New study gave $7,500 to 50 unhoused people.

Guess what?

"They did not spend more money on alcohol or drugs, contrary to what people believe, and instead they spent the money on rent, food, housing, transit, furniture, a used car, clothes. It's entirely the opposite of what people think they're going to do with the money."

Congrats to my UBC colleague Jiaying Zhao on this study.

#Unhoused #CashTransfers #UBC #IRES

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/a-b-c-study-gave-50-homeless-people-7-500-each-here-s-what-they-spent-it-on-1.6540030

It’s clear that most Republican leaders know Trump would be an electoral disaster, and that they can’t wait for him to be convicted and taken out of the running.

Most of them are just just too gutless to say so publicly because they want his supporters as their own.

Teasing DeSantis – and a Call for Questions
 
An upcoming exploration of the American Founding according to Ron DeSantis, a massive thank you, and a summer mailbag.
 
New Democracy Americana:

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/teasing-desantis-and-a-call-for-questions

The NFT market grows even more shambolic, Binance has more crises, and Cameron Winklevoss does his best supervillain impression.

Catch up on the past week in the crypto world with Issue 32 of my newsletter: https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/issue-32-i-write-to-inform-you-the

The great problem with Democrats on trans rights is many are transphobic themselves. Not loudly or virulently. But they feel there's something "bad" or "wrong" about being trans, that people should only transition as a last resort, that most of us could stop it we really wanted to (or were forced to), and therefore, despite the horror stories from trans kids turned trans adults like me, trans kids and even adults should be held back "just in case."

That's why they're not loudly defending us.

Very good piece on the state of American journalism and where the pursuit of the appearance of objectivity at the expense of other journalistic values has led the industry astray.

The criticism of the establishment is very good, but I found the articulation of the principles journalists should strive to uphold in our work the most useful- that comes toward the end, so definitely read through.

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/a-test-of-the-news-wesley-lowery-objectivity.php