Favorite Rejects 2022-10-15

inverted vibe curve: burgertown must be defended @PatBlanchfield

Police at Hartsfield-Jackson have been stopping passengers boarding planes demanding to search their luggage, and seizing - and keeping - cash. They call these stops - which overwhelmingly target people of color - "consensual encounters."

apnews.comComedians sue over drug search program at Atlanta airportATLANTA (AP) — Comedians Eric André and Clayton English are challenging a police program at the Atlanta airport they say violates the constitutional rights of airline passengers, particularly Black passengers, through racial profiling and coercive searches just as they are about to board their fligh…

The Atlantic @TheAtlantic

"I believed that Trump’s involvement in the insurrection was morally odious but outside the realm of what could make for a criminal prosecution," writes @qjurecic. "Now I’m not so sure."

on.theatln.tcThe January 6 Hearings Changed My MindHouse investigators have come far closer than I anticipated to pinning both moral and legal responsibility for the insurrection directly on Donald Trump himself.

AbortionistBitchHat @Popehat

I like to imagine the Slim Jim marketing people have been locked in a room for 24 hours with the boss screaming YOU ARE NOT LEAVING THIS ROOM UNTIL WE HAVE A PLAN FOR WHAT TO DO WITH THIS and people are crying

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. https://t.co/fagjtkxxoX

Neoliberal 🌐🇺🇦 @ne0liberal

The Left YIMBY/Left NIMBY civil war is a great way to distinguish between left folks focused on solutions that help people vs left folks focused on obscure aesthetic/culture fights with people they despise.

Bruce Anderson @bruceanderson

Sobering new study from Yale: since Covid vaccines became widely available, the mortality rate of registered Republicans in Ohio & Florida climbed by 33% compared to 10% rise among Democrats.

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Chris Freiman @cafreiman

An incredible take from Marx’s mom

Adeki @AgitatedAdeki

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

The reason this is interesting is not because Grassley is going to lose (probably not) and not even because the Selzer poll has been accurate (though it has been) but because she's a pollster who will publish what her numbers tell her and not herd toward the conventional wisdom.

Brianne Pfannenstiel @brianneDMR

NEW IOWA POLL Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley: 46% Democrat Mike Franken: 43% Someone else: 4% Not sure: 3% Margin of error: 3.9% https://t.co/HJvMTYEV3P

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I haven’t had a chance to scrutinize the claims in this article, but the general topic of old-fashioned collusion (perhaps using new tools as this story claims) is underrated I think relative to the pursuit of exotic new antitrust theories.

propublica.orgRent Going Up? One Company’s Algorithm Could Be Why.Texas-based RealPage’s YieldStar software helps landlords set prices for apartments across the U.S. With rents soaring, critics are concerned that the company’s proprietary algorithm is hurting competition.

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

Not to knock against wood but if there was an actual nuke attack even being considered in Ukraine we'd see some kind of arsenal build up by the border. Like Russia isn't going to fire a missile, it would be by air.

David Sacks @DavidSacks

If one of my companies told me that it had a 25% chance of going out of business, we would drop everything and focus on that. Intelligence analysts say there’s a 25% chance of nuclear war and Biden is in Oregon.

Bloomberg @business

Taiwan remained a strong theme, with Xi refusing to renounce the use of force. "The complete reunification of our country must be realized and it can without a doubt be realized." For more analysis: trib.al/bTVCkOb