Favorite Rejects 2023-05-28

https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1662549718671687681

– Chongqing is only the largest city in the world because it's official borders are 64 times larger than LA.

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1662815183360737282

– Bari Weiss' 'Free Press' is a news outlet devoted nothing but culture war topics, other than abortion.

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1662836476621606914

– Getting rid of testing is a way of destroying the evidence of descrimination.

https://twitter.com/jdcmedlock/status/1662837386395648000

– If the Republicans have decided that in-kind benefits (SNAP) are no longer good, then it's a good opportunity to pivot to cash benefits, since they'd oppose either.

https://twitter.com/maxdubler/status/1662837810406227971

– Barbie houses have zero staircases

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1662892301591478274

– Given that we passed a debt ceiling increase, it's not quite as stupid that we didn't get rid of the debt celiing when we had the chance.

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1662914539711520770

– Quality dunk on Musk regarding his recent willingness to censor for authortarian regimes: "Look, I’m not the one who bought Twitter amidst a blaze of proclamations about free speech principles."

https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1662951392657674242

– "This debt ceiling fight was like if a guy walked into a restaurant with a ticking bomb, and threatened to blow everyone up if he didn't get a free peppermint."

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1662969510423412738

– The musk situation is very funny