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April 2022

Relatively short email today, but a bunch of threads at the end.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar

Foxes are notoriously litigious so I’m glad the Washington Post ran this story by its attorneys. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/…

Have some respect, that fox is innocent till proven guilty!

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

We did austerity, we hiked interest rates a bit, and now inflation is going to come down. I guess macroeconomics works.

Turns out it was transitory the whole time? Maybe the fed's 50 point hike was exactly right?

FreshMouthHat @Popehat

The shooter’s ideology, phrased somewhat less pungently, is @GOP mainstream now.

vice.comRacist ‘Replacement Theory’ Is Bleeding Into GOP Senate CampaignsMultiple Republican Senate candidates have pushed claims that sound awfully like the white supremacist “great replacement” theory.

There was a terrorist attack in Buffalo NY, white nationalist who live streamed it. (Strictly speaking, it was the mathematically illiterate white replacement theory, often promoted by Tucker Carlson). Twitch took down the stream within 2 minutes of it becoming violent, and by the way, taking it down was probably illegal in Texas under their dumb new law. On the other hand, what's the point of censoring it fearing copycats if the murderer is inspired by Fox News' #1 primetime show.

Threads

• Short thread regarding formula imports and trade negotiations thereof

• Great thread about the importance of actually enforcing laws against blocking bike lanes. If a bike blocked a car lane, there would be a response pretty quickly, but cars routinely block bike lanes for hours at a time in major cities.

• Thread summarizing California Court of Appeals opinion that may significantly defang CEQA.