Favorites May 25 2021

b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie

this is an incredible feature which also has me thinking about how interesting it is that the Tulsa massacre has gone from fairly obscure to basically mainstream knowledge in a few short years

nytimes.comWhat the Tulsa Race Massacre DestroyedWe created a 3-D model of Greenwood, home of “Black Wall Street,” as it was before a white mob set it on fire 100 years ago.

Wow, this is really well made, it's impressive that the NYTimes can make something so complex.

Andrew Prokop @awprokop

The way you get bipartisanship on a bipartisan commission is, often, a sort of gentlemen's agreement not to make either party look too bad. Mutually assured destruction. That's ill-suited for 1/6, because only one party looks bad on that issue

vox.comAny bipartisan January 6 commission is probably doomedEven if it could pass, McConnell and McCarthy likely won’t appoint commissioners who would work in good faith.

Hopefully demcrats figure this out and move forward without it being bipartisan, they have essentially the same powers either way.

Glenn Kelman @glennkelman

1 of 15: It has been hard to convey, through anecdotes or data, how bizarre the U.S. housing market has become. For example, a Bethesda, Maryland homebuyer working with @Redfin included in her written offer a pledge to name her first-born child after the seller. She lost.

Others said it too, but I don't want to name someone's child, would you? The whole thread is interesting, inventory is up everywhere except SF and NY, where it's down, but prices are up

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

There need to be real penalties not just for the most egregious forms of misconduct but for the more routine practice of misinforming the public.

NPR @NPR

Bodycam video — which authorities withheld for 2 years — shows Louisiana state troopers stunning, punching and dragging Ronald Greene facedown on the ground before his death. Troopers initially told his family he died on impact after crashing into a tree. https://t.co/6N3b9jLTQn

I don't understand why there aren't penalties already.

Zahava Stadler @ZahavaStadler

This new working paper from @taylormattia offers a FASCINATING thought about the effects of school #segregation/#diversity on graduates' political leanings

This is uh, not what I would have expected, and there's another study that indicated the exact opposite last year.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

There is a huge collective action problem here and I would really like to see congress start considering measures to prevent US employers from cracking down on Americans’ speech to chase the China market.

Joe Xu @JoeXu

John Cena apologized in Chinese on Sina Weibo after calling Taiwan a country during an interview promoting Fast & Furious 9 https://t.co/dzRKIYgEzL

Not a great trend.

parker @pt

Big Fashion must be stopped. It is censoring my dad jeans and bankrupting our youth financially with their exclusionary pricing and morally with their necklines. Stop the madness.

Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn

The richest person in the world is now a luxury status goods titan, not a tech titan. https://t.co/IFPcgtEQVB https://t.co/StMeEwKQJ8

I was sure next in line would be one of the other tech CEOs

Kyoto 2018