This has me lmao bsky.app/profile/rach...

Question: I've heard some people react negatively to the term "financial literacy" for a variety of reasons. Does anyone have suggestions for alternate terms?

Hey all, it's been a while since I posted here. I do plan on engaging a lot more in the weeks to come. Insert funny gif here... Oh, wait, you can do that now!

I’m sorry to disappoint, but no federal judge will save America.

Well of course. @kenwhite.bsky.social just recorded Serious Trouble.

If you think you can do trust & safety better than a pro, give it a try...

Hunter Biden: mid-fifties, dick has been seen all over the internet Me: mid-fifties, has been seen being a dick all over the internet

Interesting that Jennifer Aniston is talking shit about JD Vance but had no problem working with his ex

Ok, so I finally have the time to figure out how this slightly-less-crappy (who am I kidding--significantly less crappy!) website works. Suggestions always welcome.

The public library at its best is maybe the most radically democratic of all public institutions, because it grants to children the same civic status and prerogatives it affords to all other patrons. Fight every attack on a child’s right to be just another patron. 📚

another one for the "the george floyd protests represented a social reproduction crisis for the nation's elites"

*David Attenborough voice* and now we see the newly-minted Heterodox Thinker emerge from its cocoon to begin the journey to the right wing grift-o-sphere

this guy attacks and disparages his colleagues, all but says outright that he doubts the objectivity of anyone who isn’t a white guy, and then flounces when his targets push back

there was a lot of ink spilled over ~2021 seeing the largest recorded increase in homicides. Now we're seeing one of largest recorded decreases in homicides. So... the pandemic was unique, and now we're seeing reversion to mean. www.axios.com/2023/12/28/u...

One of the major things about Bari Weiss is that she is a huge liar and constantly makes arguments full of deliberate misrepresentations like this:

I think about this Calvin and Hobbes a lot, nowadays.

@kenwhite.bsky.social could you put up a Popehat signal for help with this request? A friend is looking for CA-based lawyers & resources to assist someone they know with a serious mental health condition. The individual in question is in pretrial incarceration on charges related to that condition.

It's been clear for 25 years, but today really underscored that the only consistent principle among the court's conservative judges is the desire for conservative outcomes. Federalism, originalism, textualism -- they're all just a means to an end, readily abandoned when inconvenient.

Murder is down 21.7% in 113 cities with data available through at least January. Still too early to know likelihood it will persist through the year, but does portend a massive national drop this year. Down 21% in 48 cities with data at least through Feb 20.

SUPREME COURT RULES THAT CLARENCE THOMAS WANTS A WINNEBAGO JET

OH MY GOD… A Turning Point rep (Charlie Kirk’s org) tweeted this out and look at the response.

I think it'll be great to see the RNC take a stand on behalf of meritocracy and AGAINST hiring on the basis of identity by choosing Lara Trump as the next co-chair! www.foxnews.com/politics/lar...

It's not even a pardon. As POTUS, Trump could order the DOJ to drop the cases against him and no court could interfere. This is true even if a jury has already found him guilty, unless he's been sentenced & judgment entered. Under today's timeline, there's no way for judgment to enter by 1/20/25.

Also, the next time someone tries to blame a reform DA for homicide rates, be sure to point out it is hard for prosecutors to prosecute murders—the crime ALL reforms still go after aggressively, whatever drivel Fox News spews—if the police don’t, you know, make arrests for murders.

Just finished this podcast. Really well done. Knew that, as with its “terrorism” stings against Muslims, the FBI’s behavior in this case was comically inept. Just didn’t realize *how* inept. These “plotters” were losers. It took the FBI to make them criminals. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

And as @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social’s new book makes clear, that narrative was always a lie.

dumbfuck and his dumbfuck audience don’t know that police officers are almost always already indemnified by cities

Nikki Haley: Well at least now that Trump has launched a despicable attack on my husband nobody will ever expect me to support him again. Ted Cruz: [awkwardly shifts in seat] Nikki: Oh sorry Ted I didn’t smell you there

flight attendant: IS THERE AN ENGINEER ON BOARD engineer: i'm an engineer flight attendant: haha nerrrrrrd

Look unless I SPECIFICALLY TELL YOU OTHERWISE it would be easier if you just assume EVERY SINGLE FUCKING PERSON IS A TERRIBLE CLIENT

Yes I recycled this joke verbatim from 2020

38-year-old man is arrested for failure to show up at court, is put in jail on pretrial detention for months. Police withheld his HIV medication until he grew sick, lost the ability to walk on his own, and was sent to hospice where he died.

I want to write a think piece about how the thirst for presidential immunity is part of a larger authoritarian sentiment leading to things like qualified immunity and thin blue line mentality and this mf just tweets it out

Remains the funniest block of nonfiction on the internet.

So today I just discovered that The Urban Institute has an AMAZING on-line tool for accessing the Census's Annual Survey of State and Local Govt Finances. I feel like the ASGF is woefully underused, prob bc its format at the Census's website is almost unusable for researchers. Tool is here:

The morning paper, January 5, 2024:

This is a high quality Bushism, the likes of which we haven’t seen in years

I know WSJ is Murdoch's rag, but printing Chris fucking Rufo is a new low.

Three years ago today. Remember how outrageous this seemed at the time? It should *still* seem that outrageous.

I’ve come to realize “Trump broke you” means “in the Trump era I came to realize you have a set of values I don’t share, and I’m disdainful of that.”

So, the current 'impeachable offense' is that President Biden knew his son was going to ignore a congressional subpoena Also, many of the Republicans involved in the 'investigation' themselves defied congressional subpoenas last year ....sigh

Still some bugs to work out

“The Marginal Opportunity Cost of Policing is Too Damn High” lacks the narrative simplicity of “Defund the Police!” but it’s the accurate take on things, esp given how local budgeting works.

Kudos to WCNC Charlotte for getting the National Sheriffs' Association on the record botching some basic questions about due process and civil asset forfeiture: www.wcnc.com/article/mone...