Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.

I’d like to know which members of Donald Trump’s administration and/or family sold large amounts of stock last Wednesday, and bought large amounts of stock yesterday.

Make my IRA great again

Mexico bans junk food sales in schools in its latest salvo against child obesity Mexico says a government-sponsored junk food ban in schools has taken effect as the country tries to tackle one of the world’s worst obesity and diabetes epidemics.

Imagine having a government that cares more about childrens health than the profits of Coca Cola and Frito Lay apnews.com/article/mexi...

The Kalam cosmological argument is funny. The universe is 13.8 billion years old, but the strongest argument for God’s existence requires us to rewind the tape all the way back? Wouldn’t it be better to be able to point to some more recent evidence?

Also men: I just finished the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson, a trilogy of speculative fiction novels about the possibility that we inhabit a simulated universe, set against the backdrop of the academic row between Newton and Leibniz, the total page count clocking in at around 2700+.

The New American Dream is to Escape American Reality Why Trump and the Right will never make America great

You can't make a society great without investing in human capital and giving people a positive vision for the future. Both are currently missing from the MAGA movement, which seems solely interested in disruption, chaos, and destruction.

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Opinion | Trump Is No Populist Trumpism is not a working-class revolt against the elites. All I see is one section of the educated elite going after another section of the educated elite.

Contemporary American politics isn't about populists versus elites. It's a civil war between two groups of elite white people.
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i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

Halting the production of pennies is the one thing Trump's done that I 100 percent agree with.

Why Conservatives Should Support Sanctuary Cities Anyone following politics in the United States knows that Donald Trump — and most Republicans — loathe “sanctuary cities,” places where…

If your conservatism rests on any of the following:

1. respect for the rule of law,
2. a preference for smaller, decentralized government, or
3. devotion to Judeo-Christian values

then you should be a HUGE fan of sanctuary cities.

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Schrodinger's Deep State: the idea that the government is simultaneously
1) an army of underpaid nincompoops who can't even tell the difference between a man and a woman, and
2) a cabal of overcompensated evil geniuses who control our lives and can overthrow foreign governments on a whim.

Is This What You Meant By “Shaking Things Up”? How Trump’s war on competence will lead to more tragedies like the crash of Flight 5342

"It's good to shake things up" has to be the stupidest reason I've ever heard for voting for someone.

It's like throwing a deck of cards into the air in the hope that they'll land stacked and in perfect order.

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Dear people who think USAID exists to foment coups and regime change, kindly document all instances of regimes thus successfully toppled. We'll wait.

And while we wait, people will die of hunger and malaria and tuberculosis and AIDS and....

When Trump won, and started talking about gutting the federal bureaucracy, I literally had visions of an understaffed and overwhelmed FAA helpless to prevent mid-air collisions.

I didn’t want to voice these concerns for fear I’d be accused of having Trump Derangement Syndrome, but here we are.

The president can't decide not to direct funds where Congress has allocated them. If he could, that would effectively constitute a veto over Congressional spending bills, which would render Congress's power to override a presidential veto otiose.

Free Societies are Equal Societies We don’t have to choose between liberty and equality

People say there's a tension between liberty and equality, that you can't make people more equal without making them less free. But in fact the freest societies on earth are also generally the most equal.

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Christian Faith in the Age of Trump Lessons from the Gospel Story of Barabbas

Bishop Budde asked people to behave like Christians, and Trump and his supporters were furious. They want to indulge their idolatry without being called out for it.

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Who’s Afraid of Falling Birth Rates? Why conservatives are wrong to be obsessed with fertility, but liberals have reason to worry

A mentor who advised me on my blog once asked me to summarize what value I was bringing to my readers. My response was that I often approached a topic the reader thinks they have a handle on, and showed them a completely different way of thinking about it.

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Corporate America Thinks We Can't Do Math How tipping has become a scam

Tipping has gotten out of control here in the States, with harmful consequences for workers and consumers alike.

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The Rise and Fall of Truth Thoughts on ritual, correspondence and totalitarianism

We're going to be gaslit constantly for the next four years. Just always remember there is such a thing as truth.

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Did a 17th Century Philosopher Think the Universe was a Simulation? On the similarities between Idealism and Simulation Theory

My review of The Baroque Cycle, by Neal Stephenson. It's a fascinating trilogy of novels, but in case you don't have time to read 2,700 pages of speculative/science/historical fiction, I tried to summarize the most interesting ideas here.

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The Real Reason Al Gore Lost the 2000 Election Blame Congress, not the Supreme Court

Tragic to consider how different the world would be now if Gore had won. No abandoning the Kyoto Protocol, no disastrous war in Iraq. And to think it was all because our House of Reps was too small. For want of a nail... the kingdom was lost.

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No, Trump Can’t End Birthright Citizenship Why a favorite conservative talking point is just a naked dog whistle

Donald Trump can't end birthright citizenship. I have a detailed explainer in my Substack newsletter, but the tl;dr version is that "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" was meant to exclude children of diplomats from citizenship, not immigrants.

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