Favorites February 20th 2022
Biden has handled Ukraine crisis incredibly well. Pursued diplomacy the entire way, armed Ukraine, refusal to commit any U.S. forces to Ukraine, call bullshit on Putin’s obvious attempts at setting up a false pretext for war. I’m incredibly thankful he’s there and not Trump.
Competence in our elected officials is nice, things could still go very badly, but I don't think it'll be because of US missteps.
What a scandal. For months if not years, the CDC has been collecting wastewater data for cities and states—which is the *best* data for predicting a local COVID surge, far better than tests or positivity or cases—but not publishing it.
The justification was that the data "wasn't ready for prime time," which definitely doesn't seem like the right way to be thinking for the first 2 years of a pandemic.
I think I end up in a lot of arguments with people who call themselves socialists because what they mean by socialism isn’t “egalitarian economic system” but “land where there are no tradeoffs, no one has to work, and Mom keeps making me hot pockets forever” https://t.co/ZEzXIsoEdU
Terry Taplin🚰🏳️🌈🥑🌹🚲🚍✍️🏾 @TaplinTerry
Dear fellow Americans: Canadians are not bound by our laws. They are citizens of their own proud sovereign nation with its own rich and distinct legal culture based on ice, Tim Hortons, and genocide instead of oil, Arbys, and genocide.
nilay patel @reckless
It was a bail hearing for an organizer of the Canadian Truck protest, one of the Canadians seemed to be confused about which country's laws they're bound by. Reminds me again of Neal Stephenson's point about American Legal Culture being exported via Starsky and Hutch reruns.
