Favorite Rejects 2022-08-26

Science Is Strategic @scienceisstrat1

Terrifying Bloomberg article - The End of Snow Threatens to Upend 76 Million American Lives: “The Western US is an empire built on snow. And that snow is vanishing.” Cc: @dwallacewells @MichaelEMann @erikbryn @Noahpinion @ramez bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-…

Liam Dillon @dillonliam

Incredible. A new California state law allows nonprofits first right to purchase foreclosed homes so a Virginia-based nonprofit started buying homes in California and then flipping them at profit to finance their programs in Virginia.

Erin Baldassari @e_baldi

Last summer, two CA-based house-flipping corps created their own affordable housing nonprofits and began using SB 1079 to purchase and flip foreclosed homes, according to public records. Learn more: https://t.co/0NtzjliqCN

Mike Duncan @mikeduncan

Rescheduuuuuuuuuuule it

Ryan Grim @ryangrim

Dark Brandon: Do weed next and all your enemies will be vanquished

Ben Casselman @bencasselman

I didn't do a full chart-a-palooza today (too much other work!), but this is notable: Inflation adjusted spending is falling further below its trend line. That's probably pretty much what the Fed is aiming for: positive but below-trend growth.

Kim-Mai Cutler @kimmaicutler

Honestly just insane that we continue to subsidize demand and not figure out how to increase supply of highly sought after programs like these. https://t.co/ZOEdcTeFv9

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

UC Berkeley to limit Computer Science degrees even harder. Even with intensely hard lower div courses, a 3.3 lower div GPA requirement to declare CS, they could still only weed down +2,000 intro CS courses to 800 a semester. A sad state of education. https://t.co/o9i135Bx6Y

M.G. Siegler @mgsiegler

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Netflix is making a show about people who work at the last Blockbuster store. No idea if it’s good but it’s a good tweet, at least. https://t.co/EzRkvSeRef

Livable Communities Initiative LA @LCI_LA

Here's why we support @laurafriedman43's #AB2097 and encourage @GavinNewsom to support it as a solution to our state's #HousingCrisis, traffic and #ClimateEmergency. Removing parking minimums on development projects is critical to making housing more affordable in Los Angeles.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Yes! Doing things provokes backlash. Doing popular things is better than doing unpopular things, but the best approach now is to bury coverage of the things he's done under a huge wall of blah blah blah.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw

@mattyglesias Pivot from an active popular agenda back to a stultifying do-nothing proceduralism?

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

There's a reason Charlie Baker, Phil Scot, and Larry Hogan are the most popular governors in America and it's not voter appreciation for their extensive record of sweeping policy change.