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3.92
Now look at 0.97 where historical data implies a 10% return
Now look at 1.75, the highest level ever followed by 10% - only because that 12-year period ended at the Q1 2020 peak
Now notice that matching the largest outlier in history would still get you to only 5.5%😬
We take you behind the scenes of the reporting that exposed how Russell Vought quietly rewrote the playbook for the federal government.
Join our virtual discussion on Wednesday, Nov. 5, at 4 p.m. ET and submit a question:
through the sheer force of experiment, community, rules/norms, citation, & human ingenuity, wikipedia developed into perhaps the greatest of the internet's products.
musk's imitation is lazy & propagandistic. sadly, tho, anyone who cares about democracy & our info ecosystem must take it seriously.
#trump This is fucking lunacy.
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National Guard members are speaking out against the Trump administration’s attempt to deploy troops to Chicago. Thank you! 💚
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KONSYSE: Trump described the test as very hard and explained further that early questions were simple prompts involving animals like tiger, elephant, and giraffe. He insisted that difficulty increased sharply as he advanced.
29.10.2025 15:30 — 👍 23 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
When anti-Semites claim to be fighting anti-Semitism they trivialize a very real problem and thereby deliberately make it worse. Attacking universities was always about spreading anti-Semitism, not combatting it.
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Updating my LEGO White House
23.10.2025 02:51 — 👍 47352 🔁 11118 💬 784 📌 438Health insurance costs jumped for workers & employers in 2025.
This will get worse if the GOP refuses to extend ACA subsidies.
Meanwhile, the seven largest health insurance companies made a combined $71B in profits in 2024.
Still not sure we need Medicare for All?
Podcast cover for Episode #12 of "Future Knowledge" titled "Wayback Machine at 1 Trillion." The design features the portrait of guest Mark Graham. Surrounding the portrait are collage-style retro-futuristic elements, including a classical statue head, a vintage computer with the word "NEW" on its screen, a modernist observation tower, and abstract architectural shapes. The title uses bold, blocky typography, giving the cover a vintage sci-fi aesthetic.
1 trillion web pages preserved. An audacious goal now reality.
Hear Mark Graham of the #WaybackMachine on how the #InternetArchive reached this milestone on the Future Knowledge #podcast.
🎧 Listen ⤵️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/way...
#Wayback1T
"There are now more private equity firms in America than there are McDonalds."
A great explainer about why 99% of us feel crushed by inflation and crashing job markets while the on-paper economy and stock markets continue to grow.
youtu.be/T2OHjHPkUzM?...
Having built a system that is destructive of the environment that surrounds and sustains us, we are now proposing to change … the environment!
Driving us towards this technological fix is the damage inflicted by existing technology.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
A man stands in front of the wreckage of a building. A headline reads: "FEMA Cuts Disaster Aid, Leaving States Fending For Themselves" Photo by Loren Elliott for The New York Times
President Trump has said he wants to eventually shift the burden of disaster relief and recovery from the federal government to the states in all but the largest catastrophes. For many places, that’s already happening. nyti.ms/47eLpsk
17.10.2025 19:26 — 👍 168 🔁 80 💬 55 📌 9The amount of cope by right-wingers in response to the turnout for #NoKingsDay has been delightful to see 😁😁😁
18.10.2025 18:24 — 👍 3031 🔁 281 💬 7 📌 0Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress nearly a month ago, but Mike Johnson still hasn't sworn her in. Why the delay? Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.
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boy with a trump hit on my girlfriend sign
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50+: Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130: Agents also can arrest U.S. citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20: Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.”
For these Americans, that wasn’t true: https://propub.li/47aawMD
Efforts to disband unregistered churches in China have repeatedly backfired: rather than bringing them under control of the Communist Party, they have pushed them online. But the crackdown continues econ.st/4ncrgJh
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NEW: From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russ Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term.
Vought has consolidated power to an extent that insiders say they feel like “he is the commander in chief.”
@andykroll.bsky.social w/ @newyorker.com
I dug a bit into the double standard JD Vance has, in which MAGA supporters can say anything they want, no matter how offensive and no matter how old they are, and it's just "kids being kids." But if an actual kids says something negative about Charlie Kirk, they deserve to be punished.
16.10.2025 20:11 — 👍 325 🔁 86 💬 9 📌 3
Looks like the Pope may be about to break up the far-right, abusive, creepy cult of Opus Dei. After they sent him birthday cards and everything!
Opus Dei will still exist - if Leo goes through with the reforms - but in three different pieces, so far weaker.
Did not see this one coming. 👏🙏🔋
“Enforcing laws is keeping the promises you gave,” EU's former competition chief Margrethe Vestager said at a conference in Brussels this week. Tech Policy Press is publishing an "Ideas for Europe’s Future" series to explore how Europe can act decisively.
17.10.2025 09:02 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."
The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
The men who run Big Tech have always wanted to “enshittify” their services—to shift as much as they can from users, workers, suppliers, and business customers to themselves, EFF’s @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy writes in Communications of the ACM. Unions are an antidote. cacm.acm.org/opinion/tec...
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This is a chilling reminder that RFK Jr. is destroying our public health systems, threatening American lives, and undermining medical research.
These Surgeons General are right: this is bigger than politics.
For the health and safety of all Americans, RFK Jr. must resign.
