Proper noun | Logos
(philosophy) In Ancient Greek philosophy, the rational principle that governs the cosmos.
(Christianity) The Word of God, which itself has creative power; a hypostasis associated with divine wisdom.
(Christianity) The Word of God as incarnate in Jesus Christ, or as identified with the second person of the Trinity; Jesus; God the Son; Word of God.
This is what I hoped the article was saying they were scrapping 😆
Dammit, Daily Beast, these are not “entitlements”. They are programs Americans were forced to pay into with the guarantee that they would receive proportional benefits.
I think “vast” majority is an overstatement. I realize the vote skewed in his direction among the older generation, but a majority is not a vast majority.
Not too sure America ever had a Justice system, only a money and power driven legal system which in some of its finer moments managed to approximate justice.
“Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice”
pardon the micro issue but I think you mean credible instead of credulous. only trying to help, not criticize.
From what I read today this includes the IRS’s project to let Americans file their taxes for free. I forget the most recent status of it except I think it was already in effect as a pilot project available in certain states and was planned for national accessibility. And obviously there’s been big money pressure to kill that effort.
I expect it to be (more or less) permanent
Constituent pressure? How frustrating!
Why were they making a movie about Donald Regan?
Thing is, yeah they’re fucking stupid but they’re also voters who the Dems could have persuaded and hardly tried. Repeatedly spamming “vote for us or you get Trumped again” doesn’t count as persuasion.
it’s not even remotely close to half of the city burning down. But given the damage estimates are running somewhere around $150 billion, it’s bad enough
I can’t help feeling that the real bad news is not that online platforms have been ruined, but that people have been and remain dependent on them.
I suspect the answer to that might be the same as to the classic question, “Can the markets stay completely insane and irrational longer than I can remain solvent?”
no, he’ll block federal aid and claim that Palisades residents didn’t rake their yards well enough.
something something Melon Husk and Rare-Earth Mining
Yes – surely the eligible pool is tiny at best. And the pull to use skills of deception for profit instead is widespread.
yeah and ugh. but tbh we see this wording even from outlets surprisingly far to the left. (of a depressingly right-shifted so-called center, but anyway.)