Favorite Rejects 2022-08-20

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

It's time for @dylanmatt and I to start pumping-up the GOP senate candidates to vindicate our forecasts.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

To be fair, if Puerto Rico wanted independence, they should totally be able to have it. Or statehood.

Oliver Jia (オリバー・ジア) @OliverJia1014

Puerto Rico has voted consistently to stay with the United States whereas the vast majority of Taiwanese want nothing to do with the CCP. These Chinese government officials are either laughably ignorant about the rest of the world or they're intentionally trying to be dishonest. https://t.co/dgzXPyw8VP

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

I swear, people on this website...

James Palmer @BeijingPalmer

Li continuing the Wen tradition of getting sidelined and censored

Fergus Ryan @fryan

Li Keqiang chats awkwardly with Shenzhen locals about the need to stick to reform & opening. Seems innocuous enough, right? But according to some (incl @realcaixia) it’s being censored on WeChat. If true, not a great sign for China's future direction. https://t.co/klTaJhtxAY

noisé @proetrie

being popular on twitter is like sitting at the “cool table” at a mental hospital.

Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien

The US will lose interest in Ukraine narrative is once again shown to be overblown. US public opinion remains consistent. A majority will back Ukraine, even suffer a little, as long as it thinks Ukraine can win.

Craig Kafura @ckafura

New from the 2022 @ChicagoCouncil Survey: 58% of Americans say the US should back #Ukraine for as long as it takes, even if it means paying higher prices at home. My colleagues @RoguePollster and @emksullivan_ have the latest data in @ChiCouncilFP: https://t.co/IiSP4OYO9l https://t.co/RfaSx0YCDu

Matt Grossmann @MattGrossmann

Having regular Fox viewers, largely strong partisans, watch CNN instead for a month produced substantial learning and moderated their attitudes scholar.google.com/scholar_url?ur…

S.H. @upzone_CA

there's an interesting phenomenon where most of the degrowth movement comes from wealthy western countries that have by and large greatly benefitted from increases in production and believing this shouldn't be extended to developing countries

Lucas 🌐 @PunishedLink

This is just insanely privileged. A 30% decline in world GDP would kill hundreds of thousands https://t.co/VnhQWHXWtu

haunted dog @zandywithaz

If only podcasts had been in existence back then

Nrken19 @nrken19

Reconstruction of Greek philosopher Aristotle based on his bust. https://t.co/JyQ45oHhet

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Russians find it unpleasant to be bombed

nytimes.comAs Attacks Mount in Crimea, Kremlin Faces Rising Domestic PressuresWith the drumbeat of Ukrainian strikes inside Russian-held territory, the visceral reality of war is becoming increasingly apparent to Russians.