AYFKM
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The best available evidence that I am familiar with says that in pure electoral terms the most potent things for Democrats to moderate on are affirmative action, teacher pay, gender/kids stuff, fossil fuels, and harsher punishment for property crime. nytimes.com/2026/03/16/opi…






My statement on Governor Mills' decision:



Americans have seen their insurance premiums climb up and up and up. Families can’t afford yet another jacked up cost in Trump’s economy. A new report shows just how deep the problem is – and how the insurance industry is part of the problem.


Nigeria Has More Births Than Europe Combined

Here is what Norristown PA was like when I was growing up vs how it is today But people want to tell me it’s all still like the Sandlot out there

As a small-business owner, wine importer Victor O. Schwartz has plenty of reasons to dislike the president’s policies. For almost 40 years, Schwartz has owned and operated VOS Selections, an importer and distributor of fine wines from 16 countries. Tariffs on wine have frustrated his industry since 2018, making the already heavily taxed business of sourcing from small farms and importing bottles from abroad more expensive. When Trump’s second-term tariffs were first announced last April, it looked like an even worse disaster for American wine importers than the first term. But the tariffs were also when he realized, unlike so many frustrated by Trump, he had an opportunity to do something. The weekend after the announcement of the tax on imports, a relative mentioned that their law professor, Ilya Somin, had put out a call for plaintiffs to challenge the tariffs. Somin a ragtag crew of small businesses who wanted to file a case against the administration: a tackle store on Lake Erie in Pennsylvania, a pipe manufacturer in Utah, a women’s cycling brand in Vermont, the maker of a banana-shaped synth in Virginia, and, eventually, Victor Schwartz and his wine-importing business. Within a few days, Somin, together with attorneys from the Liberty Justice Center, asked Schwartz to be the lead plaintiff. Read more from Matt Stieb’s conversation with Schwartz about how he and his fellow plaintiffs overturned Trump’s tariffs and earned a $166 billion refund: nymag.visitlink.me/tfzyVs








One reason America needs to get its own shit sorted out sooner rather than later is that the day will come when our allies need out help to restore order domestically









