Single women are happy, single men are not

TX Rep Al Green just voted against impeachment

This is impressive

https://twitter.com/AntonioArellano/status/1755033454050152612

Animal Protection Laws Are Under Attack-- Call-in Day TODAY!

*Edited to update the subject line

More Republicans snapping out of it

This lifelong Republican describes why he isn't anymore. He very clearly explains how they don't have policies only wedge culture war issues they use to energize their base into voting.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT87xD82c/

Just thought I'd share some encouraging content since other outlets are working overtime to demotivate Dems.

Young men are becoming right wing, while young women are doing the opposite. This is a problem.

ETA- I changed the title because it was distracting. I know exactly why young women are becoming more progressive.

I'm sure most read about this last week but if you didn't see the graphs, they're startling.
A new global gender divide is emerging

Since most left-wing women won't be interested in starting families with far-right men, this predictably would lead to men being left single and that really worries me because sex-ratio imbalances have grim consequences for societies.

The popularity of men like Peterson Tate and Rogan and Shapiro, whether organically-driven or not, needs to be countered more effectively.

Inside the Beef Industry's Campaign to Influence Kids

This is sick.

Wild Fish Follows His Diver Best Friend Everywhere

Cartoons Messed Us Up

Learning cursive writing and using an abacus improve kids' reading and math skills

Seeing the lukewarm response to the idea of removing cursive handwriting from elementary school curricula is alarming to me.

Research shows that learning cursive writing improves children's writing and reading skills.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0209978

Similarly, research shows that teaching kids to use an abacus improves math skills.

https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cdev.12515

It's encouraging to see that some states are requiring cursive again, but people should know there are real benefits to learning these seemingly outdated but most definitely not useless methods.

I hope parents where these skills aren't taught will consider picking up the slack.

I think housing and jobs are going to be big issues this year.

Every time people's anxiety about the economy comes up, there's a chorus of people claiming that the stock market and job numbers are great and people have cell phones and Netflix, so why are so many complaining?

Meanwhile Housing is now unaffordable for a record half of all U.S. renters as Tech companies are slashing thousands of jobs as they pivot toward AI - which will have a knock on effect on the service jobs which while plentiful, pay so little that few but childless people with roommates or who live with their parents can live on.

I'm not saying this to spread doom and gloom, but in the hopes that we can take those barometers of people's anxiety seriously, and not brush them off. There are going to be more and more jobs affected this year. Hopefully more good paying jobs will come out of the investment in infrastructure that Dems have pushed through. I don't know what the numbers look like on that front, but I think the messaging on the economy could be much better than 'things are great! we're doing awesome! people are just spoiled and irresponsible!'

And hopefully Dems will start making a lot more noise about the housing crisis and how we can address it. I think we can do a lot better than the less-than-encouraging End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act. This crisis has been building for years. The proposed bill imposes tax penalties on hedge funds that don't comply with the mandate to sell off small percentages of the single-family homes they own, spread over a decade. What are the chances those tax penalties will simply be written off as a cost of doing business, like so many other financial penalties that are dwarfed by profits?

Also, will this include other entities like LLCs and private equity firms that buy up thousands of homes around the country and then act like more like slumlords than landlords, on top of skirting their taxes?

Then there's the software used by apartment management companies to fix prices - which is being addressed - but it should be talked up a lot more. And there should probably be an investigation into price fixing using other means as well. Not that we can expect much to get done with this congress, but making it clear that we are trying, and that and electing more Dems will help fix this mess - maybe that will help us secure control of both houses - I hope.