While 120K workers joined the labor force in May, it was men's gains. Thus far this year over 300K women have left the workforce. About 212K women left the workforce in the 1st half of 2025 & there was a clear decline in employment among mothers. www.fastcompany.com/91554967/the...

There's a $300K tax on American daughters. My latest for @businessinsider.com: www.businessinsider.com/millennial-d...

Hall of fame FT correction

Wisconsin liberals have just won another state Supreme Court election, in what is shaping up to be a blowout. Importantly: Liberals are now sure to hold a majority on this court during the 2028 cycle and through at least 2030. New in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/wisconsin-su...

There’s a simple way to test a country’s sovereignty: Can it govern its own markets? Writer Vass Bednar argues Canada can’t—not while a foreign power can shut off our payment networks at will. The UK is building alternatives. Are we? https://ow.ly/3PLJ50YEH3S

Thanks Jaya!! If you read this and want to tangibly support the Nitehawk Workers Union and our fight for a fair contract, please sign this petition: www.ipetitions.com/petition/sup...

NO BORDERS, NO NATIONS

My latest for @theappeal.org looks at the crisis of aging in CA's women's prisons: theappeal.org/incarcerated...

A very cool and necessary project from @sandyernestallen.bsky.social and @maris.bsky.social:

I am beginning to think that we are not afraid enough of the potential that AI will not just automate jobs, but may destroy the entire way that organized labor builds power for working people. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/an-existen...

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Hey folks Calvary Food Shelf has been helping out people in Minneapolis for 30 years, and now they’re ramping up to meet the crisis, including doing home deliveries so people don’t have to risk going out. They’re just over halfway to their current goal—let’s get them all the way, shall we?

"Mr. Jones" has no business going as hard as it does.

From booming metros to culture-defining exports, the South has become a demographic powerhouse — and a battleground for American identity

“My economist brain said: If something — let’s say trustworthiness — becomes scarce, then it becomes valuable. He wondered whether “being confronted with the difficulty of telling real from fake would make people more willing to pay for news that they trust.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/trus...

and check out the article here: www.laborpolitics.com/p/sewer-soci...

Reporters Without Borders has released its annual report on violence against journalists, this year ominously titled, "2025, a deadly year for journalists: this is where hate and impunity lead." rsf.org/en/2025-dead...

Spotify is a terrible company but this really is a genius product

The steady rise of dedicated climbing gyms has effectively transformed the sport, bringing a once-niche activity to the mainstream and setting the sport up for even more growth — if the real estate market allows [ @kelkord.bsky.social @thehustle.bsky.social ] thehustle.co/originals/ho...

Do people still eat carob? Whatever happened with that

Happy Fat Squirrel Season to those who celebrate. #fatsquirrelseason

Emil Seidel (1910-1912), Daniel Hoan (1916-1940), & Frank Zeidler (1948-1960) have likely impacted your life in ways you never think about, even if you’ve never stepped foot in Milwaukee. And if city governments are laboratories of democracy, then the Cream City has been research central!

Some on the far right want to repeal the 19th amendment. Many more share a coercive, patriarchal view of women. I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...

This is a historically excellent speech.

Diversity doesn’t weaken unions. Racist bosses like Vance using racism to divide workers by race so they can exploit them weakens unions. All this stuff is arsonists complaining about the temperature in the building they set on fire. bsky.app/profile/diew...

One reason the US lacks public investment in paid sick, family, and parental leaves is because of a tacit assumption that women will continue to do this work. www.forbes.com/sites/adiaha...

Hi all! If you're looking for a place to give some money my local food pantry could really use it. Cash is often the best way to support food pantries, especially bc so many are under-resourced & unable to process big influxes of food. And please feel free to repost! 💓 www.ebcnorfolk.org/foodpantry

I have a monthly standing donation to Astoria Food Pantry. Now that SNAP benefits are ending, every food bank needs your help, if you can swing it.

At least 5 federal agencies were involved in a massive immigration raid on Canal Street on Tuesday @jumaane.bsky.social: "I think this simple-minded president is, at some point, going to flood our streets with federal agents and that should concern everybody.” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/federal...

Fellow journalists: Look, I get the impulse, but "CALLED IT IN 2021!" with a gift link or screenshot is an objectively weird response to the horrors of the day

where's this nor'easter that we all canceled our plans for, anyway?

i remember when this guy was posturing so hard as the most lefty Silicon Valley billionaire and all about calling his employees a "family" etc and then he realized Salesforce could cash in on that sweet sweet border patrol / fascism cash and ... welp

Would be a good time to shut down Dreamforce. If I have friends who are still speaking there, this is a good reason to cancel.

And this: 92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

NYC's one and only REI store is getting replaced by an OpenAI corporate office. You can't even make this stuff up.

I'm a middle — not even elder — millennial. My college laptop didn't have wifi capability. I had to plug it in, with a cord, to go online.

If I were editing a column about Charlie Kirk’s political genius, I would tell the writer he needed to quote Kirk’s actual political beliefs. If the writer responded that doing so would weaken or distract from his argument, it’d be a pretty good sign that the column was not ready for prime time.

"What's coming next is awful." What's already here is awful. Retaliatory political violence is the norm now. This is it.

“In general it seems like more and more nomads eventually realize the importance of having a more settled life and decide to have a stable base somewhere where they have a community.” @kelkord.bsky.social checked in on the developer digital nomad dream: leaddev.com/career-devel...

"Public transit is a service, not a business—should public schools have to turn a profit? A powerful transit system can benefit everyone, unless one is so petty as to view the ability of human beings to move from place to place as a zero-sum game to be won" defector.com/doomsday-for...

i remember when jd vance blamed the haitian immigrants to springfield for rising home prices. well, the prices will come down, because a mass departure of haitian workers will crash the local economy.

I mean, weepy sentimental middlebrow-beloved feelings-writer —> political revolutionary is basically the entire Irish intellectual tradition

Latinsky is 150 people away from having 1k on the feed! Help #BuildTheBarrio and share this post so the Latine community on Bluesky knows that there’s a place for us here! If you’re Latine, reach out to be included in the feed! If you’re an ally, share the post so your Latine friends see it too!

New: The Writers Guild of America, which represents writers on “The Late Show,” says it is concerned the cancellation was a “bribe” to curry favor with the Trump admin. The guild wants the New York state attorney general to launch an investigation.

goddammit

"The world is now installing one gigawatt worth of solar energy infrastructure every 15 hours — or about the output of a new coal plant." futurism.com/electricity-...

For the first time since she was freed from an immigration prison, Rümeysa Öztürk speaks. And she does so by ... writing: "Writing is the heart of freedom of expression. Unbelievably, this single opinion piece, published in our student newspaper, would lead to my arrest and detention."

If you need a break from the news cycle, this is one of my favorite stories that I've worked on in recent memory and I think you'll like it: thehustle.co/originals/th...