"Bill Maher’s comments tap into a growing frustration among veteran creatives who feel sidelined... If someone with Rob Reiner’s track record can’t get a project off the ground, it raises uncomfortable questions about who the system is really built to serve." #ageism www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
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some big and small ways that "ordinary" Americans are fighting back against ICE.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Why the ageist lead-in? Plenty of old people exercise every day, plenty of young ones are couch potatoes etc etc
Science Fact of the Day: At more than five thousand degrees Celsius, the Earth’s core is roughly as hot as the surface of the sun. Source: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
"“This verdict is a resounding message to corporations nationwide: age discrimination is illegal, it is harmful, and juries will hold employers accountable." www.einnews.com/pr_news/8735...
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Wonder what native families learned from their elders? #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUd1...
image of three hands belonging to people of different ages pointing at each other. generated by chatGPT
Sick of hearing the boomers ruined everything? Or think the boomers *did* ruin everything? Here's a better way to think about who actually benefits from the generational blame game. Hint: it's about class, not age.
thischairrocks.com/2025/11/19/t...
A young girl whose face is covered with clear plastic strips looks apprehensively at the photographer.
A skincare line for CHILDREN? Shame on @shaymitchell3.bsky.social for feeding and profiting off children's fears.
Thank you!
"I like being done with figuring my life out—with figuring out where I should live, what I should focus on, what sort of people I like, how I like to spend my days. I know what’s important to me." novelist Gish Gen on @oldstermag.bsky.social substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Both the 1% and the 99% are made up of all ages. The story we need to tell isn’t about boomers vs. millennials. It’s about the rich and powerful vs. the rest of us. yoisthisageist.com
"#Ageism, especially against #women, discriminates against us in every area. But I'm shocked by the act of hiding one's age. I've spent the last few years championing maturity, and it pisses me off to see age become another kind of closet." 🙌 @annamanso.bsky.social en.ara.cat/sunday/for-w...
Reader asks, "This article in Greater Good magazine asks, not very grammatically, Are Older People Dating Younger Ageist—or Just Practical? What do you think?
My answer here: yoisthisageist.com/post/7990344...
A reminder that @aarp.org "is in fact functioning as a multimillion-dollar marketing arm for an insurer [UnitedHealthcare] whose business model increasingly depends on enrolling seniors in private Medicare plans." healthcareuncovered.substack.com/p/unitedheal...
What could possibly go wrong? 🥶https://palisaderesearch.org/blog/shutdown-resistance
“Why would [gendered #ageism] be showing up in billions of words where there’s no visual presentation of people? That is really suggesting it’s woven into the fabric of how we categorize and interpret people in the social world.”
news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
How a new generation of GOP activists talk when they think no one is listening 😨www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-...
What would a world without ageism look like? Here's an answer from Jeanette Leardi
@jeanetteleardi.bsky.social
Happy #Ageism Awareness Day!
Watch this two-minute animation. Take a deep breath. Choose an ageist thought or behavior to challenge—gently—today and going forward.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs28...
Go Catalonia! #ageism www.catalannews.com/society-scie...
"Much like the resource curse entrenches autocracy in oil-rich countries like Saudi Arabia, a US economy that no longer needs as many people to generate wealth will have much less incentive to take care of their needs." @jasmine.bsky.social conducts some internet anthropology jasmi.news/p/dictionary
This @ilcuk.bsky.social report highlights that older people are more likely to benefit from talk therapy than younger patients. Surprised? Ask yourself why.
www.msn.com/en-ca/health...
As Trump's numbers fall, the ageist rhetoric is predictably ramping up. A reminder: #aging didn't turn Trump into a bully and tyrant. He was *always* a bully and tyrant.