Favorite Rejects 2022-04-22

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

This is much better than shitty student loans

Maarten De Ridder @DeRidderMaarten

#Biden proposes a gradual doubling of #Pell grants between now and 2029. Pell is the largest US scholarship program (30 billion) per year. In this column we show that -even ignoring LT benefits of college- Pell rants have large short-run efects on GDP https://t.co/r16J1RTQl7

Brendan Nyhan @BrendanNyhan

Important: Obama endorsing researcher access to platform data platformer.news/p/obama-rallie…

Amy Jane Gruber @AmyJane

Earth Day 2007. We think it would be fun to turn out the lights for an hour and play board games by candlelight. Jonas, age 3, loses his mind and actually vomits during a tantrum about it. When asked why, today, he says, “You know I don’t like nonsense.”

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

It's interesting that even as China dishes out tons of pro-Russia rhetoric and propaganda, its companies are withdrawing from Russia.

Carl Bildt @carlbildt

It’s interesting that Huawei 🇨🇳 is suspending its operations in 🇷🇺. With Ericsson and Nokia leaving that will be a major problem after a while. https://t.co/uTkzR44kyh

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

This is also why a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be a different story. China doesn't care about the people of Taiwan; it just wants the dirt under their feet. China's leaders would be perfectly happy deporting all of Taiwan's population and replacing them with mainlanders.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Democrats say Trump is a dangerous crook and most top Republicans agree but want him to be president anyway.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

If this figure is anywhere close to true, this is some Holocaust-level shit.

Business Ukraine mag @Biz_Ukraine_Mag

Half a million Ukrainians deported to Russia as slave labor - it seems this really should be attracting far more international attention. https://t.co/CKrxJzgNG1

Jef Poskanzer @jefposk

New park! Just opened today!

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Shouldn’t one of the people who reported on Putin’s secret energy weapons try to revisit their apparent non-use during the war in Ukraine? Are we now all ready to concede that this was fake?