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80 years old and still into learning. News junkie. Atlantic Monthly for 50 years. Last classes in poetry workshop at Stanford. New lectures from Peter Zeihan. in Foreign Affairs. Looking for what will be next.
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6000 children have died do to USAID not functioning. Other diseases counted in total 300,000 dead in four months. Trump and Musk did this!

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According to Boston U, 55 thousand people have died of aids since USAID ended.

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About 180 judicial rulings have at least temporarily paused some of the administration’s initiatives.

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Turns out the only person who is releasing criminals into the country is Donald Trump.

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TACO trade,” short for “Trump always chickens out.” The phrase was coined earlier this month by Robert Armstrong of Financial Times and refers to Trump’s habit of threatening extraordinarily high tariffs and then backing down.

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Sub-Saharan Is the main area where population is not in decline. It's the only place where smart phones are not in great use.

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in the U.S., over half the people between 18 and 34 are neither cohabiting nor married. They’re single. And that’s the same case in much of Latin America, East Asia, in China, in South Korea.

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In the U.S., over half the people between 18 and 34 are neither cohabiting nor married.

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Data for a range of countries, shows a increasing number of people are staying single. That is, they are neither married nor cohabiting.

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There are more and more people living in single occupied households all over the world.

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Even places like Scandinavia have headed toward the cliff of depopulation in recent years, generous benefits and all.

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In Italy, there are few children in the countryside. Children's stores have closed. You don't see it in the big cities because everyone has moved there. But elementary schools are closing there.

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In the case of a fertility rate of 0.7 You’re talking about cities being empty, buildings standing empty, economies grinding to a halt and just seeing a country that has gone furthest down this road.

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South Korea has a fertility rate of 0.7. That means that over the course of two generations, the population goes from 50 million to 20-odd million. This is a “population collapse,” we aren’t talking about a gentle slide from above-replacement fertility to slightly below replacement fertility,

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CBP agents often, OFTEN, accuse attractive women of immigration violations/smuggling so that they can then order agents who are women to sexually assault the women via body cavity searches. And the female agents will do it. Another example: www.latimes.com/california/s...

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What people don't seem to understand is that even if *they* are not using Medicaid, a large share of their providers' patient population does. That means that their healthcare providers may be unable to stay solvent and in practice when Medicaid is cut. We all lose when Medicaid is cut.

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The Naderites sought to prevent the government from doing harm, but in too many cases, they ended up preventing it from doing anything at all. Today the Biden Infrastructure Law has done very little. Check the statistics.

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Do you know where your Democratic Party stands today? Are you aware of the internal policy fight that is taking place in the party?

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With UET, Congress cannot write robust new legislation that modernizes the civil service and stops politicization. A President could just ignore it. Even if Trump leaves office, and a new President looks to restore nonpartisan competence, their promises are only good for four or eight years

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In more specific terms, UET would hold that the civil service system itself is unconstitutional. If the court adopts that reasoning, then it becomes very hard to rebuild state capacity.

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Why does UNITARY EXECUTIVE THERory matter? A maximalist interpretation of the unitary executive theory holds that almost any Congressional (or judicial) constraints on presidential power are unconstitutional.

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HOW far will the Supreme Court go in embracing unitary executive theory (i.e., the idea that the President has king-like powers)?

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THE ONLY PERSON QUALIFIED TRUMP EVER HIERED TO DO A JOB WAS STORMY DANIELS.

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Politics may have been a swamp in the past, today we have a cesspool.

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There are now at least eight investigations into Harvard spanning at least six federal agencies.

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It' a sad state that we are now in where a man of nothing but ugliness and hatreds has surrounded himself with a group of sycophants worthy of North Korea and he is determined to destroy this country.

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House fascist republicans just passed their MAGA tax scam which cuts billions of dollars from Medicaid, nutrition programs and other vital lifesaving programs. This doesn’t make America great, it makes billionaires more rich at the expense of people’s lives. Cruelty and greed.

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🚨 Here’s a list of President Biden’s NUMEROUS accomplishments‼️ 👉 What have the MAGA Congressional ReTHUGlicans ACTUALLY done to HELP the American people since January 6, 2021❓️❓️❓️

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We are witnessing a woman with integrity as Amy C. Barrett recuses herself from a decision involving the Catholic Church tax funding and a school.

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People who are in particularly powerful positions of responsibility have a special obligation to face the realities of aging, rather than deny them.

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Avoiding a clear understanding of what a health change might mean is an evasion of responsibility in many of our aged reps and even the President.

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If Vance thinks that too much immigration too quickly is bad for the common good, how does he think taking a mother away from her children adds to the common good. Isn't that immorality, pure and simple?

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Big question to Vance: Do you think that the rough actions, the violent action of ICE, the breaking up of families is conducive to the common good?

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I really do think that social solidarity is destroyed when you have too much migration too quickly. JD Vance

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