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Plumb Jobs: “The unemployment gap between workers with bachelor’s degrees and those with occupational associate’s degrees — such as plumbers, electricians and pipe fitters — flipped in 2025.” For the first time in 50 years, college grads are losing their edge.
+ Quiet, Riggie: “A decade ago, in the America of the Before Times, this would have been a ridiculous discussion, given that it is ‘not constitutional or legal’ to federalize elections as Trump wants, as the Republican election lawyer Benjamin Ginsberg put it this week. But we live in the post-January 6th world, so the better question to ask is this: With a President who is already the first in our history to try to overturn the results of an election he decisively lost, what more will it take for us to finally acknowledge that, when he says this stuff, he actually means to follow through with it?” The New Yorker: Donald Trump Already Knows the 2026 Election Is “Rigged“.
+ Assad Sack: “Many describe a detached ruler, obsessed with sex and video games, who probably could have saved his regime at any time in the past few years if he hadn’t been so stubborn and vain.” Robert F. Worth in The Atlantic (Gift Article): The Fall of the House of Assad.
+ What the World Needs Now: “Imagine you’re the leader of a nation, and you face a dilemma. Half a million or so people who are crucial to everyone’s daily lives inhabit your country. They care for aging parents, work at small and large companies, harvest the food that’s on the table. They are also part of your community. On weekends, they walk in the parks, go to restaurants and play on the local amateur soccer team. But one crucial thing makes these half a million people different from other people in your country: They don’t have the legal documents that allow them to live there.” I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants.
+ All Narcissism and No Play Makes Don a Dulles Boy: Trump wanted Dulles Airport and Penn Station named after him — in exchange for releasing federal funds. He already has a prescription drug site named after him.
+ Vaccine But Not Heard: “Over two days of questioning during his Senate confirmation hearings last year, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeated the same answer. He said the closely scrutinized 2019 trip he took to Samoa, which came before a devastating measles outbreak, had ‘nothing to do with vaccines.'” Surprise! It had to do with vaccines.
+ Prime Spree: WSJ (Gift Article): Trump’s New Tax Law Saved Amazon Billions.
