The median annual income in Nigeria is about ~$1000 a year. Most populous country in Africa. The median annual income in India is ~$2400 a year. Most populous country in Asia. Worldwide, it's about $2750. When we say "tech peaked in the 1990s," I think we omit "For rich Americans and Europeans."

Today I learned how to make homemade empanadas by hand. I made a total of 120. I am now an expert empanada maker. Please clap.

Here's how silly US racism is. Black people in California vote consistently for us to to be taxed more, because we are a rich state. We also vote to send that money to West Virginia to help them. But white people in WV vote consistently to cancel the very programs and assistance they depend on.🤦🏿‍♂️

Friendsgiving, entry level: Relegate young kids to the kids' table. 😐 Friendsgiving, expert level: Form a secret "Cookie Club(TM)!" Once in, "make it snow" on a clean counter by sprinkling flour! Roll out sugar cookies! Decorate! After dinner, eat your designs at "members only" Cookie Club table! 😀

I can't believe we're starting a new oil war in the decade of solar and EVs. We really are stuck in the 1950s, unable to evolve to tomorrow. It would be funny if real people weren't going to be hurt over this. All war is bad. Civilians get hurt the most. Mostly children.

This. Some of y'all still don't understand what I mean when I talk about pelicans flying close to the water. Pelicans use the ground effect to fly close to the water with low effort. Let's say, 36cm above the waves.🤡 Sometimes they even dip below that altitude! But they return to it.

The existence of leftover pie from Thursday, does not invalidate the need to bake more pies on Friday. - ancient proverb, probably.

I believe it, and an interesting extra metric: If your experience is based on meeting white ZA folks who emigrated to the US after the end of apartheid, that pool of people is likely more racist than the average white ZAn or the average pre-democracy expat. So pop. difference is _even greater_.

More context: * Most EVs contain neodymium and other rare earths * South Africa has some of the best Neodymium deposits on Earth * There's currently a power struggle to secure access to rare earths * Do you secure this more with compliments or threats? The US and China have opposite approaches.🤷🏿‍♂️

End all "3rd world" immigration? 🔮🧙🏿‍♂️ I still remember when I first shared this list, people tried to argue with me about if it was real, and got really angry about it. Honestly, I understand the defense mechanism that prevents most people from processing what's about to happen. I really do.

not to be earnest on main, but I am deeply grateful to be on my way to dinner with a family whose Catholicism leads them to love and fight for queer people, for immigrants, for Palestinians, for the unhoused, and for all the marginalized. not every queer person in Trump’s America gets to have that

Today is the special day when all of y'all that pretend that you don't know how many Trump voters are in states like California and New York, do everything that you possibly can to "not talk politics at Thanksgiving," so that you can get back on here on Monday and try to lie to me again! 🤡

This year I'm thankful for all of the white folk that opposed anti-Black racism *before* it cost them personally♥️ I'm thankful for my Ukrainian relatives and friends, that check in with me about my Haitian relatives and friends, and tell me that all children should be safe from war and violence♥️🕊️

🤡Not only is the order of medals reversed, but supposed "Captain" Kelly can't even spell his name? Who is "ylleK karM niatpaC?!" Reversing the letters on your uniform in a selfie is a court-martialable offense! I have ordered Tom Cruise to assemble the finest military lawyers to take you to court!

I’m mindful today of those for whom this is their first Thanksgiving without a loved one. I’m praying for a measure of peace and the comfort of beautiful memories.

Unfortunately, yes they did. ICE raids are still his most popular policy. It's late November, 2025, and 89% of GOP still approve of the job Trump is doing on immigration.🤦🏿‍♂️ 52% of white people approve of the job Trump is doing on immigration.🤦🏿‍♂️ He said what he was going to do, and he's doing it.

Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.

Practicing radical honesty this year 🙏

The VP of Marketing at Campbell's Soup is asleep at the wheel if they can't spin this crisis into marketing gold. "Yeah we make food for poor people. So what? What're you made of money?" And TIL that Campbell has a role that is "Executive Vice President, Snacks!" Someone go endorse me on LinkedIn!

Ah forgot to ask y'all the provocative key question: If more cops don't even reduce the murder rate in the most violent, highest homicide, most dangerous neighborhoods in Baltimore and Chicago... Then... What are we paying *billions* of dollars for? 🤡

The people who do this, who conceived of it, who demand it, are real life monsters.

People are struggling. I want us to think about how we're going to help each other hang in there this winter. How are you going to support your friends, co-strugglers, and community as they push through this moment? How can you help people muddle through, materially and/or emotionally?

If you can understand why a Hispanic ICE agent with a deportation quota will not save you.... Then you can understand why a Black cop with an arrest quota, cannot save you either. The racism is in the system, not the individual. The individual is just a part, working within that system.

