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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

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President Biden on Monday night issued a blistering attack on the U.S. Supreme Court for its decision earlier in the day declaring that Donald Trump was immune from prosecution for official acts he took during his presidency.

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I suspect they'll set some sort of test for determining immunity, which will send the case back to the district court and start the whole process again. Delay. Delay. Delay.

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I thought that was the case. I don't remember this ever being associated with Biden.

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Scott Imberman's avatar Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social
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I believe precedence demands that Congress hold antisemitism hearings about this, am I correct?

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Thinking through the Supreme Court's response to this.

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Same holds true for absenteeism. While there are some autodidacts, most kids learn more when they're in school.

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How about how will Trump's campaign defend himself?

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Liberals (pundits et al) being generally empathetic souls have a knee jerk response to listening to/helping victims. Republicans (as a whole and the MAGA variant in particular) have donned victimhood hair shirts to exploit this liberal trait. It’s very corrosive and very effective.

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Can these people even vote for him, given restriction on voting rights for felons?

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The end of Roe, and the growing fixation on 'marriage', finally pushed me to write about gendered burdens. Gendered burdens are not simply about preventing access to rights and benefits, they are the means by which the state controls women's bodies, labor, and identity.

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Breaking News: Georgia’s Parliament gave final approval to a contentious bill that critics say could undermine the country’s efforts to join the EU in favor of closer ties with Russia.

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"Finally, we link the 1940 and 2000 censuses to show that Black children exposed to higher levels of school expenditures had significantly more completed schooling and higher income late in life." www.nber.org/papers/w3249...

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Breaking News: The U.S. Supreme Court paved the way for South Carolina to keep using a congressional map that a lower court said excluded thousands of Black voters.

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Donald Trump declined to take the stand at his own criminal trial on Tuesday, forfeiting his only opportunity to defend himself but also avoiding what could have been a calamitous unforced error. Closing arguments will take place May 28.

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The best quote you could find was from an "infrequent voter?" “I don’t care about what goes on overseas,” said Latasha Humphrey, 36, an infrequent voter who is considering supporting Mr. Trump, if she votes at all. “I care about where I live.”

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I'd like a line about how much more the higher interest rate means for a credit card payment. An extra $10 a month on the $1,000? $100? More?

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Not exactly what you're looking for, but saw this on Twitter

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New: American school systems have a growing and difficult problem — too many schools and not enough students. But closing under-enrolled schools is not easy. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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True, and I don't doubt that learning about mental health disorders inspires some teens to dwell or misdiagnose. I'm just questioning why pull out this study to emphasize.

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And this in paragraph 35 (about SEL) One of the largest, a 2023 meta-analysis of 252 classroom programs in 53 countries, found that students who participated performed better academically, displayed better social skills and had lower levels of emotional distress or behavioral problems.

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In paragraph 9: This remains a minority view among specialists in adolescent mental health, who mostly agree that the far more urgent problem is lack of access to treatment.

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I find some nuance in what people mean by Zionism. Do they mean support for a Jewish homeland? Or support for expansion efforts in the West Bank? It's possible to support one without the other.

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Weren't most of the BLM protests in the summer? Did they extend into the next school year?

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