Mastodawn

“…the Supreme Court has become deeply polarized in cases pitting the rich against the poor, with Republican appointees far more likely than Democratic ones to side with the wealthy. That is starkly different from the middle of the last century, when appointees of the two parties were statistically indistinguishable on this measure.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/politics/supreme-court-study-rich-poor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CFA.2CJu.8WRPfXI5_k8X&smid=url-share

Supreme Court Increasingly Favors the Rich, Economists Say

A new study found that the court’s Republican appointees voted for the wealthier side in cases 70 percent of the time in 2022, up from 45 percent in 1953.

The New York Times

kaifilion Jan 5

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇Jan 5

"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health...what have the Romans ever done for us?"

By the same token, when you look closely, what has congestion pricing done for #NYC anyway?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/05/upshot/congestion-pricing-one-year.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CFA.t_Bn.qoLgactqxcNq&smid=url-share

kaifilion Jan 5

Two headlines side by side on TheHill right now:
CDC reduces number of recommended vaccines.
30 states in CDC's worst tier as superflu spreads.

#winning

kaifilion Jan 5

David Ho Jan 5

Everything is a grift with this regime.

https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/maduro-polymarket-bet-a2e5d100?st=rjBRrf&reflink=article_copyURL_share