Middle class Americans live in the richest country on earth at a time of unprecedented global prosperity and have let online ragebait convince themselves that they are living through awful historical circumstances.

slowboring.com/p/were-living-…

You are never going to be able to convince most Americans that a woman should be forced to carry a fetus inside her body for 9 months against her will. That position will never again be politically popular with a majority of Americans.

a genius article assignment whoever came up with it. the story of the guy who passed the 1864 Arizona law. Basically a serial pedophile who married or abducted and impregnated a string a wives, actually girls, whose ages ranged from 12 to 15. wapo.st/3TWUY8z

Cornel West's running mate posting on the next level

Trump was just asked: “Do you think a doctor should be punished who perform abortions?”

“I’d let that be to the states, you know, everything we’re doing now is states and states’ rights,' Trump said.

Monday: Leave abortion rights to states to decide.

Wednesday: They’ve gone too far 🤯

Make no mistake — Donald Trump is just as responsible for Arizona’s abortion ban as the state’s Supreme Court. And like clockwork, he’s hiding his hands.

I expected this to be about three times as long and instead it was just like, three nice people are having a baby, the baby has kind of a funny name.

The contradictions of American policy in one photo.

It is beyond pathetic that a foundation named after a US president is caving to a thug who tried to overthrow the government.

In 1880, the avg married couple combined for ~68 hours of paid labor each week.

By 1965, after massive tech and social changes, the avg married couple workweek was ... 67 hours.

In 2003? 67 hours.

In 2020? 67 hours.

My essay on wtf is going on —>

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

All Americans want is:

— No low-skill immigrants
— High wages for everyone
— Cheap labor-intensive services

UPDATE: Statement from Dean Chemerinsky:

“I am enormously sad that we have students who are so rude as to come into my home, in my backyard, and use this social occasion for their political agenda.”

Two more “dinners will go forward on Wednesday and Thursday. I hope that there…

Neither Israelis nor Palestinians are going anywhere and if your proposed solution is for one of those two to leave, you’re part of the problem.

It's hard to overstate what a crisis automobile dependence is. Cars are a depreciating, toxic asset that devour valuable land and the money, time, health, and lives of Americans. Car dependence is a key driver of low US life expectancy (crash injuries/deaths, PM2.5, inactivity).

'After Roe went down, it was common to hear reproductive rights advocates talk about rolling back the clock a half-century. Today's [Arizona] ruling rolls back the clock to a point when obstetricians didn't know they needed to wash their hands.'
from Steve Benen…

“We will flog the women…we will stone them to death in public [for moral crimes],” Mr. Akhundzada said. “You may call it a violation of women’s rights when we publicly stone or flog them…[But] I represent Allah, and you represent Satan.” theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

This bill is being debated over trans rights / the right to say awful things about trans people, but reading the actual text of it, it does seem like a really bad and overly-broad law with hugely negative free speech implications that have nothing to do with gender.…