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What Critics Still Get Wrong About Marijuana Legalization
By most measures, cannabis legalization is a resounding success for the 24 states (plus D.C.) that have implemented it. That’s why no state has ever repealed its legalization laws, and public support for the policy remains near all-time highs. Nonetheless, the policy still has its critics. Among them are the editors at the New York Times who, in a recent…Read More
Random Observations on a Rapist Shitbag Farting Loudly
If rapist, convicted felon, and President Donald Trump had waddled up to the front of the House chamber last night and told the gathered Republican senators and representatives that they needed to masturbate furiously during his speech, every single one of those men and women would have unzipped or plunged their hands into their pants and gone at themselves. He…Read More
The Work-From-Home Wage Premium
Why do work-from-home employees make more than in-office peers? Worker-boss relations don’t always hew to formalities. Source link www.nakedcapitalism.comRead More
¿ES SOLO UN LOCO O HAY UNA ESTRATEGIA DETRÁS?
Cada vez más personas piensan que el ganador del Premio de la Paz de la FIFA sufre un grave deterioro mental. Lo llaman loco, demente, chiflado, trastornado, perturbado, desquiciado, lunático y muchas cosas más. Pero, ¿podría ser que sus desvaríos y obsesiones esconden una estrategia racional?Últimamente, el dueño de la medalla del Premio Nobel de María Machado ha mostrado aún…Read More
Trump Escalates His Corrupt Scheme To Deliver CNN To Billionaire Ellison
President Donald Trump’s second term has been characterized thus far by America’s corporate leaders, including the owners of major media outlets, caving to his authoritarian threats of corrupt state retaliation. But with Trump’s public support cratering to levels not seen since he encouraged a mob of his supporters to sack the U.S. Capitol in 2021, the tide may be starting…Read More
Voters Think Trump Has Been Mostly Dishonest About Epstein — and Find Attacks Against the “Epstein Class” Convincing
At the end of January, the U.S. Department of Justice released more than 3 million pages related to its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The document release, required under the Epstein Files Transparency Act passed by Congress in November, has surfaced new details about Epstein’s activities and associates.A new Data for Progress poll finds that voters are hearing…Read More
Conservatives Are Cowards About American History
Over in Munich a week ago, Secretary of State and man who looks like what an old sweat sock smells like, Marco Rubio, gave a speech where he related a fantasy version of the history of immigrants in the United States. He lied about Columbus, he lied about the first European settlements, he lied about how German immigrants were treated,…Read More
America’s Date With Destiny
Some tales can cross cultures, continents, and even centuries to arrive in our own era with their timeless truths pretty much intact. That’s particularly so for the immortal story of “an appointment in Samarra.” It first appeared in the fifth century in the Babylonian Talmud, that ancient repository of Jewish rabbinical wisdom. Then it crossed over into Islamic literature for…Read More
US Ambassador to Israel: “It Would Be Fine” If Israel Took Over Most of the Middle East
On Sunday, more than a dozen Arab and Islamic governments condemned statements made by US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee after he said in an interview with Tucker Carlson that Israel had the biblical right to take over land belonging to other states in the Middle East. “It would be fine if they took it all,” Huckabee told Carlson in…Read More
Bad Things Happen when Wealth Is Conflated with Intelligence
The wealthy are drinking their own Kool-Aid and force-feeding it to the rest of society. In short, they are waterboarding Americans with their own version of reality. Their sycophants are mesmerized by the wealth and perceived power of oligarchs and swallow the story, no matter how ludicrous, hoping that some of it will rub off … Read more Source link…Read More