I've shared on here before, why more cops do not and cannot reduce the murder rate in US cities. I've shared that criminal justice reformers have known what does work, and has worked in dozens of US cities. It's now driving record low homicide in Chicago and Baltimore♥️🕊️ Now let's talk cop killings

I can't remember reading a book solely about Nazis ever. In Germany the basics are part of high school education, and every now and then there's a tv docu or news mag article. I could confirm the existence of a theory that the Germans went to war in 39 because their economy was about to

I recommend Adam Tooze's "The Wages of Destruction" myself.

I'm not sure exactly what the bounds of "the topic" are but I usually recommend Black Earth by @timothysnyder.bsky.social. It helped me understand how the weak states occupied by Germany throughout the war enabled the horrors of the Holocaust. bookshop.org/p/books/blac...

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich was a good foundational book to understand the timeline, made it easier to find other books in specific eras (e.g. Germany 1923) and contextualize better. But I frequently ended up staring at the wall while my brain processed horrors.

Robert Citino's books are helpful for de-wehraboo'ing folks by exposing both the limits of the WW2 German army, its strategy, and its economy. Perhaps "Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942."

Reposting for reach. What are the best books on the topic? I read a lot of primary sources, which is not time efficient, and which exposes me to a lot of horrible things that I can't unread. Do not recommend. What's a better way to read this stuff?

*affixes tin hat, and assumes conspiracy brother pose* Umm... I believe in all of these except Loch Ness. But not in the way that most people think. Seriously! Let me explain...

Public servants, artists, cultural figures, heads of nonprofits and industry. Meet our Transition Committees:

The Bakery Dragon is a very cute book if you haven't read it yet. I mean to your kids. If you haven't read it *to your kids* yet. Obviously.

Cops killed about the same number of Black people in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2020. 2019 was slightly more. There was another jump in 2021, setting a new record. 2022 higher than 2021. New record. 2023 higher than 2022. New record. 2024 higher than 2023. All time high. 2025 is back down to 2016.

I've shared on here the weird phenomenon of US people believing that Hitler proposed and built the autobahn and other infrastructure projects. He didn't.🤡 And Hitler trashed the economy by taking businesses away from competent Jewish people, and giving them to incompetent nazi party loyalists.

Over 320,000 Black women have been pushed out of the workforce. This is a red flag for our economy thanks to Trump’s mass firings & attacks on DEIA. I convened Black women leaders to discuss how to fight back and save Black women, Black families, & Black futures.

Some of y'all: Stop comparing ICE treatment of immigrants to police treatment of Black people! Me: No. How many innocent Black families today will have their door kicked in by cops, who will shoot their non-aggressive family dog, and then just leave? Psychologically, what does that do to a child?

It's especially baffling when you consider the near-universal agreement that a bunch of cops have speeding ticket quotas to hand out (hence the traps in regions where there's a rapid decrease in speed limit), and yet deny or be oblivious to other activities and their systemic consequences

Some of y'all: Stop comparing ICE treatment of immigrants to police treatment of Black people! Me: No. People immediately understand how ICE deportation quotas cause immediate and systemic harm to immigrant populations, and shred families apart. But pretend not to understand police arrest quotas?

Some of y'all: Stop comparing ICE treatment of immigrants to police treatment of Black people! Me: No. There are 14 million undocumented people in the US. ICE would have to detain *checks notes* 2.8 million of them to reach the horrific targeting level of Black men US citizens.

Mark Kelly will never be president. Again, 1) Police treat Black people worse than ICE treats immigrants. Much worse. 2) Winning as a Dem requires both massive Black voter turnout, and about 90% of Black people to vote for you. 3) Mark Kelly is super pro-cop. So no, that ain't happening.

Everyone forgets that the term "fake news," originally referred to made up stories about Hillary Clinton and the Democrats, spread by supposed Trump supporters for racist reasons. But it turned out to just be profit motive by non-US individuals looking to get racist American weirdos to click on ads🤷🏿‍♂️

Why are there so many diaspora Palestinians? It's a mystery.

🤔 This is extra silly, because being an American literally is a right. 87% of people living in the US were born here, entitling them to birthright citizenship. Birth*RIGHT*. It says it right in the name.

damn they got my ass

The hardest part of baking bread is waiting. The house smells amazing right now.

people told me the economy was fine as the number of people we served at my food pantry went up 50% between 2022 and 2024. yeah financially it was a great time for me, but awful for people making median wages and below. and yes, the number went up 50% this year too thanks to tariffs + SNAP issues.

Working in a library, it's not unusual to see homeless people using the computers to work a WFH job.

My 18 year old Grandma was the sole person in her house with a job for over a year. Her dad got fired from a city job, specifically because she had a job, and the city had a list of homes where there were zero folks working. They were able to stay in their house on light bulb factory wages in 1933

Look. I'm not playing with you people. During the great depression, if you were employed and had a job, you probably were not living on the streets. In 2025, many homeless people have jobs. Depending on whose stats you use, and if you count part-time employment, between 40% and 60% have jobs.