Favorites May 8th 2022

UC Santa Cruz Botanic Garden, March 2021

Jessie Singer @JessieSingerNYC

Pedestrian fatalities are skyrocketing with the proliferation of SUVs, but @NHTSAgov refuses to regulate the size, weight, and shape of vehicles.

As suggested by the follow-up tweet, if you'd like to tell the government to consider pedestrian safety as part of car safety ratings, they're currently taking comments.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur

An easy way for Democrats to make sure reconciliation flops is to keep pushing Manchin on the BBB policies he has repeatedly and explicitly ruled out, instead of focusing on the ones he says he still wants. This 👇 belongs in the former category. There aren’t 50 votes for it.

Eleanor Mueller @eleanor_mueller

NEW: Sens. Patty Murray and Tim Kaine are shopping a new version of the child care provisions that were in Build Back Better. The revamp would cost about half as much — $150B-$200B instead of $400B — and address concerns raised by Manchin and others. https://t.co/CMV25uQDvd

Obviously Manchin's policy positions are not ideal, but he's pretty clearly not going to change his mind. I'd like some legislation to pass please.

Bianna Golodryga @biannagolodryga

Scholz: "We learned a central lesson from the disastrous history of our country. No more war, genocide or tyranny. In the present situation that can mean only one thing: we defend justice and freedom — at the side of the victim. We support Ukraine"

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Good stuff.

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• Short thread about an economic success story I hadn't heard about previously, Botswana.