PhD student at Syracuse University focused on political communications. Love over-analyzing media, especially anime. Binational state supporter. BLM. He/Him
@ArmandDoma We should make college either tuition free or heavily subsidized rather than wall off large swaths of human knowledge. Education has more value than income
the rule is that someone who graduates college should make more money than a HS graduate, which is a bar that literally every college major clears pretty easily. the point of the rule is to punish scammy school
Roger Marshall REALLY doesn't want you to see this ad...
Meischa's story is true. Roger Marshall and his lawyers can’t hide the truth about his record from Kansas voters.
Let's take Matt's argument at face value (I don't) then we can either live in a country that
a) makes college tuition free
or
b) doesn't encourage degrees in the things that enrich life (the arts) or help people (social services)
This seems like a reasonable idea with precedent from Obama’s education department.
The government shouldn’t be in the business of encouraging people to take loans they won’t be able to repay.
Hasan Piker has a correct take on Law and Order SVU:
"It's copaganda that has a healthy dose of social conditioning for woke shit. That's precisely the reason why your elderly relatives that watch it are unironically way more open-minded about discrimination. But, that's also the reason why they think, 'The only thing that's holding society together is the Law and Order Special Victims Unit. There would be instant mass terror in the streets if the brave, valiant police force wasn't holding society together every day.'"
NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports.
“That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
Arlie Hochschild wrote about the “empathy wall” we have to climb to understand those with different views than us, but there are some things I don’t think I’ll ever understand. This strange refusal to understand their children (let alone adult children) is one of them.
NYT/Siena poll | 9/15-9/22 LV
(Maine surveyed)
What is your preference for the outcome of this year’s US Senate elections?
🟦Democratic control 55%
🟥Republican control 43%
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US Senate Maine 2026
🟥Susan Collins 49% (incumbent)
🟦Troy Jackson 46%
NEWLY UNCOVERED AUDIO: Texas GOP US Senate candidate Ken Paxton calls the Uvalde shooting a "plan" by "God" and says "life is short” about children murdered in an elementary school.
This man is vile.
Israel's Central Elections Committee voted Wednesday to disqualify Mansour Abbas' United Arab List slate from running in the election, as well as the Joint List, which consists of the parties Hadash, Ta'al and Balad. In its decisions, the committee claimed some members of the parties "reject Israel as a Jewish and democratic state."
The decisions may be reversed by appeal to the High Court of Justice, which struck down similar rulings in previous election cycles | Michael Hauser Tov, Chen Maanit, Noa Shpigel and Jack Khoury
🔗: https://t.co/RnMQ93j8Eq
I see no greater indictment of American culture in the 21st century than the number of people who think Nathan Fielder is anything more than a reality tv show producer
66% of straight women are unwilling to date a bisexual man, our study finds ahead of #BiVisibility Day
% unwilling to date a bi man
Straight women 66%
Bi men 15%
Gay men 11%
Bi women 10%
% unwilling to date a bi woman
Straight men 35%
Lesbian women 20%
Bi men 9%
Bi women 3%