22 months in and this is what these accounts are posting

Labor force participation is near a 50-year low and trending downwards even before AI and robots kick into high gear.

Brutal honesty from two Florida cities about Amendment 3: Palm Coast projects a $21.7M loss in 2028. It currently spends about $26.2M on police and fire combined. The projected loss equals roughly 83% of the entire police and fire budget. Melbourne projects roughly $15M in losses over FY2028-29, with police, fire, roads, parks and emergency services exposed. Nobody is saying police and fire automatically get cut. That’s the point. If you protect public safety, the cuts or replacement taxes and fees have to come from everything else. The legislature should have done the math first. Instead, Florida put the question on the ballot and asked 400+ cities to figure out the consequences. firstcoastobserver.com/news/…

Where are the DOGE checks and tariff refund checks and where is the cheap gas after stealing Venezuela oil and where is the reduction in national debt??? Hey but don’t be a panican!! Trump is now promising a $5,000 bribe only if you elect Republicans, which will cost $1.35 TRILLION tax dollars!!! The slop is so sloppy it’s beyond comprehension!!!

Reagan's TV guys used to say, don't listen to what the TV announcers are saying, just look at the visuals with the sound off. For anyone wondering why this is a close race.

The pope is calling your AI art shit in Latin

In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.

This is amazing. Only made more amazing by the fact that Zach Bryan served our country. Genocide is always wrong. 🇵🇸

They are not even crashing the dollar vs foreign currency - they are destroying the buying power of the dollar domestically at the direct expense of all except the large asset owners via inflation and it is diabolical.

No one’s going to thank you for working a job you hate. Life isn’t a moralistic TV show where the person suffering is rewarded for their virtue. In real life people hate you for being miserable.

This is complete BS. If members of the Palestinian diaspora in NYC were sending hundreds of millions directly to Hamas they would *literally* go to federal prison. They would 100% be held responsible for the actions of Hamas. But members of the Jewish diaspora in NYC can hold land auctions and fundraisers and run countless nonprofits to benefit every single aspect of the Israeli government and Israeli society as they commit a genocide and ethnically cleanse Gaza and the West Bank and we’re just all supposed to pretend like they bear no responsibility whatsoever for Israel’s actions? Gimme a break.

A single dude brought in some chestnut trees from Japan in the 1800s for decoration and now almost no American Chestnuts exist because those imported trees carried chestnut blight Zero sympathy for people sneaking in agricultural goods. Stay out of my country.

Why did anyone expect abundance, UBI or utopia. The introduction of computers didnt mean 5 days off b/c we could do a week's amount of work in 2 days, it meant 3 weeks of work in in one week for the same salary with all the productivity gain profit captured by business owners

American decline in a single sentence

“Meanwhile, the industries that have benefitted from his selective enforcement of the law — insurance, utilities and the gun lobby — have been among the biggest contributors to Uthmeier’s campaign and his political committee.”

thrilled to announce we have built the “trick old people into handing over their bank passwords machine” from the classic sci-fi horror novel “don’t build the trick old people into handing over their bank passwords machine”

Well, the world’s largest private donor to the IDF now owns all of these brands so that’s good for human rights and freedom of expression

Reporter: "Attorney General, on your Facebook page three days ago, you wrote, ‘What this young woman has been forced to endure is horrific and unacceptable. I'm holding her in my heart and in my prayers. To her and to all survivors, you're not alone. We stand with you.’ Why did you affirm her allegations as fact without doing your own fact-finding investigation? And to the governor, why did you appoint an official who made a public statement affirming those allegations as fact as someone who's supposed to be doing an investigation?” New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D): “I will answer that. I have every confidence in our Attorney General to do what she has always done. Look at the facts, examine the record, and draw the proper conclusions. That's exactly what's going to happen in this case. Attorney General, please.” New York Attorney General Letitia James: “I will not comment on a Facebook post.” Great question!

Grew up in Miami and was there for decades. The other day in an afluent neighborhood I saw a homeless guy sitting outside CVS with 2 toddlers offering car washes to try to get some cash. Never seen anything like that there. Been in Ft. Lauderdale for 2 years and in the last 3-6 months I have seen a large increase in homeless people everywhere. Everyone I encounter seems tired/on edge. Had an uber driver last week saying he can't get an apartment because his credit is cooked and his car got repo'd and is now renting a car from Uber (his second job after working at Publix) trying to provide for him and his daughter. He told me his goal is to work his way up to $5k saved. I am seeing more and more uber eats drivers delivering on E-bikes now. Looking at videos on social media, more and more people doing stuff like living in their car, in storage units, homeless. People can't afford to keep up with their bills and can't get a job. An entire generation (Gen-Z) is locked out of the labor market and can't get a job and completely giving up. Dating is completely cooked. People can't afford to be in relationships. Gen-Z is not drinking (can't afford $20-25 drinks). If you have a job and make what was considered a normal salary it is impossible to save any money and if you have any debt and/or provide for a family the math makes it impossible to survive. Seriously, this is the darkest I have ever seen society. It really seems like we are near a breaking point

Here is my problem with Florida’s Amendment 3…I don’t believe that I, as an Orange County resident, have no business meddling in another county’s source of tax revenue. DeSantis has been trying to circumvent local rule and decision making for 8 goddam years.