Favorites June 5th 2022

Pistachio Sampler at Mado, Toronto, Canada

Gotta admit, having your restaurant’s name on all your plates is a brilliant marketing move. (If the food is interesting enough to photograph)

Jeff Mason @jeffmason1

SCOOP: @POTUS will use executive action Monday to kickstart solar projects in the U.S. that are stalled by a Commerce Dept tariff probe, and he will invoke the Defense Production Act to spur domestic production of solar panels and other clean energy projects, sources tell me

If you weren’t following, solar panel imports were being blocked by a tarrif dispute with China. Solar panels are important though, so it's good to see this getting started again.

Oliver Carroll @olliecarroll

Zelensky actually went right into the Severodonetsk salient. Remarkable

"This is like if FDR went to the Battle of the Bulge". If I'm understanding this recent map correctly, this is the *most* surrounded part of Ukraine's military right now. Wild. This *actor* has really risen to the occasion.

John Pfaff @JohnFPfaff

These are the moments where I watch the infamous 1988 Willie Horton ad, which Atwater apologized for on his deathbed for being so racist, and find it staggering that its racism would barely merit comment in 2022. https://t.co/g1zHtC2Rng

Roger Sollenberger found true love, suckers @SollenbergerRC

NEW: Trump-endorsed Senate candidate Blake Masters admits the country has a gun violence problem. His analysis: “Black people, frankly.” Me @thedailybeast https://t.co/79aZ4Fxhnr

Yikes.

Threads

• Thread regarding comparing car tailpipe emissions with tire dust pollutants. I had heard previously that electric cars make up for not having a tailpipe by being heavier, thus emitting more particulates, but that may not be quite right. It's not just grams of tire vs grams of exhaust.

• 33 years since the Tank Man photo was taken, and this short thread gets into the details. Did you know that 6 different photographers captured that moment? I did not.