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The rise in 20-24 unemployment is a recession marker.

fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1NTYa
November 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Employment Level - 20-24 Yrs. (LNS12000036) was at an all-time high March 2023. Decline over recent months is not enough to make a trend but should watch.

#Econsky

fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12...
November 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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The rise in 20-24 unemployment is a recession marker.

fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1NTYa
November 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
SNAP & nonSNAP food spending was mostly similar in 2011. Some differences in the chart.

Top 7 as % total spending for both (in different orders)

Soft drinks
Fluid milk products
Beef:grinds
Bag snacks
Cheese
Baked breads
Cold cereal
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
No one here should be encouraging bias.

Except for fact-based or science bias.

Not political bias.

Left bias doesn’t counter Right bias. It just leads to further, unnecessary division.
November 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
@steveinskeep.bsky.social

Keep up the good work. I appreciate the many years of unbiased, fact-based journalism.

Please don’t let Bluesky radicals affect you. I’d rather you mute all of us & continue to do your best than to have them influence you to show bias.

Thank you & all of @npr.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:39 AM
It is quite OK to say Obamacare for ACA.
November 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
People often make decisions based on 51% good to say “yes” & 49% bad to say “no,” from their perspective, while from another perspective it is also true to be 100% bad to say “yes.”

Because it isn’t usually simple nor just about your perspective.

Stop being a herd animal, we have big brains.
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM
November 12, 2025 at 1:47 AM
5 mins of improv music by this duo. Don’t worry, be happy’s Bobby McFerrin & Jacob Collier. Joyous!

#AGoodPlace

youtu.be/Hnr1G5WIif8?...
Bobby McFerrin x Jacob Collier Impromptu Soundcheck Performance 10.27.25 Davies Symphony Hall SF
YouTube video by Ground-Contro1
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 1:47 AM
96% of Senate members vote >85% party lines.

85% of Senate members vote >90% party lines.

78% of Senate members vote >92% party lines.

53% of Senate members vote >95% party lines.

progressivepunch.org/scores.htm
November 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
95% of House members vote >85% party lines.

85% of House members vote >90% party lines.

73% of House members vote >92% party lines.

56% of House members vote >95% party lines.

progressivepunch.org/scores.htm
ProgressivePunch: House Members by score / All issues
ProgressivePunch is a searchable database of Congressional voting records, from a Progressive perspective.
progressivepunch.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Why do people believe it is “good business” to lie to others to make others act in the liar’s interest?

I feel this is rampant.

This isn’t the way society should behave.

How do we stop it?

#Regulations

Regulations are the standardized rules of the game & impartial referees.
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Are we the only rational thinkers? New research on our primate cousins suggests otherwise
Chimps Can Rethink Their Beliefs—Just Like Humans
Are we the only rational thinkers? New research on our primate cousins suggests otherwise
www.scientificamerican.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
How many times can a man turn his head
& pretend that he just doesn't see?

How many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind

Bob Dylan 1962

#MusicSky

youtu.be/MMFj8uDubsE?...
Bob Dylan - Blowin' in the Wind (Official Audio)
YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO
youtu.be
October 30, 2025 at 9:59 AM
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

C.S. Lewis

#AGoodPlace
October 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Value Added by Industry

(Growing services, health, education, insurance.
Shrinking old-fashioned labor jobs)

This represents sum of costs-incurred & incomes-earned in production = employee compensation, tax on production & imports, less subsidies & gross operating surplus.

#Econsky
October 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Don’t Let Me Down

The Beatles

#MusicSky

youtu.be/NCtzkaL2t_Y?...
The Beatles - Don't Let Me Down
YouTube video by TheBeatlesVEVO
youtu.be
October 27, 2025 at 10:36 AM
"The expert at anything was once a beginner."

Helen Hayes

#AGoodPlace
October 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
"It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up."

Vince Lombardi

#AGoodPlace
October 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything."

John Wooden

#AGoodPlace
October 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

Theodore Roosevelt

#AGoodPlace
October 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will"

Suzy Kassem

#AGoodPlace
October 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you"

Walt Whitman

#AGoodPlace
October 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM