Woah. Argentina's 1990s preschool expansion program appears to have been a smashing success. The program increased high school completion by a whole 11.9 percentage points. The authors estimate that for every $1 spent, the preschool expansion generated about $11 in benefits.

Great reporting....

Gleichschaltung with American characteristics www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

The “Habitat,” a complex experimental environment for rats, gives researchers insight into greater behavioral nuance than traditional cages do, say Peter Kind and Raven Hickson at the University of Edinburgh. By Holly Barker www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/hom...

This is my "Dutch Auction" theory of authoritarianism. It's no coincidence, for example, that the Wannsee Conference, where the Nazi top leadership signed off on the Final Solution, took place just after the military tide turned outside Moscow, and the U.S. declared war on Germany.

“But the Trump administration cut the money, claiming it fell under DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion.”

Such classic gaslighting it's an instructive moment. The question is not whether generic is better or worse, it's that a list with more expensive brand names is not the same as a list with cheaper generics. Perverting that truth into an attack on those calling it out is Manipulation 101.

Thinking one of the McCarthyism movies might be a good Thanksgiving choice. But which one, Good Night, Good Luck, Trumbo or The Front?

Saying "vaccines are safe" is an irrelevant detail when you voted to hand all of the US government's health organizations over to someone who adamantly insists they are not.

If a legitimate form of constitutionally-backed rule of law is ever to be restored, perpetrators MUST go to jail for these depredations, the money made MUST be clawed back, and the political enablers MUST be lustrated. The penalties must be so severe that no one will ever dare try this shit again.

This is really a startling example of how treating women like shit publicly teaches the men around her to behave so they don’t catch a smack too. Literally domestic violence frame but the workplace

Jamelle was cooking. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

Simple Truth: Insurance and financing's purpose is to mask imbalances in wealth distribution. Sustaining them amplifies wealth concentration because capital earns returns faster than wages grow, while those without capital pay premiums and interest that sustain the system.

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

The Vienna Circle was not that coherent politically, but its one consistent theme is hostility to populism: "While positivism was ultimately unsuccessful as an antidote against metaphysics, it remains valuable as an antidote against anti-scientific politics." www.oxonianreview.com/articles/in-...

A short list of deceptions to make wage earners ignore the loss of buying power: Home equity loans College loans Two earner households 7 year auto loans Two earner households ....

Think about these contrasting storylines of the last week: Zohran Mandani is the face and future of young Dems Nick Fuentes is the face and future of young Republicans

Here are two graphs showing the changes in death rates by party state votes for in presidential elections for non-Hispanic Whites aged 20-54 and 65-84. See text for descriptions and explanations. I wonder who Everyone hits?🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #Think #News #Everyone

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Seems like killing DEI could be thought of in religious terms as functionally equivalent to killing God.

The secondary educational social studies curriculums based on Cold War views of economic systems that boomers and Gen Xers grew up with have impacted modern life like a toxic landfill.

the unspeakable truth....

California is readying a one-time 5% tax on billionaires for the 2026 ballot that would go toward compensating for Trump's Medicaid cuts. The architects see it as a national model. It will be announced today.

Lots of US companies have done lots of dreadful things to Americans. But the symbolism of paying to destroy the White House is hard to top.

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@nytimes.com dare you to cover this....

Imagine if we stood up a CSO, Congressional Science Office, to work like the CBO, Congressional Budget Office to score all proposed legislation according to its alignment with the scientific method.

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

FURIOUS MINDS by @lkatfield.bsky.social reviewed in NYRB as "the most up-to-date introduction we have to the MAGA intellectual right reshaping America with astonishing speed today."

"The United States cannot remain a federalist system when soldiers from one state are sent to police another state against the explicit wishes of its elected leaders and when the justification for it is a lie.” @amandacarpenter.bsky.social

That "distributional conflict" is corporate profits being allocated to share buy-backs and dividends rather than worker compensation.

This is disastrous.

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

If you want to understand propaganda you have to realize that what we call "reality" is really just mutually agreed upon hallucinations. Our sense of reality is easily manipulated by the creation of intersubjective hallucinations. They create "truth" that serves the interests of the propagandists.

An East African at the conference I am attending made a really striking point: that he recognizes the problems U.S. democracy is having because they are typical of a recently democratized country — and after all, the U.S. only became a proper democracy in the mid-1960s.

“I’m tired of being pitted against my neighbor. I’m tired of being told to hate my neighbor.” @jamestalarico.bsky.social’s #CupOfJoe is dialed-in. Our future depends on rejecting the politics of hate and choosing a path that heals, unites, & rebuilds. 🔗 tinyurl.com/2kb9wzax

In a sane world, Fox host Brian Kilmeade would be fired and shunned for his depraved comments that homeless people should be euthanized. That’s sick (and deeply ignorant), but sicker still is that it’s tolerated.

Consequences.... finance.yahoo.com/news/us-raid...

When reporting on these kinds of claims, the media should ask:

New, from me: The CDC shitshow is a microcosm of the mismanagement of the Trump era. It also demonstrates some extraordinary courage among principled public servants, who were willing to lose their jobs to draw attention to damage being done to public health donmoynihan.substack.com/p/your-gover...

On gerrymandering, 45% say gerrymandering is a big problem, and 56% support a national requirement for independent redistricting commissions. 53% would still back fair maps even if their party loses seats, and 89% say free and fair elections are more important than their party winning elections.

The journalism that should have been done a year ago.

Holy shit. This legit gave me chills. Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson clapped back at GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote. WHITE WOMEN, this is the model. We have more power than others. We are the last to be silenced. We have a responsibility to SPEAK so others are HEARD.

And studies show that women who are denied an abortion overwhelmingly do not choose adoption or see it as an equal alternative

If you haven’t seen this, it’s about time you did. Sound up!

You might find this relevant - scorecards by district on the local economic impacts of White House proposed FY26 budget cuts. scienceimpacts.org/fy26