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Lakshya Jain responded by publishing the results of a new survey for The Argument, finding that liberals tend to do worse on a “well-being score”, which largely avoided the language of mental health but asked about things like social relationships, anxiety, and whether individuals dislike themselves. Moreover, conservatives have described... See more
Conservatives report higher levels of mental health than liberals. Recently, Derek Thompson profiled a study by Schaffner et al. (2025) arguing that this might be due to liberals being more comfortable putting their problems in therapeutic terms. That paper begins by confirming earlier studies showing a mental health gap, which is reduced but still there when controlling for a wide variety of factors in a sample of 60,000 US adults. The authors then get a representative sample of a thousand, asking half of respondents about mood and half about mental health. The mental health difference is as expected, but there is no gap in reported mood at all. This implies that conservatives are more likely to say their mental health is fine even if they might not be any happier.
Trump Administration Orders Massive Review of Federal Funding for Blue States
Amelia Benavides-Colónnotus.orgJust a moment...
perplexity.aiTrump Administration Orders Massive Review of Federal Funding for Blue States — NOTUS
https://www.notus.org/amelia-benavides-colonapple.news
“Trump Administration Orders Massive Review of Federal Funding for Blue States
Only the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense are exempt from the directive.”
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“Trump administration orders massive review of federal funding for blue states”
Amelia Benavides-Colón
NOTUS
https://apple.news/AO6TxGLbCRO2TneXDMQxwrw
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Who turned out the lights?
podcasts.apple.com@dangoodin@infosec.exchange today a suggested item of interest for me was this episode of #cyberWireDaily about the lights going out:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cyberwire-daily/id1071831261?i=1000745488428
later in they discuss bluetooth vulnerabilities. #infosec #Venesuela #cyberops
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
The Authoritarian Stack
Crypto Sovereignty
The Nuclear–AI Complex
SpaceX: Orbital Infrastructure
Anduril: Autonomous Warfare
Palantir: The Operating System of Government
The Nuclear–AI Complex
SpaceX: Orbital Infrastructure
Anduril: Autonomous Warfare
Palantir: The Operating System of Government
The Authoritarian Stack
Critical state infrastructures are being privatized across five domains—data, defense, space, energy, and money—the foundations of democratic power. These domains form the architecture of privatized sovereignty: a technological regime where power flows through laws, infrastructure and automated platforms.
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The Authoritarian Stack
This goes further—commissioning Silicon Valley executives directly into military ranks. In June 2025, four tech executives were sworn in as lieutenant colonels:
The line between contractor and commander has been erased.
The line between contractor and commander has been erased.