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“…study from the London School of Economics says 50 years of such tax cuts have only helped one group — the rich.”
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tax...
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tax...
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.
www.cbsnews.com
June 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“…study from the London School of Economics says 50 years of such tax cuts have only helped one group — the rich.”
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tax...
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tax...
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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...
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...
March 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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...
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...
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I would argue that anyone who is incapable of honestly answering “how many children do you have?” is not overly transparent.
February 16, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I would argue that anyone who is incapable of honestly answering “how many children do you have?” is not overly transparent.
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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.
February 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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.
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The January 6 pardons are turning out great.
January 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
The January 6 pardons are turning out great.
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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
January 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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
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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.”
January 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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.”
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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-...
shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...
We failed to stop the rise of fascism. What comes next?
How to navigate the future without a map.
shatterzone.substack.com
January 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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-...
shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...
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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
By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social
January 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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
By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social
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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
January 19, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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?
January 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Anyone jumping over to RedNote? Any advice?
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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
Went down the rabbit hole of "fogvid" nonsense on X, full of crank posts about how the dense fog of the last week is a nanobot chem cloud giving them all a mysterious illness that sounds exactly like a cold. Conspiracy theorists are absolutely baffled by the simplest things.
January 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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
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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
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
January 2, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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
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
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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.
It’s sickening.
December 21, 2024 at 9:54 PM
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.
It’s sickening.
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The Free Press FAFO with their conspiracist audience by drawing a line at disinfo about the polio vaccine. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/bri...
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 ...
www.conspirituality.net
December 28, 2024 at 4:36 PM
The Free Press FAFO with their conspiracist audience by drawing a line at disinfo about the polio vaccine. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/bri...
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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.
The only "good stuff" he believes is that Americans should eat better and exercise more, something every institution of public health already promotes constantly.
Harris had an opportunity to appeal to the RFK voters who just want healthy food and she blew it.
By blowing RFK off entirely, it invited people to assume that Harris opposed RFK's entire agenda, even the good stuff.
By blowing RFK off entirely, it invited people to assume that Harris opposed RFK's entire agenda, even the good stuff.
December 13, 2024 at 9:17 PM
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.
The only "good stuff" he believes is that Americans should eat better and exercise more, something every institution of public health already promotes constantly.
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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...
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.”
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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...
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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... 🧪
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... 🧪
December 12, 2024 at 6:32 AM
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... 🧪
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... 🧪
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*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
*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
December 13, 2024 at 1:40 PM
*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
*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
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/...
www.bmj.com/content/384/...
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...
www.bmj.com
December 9, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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/...
www.bmj.com/content/384/...
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hawk tuah memecoin scandal? none of these words are in the bible
December 6, 2024 at 12:28 AM
hawk tuah memecoin scandal? none of these words are in the bible
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Assad’s brutal war against the Syrian people was infamously one of the bloodiest campaigns of mass slaughter in recent memory. And yet.
November 21, 2024 at 2:22 AM
Assad’s brutal war against the Syrian people was infamously one of the bloodiest campaigns of mass slaughter in recent memory. And yet.
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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.
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.
November 16, 2024 at 10:14 AM
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.
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.