(Highest MRI ever scored, many doctors have said.)

TL;DR: the *actual* poverty line in the US for a family of four with two young children is about $140,000, and there isn't much improvement in quality of life between $40K and $100K.

There's more good stuff in there too, you should read the whole thing.

Excellent. Wish I could read it, but can’t subscribe to everything. Oh well.

I’m definitely not selling my boat right now. Wrong time of year, you know!

All the legally-ordered orders are presumedly ordered as lawfully legal orders, one presumes.

Y’know?

Mad what didn’t work?

The Christian label has been worn like a mask by certain moneyed political interests in America for decades, and today has hollowed out and corrupted entire communities that no longer understand their own faith teachings and traditions. It’s awful. It’s also not at all new.

I don’t know what happened and haven’t paid close attention, but it just feels to me like Mamdani is a celebrity… and Trump gets starry-eyed with celebrities. Also, Trump has always seemed like a jilted lover when it comes to NYC. So…

It might give Trump too much credit to suggest he’s playing the long game here, or that he could keep it up all the way to the midterms.

What the ad does is remind servicemembers of their duty/loyalty to the Constitution, not to the person giving them orders. It is a subtle reorientation of their duty to higher principles. But for Trump and Hegseth, this is a problem 4/

It was not intended as a defense of ICE. But point taken.

Fair! Apologies for that.

While standing accused of sedition seems intolerable, Democrats should consider whether they’d agree to execution for any of several lesser offenses.

Classic scapegoating.

Federal? So now it’s been reported, how long until this investigation is cut off and prosecutors fired?

Here's what worries the Fed (and me!): The unemployment rate is slowly drifting up. This is a clear sign of an unhealthy economy. And it's happening slowly enough that it hasn't attracted many headlines. But it really matters.