It's no secret that teachers are underpaid as the profession remains one of the lowest-paying jobs for college graduates, but a new paper found that the income gap is wider than ever.

🧵 THREAD: RFK Jr. made millions from vaccine litigation. Now he's positioned himself to remake the system in a way that could generate staggering profits for his family. He's simultaneously expanding what counts as vaccine injuries AND making the process more litigation-friendly. Here's how: 1/6

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

I know it's ethically a no-no, but I still think the New Yorker could make a fortune if they had a Cameo-like service where you could pay for Isaac Chotiner to call a friend saying he'd like to schedule an interview to ask them a few questions.

NEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

From Kelis's 300-acre Kenya farm to medical tourists seeking affordable health care, Black Americans are finding wealth and a sense of freedom by investing in Africa.

CHOTINER: So You created us right GOD: Yes CHOTINER: In Your image GOD: Yes CHOTINER: And sometimes we do bad things GOD: Oh Yes CHOTINER: And then you send plagues and floods GOD: OK I think I see where you are going with this

The kids are alright.

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if you want to put in melinda cooper terms you could note that paramount-skydance and sinclair are both family-controlled firms while disney is one of the archetypal public companies of the era

"Probably." Who's to say?

We are now expanding the tent in ways to make me in particular blurt out “oh come the eff on!”

Quite a comedy act, the Canadian Senate of the mid-1980s

again, again, again, again: autocrats like to declare themselves untouchable and all-powerful. sometimes they even write it into law. and yet that does not make it so

her name couldn’t really be WILL OBEY

For the second time tonight, I must ask: is this real?

Thank you Will! A very thoughtful and revealing reading of the book.

Yeah I've had the same thought. The same goes for new centrist publications. Or new "liberal" publications.

On that "help with mortgage" Google search thing that was all over Bluesky: why it's wrong with @peark.es www.investopedia.com/yes-google-s...

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

When ChatGPT first took off this was the use case that confused me the most. People said they “only” used it to write “first drafts.” That’s the most important draft! That’s the thinking part!

one of my silly takes is that truth is actually a core liberal value--truth, not relativism--and what demsas argues here is absolute capitulation to pure relativism sure bad ideas are as important to teach as good ones lies as important as truth surely this will allay all attacks on universities,

Amused at all the tributes that are basically like here lies Robert Redford, who was hot

Exclusive: The Trump administration has drafted a proposal to activate 1,000 Louisiana National Guard troops to serve in a law enforcement mission in the state’s “urban centers.”

Perplexity plagiarized Merriam-Webster’s definition of the word plagiarize, the lawsuit alleges. www.theverge.com/news/777344/...

I feel like @alphaville.ft.com's series on Strategy deserves some credit for this. www.marketwatch.com/story/s-p-50...

To read later!

It was one thing when pols would lie but you could dial back the hyperbole to some likely honest core. But this is fantasy based on nothing told, btw, to people who know it.

If you ever wondered why some Wikipedia articles are titled "murder of ____" and others "killing of ____":

this is ridiculous

For those interested, this goes through the U of Chicago financial statements etc. to draw lessons about the wider changes in higher ed as UChicago cuts world famous programs. www.investopedia.com/university-f...

Airlines really like to tell you about their wifi or direct flights to cool places, but gotta say, a Qatari airline attendant on flight 777 (yes, the # for good luck in some cultures) saving my life as a possible allergic reaction closed my windpipe really should be up there.

Ok here's my public service since Bluesky peeps are giving you one or the other. Are you an author who believes AI has plagiarized your work? Here's your to-do list: 1. Go here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Search for your name.

Not sure of this translation, but certainly an unexpected find as the quote of the day in Kenya’s Business Daily today. Xx

I’ve been out of the game a long time, but this doesn’t strike me as something fun to say on a first date.

Most telling interview I ever heard with him was about how growing up he would throw away the rule books of board games he played and then create his own rules so that everyone would have to play the way he wanted.

Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

All this time, grand juries have been seen as an anachronism, a rubber stamp, practically useless at their notional purpose of protecting rights. And yet, of all our constitutional safeguards, when we need them most and so many have failed, here comes the ham sandwich brigade off the top rope.

I always figure it means working toward Enlightenment rationality by throwing off self-imposed nonage.

Hannah Arendt:

This is why he can't get fresh peirogi.

After losing an appeal against CNN, Alan Dershowitz plans to ask the Supreme Court to overturn New York Times v. Sullivan, the 1964 case that protects journalists and others from weaponized lawsuits. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/29/b...

A jazz master played the sweet notes of "When the Saints Go Marching In" on his clarinet as city leaders followed in a procession at New Orleans' Hurricane Katrina memorial

Something about the two stories about ChatGPT's involvement in suicides/murder that came out this week that really stuck out to me: OpenAI basically has a boilerplate response when their product gets people killed. "Deeply saddened" www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

The federal government would like to remind everyone that only one property can be listed as your primary residence at a time.