Favorites April 25 2021

Bloomberg Politics @bpolitics

The U.S. will send India raw materials for vaccines and step up financing aid for Covid-19 shot production, joining European countries in helping stem the world’s biggest surge in cases

trib.alBloomberg - Are you a robot?

This is great news

'Weird Alex' Pareene @pareene

There's a lot of competition but Republicans creating a right to run over protesters is one of the most alarming trends in American politics right now

newrepublic.comThe Right to Crash Cars Into PeopleHow Republicans across the country came to endorse a terrorist tactic against protesters

Not a great look

Neoliberal 🌐 @ne0liberal

Every year, except for 2000-2001, a majority of Americans have believed that crime has gone up

Needless to say crime has gone down for most of the last 20 years

John Scalzi @scalzi

Project "Paint America's Grandpa Joe Biden As a Woke Screaming Commie" coming along swimmingly, I see

huffpost.comBefuddled Larry Kudlow Rails That Biden Will Force Americans To Guzzle ‘Plant-Based Beer’So no more beer made of grains, yeast and hops? Oh, wait ...

Charles Stross points out that you can’t really ferment blood, I’m a bit worried about how he knows that. Also, if you’re wondering, this is because of a purposefully misleading article being turned into a right wing meme.

Ars Technica @arstechnica

Children of Chernobyl cleanup crew don’t have excess mutations arstechnica.com/science/2021/0… by @j_timmer

arstechnica.comChildren of Chernobyl cleanup crew don’t have excess mutationsA deep look into the genetic damage left by the disaster.

This was an interesting follow up to the nuclear power flop article from a few days ago.

Michael Hobbes @RottenInDenmark

So um this explains like 90% of what's going on in American politics right now link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Previous American generations thought they were different from their parents. Millennials, appear to actually be different from their parents.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Not a joke, folks. Ten years ago Tesla was seen as an example of doomed socialism and how libs don’t understand the government can’t do anything right. But now you can buy an EV and tell yourself you’re owning the libs.

slate.comRomney Decides That Thriving Electric-Car Startup Tesla Is a “Loser”In one of the sharper lines of Wednesday night’s presidential debate, Mitt Romney jabbed President Obama over his green-jobs investments, saying, “You...

The linked article is about Romney’s statement in the 2012 debate. Tesla’s success is hard to deny at this point, but each step along the way the company has seemed like it’s just about to go over a cliff.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I’m gonna call this glass half full

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

46 percent of Republicans think the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict is wrong https://t.co/d6b5FW3FaB

Pardis says “big yikes”

Kevin M. Kruse @KevinMKruse

Giving D.C. full representation in the House and Senate is such a far-fetched, left-wing pipe dream that in 1978 it had the support of Barry Goldwater, Howard Baker, Bob Dole and Strom Thurmond, as well as the endorsement of the entire Republican Party in its 1976 platform.

This kinda makes me wanna research why it didn't pass back in 1976

Alternate Histories @AltHistories

Sound up for the single greatest copyright infringement mashup I’ve ever made

I admit, I can see why this wasn’t the original score.

Mike Trapp @MikeWTrapp

A statement:

When correctly performed, a non-apology can be pretty funny.

Some days I forget to put my comments in italics, sorry about that.