the Dem child care bill would *deliberately* aim an economic cruise missile at middle and upper-middle class parents for the next two consecutive elections peoplespolicyproject.org/2021/10/20/dem…
good news though. I recently commissioned a poll on whether it's good for families making 100.01% of median income should see their child care bill increase by 13 grand next year, and 57 percent of Americans said "what? can you repeat the question"
another great thing here are the partisan loyalists who are busily convincing themselves that the policy is Actually Good and I'm to blame for pointing out the problems. love it
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what happened was Menendez took $600,000 in bribes to help a crooked doctor defraud Medicare. he almost got convicted too, which the Supreme Court has made near impossible cnn.com/2017/11/16/pol…
turns out AT&T virtually created OAN and provides it with nearly all its revenue reuters.com/investigates/s…
"Ninety percent of OAN’s revenue came from a contract with AT&T-owned television platforms, including satellite broadcaster DirecTV" reuters.com/investigates/s…
some OAN lunatic viewer from California sent a death threat to the Colorado Secretary of State (?)
so France is pissed because it got treated like the second-rank power it is and is having trouble coming to terms with that? nytimes.com/2021/09/22/opi…
it's not fun to be pushed around, but my advice to France is to embrace it. being a great power is stupid and horrible! you end up pissing money away on the military and routinely get bogged down in unwinnable wars
one reason the Nordics are great imo is they're just small countries who can't afford to go on madcap imperialist crusades, so they mainly focus on tending their own little garden
Facebook "has built a system that has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules, according to company documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal." wsj.com/articles/faceb…
Mark Zuckerberg personally intervened to allow a Trump post calling for violence to remain up wsj.com/articles/faceb…
every day more convinced that the Xi Solution to social media is the right one. just get rid of it, all of it