Favorite Rejects 2022-06-28

Jordan Grimes 🚰 @cafedujord

Former U.S. President Barack “Based” Obama on zoning and NIMBYism: “the most liberal communities in the country aren’t that liberal when it comes to affordable housing”

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

What leftists get right: Both persuasion & mobilization matter. What leftists get wrong: Sporadic voters are more moderate than consistent voters, so to the extent that issues matter at all (i.e., not that much but some) you pursue both goals the same way.

Ted Fertik @tedfertik

But in a country this equally divided you both have to win some persuadable voters and you have to get your base to turn out! I don’t know how you read the polls abt Roe rn and come to any conclusion other than need for Dems to show that they’ll fight to undo what SC has wrought

Sam Rosenfeld @sam_rosenfeld

Trump being tricked into going into his car after the rally thinking he'd be going to the Capitol then flipping out violently and ineffectually when he found out he was scammed is the entire "Is Trump a weak or strong president?" political science discourse in one gonzo scene.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Fox made a stab at ditching Trump in the immediate aftermath of the election, but they lost market share to Newsmax and OANN and got back on message. Now they're taking another try at executing the pivot to DeSantis.

Acyn @Acyn

Baier: Bottom line, the testimony is stunning https://t.co/gED3sU5NHS

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Does Trump know how to drive a car?

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Dingdingding This is the police reform thing that nobody is talking about, but which would work. (And it's what Europe does; they have as many cops as we do, but much more professionalized.)

TheOmniZaddy 🇺🇦 @TheOmniZaddy

The woke military shows why education polarization is good This is why the path towards police reform features education requirements.

Jeffrey Lieber @JeffLieber

I assume Cassidy Hutchinson's political views are the opposite of mine...and might likely horrify me...and yet it's impossible to deny that courage today is one of the very best example of patriotism I've ever witnessed.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Throughout its history, Christianity has flourished as an opposition movement and withered as an established state institution, and I don't see any reason to expect this to change.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

It’s widely believed that Prohibition caused an increase in violent crime (the text at the beginning of The Untouchables says this), but looking at state-level variation in when alcohol was banned and re-legalized suggests that it didn’t. academic.oup.com/aler/article-a…

BrandenburgTestHat @Popehat

Ken From 2012: what kind of things will we be lawsplaining in the distant future of 2022? Ken from 2022: "What are the elements of assault on a Secret Service agent if it's the President doing it?" Ken from 2012: Fine, be an asshole and don't tell me.

Deborah Haynes @haynesdeborah

BREAKING: The leaders of Turkey, Sweden & Finland have just signed a memorandum for the two Nordic states to join NATO, removing a Turkish block to the accession process, a source said. “It’s a three-way agreement on accession,” the source said. @jensstoltenberg to make statement

sam @sam_d_1995

there should be a rule that if the federal government is giving a local government money to construct a new transit line, they have to legalize dense housing near all the stops so the federal investment doesn’t go to waste