People are so bad at distinguishing between daily income and wealth

bless Scaachi

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“Teen birth rates have crashed 81%” presented as a bad thing

Ha I packed this one!

Some Nice News And some upcoming events

"I want my daughter to see the possibility of pride w/o hubris..especially me as her mother, when so many social forces conspire to deny women the permission to celebrate anything except pregnancy & the achievements of their husbands & children."

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This is super interesting to me — boomers radicalizing, Gen-X taking up (traditional) boomer politics (which is always what they said would happen to millennials, because Gen X was too cool and alternative etc etc etc)

no because the writers didn't get paid directly at the magazine — the money usually went to the EIC and the corporation

What's the future of newsletters look like? I increasingly think it's high-level curation — like, here's a place where you can bundle three subscriptions to the 20 smart newsletter writers who aren't repulsive, trafficking in conspiracy, or white supremacists

absolutely

Ah yes Rec Cross Jesus

I live on an island and the online companies simply cannot handle the complication — whereas the local agency is like ah yes of course

And I bet the flowers are FAR SUPERIOR! Maybe slightly more expensive, but also not FedEx'ed from Colombia and can't be delivered on a freaking Saturday!

I think I saw too many Progressive commercials and somehow absorbed the fact that agencies are for chumps???? When in fact they are for people who don't want to waste their fucking time???????

ME: I need to insert a footnote
MICROSOFT WORD: *spitting blood* fuck you, fuck your mother and fuck your footnote

Many millennials absorbed the belief that the easiest & cheapest way to do anything is to do it online — including getting something like home insurance.....when in fact it is A BILLION times easier to call up a local agency and have them handle everything

imagine telling the Pope to "get his act together"

Very relatable to the average American, who has six boat loans

A milestone in March: for the first time ever, renewables provided more power on the US grid than natural gas.

My thinking remains: if you don't have time to do something (that's not, like, organizational) and are forced to rely on AI as a result, YOU ARE BEING ASKED TO DO TO MUCH

american masculinity is a pathogen

what they've actually done here quite deftly is shine a 3000 watt Fresnel lamp on the central problem for which Pope Francis wanted an American Pope in the first place:

namely, that the American right wing believes they are invincible, they are destroying the world, and they have to be stopped

Congress is so funny. The world could be blown to smithereens and half of them would be like not sure this is a kitchen table issue.

I just received a pitch to come on a New Jersey high schooler's podcast that was so good I had to run it through an AI-detector (100% human-written!!)

top of the New York Times suggests we might not be taking this *quite* as seriously as we should

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Years ago I subscribed a far-right/Tea Party-adjacent newsletter in Montana — to keep tabs on how their thinking was shifting....

....and this is current take on Iran

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love 2 wake up to a message from my pal Snoop Dogg

Worth a read.
"Nurses...[are] operating a significant shortage, which means increased workloads, higher stress, skipped meals and breaks, mandatory overtime, and shitty feeling you could do your job a whole lot better if you just had number of people who were supposed to actually doing the job."

I'm so sorry that's happened to your community