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Colleague: You ready for performance review season?
Me:
Pope Leo: “We live in a performance-driven culture that constantly compares and ranks people, sometimes ruthlessly” and a “misguided understanding of meritocracy ultimately fails to respect people.” vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/…
Giving Idaho an 8.5/10 in "medical freedom" is the most laughable thing I've ever heard. Freedom to die in childbirth, I guess.
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What's better than Anthropic commiting 5% of its shares to a privately controlled ‘public benefit’ fund?
The US taxing 50% of their shares to create a democratically controlled sovereign wealth fund. ft.com/content/3beab58d-4269…
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JUST IN: United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby calls for a national wealth tax & inheritance taxes “close to 100%” for the ultra-wealthy.
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Regardless of MD being a two-party consent state, he's a congressman. At a public forum. He has no expectation of privacy. And there are many people recording him. He's singling out one.
That's not how any of this works.
well this is beautiful
Intelligence must draw on memory. The mind must not simply compile data — as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can — but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize, and connect more deeply with the goodness of these experiences. Everything that is good begins “with the Spirit” and thus possesses a breath, a dynamism and a sense of communion that, once experienced, are engraved upon the heart. vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
I hope she throws the fucking book at U.S. Attorney's Office
A federal judge is scheduled to hear arguments today in the “Broadview Six” case that has put a national spotlight on Chicago’s U.S. attorney’s office.
Will she order further inquiry into allegations of vindictive prosecution and grand jury misconduct?
chicagotribune.com/2026/10/0…
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“The Situation Room connected the call. Biden jumped in. “Bibi, man, what the fuck are you doing?” He gripped the phone tight. “You think I’m Santa Claus? No Santa in Israel, pal.” theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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Two-thirds of real income growth in NYC has gone to the top 1% since 2019.
In @NYDailyNews, Noa Rosinplotz shows why policymakers shouldn’t fear taxing the rich.
“Instead, they should focus on raising the tax revenue we need to invest in affordability for everyone else.”
nydailynews.com/2026/09/27/n…
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Come on, Keener Management. The Park Monroe has history, character, working families & generations of newcomers making their first home in DC.
What it does not have is a fucking waterfront.
Somewhere in Boise, a 20-something just put down a deposit on this.
Welcome 2 DC Kid
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When people can wager on whether major banks will fail, prediction markets start looking less like information tools and more like a new source of financial risk. 👇
Perhaps we are allowing betting on too many things? bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.
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The procession and rally — organized by The Dorothea Project — come at a "difficult and frightening moment for immigrant communities in the United States," said Anna Marie Gallagher, CLINIC executive director.
ewtnnews.com/world/us/doroth…
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Liberia, an African country roughly the size of Tennessee and home to more than 5 million people, is now hosting deportees from nations like Brazil, Colombia, Honduras and Venezuela who were expelled from the U.S.
CBS News' @camiloreports went there to understand how they ended up thousands of miles away from the U.S. and their homelands.
Maybe not devastating an entire generation of unionized ATCs by firing them would have set us up better for this moment...
.@FAA_Bryan on difficulties staffing ATC in New York: "That is these most difficult place in the national aviation system to staff. I'm not sure why... I can't make people go work in New York." (Bedford has not yet been to New York ATC)
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I wrote about this today: We can be critical of the doom talk (and there's reason to be!) while at the same time taking seriously that democracy should be in the driver's seat on risk, existential and otherwise. 2/
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