Thinking today about this sentence: "Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a 9 percent increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office."

This is such a great video by @hatethegamebook.com I wish I had made it myself. A quick TLDR: Firms feel uncertainty ➡️ They hold onto workers and don't create new jobs ➡️ Less demand for entry level workers

American Classmates Having Difficulty Understanding Better Educated Foreign Exchange Student https://theonion.com/american-classmates-having-difficulty-understanding-bet-1828551698/

Monday mood @GordonFlesch

imagine investing in public media and ensuring that media literacy (and spotting unreliable narrators) was integral in primary school education

...and here's Klan leader Hiram Evans in 1926 on the school culture-war. Can you see any difference between this and today's GOP talk?

Community college enrollment has been declining since 2009/10. The optimal policy response to this depends on the root of this decline. I'm thrilled @nber.org today released my working paper with Harvard PhD Joe Winkelmann titled: "Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment"

“Home Deport”. $HD

Rogue Scientist Has Own Scientific Method https://theonion.com/rogue-scientist-has-own-scientific-method-1819568501/

Warner: "We're already at 9% recent college graduate unemployment. I think that number will go to 25% very shortly."

#WolffBites: "Delusion"

PANTHEON: “.. new graduates are struggling to find their first job. .. the drag on employment from AI likely will intensify next year as AI adoption by firms continues to increase ..”

If a man said what Megyn Kelly said, you would assume he was a trafficker. This young lady is wise beyond her years, but she is still a “child”and she would like a word…

Psychologist and author @alangodwin52.bsky.social explains why so many of our otherwise decent friends and family have joined a political cult. www.youtube.com/shorts/ive89...

I woud love to see @robertgarcia.bsky.social and @raskin.house.gov write Todd Blanche and ask him when he's going to charge Ghislaine with false statements for lying to him.

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

WEIL: “.. Circularity can be virtuous on the upside, and vicious on the downside. The deals can work fine, until they don’t.” @wsj.com $NVDA $ORCL @justinhendrix.bsky.social www.wsj.com/tech/ai/is-t...

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.

A message and a Lesson from Norway 🇳🇴 💙💙

Frank Sinatra on what it means to be an American in 1945

Studying 25,000 workers across 7,000 workplaces, this study finds that: "AI chatbots have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation... Our findings challenge narratives of imminent labor market transformation due to Generative AI." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data

Close the Black ✊🏽 Boarders NOW!!!

Good times

wow

Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.

This protest sign in South Korea says everything about US efforts to lure foreign manufacturing investment. 🤡 @apnews.com

Good stuff from inside Lambeau

Just heard on Irish radio someone saying about Kirk, "he has been given a huge amount of empathy in death that he denied huge amounts of people in life".

When the US Department of War made this film in 1945 to warn about the threat of fascism, they included this scene of a teacher in Germany debunking 'race science,' the same racist myths and lies being promoted and normalized by fascists in the US today. catalog.archives.gov/id/24376

“I’ll have one chocolate donut, please?”

Trump on the cover of French magazine Le Point. Translation: “Man from Moscow” Le Point is a major French weekly news magazine. It is considered a center-right / conservative-leaning publication.

An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.

76% of Texas’s $2.4 trillion GDP comes from the blue parts. - DFW: $709.0 B (29.5%) - Houston: $642.1 B (26.7%) - Austin: $229.2 B (9.5%) - San Antonio: $201.2 B (8.4%) - El Paso: $49.3 B (1.9%) Blue: $1.83 T (76%) Red: $0.57 T (24%) #EconSky #Gerrymandering comptroller.texas.gov/economy/econ...

didyoucatchthistv Did You Catch This?

Residents of California, Texas, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey are hit the hardest.

This is Tuffy. He is the only example of taking up the whole sidewalk that is not only justifiable, but encouraged. 14/10 (IG: mypittuffy)

NEW VIDEO: "So You're About To Start Law School: An Incoming Law Student's Guide to the First Month" My tips, especially for those first-gen students who don't know a lot of lawyers. Hope students find it useful. youtube.com/watch?v=Ayl3...

Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull: “When you see Trump with Putin, as I have on a few occassions, he’s like the 12-year old boy that goes to high school and meets the captain of the football team. ‘My hero!’ It’s really creepy.”

Putin has described himself as a "Chekist." This term and its awful significance is new to me.

Love this

an age test and a perfect joke in one place (via onelegblackheart on threads)

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

President Trump is imitating the Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into the economy, Greg Ip writes.