Favorites October 10th 2021

A rock entering Earth’s atmosphere from space at 15km a second, near the Arctic Ocean, Longyearbyen, Norway 🇳🇴
🎥Ig/chiccomattos
Noah Smith call them "Tiny warning shots", reminders to improve our space program.

The thing that has weakened my optimism the most in recent months is seeing the broad and deep opposition to a permanent child tax allowance.
Americans are stuck in a scarcity mindset. If we can't get rid of that, we're headed back to the 70s.

Catherine Rampell @crampell
If you click through you can see the detailed stats, quite a downer
It's a warning for like, half the state

“You… think firefighters are… very stoic, brave people, and just realizing how scared they are with these fires is really eye-opening in terms of how bad the fires are and how much worse they’ll get. These are the people we expect to save us, and at a certain point they can’t.”

NYT Climate @nytclimate
I'm hopeful that we can improve our forest management in the future.
This is from back in September, but I really enjoyed it, well worth the read.