Ah, Blake Masters...Peter Thiel’s acolyte who thinks Democracy has run its course, but is too polite to say it...

I guess we know now why he wanted more kids around so badly.

So the Supreme Court is prepared to rule that a state can arbitrarily condemn women to death, and doing so is not a violation of any aspect of the due process clause of either the 5th or 14th Amendment. Sure, makes sense to me.

Alito is probably scouring the Salem Witch Trials for his new legal precedent or something, the shitbag.

Only in the hellscape that is the United States as brought to you by the ghouls at the Federalist Society would we be having legitimate court battles on whether or not states can prevent doctors from performing abortions when lives are at risk. The judge in Texas who wrote about “the welfare of unborn children” must…

My cynical hypothesis is that the Supreme Court may support the right to abort septic pregnancies so they can then turn around and say “See? Overturning R vs W wasn’t monsterous! We can have a common-sense compromise!”

This is fantastic content right here. 10/10

20 million people just had their debt wiped, which adds up to about 200 billion (max) of the 1.7 trillion out there. Its a reasonable step that will help a bunch of people without giving nearly the amount of ammunition to the GOP just as inflation seems to be normalizing.

You could have not paid it off and then you wouldn't be so pissy that someone else got something you didn't get?

Haven’t loan payments been suspended for the whole time Biden has been in office? 

Colloquially known as “most people.”

That’s how compromise works, though. Some people are disappointed. Some people are helped out a lot. Nobody gets everything of what they wanted.

There’s a bunch of stuff on this that this article isn’t talking about. For example, in the America Rescue Plan passed last year, student loans will not accumulate interest if you make the minimum payment each month, or alternatively, if your income is low, it won’t ever increase. While 10k is a drop in the bucket,…

Yeah I know this is just par for the course with Jez at this point and I shouldn’t be surprised but still it annoys me to see this BS. Especially when it’s so blatant. Absolutely no mention of anyone who’s in a situation that a large chunk of borrowers are in.

All of these examples are outliers. More than half of borrowers owe $20,000 or less and about one-third have $10,000 or less.

What long lines? That sounds bogus. 

Let’s get real for a minute here. If you can’t make it on $125k a year, that’s on you. Oh, but NYC rent is expensive? Then leave of you make $125k in nearly any given line of work, you can move and make decent money elsewhere. You aren’t trapped with no means to leave, you choose to stay for reasons and that’s on you.…

Long lines? It’s August 2022, you don’t need to wait in line to get vaccinated. Put a mask on your kid and go to literally any pharmacy and get vaccinated. No lines involved. 

I’m sorry but using an orthopedic surgeon as an example in this article is just mind bogglingly dumb, not to mention irrelevant to 95% of all people who have student debt in the this country.

On the one hand, I get it. This isn’t much of anything to a lot of borrowers. Especially when interest rates have been static for so long (member of the 8.5% club for years!). My balance will be right back where it was in like 9 months after interest resumes.