Illinois Becomes First State To Require Haircut Leave While Bob Grows Out SPRINGFIELD, IL—As the landmark bipartisan legislation passed into law Thursday, Illinois became the first state in the union to mandate paid haircut leave while an employee’s new bob grows out. “Effe...

This is more than legislation. This work is personal to me.
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Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

She reportedly parted ways with Bezos with a jaw-dropping $38.3 billion in Amazon stock. Their divorce settlement included a 4 % stake in the online retail giant or 19.7 million shares. Under the agreement, Bezos kept 75% of the couple's Amazon stock, along with voting control of her shares. Jan 11, 2023

MacKenzie Scott has given away over $19 billion in the last 5 years and experts say she's 'changed entire fie... MacKenzie Scott acknowledged another $2 billion in donations as 2024 comes to a close.

MacKenzie Scott, worth $41.1 billion, is on a philanthropic tear and has donated an estimated 46% of her net worth.

Just to give a sense of the insane scale of billions of dollars…MacKenzie Scott got about $38 billion after divorcing Bezos in 2019. She has become the world’s most generous philanthropist, giving away over $19 billion…and she’s currently wealthier than she started.

Just. Tax. Them.

The day after I pay taxes I’m always depressed AF.

There are so many good writers doing good work at Substack but, for the love of Pete, there's no turning this tide. It will only get worse. They will not course-correct back to being the destination for indie journalism. Get out while you can.

Shout out to @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social for calling yesterday’s DoorDash stunt at the White House “Right Wing Propagrandma” over on Threads.

Well hello there, Ranger Sir!

Do I detected the scent of a picnic basket?

FYSA, the lead story is not "current GenXers brains are bad because lead", it's that lead poisoning disproportionately impacted poor and minority communities and those voters died younger.

Also AIDS killed a lot of young progressive GenXers.

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i feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content

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WaPo website replaced search with AI and it's going great

Specifically the mist covered jungles of Mimban.

I hate that I’ve come to respect Drudge for this.

LAST TEMPTATION OF TRUMP HE MOCKS JESUS! DAMNS POPE FIERCE BACKLASH IS WHITE HOUSE ON DRUGS? DRUDGE REPORT

The one outlet that covers him the way they would a Democrat.

What I want to know is if by “retiring/resigning,” do they still get to keep their healthcare/retirement benefits vs. being denied them if they’re expelled.

paddington 4, escape from NY

for a sec i thought this was some kind of mash-up and i experienced the purest form of existential bliss

I know from experience that leaving Substack has a cost. No other platform is as *easy* to get up and running, any time you change platforms, you're going to get significant churn. But, my friends who are on Substack--I don't think it will get easier to leave, might as well do it now.

Not handing it to the NYT yet, but Jacob's right - this is surprising for them and worth taking note of.

Reason n+1 to get off Substack

*SWALWELL RESIGNS FROM CONGRESS

NYT article on Mrs. Bezos and this in screenshot: ‪More Perfect Union‬ ‪@moreperfectunion.bsky.social‬ · 21m A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social .

Your post about the World's Longest Press Release appeared like this in my feed.

OK, stop, seriously, I can’t breathe

The "keeping up with the Nigerian Princes'' effect

The movie poster for The Guyver, featuring Mark Hamill with an alien lifeform face superimposed over half his face. I think he has a goatee as well but it’s a little hard to tell.

Now there’s a name I haven’t heard since…

So he’s saying that he has no idea what Jesus is supposed to look like.

That, ah, tracks.

r/relationships:

I [26m] just caught my girlfriend [20f] lying to the IRS saying she’s ‘single’ on her tax form. Should I be concerned?

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u/FoghornLeghorn365
Boy shut the, I say, shut the fuck up

"Russiagate" isn't a "hoax" in other countries

I believe the covid pandemic explains the sustained negative economic sentiment and the global anti-incumbent wave almost entirely and I think the 1918-1920 flu pandemic was more important than we assume in creating the chaos of the 1920s and 30s

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

If Orban is ousted, Hungary also becomes a test case for what policies work to undo authoritarian entrenchment in state institutions. Provides many lessons for us here if/when Trump's faction loses control.