The generation that got to buy cheap houses thanks to a postwar construction boom, then blocked new housing construction to juice their asset values is now whining that they have to pay taxes on their unearned wealth. Just breathtaking selfishness.

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“There is a cult of ignorance in the U.S., and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

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Merriam had enough 😭

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“Whatever Trump’s worst instincts are, he had those bad instincts in the first term, but in his second term, he’s been able to follow through on them, and his worst instincts may get worse in the next 2 years.” @stevelevitsky.bsky.social in @atrupar.com’s PN: open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

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More European green crabs were trapped in those 12 months than in all previous years combined since the pinchy invaders were first documented in Washington state in 1998.

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