Favorites June 3rd 2022: FDR, Popular Policies, and Artillery

Palo Alto, May 2022

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

FDR explaining that the New Deal is the alternative to welfare, which is "a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit."

This post was part of argument about why the best way to sell progressive ideas to americans is by using a center-right framing, as FDR did for the New Deal. I had heard this before. Research indicates this strategy helps with moderates and conservatives doesn't even hurt support among liberals

Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin

This piece is about gun control but these referendum results indicate that democrats’ failure to push marijuana legalization at the national level is them leaving $20 bills on the ground nytimes.com/2022/06/03/ups…

Remember this is polling of Republican districts, Democratic leadership is just too old to get on board with this.

B. Allen-Ebrahimian @BethanyAllenEbr

NEW: Twitter told Axios that recent Twitter campaigns targeting female journalists of Chinese descent at the NYT, New Yorker, and elsewhere are part of the "Spamouflage" network, which Twitter has previously attributed to China state-backed actors

axios.comReport: China-linked Twitter harassment targets female Asian journalists who work for western news outletsThe campaign appears to be part of Chinese government efforts to silence criticism of Beijing abroad.

What a horrible but also oddly specific kind of harassment for a nation-state to engage in.

Julian Röpcke🇺🇦 @JulianRoepcke

Sign of hope? Russian propagandists with Tos-1 flamethrower. 50 seconds after the first launch, Ukrainian counter artillery fire begins. 130 seconds after the first launch, they are running for their lives.

50 Seconds to begin counter fire? That seems crazy fast!

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Solarpunk cafe!!

Solarpunk: Techno-utopian, which is the opposite of what people initially think when they hear ‘punk’.

Threads

• Thread about how some California appellate court judges resigned because someone sued arguing that they've been too slow in handling criminal cases. A good and unusual outcome.