Favorite Rejects 2022-11-25

Strong Towns @StrongTowns

Mandates have created more parking than can be used even on the busiest shopping day of the year. Rather than allow all the vacant pavement to make parking minimums look *foolish* or *wasteful* we made this advertising campaign to get people to park more! #BlackFridayParking

Agathe Demarais @AgatheDemarais

🇷🇺 - Sanctions against Russia are very much working [updated with latest data] • Real GDP, retail trade and vehicle manufacturing are all dropping off a cliff • Russia is heading towards ~4% recession in 2022 and in 2023, complicating financing of war in Ukraine

NEXTA @nexta_tv

For the second day in a row, China has recorded an explosive increase in coronavirus infections. In the city of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province, which has the largest number of cases, the construction of a quarantine center for 80,000 people has begun.

Sam Rosenfeld @sam_rosenfeld

Great @JasonDeParle piece on the brief and wondrous life of the expanded CTC. Manchin’s the proximate reason for its expiration, and inflation the key context. But the program’s surprisingly anemic popularity (net negative among nonparents) also crucial.

nytimes.comThe Expanded Child Tax Credit Is Gone. The Battle Over It Remains.A pandemic-era program that sent monthly checks of up to $300 per child to most families drove down poverty rates. Amid new research about its merits, some Democrats are vowing to bring it back.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Bilingual politician move, answer questions in the less-spoken language to make the clips less compelling if you’re anticipating the overall thrust of the content is going to be bad for you.

Annie Bergeron-Oliver @AnnieClaireBO

On here we go. PMJT has taken the stand at the Emergencies Act Inquiry. Trudeau starts by answering all questions, like whether he wants to swear on a bible, in French. This inquiry has had very little French.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

They will try anything in the UK except change land use policy. slowboring.com/p/the-uk-reall…

Sky News @SkyNews

Rishi Sunak mulls crackdown on foreign students to reduce immigration https://t.co/Q3EAo7J6Jp

glibdem 🏙️🚈 @spyingonhope

@mattyglesias How dare you! They are changing their land use policy to ensure less housing is built

inews.co.ukRishi Sunak facing ‘significant’ Tory rebellion on housing targets as Levelling Up bill returnsSenior rebels have warned Rishi Sunak that he must ‘stick to his promises’ by scrapping top-down housing targets, which became a key policy pledge from Liz Truss before she was forced to resign

corwood industries (atonal) @revhowardarson

[spending 16 hours a day in the soup aisle of the grocery store, screaming at Campbells] there's this very funny delusion that America can keep its edge over China slightly, but all the United States manufactures is soup

posting forever @posting_forever

there's this very funny delusion that America can keep its edge over China slightly. but that's not the case. Our engineers are all software-oriented and squatted on by the market to make silly little apps for fat-fingered bourgeois children

Johan Norberg @johanknorberg

Do you remember @BrankoMilan's Elephant Chart, revealing unequal rewards and the rise of the 1%? Since then, the elephant has lost its trunk. Since 2008, incomes of the poorest increased by 7% a year, the middle by 4-6% and the richest by less than 2% ft.com/content/15da78…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I guess to me if you have multiple divorces and high-profile non-marital relationships and kids with three different women and you’re also a legendary workaholic, that’s probably where I would look to explain why your relationship with the older kids may not be great.

Northwest Urbanist @NWUrbanist

#BlackFridayParking Every excess retail parking space is a failure for land use policy, the climate, wildlife, the economy, municipal finances, and public health. Black Friday reveals how big retailers build too much parking. Let's end parking minimums and retrofit suburbia.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I believe that mandatory parking regulations are inappriopriate no matter how car-oriented a city is, but that said it's absurd that DC and NYC (!) are lagging behind Lexington and Gainesville in this area.

Parking Reform Network @Parking_Reform

In the last 31 days: 🎉 Cambridge, MA 🎉 Culver City, CA 🎉 Lexington, KY 🎉 Nashville, TN (old city limits) 🎉Anchorage, AK And next week Gainesville, FL will join the list 🎉 It’s happening, folks. It’s happening. https://t.co/0aJ9Vurrzm

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

If your main takeaway from the Iraq War was "America bad" instead of "Invasions are bad", I'm sorry, but you're an idiot