‘Simply stop giving millionaires water for literally free’ is one of the most insane sounding but actually serious policy solutions out there

Add "farmers in the American West whose farms are only viable because they are given incredibly scarce water resources for 5 cents on the dollar" to the car dealers and realtors — destructive, unproductive conservative groups that we need to reduce the influence of when we're back in power.

strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news

I also see she hasn’t separated out men and women? Women are better educated and more financially secure as a cohort than our male counterparts! I’m sure unmarried men are very unhappy, they are earning less money and costs for everything are high!

but also there are a lot of bad men out there and being saddled to one who isn’t even abusive just bad with money could make you really unhappy and worsen your situation in life

*syrup lol

Oh I just straight up fry discard and serve it with butter and strip, it’s amazing

They're doing more construction than usual to tidy things up in preparation for the NFL draft being here and Harrison, after we had an unexpected detour, was like “it’s as if the city is worried people will learn we live like this.”

Counterpoint: no, it isn’t. Leo is in line with the traditional teaching of the church. Trump is a warmonger, corrupt, delights in humiliating others, and is blasphemous on a level that wouldn’t even occur to most people.

This isn’t hard.

Republican Mutiny Sinks Trump's Push to Extend Warrantless Surveillance A post-midnight revolt in the House sank the White House's efforts to extend Section 702—a spy program the FBI has used to look into members of Congress, protesters, and political donors.

NEW: A post-midnight revolt in the House sank the White House's efforts to extend Section 702—a warrantless spy program the FBI has used to look into members of Congress, protesters, and political donors.

Seeing Company, a musical about being married or not married in your 30s, performed by undergrads is very surreal when you are in your 30s and they look like babies to you

Anyway, always remember: Taxing Billionaires is The Compromise.

i don't really envy the responsible government that has to tell people used to eating meat for every meal and snacks that they need to get more comfortable with lentils even if that's just correcting for an unsustainable aberration

The amount of beef that ordinary Americans eat is anomalous in world history. Also it’s not very good for us. Am I biased by not ever particularly enjoying it and being weirded out by eating mammals? also yes.

Any act of war aimed indiscriminately at the destruction of entire cities of extensive areas along with their population is a crime against God and the human. It merits unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation.

I feel like the answer to this conundrum is actually these two graphs.

in order to understand american society, it is necessary to grapple with the unstated but pervasive concept of "cars' rights"

lol this is like when the iced tea company got into blockchain

$4,049 from the average taxpayer for weapons and war.

That's...
-32x the $124 paid for school lunches and other nutrition programs.
-213x the $19 paid for the U.S. Postal Service.
-119x the $34 paid toward public transit.
-253x the $16 spent on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

The federal government
took $4,049 from the average taxpayer to fund war and weapons in 2025.

When you compare that to what went toward programs that actually help us…
the gap gets hard to ignore: 🧵

People were questioning whether his wife told him the whole story

Was it Target Wife

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

She reportedly parted ways with Bezos with a jaw-dropping $38.3 billion in Amazon stock. Their divorce settlement included a 4 % stake in the online retail giant or 19.7 million shares. Under the agreement, Bezos kept 75% of the couple's Amazon stock, along with voting control of her shares. Jan 11, 2023

MacKenzie Scott has given away over $19 billion in the last 5 years and experts say she's 'changed entire fie... MacKenzie Scott acknowledged another $2 billion in donations as 2024 comes to a close.

MacKenzie Scott, worth $41.1 billion, is on a philanthropic tear and has donated an estimated 46% of her net worth.

Just to give a sense of the insane scale of billions of dollars…MacKenzie Scott got about $38 billion after divorcing Bezos in 2019. She has become the world’s most generous philanthropist, giving away over $19 billion…and she’s currently wealthier than she started.

Just. Tax. Them.

For weekly or the monthly? When I lived in Canada groceries were so expensive and I know it’s only gotten worse.

We spend on average $125/wk on groceries for 2 people who work from home, are not athletes, primarily shop at Aldi and Costco, and eat very little meat out of preference. That puts us off these lists and into Thrifty.

USDA Food and Nutrition Service U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Official USDA Food Plans: Cost of Food at Home at Three Levels, U.S. Average, February 20261 Age-Sex Groups? Low-Cost Plan Weekly Cost? Low-Cost Plan Monthly Cost Weekly Cost Moderate-Cost Plan Moderate-Cost Plan Liberal Plan Monthly Cost' Weekly Cost? Liberal Plan Monthly Cost? Child: 1 year $37.40 $162.10 $42.10 S182.60 $51.10 $221.40 2-3 years $39.20 $169.80 $46.90 $203.20 $57.10 $247.30 4-5 years $40.60 $175.80 $50.20 $217.30 $60.60 $262.70 6-8 years $59.50 $257.70 $69.10 $299.40 S80.70 $349.80 9-11 years $61.30 $265.50 $79.20 S343.30 $92.30 $400.10 Female: 12-13 years $61.00 $264.10 $72.80 $315.60 $90.90 $393.70 14-18 years S61.40 $266.20 $73.30 $317.50 S90.70 $392.90 19-50 years $62.60 $271.40 $76.30 $330.70 S97.30 $421.80 51-70 years $60.90 $263.70 $74.90 $324.40 $90.20 $390.80 71+ years $60.90 $263.90 $74.80 $324.00 $89.30 $386.80 Male: 12-13 years $71.90 $311.50 $89.10 $385.90 $104.50 $452.60 14-18 years $73.10 $316.90 $91.40 $396.00 $107.50 $465.60 19-50 years $72.10 S312.50 $90.40 $391.90 $110.60 $479.00 51-70 years $67.80 $293.80 $85.00 $368.40 $101.90 $441.40 71+ years $67.20 $291.40 $82.70 $358.50 $101.50 $440.00 ' The Food Plans represent a nutritious diet at three different cost levels. The nutritional bases of the Food Plans are the 1997-2005 Dietary Reference Intakes, 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and 2005 MyPyramid food intake recommendations. In addition to cost, differences among plans are in specific foods and quantities of foods. Another basis of the Food Plans is that all meals and snacks are prepared at home. For specific foods and quantities of foods in the Food Plans, as well as the methodology used to update the monthly costs of the Food Plan market baskets, see The Low-Cost, Moderate-Cost, and Liberal Food Plans, 2007. All three Food Plans are based on 2001-02 data and updated to current dollars by using the Consumer Price Index for specific food items. Reevaluation …

www.fns.usda.gov/research/cnp...

Are they still measuring the average cost of how the average person ate in 2001 with no update except as to cost in 25 years? I believe so. But it’s also a great way to be like “oh I’m not bad at budgeting, everything I’m buying is genuinely quite a lot more expensive than it was 5 years ago.

Someone on a budgeting subreddit asked a question about grocery budgets and I got the joy of introducing a new person to the USDA food plans.