Favorite Rejects 2022-03-25

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

I think Donald Trump's wildly inappropriate handling of the TikTok case prevented people from thinking clearly about the case. It's really not a good idea for a Chinese company to run one of our most popular social media networks.

fullstackeconomics.comDonald Trump was right about TikTokTrump’s handling of the TikTok case was indefensible. But he was right on the merits.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think a reasonable peace settlement should include an ironclad guarantee that an American director or Putin’s choice will get a big budget to make a movie about the Battle of Kursk. https://t.co/5ksuhAPtIB

Jimmy @JimmySecUK

Putin is making a live address. He's currently whining about how Hollywood refuses to make movies about the Russian contribution to defeating Nazi Germany and claiming "progressives" are trying to "cancel Russia".

Susan Page @SusanPage

"Earlier this month, Mikhail Gorbachev celebrated his 91st birthday in obscurity at his home near Moscow, the forgotten leader of Russia’s brief, unsuccessful move toward democracy at home and on its borders."

Carl P. Leubsdorf @CarlPLeubsdorf

From Gorbachev to Putin: How things could have been different for Russia https://t.co/NXRRe9cNvu

Charlie Stross @cstross

U.S. assesses up to 60% failure rate for some Russian missiles:

msn.comExclusive-U.S. assesses up to 60% failure rate for some Russian missiles, officials sayExclusive-U.S. assesses up to 60% failure rate for some Russian missiles, officials say

Andrew Prokop @awprokop

The main dispute regarding Hunter's laptop was not about whether the material was "real" but whether it proved Joe Biden's corruption as Trump's team claimed (it didn't) vox.com/22992772/hunte…

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

If Gov. Newsom is willing to just toss our emissions goals by rewarding car ownership and gas tax holidays for no reason other than to get re-elected in the safest blue state then it's settled that California leaders were just virtue signaling about global warming the whole time.

Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani

Looks like one of these guys is mortally afraid of his own troops. I'm just not sure which one. Could you please help me to figure it out?

Mike Masnick @mmasnick

You just fired an employee because you didn't like the video he posted on YouTube.

Elon Musk @elonmusk

Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy. Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?

Andrej @AndrejNkv

I am the very model of a Russian Major General My standing in the battlefield is growing quite untenable My forces, though equipped and given orders unequivocal Did not expect the fight to be remotely this reciprocal

thaddeus e. grugq 🌻 @thegrugq

Writing prompt: I am the very model of a Russian Major General

David Roberts @drvolts

New research: making the Childcare Tax Credit expansion permanent "would cost $97 billion per year and generate social benefits with net present value of $982 billion per year." This is the program Manchin killed under guise of fiscal conservatism.

nber.orgThe Benefits and Costs of a U.S. Child AllowanceFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

The fact that Russia is focusing resources on this shit, and on reeducation shit in Kherson, has big "Hitler in 1944" vibes. Focusing on brutalizing the people you can still brutalize, even as defeat looms.

Anastasiia Lapatina @lapatina_

BREAKING: Russians are deporting Ukrainians from sieged #Mariupol to Russia en masse – at least 6,000 people have already been displaced. Russians force people on buses and take them to “filtration camps,” after which people are sent to distant Russian cities.