Matt

… so what did he do this year?

Quit Amazon and all of their affiliates now! They have already started replacing workers with robots. Their goal is to replace half a million workers with robots. Their reason? Humans are inefficient and cutting into their bottom line. But they need humans to buy their products so stop buying them!

Trump administration seeks to halt SNAP food aid payments after a court order The Trump administration has asked a federal appeals court to block a judge’s order to distribute November’s full SNAP benefits during a U.S. government shutdown. U.S.

The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments during the government shutdown.

We should have updated jobs numbers today.

But Trump’s government shutdown is leaving us in the dark about our economy.

And he won’t release the already prepared jobs numbers from September.

Trump needs to release this critical data NOW.

The ballroom stuff cuts through to all the disengaged people who don’t follow politics. It’s very visual and meme-driven and hideous and genuinely shocking. Trump can’t help talking about it all the time, even as planes are grounded and children grow hungry.

It's the first Friday of the month, which means we've gone 2 months now without a jobs report. For Trump, this is a feature of the shutdown, not a bug, since private surveys show the job market slowing dramatically. But without official data he's able to keep lying about it.

Good

I hope headline writers start writing for educated readers

While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.

How do you know what the public wants, the data measured sentiment about GOP messaging, which is one of many.

On the set of the first Agatha Christie show where mysteries are solved with the internet The first contemporary Agatha Christie English-speaking TV series is being shot in the U.K. Over a hundred years since they first appeared in a Christie novel, Tommy and Tuppence have been modernized.

The first contemporary Agatha Christie English-speaking TV series is being shot in the U.K. Over a hundred years since they first appeared in a Christie novel, Tommy and Tuppence have been modernized.

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Mary Sheffield will not only become the 1st woman mayor of Detroit, she is now the youngest Black woman in U.S. History to be elected to a major city.

Study compares heart risks of COVID-19 infection and vaccination, and the results may surprise you The risk of children developing rare but serious heart complications is higher after a COVID-19 infection than after vaccination, according to a new study.

Buried in the article:
“Over a period of six months, researchers estimate that COVID-19 infections led to 2.24 extra cases of myocarditis or pericarditis per 100,000 children, while vaccinations led to 0.85 extra cases per 100,000.”

The scare tactic of the headline is what’s wrong with media today

New Headline:

Talking points plus new office may be more actionable than CEO expected. A win for all.

CNN poll: Registered voters

Extremely motivated to vote in 2026:

Dem-aligned voters: 67%
GOP-aligned voters: 46%

Our many problems cannot be solved until we approach them as an integral part of the totality of existence. —Krishnamurti

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

I have said it before, and I will say it again: we desperately need a greater emphasis on philosophy and the humanities as a whole in modern education if we are serious about addressing the real problems of the 21st century—from authoritarianism and disinformation to human-caused climate change.

I think it is truly understated how important it is to understand that learning to love oneself and their body requires the ability to continue learning to love it. Like, you cannot learn to love one version of yourself and your body and think you're good to go.

Donations are still needed in the aftermath of #TyphoonHalong
Recovery and relocation services will be slow. We will be integrating nearly 2000 new residents into schools & housing while we already suffer from teacher & housing shortages.

#USDemocracy

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Admittedly I stayed home. The week was tiring in a positive way. Heartening to hear of attendance. I can’t wrap my head around 7 million individuals. I hope everyone enjoyed their day.

My Epstein investigation started with Leon Black’s payments to Epstein. We found that Black paid Epstein $170 million for mediocre “tax advice”. There are other powerful figures who helped fund Epstein’s trafficking ring, and I’ll keep following the money until they’re exposed.

In any other presidency, from Truman to Biden, the family monetization of the office & the use of immediate family members as a substitute for senior diplomats would have immediately ended it all. But here we are, with this One Special Boy, & we just stopped being a serious country. It’s maddening.

You’re not wrong. The rally today reinforces morale for some.

My focus is on the first idea, health. Ive looked into the odds from symptoms and I can only stand it in between periods of trying to love.

Study after study shows that it's remarkably cheap and easy to solve the problems of homelessness and poverty with low-barrier supportive housing and universal basic income, but our own fear that someone, somewhere will get something they didn't "earn" keeps us looking for other (punitive) options.

A secret— when someone shows you what it means to be unconditionally loved, your life is always one decent response from embodying the truth, which is love, and which words have no business for justly describing another’s pure heart.