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NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”

@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”

NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*

(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

American politicians threatening every single ally on the planet in service of one specific ally internationally accused of war crimes seems crazy until you remember these politicians sent the bombs used in said war crimes

Yet again the US proving how a ceasefire might ruin their imperial plans in the region, I'm disgusted to the core.

The G.I. Bill, Standardized Testing, and Socioeconomic Origins of the U.S. Educational Elite Over a Century Ran Abramitzky, Jennifer K. Kowalski, Santiago Pérez, and Joseph Price NBER Working Paper No. 33164 November 2024 JEL No. 123, 124, N32 ABSTRACT We compile, transcribe, and standardize historical records for 2.5 million students at 65 elite (private and public) U.S. colleges. By combining these data with more recent survey and administrative data, we assemble the largest dataset on the socioeconomic backgrounds of students at American colleges spanning the last 100 years. We document the following: First, despite a large increase in the share of lower-income students in the overall college-going population, the representation of these students at elite private or public colleges has remained at similarly low levels throughout the last century. Second, the representation of upper-income students at elite colleges decreased after World War II, but this group has regained its high representation since the 1980s. Third, while there has been no increase in the economic diversity of elite private and public colleges, these colleges have become more racially and geographically diverse. Fourth, two major policy changes in the history of American higher education, namely the G.I. Bill after World War II and the introduction of standardized tests for admissions, had little success in increasing the representation of lower- and middle-income students at elite colleges.

Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research

Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it

www.nber.org/system/files...

A British pensioner whose bland sandwiches gained him unexpected fame in China has died. Keith Brown, a retired engineer known on Chinese social media as "Old Dry Keith", became a hit when his Chinese wife Zhang Jian began to post videos of him assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches he liked to eat. Chinese observers were grimly fascinated by his dry, boring sandwiches, and his gentle, stoic manner - and he built up a cult following. "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man," observed one cultural commentator. "The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life."

🇱🇧 Freedom for Beirut 🔻 حريه لبيروت 🇱🇧

The one thing that Twitter still has over this app is that, over there, you can at least still share videos of what’s happening in Gaza. Here the liberals report your content and have it taken down bc they’d rather you not disturb the twee tumblr vibe they’ve cultivated.

Her? meme from arrested development

Be *kind* to myself?

Well at least the political spam texts have stopped

oh wait

they suspended my original account on the other place.
find me there now at x.com/BunkersForAll

they suspended my original account on the other place.
find me there now at x.com/BunkersForAll

Luxemburg and Liebknecht's graves in the socialist memorial to those who died in the German Revolution, Spanish Civil War, struggle against fascism, obelisk reads: 'the dead admonish us'