Favorite Rejects 2022-10-14

Antonio Arellano @AntonioArellano

BREAKING: Texas Sheriff says that because Ron DeSantis tricked migrants into flying to Martha's Vineyard, they should now be able to STAY in the US under a "U Visa", which is for victims of a crime. Evil always backfires.

SpaceX @SpaceX

Starship on the pad at Starbase

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

With India rapidly shifting away from coal, the vast majority of new coal power being added in the world now is in China.

Bloomberg @business

Sweden’s incoming government will ask state-run utility Vattenfall to plan and procure new nuclear power stations

trib.alBloomberg - Are you a robot?

Marika Katanuma @marikakatanuma

Japan is set to change a 19th-century law deciding the paternity of a child born after divorce and also end a ban on pregnant women remarrying within 100 days of divorce with @IsabelRTokyo

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

Alec Stapp @AlecStapp

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Ashley Parker @AshleyRParker

Trump was a leader who knew he had lost — who was repeatedly told he had lost and who privately admitted he had lost — yet who plunged ahead with a calculated and deliberate plan that shook the foundations of the very democracy he had sworn to uphold.

washingtonpost.comAnalysis | Jan. 6 hearing shows Trump knew he lost — even while claiming otherwiseThe evidence portrays an American president who embarked on a premeditated plan to refuse to cede power regardless of the election results.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Actually a very telling moment — if you see something on the internet that makes you think “I can’t believe that would happen” it’s worth your time to actually check whether it happened.

Daniel Dale @ddale8

The image posted by Cruz is fake, not a real Atlantic article. (So: parody the senator is citing as evidence the left is beyond parody.) https://t.co/JdCO1USjz5

Alec Stapp @AlecStapp

State capacity is good, actually

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

POV: You can’t replenish your missile sticks because of sanctions. https://t.co/dlFtggI3pf

AFP News Agency @AFP

#BREAKING Putin says more 'massive' missile strikes against Ukraine not necessary https://t.co/Ec7urV8kdt

Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin

"On the rare occasions when their conversation veered away from epithets, paranoia, and bigotry, they expressed a desire to create a Latino coalition that would grow in influence and power."

newyorker.comThe L.A. City Council and the Limits of Identity PoliticsThe ongoing scandal pits old-school ethnic politics against the multiracial progressivism of young upstart politicians.

Mike Sington @MikeSington

“Don’t let anybody know where you are!” Never before seen video: Nancy expresses concern to Mike Pence about his safety, all while Trump was stoking violence against Pence.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

There’s a sense in which Biden is cashing the “America First” checks that Trump could mostly only write. https://t.co/AAibrmmrb5

Seva @SevaUT

imagine if a year ago biden said he would decimate russia’s army with a rounding error of the defense budget and decapitate china’s microchips industry with a single piece of export control regulation

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

By the same token if you’d told people in 2016 that a Trump presidency would lead to inflation, great power conflict, and an elevated risk of nuclear war I think that would have sounded about right. And yet!