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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?

submitted 115 days ago • 1 comment

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!

submitted 118 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 195 days ago • 6 comments

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

submitted 195 days ago • 20 comments

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

submitted 195 days ago • 24 comments

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

submitted 237 days ago • 45 comments

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.

submitted 282 days ago • 0 comments

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. 📚

submitted 316 days ago • 9 comments

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

submitted 322 days ago • 18 comments

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

submitted 336 days ago • 97 comments

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...

submitted 337 days ago • 4 comments

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:

submitted 344 days ago • 11 comments

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

submitted 347 days ago • 15 comments

@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.

submitted 348 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 380 days ago • 44 comments

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.

submitted 382 days ago • 23 comments

SUPREME COURT RULES THAT CLARENCE THOMAS WANTS A WINNEBAGO JET

submitted 384 days ago • 21 comments

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

submitted 384 days ago • 104 comments

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...

submitted 384 days ago • 10 comments

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.

submitted 396 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 396 days ago • 4 comments

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

submitted 395 days ago • 9 comments

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

submitted 395 days ago • 32 comments

Saying that DEI is “getting” more divisive is pretty egregious use of passive voice, weaseling out of saying who is responsible for the division (hint: it’s the people who have explicitly said their aim is to lie about what DEI is and turn everyone against it)

submitted 395 days ago • 14 comments

In her latest filing, Ashleigh Merchant says she can prove that Nathan Wade lied in his affidavit about when the relationship began because his law partner says it started before his divorce. www.ajc.com/news/defenda...

submitted 403 days ago • 13 comments

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

submitted 404 days ago • 5 comments

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

submitted 404 days ago • 27 comments

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.

submitted 415 days ago • 35 comments

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

submitted 426 days ago • 162 comments

Remains the funniest block of nonfiction on the internet.

submitted 435 days ago • 17 comments

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:

submitted 439 days ago • 0 comments

The morning paper, January 5, 2024:

submitted 439 days ago • 90 comments

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

submitted 439 days ago • 90 comments

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

submitted 440 days ago • 19 comments

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

submitted 440 days ago • 22 comments

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.”

submitted 440 days ago • 21 comments

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

submitted 448 days ago • 13 comments