Favorite Rejects 2022-07-01

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

This is exactly the stuff Ryan Grim talked about in his Intercept article. It's killing progressive effectiveness along every possible dimension. And ironically, the anti-woke folks warned us and we did nothing.

Wesley Yang @wesyang

Bizarre struggle sessions over esoteric transgressions of socjus dogma are no longer confined to progressive nonprofits and political campaigns, they are injuring the lives of children as institutions with long histories break from within https://t.co/p6NZieNhIj

Aditya Ingole @aadityaingole

@Noahpinion This article sums up your argument with links to all recent reportings on issues in progressive organizations.

nytimes.comOpinion | Democrats Are Having a Purity-Test Problem at Exactly the Wrong Time“It has become too easy for people to conflate disagreements about issues with matters of identity,” one nonprofit official says.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Pete’s gonna tell Germans to halt weekend S-Bahn service and make the trains dramatically more expensive (but slower and less frequent) to ride. https://t.co/5ca4RPlVcM

TransportationGov @USDOT

Today, we're launching Momentum, a new initiative to help countries around the world learn from our best practices and expertise in planning and modernizing transportation infrastructure. https://t.co/nDH1EJA2Jx https://t.co/A585ZA0Qr0

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

A few thoughts about this: fundamentally I think life—and especially raising kids—has always been pretty difficult for the average person. None of us really understands what our parents lives were like when they were young.

Shannon Osaka @shannonosaka

@jlappen1 Also the WV v. EPA ruling doesn't even prevent federal agencies from regulating greenhouse gas emissions! I can't believe how many outlets irresponsibly reported that it did. It just curtailed one aspect of power, which frankly Biden admin was unlikely to use anyway.

crazy ass moments in american politics @ampol_moment

The first (unofficial) debate of the 2022 Pennsylvania Senate Race.

Eli Dourado @elidourado

🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨 What if solar and wind cost declines continue? What if advanced nuclear and geothermal manifest in a big way? What would we do with ALL THAT ENERGY? That's the question @Vernon3Austin and I address in ENERGY SUPERABUNDANCE thecgo.org/research/energ…

thecgo.orgEnergy Superabundance: How Cheap, Abundant Energy Will Shape Our FutureIn this policy paper, authors Austin Vernon and Eli Dourado explore what life would be like with endless energy.