The great Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers paper Marty Manley 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 ✡️ 🌎 🚴‍♂️⌚ cites contains this shocking (in a good way!) data visualization. No-fault divorce saved many lives

Hmmm it seems like if you start acting crazy before you have cognitive decline no one will know when you do have cognitive decline. Genius.

Imagine if all the adults acted as if caring and nurturing and developing and loving **all** the children were the most important thing any of us did. Imagine the world that would build.

I have integrated we didn't just "fall out of a coconut tree. [We] exist in a context" in serious conversations and it makes me happy because it conveys so much so quickly and brings a flash of joy to the other person.* *Warning: The joy may depend on who the other person is.

Ugh. this makes me so sad.

The frustrating point about Vance’s lie is that policy makers need to know the true effects of policy and make decisions based on facts and preferences. As Jared Bernstein honestly acknowledges tariffs raise prices to shift consumption toward domestic producers.

Krabby Patty’s are vegetarian. Can someone please tell Wendy’s

I wrote this thread up with more details to make the case for rethinking what "skill" means in an era in which the value of many of the hard skills people have developed may diminish and the need for soft skills like empathy will grow. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

They are not a fact of life. They do not happen in any other country but the United States. If they are a “fact of life” for J.D. Vance that tells you everything you need to know about what he really thinks about supporting kids and families.

We have to hold parents more responsible than their kids who are pulling the triggers. These kids are emotionally unstable children. They have parents who have a duty to keep them & the community safe by seeking mental health care & keeping their kids away from dangerous weapons.

If the US embraced a bit more of this very Australian attitude we’d be in a better place.

This is a fact of American life: American adults have abdicated their responsibilities to the next generation on safety, on climate, on nurturing, on kindness, on community.