Favorite Rejects 2022-08-13

Aug 14, 2022

Protip: whenever possible, avoid making factual assertions to government or courts on behalf of sociopathic clients, ESPECIALLY assertions under oath. Let the client make the assertions or frame them as “positions,” viz “It is Mr. Trump’s position that….”

JJ MacNab @jjmacnab

Trump Lawyer Told Justice Dept. That Classified Material Had Been Returned The lawyer signed a statement in June that all documents marked as classified and held in boxes in storage at Mar-a-Lago had been given back. https://t.co/wuA9QYs1U4

4:28 PM · Aug 13, 2022

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Armand Domalewski@ArmandDoma

San Francisco’s socialist supervisor on the left, right wing reactionary homeowner group Livable California on the right

5:42 PM · Aug 13, 2022

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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias

You can interpret this different ways, but it’s worth knowing that Warren was more popular with male college graduates than with non-college women.

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Elizabeth Warren did better with college-educated white men than with working-class women

7:10 PM · Aug 13, 2022

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Darrell Owens@IDoTheThinking

Still unbelievable to me how entire countries like Germany dismantled their nuclear energy because people dont understand the difference between a power plant and a bomb.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The worst nuclear accident in history vs fossil fuel power working as designed https://t.co/tvo4G3XbNe

7:26 PM · Aug 13, 2022

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Mark Yellin@myellin2

@Noahpinion I see "Dark Brandon" as the social media equivalent of this snl skit about "Mastermind" Reagan from the 1980s.

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President Reagan, Mastermind - SNL

7:36 PM · Aug 13, 2022

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David Alpert@alpert

They are still planning to do this?Seems like an even worse idea than when it was proposed, and it was a bad idea then

Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton

This long-delayed DC requirement for daycare workers to have college degrees will be truly terrible for everyone except Montessori daycares where workers already have college degrees if it goes into effect https://t.co/xtLT8kDLkY

9:56 PM · Aug 13, 2022

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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias

There is nothing better we could do for equity and social justice in education than to convince schools to use effective reading instruction methods even if teachers find them tedious. time.com/6205084/phonic…

11:41 PM · Aug 13, 2022

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Evan Soltas@esoltas

Paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… We estimate that on average workers are only compensated via higher wages for only 60% of the license cost. There are also fewer jobs in such occupations, especially opportunities for younger workers, where we see very substantial declines.

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A Welfare Analysis of Occupational Licensing in U.S. States