New updates to Urban Institute's Debt in America Map show the potential impact of debt on young adults in the U.S. @urbaninstitute.bsky.socialwww.urban.org/urban-wire/m...

Many Young Adults Have Taken on Debt. It Could Jeopardize Their Financial Futures.

Taking on debt can allow young adults to navigate new careers and educational opportunities, but high debt burdens risk limiting young people’s current and future financial prospects.

Many working older adults with modest incomes will get slammed in 2025 if Congress doesn't renew enhanced premium tax credits. @urbaninstitute.bsky.socialwww.urban.org/research/pub...

Enhanced PTCs Help Older Adults and Those in High-Premium States Afford Coverage

In this summary, we examine the expected distribution of enhanced PTCs among nonelderly people with incomes over 400 percent of FPL by age, income, and state. We use projected 2025 subsidized Marketpl...

Bem-vindos! 🇧🇷

This one really has me fucked up ya'll. A child is dead because this asshole ordained himself a hero and thought his gun gave him heightened power to issue orders. How badly did America fuck up to live in a reality where dead children are an acceptable cost of letting lunatics keep deadly weapons?

MHmichaelhobbes.bsky.socialJun 8, 2024 7:22pm

Some dude in a Seattle suburb saw three teens about to commit an armed robbery so he stepped in to stop them. Only problem was, they weren't armed and weren't planning a robbery. They were returning a BB gun to Big 5. www.fox13seattle.com/news/teen-sh...

This week's comic: Many white Americans fail to assimilate

After being a 7-day-a-week subscriber for 28 years (that's more than 10,000 home delivered editions of @washingtonpost.comwww.npr.org/2024/06/06/n...

'Washington Post' publisher tried to kill a story about allegations against him. It wasn’t the first time.

The Post's new CEO Will Lewis tried to stop the paper from publishing a story about allegations he faces in Britain. It wasn't the first time he's attempted to head off unwanted coverage. I know, beca...

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i think it is great that we have an unelected supra-legislature that is completely unbound by precedent or public opinion or tradition or text and that effectively cannot be disciplined or checked by any other political actor in the system

JLjonmladd.bsky.socialMar 4, 2024 11:08pm

"The Supreme Court has effectively replaced a very high bar for allowing insurrectionists into federal office — a supermajority vote by Congress [as specified in the 14th Amendment] — with the lowest bar imaginable: congressional inaction." www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/o...

Opinion | The Supreme Court Just Erased Part of the Constitution

Its ruling on Trump’s eligibility for the presidency contradicts the clear language of the 14th Amendment.

Since some people are reacting to the headline, not the rest: the mystery isn't why rural Americans are feeling bad, it's why they reward politicians who act against their interests www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/o...

Opinion | The Mystery of White Rural Rage

Why do voters prefer politicians who lie rather than help?