Favorites March 28th 2022 (really this time)

Adam Klasfeld @KlasfeldReports

A federal judge finds it "more likely than not" that Trump committed felony obstruction of Congress on Jan. 6, in what he described as an attempted "coup in search of a legal theory." Story ahead, @lawcrimenews storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… Background: lawandcrime.com/jan-6-committe…

Seems pretty likely that nothing is going to come of this, which is pretty messed up. Serious people call the judge's statement 'remarkable'.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

MIT is bringing back SAT/ACT requirements and has a good explanation of why. (ht @kph3k)

mitadmissions.orgWe are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles | MIT Admissionsin order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

If you want to read a very thorough argument in favor of using testing for admissions, this is it.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

In real terms this represents a significant decline in defense spending, due to inflation.

Public Citizen @Public_Citizen

BREAKING: Biden proposes a $813,000,000,000 Pentagon budget, a $31 BILLION increase from last year’s budget.

An interesting perspective, most of the commentary about the budget talked exclusively about the nominal increase in funding.

Bellingcat @bellingcat

Bellingcat can confirm that three members of the delegation attending the peace talks between Ukraine and Russia on the night of 3 to 4 March 2022 experienced symptoms consistent with poisoning with chemical weapons. One of victims was Russian entrepreneur Roman Abramovich.

Max Colchester @MaximColch

Scoop: Abramovich suffered suspected poisoning along with Ukraine peace negotiators earlier this month. Full Story on @WSJ shortly

Roman Abramovich is a Russian diplomat/oligarch, the thread has more details. One idea I saw was that Putin is trying to warn other oligarchs not to move against him. By the way, many senior Russian officials, possibly incliding Putin are currently in nuclear bunkers according to flight data.