Not just grifters, but people with an authoritarian personality type whose whole worldview depends on bending others’ perceptions of reality in order to maintain their own sense of control. It’s ultimately a form of abuse, and it appears very strange from an outsider’s point of view.
And in fact Republican states like Utah and Ohio have retained their gerrymanders in open defiance of successful referendums demanding non-partisan redistricting
Assuming they actually do any work they could get a good amount done on the train:
The next administration must make clear that any immigrant, refugee, or asylum seeker wrongly deported, exiled, or otherwise mistreated by this administration will be readmitted with an expedited path to citizenship. Send a plane to get them.
We can't undo the damage. But we can do something.
Ok, I’m going to do this again. What were Carlson and his brother actually saying on this podcast? What are they *actually* sad about? /1
ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.
(Published 2021)
Yes, yes, yes! Add long-term support (8 year?), and I’d pay a premium over whatever their pro-max-faux-ipad phone costs for an iPhone 4 with updated internals and an edge-to-edge screen.
It is likely that Trump's Iran catastrophe will lead to some kind of compensation for all the countries the US has screwed (which is all of them). We would do well now to lay groundwork for seizing assets of the Palantirs and Musk fortune that enabled Trump's rise and invasion.
shouldn't be allowed to choose their own clerks, shouldn't be allowed to accept fees for speaking or prize money or awards. shouldn't be able to get book deals, etc. etc. if what you want is to be famous, well, no one is forcing you to be a supreme court justice.
If they settle, I think it's an impeachable offense for both him and the AG.
That’s a separate issue that affects every high school grad, whether they enroll in additional education or enter the workforce.
Listening to RFK Jr. trying to distance himself from measles outbreaks, instead blaming the hospitals that treat the kids, and I just want to say, “Fuck RFK Jr.!”
For “private nonprofit four-year institutions declined from $19,810 (in 2025 dollars) in 2006-07 to an
estimated $16,910 in 2025-26”
The net price after grants/aid looks even better: “The average net tuition and fees paid by first-time full-time in-state students enrolled in public four-year institutions peaked in 2012-13 at $4,450 (in 2025 dollars) and declined to an
estimated $2,300 in 2025-26.”
One thing Isgur was definitely responsible for was the illegal release of FBI agents’ personal text messages to create a false narrative to the political benefit of the Trump administration:
As someone with three kids who will soon be applying to higher ed I would love to see a list of colleges and universities to avoid because they are run by or have capitulated to right-wingers.
MAGA is a white supremacist project.
Those who support MAGA are either enthusiastically behind the white supremacist project or reluctantly behind the white supremacist project, but they are not opposed to the white supremacist project.
Americans should keep these facts in mind as we proceed.
Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...
Map showing the following data: Children's uninsured rate by state, 2024 (ACS, under 19): Alabama 4.3%, Alaska 8.8%, Arizona 9.3%, Arkansas 7.7%, California 3.1%, Colorado 6.0%, Connecticut 2.6%, Delaware 5.8%, Florida 8.5%, Georgia 7.9%, Hawaii 2.9%, Idaho 8.1%, Illinois 3.6%, Indiana 6.1%, Iowa 3.8%, Kansas 7.0%, Kentucky 5.0%, Louisiana 4.1%, Maine 4.5%, Maryland 4.6%, Massachusetts 2.1%, Michigan 3.5%, Minnesota 3.7%, Mississippi 5.8%, Missouri 6.6%, Montana 7.7%, Nebraska 5.3%, Nevada 8.0%, New Hampshire 2.3%, New Jersey 4.7%, New Mexico 6.1%, New York 2.7%, North Carolina 5.5%, North Dakota 6.7%, Ohio 5.6%, Oklahoma 8.5%, Oregon 2.7%, Pennsylvania 5.4%, Rhode Island 3.7%, South Carolina 5.9%, South Dakota 8.0%, Tennessee 6.5%, Texas 13.6%, Utah 6.6%, Vermont 2.6%, Virginia 5.2%, Washington 3.9%, West Virginia 2.8%, Wisconsin 4.2%, Wyoming 9.0%. National average: 6.0%.
Uninsured rate for children, by state. Texas accounts for a quarter of all children without health insurance in America.
No smartphone has been released in over a decade. Sadly, the market was pushed out by mini-tablets.
Published in Quillette 😂
Financial situation compared with 12 months prior. Between 2014 and 2019 27-32% of respondents reported improvement and 14-21% reported being worse off. In 2020-2021 the responses were roughly equal. But since 2022 the responses inverted, with 29-35% reporting being worse off compared to 12 months ago and 19-23% better.
Not exactly. An unusual number of people are saying that they’re still doing ok financially but not as well as 12 months ago.
White gen-X, particularly those born in the 60s or early 70s, have been the most reliably Republican segment of the electorate for 35 years.
Pick a state, pick a city, look at how much their police get in revenue and then tell me how the police are oh so despised.
I know a lot of people who would love the opportunity to take a Lyme disease vaccine! MAHA had better not stand in the way.
A small harvest mouse reaches out from a wheat stalk to touch a human fingertip.
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My new piece for @liberalcurrents.com on the origins of the right's anti-intellectualism
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-right-wa...
An attempt to outdo MBD’s recent piece on how an EU-friendly elite is hugely overestimating anti-Orbanism in Hungary.
It’s pitchforkation followed by celebration.
