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How valuable are family connections? New working paper finds that working for a parent’s employer increases initial earnings by 24%, primarily by providing access to higher-paying firms.
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U.S.-born man held for ICE under Florida's new anti-immigration law • Florida Phoenix Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen, was being held in the Leon County Jail Thursday, charged with illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien” — even as a supporter waved his...

A Florida county is detaining and refusing to release a U.S. citizen born in the U.S., after ICE asked the county to detain him: floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/17/u...

Love the matchboxes! 🖤🖤🖤

Is there some reason that Bluesky is duplicating the Twitter issue where you see there are a number of comments but then you click and see zero? Like if I can’t see it I don’t need to know about it or just make it display differently so I don’t waste my time clicking on it. So annoying.

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.

mixing things up by throwing up on the rug in front of my cat

The US island that speaks Elizabethan English English recently became the US's official language. But on a tiny island, residents still speak the country's most English version of English, and many Americans don't understand it.

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don’t say you love her say you would love to make her dinosaur nuggets and watch her play with them before biting their heads off girls love it when you watch them bite dinosaur heads off

What a different world we could have.

the shit the trump admin is doing now is built on shit the biden admin and democratic politicians were doing in 2023-2025. the legislation they passed falsely conflating opposition to genocide as support for terrorism. the surveillance and police violence.

Horrifying.

Unqualified Hegseth and his unqualified new hires have the PRIVILEGE of being "Employed While Unqualified" #EWU

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Even Luigi’s feet are doing numbers

I felt like this about humidity for touch screens years ago though they seem significantly better now. Though I also no longer live in a humid environment.

She is adorable!

Our Costco has been like this for several weeks now. Though other places in town have eggs still.

i thought he had a weird obsession talking about how wind turbines kill birds thinking it was anti-green energy but it appears he's actually just pro-bird and wants to get rid of planes as he found out they kill way more birds

A tiny handwritten sign at the Tesla dealership as a big crowd protests Musk reads “We hate him too” yup 👍

Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window

teen sex comedy about a computer nerd who is trying to lose his virginity before graduation but also needs to shut down the federal government

NEW: A Harris campaign organizer says senior officials ordered them to erase voters who asked about Gaza—marking emails as “no response” so they’d be removed from outreach. No engagement, no persuasion, just ignored. “The only clowns are the ones who decided to abdicate on this.”

Federal agencies and departments generally don't keep big balances in their bank accounts.

The whole system relies on quarterly or even monthly transfers of budgeted funds from Treasury.

You choke off the money flow to an agency, things start failing much more quickly than you might expect.

This is the program that helps people not get run over and killed by a car, which kills 40,000 Americans each year.

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Axolotls are cool and get adorable songs.

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Tree frog in Costa Rica

Here is a frog from my trip to Costa Rica!

525-Lb. Bear Discovered Under Evacuated Altadena Home Too Fat to Tranquilize: 'Not an Option' An Altadena, Calif., man was shocked to discover he couldn't return to his home — which he evacuated due to the Eaton fire — because a 525-lb. bear had nested in the crawl space under his house. It to...

Everyone in LA is sharing this story on insta, and I just want to make sure non-Angelenos know about this bear that crawled under a house during the fires. He had to be lured out with rotisserie chickens. Read it. You deserve a little treat.

Sucks when people take your stuff and use it to make their stuff and don’t pay for it, eh?

Out in the country is definitely scary! My dad’s place was out in the country growing up and occasionally people would just roll through and it always made me nervous since we rarely locked our doors. It stopped in later years probably due to GPS and less folks getting lost.

I had this too. People were trying to bust my door down at 3am (presumably drunk thinking they were at their own apartment as it was the night before thanksgiving). Called the police in San Diego and they never showed.

Shitposting is a real skill, a bit like chess, but without the dice