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Katie Skeen, PhD
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Cold-eyed warm-hearted editor researcher mother radical optimist.
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I was on Jeopardy! the week that Alex Trebek shaved off his mustache.
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Francis Scott Key reused two older melodies written by 18th-century Irish harper, Carolan. So is Hendrix actually covering Carolan? 🤔
December 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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So let me get this straight. This nepo baby wants Dems to follow the polls, and lists Medicare for all, abortion access, and assault rifle restrictions as examples of Dems going too far left?? Those are three policies with majority support you nincompoop!
Simon Bazelon: There are a number of things going on here. First, the Democratic Party is a lot more liberal and left-wing than it used to be. For example, the share of congressional Democrats who support Medicare for All or paid family leave or an assault weapons ban or expanded abortion rights has gone way up in the last 12 years. And as that shift to the left has happened, we see in public polling that the share of voters who think Democrats are too liberal has gone up a lot. According to an Economist/ YouGov poll published earlier this week, 59 percent of Americans back the idea of Medicare for All. Only 27 percent of those polled said they did not support the idea. Views on abortion, 1995-2024 While public support for legal abortion has fluctuated somewhat in two decades of polling, it has remained relatively stable over the past several years. Currently, 63% say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 36% say it should be illegal in all or most cases. A stable 56% of U.S. adults support stricter laws covering the sale of firearms in general, while 33% prefer the laws be kept as they are now and 10% want them to be less strict. Americans continue to oppose an outright ban on handgun possession. In fact, the 20% of U.S. adults who would favor a law banning the possession of handguns, except by the police and other authorized persons, is down seven percentage points from last year and statistically tied with the 19% record low in the 65-year trend. Americans are much more inclined to favor a ban on assault weapons, with a slim 52% majority saying there should be a ban on the manufacture, possession and sale of semiautomatic guns, known as assault rifles. However, the current level of support is lower than what Gallup measured in two prior surveys.
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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There Will Be Bowie.
December 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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But self-driving taxis on city roads are okay 👍
December 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM