Favorite Rejects 2022-12-21

M. Nolan Gray @mnolangray

It's kind of wild how California is just ceding the future to Texas.

Andrew Prokop @awprokop

The past two years have been really interesting for McConnell's legacy, complicating the "he exists only to obstruct / play crude politics / own the libs" story.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

Mitch McConnell supports important reforms to the Electoral Count Act and now he's on the Senate floor delivering a good speech on behalf of the Ukrainian cause. Merry Christmas. https://t.co/jUF9TebH8V

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

An illustration of NYC’s governance problems is that too MTA officials appear to sincerely believe they have the highest-ridership metro system in the world when it’s not even close — you see similar inaccurate claims made about Penn Station being the busiest in the world.

Jonathan Swan @jonathanvswan

This is a brilliantly executed live interview by @jaketapper -

cnn.comVideo: Tapper presses TikTok official on Uyghur genocide | CNN BusinessCNN’s Jake Tapper speaks with TikTok Head of Public Policy Michael Beckerman about attempts by US lawmakers to ban the app on government devices over security concerns.

Andrew Prokop @awprokop

It is worth pointing out that, just as with Trump/Russia, there was *a lot* of speculation about Trump's motives re: keeping classified docs and many wild theories being thrown about without much basis. Theories that do not seem to be getting confirmed washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

Donald Shoup @DonaldShoup

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Reginald Glenn ♨️ @Britonomist

I can’t stress enough that Greenwald is the worst journalist in the world; not only does he constantly lie, he lies specifically in service to Russian interests, and to normalise and downplay the invasion so much that people become too apathetic to support any action against it.

@Pwnallthethings@mastodon.social @pwnallthethings

It will come as a huge surprise to everyone, I'm sure, that this tweet is basically entirely false https://t.co/OvSaIt3DIc

Francis Fukuyama @FukuyamaFrancis

Imagine if half the US Army were killed or wounded in 10 months...

Dara Massicot @MassDara

With nearly half of the Russian Ground Forces estimated to be wounded and killed in 2022, and a major percentage of their active duty armored equipment destroyed (30-50%), they announce they need more soldiers and larger units. /19

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Is that a defense? I’m confused https://t.co/i8DEt6Pm8C

Jeremy W. Peters @jwpetersNYT

"I did not believe it for one second." That's Sean Hannity, talking about the Big Lie in his deposition in the $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox News by Dominion. https://t.co/wK220Uuhla

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I hope Musk’s recent rightward turn can help negative polarize more progressives away from the “rooftop solar will provide everything we need” vision of the future of energy.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The Russians can knock out the power grid but the oil of liberty burns on!! https://t.co/YU8RFa6xSB

Michael Salerno @MikeNJD

There’s a Hanukkah/no power metaphor sitting right there for Zelenskyy

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

No one's paying attention to Trump, and yet his approval continues to slide.

poll.qu.eduLowest Opinion Of Trump Among Voters In Seven Years, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Biden Approval Rating Climbs | Quinnipiac U…“Is it a ripple of doubt or a growing tidal wave of rejection? Former President Trump’s post presidential announcement numbers are heading in the wrong direction. You would have to go back at least six years to find less support for him from Republican, independent and American voters as a whole,” s…

Sean Tuffy @SMTuffy

Waiting until SBF to be wheels up before announcing he’s 💯 fucked is just 🤌🏼

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Fortunately my tweets are high-quality data

Ethan Mollick @emollick

We are running out of a vital resource: words! There are “only” 5 to 10 trillion high-quality words (papers, books, code) on the internet. Our AI models will have used all of that for training by 2026. Low-quality data (tweets, fanfic) will last to 2040. https://t.co/hm1EaJ6Enu https://t.co/PNsyUbPhBZ