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2000: Social Security trust fund will run out in 2037. 2022: Social Security trust fund will run out in 2035. The public: lol, you've been talking about it for 30 years and it still has not run out

Yet another survey showing only about 1/3 of Americans support the OBBB

My new Capitolism @TheDispatch examines the economic & political problems with Trump's US Steel "golden share" arrangement and shows why the company has indeed been nationalized - by the US government's own standards. thedispatch.com/newsletter/cap…

This is why I only eat at McDonald's

It was a nice dunk, but Bush/Quayle won in a landslide, the last time someone got over 400 electoral votes

According to this article, Senator Crapo’s response to today’s DYNAMIC score from CBO is — I kid you not — “they aren’t analyzing it dynamically.”

WW2 had many long-run negative consequences for Europe, including economic, health, and... reduced trust: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I find the story of AI and radiology fascinating. Of course, Hinton's prediction was wrong* and tech advances don't automatically and straightforwardly cause job replacement — that's not the interesting part. Radiology has embraced AI enthusiastically, and the labor force is

Happy Juneteenth! The US's most libertarian holiday.

Wow, if only someone had tried to do this for four score and five years. US politics just totally ignored this issue until it was too late.

DC's Democratic mayor is calling for the city to council to *repeal* a minimum wage law after realizing it's unintentionally reduced employment and median earnings. Props to Bowser. (Never thought I'd say that)

"The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves" June 19, 1865

Utterly, utterly unacceptable and unprofessional behavior from this LEO. You simply cannot threaten to kill someone for taking a picture. That officer should be immediately taken off duty and subject to professional discipline. He should not be in the field.

Polling shows that Trump's lost the political battle over the LA protests, even as immigration had been his best issue. His net approval on LA (-15 pt & with indies -24 pt) is way underwater. Further, ICE's popularity has fallen with -9 pt net approval on more workplace raids.

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