Trump’s lawyer explicitly said - while making the argument that Trump shouldn’t be disqualified from running again - that the 2020 election result represented the American people getting rid of an administration the people didn’t “want.”
It should never be normalized that the President, a majority of house Republicans and 18 AGs asked the Supreme Court to throw out 20 million votes in 4 states on fabricated electoral fraud charges so weak they could not overturn the results in a single precinct, county or state.
Intellectually, I knew the common Mercator projection maps overstated the size of Northern Hemisphere countries, but I was still surprised by this animation showing the comparison to real sizes. The creator also has many more interesting maps on reddit: https://t.co/WNQhQHsZKa
A paper I think about all the time: In an experiment where people are asked to sit quietly for 15 minutes & enjoy their thoughts or else self-administer 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘀, 2/3 of men and 1/4 of women choose to shock themselves. https://t.co/i9S9TOkiXk
Question: What frightens you most today?
Powell: The risk that there is some longer-run damage to the productive capacity of the economy: Women out of the labor force, kids not getting education, small businesses being destroyed, workers left behind.
What America leads in:
#1: Covid-19 cases
#1: Medical debt
#1: Prescription drug prices
#1: Deaths from lack of insurance
#1: Student debt
#1: Prisoners
#1: Gun violence
#1: Military spending
#1: Trade deficit
#1: Billionaires
We need to change our national priorities.