Math:
(1) House Budget proposal calls for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts.
(2) To offset tax cuts, it calls for $2.0 trillion in spending cuts.
(3) Biggest spending cut ($880 billion) from E&C Committee.
(4) Excluding Medicare, 93% of total spending under E&C jurisdiction is Medicaid.
Democracy is clarity. As a student of human behavior, I believe it reflects the will of the people. The race is not over but the blame game has begun. I will not let the pundits scapegoat Black voters. I will not let you scapegoat Arab American voters. Not even the shift of Latino voters. Donald Trump was supported by White men, White women, non college educated and college educated. Suburban White women and rural White women by a majority. It’s clear that my neighbors, coworkers, and friends have no problem with a convicted felon, convicted rapist, racist, and misogynist leading their government. They share his values. People show you who they are.
via @NYTOpinion “The task of humanists is to invite, to welcome, to entice, to excite, to engage”? Too bad this elitist op-ed does none of that…. https://t.co/5QET16aekZ
@BrianaRoseLee@MoiraDonegan Amazing! And also I really hate the term “child-free.” I get that it’s an FU to “childless” (and good riddance!) but its closest relatives are things like disease-free, germ-free, cancer-free and that’s a terrible list to put “child” into…
@jaxwendy I would’ve expected this to be reversed! I see this as common/expected in some humanistic fields, less common in social sciences and rare in natural sciences. But I’m coming from rhetoric & writing studies and work influenced by Black studies, feminist theory, historiography
Today marks the 58th anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut, the first in a line of cases in which the Supreme Court affirmed the right to contraception. In the face of unprecedented attacks on women’s health, the Biden-Harris Administration will continue to protect access to contraception.
@chrisholly71@blindforjunk@AdamParkhomenko I read so much high school level writing, I'm used to seeing pronoun/antecedent confusion, so I automatically fill in the gaps. I'd love to think of this as a really messed up Republican position on guns, but it's pretty obvious to me that "shoot them"="shoot their attackers."