Favorite Rejects 2022-04-04

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Hell yeah...Newsmax???

Newsmax @newsmax

OPINION: "We must make sure that China and Russia lack the resources necessary to challenge America by leaning into what Ronald Reagan called one of the most important sources of America’s greatness: Immigration." — @DanielDiMartino https://t.co/lnM9t3obPE

Slava Malamud 🇺🇦 @SlavaMalamud

Within 24 hours, Russia has gone from denials Bucha ever happened ("These are crisis actors! Look, one of them just moved!") to blaming it on Ukraine, to fully embracing it, because "denazifying Ukraine means completely eradicating everything and everyone Ukrainian." Believe them

NEXTA @nexta_tv

#Russian state-owned agency RIA Novosti published an article which says that a "De-Ukrainification" is needed: "The name "#Ukraine" apparently cannot be retained as the title of any fully denazified state entity in territory liberated from the Nazi regime." https://t.co/IeFB2wlL4y

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

It seems like Joe Biden’s efforts to improve Ukraine’s quality of governance were successful and not in fact a corrupt giveaway to his son at all — a debate many people once pretended to be interested in is now pretty settled.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Even on a straight policy question, I never a see a story that’s like “here’s what Kevin McCarthy says he would do to reduce inflation and some evidence as to how likely that is to work.” If you’re going to take the criticisms seriously, take them seriously.

Sarah Rumpf 🇺🇦 @rumpfshaker

Great writeup at @reason about the lawsuit against #HB1557 #DontSayGay. Bill should be ruled "void for vagueness," among other drafting flaws. Also note where opponents tried to amend bill to actually make it about sex ed, but were rejected. #flapol

reason.comFlorida Sued by Activists, Students, Parents, and Teachers Over LGBT School Censorship BillActivist organizations and families affected by Florida’s bill restricting discussions on LGBT issues in public schools have filed suit to...

Ben Thompson @benthompson

Elon Musk has already made ~$750 million on his Twitter trade, which is approximately double Twitter’s net income for the last 3 years.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

A lot of people don’t want to hear about it, but the fact is that Tema Okun’s work is widely used in school and nonprofit settings and it’s bad slowboring.com/p/tema-okun?s=w https://t.co/BQspDzjFHz

Karlyn Borysenko, Tower Event Creator 🇺🇦 @DrKarlynB

The school's equity coordinator points out that one of the reasons a 12-year-old might feel uncomfortable speaking up in the face of racism is that fear of open conflict is an attribute of white supremacy culture. https://t.co/iQtuazidEw

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Cool origin story. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This is a good tweet and did big numbers. But I think any serious look at the structure of the news industry would show that takesters subsidize shoe leather and not vice-versa.

Chris Albon @chrisalbon

Media is like: Freelancer, $35,000/yr: “I self-funding a three month reporting trip to a warzone to capture the untold stories of the war crime victims” Columnist, $300,000/yr: “China’s foreign policy is like an egg roll”

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

6/But this argument didn't have the weight of genetic data behind it. Fortunately, @razibkhan has provided some very useful data on Russians and Ukrainians, in this blog post:

razib.substack.comGetting a sense of the Russian soulLooking into Russian genetics and history (not through Putin’s eyes)

California WaterBot @waterbotca

Total California reservoir water compared to historical levels.

Blake Allen @Blake_Allen13

Russian forces tortured & killed civilians in the villages around the southern city of Mykolaiv during their brief occupation of the area. Horror stories are following the Russian military on every front

Isabelle Khurshudyan @ikhurshudyan

Some villages on the edge of Mykolaiv were occupied by Russian forces for about 10 days before Ukrainians drove them out. We visited to talk to people about life with the Russians. One woman said her husband, a math teacher, was tortured and then killed. https://t.co/bWaDolX6DN

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper

boy Angela Merkel was really a disastrous chancellor. oversaw a decade of economic stagnation, agreed to shut down Germany's nuclear plants, went all-in on Russian gas, etc

Alex Dukalskis @AlexDukalskis

Reporting by @ChuBailiang on a 🇨🇳 domestic ideological campaign to support 🇷🇺 and blame the 🇺🇸 w/ insights from @DrRadchenko & @JosephTorigian nytimes.com/2022/04/04/wor…

nytimes.comBristling Against the West, China Rallies Domestic Sympathy for RussiaChina’s Communist Party is mounting an ideological campaign aimed at officials and students. The message: The country will not turn its back on Russia.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

This is gonna backfire so hard. You don't go after Disney.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

You, a fool: Republicans are going to hit Joe Biden for gasoline and food prices going up. Chris Rufo, wise: Instead let’s have a national debate over whether Mickey Mouse is a pedophile.

Ben Hodges @general_ben

Russians killed 22K Polish Officers and Intelligentsia in 1940 in the Katyn Massacre, to eliminate the possibility of a Polish State. They are doing this again, in Ukraine. How can we possibly negotiate with them? Need to break their back now, while we have a chance.

Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews

Satellite images show bodies lay in Bucha for weeks, despite Russian claims: a review of videos and satellite imagery by The Times shows that many of the civilians were killed more than three weeks ago, when Russia’s military was in control of the town. https://t.co/cIXOxyVDPR

Sean Kevin Campbell @Sean_Kev

In January, I wrote that my piece on the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation was one of the hardest I'd done. This one has been heartbreaking. As organizers have fallen homeless, I uncovered a $6 million property purchased with BLMGNF funds. 1/

nym.agBlack Lives Matter Secretly Bought a $6 Million HouseAllies and critics alike have questioned where the organization’s money has gone.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Yep. People forget how much brain power and dedication went into the making of the Soviet economic system...which wasn't even very good, but was miles better than whatever Putin is doing now.

Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan

For one who has read the 20s industrialization debate in Russia and articles by Lenin, Preobrazhensky, Bukharin, Trotsky, even Stalin, to see the pathetic level of today's improvisation of similar themes in Russia is to go from the times of intellectual giants to nullities.

David Demes 戴達衛 @DemesDavid

How is Chinese media reporting on the #BuchaMassacre? A short thread 🧵: