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Favorite Rejects 2022-05-04

David Watson
May 5, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
A lot of people don’t know this but the US ended up hitting the greenhouse gas emission targets from Obama’s cap and trade bill even though the bill didn’t pass. slowboring.com/p/republicans-…
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11:37 AM ∙ May 4, 2022
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Ken Wilson @kcwilson781
Satanic Temple requests flag raising at Boston City Hall after Supreme Court rules city violated free speech rights in refusing to fly Christian flag masslive.com/boston/2022/05… That didn’t take long. @Popehat #Shurtleff
masslive.comSatanic Temple requests flag raising at Boston’s city hall after Supreme Court rulingThe Supreme Court ruled that Boston violated a Christian group’s first amendment rights when the city refused to fly the group’s flag.
6:55 PM ∙ May 4, 2022
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Alec Stapp @AlecStapp
Good news — they’ve been allowed to get away with this fraud for far too long
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9:07 PM ∙ May 4, 2022
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Timothy B. Lee @binarybits
I think the fact that Powell’s press conference caused a stock market rally likely means the fed isn’t hiking fast enough. Markets are expecting above-target inflation for years to come. The Fed needs to fix that.
9:52 PM ∙ May 4, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
Vote by mail makes life more convenient but doesn’t have any particular implications for which party wins the elections — should be a low-key good government reform that can happen on a bipartisan basis instead of a high-stakes shitshow.
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Eric McGhee @hezaproject
PRESIDENTIAL VOTE: Accounting for these trends, none of these VBM policies appears to affect presidential vote. In some of our models it even looks to slightly benefit Republicans, but this finding isn't very robust to other analytical approaches. 7/ https://t.co/l9xIuWxaCi
10:44 PM ∙ May 4, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
I’m not at “all we need to know” level or confidence but I think it’s the best bet.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm
I hadnt read this April 26th WSJ OpEd about Justices going wobbly on Roe until now. I think it tells us really all we need to know about where the leak came from. https://t.co/yVcQsyjbuE via @WSJOpinion
3:28 AM ∙ May 5, 2022
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