50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says Tax cuts for the wealthy didn't boost the economies of the U.S. and 17 other countries — but they did worsen income inequality.

“…study from the London School of Economics says 50 years of such tax cuts have only helped one group — the rich.”
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NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two.

www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...

I would argue that anyone who is incapable of honestly answering “how many children do you have?” is not overly transparent.

What we’re seeing is not the pendulum swinging back toward the right after the left went too far. We’re seeing a moral panic, a society-wide assault on a phantom leftist who wants to ban Dr. Seuss and arrest you for using the wrong pronouns and put kitty litter boxes in classrooms.

The January 6 pardons are turning out great.

Luckily I've been reading Parable of the Sower all weekend and watching the season of Peaky Blinders where fascism starts to rise in Great Britain so I'm in a great headspace for all this

I have an ominous feeling that the people currently saying “it’s not a Nazi salute” will soon be saying “it’s just a symbol from Hinduism.”

We failed to stop the rise of fascism. What comes next? How to navigate the future without a map.

We failed to stop fascism's rise. Now it's dancing about on the White House lawn. I don't know how to fix all this but I do know that the shit we've been doing won't get us out of this one.

shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...

The story behind ProPublica’s new Private School Demographics database began with our need to understand how many “segregation academies” still operate — and where.

By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social

Listen up.

Can't imagine the youth will be too bummed about their high energy video app being banned when they can just log onto blue sky and read sentences written by elder millennials

Anyone jumping over to RedNote? Any advice?

this shit is a natural consequence of the supplement / bio-hacking culture rampant across right-wing media. these people are absolutely convinced their diet of organ meat pills, creatine and zinc makes them immune to colds so if they get sick it must be a conspiracy

s Are Concerned That RFK Jr. Will Stop Lifesaving Research A majority of voters — at least 70% — express concern about each of RFK Jr.'s tested stances and potential actions if he were confirmed to lead HHS. Voters are particularly concerned about RFK Jr. stopping government research into lifesaving drugs and cures (+50-point margin), his opposition to vaccines potentially causing a resurgence of deadly childhood diseases (+45-point margin), and the risk of him redirecting funds allocated for treatment and research to friends producing unproven supplements (+44-point margin). RFK Jr.’s Inexperience With Medicare and Medicaid Is the Top Concern Among Voters Of all the potential concerns, it is the most concerning to voters that RFK Jr. lacks experience managing Medicaid and Medicare. Twelve percent of voters are most concerned that his confirmation could lead to childhood diseases coming back. RFK Jr. ignoring scientists and public health experts and stopping government drug and cure research is the biggest concern among 11% of voters. However, 15% of voters don’t have any concerns,

I think the better strategy is to relentlessly hammer the truth:

1) RFK Jr. is going to stop research into lifesaving cures

2) And he has no experience managing massive, complex programs like Medicare & Medicaid that provide the care you/your family rely on

Well, the bingo card we started in 2020 is getting filled up as so many of the conspiritualists, cult members, Christian Nationalists, and pseudoscience cranks we’ve covered ascend now to massive power and influence.

It’s sickening.

Such a eye opening episode. I wasn't aware how full of misinformation and grifters IG is now. I'm always torn between wanted to understand how people are thinking and being influenced and wanting to be in a science based bubble.

Brief: The Free Press Tastes Its Own (Polio) Medicine — Conspirituality We've been highly critical of The Free Press in the past, but a recent memoir-article about grappling with a familial history of polio by Jana Kozlowski stood out. Derek and Julian take no issue with ...

The Free Press FAFO with their conspiracist audience by drawing a line at disinfo about the polio vaccine. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/bri...

No. RFK Jr has dedicated the past two decades of his life to making it more likely that children will die of preventable illnesses.

The only "good stuff" he believes is that Americans should eat better and exercise more, something every institution of public health already promotes constantly.

Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni and a Smear Campaign After ‘It Ends With Us’ (Gift Article) Private messages detail an alleged campaign to smear Blake Lively after she accused Justin Baldoni of misconduct on the set of “It Ends With Us.”

Pro tip: if you are a publicist - or really, in any line of work - do not write “You know we can bury anyone” in an email to your clients. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/b...

Graphic shows dramatic reduction in polio, rubella, mumps, measles, and hepatitis A cases after the introduction of vaccines for each disease. Tweeted by Edward Tufte here https://x.com/EdwardTufte/status/576839659378069505

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction

As vaccine skeptics grow in influence, this graphic is a striking reminder of how vaccines changed America.

Edward Tufte combined underlying graphics from the WSJ to make this. More details: graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 🧪

*RFK Jr. on the side of the road, eating a dead raccoon and washing it down with a hot glass of mercury from an old thermometer*

*wipes mouth and yells at passing car* VACCINES ARE UNHEALTHY

*brainworm squirms from the corner of his eye and shrieks*

THE WORM SAYS I NEED TO DECAPITATE AN ELK NOW

Race, racism, and covid-19 in the US: lessons not learnt Keisha Bentley-Edwards and colleagues argue that systemic racism and economic inequality are at the root of disparity in covid-19 outcomes and suggest how to distribute resources more equitably. The...

This article is the best I've read analyzing COVID and race. Lessons not learned is so scary for the future.
www.bmj.com/content/384/...

hawk tuah memecoin scandal? none of these words are in the bible

Welcome Annie! You were my favorite follow on twitter glad you're here now ;)

Chart showing average number of children killed per year in global conflicts. Ukraine - 501. Syria - 4,725. Gaza - 11,355

Assad’s brutal war against the Syrian people was infamously one of the bloodiest campaigns of mass slaughter in recent memory. And yet.

A timeline of pandemics.

Here's the full chart: A timeline of pandemics.

Historical knowledge of past pandemics is sparse. Pandemics with an unknown death toll are shown as triangles, while pandemics with an estimated death toll are shown as circles.

Are any of the other hosts here? You guys are the only thing I'll miss from twitter!