Mark Weber

On Earth 2, President Harris is being blasted for the price of gas ($2.49/gal), not fixing the housing shortage in a year, refusing to separate immigrant families, and spending billions arming Ukraine with the latest drones.

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

Find me a winning Dem primary challenger & I'll find you an opponent of school vouchers as a hand-out to the wealthy. But opposition to vouchers also factored in GOP races like this upset in NC where powerful senate prez, a darling of the school choice lobby, is down by 2 votes

Who among us hasn't subsidized a European vacation, or visited Petra, on the state of Arizona's taxpayers?

Two different account holders. This is outrageous, and fully allowable under Arizona's ESA policy.

[Dates are dates submitted, not dates on which expense happened.]

Imagine you are a Lego fanatic. In ~3 years (Aug22-Nov25), how much could you spend on Legos alone?

AZ's winner-this is one ESA account-spent $15,944.59 of AZ taxpayer money on Legos*

(*May be more: WalMart Target Michael's etc purchases aren't disaggregated. Waiting for those data.)

Iowa's surging ESAs now subsidize 99% of private school students Nearly all Iowa private school students are participating in the state's Education Savings Account program now that income restrictions have lifted

New report: 99% of Iowa private school students are now funded by taxpayers.

Most of those were already in private schools.

But also new pop-up schools are rising to up draw students and dollars from public schools.

Entirely as predicted.
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/e...

“In other words, the Mahmoud opinion was the low-water water mark for the ways this court plans to use religious freedom to wash away any protections and policies that might be opposed by religious parents.”

God bless Sotomayor.

Having actually talked to Fetterman about this before he was a US Senator this is such a flip flop but let me give you the documentary evidence.

Thanks for the link. What's missing in this convo is any acknowledgement that accountability and oversight ain't free. How much are taxpayers supposed to pony up so parents can have their "choice" subsidized?

One huge problem here is that the child, or children who were deprived of education (because this is how the money was spent) have no legal recourse for those damages - quantifiable, life long damages due to deprivation of education. All in the name of "parent empowerment"

Nine months ago, the United States "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's nuclear program.

Tonight, we're attacking Iran to disrupt their nuclear program.

A sizable percentage of this country thinks that's normal.

My statement on Trump's strikes on Iran.

ESA Account holder purchases

coach solid c bag charm

Baller ESA account: By day, I girlboss in an executive chair. By night, I’m wrapped in faux-fur blankets, mood-lit by a jellyfish lamp & hydrating from 1 of 2 Stanleys. I carry my life in a series of increasingly expensive black leather bags. With a Coach charm, obv. I own a neck air conditioner.

Kristi Noem is in charge of stopping terrorist attacks on the US. Think about that.

Purchases from one Arizona ESA user, obtained by Craig Harris at Arizona 12 News

What makes the data recently obtained by AZ 12 News’ Craig Harris a new chapter in the ESA debate is the presence of unique IDs. Earlier data allowed statements about overall purchases; now you can see the set tied to a single account.

This account holder bought estrogen, progesterone & a pool.

Not petty at all. Accountability.

Electing Republicans leads to wars. How have you not figured this out yet?

I have built a career and a life around meming stupid lies for the far right. How could I have known that people would actually believe them?

by Chris Rufo

I wrote this comic 2 years ago. I was terrified when I wrote it but had hope it wouldn't come to pass and would be a reminder of how bad things got before we pulled back.

It not only has, it has gotten even worse. This is absolutely terrifying and will destroy lives if passed.

Overselling the Mississippi Miracle Southern poverty is a policy choice

The 'Southern Surge' states remain the absolute worst places for kids. I wrote about what all the Mississippi takes keep missing educationwars.substack.com/p/oversellin...

ICE chase of a van in Newark ended in a multi-vehicle crash that hit several cars, including one with three kids (two 15 yr olds and a 12 yr old).

Mayor Ras Baraka blasted ICE for engaging in a high-risk pursuit on city streets.

#ProudBlue
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Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license.

They can't even escape this by moving to another state.

FBI raids LAUSD Supt. Alberto Carvalho's home, office Federal authorities raided the home and office of Los Angeles Unified School District Supt. Alberto Carvalho, the FBI confirmed. Agents also searched a residence in Florida in connection with the inve...

?!?! "FBI raids LAUSD Supt. Alberto Carvalho’s home, office" www.latimes.com/california/s...

A few new slides - and why the future is brighter in California than in Florida - diverging approaches on education investment (not to mention ideological bs in FL)

this is a really powerful piece.

Corporate Tax Avoidance With earnings season now underway, dozens of huge corporations have disclosed paying single-digit federal income tax rates thanks to tax…

Corporate tax avoidance has already surpassed $71 billion for 2025 – and counting.

Our new tracker shows the dozens of huge corporations paying little to no federal income taxes with the help of Trump's tax cuts.
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Opinion | Stop Trying to Optimize Your Exercise

Finally, that Emily Oster piece on the tragedy of immigrant kids being kept out of school

It must be exhausting to know everything about everything...