Favorite Rejects 2022-09-07
Trump is *bad at his job* (sloppy, crass, alienating, personally corrupt) in a bunch of ways that are distinctive and absolutely worth talking about but in a big picture sense there are a lot of continuities which is why conservatives love him — they’re just wrong about things.
Liam Bright @lastpositivist
Blake Masters, a centrist moderate Republican, is aware that 9/11 was an inside job designed to install Bushitler’s fascist regime and the media libs paint that as a bad thing. https://t.co/4LtlclWtBw
Kevin Robillard 🇺🇸 @Robillard
Ancient forests in the EU ravaged for wood pellets, which are considered *wait for it* "renewable" energy (coz trees grow back, right?)
Fantastic work here by @HurtesSarah, our newest Brussels bureau member.
Losing my mind over this — in a traditional system Palin would’ve won the primary and then lost the general.
There are cases where RCV makes a difference but not this one!
Emily Brooks @emilybrooksnews
Some grifter consultant is gonna get paid up to $25M to figure out whether bus lanes are good for the environment. What a massive scam.
numble @numble
2) America is an OECD leader in "preventable" deaths, in part bc our medical education system is so expensive that it encourages doctors to discharge the debt in highly paid specialist positions rather than be primary care physicians. Thus: scarcity of access for prevention
Strict rules with weak enforcement has been the lodestar of Covid NPIs for a while now and while it’s tolerable it doesn’t make much sense and I think is corrosive over time.
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela
Anger surges through social networks since it moves through the weak ties that make up so many of our online connections.
Joyful posts stop at the borders of our friend groups, bounded by the strong ties of people who know us well. Neat study on Weibo: arxiv.org/abs/2005.01924
The biggest problem facing low-income Californians by far is decades of bad housing policy. Newsom, to his credit, has signed multiple pieces of deregulatory legislation to try to improve things.
By the same token DeSantis should expand Medicaid. https://t.co/FLnfKgVl5T
Pradheep J. Shanker @Neoavatara
