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DHS confirms Wisconsin to lose out on more than $50M in monthly federal food aid starting in May

Which States Tax Their Residents the Most and Least?

Biden’s infrastructure plan would replace every lead pipe in Milwaukee

Ronald Reagan's shameful legacy: Violence, the homeless, mental illness

The GOP, America’s most selfless political party

Deadpan Jen Psaki Mows Down Newsmax Reporter Over ‘Secret Memo’ Question

The rise of working from home

Quick, How Much Is $2 Trillion?

JEN PSAKI STUFFS FOX NEWS’ PETER DOOCY IN METAPHORICAL LOCKER DURING WHITE HOUSE PRESS BRIEFING

A Brief History Of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways

Where Are Real Estate Taxes Lowest (and Highest)?

Kansas Senate majority leader was drunk in police chase, called an officer ‘Donut boy,’ authorities say

Republican legislative leaders want Josh Kaul to sue to allow state to use stimulus for tax cuts

Republicans, Please, All Of You, Get Together

Kansas Republicans override Democratic governor’s stay-at-home order in brazen power grab

You know what, Republicans go ahead an get together, mingle in large groups, spread the coronavirus among yourselves and die quickly.

Republicans, I've had enough with trying to reason, be practical, or espouse the advice of medical experts to you. Like everything else in life, you all are completely selfish, stubborn, unreasonable and only care about partisanship and power. You're greedy, stupid troglodytes. 

So, go ahead, get together. But when you're sick, or your family is sick, or your friend is sick, don't you fucking dare call a doctor or go to the hospital. You're on your own. Just hunker down in that doomsday bunker of yours and die.

For Further Reading:
Republican Legislators In Kansas Overturn Governor’s Executive Order On Church Gatherings

Way To Go Kansas! Er, Um, I Mean Missouri!

Fox & Friends defended Trump’s embarrassing Chiefs tweet, because of course they did

Trump mocked for Super Bowl tweet confusing Missouri for Kansas

Weekend Reading: Economics Edition

Society-Wide Benefits of Raising The Minimum Wage
The Puzzle In The Labor Data
The Trump Tax Reform, As Seen In The U.S. Balance Of Payments Data
Why The 'Free-Market' Economy Is A Myth And How To Rebuild Public Power
The Failures of Neoliberalism Are Bigger Than Politics
What Kansas's Rebounding Economy Tells Us About The Farce of Republican Tax Cuts
How The Federal Government Rigs The Game Against Small Businesses
Make Corporations Pay For The Green New Deal
Rich Get Richer, Everyone Else Not So Much In Record U.S. Expansion
Unions Did Great Things For The Working Class

Kris Kobach Is A Creep

Maybe if Kris Kobach wants to drive around in a machine-gun outfitted Jeep, his blow-hard, snowflake ass should join the military. If he's such a tough guy, patriot, enough with all the grandstanding. He should take his beloved guns and go get into an actual battle.
#phony #douchebag #hypocrite #alltalknoaction #gofightanactualwar

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Also odd that Kobach attacks the Left and uses the alt-right (racists, nazis) "snowflake" term, since he's a Harvard, Yale and Oxford graduate...you know, just a typical salt-of-the-earth type of guy.

Weekend Reading

The Myth That Markets Get Prices Right Won't Die
Who Creates A Nation's Economic Value?
Donald Trump And The Next Big Crash
Kansas Rancher Explains How Trump Has Betrayed US Farmers
Michael Cohen Case Shines Light On Sean Hannity's Property Empire
The Dumb Money
Smearing Robert Mueller
A Critical Look At Suburban Triumphalism
Richard Florida Can't Let Go Of His Creative Class Theory. His Reputation Depends On It.
The GOP Has Become The Caricature The Left Always Said It Was
Trump's Company Is Suing Towns Across The Country To Get Breaks On Taxes
The Oil Pipelines Putting The Great Lakes At Risk
The War On Pensions Continues
Where The Great Lakes Compact Ends And Wisconsin Law Begins
Hidden Figures: How Donald Trump Is Rigging The Census

Weekend Reading

Koch-Backed Bill Guts Local Control
GOP Leaders Call Extraordinary Session To Change Election Laws

Legislators Pass Law to Benefit Landlords

Inflation? Bring It On. Workers Could Actually Benefit.

What Do We Know About Subsidized Employment Programs?

Six Teenagers Are Running For Governor In Kansas, And Suddenly This Doesn't Seem So Preposterous

Plight Of Phoenix: How Long Can The World's Least Sustainable City Survive?

Is Population Decline Bad?

Miller Park Tax Ends In 2020. Not.

How Vulture Capitalists Ate Toys 'R' Us

As Storms Get Stronger, Building Codes Are Getting Weaker

Wells Fargo CEO Is Getting A 36% Raise After The Bank's Nightmare Year

Kris Kobach Is A Loser

The Suburban Mystique

Weekend Reading

Trump Again Sues Over Property Tax Bill For Jupiter Golf Course
The U.S. Can No Longer Hide From Its Deep Poverty Problem
Good News: Wages Are Up
Experts Say This Is The Ideal Retirement Savings Timeline
The U.S. Drops Out Of The Top 10 In Innovation Ranking
The Right Question About Inequality And Growth
A New Map For America
An Unwelcome Tax Surprise Could Soon Lurk In Your Paycheck
Big Money Rules
President Trump's First Year, In 14 Metrics
Kansas Provides Compelling Evidence Of Failure Of "Supply-Side" Tax Cuts

