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Horrific details reveal Elias Rodriguez continued shooting Sarah Milgrim as she tried to crawl away - executing her in cold blood.

"Vast majorities opposed cutting funding for Medicaid (83% vs. 17%), Social Security (90% vs. 10%) and Medicare (92% vs. 8%)." But I'd bet if you asked, they also think they want to reduce federal deficits. 🤣 kentucky.com/news/nation-wo…

The antisocial century, in three parts 1. 1960-2000: Robert Putnam sees associations and club membership plummeting, writes “Bowling Alone” 2. 2000 - 2020s: Face to face socializing falls another 25%, as coupling rates plunge 3. Now this… (ht Micah Erfan)

New newsletter for you today on the Catalist report, considered the gold standard for election modeling. This took some work, but as I crunch the numbers, it suggests that persuasion rather than turnout was Democrats' big problem in 2024.

"Francesca Gino said Harvard’s investigation was flawed as well as biased against her because of her gender." wsj.com/us-news/educat…

How absurd. A land that's neither free nor brave.

The standard line in Poli Sci is that the rise of "independents" was a mirage: Most have a partisan lean that makes their voting behavior about as predictable as the votes of weak partisans. But on same-sex marriage, independents show a definite tilt. thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq…

A study out of the Univ. of Kentucky using Tennessee education data: The analysis "found that ... in the years following [the pandemic], charter school students outperformed similar traditional public school peers." uknow.uky.edu/research/uk-us…

Breaking news? Analysts have known this would happen since I started teaching American Gov't more than a quarter century ago. The only thing I've needed to change in my Domestic Policy slides since then has been the exact year in the 2030's when the reckoning would take place.

This is the sort of issue the right exploits effectively. People defending such policies will twist themselves up with pretzel logic, but what voters hear is: "Public educational institutions charge students from Indiana more than they charge undocumented migrants from abroad."

"A month or two back, some professors at the University of Pennsylvania decided to protest Trump administration policies. How’d they do it? They read from the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the Federalist Papers. I love it." educationnext.org/we-need-a-post…

Every time someone talks about cooking as a waste of time that would be spent more “efficiently” elsewhere, I always wonder what that person uses their free time for. I strongly suspect that it’s nothing as intrinsically worthwhile as cooking in the great majority of cases.

I guess I've just gone through a post-modern rite of passage. I Googled a term, received an AI-generated summary, the language sounded really familiar, so I backtracked - and it turns out the AI was encapsulating something I'd previously written.

Met with investment dude. Told him I'd be willing to buy herds of goats to support arranged marriages for my kids. He seemed to have a different perspective on how to measure return on investment. These people are clueless.

Guess I'm not part of "everyone" because this doesn't unnerve me.

Republicans are much more stable on this measure of patriotism than Democrats are. For the latter, pride in their country depends on political control. news.gallup.com/poll/692150/am…

Frederick Douglass did not fall prey to the fallacy that ideals/values are useless just because people fail to live up to them.