Greg Motter

@ZaidJilani Lots been written about how Mississippi is gaming the system if you are curious.

Mississippi is the nations poorest state with a a massive population of descendants of slaves. It really should not be outperforming a state that has Silicon Valley and Hollywood… x.com/jinboyman/stat…

This coincidentally is a devastating argument against Gavin Newsom

@Avik @MatthewFoldi @Heminator We only pay more on Healthcare because of the delusional belief on the right that monopolies make for good healthcare.

@MatthewFoldi @Heminator In America’s defense, we subsidize health care to a far greater degree than any other country in the world, along with spending the most on defense. Thats why we have a $2 trillion deficit!

Iran is about to find out why we don’t have free health care

@CherylCassel1 @Logically_JC No need to lie, we get the largest defense in the world. 😀

@Logically_JC If you total up all the taxes we pay, we pay just as much and get absolutely nothing.

This one hits hard.

@JFerrier2018 @Logically_JC Oh the irony here not knowing how it works, because conservatives always saddle the business with the cost.

@Logically_JC Imagine being a small business and carrying the burden of 49 weeks off 🤣

@ryanburge So I assume this means that Trump supporters are more likely to report being 'happy'?

People who attend a house of worship in person more than once a week are about twice as likely to self-report that they are "very happy" compared to those who never attend religious services.

@NickyScatz @PhoenixTrader8 @grok This one is going to get Snopesed, getting passed around FB like it's true.

@PhoenixTrader8 @grok No it's a joke

West Virginia poll Opinion of the affordable care act Approve 70% Disapprove 30% Opinion of Obamacare Approve 30% Disapprove 70%

@ryanburge Are Home Schooled included in this?

The type of high school senior that is the most likely to be a weekly church attender? It's those one who earned A grades. That's been true every year since 1976. Better academics <--> More religiously active.

@alexleaf Was she one of the people during COVID talking about the evils of slightly elevated C02 from wearing a mask?

Editor's note: Veronica is just making shit up, per the usual. Can't quote because I'm blocked. A cursory search of PubMed shows that inhaling CO2 for just 15-20 minutes (7.5% concentration) increases heart rate and blood pressure, as well as ratings of anxiety and fear and other subjective symptoms associated with an anxiety state (PMID: 15782425). Other research has shown that inhaling CO2 (6.5%) reduces cognitive performance, especially reasoning tasks, and increases feelings of irritability and discomfort (PMID: 3114218). In fact, CO2 inhalation has been used as an experimental model to induce panic attacks for study, and too high of levels will literally kill you (PMID: 22632467).

@CloserToTruth It will make video social media unwatchable quickly if they can't figure out how to get rid of them.

What fears of AI do you think are credible?

@csuwildcat @JamesSurowiecki If you had read the article you'd see that what the are doing.

@JamesSurowiecki Maybe modernize these systems so they don't require throwing growing piles of human bodies at what appear to be excessively manual monitoring jobs 🤷‍♂️

Buttigieg was asking Congress to allocate more money to the FAA so it could hire 2000 more air traffic controllers. thehill.com/regulation/tra…

@ChuckGafvert @Radiolab And yet Biden only had 1 untruth in the debate for every 3 that Trump told. Only the right wing propaganda machine thinks someone else was in charge.

@Radiolab This is a fascinating episode; please re-run with the inaugural of EVERY president. Ted Lieu's statement about "Presidents elected... who go to advanced age and get Alzheimer's" was disturbing in light of Biden's clear impairment last year. Who was actually in charge?

During his training to be a missile launch officer, Harold Hering asked a simple question. The mere asking of it pretty much ruined his life. And, he didn't even get an answer to this question that he felt could impact the existence of everyone on Earth. lnk.to/radiolab!x

@Avik Being the winner of the race to the bottom has short term benefits...

Wait so Ireland having low taxes leads to record budget surpluses? Tell me more!

On the bright side, Bl ue s ky is no longer too quiet!

Feels like this piece is only half done. Where is the followup with how the media was simply reporting on Republican dishonesty when they mentioned negative views of the economy, given how they are so much more partisan?

@AlanMCole Feels like that happened 5 years ago.

I think we've reached the point where everyone on earth, including remote Amazon or Andaman Island populations, are eligible for free credit report monitoring after having their data breached.

It is pretty amazing how fast the economy turned around. Given how many articles the @washingtonpost did on feelings about the economy before the election, will we get as many about why the GoP lying about the economy will make polling rebound super fast? @byHeatherLong

Did I get this wrong?

@FiveThirtyEight Do we have a decent breakdown of white men by age cohorts 2020 to 2024? My guess is there is one of the few bright spots for Dems among older white men. Unless I'm misreading something, seems like they moved more toward Harris, than they were for Biden. Hoping my math is right.

To gain a clearer picture of the gender gap this year, @FiveThirtyEight analyzed support for Trump among men and women at the intersection of race, education, age and geographic density — as well as how voting patterns in these groups shifted from 2020. abcnews.link/pWZHF0f

@ColoradoSun Why keep calling them tariffs rather than "Import Taxes" which does a better job describing what they are.

Companies prepare for Trump’s promised tariffs on all imports. But who’ll end up paying is still a question. buff.ly/3AOZIrd

@DeanBaker13 Because it's worked so far

why do these chumps feel a need to scare people?