"Happy Together"
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Politics. Arts. Music. Live Your Best Life.
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Politics. Arts. Music. Live Your Best Life. 28 July 2026
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470
HCR: In order to privilege white contestants over an immigrant, the judges apparently changed the acceptable answers to questions about our history. (Excerpt)
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446
Paul Krugman: The Willful Ignorance, It Burns (Excerpt)
32
2
525
HCR: As J.D. Vance described Schmitt's ideas in2024: "There's no law, there's just power." (Excerpt)
17
2
356
Paul Krugman: Against Oligarchy, Part II: Wealth Taxes. Going where the money — and the power — is (Paywall)
33
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522
HCR: FDR urged Americans to get behind a program of shorter hours and higher wages to create purchasing power that would restart the economy. (Excerpt)
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421
Politics. Arts. Music. Live Your Best Life. 25 July 2026
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Good Deeds. Anecdotes. Music. One Dad Joke: “Today I learned that if you turn a canoe over, you can wear it as a hat. Because it’s cap sized.” Live Your Best Life.
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947
HCR: What is at stake is more than just buildings. It is the whitewashing and bulldozing of our history and culture, created over centuries by the many people who have built the United States, in service to the small vision of Trump and his enablers.
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514
Pauk Krugman: When poseurs and yes-men run a war
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291
Politics. Arts. Music. Live Your Best Life. 27 July 2026
30
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525
Good Deeds. Anecdotes. Music. One Dad Joke: “What has 3 letters and starts with gas? A car." 28 July 2026
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848
Good Deeds. Anecdotes. Music. One Dad Joke: “I’ve lived my entire life being absolutely positive that I’d never receive a phone call from a vegetable. Then, BOOM. Onion Rings.”
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645
Good Deeds. Anecdotes. Music. Dad Jokes: How can you tell when a clock is hungry? It goes back four seconds.” 23 July 2026
11
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761
Politics. Arts. Music. Life. 17 July 2026
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Politics. Arts. Music. Life. 23 July 2026
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Heather Cox Richardson: USA National Parks (14 July 2026 Excerpt)
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423
HCR: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." — President Eisenhower
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597
Paul Krugman: Against Oligarchy, Part I: Progressive Taxation' The history and theory of taxes on the elite.
26
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504
Good Deeds. Anecdotes. Music. One Dad Joke: “Why did the elephant get a new car? It needed more trunk space.” 24 July 2026
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599
Good Deeds. Anecdotes. Music. One Dad Joke: “Why shouldn’t you tell the Liberty Bell jokes? Because it’ll crack up.” 25 Music 2026
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283
HCR: In response to Trump’s address last night, the chair of the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State, Cisco Aguilar of Nevada, released a statement saying: “That was some bullsh*t.”
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455
Paul Krugman: Quagmire of the Vanities (Excerpt)
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2
388
Paul Krugman: Wealth Inequality. Talking with Gabriel Zucman. 25 July 2026
18
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333
Paul Krugman and Lina Khan: […] last week, the Mamdani administration announced that they are moving forward with two consumer protection initiatives. One was the finalization of a “Click to Cancel” rule […]
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324
Politics. Arts. Music. Live Your Best Life. 24 July 2026
189
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Paul Krugman: Oy, Canada Tariffs. How to Lose Friends and Influence Nothing." (Excerpt)
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539
Politics. Arts. Music. Life. 20 July 2026
17
1
538
Donald Trump: A Wasted Life
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489
Good Deeds. Anecdotes. Music. One Dad Joke: “Nothing embarrasses psychics more than throwing them a surprise party.”
15
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474
HCR: In Maine, Ashley Brouillette identified her ex-husband, David Brouillette, as the officer who shot Guerrero four times. […] he called her to ask her not to tell reporters about his abuse during their marriage. (Excerpt)
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The Guardian captions photo “Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the Spanish national team.”
39
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532
0-HI-0: “Round on the End, Hi in the Middle”
12
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1045
Good Deeds. Anecdotes. Music. One Dad Joke: “Did you hear about the octopus that held up a bank? It was an armed robbery.” 17 July 2026
12
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794
WE ARE NOT DROPPING THE DEMAND FOR JUSTICE FOR EPSTEIN'S VICTIMS
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HCR: Senator Andy Kim (D-NJ) introduced a proposal to expand Medicaid to all American children from birth to age 26. Kim noted that about 4.4 million children in the U.S. don’t have health insurance and 23 million are underinsured. (Excerpt)
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0
399
Good Deeds. Anecdotes. Music. One Dad Joke: : “I’ve just become a professor of palindomes. You may now call me Dr. Awkward.”
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615
Politics. Arts. Music. Life. 18 July 2026
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HCR: men of the 54th knew they were not like other soldiers: they were symbols of how well Black men would fight for their country.
28
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565
‘Everything I know about evil I learned in that small town’: John Carpenter on terrifying the world with Halloween, The Thing and The Fog (Excerpt)
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1294
Paul Krugman: Oligarchy and the Media. Can the takeover be stopped? (Excerpt)
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427
Politics. Arts. Music. Life. 15 July 2026
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547
Politics. Arts. Music. Life. Miscellaneous. 21 July 2026
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573
HCR: The American Rescue Plan, passed in March 2021, was an early achievement of the Biden presidency, becoming a signature law as every Republican voted against it. […] the child tax credit lifted 3.7 million children out of poverty before it expired […]
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557
Good Deeds. Anecdotes. Music. One Dad Joke: “I just got hospitalized for being cringe. They put me in the Awk Ward.” 22 July 2026
15
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743
Paul Krugman: Democracy in an Age of Powermaxxing.The billionaire backlash has finally arrived. But is it too late? (Excerpt)
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549
Politics. Arts. Music. Life. 19 July 2026
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570
Good Deeds. Anecdotes. Music. One Dad Joke: “I hate when my wife gets mad at me for being lazy. It’s not like I did anything.” 20 July 2026
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1094
Good Deeds. Anecdotes. Music. One Dad Joke: “I hate to brag, but I defeated the Chess Club’s champion in less than 5 moves. My karate lessons are finally paying off.” 16 July 2026
15
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709
Paul Krugman: Trump's War on the Future, Monetary Edition. Trying to punish Brazil for adopting a better payment system (Excerpt)
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673
Politics. Arts. Music. Life. 16 July 2026
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HCR: An exchange yesterday between Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Jay Clayton, Trump’s nominee […], illustrated the dilemma of those trying to force Trump’s lies onto the America people when they are confronted with reality. (Excerpt)
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Politics. Arts. Music. Life. 22 July 2026
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Paul Krugman: Elon Musk, the New Hero of Populism (Excerpt)
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574
HCR: Benito Mussolini rejected the equality that defined democracy and came to believe that a few leaders must take a nation toward progress by directing the actions of the rest. (Excerpt)
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Paul Krugman: […] one of the most spectacular consequences of Trump's return to power and the mess he has made since has been a collapse of global respect for America.
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392
Good Deeds. Anecdotes. Music. One Dad Joke: “I just got fired from the pasta factory. All because I made a fusilli mistakes.”
22
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838
Good Deeds. Anecdotes. Music. One Dad Joke: “My grandad was a dyslexic baker in the army. He used to go in all buns glazing.” 15 July 2026
21
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793