Favorite Rejects 2022-08-25

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Permitting reform is the Real IRA https://t.co/mDsi7cOusv

Alec Stapp @AlecStapp

Good news: AOC is open to permitting reform. She correctly recognizes that the process for siting and building clean energy infrastructure also needs reform. https://t.co/03YmaocUN1

Aaron Carr 🇺🇦 @aaronAcarr

Atlanta cut homelessness by 40% through housing Houston cut homelessness by 63% through housing Finland cut homelessness by 75% through housing Tokyo cut homelessness by 80% through housing The solution to homelessness isn’t policing — it’s housing, housing, and more housing https://t.co/vwYmEWdWeC

Mayor Eric Adams @NYCMayor

It takes on the ground work to end the homelessness crisis. Good to spend some time with the team at District 3 doing that vital service. https://t.co/flXsmnRO8G

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

The reason this is incorrect is that if the student loan payers had been required to pay, their payments would have gone to the U.S. Treasury. Without those payments, the Treasury can choose to either run deficits or levy taxes to meet its spending commitments.

Greg Carlock @gregorytcarlock

Taxpayer money isn't paying off student loans. Taxpayer money isn't paying off student loans. Taxpayer money isn't paying off student loans. It's a myth. Say it with me.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Fresh analysis from Jan Hatzius & co. at Goldman Sachs says the aggregate impact is slightly DISinflationary.

Jessi "READ MY COMIC" Sheron @JessiSheron

IF WE CAN'T WITHHOLD EDUCATION BY TORMENTING POOR CHILDREN HOW WILL WE GET THEM TO DIE IN WARS?!?!

Jim Banks @RepJimBanks

Student loan forgiveness undermines one of our military’s greatest recruitment tools at a time of dangerously low enlistments.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Salting barista at my local Starbucks complimented me on my Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant hat. Never forget that anti-nuclear politics is union-busting!

North Atlantic Feline Organization @alon_levy

This is terrible. Ukraine has lower metro construction costs than Britain, it should be advising Britain and not the other way around.

Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP @grantshapps

Today I met my friend @OlKubrakov, the Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure, to sign a historic Joint Action Plan to help rebuild Ukraine's transport network using UK expertise. Six months since the brutal Russian invasion - we'll continue to stand with Ukraine 💙💛. https://t.co/QEgzrC9PHI

Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton

"Rooming houses offer the cheapest possible route to secure, private housing for those most in need, a crucial step for those seeking to get back on their feet."

Daniel Pearson @DPearsonPHL

The benefits of legalizing boarding houses are plentiful. It would help ensure residents of grey-market rooming houses are living in properties that are safe and up to code, provide affordable housing to those at the lowest wages, & give renters options. https://t.co/dRRGZ4Qaen

Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

Meta-Analysis: Trigger warnings don't help people to emotionally prepare for distressing material or to avoid it – the two things they're intended to do. Their main effect seems to be to increase people's anxiety about encountering the material. [Preprint] osf.io/qav9m/