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Chart showing the drop in the share of 12th graders who say they want to get married reflects shifting views among girls. Boys are more likely than girls to say they want to get married someday (74% vs. 61%), but this wasn’t always the case. In 1993, a larger share of girls (83%) than boys (76%) said they wanted to get married. The share of boys saying this is virtually unchanged over the 30-year period. But the share among girls dropped by 22 percentage points.

12th grade girls are now less likely to say they want to get married someday
1993: 83%
2023: 61%
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Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Black Power Activist Known as H. Rap Brown, Dies at 82

"There is a role for every person in revolution if he is revolutionary."

—H. Rap Brown, later Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.

Chart: America is still building fewer homes than it was before 2008 Total housing units built per 100,000 people per year [The line never returns to the historical average pre-2008]

“The core of the problem is simple: Too much money chasing too few homes.

In 2025, America built fewer homes per 100,000 people than it did in 2005, 1995, 1985 or 1975. If you wanted to encapsulate the entire problem in a single chart, here it is:

Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege - The Economic Times Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...

“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”

People, she’s running for president. If obvious things aren’t obvious to you, make more autistic friends

Pattern recognition has to be my least favorite part of neurodivergence. "Oh, I see where this is going. Surely everyone else sees this too? Oh. Okay. Can't wait to sit here in silent horror while that car crash slowly happens."

Sign for a "Friend" ad defaced with graffiti reading "AI doesn't care if you live or die."

Sign for a "Friend" ad defaced with graffiti reading "talk to humans"

Sign for a "Friend" ad defaced with graffiti reading "Fuck this!"

Sign for a "Friend" ad defaced with graffiti reading "you don't have to accept this future."

Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.

Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.

@Cobratate X.com Let me make this loud and clear. If you're a straight man with a girlfriend in 2025, you're gay. 9:00 AM • 11/22/25

check. mate.

He has his eyes on all his company; he is tender towards the bashful, gentle towards the distant, and merciful towards the absurd; he can recollect to whom he is speaking; he guards against unseasonable allusions, or topics which may irritate; he is seldom prominent in conversation, and never wearisome. He makes light of favours while he does them, and seems to be receiving when he is conferring. He never speaks of himself except when compelled, never defends himself by a mere retort, he has no ears for slander or gossip, is scrupulous in imputing motives to those who interfere with him, and interprets everything for the best. He is never mean or little in his disputes, never takes unfair advantage, never mistakes personalities or sharp sayings for arguments, or insinuates evil which he dare not say out. From a long-sighted prudence, he observes the maxim of the ancient sage, that we should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:

"skibidi"

thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation

Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.

After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF

More than twice as many Republicans report getting news regularly from the Joe Rogan Experience podcast than from Tucker Carlson. Also more Republicans get news on JRE than on Newsmax, Daily Wire, or Breitbart

This is a goal of Project 2025

Get women back in the home

imagining "Big Balls Beatdown" in a middle-school social studies textbook

I think that one of the things going on here is that a lot of powerful media figures think the admin, Rufo, Bannon etc share the same kind of low-intensity racist views they do ("affirmative action has gone too far") and can't recognize them as the full-blown fascist fantasists they are

i will never not be amused by how the conservative world is governed by the kind of “affirmative action” they say happens in mainstream institutions. totally unqualified dipshits are handed the keys to institutions because they say the right thing and have the right look.

Reply: "Homophobic joke" derek guy @dieworkwear homophobic joke is a description of you

(Replying to guy about gay rights) "Even if they nullify your dad's marriage, he's not going to return to your mom."

Jesus @dieworkwear.bsky.social

John Waters. "Remember, pornographers have always been on our side. Brave, ready to fight for our rights. Smut is our friend."

as always

After losing his collision repair business in the recession of 2008, Andy took on various odd jobs, but still found himself $200 short of his monthly bills. To make ends meet, he resorted to an old hobby: drawing sexy cartoon characters. "I was a crappy artist, but one thing you can do to bypass that is to draw things naked," he tells us. "It's a sad state of affairs, but it's true." Andy realized he could pump out these naked cartoon drawings quickly, then sell them for $5 to $10 each on eBay. In 2009, his big break came: after posting a "lesbian bondage scene" of Erin Esurance to his website, a floodgate of commissioned requests came in. "People just kept contacting me repeatedly, [demanding] Erin Esurance," he says. "I sold 6 or 7 of them for $40 a piece, and was able to pay my bills for a few months." Then, something truly extraordinary happened: Andy's dirty drawings of Erin gained so much traction on the Internet that they overtook Esurance's original campaign in Google's search results. "At the time, if you

Absolutely extraordinary

these are the "experts" they were talking about when they said "phd level expertise in your pocket"

One man, the son of Holocaust survivors, said, “People being kidnapped without arrest warrants, without trial, without recourse, by the president of the United States’s ICE armies ... We are not headed toward an authoritarian fascist government; we are already there.”

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this is right, I feel like. Fascism is a terrorizing philosophy; to concede it anything -- success, competence, a future -- is to not just surrender to it but to serve its purpose.

the only thing i'd add to this is that mainstream political media is very much taken with the idea that trump is some incarnation of the national spirit. it shows up everywhere and is used to explain his political success.

Summer Landscape, Thunder Looms, by Lars Hertervig, 1856, 📸 by @gwephoto

Why push for impeachment?

Because politics is an exercise in moving public opinion as much as counting votes in the senate.

The Jan 6 Hearings were not a criminal proceeding against Trump that would end in jail, but they focused public attention.

Performative public investigations matter