Eric King
Husband 👫, dad 👨, humanist, atheist, veteran, autodidact 📕, software developer, video gamer, desert dweller 🌵.
formerly of twitter @mr_eking
formerly of twitter @mr_eking
The Case for Expanding the Supreme Court Has Never Been Strongernewrepublic.com Biden has repeatedly refused to endorse “court-packing.” The right-wing justices’ ruling on presidential immunity ought to change his mind.
Some Thoughts on Agingtheness.com If either of the two presumptive nominees for the major political parties in the US are elected in November they will be the oldest person ever to be inaugerated as president. What implications does t...
Conservatives Go to War — Against Each Other — Over School Voucherswww.propublica.org School choice advocates are intent on expanding the availability of vouchers to fund private education at the expense of public schools, but rural residents of these targeted states are putting up som...
Why is The New York Times now promoting an anti-science agenda?sciencebasedmedicine.org This essay stems from concerns about two editorials published in The New York Times recently. We felt that they were problematic in that the past is viewed through a blurred prism to produce revisioni...
ASSUME THAT I CAN | World Down Syndrome Day 2024youtu.be Our negative assumptions about people with Down syndrome can lead us to treat them in such a way that these assumptions become reality. In sociology, this is...
Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companieswww.nytimes.com LexisNexis, which generates consumer risk profiles for the insurers, knew about every trip G.M. drivers had taken in their cars, including when they sped, braked too hard or accelerated rapidly.
I’m a political scientist, and the Alabama Supreme Court’s IVF ruling turned me into a reproductive-rights refugeetheconversation.com I’m a scholar, not an activist or an advocate. But now one of the most intimate, personal events of our lives had been turned into a political event by the state’s highest court.
America didn’t abandon you, Kyrsten Sinema, you left Arizona behindazmirror.com Sinema isn’t running because she knew she’d lose, which she ultimately didn’t see coming because she assumed she had managed to make the transition from being a progressive Democrat (before that she w...
GOP bill to 'erase' trans and nonbinary Arizonans from the law inches toward passageazmirror.com When Lisa Bivens’ daughter was born, doctors had a difficult time deciding which letter to input on the sex description field of her birth certificate. At first, the baby was incorrectly pronounced a ...
A girls basketball team kept beating the boys. The league called foulwww.wvxu.org At the end of the regular season, the 6th grade squad from Wilder, Ky., posted a 7-1 record and was preparing to fight for the year-end tournament title. But they soon found out they were banned becau...
The Supreme Court Once Again Reveals the Fraud of Originalismwww.theatlantic.com The justices did not want to throw Trump off the ballot, and so they didn’t.
Air quality in AZ is already bad, but Republicans want to end most vehicle emissions testing • Arizona Mirrorazmirror.com House Republicans passed a bill that critics say would worsen the state’s already substandard air quality regulations and run afoul of federal environmental protection laws.
Trump fake elector in Wisconsin describes how he says he was tricked | 60 Minutesyoutu.be Andrew Hitt, who signed a phony electoral certificate for former President Trump in 2020, tells 60 Minutes that he and other Wisconsin Republican electors we...
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