Favorites June 29th 2022

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David Frum @davidfrum

A lot of the job of president is doing disagreeable things to prevent even worse things

Susan Glasser @sbg1

Part of the price of Turkey giving up its objections to Sweden and Finland joining NATO was this meeting with Biden, his first of the Biden presidency. https://t.co/yJZqsg8bP1

By the way, Sweden and Finland joining NATO is just so clearly a terrible outcome for Russia, no matter how things turn out in Ukraine.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I was wondering if people were maybe making too big a deal out of rising mortgage rates, but then I looked it up and this is a genuinely unprecedented pace of increase.

Yowza! that'll hit the housing market pretty hard I suspect.

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

This is an important trend that neither side of the political spectrum loves to talk about. Government policies over the last 30 years (EITC, child tax credit, Obamacare, CHIP) have dramatically raised the living standards of bottom-quintile Americans. fullstackeconomics.com/24-charts-that…

He goes on: Conservatives don't like admitting that it worked, liberals want us to do more (and as the richest country in the world we should), but we've actually cobbled together a somewhat functional welfare state.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

OH HELL YEAH. Get on this, Biden administration!! noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-biden-ad…

Alec Stapp @AlecStapp

This is great news! Also a perfect opportunity for policymakers to launch an Operation Warp Speed 2.0 Would provide assurances on product demand and streamline the regulatory approval process 🚀 https://t.co/yDvqatUtz1

I was just harping on this recently, but now more than ever... While we're at it, can we do something about the FDA committee members who are voting against approving the new boosters? (The vote did pass, and delivery of the boosters is expected in the 'late summer')

Henry Sanderson @hjesanderson

Fascinating. Pro-Chinese agents posed as concerned local residents on social media to try and spark protests over the opening of rare earth mines in the US and Canada, a report found bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @bpolitics

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You know our local control paralysis is bad when it's the level foreign governments are trying to pull.