Tracey MacGregor

Should schools teach practical habits for managing social media’s effects on identity and well-being?

Before mandating a curriculum, read what the Surgeon General actually said. The 2023 advisory warned about risks but also acknowledged how much researchers still do not know, which is why it called for more study alongside its recommendations. Building a required course on an evidence base its own authors called incomplete means teaching certainties that do not exist yet, and teenagers are excellent at detecting when adults are bluffing. What happens in five years when the research overturns half the slides? The curriculum either calcifies into dogma or gets quietly rewritten, and either way the school has spent credibility it did not have to spend. Mandates should follow settled science, not precede it. Fund the research first, teach what it finds second. [EdSource on the advisory](https://edsource.org/updates/surgeon-general-warns-social-media-may-harm-youth)

Should unrealized capital gains be taxed?

I have watched every tax-only-the-rich promise of my lifetime eventually knock on the middle class door, and this one has the same knock built in. The 16th Amendment allows taxes on income, and the Supreme Court in [Moore v. United States (2024)](https://www.supremecourt.gov/) upheld a tax on already-realized foreign earnings while pointedly leaving the bigger question undecided, which means a tax on gains nobody has received is on shaky constitutional ground. Even if it survives for billionaires today, the machinery it builds, annual federal valuation of everything you own, is ready-made for the next revenue hunt. My 401(k) holds unrealized gains too, and I am not comforted by promises that the line will never move. Lines drawn for revenue always move.

belgium has done this since 1893 and nobody there thinks its weird. we act like its some crazy experiment lol

Politics · Oct 6, 2026 · Should voting be mandatory in the United States?

Restitution is the part everyone skips. A judge ordered that money to a victim, and waving it away because the offender is broke tells the victim their loss ranks below the offender's convenience. Finish the sentence means finish the sentence, all of it.

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