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From George W. Bush to Donald Trump, politicians keep using songs by artists who'd prefer otherwise.

Yesterday, Joe Biden announced a plan to write off $10,000 in student loans for most people who haven't paid off their student loans -- and $20,000 in student loans for people who received Pell Grants. Biden's plan will increase inflation, inequality, tuition, and the national debt.

Social media platforms regularly engage in “content moderation”—the depublication, downranking, and sometimes outright censorship of information and/or user accounts from social media and other digital platforms, usually based on an alleged violation of a platform’s “community standards” policy. In...

Right wasted no time touting bogus story about Kamala Harris' book Republicans appear to be having so much difficulty undermining Biden and his team that they're leaning on manufactured nonsense. BySteve Benen The trouble started on Friday with a report in a conservative daily newspaper. The New York Post told readers, "Unaccompanied migrant kids brought from the U.S.-Mexico border to a new shelter in Long Beach, Calif., will be given a copy of [Vice President Kamala Harris'] 2019 children's book, 'Superheroes are Everywhere,' in their welcome kits." The article ran on the front page, along ...

New York Will Lose Seat in Congress Because 89 People Didn’t Fill Out the Census Intelligencer 1 hr ago Ed Kilgore © Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag Shifting foundations for the House. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag The long-term trend of congressional representation as dictated by the decennial census has for decades been towards the South and West and away from the Northeast and Midwest. That trend continued in the official 2020 Census determinations announced Monday, but it has slowed down significantly, and also didn’t produce much of a pa...