Scott Burns

Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

Measles is doing well so that’s something.

RFK JR: Our fertility is dropping dramatically. Teenagers in this country have the same testosterone levels as 68 year old men

failed Tinder bios

Hurried speech = probably resignation within 1 week.

What is dumber as an economic policy… tariffs or rent control?

Very worth reading. We need thoughtful leaders on our City Council and Molly Coleman looks like an unusually good fit for the job.

I am very pleased to see Governor Walz call state workers back half time. This is better for productivity, mentorship of young employees, culture, and for our downtowns.

Does anyone still think legal THC was a good idea? The evidence is profoundly strong that it was a huge mistake. Can we go back?

this is still so funny to me

Insane

Many people here complain about “mainstream” media because it “normalized Trump.” Maybe treating him like a real candidate who had real supprt and would implement real policies was accurate journalism. Seems like it now.

Choosing a complete maniac as DOD secretary is a plot point in several films about the end of the world.

I’ll read the article. Negative tax rate is a better political approach but I’m game for anything if it works and people might support it. UBI so far attracts decreasing support from Republicans. Negative income tax rate might be more viable. Both would be great!

True enough. Not everyone has the richest man/Nazi sympathizer in history supporting their ideas.

Interesting.

How about this:
100% negative income tax rate until $30K per individual and $60k per couple

Housing with private locking door, bathroom, and small kitchen as an entitlement

Buy into health care offered to your state legislature.

100% voucher if your public school underperforms

I don’t agree with the vast majority of policies going into place but I realize now how unimaginative and incremental progressives are.

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200 years of learning how to regulate banks and securities in America and we’re about to set it all on fire because crypto is innovative. The innovation is: no regulation.

I’m not so sure about it. I’ll share some examples privately. Is this a good time to say I go to Chick-Fil-A from time to time?

And competence. If a company or government does what it says it will do well, we trust them. Some of the most liberal people I know drive Teslas and strongly dislike Musk. Why? The cars are great and well priced.

We have to acknowledge that our vision for what government can accomplish is diminished when we execute poorly.

Public school failures and public transit failures in Minnesota make it seem like we can only do small things.

If you want to know how well government will do regulating AI, just look at how great a job it did regulating social media.

That SNL bit makes the existence of this song almost worth it.

Trudeau is 53 years old. Generational political hand-offs in the United States result in people in their 60s in power. Just saying.

If you are an elected/ appointed official over 70 (probably 65), DO NOT run for reelection. It’s time to pass the baton and not be a greedy, out of date, legacy who blew the ladder up after you climbed it.

This is not hard. If you work for one of these people, advise them appropriately.

Thanks!

My biggest frustration with policy making over the past decade is to see policy ideas like rent control that have a lot of emotional appeal take hold even though they are proven to hurt the very people they are supposed to help.

Policy makers need to read more and talk to fewer activist zealots.

The obvious strategy for democrats is to acknowledge that anti-vaxx is still an unpopular stance and partner with pro-vaccine republicans to scuttle the RFK Jr. nomination

Democrats should be talking nonstop about how RFK Jr. fueled a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed dozens of kids!

As new laws take effect in Minnesota, small businesses say costs will sting Some say they might need to cut back on hiring, others say they might need to cut services as a new minimum wage, health insurance mandates, and unemployment and gas tax increases go into effect Wedne...

It is so hard to start and to succeed as an employer. We need more people in politics and government who have authentic empathy about this. Otherwise, we scare off and/or harm the most vulnerable employers.

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John Roberts is very upset that the public has lost confidence in John Roberts and the institution John Roberts leads following a series of confidence-cratering actions by John Roberts and his colleagues, and therefore would like everyone to know that this is not John Roberts' fault, it's yours.

The alleviation of women's abuse "is made less likely by the mandated subservience of women by Christian fundamentalists. What is especially disappointing...is the docile acceptance by so many strong Christian women of their subjugation & restricted role." - Jimmy Carter (RIP)