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Whether it’s Donald Trump saying J.B. Pritzker should be in jail or Donald Trump being convicted of 36 felonies but not going to jail because the American people re-elected him as president, both sides have been linked to jail time.

"The next battleground in the culture war: the foods we choose to eat" -NYT

I am not as anti-car as I should be. I actually like driving! But man it’s up there with guns as officially sanctioned anti-social behavior destroying American life

Maybe they're just so in-tune with your research priorities that the work they decided to mention is the exact work you yourself highlighted on the departmental page, summarized in the very same way!

The obsession with "Sharia Law" gives away the game so clearly, too. If you changed almost nothing about the doctrine but called it "God's Path" or something they'd be huge fans. They're running the country on conservative religious beliefs as we speak!

I am never going to be a fan of a politician. That way lies disappointment. But Pritzker right now is the person I think is calibrating it right.

This isn’t negotiating about social security with W. You either get that or you don’t.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

Those influencing Trump education policy aren't shy about wanting to eradicate public schools.

Asked what % of kids she imagines should be in public schools, Tiffany Justice -- Moms for Liberty cofounder, now with Heritage Foundation -- told @propublica.org

“I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.”

It's very unfortunate that Gavin Newsom is one of the only Democrats who's good at social media

This is partially a consequence of very favorable framing, too. Why ask "should they be in prison"? Of course they shouldn't. It's not a question of whether or not they should go to prison! That's not the issue!

On the whole Taillon has been so much better than Cubs fans give him credit for imo, his rough start really cemented the idea that he's bad in a lot of people's minds

“The fact that the GOP is unwilling to defend the role of the GOP-controlled Congress is the GOP’s problem to solve.”

There is no budget "deal" to be made President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

Her explicit reason for leaving, by the way, was that when she live-tweeted a staff meeting and accused her colleagues of hating free speech and they publicly pushed back, management refused to discipline them for arguing with her. You can understand most contemporary media dynamics from that alone.

It's fine to put it in the article for that reason, but using it in the social media posts clearly implies that it's a current photo.

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

“In the charges filed Sunday, prosecutors notably did not mention a loaded gun in Martinez’s car that was referenced in a previous statement by the Department of Homeland Security.”

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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A) never forget that the Germans needed to out-innovate because they knew that they couldn’t match allied industrial output.

B) they didn’t succeed.

C) cost of the „extremely“ successful V2 program was in the same ballpark as the Manhattan project.

And in ND of all places, just as we all predicted

We really need to retire "contrarian" as a descriptor for Weiss immediately.

The reason she is getting this job right now is because of her *non-contrarian* sensibilities.

She espouses views that the US's current power structure likes.

Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at lea...

#ICYMI: GOP lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027.

A GAO report shows the program has spent twice as much on administrative costs as on health care.

This sucks but it’s an example of weakness not strength.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Bari is going to run CBS News not because of her journalism, or even because of The Free Press, but because much of the mainstream media serves as a vessel for elites to distribute power to their allies

At this point it sounds like he pepper sprayed and followed the guy down the alley, and now isn't cooperating with police. Not sure he was just mouthing off

But the Republicans in those states won't blame Republicans for cancelling those projects, they will blame the projects themselves for being cancelled. Some will even directly blame them for being too "woke" to not be cancelled. The material reality has ceased to be meaningful to these people.

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

the usual story. rich guy wants to punish universities for not clamping down on pro-palestinian protests and for doing too much to recruit minorities. at base these guys want the top tier of american universities to become, once more, safe-spaces for their dunderheaded failsons

Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby.

"I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother.

“I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."

Segregation Academies Still Operate Across the South. One Town Grapples With Its Divided Schools. Seventy years after Brown v. Board, Black and white residents, in Camden, Alabama, say they would like to see their children schooled together. But after so long apart, they aren’t sure how to make it...

After the Brown v. Board decision, white people across the South opened hundreds of private schools.

70+ years later, most of the ones still open in Alabama’s Black Belt remain overwhelmingly white.

In this town, one school keeps kids divided.

(Published May 2024)

I wish he was an old guy I could look forward to not being on the team instead of a pretty good player that's going to be around for like 5 or 6 years