Federal minimum wage: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 Wealth of 400 richest Americans: 2009: $1,270,000,000,000 2020: $3,200,000,000,000

Lions celebrate Gurley's accidental TD for the Falcons, peak 2020

Biden will probably win Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, but the TV trained us to believe politics are a TV show and the TV President was in the lead when the show signed off. Politics as spectacle will be our undoing if we don’t reject it in totality.

It would be nice if all the pundits who were so handsomely paid to tell us why Trump's incompetence and divisiveness would doom him could now go do some actual reporting among young progressives to understand why they were wrong.

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"Racial and gender homogeneity is endemic to journalism in the U.S, which also extends to those covering and critiquing journalism. “ objectivejournalism.org/p/whitenewsroo…

What's in Pfizer's covid-19 vaccine anyway? ( spoiler: no microchip or luciferase ) technologyreview.com/2020/12/09/101…

ugh. here we go.

What’s the over/under on how many pardons Trump will crank out between today and when he’s finally removed from office?

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In response to Comcast data caps, Mass. state lawmakers have proposed a ban on data caps, new fees, and price increases on home-Internet services for the duration of the pandemic. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Leaked Israel/Pfizer paper says vaccine stops 89% of infections, not just illness. If vax pace keeps up, country would near theoretical herd immunity threshold next month. technologyreview.com/2021/02/19/101…

This beautifully demonstrates what a crock of shit AI hiring is web.br.de/interaktiv/ki-…

Correlation between vaccination coverage and COVID hospitalizations per million over time, by state

Aaron Rodgers didn’t just lie he also damaged professional sports kareem.substack.com/p/aaron-rodger…

Once again, I hear the roar of leaf blowers. Spring has officially arrived in Massachusetts!

Trumpists Admit That Their Own Social Media Platforms Aren't Much Fun When They Can't Use Them To Own The Libs techdirt.com/2022/03/28/tru… via techdirt

195 Republicans just voted against contraception access. This after GOP voted near unanimously to ban women from traveling for repro health access, against a bill to ban Nazis, against a gas price gouging, against raising the living wage, & against lowering the cost of insulin.