch of salt
Bellingcat @bellingcat
You can check this yourself by downloading the two videos on Telegram from here:
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Then uploading them to a metadata viewing site, like https://t.co/1Py94ugIQy, then you'll get lots of metadata, including when the files were created https://t.co/GEynT7hrW0 https://t.co/BmXEmujBf7
8:36 AM · Feb 19, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
It is definitely true that I would have a kinder view of the Canadian trucker protests if they were working for a good cause rather than a bad one.
9:28 AM · Feb 19, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I can’t get myself to a headspace where Mad About Vaccines is sympathetic cause or something you’d want to see succeed.
Vaccines have been a big triumph of human development for several generations now and I’m not turning back on that.
9:36 AM · Feb 19, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
It’s interesting that none of the major European or Asian cities have figured out that free fares are the key to constructing a successful mass transit system — they have so much to learn from American activists.
11:55 AM · Feb 19, 2022
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Jenny Schuetz@jenny_schuetz
Great thread on how CEQA went bad. Short version: “too little” environmental review can trigger costly litigation, but too much review is never penalized. (Except of course that it drives up costs of projects.) so Risk averse cities avoid litigation but underbuild housing. https://t.co/nJMavwudYh
Chris Elmendorf @CSElmendorf
🧵What is "CEQA sprawl," and is there a way to stop it?
tl,dr: It's the transmogrification of an enviro review statute into a NIMBY stop-everything (even education!) statute.
One way to fix it is w/ private right of action against legally excessive CEQA review. 1/16
12:12 PM · Feb 19, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
There’s a view that the SF school board recall was about “competence” not ideology, but the tissue linking a lot of recent debates is an ideological objection to assessment that is popular in education schools and often framed as antiracist.
sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…
12:09 PM · Feb 19, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
There are dozens of strands to the “critical race theory” debate and a lot of nonsense, but the idea that tests are racist is a position with genuine influence in the education world and real grounding in academic CRT.
slowboring.com/p/crt-school?u…
12:13 PM · Feb 19, 2022
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Colin McMillen@mcmillen
i bet Lee Sedol can beat it 20% of the time
2:59 PM · Feb 19, 2022
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Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇@Noahpinion
FDR and Reagan both failed to pass most of their agendas during their presidencies.
Maybe we'll have to wait for future Presidents in order to implement Bidenomics.
noahpinion.substack.com
The rejection of Bidenomics
4:57 PM · Feb 19, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
From "I'm not anti-vaccine I'm just anti-mandate" to "the reason I'm anti-mandate is that I'm anti-vaccine" in just a few minutes.
5:24 PM · Feb 19, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Costco Connections magazine is a delightful sea of normie content — just read an article about how broccoli is healthy, saw a squib characterizing an all-inclusive Hilton in Jamaica as “off the beaten path,” now reading about how today’s smartphones have really good cameras.
10:56 PM · Feb 19, 2022
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Luke Basham@LukeBasham23
I’m still adamant that bearded Biden would have a 60% approval rating
5:46 PM · Feb 18, 2022
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Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇@Noahpinion
The Russia/Ukraine thing has allowed us to see who is really antiwar, and who is just pro-war-but-anti-America.
Bernie, of course, is a true antiwar guy. But check out some of the quote-tweets and replies... 😬
Bernie Sanders @SenSanders
It is beyond belief that in 2022, as we face challenges like covid & climate change, any national leader would start a war that could kill thousands & create millions of refugees. There is a diplomatic solution to this crisis. It is tragic that Putin seems intent to reject it.
2:36 AM · Feb 20, 2022
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