Favorite Rejects 2022-10-19

Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart

This economy still isn't showing much signs of deceleration. Good news for workers, business etc. Perhaps bad news for investors waiting around for a slowdown to cause the Fed to pivot. From today's @markets newsletter: bloomberg.com/account/newsle…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@MattZeitlin @EthanBWinter As I like to say, the United States of America is the Saudi Arabia of oil. slowboring.com/p/its-time-to-…

sarah jeong @sarahjeong

At this point, for people who live in Portland, the van abductions feel like a bad memory, a piece of weird local news lost in the mists of the terrible year that was 2020.

theverge.comThe Portland Van AbductionsIn 2020, protests against police brutality were happening everywhere. So why did the federal government send troopers in camo to Portland of all places?

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Let Biden be Biden! His off-script stuff is better politics than what's on the prompter, I think because he's older and worse-educated than his staff putting him closer to the electorate.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost

White House aides work hard to avoid off-script moments for Biden. But at fundraisers, he muses freely, and the results are revealing. https://t.co/sjg9L8620J

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I was stressed last week so I over-indulged in late-night snacks, but I guess some people have a different approach.

philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_

Arizona GOP candidate who said he wanted “our children protected [from] the progressive left" was arrested for masturbating outside of a preschool “I’m sorry. I fucked up. I’m really stressed.” Officials say it's too late to remove him from the ballot https://t.co/fzZN0EgItp

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

It turns out this guy would have been right.

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

If you time traveled an economist from 2006 (or 1996) and told him (1) cpi inflation was 6.8 percent, (2) the fed funds rate was near zero, and (3) the fed wasn’t planning to hike for several more months, they would have thought the world had gone crazy.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Cities should address their fiscal issues by allowing for unlimited construction of the vacant luxury high-rises owned by foreign speculators that I'm always hearing there is unlimited demand for. Use the extra tax revenue to cut sales tax and improve city services.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Me to the vacant condo truthers.

Michael Clemens @m_clem

It's real. The world might be heading toward eradicating malaria. The most promising inoculation comes from the team that created the @AstraZeneca covid vaccine. By @apoorva_nyc featuring my brilliant colleague @Prof_Yadav_SCM —>

nytimes.comAt Long Last, Can Malaria Be Eradicated?Two new vaccines may finally turn back an ancient plague. But in unexpected ways, their arrival also complicates the path to ending the disease.

Broken Hero on Last Chance Drive 🇺🇦🌁🇨🇦🇹🇼🚀 @accidentalflyer

If China cannot hide movement of quarantining grade school kids, think they can hide mobilization for an amphibious invasion of Taiwan, which will need at least 200k+ troops just for combat roles?

Songpinganq @songpinganq

CHINA -- Hundreds of buses shipping tens of thousands of primary school children to Covid quarantine camps now. Authority are gonna put them in solitary confinement. Pingdingshan City, Henan Province October 19th, 2022. https://t.co/iqIta6SgIh

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles

The sniggering here is so revealing. Red state Americans literally do not realise how much more violent their states are, certainly than New York and the West Coast

danny @dabbs346

Finally, a Democrat calls out a Republican on the truth about crime rates -- violent crime rates are higher in Oklahoma than New York and Californa. This will be fact checked. #okgovdebate https://t.co/lm0KTpgViT

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Glad you asked! Crime is higher in cities and almost every major city in America has a Democratic Party mayor, but Oklahoma City and Tulsa happen to be two GOP-governed exceptions to that rule. https://t.co/TtUNoZm2bV

jb @BroHo_Rhapsody

@mattyglesias Where in the states are the majority of these deaths occurring?

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Nope, Racist Twitter’s go-to explanation doesn’t work here — Oklahoma is whiter than New York. https://t.co/4YqiFFilpQ

Pinaceae @PinaceaePinus

@mattyglesias 3,2,1 till @Steve_Sailer drops a demographic bomb in this thread