Favorite Rejects 2022-10-07

Mark Joseph Stern @mjs_DC

I was recently at a federal courthouse and thought about how safe I was after going through security. Judges award themselves maximal protection against guns and then tell parents around the country that they have no power to keep guns out of daycare. Freaking daycare. It's sick.

Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe

There's so much fantasizing that this could be the end of Putin, that we might be nearing a February 1917 moment (abdication of Nicholas II). But that doesn't mean things will get better. 50 million Soviets died violent, hungry deaths in the 40 years that followed.

Matthew Luxmoore @mjluxmoore

Russia’s staunchest former supporters in Ukraine are now fighting on the frontline. Another example of how catastrophically Putin’s invasion backfired.

Saint Javelin @saintjavelin

You gonna see this image in Ukrainian twitter a lot today, so lemme explain. This is Mykhailo Dobkin. He’s a former governor of Kharkiv region and deputy of Ukr Parliament in a pro-russian patry of Yanukovych, the guy that caused Maidan Revolution. 🧵 https://t.co/RnV86fAXYI

Tim Ryan @TimRyan

Some people think that they have to agree with their politicians 100% of the time. And I ask these people, “Are any of you married?”

Andrew Prokop @awprokop

Was just in CA and there are lots of ads about these dueling gambling props (Prop 26 and Prop 27), often one after the other. Could be making voters throw up their hands at both, as some polling shows nymag.com/intelligencer/… legalsportsreport.com/80643/independ…

Jeremy Hoffman @jeremyhoffman

I used to think speed bumps were terrible impositions. Now as a biker and father of a small child, I am very conscious of vehicle speeds, and supportive of slow streets. Apparently so are many LA residents!

LADOT @LADOTofficial

We’ve reached the limit of applications for speed humps and our portal is now closed. Thank you for participating, we look forward to reviewing and delivering on these requests.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Bad people are trying to kill Vancouver’s amazing First Nations YIMBY dream

vancouverislandfreedaily.comLawsuit targets largest Indigenous-led housing and retail development in B.C. history - Vancouver Island Free DailyGroup argues services deal for Squamish Nation’s Senakw project in Vancouver unlawfully approved

Andrew Prokop @awprokop

Biden said it's the highest nuclear tensions since the Cuban Missile Crisis. To me the Yom Kippur War seems a better comparison at this point, things got pretty crazy there and few remember

Andrew Prokop @awprokop

As the nuclear crisis was unfolding Nixon was depressed over Watergate and spent the night in a drunken stupor while his aides met to decide what to do without him politico.com/magazine/story…

Mark Gongloff @markgongloff

Today in "things that should have happened five months ago"

Axios @axios

BREAKING: The Uvalde, Texas, school district said it has suspended its entire police force in the fallout of the Robb Elementary School shooting earlier this year. https://t.co/LUODLPPyeN

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

If Saudi Arabia, one of the worst violators of human rights in the world, wants to partner with Russia to jack up US gas prices, it can get Putin to defend its monarchy. We must pull all US troops out of Saudi Arabia, stop selling them weapons & end its price-fixing oil cartel.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

This is why I think if China wants to take Taiwan they'll start with a blockade and then do the buildup during the blockade.

Decker Eveleth @dex_eve

Really feels like many of the people tearing their hair out about an imminent PRC invasion of Taiwan imagine that the PRC could wake up one day and decide to invade when in reality you'd be looking at like six months of incredibly obvious military preparation.

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

I wrote this article about tactical urbanism for Cycling Utah. Im not gonna debate my safety with idiotic traffic engineers and planners who are trying to get businesses their workers faster at my lifes expense cyclingutah.com/advocacy/when-…

Mike Duncan @mikeduncan

Fire it back up??? The old Revolutions podcast machine hasn’t even been powered down yet!

Brooklyn Scarf Reclamation Service @chefesque

@mikeduncan have you ever thought about firing up the old Revolutions podcast machine again to do a series on the Iranian Revolution? It would be incredibly timely and probably helpful for folks to understand the current situation.