dems created an expanded 'covid' welfare state under trump, republicans strangled it under biden
swing voters credited trump & blamed biden for that respectively
there's a moral here, of a sort
It’s not like entirely clear to me that Mike Misa, who has looked great in the minutes he’s played, is actually better than Martone.
That last sentence says a lot but not what they think it does.
Absolutely brutal line
www.politico.eu/article/keir...
Israeli soldier smashes Jesus statue with axe in Lebanon... IDF 'views incident with great severity'... Israel told people to evacuate Beirut's southern suburbs -- then hit city's center... USA BAILOUT FOR ABU DHABI? HORMUZ STANDSTILL OIL BACK UP WSJ: TRUMP GRIPPED WITH FEAR
Not only is Drudge the major outlet most consistently honest about Trump, he's now going in harder against Israel/Netanayahu
this just isn't a story that normally gets covered
Israel told people to evacuate Beirut's southern suburbs -- then hit city's center...
Matthew Barnaby and Patrick Kaleta can both get their dicks stuck in their zippers too.
Interesting, other models have it more like 2.3-1.4, I wonder what the difference is.
let's make a cultural value judgment: palantir are a bunch of execrable fascist shitheads and their ideas go against the basis of every civilized country on earth, from which they should be extirpated like the intellectual cancer they are
Gabriel has committed a yellow card offense once every five minutes, it’s genuinely astonishing what he gets away with.
Lmao Donnarumma what is you doing bb
Cherki just absolutely clowned Gabriel and Saliba in succession with back pressure from Declan Rice.
Are you fucking kidding me?
It's almost as if there were a reason that even George W. Bush didn't get tricked into this one. Recognizing you're a far bigger dupe than W. must be tough.
It's harder to measure but I feel like RFK Jnr shutting down funding for MRNA research is actually up there with DOGE cuts and this latest Iranian war as a contender for Most Evil Things Trump II has done. Accounted properly, this regime is really wracking up 20th-century-dictator kill counts imo.
for an idea of how big a deal this is, my mom was in great shape when she got diagnosed and she lasted less than sixty days. six years is insane.
There are many reasons I believe in the separation of Church and State and "you can't disagree with the head of state, that's against theology" is probably the most prominent "absolutely not" scenario.
This is just an Alex Jones post
Sabrina Carpenter looking, to put it mildly, absolutely incredulous.
I keep forgetting to use this, the latest entry in the quote dunk meme hall of fame.
Nothing will kill a work of art faster than trying to be "responsive" to fans -- or just listening to them at all. It killed Star Wars, it killed Ted Lasso, it killed Game of Thrones, I personally think it killed Hacks. Don't listen to fans.
I agree. Recessions are recessions.
The main thing that was different about 2020 is not *the cause*, it's that policymakers took it *seriously* and took steps to get rid of it.
(This is a thing they can always do, but choose not to.)
Elite higher ed has many problems, but the key factor driving down trust is political. Look at the graph - backlash against costs, admissions, etc. can't explain the changes we see. We should still reform our institutions and refocus on our core mission, but blindly blaming ourselves is abuser logic
Pete Hegseth just threatened more war crimes, vowing to bomb Iran's energy infrastructure if it doesn't do the US's bidding. It's indescribably absurd to see this even as Mike Johnson is invoking Just War Doctrine to attack the Pope.
Me and Olivia Troye on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2091...
the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said.
I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort
The national media is eating up this report as justification for perpetuating the lie that universities themselves - as opposed to decades of attacks from the far right authoritarian party - are responsible for eroding trust in higher education. You can almost hear them salivating at the chance.
I think a lot of podcasters in this vein should be interpreted as “reactionary” in the most literal sense that they are extremely vacuous and form their politics by following trends of resentment against whatever they see on social media
We have limited time and attention and Ezra Klein essentially argues that we need to give people extra attention *because* they’re “controversial,” and it quite literally couldn’t be further from the truth.
Pity; she was absolutely right. Kavanaugh’s idealized, Pollyanaish picture of ICE stops as a trivial inconvenience rapidly terminated by those with legal status, and with no systemic chilling effects, could only have been drawn by someone mindbogglingly detatched from the reality.
Finland has a website where they celebrate all the things taxes pay for
Tax law scholar Lawrence Zelenak observes, “April 15 can and should be as important a civic holiday as the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Together, the two days celebrate the fulfillment of the two great responsibilities of citizenship.” The filing of the income tax return offers an opportunity to mark this achievement. Riffing on Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s famous quip, “I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization,” Zelenak calls for greater recognition of how filing an income tax return constitutes a “Purchase-of-Civilization Ceremony.”
Happy tax day! This should be a civic holiday, we should have a parade and give out taxpayer awards.
ruthbraunstein.substack.com/p/what-does-...