This needs to context that nearly half of children in the US are born to single mothers. The economic impacts of childcare not being affordable are absolutely devastating, as these same women are an enormous chunk of the labor force.

The sharp decline in federal employment There are 271,000 fewer federal employees than there were at the start of 2025 — about a 9% drop, per the latest tally from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. www.axios.com/2026/01/01/t...

It really is crazy that the president has engineered a situation where the US government pays his companies tons of money whenever he goes on vacation, and now he just goes on vacation endlessly www.howtoreadthisch.art/president-ho...

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Back in the old days, we used to call this a purge. Firing all your senior leaders at NIH? It's a purge. Just call it what it is.

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Gotta say, as a survivor, I’m not super loving this thing where the Department of Justice is running a cover-up of evidence the President sexually abused minors.

CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.

this seems like a very reasonable concern to have about using LLMs

Why do we even have a Congress at this point? Bill Cassidy laid down and allowed RFK Jr to lie to him and now our whole vaccine regime is completed screwed. Russ Vought is closing government research centers and agencies with impunity. Buildings are being renamed to honor the Dear Leader. Madness.

The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

Sociology established 50+yrs ago that generalists outperform specialists in fast-changing economies. That goes for ppl as well as firms. Rapid change means you have no way to know which skills will be most useful a few years hence: best to acquire a generalist skillset, as the liberal arts offers.

I really didn't think we'd get to this point. As people who didn't live through the 80s-90s really don't understand how bad it was.

We do not have to offer and I believe indeed should not offer any benefit of the doubt: Anything sold as "AI" should be presumed ineffective, exploitative, environmentally ruinous, bigotry-amplifying and otherwise until proven otherwise. /fin

rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn

look i'm not an "impeach the cheeto!!!!" guy but if this is in fact what happened I'm not really sure what other political response is more prudent

Ladies, do you like Having a credit card Going to college Wearing pants Voting Leaving a man who hits you Not worrying that divorce means leaving your kids Not being called sugar tits in the workplace THANK FEMINISM

Trump's homicide spree clears the century mark. Trump's drug boat campaign has assassinated about one person each day since early September. These are murders, and our basic humanity demands that we not get complacent about them.

The University of Florida spends about $21 per month per student on library materials and database access.

Only a person easily bribed would think that everyone else is easily bribed. $1776 to the soldiers. $1500 to you, to cover a lifetime of medical expenses. $2000 tariff refund. A man with billions of dollars thinks you can be bought for 2 grand.

That’s the thing man. If they are to be taken at their word the only takeaway is that there should be no black people in any job any other white person wants. One quick Google search for any of these jobs would show there are usually one or two minorities are best in a unit of 20 or 30 or more.

It gets even more pathetic— x.com/RepBeatty/st...

I have grown to find the idea of “the university without students” helpful. Universities are not about teaching. They are not even about broad research done for the public.

Things are grim in the American academy. Even if a program is in the black, universities only want the study of: 1 AI 2 AI 3 AI 4 Finance 5 AI 6 AI 7 AI 8. PR (w an AI minor) 9 Roman history (as a MOOC co-taught by JD Vance and Joe Rogan) 10 AI dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it

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I just went through @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social feed for the last week and I don’t see a single thing in there about Venezuela.

pedophilic behavior

Is this why TV is so bad rn

Gotta say it's mindblowing to me that the Brown shooter is still at large and they don't even seem to have identified who they're looking for.

When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day. When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday he will not allow a floor vote this week on a bipartisan amendment supported by moderate Republicans that would extend the Affordable Care Act enhanced tax credits. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/16/r...

Excluding covid, the unemployment rate is at its highest level in over 8 years. The labor market is deteriorating particularly quickly for young workers, who are facing a 10.6% unemployment rate.

As a person who has been studying extreme far right ideologies for the last decade (and did a PhD on immigration) I find the entrance of “remigration” into the mainstream American political lexicon so profoundly disturbing

This is a harrowing account of city under siege www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In a highly unusual move, the EPA is revising an assessment of the health dangers posed by formaldehyde, a widespread pollutant that causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air. By @fastlerner.bsky.social

ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl. Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist. They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed. Another horrific story. More details below.

I am often asked what laws I would recommend blue states adopt. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are seven changes every state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seve...

President Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act will shift billions in costs for SNAP and Medicaid to states. But with 26 having cut or eliminated state income taxes just since 2021, they may not have the money to continue the programs.

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

Last week, the New School issued voluntary separation & early retirement offers to 40% of the full-time faculty & the majority of non-union staff. These cuts to the bone are an ideological attempt to decimate historic spaces of critical inquiry & social justice. Share our statement tr.ee/qQBIDCpIuj

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"We see it in the pipeline of folks signing up to run, quite a few are naming immigration as one of their top issues," @amandalitman.bsky.social of Run for Something told The Bulwark. That's because of Trump. ICYMI @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4p29J7G