by Jonathan | Feb 18, 2025 | Politics
The WSJ is out with an article on Feb 17, 2025, that a focus group they are tracking already has some Trump voters showing regret. One voter: “Now I’m like: ‘Dang, why didn’t I just pick Kamala?’” And another: Anderson, who works with disabled adults, said Kennedy’s...
by Jonathan | Feb 13, 2025 | Politics
There was never any validity to the claim that Trump “knew nothing,” about it. What and how much, I don’t know. But the authors were intentionally picked from his orbit and previous administration. This was no secret at the time that Trump was denying it. I’m...
by Jonathan | Feb 9, 2025 | Politics
Reading the news you might think shuttering USAID and science funding will do something useful towards balancing the budget. It won’t. COMBINED these two represent about 1.5% of the US budget, about $140bn dollars. They are the yellow boxes in the first graph...
by Jonathan | Jan 29, 2025 | Politics
by Jonathan | Aug 21, 2024 | Politics
There is a Facebook post going around that deceptively shows US states by poverty to imply that Republican politics introduce poverty. Here is the post/list: This list cuts off arbitrarily to make a point. While there may be truth in the larger picture, selectively...
by Jonathan | Feb 20, 2024 | Politics
Alabama’s Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are children, with the right to life. This case came to the court after some embryros were accidentally broken/; The Alabama case focused on whether a patient who mistakenly dropped and destroyed other couples’...