Tom Sparks
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California’s $20 fast-food minimum wage raised restaurant prices approximately 3–4 percent. Other prices including food-at-home exhibit no differential movement, pointing to wage-driven pass-through, from @jeffreypclemens, Olivia Edwards, Jonathan Meer, and Joshua D. Nguyen nber.org/papers/w34990
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@fbmarius @marcthiessen @SenSchumer So he deserved it. Got it. Why stop at beating unconscious? Perhaps stoning to death. Or would that be cultural appropriation.
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@marcthiessen @SenSchumer That's not an ICE officer. He's impersonating an ICE officer to be antagonistic. He fafo'd.
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Hey @SenSchumer THIS is why ICE officers wear masks. You’re shutting down TSA so more of your deranged supporters can attempt to murder ICE officers. What is wrong with you?
Officer Lew@officer_Lew
BREAKING🚨: Video footage emerging from the No Kings protest in Honolulu appears to show tourists attacking a man in ICE uniform, beating him unconscious and continuing to punch and kick him on the ground.
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@curtish5 @Rainmaker1973 This is why I go to the Comments when something seems too good. You may be a complete BS’er but I doubt it. A tiny sample size is a big red flag. And admin costs material. Responses from some people justifying it no matter what are discouraging but not surprising. Thanks.
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@Rainmaker1973 After one year 50 people participated, 10 moved from a shelter into temporary or permanent housing and 5 found full time employment outside of the program. The program cost $650,000. In what world is that a success?
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In a groundbreaking social initiative, Albuquerque, New Mexico launched a program that pays homeless individuals to clean streets, parks, and public areas.
The idea was simple — offers work, dignity, and purpose instead of punishment or pity.
The results were remarkable: over 70% of participants have now secured permanent housing or full-time employment, transforming their lives and communities alike. The city’s “There’s a Better Way” program proves that compassion-driven policies can be more effective than traditional welfare systems.
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On Radio Free Campus, Heterodox Academy president John Tomasi notes that right-wing viewpoints have been progressively excluded from campus discussions.
Faculty went from 2 Democrats for every 1 Republican in 1990 to more like 5-to-1 today.
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This is the same kind of hysterical and apocalyptic rhetoric we've seen from the transgender activists, who, likewise, say they're at risk of an imminent "genocide" and that their very survival has become impossible in a deeply oppressive America. They're both wrong.
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According to this oracle of the oppressed, young white men in America must choose between "compelled labour under illiterate black women in HR" and "living in a homeless shelter with black drug addicts who will either rape or murder you." As an empirical matter, I'm skeptical.
Sólionath@Anarseldain
Rufo thinks that this “black slave or White Panda Express manager (slave)” dichotomy is really thought-provoking, I guess because White people have air-conditioning or something. In America, unless you are born to Freedmen (wealthy parents), your alternative to compelled labour under illiterate black women in HR is to live in a homeless shelter with black drug addicts who will either rape or murder you, or both.
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Delta announces all members of Congress will lose special status on the airline as TSA continues to work without pay. Love this. Continue to believe all members of Congress — and their staffs — should lose their pay for the entire year every time the government shuts down.
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a lot of kids don't remember this but there was a time, just a few years ago, when we all had to pretend this was a 'serious reporter' rather than a bravo television personality with some kind of unfortunate mental illness
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Scoop: FBI and IRS agents are forming a new initiative to investigate nonprofit organizations over suspected possible links to domestic terrorism, sources briefed on the matter told @SarahNLynch and me.
@CBSNews
cbsnews.com/news/fbi-irs-i…
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@TahiraS13553 Is there a Go Fund Me to get him the best plastic surgery?
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Six-year-old Bridger from Cheyenne, Wyoming, saved his sister from an attacking dog on July 9. After getting bit several times, he grabbed her hand and ran for safety. He later said, “If someone had to die, I thought it should be me.” He’s now in recovery after receiving about 90 stitches. A true hero who deserves our praise! ❤️
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@AlexEpstein I’m really stunned at the dichotomy of informed vs ignorant in the comments. The Green Unicorn will provide…
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If you treat intermittent solar and wind as if they were reliable generators, they can appear cheaper than natural gas.
If you recognize that intermittent solar and wind are fuel savers for reliable generators, not themselves reliable generators, it becomes clear that trying to power a modern society with them is prohibitively expensive.
It would require so much expensive storage and so much overbuilding that the cost would be on the order of 10 to 20x higher than natural gas!
Alex@alex_avoigt
To all who still don't get why renewable energy generation beats oil & gas hands down:
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HOLY SHIT
Virginia Democrats are EXEMPTING THEMSELVES from a new gun control bill
“The provisions of this section shall not apply to any member of the General Assembly”
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John F. Burns "took issue with journalists of a newer generation, who professed what he considered a messianic calling that diluted the commitment to even-handedness."
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@BradWilcoxIFS “Associated with”……tsk tsk.
How about kids decide to stay single or unmarried couple and then decide they like urban lifestyle and put money that would have gone towards children instead towards a high priced city place.
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The decline in marriage is all cultural.
~ Classic Right
Yet another study--in this case of 52 countries--suggests otherwise, this time regarding housing costs.
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@luca_repetto_c Shouldn’t this be done as percentages, not absolute numbers? Otherwise, as others have stated, it’s just a population density map.
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What are the effects of large human-capital shocks on innovation?
In a new paper, we study how WWI military deaths across British communities affected local invention over the next decades.
We find that places that lost more young men became persistently less innovative.
(🧵1/11)
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@bencasselman To paraphrase the Soviets: Just because it’s in the NYT doesn’t mean it’s a lie.
(Though it probably is).
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An obscure methodological tweak -- a change in the source of data on the price of legal services -- resulted in meaningfully lower monthly PCE inflation in January. That's prompting questions about why the change was made, and why it wasn't disclosed publicly.
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Effectively all growth in corn production over the last 20 years is for ethanol.
~20 million acres of conservation land, grassland, and soybean rotation was turned into corn monoculture that effectively strip mines the topsoil.
Meanwhile it’s the most fertilizer dependent crop with only a 40% uptake rate. So ~1.7 million tons of nitrogen runoff flows into the Mississippi basin annually while also polluting their own water supplies. This runoff ends up expanding the Gulf deadzone, which is also where 40% of domestic seafood comes from.
It’s hard to find a worse way to create fuel, with a wicked level of waste and downstream consequences.
Jason,@jasonc_nc
45% of US corn production is for fuel ethanol and related. In other words almost half of the market is a form of ag subsidy with negative effects.
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The “Green China” narrative is misleading.
Beijing’s real strategy: expand energy fast, rely heavily on fossil fuels today — and invest heavily in nuclear for the future.
The West should learn from China’s realism, not the hype.
My brand new op-ed: nypost.com/2026/03/11/opi…
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