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Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%

If one ever wonders why there could be two completely different experiences and viewpoints on the health of the economy. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

@anthonyjeselnik.bsky.social may be the most unlikely literary tastemaker in America today. I read all of his recs and have never been let down.

@realtimers.bsky.social I wish Bill would stop asking rich people how they feel about taxes.

The Best of the Rest: A Game to Rank Your Favorite 21st-Century Genre Movies A collaborative, live-updating reader exercise.

@nytimes You cant rank Tom Hanks movies and not inclide Saving Private Ryan and Philadelphia. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Ugly Kid Joe versus the Volcano

@therickwilson.bsky.social Where can Walmart afford to cut? Are you serious?

25 of the Best Opening Lyrics in Music - That Eric Alper The first line in a song is the invitation. It sets the tone, turns the page, hits the nerve. From folk prophets to punk poets, glam rebels to soul survivors, these 25 opening lyrics became more than ...

Sam Cooke. www.thatericalper.com/2025/04/10/2...

@ronaldchernow.bsky.social Calling Ron Chernow to put this moment in historical context. #whcd

@governorwalz.mn.gov There is one answer. It is the long term effects of trickle down economics.

The Scottish Arms is reopening in the Central West End The concept will be revived under new ownership

Some good news. www.saucemagazine.com/places/the-s...

I would have given it to Chalamet.

Credit to @gavinesq.bsky.social

Accurate

According to Goodreads, I have quite the reading list now.

On this day in 1993, The Cranberries released their debut studio album “Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?” featuring singles "Dreams" and "Linger"

RIP Dolores

@gavinesq.bsky.social As I stated previously on Facebook.

Start immediately! Have you surfed Nazare yet?!

@benstiller.redhour.com Severance is incredible. I was yelling at the TV: “It’s not you. It’s the other you.”

Missouri lawmakers raise concerns about long waits in jail for court-ordered mental health care • Missouri Independent Leaders of Missouri’s public defender system urged lawmakers to take action on the number of people in jails in need of mental health care.

As of last month, 418 people were in Missouri jails waiting to be transferred to a state mental health bed, up from around 300 at this time last year.

The average wait time was 14 months, with some held longer than the maximum sentence for the crime for which they were charged. #moleg #mogov

You can always tell when you’re listening to an AI voice. I clicked on some story about Jack Black and the voice told me that Jack’s life was full of U-P-S and downs.

Caught @steveewingstl.bsky.social and Keith Brake promoting Four Years of Flavor on City Corner! Can’t wait to buy a copy. Steve has been blowing us all away with his musicianship & entrepreneurship for years.

New Led Zeppelin documentary is really great, but it’s a cliff hanger. It ends after Led Zeppelin II. Call me crazy, but I think they could make a whole second film.

IMAX here I come.

‘Saturday Night Live’ turns 50: Here’s how Toronto played a huge role in shaping the comedy juggernaut In the '70s, Lorne Michaels, the show's creator, looked to "Godspell" and the Second City to help cast his NBC show.

Northern exposure. www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

This can’t be real. The easiest way AI can end us without having a standing AI army is gaining control of the nukes.

YouTube video by SNL Fanatic Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music | Official Preview

@questlove is a mashup God. youtu.be/vDxYQd51Xuk

The front of a bronze Robert Burns Centenary commemorative medal, which features a portrait of the poet.

The reverse of a Robert Burns Centenary commemorative medal featuring his personal seal, with two of his mottoes, one of which is "Better a wee bush than nae bield [shelter]", which pays homage to Burns' agricultural background.

Tonight is Burns Night, the anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, the national poet of Scotland. This medal, made in 1859, commemorates a hundred years since his birth on January 25, 1759.

🪙 Robert Burns Centenary commemorative medal, 1859. bronze or copper alloy, 4.5 cm

The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure A report shows that a $50 trillion redistribution of income to benefit the richest has made America less healthy, resilient, and secure

"[H]ad the more equitable income distributions of the three decades following World War II (1945 through 1974) merely held steady, the aggregate annual income of Americans earning below the 90th percentile would have been $2.5 trillion higher in the year 2018 alone."

Wow.

The Foundry is a great spot for multiple choices! It’s on Forest Park Parkway near SLU.