23,000 documents just dropped. Here’s what I’m doing with them. Yesterday, the House Oversight Committee released over 20,000 documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate. Democrats on the committee cherry-picked three emails… Read More
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The Power of Suggestion: How Priming Works
Priming plants ideas in your mind that influence your actions later – and you have no idea it’s happening. From wine choices to political opinions, your System 1 is being manipulated constantly by stimuli you never noticed.
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The Coherence Trap: Seeing Is Believing
That warm feeling when something “just makes sense”? It’s not truth – it’s your unconscious mind running a con on your conscious one. Welcome to cognitive ease.
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Trump’s 50-Year Mortgage Was Pitched With a Literal Posterboard at a Golf Club
You probably saw that Trump floated a 50-year mortgage plan over the weekend. Maybe you saw the pushback – his own base losing their minds, Republican congresspeople calling it debt… Read More
Trump Pardoned 77 People Who Tried to Overthrow the 2020 Election
In case you missed it over the weekend, Trump pardoned 77 – SEVENTY SEVEN! – people on Sunday who helped him try to overturn the 2020 election. Rudy Giuliani got… Read More
SCOTUS Wasn’t Buying GEO Group’s Immunity Defense for Prison Forced Labor
The Supreme Court didn’t seem impressed with GEO Groups claim today that it should be immune from forced labor lawsuits at its Colorado immigration detention center. At least four justices… Read More
SCOTUS Is About to Decide If Your Mail-In Ballot Gets Thrown Out
The Supreme Court just agreed to hear a case that could decide whether mail-in ballots have to arrive by Election Day to count. Right now, Mississippi let’s ballots postmarked by… Read More
Democrats Caused the Shutdown, Then Folded First. Stop Making Excuses for Them.
Stop making excuses for Democrats. Heres what actually happened, stripped of all the partisan spin and cable news theatrics: The Democrats shut down the government. Full stop. They made a… Read More
Why Eight Democratic Senators Voted to Cave on Healthcare: The Real Theory
Dems caved on protecting your healthcare. Heres my theory on why. The eight Democratic senators who voted for the stopgap funding bill – Tim Kaine, Dick Durbin, John Fetterman, Jeanne… Read More
Trump Ordered States to Claw Back SNAP Benefits From 42 Million Americans
The Trump administration ordered states to claw back full SNAP benefits already issued to nearly 42 million low-income Americans. The order came yesterday, just hours after the Supreme Court temporarily… Read More
Mental Shortcuts: How Heuristics Shape Our Worldview
Think plane crashes are more dangerous than car rides? Convinced crime is skyrocketing? Your brain’s taking shortcuts that feel right but lead you straight to wrong conclusions. Here’s why.
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The Law of Least Effort: Why Your Brain Is Lazy
Your brain treats effortful thinking like an expensive operation that needs justification. The Law of Least Effort guarantees you’ll rely on fast, error-prone intuitions when careful analysis would serve you better.
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