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A brief breakdown of a Quinnipiac poll response.  Nearly 6 in 10 Americans, 59 percent, think that rising prices in the United States is a crisis and 38 percent think it’s a problem but not a crisis. That is an increase in the percentage of Americans who say it is a crisis from a Quinnipiac…

“Forget it, Jake, it’s D.C.-town.” Muriel E. Bowser (D), the pragmatic politician who has led the District for eight years, won the Democratic mayoral nomination Tuesday, according to projections from the Associated Press, beating out two left-leaning members of the council on her path to becoming just the second three-term mayor in D.C.’s history. D.C.…

Charlie Warzel of Galaxy Brain has an Atlantic essay on Google that’s far short of Galaxy Brain. It recapitulates the now famous thread on why searching Reddit is better than searching Google, and offers random speculation on what’s wrong with Google Search and whether it might not be “leaving us behind”. It’s packed with so many Google…

The ADL has attacked Canary Mission because the pro-Israel site actually fights antisemitism by exposing Islamist, alt-left and alt-right bigots. A few years ago, the ADL was forced to apologize for falsely accusing Canary Mission of “Islamophobic & racist rhetoric.” The anti-Israel Forward has repeatedly attacked Canary Mission and tried to cut off its funding.…

Gender pronouns, in. The Navy is training its members to create a “safe space” by using proper gender pronouns in a new instructional video modeled after a children’s show. “Hi! My name is Jony, and I use he/him pronouns,” Naval Undersea Warfare Center engineer Jony Rozon, who sports a rainbow-colored t-shirt, states in the video’s opening.…

We spend a lot of time talking about the Buffalo massacre. And we should. But we don’t talk about the Waukesha massacre and we really need to. Thousands of spectators turned out for a bit of holiday normalcy Sunday afternoon, the kind we so desperately need right now. It was the Waukesha Christmas Parade, a cherished…