Jonah

The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.

So obvious the U.S. did it that even Hegseth won’t lie about it

Now this is a winning midterm message. Please keep saying this shit

This makes a ton of sense considering how late teens and early 20s are never times when psychiatric issues develop naturally. Must be the pot

The autistic community is a large, growing, and heterogeneous population, and there is a need for improved methods to describe their diverse needs. Measures of adaptive functioning collected through public health surveillance may provide valuable information on functioning and support needs at a population level. We aimed to use adaptive behavior and cognitive scores abstracted from health and educational records to describe trends over time in the population prevalence of autism by adaptive level and co-occurrence of intellectual disability (ID). Using data from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, years 2000 to 2016, we estimated the prevalence of autism per 1000 8-year-old children by four levels of adaptive challenges (moderate to profound, mild, borderline, or none) and by co-occurrence of ID. The prevalence of autism with mild, borderline, or no significant adaptive challenges increased between 2000 and 2016, from 5.1 per 1000 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 4.6–5.5) to 17.6 (95% CI: 17.1–18.1) while the prevalence of autism with moderate to profound challenges decreased slightly, from 1.5 (95% CI: 1.2–1.7) to 1.2 (95% CI: 1.1–1.4). The prevalence increase was greater for autism without co-occurring ID than for autism with co-occurring ID. The increase in autism prevalence between 2000 and 2016 was confined to autism with milder phenotypes. This trend could indicate improved identification of milder forms of autism over time. It is possible that increased access to therapies that improve intellectual and adaptive functioning of children diagnosed with autism also contributed to the trends.

Increasing autism rates over the last 25 years may just be kids with mild forms getting diagnosed. Rates of moderate to severe impairment due to autism have actually fallen slightly.
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Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:

America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.

What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Why are they doing this interview in a factory neither of them are associated with?

Does it count if I am on the ground for 2:55 after he knocks me unconscious (if I’m very lucky)?

It’s not bad because Trump did it. It’s bad because it’s clearly illegal in several ways.

It just so happens that he is constantly doing tons of illegal shit. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t condemn every time.

This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.

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I’m biased but DK is one of the best

The refs have decided it won’t

It’s 4:30 AM in Ireland. If this goes to OT I guess I can get breakfast after

He’s less American than the Queen is so perfectly stupid

Thread. This is a crucial thing for non-Christian Americans to understand. Most Christian Nationalists think it’s an act of kindness on their part to tell you that you will be going to hell if you don’t convert. It’s incomprehensible to most of them that they’re being bigots.

Vance’s Republican Party is fine with ideological disagreement except on antisemitism.

That’s mandatory

These people are running the economy

Again, even though the Japanese government leading up to 1945 committed terrible atrocities, none of us think that Japanese internment was caused by the Japanese government. It was caused by American racism.

“Break the wrist, walk away”

GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing

BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?

GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now

THOMPSON: What does that mean?

Bluesky Is Back for Mississippi Adults, But Social Giants Still Lack Required Age Checks Months after Bluesky blocked access to Mississippi, Bluesky is available in the state once again with age verification for adults.

Mississippi adults can freely access Bluesky again, but there's a catch: They must verify their age.

Bluesky blocked access after Mississippi's age verification law took effect in August.

Meanwhile, Facebook, X and other major social giants still haven't implemented the state-required age checks.

I mean if we’re just making stuff up why not 100?

I know this looks like a minor scrape that no one could ever possibly care about, but that’s only because the border patrol agent is so big and strong.

Any normal person would have had their leg chopped clean off

Every stupid comment like this from one of these freaks adds another justice to the correct court packing strategy for the next Dem. Admin.

Let’s be reserved and say we’re starting at about 100 justices.

Oh then you definitely have to shoot a missile at them.

Bunch of evil ghouls

We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2025

Blue Texas coming right up

Survivors of the first strike were trying not to drown and that is taken as a threat?

In what world would that make any kind of sense.

All of the strikes are extrajudicial killing, but even based on this it’s clear the intent of the second strike was to kill survivors which is a departure from what the admin was saying a day ago. An obvious war crime if this were a war.

The party full of people who have never wanted for anything in their lives thinks they can spin their way out of the economy sucking.

Good luck with that