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NPR is decrying the Trump administration’s leadership to remove sugary energy drinks from SNAP. The publication argues that children’s daily consumption of government-funded energy drinks is “normal.”

It's gonna be a nailbiter

Just when you thought Palm Beach real estate couldn’t go any higher…

When people try to actually govern in blue areas, they become more sympathetic to abundance concerns.

I appreciate left-YIMBY support on the housing issue, but ultimately I don't think it's possible to get anything done on this without being tough on crime.

Zohran Mandani doing well among educated demographics is an indictment of a higher education system that has been thoroughly reconfigured to educate people to believe things that are uncontroversially false

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Rent control misallocates housing: we want a system that permits a world-class neurosurgeon to outbid a barista for an apartment near a hospital

People have done such a good job sanewashing the DSA via repetition Mamdani is young, charismatic, and the flagbearer for a faction with some of the worst ideas in American politics “Destroy gifted education” but with a cheeky grin so they know you’re a good guy

I guess I've just gone through a post-modern rite of passage. I Googled a term, received an AI-generated summary, the language sounded really familiar, so I backtracked - and it turns out the AI was encapsulating something I'd previously written.

"New market-rate housing puts downward pressure on the price of existing homes" is widely accepted as a fact among people who actually stand to make or lose money on housing.

Botswana is the actually existing success of 1970s Third Worldist decolonial resource nationalism. And yet the leftists don't care because it wasn't done with a violent revolution.

Yes, it seems like Zohran is taking a page from the SF progressives' book -- call for more housing and then put conditions on it until no more housing can be built. (cc Derek Thompson)

New Yorkers visiting Hoboken after Zohran Mamdani nationalizes the bodegas and destroys the grocery supply chain

So many people believe this talking point from Bernie, drives me crazy BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street don’t ‘own’ 95% of companies. They hold shares on behalf of others, like your grandmas retirement fund. They’re not puppet masters, they’re custodians.

I am profoundly alarmed about the future of the Democratic Party and the country by yesterday’s NYC anointment of a candidate who failed to disavow a "globalize the intifada" slogan and advocated Trotskyite economic policies. I fear it is evidence that our party is following the most

New Yorkers are falling for third-worldist socialism like some uncontacted tribe dying from smallpox due to lack of exposure. Anyone from Miami, a refuge from that political smallpox, recognizes this Mamdani guy: actually upper-class, glib with great aesthetics, promising utopias

No, it's even crazier: certain labor leaders are comparing a bill that would establish *wage floors* for construction workers--floors that are way above minimum wage--to "Jim Crow, slavery, and immigration raids." 1/2