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Education 60%
Economics 14%

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I'm generally hopeful; I think 2026 will be different from 2025; I think things are turning around; I believe that we will win. But man, going into next year with a huge attack on child-care providers is pretty dispiriting, not gonna lie.

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I missed this whole exchange earlier in the month.//When the numbers don’t look right, check them! (Mississippi education update) statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/04/w...
When the numbers don’t look right, check them! (Mississippi education update) | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.
I looked how many programs are estimated to be over the new annual loan limits ($20,500 per year for "graduate," $50,000 per year for professional). 4,429 of 17,297 graduate programs and 331 of 1,120 professional programs have per-student averages above the new limits. This is cause for alarm.
This article about Trump policy toward Russia and Ukraine is exceptional but I just want to focus on what a vacuous tool Pete Hegseth is:
Example 1 - he refused to meet with his predecessor:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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That’s the problem though, Peter? Doesn’t the illegal and immoral stuff need to be repeated over and over even if it’s repetitive and boring because we need people to take action on illegal and immoral stuff? The idea you have to be original is part of the problem here.

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Seeing an argument about whether President Trump (personally, not his Administration) is “interesting,” with scorn for someone saying he’s not.

Here’s a challenge: think of something to say about him that a) isn’t obvious, b) hasn’t already been said, and c) your audience doesn’t already know.

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This is the second pediatric #flu death I've seen in 2 days. I'm so sorry for the pain their families must feel. Unclear if either was vaccinated but odds are they were not, as most such deaths are in unvaccinated children.
‘He was loved by all’: 14-year-old dies after suffering complications from the flu
An Alabama community is mourning the loss of a teenager who died due to reported complications from the flu.
www.fox19.com
Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research.

A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say
A new compound has been shown to reverse late stage Alzheimer's disease in lab mice, which gives millions of sufferers new cause for hope.
futurism.com

Yikes
I am determined as God is my witness to start the Trump fake hand conspiracy theory. His hand isn't showing signs of an undisclosed illness. It's a fake painted Halloween costume hand because his hand was already removed. It's time.

Smart move.

We are getting really close to some DOJ lawyers ending up in jail.
Breaking:

Emails just released by a federal judge show that Justice Department leaders pushed to charge Kilmar Abrego Garcia — raising serious questions about whether Department officials had misled a judge in telling him that local prosecutors had acted alone in charging Abrego.
Justice Dept. Leaders Pushed to Charge Abrego Garcia, Emails Show
www.nytimes.com

Really dumb and petty as he will look completely impotent when the veto is overridden.
NEW: President Trump's first veto of his second term kills a unanimous bill to fund a major drinking water project in Colorado. Trump had threatened punishment for Colorado for imprisoning his ally Tina Peters. www.9news.com/article/news...
Trump vetoes bill to fund Arkansas Valley conduit in Colorado
President Trump vetoed a bill to fund a pipeline project to bring clean drinking water to communities on the Eastern Plains between Pueblo and Lamar.
www.9news.com

The project it funds is primarily for his voters.
Breaking:

Emails just released by a federal judge show that Justice Department leaders pushed to charge Kilmar Abrego Garcia — raising serious questions about whether Department officials had misled a judge in telling him that local prosecutors had acted alone in charging Abrego.
Justice Dept. Leaders Pushed to Charge Abrego Garcia, Emails Show
www.nytimes.com
NEW: President Trump's first veto of his second term kills a unanimous bill to fund a major drinking water project in Colorado. Trump had threatened punishment for Colorado for imprisoning his ally Tina Peters. www.9news.com/article/news...
Trump vetoes bill to fund Arkansas Valley conduit in Colorado
President Trump vetoed a bill to fund a pipeline project to bring clean drinking water to communities on the Eastern Plains between Pueblo and Lamar.
www.9news.com

Also, I have little doubt this will get stopped pretty quickly in court. If they targeted a few specific day care operations, they would have better luck but they don’t like Tim Walz so they’re gonna try the hard way.

I’m not sure they really thought through what this will do. I mean they might have, and don’t care, but MN is still an outside swing state. D’s wouldn’t mind R’s just giving up on it as thousands of angry parents who can’t get to work revolt.
BREAKING

The Trump administration says it has frozen all childcare payments to Minnesota in the aftermath of allegations of fraud by some in the Somali community.

Important: allegations along these lines have existed for years, which has resulted in prosecutions starting with the Biden DOJ.

It’s easy. My wife and kid got it a few weeks ago and I chose not to (also all of us are vaccinated).
BREAKING

The Trump administration says it has frozen all childcare payments to Minnesota in the aftermath of allegations of fraud by some in the Somali community.

Important: allegations along these lines have existed for years, which has resulted in prosecutions starting with the Biden DOJ.

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Pretty sure this is the best reporting I've seen explaining this youtube.com/shorts/f_l9X...
What’s going on with the daycares in Minneapolis?
YouTube video by Dave Jorgenson
youtube.com
I’m not gonna dunk on some small depressed account, but one reply I get to this is “you think there’s gonna be elections/Trump will listen to judges??” And I wonder how people haven’t noticed that Garcia is home and free and Republicans got crushed in elections this year
We Are Going to Win
Trump's revolution will fail, but we still have a long and painful road ahead of us.
www.liberalcurrents.com

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It is irresponsible and dangerous for the CMS Administrator (a physician who knows better) to downplay the importance of getting the flu vaccine.

Reminder: The US had ~38,000 flu deaths in the 2024-25 season.
Dr. Oz on the "super flu": "Every year there's a flu vaccine. It doesn't always work very well. That's why it's been controversial of late. But like many illnesses, the best news out there is if you can take care of yourself so that when you do end up running into the flu, you can overwhelm it."

I don’t know if they are. Just saying it would be a shame.

Would be a real shame if that 7% were mainly swing voters.
FOX: What is the Republican plan to provide an alternative to the ACA?

REP. JASON SMITH: The difference Republicans and Democrats is Democrats are focused on 7% of the population. Republicans are focused on creating more choice and lowering healthcare costs for every single American.
Talking with people at a holiday gathering here in Toronto last night, and when it came up, most of us nodded that we likely won’t ever visit the United States again.

It’s a weird feeling, and weird to acknowledge in a group.

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4. Tax increase. FY24 receipts were $4.9t, so we need to increase taxes by about a third to plug deficit.

For average ppl: 2024 median household income was $84k, let’s assume $55k is taxable (standard deduction, married) tax would go from $6139 to $8164 (an extra $2025/yr or $77 every two weeks).

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FOX: What is the Republican plan to provide an alternative to the ACA?

REP. JASON SMITH: The difference Republicans and Democrats is Democrats are focused on 7% of the population. Republicans are focused on creating more choice and lowering healthcare costs for every single American.
BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.