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For the first time in U.S. history one quarter of the nation's 40-year-olds have never been married. pewrsr.ch/3NQ9MDX

It is very rich living in PA where there is a seemingly immovable liquor monopoly powered by state stores and their unions and hearing that NYC can just give public groceries a shot and they'll stop if they don't work well. You'd think so, but no actually

Must read Olivia Reingold with color from Bill Ackman and John Catsimatidis on the doomscape if Mamdani wins.thefp.com/p/escape-from-…

The Utah State Board of Education is not just deciding what gets taught in class — it's banning your child from bringing certain books onto school property. Let that sink in: a student could face consequences for having a personal copy of a book in their backpack. We need your

One downside of highly progressive tax systems is that you become very dependent on a relatively few number of people continuing to produce and pay taxes.

so this “massive breach” seems like bullshit. seems like someone dumps of creds harvested with malware, and total records (not necessarily unique) is 18b. Also everyone involved in writing the article, and the “researchers” seem retarded

If anyone had any doubts about the subvertive nature of Chinese AI freebies, here's a good example. I decided to ask DeepSeek to do a mundane job: edit the text of a recent The Insider article to make it more vocal-delivery friendly, so we can record it as a podcast. SFSG.

I am not a lawyer, but it seems to me that the Skrmetti decision hints that the court is ready to get rid of--or at least significantly narrow--disparate impact analysis in civil rights cases.

the top 2% of NYC income earners paid 51% of all NYC income tax in 2020. I’m skeptical billionaires would leave if Mamdani is elected but don’t delude yourself about how current revenues work

What happened to Congressman Max Miller is horrifying and absolutely unacceptable. Political violence has no place in this country — and the person responsible must face the full consequences of the law. There can be no tolerance for this kind of violence.

over the last 2 decades, we have seen the decline of the investment bankers and the rise of lawyers in the 1980s, the most prominent job was the investment banker. that has not been true for a long time. today there are fewer investment bankers that are earning extreme wealth.

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Polling shows that Trump's lost the political battle over the LA protests, even as immigration had been his best issue. His net approval on LA (-15 pt & with indies -24 pt) is way underwater. Further, ICE's popularity has fallen with -9 pt net approval on more workplace raids.

So we have guys who live in San Francisco and DC saying they prefer a Zohran victory because it will be interesting to watch what happens. Would it even be that interesting? I thought Chicago already volunteered for this experiment.

Megan McArdle Rod Dreher Your podcast with Razib 🥥 Khan 🧬 📘✍️📱 was a great extended conversation about how easy food prep is for Americans today & how many food options we have vs. decades & generations ago. Highly recommended! youtube.com/watch?v=c8jThp…

Useful context to my uninformed speculation.

Holy moly! I thought the Jones Act was bad.

because this is my lot in life, must note - 1.) Trump did not oppose Iraq before it happened 2.) he was on record supporting the invasion 3.) he celebrated it as a success at first 4.) he did not turn against it publicly until a year a later. x.com/samstein/statu…

One reason police officers are normally readily identifiable is that if you normalize anonymous policing you make it much easier for crooks and scammers to pull stuff like this. cnn.com/2025/02/04/us/…

The “masked agents are good” crowd has no evidence, no consistent argument, nothing.