I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
If we followed gospel teaching, “pro-family” wouldn’t be short for anti-women and anti-LGBTQ policies, writes Adam Russell Taylor.
"At Christmas we celebrate the birth of a heavenly king — and yet so many Christians mistakenly idolize an earthly one," writes Adam Russell Taylor for this week's SojoMail.
The differences in U.S. life expectancy are so large it's as if the population lives in separate Americas instead of one.
A new study shows a widening gulf in longevity within the U.S. based on geography, race, and income.
Read the full report ➡️ on.cfr.org/3BF1Diy
The chaos monkeys are already running the zoo.
Are you struggling with sorting through the firehoses of mis- and dis-information we're drowning in on the daily? These tips, from @everylibrary.bsky.social, can help: action.everylibrary.org/questions_an...
Getting students to reflect on and pinpoint what they learned, one professor writes, can provide a “ray of sunshine” at the end of the semester. chroni.cl/41zGZLj
We literally just had three years of nonstop economic recovery & job growth & inflation basically stopped in 2023, but sure, now that Trump is elected, the coverage is about how the economy is good and stable 🤷♂️
Small-town America voted heavily in Donald Trump’s favor—but several core second-term policies that Trump and the Republican Congress have championed could disproportionately harm those places, Ronald Brownstein writes. theatln.tc/rCwjYZdq
I don't think I'll ever get over the anti immigrant crowd cheering for the guy from South africa who came here illegally, made a fortune through government subsidies then bought an election so he could take away their benefits. @smalls2672
Latest Substack is up. I was wondering whether it would be hard to find enough to write about; in fact there's so much crazy stuff that I can't keep up. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Republicans have used public concern about Social Security’s future solvency as a cynical excuse to demand cuts in benefits.
But Social Security could easily pay everything it will owe to everyone for the next 75 years if the cap on income subject to SS taxes were eliminated.
Let me explain.
Elon Musk’s comment that Matt Gaetz was the “Judge Dredd America needs” is part of an alarming pattern, writes Adam Serwer:
11.22.63. Loved that book!
