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Can someone smarter than me explain how the continued retirement of the baby boom generation is expected to interact with the loss of jobs due to AI? Federal elected officials aside, won't we be seeing millions of our older folks retiring over the next few years as AI erodes opportunities?

I found this conversation fascinating. They talk about what happened between the time they were young bloggers after 9/11 and today and never mention Obama’s name once. Nor Kamala Harris. They never talk about Trump’s explicitly racist appeal except for RD to dismiss it in passing. Just wild to me.

This should be a lightbulb moment for Democrats: You are free to run on this platform because Republicans are going to accuse you of it whether you do or not!

The three players in this photo: 1. Nigerian heritage, grew up in England, and is only a citizen thanks to birthright citizenship. 2. Born + raised in Holland, has a dad who immigrated to the US from Suriname. 3. Said he wanted to “make people who look like me proud” while playing on Juneteenth

We're beating plowshares into swords, people. All glory to the aimless war and none to fund the care of the Americans who will be maimed while fighting in it.

Half-way through a story in today’s NYT: “The extent of the contamination is still murky, but one matter is clear: Sewage is infiltrating at least one stream and one lake….” Slipped that one past the editor. Writers need to have fun where they can.

WTAF??

The problem with terms like "race science" isn't that the techniques of the time were methodologicalally wrong or used for evil. The problem is that the vast majority of modern readers are not conversant in the history of science. They see the word "science" as a shorthand for tested/validated.

It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history.

@jamellebouie.net argues for an "imperial Congress." Trump's been violating Executive norms. Thanks to SCOTUS some of those breaches are permanent. A Dem-led Congress will need to defy long-held customs, too, or Vance or Rubio will be Augustus to Trump's Caesar and the republic will fade away.

Please please *please* Give this a watch If you've been watching Jiang's videos, if you are unsure, and even just to get a great breakdown of what to look for in a scam/cult/pseudoscience peddling bullshitter And please share it!!! Talk about it!!! Shit like Jiang spews has to be fought

A lesson for managers in two parts Human makes mistake: you retrain them or fire them. AI makes mistake: your boss fires YOU.

"The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s Republican Party started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall — and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs... and the chat was renamed after what one member described as “Nazi heaven.”" www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Without Trump’s trade wars since 2017, US exports to China would have been nearly 60 percent higher in 2025, or roughly $90 billion annually. www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

A Moist Owlette is freshly showered at Owl Park San Vigilio, a zoological park in northern Italy 🇮🇹 via fb.com/816647270688... #owlsintowels 💛🦉

James Comer is bringing Hillary Clinton before his committee to testify about Epstein despite having zero contact with him, but not Epstein’s neighbor Howard Lutnick who lied about his connections to Epstein over many years which is proven in the files.

𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘸𝘯 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘥. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵-𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘦, 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥.

Watch @jamellebouie.net's video, which is very informative, but also note that there are many good reasons for Supreme Court expansion apart from trying to achieve progressive political outcomes. It would be a better, more defensible institution if it were bigger. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Chimpanzees can remember the faces of friends and family for years, and sometimes even decades, according to research from 2023. #ScienceMagArchives https://scim.ag/4iPbuUd

This is so so disturbing. Trump is now pardoning January 6th rioters for unrelated crimes, just to reward them for their violence to keep him in power. The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.

Just finished By the Fire We Carry by @rebeccanagle.bsky.social . It's been a long time since I've read such an engaging work of literary nonfiction. An enlightening & gripping narrative. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in the history & current state of Native American sovereignty.

“The human body is able to do some incredible things if you consume enough lead,” said the secretary of health and human services

I still don't understand how a person like Trump, a man who often says people are "kissing his ass" and "brown-nosing" because of his power, is still so open to manipulation by anyone who strokes his ego. Can someone explain it? Is it that he recognizes the power of flattery because it works on him?

Failed experiment? The religiously unaffiliated — often called “nones” — have surged from 6% in 1990 to nearly 30% today. In that time the gender pay gap has declined, same-sex marriages were legalized, millions of of people (especially children) gained health insurance. Failed?

#ICYMI: GOP lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A GAO report shows the program has spent twice as much on administrative costs as on health care.

Do they really believe that their god would side with them over immigrants enjoying a performer who grew up singing in the church choir and uses his celebrity to bring attention to injustice? Is it a different god? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/a...

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This. I don’t advocate for what I believe is right in order to get cookies. I do it because I think it’s right. Why isn’t that reason enough? What kind of person would I be if that wasn’t enough?

Red states accused the Biden administration of "jawboning" -- coercing social media platforms to "censor" content (mostly COVID misinformation), merely by liaising and flagging false content for those companies. Now the FCC *explicitly threatens* a network over content but that's all good?

www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a... Another enlightening one from @ichotiner.bsky.social

This is a better explanation and coverage on the dark side of gaming and online culture than most mainstream media orgs have. Because for years, mainstream media ignored / disbanded their gaming culture coverage.

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

@annabetts.bsky.social what the heck is this? Did you in any way confirm the veracity of this anonymous caller?

This was Monday, five days ago.

Pro tip to Laura Loomer who deleted this: The Internet is written in indelible ink.

"Addressing the crowd, Prime Minister Gahr Støre thanked his supporters and said the victory showed it’s possible for Social Democratic parties to win elections even with right-wing forces on the rise in Europe, according to broadcaster VG." apnews.com/article/norw...

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

Vance Boelter, a Trump, GOP voting Christian nationalist, was radicalized in part by QAnon, the same conspiracy promoted by Trump and Republicans, even though they knew it had radicalized others to commit violence. Boelter had a hit list of 70 liberals. He killed Melissa Hortmann and her husband.

Don’t say “Dems aren’t doing anything.” There’s just little attention to the courage of these Missouri Dems resisting the extreme gerrymandering of Republicans desigmed to increase Republican numbers in the House. www.kfvs12.com/2025/09/05/m...

Reading books is becoming an act of resistance.

Hidden camera FTW

Something blue states will need to explore: how to create cross-state compacts dedicated to a functioning government as the Trump administration walks away from it's responsibilities.