Favorite Rejects 2022-04-23

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

No amount of dunking on this B.S. will make people stop saying it over and over and over. Fortunately, no one is going to end capitalism. So we'll just get on with the business of solving climate change while these folks grandstand.

Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis @RevJacquiLewis

There’s no way to solve the climate crisis without ending capitalism.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think Trump does an underrated job of navigating an environment where he's constantly dealing with supporters who everyone knows don't actually like him — it's an objectively difficult problem and he handles it effectively.

bryan metzger @metzgov

“I think it’s all a big compliment, frankly,” Trump says of the leaked McCarthy call. "They realized they were wrong and supported me." https://t.co/UITRzt4JpX

Kevin M. Kruse @KevinMKruse

There’s a lot going on in this @nytimes piece on Florida’s textbook bans, but I appreciate how they quote Rufo enough to make it clear how *deeply* insane his conspiracy theory is. nytimes.com/2022/04/22/us/…

southpaw @nycsouthpaw

A top five DOJ scandal is that Jeffrey Clark has been walking around uncharged for going on 16 mos. There’s no lack of witnesses and evidence that he tried to install himself atop the department to put fraudulent pressure on states Biden won to appoint Trump slates of electors.

Nicholas Wu @nicholaswu12

@kyledcheney Among many revelations in this filing, texts between Rep. Scott Perry and Mark Meadows about efforts to replace DoJ leadership - “I got it. I think I understand. Let me work on the deputy position," Meadows replied https://t.co/kyES7ukAUw

Business Ukraine mag @Biz_Ukraine_Mag

Modern Russia is now quite literally repeating the war crimes it condemned Nazi Germany for at the Nuremburg Trials

Fran Hirsch @FranHirsch

From the Soviet case at the #Nuremberg Trials “Outstanding in the long chain of vile crimes committed by the German fascist invaders is the forced deportation to Germany of peaceful citizens, men, women, and children, for slave and forced labor.”

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Real progress has been made against climate change. Global CO2 emissions have been flat for a decade. Obviously we need to get them to 0, but just getting total emissions to stop increasing is a huge accomplishment.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Meanwhile, global GDP grew by about 30% over that same time period. We have now seen absolute decoupling of emissions from economic growth at the global level.

Trent Telenko @TrentTelenko

The Putin Regime keeps stuffing Russian fingers & toes into the Ukrainian meatgrinder hoping this time they will finally choke it out👇👇

ISW @TheStudyofWar

April 23 Assessment Highlight: #Russia is continuing their pattern of operations: committing small collections of units to dispersed attacks along multiple axes and refusing to accept necessary operational pauses to set conditions for decisive operations. https://t.co/ah2GipKfN0 https://t.co/63tzV51O9C

ethan winter @EthanBWinter

the environment is great for republicans so lee is almost assured of victory but if democrats are serious about solving their senate problem this experiment is worth replicating.

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

Wow. Utah Democrats just voted not to put forward a candidate for U.S. Senate, and will instead back @EvanMcMullin's independent bid against Mike Lee. I wrote last year about Utah's cross-party anti-Lee coalition. That coalition will now be put to the test https://t.co/TgnBteXHRV

Lakshya Jain @lxeagle17

In hindsight, Trump's ban from Twitter has probably been one of the biggest electoral boons for the GOP in terms of social media. Nothing quite activates partisans and increases salience like seeing their most hated figure from the other side spout off.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

209. Combining the three previous takes into one nuclear take: Birth control is pushing humanity toward becoming a monogamous species who loves kids. The transition will take centuries, but it's already underway.