Favorite Rejects 2022-03-09

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Good! First Medlock, now Owens. AOC is following all the best people!

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

Woah woah woah woah wait what?! how tf did I miss this? https://t.co/ygLXRFBDqN

Zack Budryk @BudrykZack

Tchaikovsky, a gay man often criticized for his art being overly European-influenced and insufficiently nationalist, was basically the same guy as Vladimir Putin, if you think about it

BBC Music Magazine @MusicMagazine

NEWS: Cardiff Philharmonic replaces the programme of its upcoming all-Tchaikovsky concert, citing it as 'inappropriate at this time’. https://t.co/tzK3zs0iNS

Ukrainian Memes Forces @uamemesforces

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

40 years of US policy in the Middle East based on “in the event of a geopolitical crisis, the Saudis will bail us out by pumping more oil” and now they’re just … not doing it.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Say what you will about the Iranian regime but they are trying to sell us all the oil they can make.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

New way to read a Substack just dropped.

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Dr Mike Martin ⛵️ @ThreshedThought

The beginning of the splits between Russian political and military leadership https://t.co/awo9jdjQn3

Paul Sonne @PaulSonne

Kremlin says Putin ordered conscripts to be excluded from Ukraine operations and is now asking military prosecutors to find and punish those who allowed conscripts to go to Ukraine. https://t.co/fkARqoGq8n

Randall Munroe @xkcd

I don’t usually laugh at my own comics, but every time I stumble on this one and read through it again, it gets me xkcd.com/1665

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Chinese state media is buying pro-Russian-invasion ads on FB:

axios.comChina’s state media buys Meta ads pushing Russia’s line on warState media outlets are finding ways around social media platforms’ efforts to limit them.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

This is just the Lancelot wedding scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper

back in 2014 Detroit cops barged into this guy's house, instantly massacred his dog, and ripped it to pieces looking for drugs. they had the wrong address https://t.co/QNQwQSNFDU https://t.co/sT9YxoWCgt

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The people love great power conflict! (I think Biden has handled this well but it’s an alarming objective incentive structure — he was right about Afghanistan too but that didn’t pay off)

World Elects @ElectsWorld

🇺🇸#USA, President Biden approval rating poll: ⏫Approve: 48 % (+6) ⏬Disapprove: 49 % (-6) (+/- 06/02/22) Léger, 06/03/22 https://t.co/k953gyv893

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Great thread about how Putin planned this war and why he made the mistakes he made.

Alexander Gabuev 陳寒士 @AlexGabuev

🧵Two weeks ago, as Vladimir Putin was declaring his vicious war on Ukraine, he called the West an "Empire of Lies." In fact, the Kremlin's disastrous move was itself rooted in lies, misconceptions and giant lapses of expertise & intelligence. 1/ https://t.co/5vi5J0Begq