Black excellence: Twice as qualified, half as respected, and still passed over or labeled as a βDEI hire.β
Black folks have always known this because weβve seen it happen to our own family members. I know I have.
Ann Telnaes hits it out of the park:
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100%
My wife vetoed setting our home to gruvbox (but she also said she'd tolerate solarized!) π
Own the libs...
100%β¦β¦Was part of Y2K remediation as well at a very large asset manager
Fun quiz for an inveterate Economist reader!
I scored 71 out of 100 points on @TheEconomist Xmas news quiz!
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Can you do better? Economist.com/XmasQuiz24
Look either the entire US economy turned around sometime in the month of November, or the economy really was great and weβve just been mainlining media doomerism all along
i recall a time when using a private email server was the single greatest scandal in american history. i guess todayβs itβs just tuesday www.politico.com/news/2024/12...
Instead of Canada becoming the 51st state, the US should consider becoming an 11th province.
Americans would get universal healthcare, parental leave, sensible gun control and fries smothered in cheese curds and gravy.
California, a state of nearly 40,000,000 people, has the same amount of representation in the United States Senate as Wyoming, a state of less than 600,000 people.
This is the direct result of a deal struck between slave states and free states in the 1700s.
Itβs time for that to change.
So when mass shootings of average people and school children occurs, it's all "there's nothing we can do, these things just happen" but when a CEO gets shot, we need a special hotline, new safety protocols, and to lock up housewives over frustrated phone conversations.
Got it.
ABCβs settlement with Trump feels like it could be an inflection point in the Orbanization of our politics.
I hope it isnβt.
Fold. Your. Arms.
ABC (Disney), Washington Post (Bezos), Meta (Zuckerberg), LA Times (Soon-Shiong)... all bending the knee to Trump, all obeying in advance, all sucking up to the Dictator-in-Waiting.
This is (part of) how democracies die. This is the Orban, Putin, Netanyahu and Modi playbooks.
Exclusive: Trump transition recommends scrapping car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Tesla
It begins
www.reuters.com/business/aut...
Donald Trump has now admitted that he cannot guarantee that his policies will lower grocery prices.
He said the complete opposite on the campaign trail.
Yet another lie from Trump. House Democrats, meanwhile, will continue to work to lower your costs.
For the next four yearsβ¦
My God imagine if media had told anyone about this
@sanders.senate.gov calls out the absurdity of big money's role in politics.
Exactly
Trump didnβt rule out pardoning people who had pleaded guilty, even when Welker asked him about those who had admitted assaulting police officers. βBecause they had no choice,β Trump said.
Trump said that rioters on January 6 had "no choice" but to assault police officers
If any Democrat in the country publicly justified the assault of a police officer it is all you would ever hear about for years
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
People not elected to government should not have the power to reshape the government, especially people whose obscene wealth depends on the government functioning a certain way.
This is not a hot take.
It's just plain common sense.
Brill