Very low unemployment, low levels of layoffs, rising wages, and strong growth -- at the cost of a 3.5 percent inflation rate -- sounds pretty good to me

Black voters are roughly as Democratic as they've ever been, but Trump is still on pace to win a historically high share of the demographic, as nearly 30 percent of Black Americans under 50 back his candidacy. pewresearch.org/race-and-ethni…

If you enjoy my writing and make too much money, please consider purchasing a Vox membership. For the price of an overpriced coffee a month, you'll get a bunch of bonus content. It's like a Substack but for more than one writer. Perfect Memorial Day gift
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The Washington Post is very, very wrong about the economy jabberwocking.com/the-washington…

Video obtained by @theFIREorg: After Gov. Abbott's executive order targeting student demonstrators, UT San Antonio administrators filmed themselves telling students that if they chant 'from the river to the sea,' they will be reported to law enforcement.

Texas is an open-carry state. The punishment for blocking traffic is not summary execution

Daniel Perry repeatedly told friends of his desire to kill anti-racist protestors. He then went and killed an anti-racist protestor. His own statements to police indicate that he didn't do so in self-defense.

Greg Abbot pardoned him anyway.

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The Texas GOP just signaled that far-right militants who kill BLM protestors are above the law.

Multiple conservative Supreme Court justices' households have evinced sympathy for January 6.

You cannot trust this party to check Trump's worst impulses.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we got him

He wrote about wanting to kill Muslims and blacks. He murdered a Black Lives Matter protestor and was sentenced to 25 years in prison: Gov. Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry, convicted for murder of Black Lives Matter protester houstonchronicle.com/politics/artic… via @houstonchron

For example, look at this story. The body explains the implicit/explicit distinction, but look at the head, dek, and lede, would this cause a reader to think that fossil fuel producers and consumers are being handed $7tn/year? Notice howi t's compared to *spending* on education

The IMF implicit fossil fuel subsidies figure is almost as disastrous as the '100 companies are responsible for 70 percent of emissions' factoid in terms of encouraging incredibly sloppy thinking about climate change and emission reductions policies

Not the main point of his column, but this from Alan Beattie is really interesting and important

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Make “free speech” a progressive rallying cry again vox.com/world-politics… via Vox

This is very good. Also note that vague speech codes are a favored tool of totalitarian regimes (and abusive workplaces) b/c they are easily weaponized with arbitrary & unpredictable enforcement.

So free speech is also about basic fairness and due process
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The best reason to avoid tightly constricting the bounds of permissible debate is that you might be wrong vox.com/world-politics…

Joe Weisenthal Nice, I've been diamond hands on this one. The S&P 500 will be the future of finance considering that it's a reliable and digitized store of value.

The crackdown on dissent against Israel at American colleges illustrates the danger of expansive conceptions of 'harmful' speech.

In its wake, progressives should embrace the ideal of free and open debate vox.com/world-politics…

At Columbia, administrators have allegedly used The Center for Student Success and Intervention - an institution created to, among other things, make it easier to punish discriminatory speech in the name of inclusion - to railroad pro-Palestine activists

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Curtis Yarvin 'debating' Chris Rufo about the American Revolution has real 'When you were partying, I studied the blade' energy