No Brain Necessary: Trumpers in Waukesha, Wisconsin

Little Economic Impact From Stadium Projects

Report Finds Little Economic Impact From Stadium Projects

For Further Reading:

The Legalized Bribery That Is Sport Subsidization

It's A Scandal! It's A Outrage!

The Math and Taxes of Stadium Boondoggles

Big League Confusion

Brewing Up An Inflated Impact

Big League Broke

Bonds & Bondage: Indentured To The Sports Entertainment Cabal

Other Reasons Why Ron Johnson Is A Terrible Person

Ron Johnson Wants Social Security, Medicare To Be Discretionary Spending

America Is Not A Christian Nation

Is America A Christian Nation?

No, It Is Not a Christian Nation, and It Never Has Been and Should Not Be One

Founding Fathers: We Are Not a Christian Nation

Repeat After Us: America Is Not a Christian Nation

Sunday Reading

How one institution keeps claiming math’s highest award

Wisconsin Supreme Court Backs GOP Scheme To Rob Dem Governor Of Appointment

Reiki: still stupid after all these years

Blame the Fed For Everything!

Inflation, Unemployment, Mortgage Rates: Here's What History Tells Us About the Economy

The Inefficient Market Hypothesis

How the Fed Bailed Out the Investor Class Without Spending a Cent

No evidence that violent video games are causing mass shootings, despite politicians’ claims

Video Games Aren’t Why Shootings Happen. Politicians Still Blame Them.

How will we know if we’re in a recession?

The Most Pathetic Men in America

The Supreme Court’s Gone Rogue — And This is a Judicial Coup

The Supreme Court's Partisan Divide Hasn't Been This Sharp In Generations

The Supreme Court has pushed America to the brink.

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Insurrection Consequences

United States: Guns & Gun-Related Deaths

30 years of mass shootings by country: between 1983 to 2013, 119 mass shootings took place around the world—66% were in the U.S.

Mass shootings: US the worst in the world by far

There’s a new global ranking of gun deaths. Here’s where the U.S. stands

America's gun culture - in charts

On gun violence, the United States is an outlier

Spare Me The Bullshit!

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Companies Keep Hiring

Nonfarm payrolls increased by 390,000 in May, above the 328,000 Dow Jones estimate.

The unemployment rate held at 3.6%, while a more encompassing jobless rate edged higher to 7.1%.

Average hourly earnings rose slightly less than expected but were still up 5.2% from a year ago.

Leisure and hospitality led gains, followed by professional and business services then warehousing and transportation. [source]

Fox News thinks all of this is bad. The delusion continues. Being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian continues. 

Corporate Profits and Inflation

For Further Reading:

Ignoring the role of profits makes inflation analyses a lot weaker

Corporate profits have contributed disproportionately to inflation. How should policymakers respond?

The future of work depends on stopping Amazon’s union busting

Ron Johnson: International Embarrassment

Fred Guttenberg Corrects Ron Johnson's Idiocy

Holiday Reading

Monarch butterflies bounce back in Mexico wintering grounds

The Media Needs to Stop Pretending that Elon Musk is a Wise Sage rather than a Grifter

When I First Saw Elon Musk for Who He Really Is

No Atheist Has Done This Much Damage to the Christian Faith

'Big Short' investor Michael Burry compares the market slump to a plane crash — and hints tumbling stocks and home sales remind him of the housing bubble bursting

The massive gap between rich and poor Americans costs the US economy more than $300 billion every year, study says

The Southern Baptist Horror

How America Sold Out Little League Baseball

Bad Economics

No Right

Here's What GOP-Nominated Justices Said About Roe v. Wade During Their Senate Hearings
The Most Extreme Abortion Ban In The Country Was Just Signed Into Law In Oklahoma

Samuel Alito: the abrasive justice taking abortion rights back to the 17th century

Spineless, Selfish, Murderous Cowards: Republicans & The NRA

The NRA Convention Begins Today. You Can’t Bring Your Gun.

Ted Cruz Praises Guns To NRA Days After School Shooting

Ted Cruz Stops Interview Rather Than Answer Why America Has So Many Mass Shootings

Texas shooting: America is killing itself, as the Republican Party looks the other way

Nationwide Protests Demanding Gun Control Planned By Youth-Led Movement

Gunman's Last 90 Minutes Fuel Questions About Police Response At Uvalde School

Michael Moore Tells MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, “It’s Time To Repeal The Second Amendment”

Marjorie Taylor Greene takes pro-gun stance following Texas school shooting: 'We don't need more gun control. We need to return to God.'

Why Steve Kerr's comments on Uvalde should stop you in your tracks

Warriors' Steve Kerr delivers impassioned plea for gun control after Texas school shooting: 'We can't get numb to this'

The Onion Calls Out Inaction Over Mass Shootings With Classic Response

Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham Ridiculously Rip Biden's Reaction To Texas School Shooting

Latest Elementary School Massacre Not Enough For GOP To Reconsider Gun Control

Top Texas Republicans Call For More Guns, Fortified Schools, Armed Teachers After Attack

Who are the right blaming for the Texas shooting? Trans people, immigrants and victims’ parents

Gun map: Ownership by state

Reduce The Number Of Guns

Hypocrisy & 40 Years of Anti-Abortion Protests

Vote Democrat

If you were on the fence, if you were thinking of voting Republican, if you were thinking of not voting at all, here is a glaring example of why the majority of Americans should vote Democrat.

Protests Erupt Nationwide To Support Abortion Rights After SCOTUS Draft Leak

Ocasio-Cortez Torches Collins And Murkowski: 'They Don't Get To Play Victim Now'

George Carlin Nailed Conservative Hypocrisy On Abortion More Than 25 Years Ago

Wisconsin Abortion Rights Could Be Set Back Nearly 200 Years

How We Know It Wasn't A Liberal Who Leaked SCOTUS Decision

VP Harris: Overturning Roe 'A Direct Assault On Freedom'

Republicans only care about power and cronyism. And, this latest Supreme Court leak shows they definitely do not give a shit about women. 

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Midweek Reading

The strongest case for urban density isn’t aesthetics, it’s math

Union membership at Wisconsin private employers declined 69% from peak in 1984

The Lasting Legacy Of Redlining

Amy Coney Barrett served as a ‘handmaid’ in Christian group People of Praise

Want to make money? Become a mathematician. Seriously.

Eight Charts that Explain the Market

“The Richest People on the Planet are Criminals”

“If You’re Getting a W-2, You’re a Sucker”

Gun deaths were the leading killer of US children in 2020

The Amazonification of the American workforce

Choice School Must Pay Property Taxes

How Conservatives Fell in Love With Judicial Activism

The Lie About the Supreme Court Everyone Pretends to Believe

Are Performance Improvement Plans Just Code For 'You Should Quit'?

Brewers Cost Taxpayers $1.56 Billion

63% of State’s Corporations Pay No Taxes

Milwaukee deemed 'climate haven' for resistance against climate disasters

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Democrats Are The Only Party That's Lowered The Deficit In The Last 50 Years