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12th grade girls are now less likely to say they want to get married someday
1993: 83%
2023: 61%
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
1993: 83%
2023: 61%
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
November 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
12th grade girls are now less likely to say they want to get married someday
1993: 83%
2023: 61%
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
1993: 83%
2023: 61%
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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"There is a role for every person in revolution if he is revolutionary."
—H. Rap Brown, later Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
—H. Rap Brown, later Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Black Power Activist Known as H. Rap Brown, Dies at 82
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
"There is a role for every person in revolution if he is revolutionary."
—H. Rap Brown, later Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
—H. Rap Brown, later Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
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“The core of the problem is simple: Too much money chasing too few homes.
In 2025, America built fewer homes per 100,000 people than it did in 2005, 1995, 1985 or 1975. If you wanted to encapsulate the entire problem in a single chart, here it is:
In 2025, America built fewer homes per 100,000 people than it did in 2005, 1995, 1985 or 1975. If you wanted to encapsulate the entire problem in a single chart, here it is:
![Chart: America is still building fewer homes than it was before 2008
Total housing units built per 100,000 people per year
[The line never returns to the historical average pre-2008]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mrl6nipsxggr5e2zgozzpv3g/bafkreiamzwwthgrmpptt6tizku5jew66xbx64e65evozjr234psqbsrxt4@jpeg)
November 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“The core of the problem is simple: Too much money chasing too few homes.
In 2025, America built fewer homes per 100,000 people than it did in 2005, 1995, 1985 or 1975. If you wanted to encapsulate the entire problem in a single chart, here it is:
In 2025, America built fewer homes per 100,000 people than it did in 2005, 1995, 1985 or 1975. If you wanted to encapsulate the entire problem in a single chart, here it is:
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“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege - The Economic Times
Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...
m.economictimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
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People, she’s running for president. If obvious things aren’t obvious to you, make more autistic friends
November 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
People, she’s running for president. If obvious things aren’t obvious to you, make more autistic friends
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Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
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check. mate.
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
check. mate.
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This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:
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thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation
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Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.
November 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.
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After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
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More than twice as many Republicans report getting news regularly from the Joe Rogan Experience podcast than from Tucker Carlson. Also more Republicans get news on JRE than on Newsmax, Daily Wire, or Breitbart
November 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
More than twice as many Republicans report getting news regularly from the Joe Rogan Experience podcast than from Tucker Carlson. Also more Republicans get news on JRE than on Newsmax, Daily Wire, or Breitbart
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This is a goal of Project 2025
Get women back in the home
Get women back in the home
"The labor participation rate for women with children younger than 5 had the biggest midyear drop in more than 40 years during the first six months of 2025."
September 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This is a goal of Project 2025
Get women back in the home
Get women back in the home
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imagining "Big Balls Beatdown" in a middle-school social studies textbook
I just can’t believe our Reichstag Fire is the Big Balls Beatdown.
August 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
imagining "Big Balls Beatdown" in a middle-school social studies textbook
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I think that one of the things going on here is that a lot of powerful media figures think the admin, Rufo, Bannon etc share the same kind of low-intensity racist views they do ("affirmative action has gone too far") and can't recognize them as the full-blown fascist fantasists they are
"Equally damning is that the Times, the Post, the Wall Street Journal.. haven’t chosen to make one singular story the dominant framing device of the past 6 months: The Trump administration is teeming with despicable gutter racists and President Trump and his cabinet are having them call the shots.."
Nobody Cares That White Supremacists Are Calling the Shots Now
Darren Beattie, a speechwriter for Trump early during his first term, posted the following in October 2024, a month before Trump would win re-election: “Competent white men must be in charge if you wa...
www.liberalcurrents.com
August 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I think that one of the things going on here is that a lot of powerful media figures think the admin, Rufo, Bannon etc share the same kind of low-intensity racist views they do ("affirmative action has gone too far") and can't recognize them as the full-blown fascist fantasists they are
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i will never not be amused by how the conservative world is governed by the kind of “affirmative action” they say happens in mainstream institutions. totally unqualified dipshits are handed the keys to institutions because they say the right thing and have the right look.
An "economist" so dumb I had to explain to him how the import price index works last month will now lead the BLS, kill me
August 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
i will never not be amused by how the conservative world is governed by the kind of “affirmative action” they say happens in mainstream institutions. totally unqualified dipshits are handed the keys to institutions because they say the right thing and have the right look.
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Absolutely extraordinary
![After losing his collision repair business in the recession of 2008, Andy took on various odd jobs, but still found himself $200 short of his monthly bills. To make ends meet, he resorted to an old hobby: drawing sexy cartoon characters. "I was a crappy artist, but one thing you can do to bypass that is to draw things naked," he tells us. "It's a sad state of affairs, but it's true."
Andy realized he could pump out these naked cartoon drawings quickly, then sell them for $5 to $10 each on eBay. In 2009, his big break came: after posting a
"lesbian bondage scene" of Erin Esurance to his website, a floodgate of commissioned requests came in. "People just kept contacting me repeatedly, [demanding] Erin Esurance," he says. "I sold 6 or 7 of them for $40 a piece, and was able to pay my bills for a few months."
Then, something truly extraordinary happened: Andy's dirty drawings of Erin gained so much traction on the Internet that they overtook Esurance's original campaign in Google's search results. "At the time, if you](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xraomsuf6pvh7r2cqtdwhkvm/bafkreidguojyuo5hebugikxjjxvx77c2x3ugjo6kfidsm3nzkz7onju5ka@jpeg)
August 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Absolutely extraordinary
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One man, the son of Holocaust survivors, said, “People being kidnapped without arrest warrants, without trial, without recourse, by the president of the United States’s ICE armies ... We are not headed toward an authoritarian fascist government; we are already there.”
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August 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
One man, the son of Holocaust survivors, said, “People being kidnapped without arrest warrants, without trial, without recourse, by the president of the United States’s ICE armies ... We are not headed toward an authoritarian fascist government; we are already there.”
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this is right, I feel like. Fascism is a terrorizing philosophy; to concede it anything -- success, competence, a future -- is to not just surrender to it but to serve its purpose.
August 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
this is right, I feel like. Fascism is a terrorizing philosophy; to concede it anything -- success, competence, a future -- is to not just surrender to it but to serve its purpose.
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the only thing i'd add to this is that mainstream political media is very much taken with the idea that trump is some incarnation of the national spirit. it shows up everywhere and is used to explain his political success.
people are mad about this but it's just on-its-face true. trump won the popular vote and because of a few decades of the media priming people to believe that only conservatives can truly represent The People, that popular vote victory was treated as a defacto enabling act
Society generally has recognized him as the embodiment of the will of the Volk in a way that transcends and supercedes the Constitution
August 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
the only thing i'd add to this is that mainstream political media is very much taken with the idea that trump is some incarnation of the national spirit. it shows up everywhere and is used to explain his political success.