Favorite Rejects 2022-09-22

Yana Morozova 🇺🇦 @yanamrzv

Russians panicking about mobilization 7 months into the war is fascinating to me. Did you not know your country started the bloodiest war in Europe since WWII? Were you really hoping to not be personally affected by it at all? You thought only minorities would be sent to die?

Klaus Rieneck @KlausRieneck

An unusual and mostly forgotten pledge Chinese President Xi Jinping signed eight years ago that China would protect Ukraine in the event of a nuclear attack is getting fresh attention following Russia’s invasion of its Eastern European neighbor.

wsj.comUnder New Scrutiny: China’s Nuclear Pledge to UkraineBeijing’s 2013 promise to protect Ukraine in a nuclear attack appears to now further muddy its stance on Russia’s invasion.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick

WOW. It gets even worse. “Perla” lied to dozens more asylum seekers, put them up in a hotel for days with false claims about jobs and housing, and when DeSantis suddenly cancelled the Delaware flight yesterday, she dumped some back at the shelter and stranded the others. https://t.co/TGhia9pEAI

Sarah Blaskey 🏝 @Blaskey_S

BREAKING: DeSantis-linked operation in TX had planned to fly migrants to Delaware yesterday. Then they pulled the plug –– to "punk" the media, the Gov. said –– and 20+ people were left at a hotel. /w @NickNehamas https://t.co/JNirUGVUId

WidebandGapfiller @WidebandMaid

It's not a cyberpunk dystopia unless I can sexually harass a robot

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Ahhh I was considering writing a post on the general regional economic crisis in South Asia, but Tooze wrote it instead! Check it out!

Adam Tooze @adam_tooze

Chartbook #153: The South Asian Polycrisis on Chartbook https://t.co/SCC3fQpgKl

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think some in the administration underrate their own power here. America is the Saudi Arabia of oil, and if we are willing to acknowledge that this commodity remains too important to be left purely to the market we can seize pricing power from OPEC. slowboring.com/p/its-time-to-…

Bill Pascrell, Jr. 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @BillPascrell

Republicans across America are working to throw women in jail

Nat Bullard @NatBullard

🧵Great stuff in the new @BloombergNEF Zero-Emission Vehicles report: 1/ EV sales are ⬆️63% year-on-year about.bnef.com/blog/zero-emis…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think conservatives sometimes misinterpret the fact that liberals don’t live up to their own unflattering stereotypes of what liberals are like as a form of hypocrisy.

Brad Wilcox @BradWilcoxIFS

On matters ranging from crime to their kids' schooling ==> "Many notional urban liberals are much more conservative than they claim... They would like many conservative norms and policies, but lack the permission structure." @edwest https://t.co/WCnbsz1xVK

Big Think @bigthink

WIRED founder @kevin2kelly explains why progress often looks like dystopia to the untrained eye. This video is part of The Progress Issue, a Big Think and @freethinkmedia special collaboration.

Josh Barro @jbarro

Read @binarybits on "leaning out" -- easing back from his career to devote more time to raising his three kids, so his wife (a physician) can work long hours, and why that doesn't happen in more households.

fullstackeconomics.comI’m a professional dad who “leaned out” to support my wife’s careerIf we want an equal society, we need to get more comfortable with unequal marriages.