Favorite Rejects 2022-06-18

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Really good @foxjust interview of @I_Am_NickBloom about remote work! A must-read.

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Kim-Mai Cutler @kimmaicutler

“In Daly City, the city and school district got together, agreed they needed housing and then didn’t ask 8,000 single-family homeowners their opinion about it.”

Heather Knight @hknightsf

My latest column: Daly City and San Francisco pledged in 2017 to build teacher housing so underpaid educators could live near their schools. In Daly City, teachers have already moved in. In San Francisco, construction hasn’t even started. Here’s why. https://t.co/QEgtUyNSdE

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think a lot of people don’t know this relationship has a U-shape.

Kaushik Basu @kaushikcbasu

When the Indian ambassador to USSR showed Stalin the map of India, Stalin pointed to Sri Lanka & asked, “What is the name of this tiny Indian island?” The ambassador said, “This is not an Indian island. It is Sri Lanka, an independent nation.” Stalin looked puzzled: “Why?”

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

It's hard to watch, but we need more videos of people running away from active shooters, to remind the whole public of the terror of living in a society full of crazies with assault weapons.

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Active shooter at Tysons Corner Mall https://t.co/pjFXnF0NWF

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I tend to read this as indicating that a heavy focus on wealth equality as a policy goal leads in perverse directions

Matt Stoller @matthewstoller

Elon Musk's net worth has dropped from $340B to $200B in the last six months, and most billionaires have had roughly similar declines. There is literally nothing that produces more equality than a stock market crash. https://t.co/TNdpG1HcWC