@jeffrobrunk.bsky.social happy belated birthday!

NPR has tracked the prices of dozens of items at the same superstore in Georgia, including eggs, T-shirts, snacks and paper towels. Here's what got cheaper over the past year, and more expensive.

The evidence in the case of Donald Trump illegally seeking to cling to power after losing the 2020 election would have been sufficient to convict him, had his 2024 win not made it impossible for the prosecution to continue, Jack Smith, the special counsel, said in a final report. nyti.ms/4aeAn7t

Fun fact of the day: “California is literally subsidizing the rest of the United States, red states in particular, through the federal budget…
In 2022, CA paid $83 billion more to the federal govt than it got back.”

“California paid $83 billion more to the federal government than it got back. Washington state also subsidized the rest of the country, as did most of the Northeast. That money flowed to Republican-dominated states, which contributed far less to the federal government than they received in return.”

This letter from Heather Cox Richardson may be one of the most important one of all. The Republican party is in self-destruct mode and the hint that they know this is how their proposed way forward is to divide the country and hurt as many of us as possible.

I’m so grateful that @hcrichardson.bsky.social wrote and recorded this piece about what’s been happening in N Carolina. I think it deserves way more eyes on it. I think this is going to start happening nationwide.

We all let Jimmy Carter down.