Favorite Rejects 2023-03-31

Nathaniel Minor @nbminor

I didn’t think I’d be the guy who tweets about how the US requires more staircases in apartment buildings than most other countries, which makes them less livable, but here we are

archpaper.comWhy does American multifamily architecture look so banal?Architect and founder of Larch Lab Michael Eliason makes the case for designing buildings with a single stair, or a Point Access Block.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Ahh CHAZ, our brief and poignant experiment with Actually Existing Anarchism

Swann Marcus @SwannMarcus89

The worst part of CHAZ research is having to watch and timestamp Ashley Dorelus' stream of the shooting. She is the single most insufferable human being I have ever had to listen to and she meets multiple people who are close runners-up https://t.co/UuCRLW4N1F

Survey Center on American Life @amersurveyctr

Only 38% of Gen Zers report regularly having eaten family meals growing up. Research shows that regular family meals provide parents the opportunity to model behavior, communicate values, and establish and reinforce cultural traditions. Read more here:

ow.lyThe Class Divide in Family Dinner - The Survey Center on American LifeFamily dinners—a once ubiquitous feature of American life shared across cultural, religious, and class lines—have disappeared in many households.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Three charts stolen from @jasonfurman: — Inflation Reduction Act was distributively progressive — IRA climate provisions specifically are regressive — Carbon tax and dividend would be progressive

Neoliberal 🌐🇺🇦 @ne0liberal

Literally saying “no housing until the revolution”

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

I think what's remarkable is how overtly the GOP has really stopped even trying to be a majoritarian party. Their vote share over the past four presidential elections is 46.8%, 46.1%, 47.2%, 45.7%.

Matt Glassman @MattGlassman312

To me, this feels like the central dilemma of the GOP right now. A movement that desperately wants the philosophical mantle of popular legitimacy, but increasingly rests on counter-majoritarian systems for power.

Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma

The percentage of the US that was foreign born in 1890 was significantly higher than *it is today

MyFitnessFeelings @fitnessfeelingz

Industrial-scale, mass immigration is like lockdowns or mask mandates in that is an untested & potentially catastrophic policy, never before tried in history, which somehow normies have been memed into thinking is natural & inevitable https://t.co/YpkGURQi2v