Favorite Rejects 2022-05-18

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

To an extent the ball is just in the progressive faction’s court — if they want to own the establishment by constantly embracing pragmatic, popular stances and winning elections rather than doing activist shit-tests everywhere I think that would be great.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I want to know more about the people who say they have no religion but also that religion is very important in their life.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I will address it — seems like a good vote on behalf of a good cause.

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The lengths to which progressive media figures have gone to avoid having to directly criticize the Squad for unanimously voting for Biden's $40b war package to Raytheon and CIA is amazing to behold. They will literally talk about anything to avoid having to address this.

juan @juanbuis

it’s incredible how reading this feels like finally unlocking 100% of your brain (via @Christophepas)

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

I mean, I wasn't gonna say it, but

Luke Metro @luke_metro

Conspiracy theory: The Saudis funded Uber for so long because they knew that it would be used as an excuse to not invest in transit, thus keeping oil consumption high https://t.co/YOQMb9HBYd

Wally Nowinski @Nowooski

Imagine how much better the world would be if Biden had run in ‘16.