A basic income program in central Iowa gave 110 people $500/mo. It caused improvements in savings, stress, and agency. It also found significant changes in scores relating to hope — the ability to create goals and feel capable of working toward them, and also increases in mattering and self-reliance
“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment
well, this should be bad
Every so often, some washed up sitcom dude do this sort of thing where they pretend that they made some truly edgy and controversial comedy that couldn't be made today, and it's just like... you're saying this about THE OFFICE?
Researchers presented their findings from the Central Iowa Basic Income Pilot in Des Moines. Their study looked at how participants used monthly $500 payments, and how it affected their well-being and...
NEW: Texas middle schoolers could be taught about a Christian revolutionary war movement that never existed. The so-called “Black Robe Regiment” is a favorite myth of David Barton and other Christian nationalists who are leading massive revisions of Texas curricula to focus on US “exceptionalism.”
The State Board of Education meets this week to vote on a K–12 curriculum some experts warn elevates Christianity over other faiths.
Rules schmules, let’s cause chaos 😈 (I’m kidding, let’s not do that. But it would be kind of fun, in a twisted way!)
The E Line rocks.
Cheese festival. What is that? Idk yet but we’d definitely do it.
Miles Klee 🦉
NEW: Videos show ICE agents defying Connecticut’s new mask ban during recent arrests. The agency says it “will not abide by” the ban.
"Tell them. I dare you,” an agent said in one video. “Who’s going to arrest me?”
My latest at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
"Tell them to arrest me," the agent can be heard saying. "Tell them. I dare you. Who’s going to arrest me?”
I'm glad that business store fronts aren't empty, but I do worry that having 3 or 4 cannabis stores in the same area means we're just going to have a few of them close in a year or so.
