Favorite Rejects March 13th 2023

Posters Remedy🚰 @UrbanLandRent

The state of California needs to reckon with the influence corrupt networks of housing nonprofits have on housing politics. Both AHF in Los Angeles and TODCO in San Francisco are very influential among progressive activists and politicians.

T. Greer @Scholars_Stage

New Essay: Watch Xi Jinping Slowly Strangle the Dengist Economic Paradigm scholars-stage.org/the-slow-death… Slogan by slogan Xi Jinping is tearing down Dengist program. Now in his crosshairs is the central slogan of the Deng era: "take economic construction as the central task."

scholars-stage.orgWatch Xi Jinping Slowly Strangle the Dengist Economic ParadigmXi Jinping’s decision to openly label the United States the source of China’s ills rolled through the newsletters, wire services, and commentators on China this week. Much has been written about th…

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

This is another reason why the goal should be a forced divestiture to new, Western owners rather than a ban per se. The point of threatening a ban should be to give the president leverage to get a deal.

gizmodo.comWe Found 28,000 Apps Sending TikTok Data. Banning the App Won’t Help.Banning the TikTok app is like throwing a rock in the Mississippi river and hoping it stops the flow of water. The structure of the internet is designed to share data with anyone who wants it, China or otherwise. A real fix has to look far beyond one company.

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

I cant recall labor shifting like this in eons but its clear more and more union members think keeping housing production high with prevailing wages is key to growing unionization.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Young men are good if you’re looking for a group to storm an entrenched enemy position or catch fish, but banking should be handled exclusively by middle aged moms who always have some band-aids in their purse.

Neoliberal 🌐🇺🇦 @ne0liberal

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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

For decades, people said if we just had the political will to write bigger checks, we could have all sorts of great stuff. Well, now we have the will and we write the checks. But without the capacity to build, big checks do not create anything; they just push up prices.

Marc Andreessen @pmarca

This is why I say building new infrastructure is now illegal. It doesn't matter how much money we pour into things like this, they simply will not come to be. https://t.co/g5ydYT4646

Globulous Gutgurgle 🐀 @GGutgurgle

@AlecStapp When I use "Right To Build" as a slogan instead of "ban Single Family Zoning Restrictions for increased Quality of Life"