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Trina @trinaba.bsky.social · 15h

(3/3)"...Employment as a whole rose by just 220,000 over the same period, meaning that, if it was not for that industry, overall employment would have shrunk."

Trina @trinaba.bsky.social · 15h

(2/3) "... in much worse-paid industries than finance. Since the end of 2019, New York has added more than 268,000 jobs in health care and social assistance, particularly home health care..."

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Trina @trinaba.bsky.social · 15h

alt text(1/3): "Estimates from Goldman Sachs suggest that fully 10% of households in New York City with incomes of more than $10m established residency elsewhere between 2018 and 2023.

As the ultra-rich have headed for the exit, the city's employment growth has become concentrated..."

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Trina @trinaba.bsky.social · 15h

considering that earlier in the article they spoke of how much cuts have been made to tech jobs this year, and how they plan to increase the cuts exponentially through 2030. I would call those people "Oblivious" & "Delusional" not "Optimistic"

A section from The Economist article "Core Weakness" from Nov 1st-7th. It reads "Optimists see a ray of hope in jobs in tech. Employment in the industry in New York City rose by 64% between 2014 and 2024, according to the Center for an Urban Future, a local think-tank. Alphabet, whoch owns Google, opened campis on the Hudson river in 2022. Last year OpenAI and Anthropic, two big artificial-intelligence firms, opened officea in the city, too."

Trina @trinaba.bsky.social · 15h

Impossible to say what happened since 2019 that changed our priorities.

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Trina @trinaba.bsky.social · 16h

Reading the economist. It truely boggles me that our society values financial, investment, and insurance workers over skilled labor, education, and health jobs.

Curiously, the later half will be more difficult for AI to infiltrate than the first half.

I hope you had the time of your lives.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 2d

If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 2d

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

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woke mayor @brianvan.bsky.social · 3d

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 2d

I think a number of press outlets badly want there to be a groundswell of anti-trans feeling, because the ownership/senior editorial of those papers have absolutely cooked their own brains on transphobia. It seems to be largely an elite psychosis!

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d

the harris campaign said the “they/them” ad didn’t sway the election.

one of the trump campaign’s top strategists this week said trans rights isn’t in the top five issues for swing voters.

when will the press stop talking about us like we’re a liability and start looking itself in the mirror

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Trina @trinaba.bsky.social · 2d

democrats need to hold the line. $1200/month for health insurance is despicable. If they will not ensure subsidies then they need to pass a max limit that private companies can offer.

This specifically targets people who work for small businesses. They would perfer us all to labor for corporate.

Trina @trinaba.bsky.social · 3d

You have to know your rights because your employer is banking on you not understanding that this is an unlawful request.

The NLRB has ruled that employers cannot force workers to be cheerful, as being unhappy is a right.

La vache est fachée @vacheestfachee.bsky.social · 4d

"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.

They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.

If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."

🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.

Target is now requiring its employees to smile more

As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.

www.wilx.com

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Max Weiss @maxthegirl.bsky.social · 15d

One year ago

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 27d

I just think AI is so exciting bc it's a machine that you can get wrong answers from, that yields environmental devastation, and is being forced on all of us

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 27d

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

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jam @socialistboat.dad · Oct 8

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · Oct 6

A lot of libertarians who have been screaming in my replies about "authoritarianism" and "tyranny" for the last four years are conspicuously quiet right now.

Curious.

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Trina @trinaba.bsky.social · Oct 6

I think it is time to reread Cory Doctorow's Little Brother

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · Oct 4

"I believe that Americans would agree that the government can’t just make people disappear without any process or explanation. Second, because I want to give the government a chance to admit that they were wrong.

So far the government has not done so."

newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-us-ci...

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Scott M 🔜 Dragonmeet @voxparlour.bsky.social · Oct 2

Become ungovernable

Noisy, hungry frogs sadden farmer's life. They scare his cattle and they also eat his flannel shirt.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · Oct 1

Only a Trump speech could reference the N-word and still have room to get worse

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Trina @trinaba.bsky.social · Sep 26

These ICE agents are gonna shoot their own dick off and blame the left before shooting into a crowd.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · Sep 20

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · Sep 18

In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.

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madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com · Sep 18

Ppl keep saying he’s functionally a King now but listen my country has an actual literal monarchy and no constitutionally mandated freedom of speech and they still let a prince ruin himself live on the state run television channel

Thomas Seal @twseal.bsky.social · Sep 18

Headlines on the Bloomberg Terminal from Air Force One:

*TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME
*TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES
*TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO

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