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“If anything, the supposedly egalitarian London of the 1970s (when, by the way, the moral panic was that Arabs were buying up the place) is the exception in the city’s much deeper history of almost literally piratical capitalism.”

“London is not a liberal city. It is liberalism. The place itself-with its non-linear streets, its architectural farrago, its chalk-and-cheese neighbourhoods-is what happens when lots of individual choices accrue over centuries…The result is, and always has been, a city with all the right enemies.”

TIL “Because arabbers generally do not have complete horse-care knowledge, they have formed a working connection with Pennsylvania Old Order Mennonites. The latter, with their rural, horse-and-carriage life-style provide the arabbers with know-how and opportunities to purchase horses.”

Considering acquiring one for my planned Museum of political Pathos

Wishful thinking

“policy makers and scholars have proposed using the health system to help rebuild trust in other institutions. One potential mechanism to do so is linking the health system with public programs, e.g. simple referrals, shared financing, or delivering social services via the health system.”

2) Are there groups of students other than “conservatives” who also don’t feel “welcomed or respected” in some campus communities? Why are conservative students perspectives singled out, but not other students from whom this issue may feel equally or more significant?

“When done poorly, linkages can produce frustrating experiences for beneficiaries and stakeholders. In doing so, they may exacerbate mistrust in public institutions and even damage the reputation of the health system, the very institution whose high regard was initially leveraged.”

OMG you can talk with the disc horse bot? instant unadulterated Reddit/bluesky nonsense on demand?

UW-Milwaukee gave me a fantastic undergraduate education. The reasons it was so good are the same reasons Wisconsin Republicans have spent twenty years hurting it.

“I was not expecting these results from the Republican side, from this new administration,” Flores said.’ I’d like to know what results Flores did expect from the campaign producing MASS DEPORTATIONS NOW signs

‘Irayda Flores, a seafood wholesaler in Arizona, estimated that 80 to 90 percent of Hispanic-owned small businesses have been affected adversely by the immigration enforcement, either due to workforce issues or a dropoff in sales.’

anyway, if this court is going to act as little more than a partisan legislature than it ought to be treated like one by the actual legislature

“Greening healthcare is not merely an environmental initiative; it is a vital strategy for protecting and promoting population health”

We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions. We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying 👇

Thomas isn’t going anywhere voluntarily. www.nytimes.com/1993/11/27/u...

I forget who defined Starmerism as “politics founded on the assumption that your opponents have permanently won the argument”

There’s a lot going on here that I’d like to see explained, above and beyond Trump’s reluctance to prosecute fraud

Yep

Man is from New York?

A great visual, indeed, but it could use a few more arches methinks.

I compared the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts' arch concepts with international museum records and cultural databases. The scale of the President’ proposal for its ”triumphal arc” is significantly larger than many of the iconic landmarks in the world tinyurl.com/26rctmud 🎁

“Long waiting times for non-emergency care…can increase the risk of mortality or morbidity…employed individuals might end up on sick leave and claim sickness benefits, or experience reduced productivity if they continue to work. Individuals looking for a job may find it harder to find employment”

Initially mis-read as “sciences pending” and that works pretty well too

Nice comprehensive science spending site from @jdworkin.bsky.social sciencespending.org#methods

Life comes at you fast.

Really excellent logical discussion about the practical problem with 'viewpoint diversity' as a governing logic for universities-- if truth is the goal of scientific research. www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

the mills always nail it so, what should be the liberal attitude towards trump & the leaders of the movement be? "society, as the protector of all its members, must retaliate on him; must inflict pain on him for the express purpose of punishment, and must take care that it be sufficiently severe"

Uh "I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis out of a road killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members have turned out to be."

The 2019 ProPublica TurboTax investigation never gets old

“we’re literally throwing away money, walking away from almost completed projects…it’s not clear how much of this push is from the fossil fuel industry or anti-climate transition ideologues or just the pet obsessions of an increasingly deranged president who is obsessively opposed to wind power”

There has to be a betting chance it never reopens and becomes a Gulf version of Prestes Maia, Torre de David or that triangular hotel in Pyongyang. (Though I doubt somehow that Dubai would tolerate a squatters movement)

Some time back, at the request of @mullinmeg.bsky.social, I pulled together a whole host of maps derived from the Census of Governments that Census once published but seemingly no longer does. I’m currently sticking them in a lecture—the reason I assume most people want these maps—and so can you!

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New from me today: Illinois is the destination for nearly 1 in 4 people traveling to another state for abortion care. That’s partly because of its geography, but Illinois also put in place new policies — along with millions of dollars — to welcome patients who aren’t their residents.

"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

Russ Vought specifically calls out USAID as something he's proud of (illegally) dismantling. The cut foreign aid has likely already killed hundreds of thousands of people and will eventually kill millions.

Rep. Chu brings up the fact that FEMA is approving disaster requests from Republican states but not Democratic states. She asks Vought about it, and he basically says it's not a problem. "No one has looked harder at FEMA funding than us."

Vought says that 100% of the people kicked off their health insurance from the "Big Beautiful Bill" are either here illegally (CBO says zero of them are) or are defrauding the system or shouldn't have been on in the first place. A profoundly extreme position.

Vought says that it's a very Christian budget, reflecting the values of helping people. This was his response to being attacked for eliminating the fruit and vegetable benefit for poor infants.

Really good, if infuriating, thread

the idea is simple: turn the national lands over to states because states, especially red states, are less likely to care about protecting public land. If you look at public lands through the eyes of a logging or mining lobbyist, states are good and federal research and civil servants are bad.

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schwartz is non-controversial, but this MUST be read in the context of today's news that vinay prasad will be replaced with another anti-vaccine crank at FDA. rfk jr. will also still have wide-ranging power over schwartz if confirmed. i doubt she will be able to fulfill any of her duties under him.

Hard copies exist! feat. @matthiaswismar.bsky.social of @obshealth.bsky.social with the first prints of the awesome @eupha.bsky.social EJPH on health for all policies. Free to read, discussing ways health helps goals from democracy to economic growth + ways to research and estimate effects.

My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service. The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.

The only funny thing here is elected Dem politicians trying to spin it as Good, Actually.

Kind of gives the game away: the MAHA/wellness grifting complex wants you to avoid extremely well known and naturally occurring fluoride on the grounds that it's a strange big government additive... and then sell you hydroxyapatite toothpaste, whatever that is. Lucrative for them, I am sure.

a "DOGE staffer left the Social Security Administration (SSA) in possession of two highly restricted databases of U.S. citizen information...if the claims are true, the sensitive information on 500 million living and dead Americans is at risk of exposure."