Black excellence: Twice as qualified, half as respected, and still passed over or labeled as a ‘DEI hire.’

Black folks have always known this because we’ve seen it happen to our own family members. I know I have.

Ann Telnaes hits it out of the park:

The Mouthy Renegade Writer on Substack And so goddamn accurate. Fight back, folks.

substack.com/@themouthyre...

Ugh

100%

My wife vetoed setting our home to gruvbox (but she also said she'd tolerate solarized!) 😏

Own the libs...

100%……Was part of Y2K remediation as well at a very large asset manager

The Economist news quiz—Christmas special Fifty questions to test your knowledge of the year's events

Fun quiz for an inveterate Economist reader!
I scored 71 out of 100 points on @TheEconomist Xmas news quiz!

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Can you do better? Economist.com/XmasQuiz24

Look either the entire US economy turned around sometime in the month of November, or the economy really was great and we’ve just been mainlining media doomerism all along

Trump's transition is happening over private emails. Federal officials are nervous. Agencies are weighing in-person requirement for sensitive data.

i recall a time when using a private email server was the single greatest scandal in american history. i guess today’s it’s just tuesday www.politico.com/news/2024/12...

Instead of Canada becoming the 51st state, the US should consider becoming an 11th province.

Americans would get universal healthcare, parental leave, sensible gun control and fries smothered in cheese curds and gravy.

California, a state of nearly 40,000,000 people, has the same amount of representation in the United States Senate as Wyoming, a state of less than 600,000 people.

This is the direct result of a deal struck between slave states and free states in the 1700s.

It’s time for that to change.

So when mass shootings of average people and school children occurs, it's all "there's nothing we can do, these things just happen" but when a CEO gets shot, we need a special hotline, new safety protocols, and to lock up housewives over frustrated phone conversations.

Got it.

ABC’s settlement with Trump feels like it could be an inflection point in the Orbanization of our politics.

I hope it isn’t.

Fold. Your. Arms.

ABC (Disney), Washington Post (Bezos), Meta (Zuckerberg), LA Times (Soon-Shiong)... all bending the knee to Trump, all obeying in advance, all sucking up to the Dictator-in-Waiting.

This is (part of) how democracies die. This is the Orban, Putin, Netanyahu and Modi playbooks.

Exclusive: Trump transition recommends scrapping car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Tesla

It begins

www.reuters.com/business/aut...

Donald Trump has now admitted that he cannot guarantee that his policies will lower grocery prices.

He said the complete opposite on the campaign trail.

Yet another lie from Trump. House Democrats, meanwhile, will continue to work to lower your costs.

For the next four years…

My God imagine if media had told anyone about this

@sanders.senate.gov calls out the absurdity of big money's role in politics.

Exactly

Trump didn’t rule out pardoning people who had pleaded guilty, even when Welker asked him about those who had admitted assaulting police officers. “Because they had no choice,” Trump said.

Trump said that rioters on January 6 had "no choice" but to assault police officers

If any Democrat in the country publicly justified the assault of a police officer it is all you would ever hear about for years

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

People not elected to government should not have the power to reshape the government, especially people whose obscene wealth depends on the government functioning a certain way.

This is not a hot take.

It's just plain common sense.

Brill