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Great thread and great response from Ada Palmer to it. I'd just add:

The Renaissance is bunk, but maybe the renaissances aren't?

Every heretic and every reformer (you can almost never pre-judge which is which) thinks they're "returning" to a golden age.

Nostalgia is the enemy.

study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

SCOOP: Idaho’s health department quietly declined the entirety of its annual $1.5 million federal Title X funding in April, leaving patients statewide without any access to the family planning program.

One Idaho health district no longer offers contraception at all.

From me:

OPINION by Jack Criss, air traffic controller:

“After my shift, I don’t go home to rest. I clock into DoorDash, trying to make ends meet for my daughter and me.”

READ MORE:
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Mike Johnson: "These blue states have abused the SNAP program just like they've abused Medicaid and so many other government programs."

I actually think this kind of “infighting” may be somewhat helpful to Democrats in that it can make the wings legible for voters. There are voters across the country who do not like Mamdani and it’s easier to vote for Democrats if they know not all Democrats like him.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

It’s funny to see how many people here are insisting that Dems never even try to make this case when I think of it as “Bill Clinton’s favourite stat” which he brings up variations of literally every time he has a chance lol

European negotiators were personally targeted by their American counterparts during a brutal negotiation over green shipping rules, European Commission officials told POLITICO. 

This highly unusual gambit left diplomats shaken after the meeting. 

Longtime Trump supporter: “I think deep down he wants to help the country with things like food insecurity.”

(Trump enacted the largest cuts to SNAP in history a few months ago)

Now says she regrets voting for Trump and wishes a Democrat were president to “protect benefits [Trump] wants to cut.”