Republican Tax Scam Reading

Republican Tax Plan Leaves $1.5 Trillion Bill For Middle Class To Pay
Law Professors Just Published A Delightful, 34-Page List Of Ways People Will Game The GOP Tax Plan
Cut We Cut The Crap On The Debt From The Tax Bill Hurting Our Kids?
What Happened When North Carolina Cut Taxes Like The GOP Plans To For The Country
I'm A Depression Historian. The GOP Tax Bill Is Straight Out Of 1929.
The Biggest Tax Scam In History
Incidence And Welfare Effects Of Corporate Tax Cuts
Voodoo Too: The GOP Addiction To Financial Deregulation
Schroedinger's Tax Hike
It Started As A Tax Cut. How It Could Change American Life.
Republicans Are Getting Ready To Repeat Kansas' Tax Cut Disaster
The Four Big Tax Deceptions

Weekend Reading

The Transfer Problem and Tax Incidence
You Better Learn Our Lesson
Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies
Subsidies, Spite, and Supply Chains
There's Very Little Welfare Left For Trump To Reform
Economic Might By U.S. Metro Area
The More Guns, Less Crime Scam
Intellectual Property For The Twenty-First Century Economy
Those Luxury Condos Look A Little Drab
Insects Are In Serious Trouble
How Amazon Undermines Jobs, Wages, and Working Conditions
Amazon HQ2 And The Rise of Big-Ticket Megadeals
Big Question For U.S. Cities: Is Amazon HQ2 Worth The Price?

The Kansas Experiment: Another Supply-Side Failure

Republicans & Their Endless Tax Cuts Are Bankrupting Us

Weekend Reading

Another Clinton-Trump Divide: High-Output America Vs. Low-Output America
Obama's Economic Record: An Assessment
The New Suburbia: More Urban
Bring This Up When A Conservative Mentions Obama's Doubled The National Debt
Fox News Screws Up Its Latest Lie
Kansas Offers Cautionary Tale For Trump's Tax Ambition
Republicans Call Obamacare A 'Failure.' These 7 Charts Show They Couldn't Be More Wrong
The Real "Takers" In America: The Unproductive, Rent-Extracting Rich
How To Be A Lawyer Without Going To Law School
Mesmerizing Commute Maps Reveal We All Live In Mega-Regions, Not Cities
Management Theory Is Becoming A Compendium Of Dead Ideas

Laboratories of Democracy

Sunday Reading

What Is A "Good Job?"
The Quiet, Vicious Racism Of Scott Walker's Wisconsin
The Real Lesson From $15? America's Trickle-Down Experiment Has Failed
Remembering Milwaukee's Socialist Party History
Let's Dispel Once And For All This Fiction That Sanders Doesn't Know How To Break Up Banks
Outraged By Kansas Justices' Rulings, Republicans Seek To Reshape Court
Republicans And Voter Suppression
Don't Dismantle Government - Fix It
Republicans Lied In Wisconsin: Here's How You Know The State's Voter ID Law Is A Complete Sham

Sunday Reading

Wall Street Journal Hypes Financial Industry Scare Story On Public Pensions
Law Firm Exploring Whether Johnson Controls Merger Deal Wrongs Longtime Shareholders
Hard Money Men
Kasich Is Almost As Bad As Trump
Breaking Up The Big Banks Is Easy
Corporate Profits Near Record Highs. Here's Why That's A Problem
Kansas Tried Tax Cuts. Its Neighbor Didn't. Guess Which Worked.
Republicans Lied In Wisconsin
How Much Have Housing Prices Gone Up in 30 Years? Hint: Less Than a Big Mac

Wisconsin’s Voter-ID Law Could Block 300,000 Registered Voters From the Polls

The VA Isn’t Broken, Yet. Inside the Koch brothers’ campaign to dismantle the country’s most successful health care system.

Weekend Reading

The Real Reason Germs Spread in the Winter
The Links Between Gut Microbes and the Brain
The Myth of Big, Bad Gluten
The Religious Right's Big Lie About the Founding of America
You're Not Irrational, You're Quantum Probabilistic
American Failure: The 401(K)
The 401(K) Crisis is Getting Worse
Inequality in Our Retirement Accounts
The Rage of the Bankers
Why Does Wall Street Want Higher Rates?
The Stock Market is Not the Economy
The Case Against Raising Interest Rates Before Wage Growth Picks Up
The Failed Reaganomics Experiment In Kansas Keeps Getting Worse
Red States Spent $2 Billion in 2015 to Screw the Poor

Sunday Reading

Water Diversion From Great Lakes Gets Review
Elon Musk's Growing Empire Fueled By $4.9 Billion In Government Subsidies
This Cheat Sheet Will Make You Win Every Climate Argument
Gov. Sam Brownback's Growth Strategy Goes Up In Flames
11 Stunning Facts About How Kansas Treats The Poor
The Incredible Rise Of CEO Pay
Wisconsin Downturn?
EPA Warns Of High Cost Of Climate Change
Bring On The Bikes: Alternative Transportation Helps Spur Development

Sunday Reading

The Death Tax Deception
Kansas Shows Us What Could Happen If Republicans Win In 2016
NFL Gives Up Tax Breaks To Keep Its Secrets
NFL Voluntarily Ends Tax-Exempt Status
Why The NFL Decided To Start Paying Taxes
Oklahoma City Issues Statement On Legislative Proposal To Limits Cities' Authority To Regulate Oil & Gas Drilling
Most Baltimore Police Officers Live Outside The City
The Long, Painful And Repetitive History Of How Baltimore Became Baltimore
Police Killings Rise Slightly, Though Increased Focus May Suggest Otherwise
David Simon On Baltimore's Anguish