🇸🇪Random aside from Grover Norquist at ATR tax press conference:

“Sweden’s got great tax policy. I don’t know why everyone thinks Sweden is a bunch of Bolsheviks”

“They're quite good on tax policies, & spending policies & school choice. And they have a bikini team I’m told”

Members of the European Parliament have backed a call for the “right to abortion” to be enshrined in the European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights by 336 votes in favor, 163 against, and 39 abstentions. 🇪🇺

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Prob the most striking finding was that the 2nd-best predictor of being a Biden 2020/Trump 2024 swing voter (after being young) was being a non-white parent of a child under 18. V big effect size on a solid sample (2K weighted non-white parents, ~200 Biden-Trump flippers). 7/n

Floridians have a major fight for life on our ballot this November. Comments like this are not helpful. palmbeachpost.com/story/news/pol…

Stephanie H. Murray You can't expect a kid to complete hw online + have the iron self-control to never get distracted, nor can you reasonably expect parents to be standing over their shoulder every minute they're online.

Come, ChatGPT, destroy all e-learning and return pen and paper to prominence!

.GLAAD has done a lot of damage to trans and gender-questioning kids and their families by lying so fervently and frequently about the state of youth gender medicine research.

I hope at some point someone there takes some responsibility, apologizes, and (most importantly)…

Patrick T. Brown Matthew Yglesias yes, it has merit. we have a culture where it's taboo to have standards. we must Make Judgyness Great Again

The reduction in inequality we've seen over the last few years isn't some artifact of government survey data.

Bank of America is seeing it in their consumer deposit data with wages growing several times faster among people making under $50k than people making over $125k.

Arkansas Govenor Sanders lists four priorities regarding teens and social media in her 'State of the State' address, which are almost verbatim from Jonathan Haidt's recommendations

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And there are still things pro-lifers can and should do to create a stronger political basis for protecting unborn life. But they'll have to do it without any institutional leadership from Republicans. Link: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/… /fin

I cannot recommend enough Henry Olsen's column on the upcoming Florida abortion referendum. Activists should be targeting the median voter - with some concerns about abortion, but also concerns about going 'too far' - rather than the conservative base: nationalreview.com/2024/04/how-pr…

Bethany S. Mandel Batya Ungar-Sargon There's been plenty of coverage (was written up on the front page of the NYT), but what's been missing is Dan McLaughlin's great point - the fiasco is directly linked to the Biden administration's prioritizing student debt forgiveness over the FAFSA revamp nationalreview.com/2024/03/the-de…

'Patrick is right' is right up there with 'Brown's fears may not be misplaced.' (from The Morning The Dispatch)

Let me add one more glaring item: Eldercare.

Home health care for the elderly soared +14.2% in the past year --> The largest increase EVER

We've known this for years. Glad the Guardian and other outlets are now reporting it. And that the UK is backing off. USA take note.
'Analysis finds most research underpinning clinical guidelines, hormone treatments and puberty blockers to be low quality'
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Core CPI coming in very hot for the third month in the row. The numbers are not kind to the thesis that January was a seasonal anomaly.

12 months: 3.5%
6 months: 3.2%
3 months: 4.6%
1 month: 4.6%