Jim Muir

Lindsay Graham ?

Who wants to see anything Lindsay Graham says?

Nobody.

Is NBC calling the war the "Mideast Conflict" now?

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

I have been musing about the hypothesis that the ultimate consequence of SCOTUS's opinion in Trump v. U.S. will be the destruction of the rule of law in the U.S. This gift article helps to explain why, in part by emphasizing the evisceration of the Dept. of Justice.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

Sherrod Brown - Fighting for Ohioans Sherrod Brown has always been a relentless fighter for the people of Ohio.

Brown supports

🔹Affordable Health Care,  
🔹Fair Wages
🔹Worker Pensions
🔹Consumer Protections
🔹Taxes Paid by All

www.sherrodbrown.com

got it.

And no one ever said that.

Learned a lot from everybody's responses and my experience, not high-end purchasing, but one person on a fixed income that is a hair above poverty level. Most I work would never use door dash. My town is one of the lowest average incomes in Ohio.

And good criticisms all around from many, food prices over the long term for Americans has been very low, that people have reported struggling since Covid, and that current life conditions, media exposure, and policies, food industry pricing and profits have all contributed to "struggle".

No, that was not my point, nor the root of my point about surveys representing "price sensitive grocery shopping" and people responding to " struggling to pay grocery bills because of inflation and rising food prices"

And its fair criticism but I think largely dependent on higher income stratifications, for the facts I laid out were the lowest 10% of income and the next.

As I mentioned earlier, the Swifty survey was a poor choice for me to quote, but But Pew Research was used in the same query and is fully confirming as were others I already listed that were also used in the same query to verity the numbers.

I use a pre-prompt query to mitigate AI failure based on Gary Marcus' (Ai critic I follow) # PROMPT ENGINEERING FRAMEWORK for any summaries or analysis. but this one was just a fact check with many verifiable sources.

Yes, and no. And I build queries now that refute my biases and I've got plenty that get axed by facts, and I do check the sources which are fully stated and quoted and referenced.
Critical thinking comes after. Verification also follows.
Not all queries are web searched based. But this one was.

According to the Arms Control Association – Sept. 2025 in its analysis of Putin’s offer to keep New START limits for one extra year, Trump and his press secretary said the idea “sounds like a good idea”. Trump “has not responded in public since. Continued discombobulation of standing order.
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The GOP's leading contender for the next phase of obsolescence and discombobulation.

Ha! Continue exposure of the worst of humanity by Trump initiatives.

Fact Check search. reliable sources (except the one Charles called out) and all confirming facts. As a philosopher, is Ai considered not useful to query facts on actual sources?

I'm open to criticism for sure. if you want I could DM you the source. We all need to stand on solid ground.

Yep, a 76 year old not a bot with facts alot. And poorly might mean you can identify it came from an Ai search query but it identified almost 5 sources for each statement and addressed as fair criticism of the sources I used.

And seems they own the media now.

Spain’s PM: “The time of hiding behind servers is at an end.”

Yep a terrible source to lead with. I'll remove that from my source queries here-on-in. Thanks Charles.

But others are way better and confirm:

USDA Food Security Survey Module
Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey
Pew Research Center using rigorous methodology
AP-NORC Center's national polling

Preciseness but not in error. Ha! But funny.

Oh boy. I can see beliefs dominating the conversation when we should be sorting out what is useful to combat the current administration's policies, which is why I called out Will's statement in the first place. You could research your statement and make it useful or discard it.

Yes, of course there is that. Media drives beliefs, beliefs drive behavior. And calling out some of the bullshit is perfectly fair — I remember the "Egg prices" fiasco, I was paying $3 for dozen eggs and posts here were complaining about $8 per dozen prices. there probs were some, but likely few.

According to a survey by Swiftly (a retail technology company), 67.6% of shoppers (approximately 68%) said they were struggling to pay grocery bills because of inflation and rising food prices. The survey was widely reported by USA Today, Fortune, and other outlets in December 2025.

While the average American spends 10.6% of disposable income on food—among the lowest shares globally—lower-income households spend a substantially higher proportion, making precise price awareness a widespread necessity rather than a fringe behavior.

This means roughly one-third of households with modest incomes (not just the very poorest) face food insecurity.

The claim mischaracterizes both the scale of economic hardship and consumer behavior.

In 2023, 13.5% of all U.S. households experienced food insecurity, including 38.7% of households below the poverty line and 33.5% of households with incomes below 185% of the poverty threshold.

and over three-quarters (75.2%) said they reduced spending in other areas (entertainment, travel, clothing, dining out) to afford groceries.

Two-thirds of Americans also reported being "very concerned" about food and consumer goods prices.

Price-sensitive grocery shopping extends well beyond the bottom decile. In 2024, more than two-thirds of Americans (67.6%) reported struggling to pay grocery bills due to inflation,