Judge Tatel confirms, via RBG, that SCOTUS had five votes to strike down Section 5 of the VRA in Northwest Austin in 2009, but the liberal justices signed onto a critique of it instead as a compromise: cnn.com/2024/05/29/pol…

Remember: poverty, literacy, and life expectancy are economic indicators. Arguably the most important ones we have. #MathIsReal

America's strategic industries absolutely depend on continued high-skilled immigration. It's not optional.

Yeeeaaaaaaaaa booooiiiiiiii!!!!! Time to charge up the scooter for some quick lunchtime trips!
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This is the last week to register for the Summer Policy Institute! Deadline is May 31! wvpolicy.org/summer-policy-…

Awesome! I fully expect to add passages in here to the syllabus for next semester! Last time I taught, I'd start each class asking if anyone had reflections on how current events related to the existence of the racial wealth gap & students often shared Kyla Scanlon's short videos.

I look forward to our various news outlets exercising more responsible coverage and generally being better on this and similar issues going forward. We don't need any false panic ginned up that has the major potential to ruin innocent lives through reactionary and harmful policy.

To summarize:
- sensational headlines will lead to bad 'tough on crime' policy asks
- spinning isolated incidents into a narrative of 'out of control teens' triggers moral panic, not thoughtful policy response
- crowds and fights are not new, and crime is still down long-term

Jersey Blirder's Log, Expedition 2:

Today we have potentially 5 newly observed residents in the neighborhood, most excitingly the Red-Winged Blackbird, who looks super cool and sounds a bit like Omar comin.

Billions have been spent pumping sand onto NJ beaches to protect property and tourism. But as the impacts of climate change intensify, can federal, state and local efforts keep up?

Don't miss this special edition of NJ Spotlight News with Briana Vannozzi: ow.ly/e2AW50RUFq5

Yep. End the embedding of too-important-to-fail public services in vampire conglomerates.

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and in case anyone is wondering, 'real' means this is already inflation-adjusted

U.S. Chamber of Commerce official: Because some workers have exceptional tolerance for high temperatures, the federal government should continue to let people unnecessarily suffer and die on the job from extreme heat

At a minimum, the sheer amount of misinformation & lack of clarity around what the OPRA bill does or doesn’t do requires us to reconsider it.

No one is saying OPRA shouldn’t be modernized. But clearly, this bill doesn’t do it, and even lawmakers are unclear about what it does.

The algorithmic chokehold and the global ad monopoly were, somehow, not Google's endgame.

High school graduates have experienced a rapid economic recovery from the pandemic with real wage growth of 9.4% over the past 4 years, but racial and gender disparities remain, according to EPI's Katherine deCourcy and Elise Gould
epi.org/blog/class-of-…

Demanding answers on something that came to light due to journalists getting information via #OPRA requests just a week after you voted to weaken OPRA...bold strategy, Cotton.
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NBA great Dwyane Wade launches Translatable, an online community supporting transgender youth apnews.com/article/dwyane…

One of the greatest joys of my time working at CBPP was getting to work with Peggy Bailey (@peggybaileydc.bsky.social). I'm thrilled that her work and vision are highlighted in this piece and sincerely hope everyone takes the time to read it.
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Revised 1-year inflation expectations revised lower after that preliminary scare.

'That is huge,' says Santelli on CNBC #UMich