Caroline Sutton

Assistant editor for the Slow Boring newsletter by @mattyglesias | Used to work for PM Tony Blair

[Caroline Sutton @CarolineKSutton]

Waymo is a class issue. Waymo is a feminist issue.

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[Caroline Sutton @CarolineKSutton]

In addition to being silly policy, this also strikes me as classist.

A lot of families cannot afford to buy and insure a car for their teenager, but they could afford a few one-off Waymo ride that would give their kid a lot of the freedoms owning a car provides. 1/ THREAD

[Timothy B. Lee @binarybits]

Wait so in California a 17-year-old can drive a car but can't be a passenger in a Waymo by herself?

[Caroline Sutton @CarolineKSutton]

There's Uber, yes, but the human stranger who is driving the Uber presents a huge risk to teenagers, especially girls. 2/

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Reporting from the Financial Times on Xinjiang remains incredibly grim:

* In some areas, 90% of children are taken from parents to be educated in boarding schools where they aren't allowed to speak Uyghur
* Officials monitor who eats during Ramadan and report those who skip meals
* Basic items like prayer mats and religious text are considered illegal contraband
* Adult Uyghur women are pressured to marry Han Chinese men, and there are official goals to sterilize a certain % of them.
* Xinjiang has the largest prison capacity in the world relative to population
* Huge numbers of Uyghur prisoners are now being shipped across the country in forced labor schemes, as a way to dodge Xinjiang sanctions/boycotts
* The CCP shut down all 10 existing Uyghur-language publishers, none remain. They fed one university's book collection into a shredder.

There's a lot going on the world, but it's worth remembering that China is still actively engaged in cultural genocide. They're barely even hiding it, they openly talk about the need to 'correct' Uyghur culture and create 'ethnic unity'. They are openly destroying an entire culture as efficiently as they can, cutting children off from parents, restricting language, restricting religious practice, forcing sterilizations and intermarriage, imprisoning anyone who resists the tiniest amount and shipping them out to forced labor factories. That is what the CCP is.

https://t.co/gHK9ZS38Vx

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Truly morally sickening: that anyone should wish all of Ukraine to suffer the fate of Mariupol or Bucha. Russian occupation of Ukraine means random arrests, executions, concentration camps; the destruction of language and culture; mass kidnapping of children. All of these things have been documented in the occupied territories and continue to go on.

[Caroline Sutton @CarolineKSutton]

@mattyglesias Roy Cooper is the perfect candidate for North Carolina in everything from his tone to his ideology. Let's nominate more Democratic candidates like this and hold supermajorities in the Senate again!

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

The candidate whose campaign is going so well it doesn’t attract any coverage or “Democrats must learn the lessons of Candidate X” op-eds

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

After spending a week in Eastern Europe it is very apparent that our tardiness to meet weapons delivery commitments is undermining deterrence and encourages Russia to be more aggressive. Our defense industry must step up and expand production. We are leaving countries that border Russia with a lack of ammo. The same is occurring with Taiwan.

[Nat Purser @NatPurser]

many ai economic doom scenarios make a bunch of weird assumptions: ai not only displaces labor, but the resulting wealth doesn’t drive new investment or demand, and the govt takes no action to redistribute it.

that does not seem well-supported by what we know of economic shocks!

[Josh Barro @jbarro]

I like this, it's creative, and I also like when Democrats show they understand that if you tax something you get less of it

[Secretary Jake Day @jacobrday]

If you are wondering in a decade what happened to the economies of once prosperous northeast blue states, look back at this post. The more rapidly we transform our process for approving housing, the better chance we have of avoiding this future.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Wait, this is big!!!

[Teo🗽 @teomanonline_]

Nothing makes me lose respect for a politician more than them backing the WASPI campaign

It is us young people deserving a 10 billion injection, not the elderly who already have their homes, families and regular income

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

It's very frustrating that people see widespread cheap food delivery, a la China, as a sign of prosperity. It's the opposite!

Rich countries don’t have millions of people willing to spend their time bringing you lunch for basically nothing!

[Caroline Sutton @CarolineKSutton]

@JoeySchmittPhD @mattyglesias Here's a list of our top articles! The ones with a lock on them are paywalled https://t.co/nlt3RGVLIf

[Adam Hamilton @Hamilton4Kansas]

"So why me?"

In a world that feels more and more divided, Adam built a congregation that's roughly equal parts Republican, Democrat, and Independent. Neighbors who learned to love each other because of their differences.

That's the country we can still be. And it's why Adam is running.

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Luis (and @pietergaricano) are correct below, and @paulkrugman is much too sanguine about Europe's challenges.

As it happens, the same wealth point that Luis mentions also struck me when I traveled to Nashville a few weeks ago.

[Liz Stepan @LizStepan]

@gtmom @binarybits @CarolineKSutton And all the appts if your special needs children have services! This would be a gamechanger!

[Caroline Sutton @CarolineKSutton]

@gtmom @binarybits That sounds incredibly hard. Thank you for sharing your experience!

[Pamela Hobart @gtmom]

@binarybits @CarolineKSutton Absolutely living for this to become a reality, I have 4 young kids some with special needs in 3 different schools all over town and it's a nightmare