Favorites September 30th 2021

Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh

A man is on trial under Hong Kong’s national security law just for his speech at protests and online. What did he say? “I’d rather die speaking than live in silence,” “Give me liberty or give me death,” “liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times.”

hongkongfp.com‘Give me liberty or give me death’: T-shirts submitted as evidence at Hong Kong’s second national security trial - Hong Kong Free Press HKFPProsecutors submitted five black t-shirts printed with the words “I’d rather die speaking than live in silence” as evidence to the court on Wednesday – the second day of the city’s second national security trial where a protester has been charged with inciting secession. Defendant Ma Chun-man, 30, w…

In case you forgot what actual censorship looks like.

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

This is why it's so frustrating when people portray DC statehood as a cheap partisan trick. It would (1) enfranchise DC voters, and (2) make the Senate more demographically representative of the US. These are both good things!

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

I guess it's boring to talk about this, but people tend to underrate Dems' degree of difficulty. When the Senate conveys such a large advantage to rural voters and one party does much better with those voters, the other party is going to have trouble having a functional majority. https://t.co/3t8eN3naxZ

DC Statehood is such a clear necessity, and the original justification of enduring distance any one state no longer makes sense.

Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal

So... This bears note. Among Manchin's conditions for moving to reconciliation: that the "Federal Reserve end quantitative easing." I'm obliged to point out here that the Fed is by statute an independent agency. h/t @ylanmui. @burgessev had the scoop.

It is happening anyway, but it's a pretty silly look, but worse, he's continuing to put really important legislation at risk. This is stuff that will help his constituents.

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

The Squamish Nation owns many parcels around Vancouver exempt from local zoning. With 87% of the nation voting in favor, they're going to build 6,000 homes at Hong Kong-density, 90% less parking than required by law and beside single-family neighborhoods who cannot stop Senakw.

This looks really cool, plants on buildings especially, although I don't know how well that can really work.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

I wish all the San Francisco people who love to cry crocodile tears as they remind us that we're living on Ohlone land would actually consider letting the Ohlone develop the land!!

theguardian.com‘Bring our people home’: the bold new plan for an Indigenous-led district in CanadaThe Senakw development aims to ease the city’s chronic housing crisis – and to challenge the mindset that indigeneity and urbanity are incompatible

Obviously, this sounds awesome.

Aditya Sood @adityasood

James Bonds Connery: 9 years*, 6 films Lazenby: 1 year, 1 film Moore: 12 years, 7 films Dalton: 2 years, 2 films Brosnan: 7 years, 4 films Craig: 15 years(!), 5 films

Strange to think that he's the longest serving Bond.

October 2016