The older I get, the more viscerally I dislike the sound of leaf blowers 😐

People leaders: Tell somebody they did good. Give out a kudos or two. It's so easy to get caught up on the "not enough" "more! more! faster! faster!" and not acknowledge what's going right.

without section 230, you could have a world where bluesky is liable for me calling this man a clueless, tech illiterate, fascist enabling motherfucker

Yes, my economic plan will cause short term pain. But after that you won't feel the pain anymore because you'll be dead

As an offshoot of this thread, let’s talk about what happens if federal, state, or local officials text, email, call, or show up at your door wanting to talk to you about what you said about the President.

I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH.

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Goya Foods CEO, Bob Unanue, Announces Next Chapter /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Robert "Bob" Unanue, with over 20 years as President & CEO of Goya Foods, is releasing a statement about his status with the...

You really have no idea where this corporate press release will end up, I encourage you to read the whole thing www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

And a lot of racist folks
aren't smart enough to understand that DEI means finding talent wherever it is. Which means that DEI means you hire more cis white men too. 🙂🙃

But they're different cis white men.

If you're really smart, but white and poor? You often wind up in the military. 🤷🏿‍♂️

I mean if you've been incentivised to help reduce the standing of the nation's soft power then it's a pretty logical move.

Do you need to filter based on criteria from the JSONB field? What's the growth pattern for the data?

It CAN work but there are definitely issues at scale.

These are the stakes

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

It all makes logical sense if those in charge with have multiple strong (foreign) incentives to weaken the institutions supporting the status quo. The network state gives them another avenue to benefit from the downfall.

Unless they make sufficient progress with the network state idea that @davetroy.com has been reporting on.

Clever

On our Instagram page, a commenter tells us their conversion story from being “school choice” voucher advocate — once they realized what (and who) was really behind it all 👇🏽

#LeesVoucherScam

Memos posted publicly to government websites claiming to be from the acting directors of OPM and OMB have metadata showing that the original authors are affiliated with Project 2025.

I'm assuming the framing is an attempt to give credit to the outgoing administration ("see! We did stuff!") and soft on the current party in power so they don't see it as a confrontation ("maybe if I'm nice they'll be willing to negotiate with me and act in good faith").

Teachers and schools need to know that we are not required to give up our kids. We do not have to open our doors to ICE or the police. Morally, obviously, but also legally. We are our students' legal guardians when they are in our care and we should be making the right call for students' safety.

What the fuck is this? AI qualifying as a prescriber?

Costco shareholders vote against anti-DEI proposal More than 98% of Costco shareholders voted down an anti-DEI proposal Thursday at the company's annual shareholders meeting.

"our commitment to an enterprise rooted in respect and inclusion is appropriate and necessary."

"creativity and innovation in the merchandise and services that we offer,"

- Costco Board.

98% of Costco shareholders agreed with the board.👍🏿

Segregationists denied.