Yeah, but pie is just so delicious.

#PiDay
#math

Teens Are Over Superheroes, Want To See More “Connected Masculinity” Onscreen, Says Survey An annual survey found kids and young adults prefer to see onscreen portrayals of "fathers enjoying parenting" or "fathers showing love to kids" by a 5 to 1 margin.

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#Lagarde was for many years an attorney with Chicago-based Baker & McKenzie, eventually becoming its chair.

#VonderLeyen, a physician, was a briefly a housewife when she and her husband had young twins and he was a professor at Stanford. She credits the #ClaymanInstitute and others there for giving them ideas on setting up their marriage with equal responsibility.

Fighting biases and empowering women: A conversation on female leadership and gender equality How can we empower women to aim high? ECB President Christine Lagarde and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, talk about this and share their personal experiences as female lea...

As Trump destroys US credibility and US - Europe - UK relations, want to hear #UrsulavonderLeyen ( #EuropeanCommission President) and #ChristineLagarde ( #EuropeanCentralBank President) discuss how, for each of them, time in the US gave them foundational sex equality training? Here you go.

Pentagon is embracing Musk's Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google's generative AI engine in operating inside the Pentagon network, as part of a broader ...

How much are taxpayers paying #Musk (or #xAI or #SpaceX) for Grok?
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The #DOGE agenda to divert $2T per year in taxpayer funds (& US debt) to the #Mars fantasy marches on. (Really wish the Red Rock Planet wasn't named for Roman God of War!) $2T = 40% US gov't revenues per yr

Thanks for posting. BTW, what does the diamond emoji mean next to your name?

Oil is becoming a "stranded asset" as it loses utility and oilfield (and specialized Gulf Coast diesel refinery) owners are left with a rapidly declining valuation, causing (in a certain type of owner) the type of panicky, lawless, vain striking out that Trump displays?

Electric vs. Diesel-Powered Machinery: Pros and Cons Electric vs. Diesel-Powered Machinery: Pros and Cons

Trump's unconstitutional #Venezuela invasion is based on getting access to the denser type of crude oil used for diesel fuel for heavy machinery. Where do diesel fuel needs really stand? Trump's attempts to gin up demand for a dying asset (oil) seem unlikely to work.
#Maduro
#Trump

Could a group of women veteran ‘Hellcats’ help Democrats flip the House in 2026? The name Hellcats pays homage to the first female Marines of World War One.

Four more women vets running for office. If you start to see West Point grads refuse command in Trump's/Hegseth's military due to its lawlessness (which is what happened prior to the Civil War, with many such grads later leading the Union Army), Trump/Vance/Rubio et al are toast.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt, Russ Vought.We don't want your "Second American Revolution".The US Constitution is, and shall remain the US sovereign law w/ its requirement of secular sovereignty (all laws must be acknowledged as human in origin to be enforceable, publicly or privately) intact.

He wants a "Crusade", no? He's opposed to women in military because they correlate with soldiers having self-control, a thing he lacks. But a soldier with self-control will always defeat one without it (all other things being equal), no?

Or get rid of legal, taxation, benefit structures that penalize 2-earner/2-parent families so that more of them who want to have children can? (2E/2P means the father meets the mother halfway on unpaid work of the family; and mother provides half of basic financial provision).

The Trump Admin disregards all UN things so they aren't making that argument, however, from the standpoint of recognizing children as dependents with needs, the UN-C-RoC view is much better at protecting their welfare than "birthright" which is really a fantasy of children functioning like adults?

I think what's more relevant is: (a) the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (children are the responsibility of both parents and their citizenship derives from the parents, as a child welfare protection measure) and (b) the fact paternity of infants is now determinable to a legal certainty?

This friendly fire incident happened when Biden was President, Dec 2024

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I was so frustrated during his confirmation process that I didn't see anyone in media or in Congress pointing out that his bashing of women soldiers isn't about them (or their not having male-equiv upper body strength) but about his own incompetency, particularly his own lack of self-control.

US Rep (WA-8) Kim Schrier, a pediatrician, on the disinformation just posted on the CDC website.

For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)

It's part of a general problem in economics. Women are relegated to "care economy" issues. They aren't able to call out obvious fallacies in things like Gary Becker's "New Home Economics" without risking career. It's an "alt-truth" problem where economic science is not being done on firm ground.

This kind of "alt-truth" in economics, one where topics (and math!) central to economic innovation, productivity, efficiency, and growth are taboo, hurts all of us and prevents problem-solving.

#Epsteinfiles

For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)

#LarrySummers making his mentee "needy" to coerce her for sex is part of a gen'l problem of women not getting equal footing in #economics. Often relegated to "care economy" issues, they cannot call out obvious fallacies in things like Gary Becker's "New Home Economics" w/o risking their careers.

Trump is the piggy. Literally every accusation he makes is about his own behavior.

Bishops can be paid off to reverse their permission, I reckon?

He can't get the GoP nomination for Prez with Usha as his wife. He will try to swap to get Erica Kirk to get the nomination but then every non-GoP voter will oppose him.

Now he's in his angry Christian phase. I wish he had stuck with the angry atheist phase. I wish he'd get access to some other feelings as well.

Is he going to marry Erika Kirk if Usha doesn't convert to Catholicism? (or even if she does!) Maybe he can even get an annulment in Catholicism b/c Usha wasn't/isn't Catholic?

IMO, why the British Monarchy still exists: (a) its centuries of Queens Regnant representing the substantive rights of women under the "English constitutions" writ large (and b/c some of the QRs greatly advanced the world - and against odds) and (b) its relevance to upholding "rule of law." (more)

Men had only started to use these when (mostly male voters) elected Trump #RFKJr . Trump's BBB and current federal shutdown budgetary standoff by Trump aimed at cutting ACA benefits for those who cannot afford it privately, means many men will lose access to mental and emotional health care.

Reporter's Notebook: Medicaid cuts and the mental health of men in rural America John Dickerson shares the heartbreaking story of Alex Jacobsen as potential Medicaid cuts threaten rural access to mental health services.

W/ #BariWeiss apparently firing #JohnDickerson at #CBS, just wanted to mention this excellent report he recently did. #ACA contains medical fictions in preventive care (still not corrected). It thus too long for many men to realize ACA mental & emotional health benefits. (More below)