M Bird

An old observer

[Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon]

80% of DSA members have a college degree.
60% work professional jobs.
Just 4% are blue-collar.
85% are white.
This isn't a working-class movement but an elite one, for whom "Free Palestine" and "Abolish ICE" operate as a smokescreen for class privilege—just like climate and trans activism and identity politics once did.

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

Norway is a shining example of how an economy can thrive with a comparatively large percentage of state-owned enterprises so long as it bats 1.000 on every other institutional arrangement and has over a trillion dollars in oil money.

[M Bird @MBird10760458]

@USATODAY She can still play the sport she loves. She'll just have to do it in the boys division.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

I just spent ten days in Norway and left literally yesterday.

It's a beautiful country but is nevertheless full of the European acceptance of diminished living standards and a sense of cultural despair and cultural suicide.

Nevertheless, some of the economic features mentioned below are correct.

Not because of socialism, but because of two reasons: (i) they are drilling the Hell out of North Sea oil and selling it to the rest of Europe while the UK is busy divesting itself of the same due to "net zero" and (ii) their national population is less than 50% of the Los Angeles metro area.

Norway is simply taking advantage of the green scam while pretending to support it.

In other words, their prosperity is a function of capitalism.

Explained.

[Trikeri @Trikeri_Omni]

@pmarca Literally Alice Walton, the richest woman on earth (heiress to walmart), is doing exactly these things right now in Arkansas..... A cutting edge medical school, an art museum, etc. they just have done zero research into it before making this statement.

[Parker Thayer @ParkerThayer]

@pmarca The funniest part is ALL of the foundations that built those things (Ford, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Hewlett, etc.) still exist and have billions of dollars, they just don’t build things that people actually use/want anymore because they all got taken over by commies.

[Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter]

The birthright citizenship case loss was not a huge defeat because it was never going to win at present. I’m not making a political comment. I’m making a legal comment. SCOTUS was never going to toss out 150 years of common understanding, based on a relatively recent critique. It’s going to take time.

But we got closer than we had any reasonable expectation of getting, with a 5 to 4 recognition that the 14th Amendment does not require birthright citizenship is currently understood.

This can’t be rationally considered a defeat. Instead, this is a step towards eventual victory. It is inevitable that, like all other first world countries, except Canada, we’re going to revise the notion of citizenship to reflect current reality.

It didn’t happen today, and it wasn’t going to happen today. But what you need to understand is this was a huge step forward towards eliminating birthright citizenship.

Don’t freak out; a few more defeats like this and we will have won.

[Ilya Shapiro @ishapiro]

On birthright citizenship: For once I agree with Justice Kavanaugh’s middle-of-the-road approach, meaning that the Court was wrong on the constitutional question but the executive order conflicts with federal law. Justice Alito actually reinforces that understanding in his dissent when he writes, “The Fourteenth Amendment dictates who must be a citizen, but it does not address who may be a citizen by Act of Congress.”

But that statutory route is now foreclosed, leaving the federal government unable to deal with the scourge of birth tourism, which was unknown and inconceivable at the time of the Fourteenth Amendment’s ratification. That’s unfortunate to say the least and—given that the constitutional issue was a close one for originalists—the Court would’ve been better off taking Kavanaugh’s off-ramp and leave the issue to the political branches.

Here’s what I wrote on the case after argument: https://t.co/O4nDgqgVrJ

[eburke @JamesWHankins1]

My response whenever some sweet progressive weeper wants me to join in a land acknowledgement is to demur, saying (after puting a look of deep moral concern on my face) that I would first want to know whether the tribe involved practiced slavery. Since nearly all of them did, this usually gets me off the hook.

[Curtis Houck @CurtisHouck]

INSANE: NBC’s Craig Melvin offers a trigger warning for trans people watching...

“Just a quick note here. The terms that we’re using here during our reporting, biological male, biological female, the high court put those terms in quotations in their decision and their dissent. But just so you know, we’re using those terms from the decision itself, biological male, biological female.”

[Andrew Kerr @AndrewKerrNC]

NEW: @FreeBeacon has the receipts on Ro Khanna’s obscene, oligarchic wealth:

—his 2 kids (under 10yrs old) own 3 private golf courses in Ohio (not kidding)

—his wife drives a $190,000 luxury Range Rover

—his house has a 4-story indoor elevator

And more:https://t.co/Bk6nS7WRwT

[Chris @chriswithans]

If you're a U.S. citizen and you're living abroad, you have to file taxes on your income. Doesn't matter where it's from. And if you want exclusions or credits, you still have to file. (This is the #1 reason why departing Americans renounce their citizenship.)

The IRS should be mining foreign countries looking for "anchor babies" and other citizens who aren't filing. Instead of obsessing about whether your grandma reported her Etsy knitting earnings, they should be focused on this.

And then you can give them a choice: renounce your citizenship or pay back taxes on everything you owed, including penalties.

[Democratic Capitalists of America @demcapitalism]

Zohran just said "Socialists just solved years of Capitalist mismanagement"

The State of New York just gave his administration an $8B bailout and he deferred pension payments.

This is bold face lying.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Anyone citing the Lancet study to claim Elon killed 14 million people (or any other ridiculous number) should just be laughed at.

The study models a deliberately absurd scenario and it does so with incorrect inputs to the model.

The scenario did not come true. Stop citing it!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It’s total bullshit!

Deaths in Africa DECREASED after cutting USAID funding, which they were using to push for violent overthrow of governments!!

[Chris Offner @chrisoffner3d]

Inherited vs. self-made billionaires.

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

The economy has to be capitalist if you want it to be prosperous

[Brad Wilcox @BradWilcoxIFS]

Why are teens struggling?

It's not just the screens, argues @CRPakaluk. It's the lack of siblings.

Great @nytopinion:

"We hear constantly that Americans are more atomized, more polarized, more isolated than ever. Some say it’s the screens. Some say it’s social media. . .

The mothers I interviewed pointed to a different explanation. --> we have lost the primary institution where virtues are formed — the household in which children form one another." https://t.co/zYSlBN86A3

[Jon Levine @LevineJonathan]

NEW from @KFILE

Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic congressional nominee endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who ousted longtime Rep. Adriano Espaillat in Tuesday’s primary, maintained a since-deleted Twitter account with repeated sympathetic references to communism, Marxist ideology and Soviet figures, including Vladimir Lenin.

https://t.co/AyJmRxD7Gu

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

For those keeping score: That's the same Supreme Court that, three weeks ago, Jeffries said was a “Trump Court” that was trying to “rig the midterm elections” and needed to be packed. Now it's stopping Trump from rigging the midterms. He's a cynical clown. https://t.co/Tc35kFY49n