Favorite Rejects 2022-12-29

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Communist Party Riksdag members 100 years ago, back when even Swedish Communists dressed very formally.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

There's been a total collapse of reading comprehension on the internet — this New Yorker article is *criticizing* the group of people it is writing about.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

A big part of the current pressure at the border is specifically people fleeing Latin American leftist regimes, which has traditionally been a cause US conservatives sympathize with.

Zolan Kanno-Youngs @KannoYoungs

“Cubans and Nicaraguans, who cannot be swiftly expelled, outnumbered migrants from the Northern Triangle countries — Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras — a situation that would have been unheard-of even a year ago.” https://t.co/OUwlpuO4xF @mirjordan

Ben Halle @bhalle87

This is categorically false. @USDOT issued the largest fines in the history of the consumer protection office — helping return hundreds of millions of dollars to hundreds of thousand of passengers. transportation.gov/briefing-room/…

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr) @doctorow

@GaryBleck @_Treppy_ @fearlessgirl82 @davidsirota @SecretaryPete Mayo Pete has "yet to fine any U.S. airline a single dollar for unpaid refunds, flight cancellations, or systematic violations of consumer protection law, and has issued fewer enforcement orders in 2021 than in any single year of the Trump and Obama administrations."

Liqian Ren @liqian_ren

Thailand offering free vaccine shot (mostly mRNA not available in China) to travelers from China. Vaccine tourism will be on for 2023.

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

This is an interesting admission that public health has become a political movement more than a field based on medicine or science per se.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I should practice what I preach more in terms of positivity and say how glad I am that @DCist does so much helpful workaday local news coverage in a time when that’s vanishing in big parts of the country.

dcist.comHere Are The New Laws Going Into Effect In D.C., Maryland, And Virginia In 2023As of Jan. 1 possession of small amounts of marijuana will no longer be illegal in Maryland, DC government workers will get more paid leave, and Virginia’s grocery tax will decrease.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

calmdownben.comRomanian Cops Did Not Find Andrew Tate Because Of His Greta Thunberg VideoThis is a lesson in media failure and misinformation.