Favorites March 5th 2022
Russian Warship, Go Fuck Yourself 🇺🇦@spooknine
Even in the worst days of Afghanistan for the Soviets, this kind of loss rate took 2-3 months minimum.
The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent
⚡️ (Update) Ukrainian Air Force says 5 Russian aircraft, 4 helicopters were downed on March 5.
Ukraine now claims a total kill count of 44 planes and 44 helicopters.
10:27 PM · Mar 5, 2022
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That's a lot of aircraft. Here's further analysis. Plus they're abandoning tanks, soldiers may just be taking off their uniforms and walking to Poland. Surface to Air missile systems too, as if they needed even more.
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
Might wanna fund this a little better folks
Rachel Cohrs @rachelcohrs
NEW: The White House's Covid-19 budget crunch is so serious that the White House has delayed buying more than 9 million courses of Pfizer's antiviral pill. This is about half of the total the White House has publicly promised to buy https://t.co/GZ33TdoVH6
12:33 AM · Mar 6, 2022
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Don't forget there's still this other whole other crisis that we're only *almost* done with.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Having land use policy made at a hyper-local level is not an inherent aspect of democracy.
They do it differently in Japan and even in far-off exotic Canada. The YIMBY proposition is we should have a larger state government role in land use.
11:05 AM · Mar 5, 2022
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People know that allowing denser development is good in aggregate, they only oppose it when you give them a chance to oppose it in their back yard. Move it to the state level and you get the outcome you want democratically.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
McConnell tried really hard to get his caucus not to talk about their policy agenda but Scott wouldn’t stop talking then either.
Alan Rappeport @arappeport
At one point during his emotional presentation, Zelensky paused to ask one of the American lawmakers to mute themselves.
“Senator Rick Scott, please mute your mic,” he said. https://t.co/ElfsEAtQ4y
9:03 PM · Mar 5, 2022
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There were a fair number of jokes about this incident. (Recall Rick Scott is the Republican senator promising to unpopular policies if republicans win.)
Jason Goldman@goldman
THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD! https://t.co/aASDk00Or5
Acyn @Acyn
Mike Lindell announces a class action lawsuit against “all machines” https://t.co/ZokLXQhNuN
1:01 AM · Mar 6, 2022
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Jason Goldman@goldman
Cable News: I’m available for comment on the pros and cons on what happens to a society that lives under a prohibition against machines made in the likeness of the mind of man. DMs open.
1:16 AM · Mar 6, 2022
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That's a Dune reference folks.
