Favorite Rejects 2022-11-14

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff

New Substack post on the long afterlife of Malthusianism and why NIMBYs keep saying expensive cities are full

resnikoff.substack.comOn Folk MalthusianismLos Angeles is Not Full

Charlie Stross @cstross

It's ALMOST enough to make me hope the Republicans get a wafer-thin majority in the House, forcing them to obstruct abortion rights for two years and keep the issue on the boil until 2024. (At which point they'll get a kicking.) Spoiler: I don't hate American women that much.

Axios @axios

Biden believes Congress must codify Roe v. Wade, top aide says https://t.co/Bf3SQU7qnt

Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin

I think Musk saw the verification regime as a political favor done for one adversary (journalists) by another (lib twitter staff) that allowed the former to accrue undeserved status when it was really a business development and marketing plan that worked pretty well for twitter

Dan Federman @TheFederman

A @nextdoorsv story in two parts.

Popehat @Popehat

Sure seems like the GOP has declared open season on Trump. But it’s going to be like watching someone try to take their own appendix out with a spoon.

politico.comPence: Trump ‘endangered me and my family’The former vice president also described Trump’s words and actions as “reckless.”

Linette Lopez @lopezlinette

Sentencing is Friday, y'all.

John Carreyrou @JohnCarreyrou

Elizabeth Holmes’s own aunt, who had invested in Theranos, provided a victim impact statement. She wants her niece to do real time.

Scott Simpson @scottsimpson

Tough week Sam Bankman-Fried but TIA for giving us 10 great hours of Hulu in 2024

hronir @revhowardarson

what's being called the "edgy" lefist viewpoint -- the one which posts "the United States killed Gadhaffi to stop the United States of Africa" or which defends North Korean and Syrian vote margins as reflecting real democracy -- did not really exist in 2003

Jeet Heer @HeerJeet

@golikehellmachi @CulRMartin Yeah, it was the edgly leftists who voted for the Iraq War. No, wait, that was Clinton and Biden.

Senator Scott Wiener @Scott_Wiener

Early analysis shows ~77% of SF voters voted for either Prop D or Prop E or both. Both D & E proposed to streamline housing permits. (Prop E didn’t actually do so but was marketed as such.) So a huge majority of SF voters supported streamlining. One more reason not to give up.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Honestly I think if Republicans don’t want to raise the debt ceiling that fine it should just not be raised and Biden should ignore it and keep dispensing the funds congress has appropriated.

Chris Brennan @allpointsnorth

If someone told me that Elon was wandering the corridors of Twitter HQ asking anyone if they’d seen Jenkins, as he’s responsible for all the builds and he couldn’t find him anywhere I’d sort of believe it at this point.

Bearica Wall 🇧🇸 @ercwl

Is Sam typing his thread in slow motion and deleting select tweets simultaneously so that bots won’t detect it? Is that the reason he’s doing this?

Jim Tankersley @jimtankersley

A bit lost in the flurry of Biden-Xi's meeting: America and China are officially talking again about climate change, after months of hiatus:

nytimes.comU.S. and China Restart Climate TalksDiscussions about combating climate change between the world’s two largest economies, and two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, had been frozen since August.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Yes. Declare the entire sequel trilogy non-canon and redo them with the Thrawn storyline

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

Force Awakens: It was tired fan service with interesting characters Last Jedi: Proposed to do interesting things with interesting characters but didn't follow through with its convictions Rise of Skywalker: Total mess https://t.co/wuM0fmqMhR