Favorite Rejects 2022-05-17

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

There's a great little lesson midway through this about why the most effective pro-choice messages are not the ones progressives like best. https://t.co/OQqyK8bZLS

Data for Progress @DataProgress

*sigh* yeah, we’re launching a podcast. On Offense will break down weekly message testing and polling to help the left go, well, on offense, against right-wing extremism. In our first episode, hosts @MarcelaMulh + @McKenzieAWilson talk abortion 🎧⤵️ https://t.co/B4TQ39RAOQ

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

This is my favorite chart about the economy. It explains so much of our modern world. fullstackeconomics.com/18-charts-that…

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

every anti-yimby person I end up hating on Bay Area housing who tries to argue against it from the left ends up being a landlord

rat king @MikeIsaac

“Twitter could get all 229 million of its monetizable daily active users in a room and have them say “hello Elon, we are real,” and that would not convince him, because he does not want to be convinced. He wants to pay a lower price.”

bloomberg.comElon Musk Does Not Care About Spam BotsAlso the merger proxy and Allianz Structured Alpha.

Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal

All of this from @matt_levine, but this especially.

Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal

Yeah, I think this is right

Robin Wigglesworth @RobinWigg

Today’s Money Stuff is the first time I can remember @matt_levine seeming genuinely angry, as opposed to the usual gleeful delight or sad but amused resignation.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

I am still going to say "pro-choice", sorry consultants.

Josh Barro @jbarro

If Republicans sent moles into the abortion rights movement to come up with messaging in response to the likely end of Roe, their actions would be indistinguishable from what the actual communications staffers there are doing. https://t.co/2vrwitR9p8