Kevin Werner

The Olivia Benson split here is SO funny

Cops can’t fail, they can only be failed

The Effect of a Monthly Unconditional Cash Transfer on Children’s Development at Four Years of Age: A Randomized Controlled Trial in the U.S. Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

It began at birth. Families were approached in the postpartum ward of the hospital. I realized I forgot to include a link to the study: www.nber.org/papers/w33844

I wrote briefly about the new study showing no impact of cash assistance on children's cognitive development:

kevinonthemargin.com/cash-assista...

Looking at the NYT top movies of this century list and I see that the campaign to gaslight America into thinking "Everything Everywhere all at Once" is a good movie is not quite over yet

I just don't understand the pathological need among a certain breed of commentator to concede that Trump's framing is correct, before pivoting to a mealy-mouthed "but he's gone too far!" No! He's just wrong! You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to him.

Looks like it is not outselling competitors, at least recently bsky.app/profile/ryan...

Nick Kristoff: "Americans are becoming extra racist because there are too many immigrants"

Also Nick Kristoff, a few paragraphs later: "Support for immigration in America has never been higher"

We need a complete and total shutdown on centrist pundits

Multiple Jobholders as a Percent of Employed Multiple Jobholders as a Percent of Employed

The share of people working multiple jobs is basically identical to what it was at the start of the century fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12...

What are you talking about

Defector dot com

Hawley Aims to Roll Back Medicaid Cuts He Voted for Just Two Weeks Ago

How is he not too embarrassed to go outside www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/u...

I thought In the Dark, especially seasons 2 and 3, were really, really good

The Martian Revolution by @mikeduncan.bsky.social is incredible. Wow.

Roy Moore feels like an eternity ago lol

This is Arlington, VA erasure

No. Fuck Nottingham Forest.

Fuck UEFA, fuck John Textor, fuck Nottingham Forest

Lmao. I guess I just think that any government support programs could be called welfare, and I think there's an especially strong argument for means-tested ones.

"Welfare" doesn't have a real definition. No one is wrong if they call Medicaid "welfare"

Punisher - Phoebe Bridgers
Melodrama - Lorde
Wrecking Ball - Bruce Springsteen
1989 - Taylor Swift
Origin of Symmetry - Muse
The King is Dead - The Decemberists
Come of Age - The Vaccines
The Horses and the Hounds - James McMurtry
Horse Solider! Horse Soldier! - Corb Lund

Included this graph of the correlation between SNAP and Medicaid receipt

I wrote about the Medicaid cuts in the reconciliation bill:

kevinonthemargin.com/medicaid-cut...

Get off that Nazi site. The salute was my final straw but I should have left much earlier. It is a powerful force for social engineering run by a Nazi.

Poorest Americans Dealt Biggest Blow Under Senate Republican Tax Package

With the House bill now passed, I wanted to re-up two important stories:

The bill benefits the rich, and inflicts deepest harm on the poorest Americans, data show www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/b...

The deep federal aid cuts will not arrive immediately. A timeline: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

What’s fun about this post is that it could apply to America or the UK

This has to be one of the most morally bankrupt pieces of legislation I’ve ever seen.

Government is supposed to help people, ESPECIALLY our most vulnerable.

50 Republican senators & the VP voted to hurt Americans, decimate rural healthcare, & literally take food from children.

I wrote about Zohran, buses, and an evolution in my thinking

kevinonthemargin.com/zohran-mamda...

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