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'Vacations.'
The word is 'vacations.'
ALT FAST COMPANY Article: While retirement typically occurs, after completing a career and saving and investing for it, a new trend is emerging among Gen Z career professionals called "micro-retirement." Micro- retirements involve taking a one to two- week break from work every 12 to 18 months. Gen Z is using micro-retirement to avoid burnout, find greater fulfillment in their work, and enhance their overall well-being. However, it's not just Gen-Z:
Editorial cartoonist @AnnTelnaes nails it: "Maybe Bezos should buy a fashion house instead of a newspaper since he doesn't support a free press..." #intelligence #integrity: Always in style v. #AnnaWintour's taste in #documentaries #pandering and her #Temu #MetGala #shtshow
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Today's Supreme Court decision reverses hard-won progress under the Voting Rights Act.
It means less representation for millions of Black Americans and other voters of color, as lawmakers gain greater ability to manipulate their districts. There will be more extreme partisan gerrymandering, lopsided elections, less accountable government, and policies that hurt rather than help with everyday life.
But this is no time to be demoralized, because we know it does not have to be this way. We can mobilize around reform, new laws, and where necessary, constitutional amendments for fairer government. Only then can we feel the benefits of a balanced Court, a truly representative Congress, and an election system free from the distorting power of extreme corporate and partisan manipulation.
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We now know the Iran war price tag is more like $50 billion - hundreds of dollars per household - and counting.
It's enough to cover all the health insurance premium credits that the Republicans got rid of for this year, and next. It could save rural hospitals, pay teachers, fix roads.
Don't let this White House insult your intelligence by blowing your money on war, then saying America can't afford nice things.
This is alarming. We desperately need to reform our Supreme Court. #SCOTUS #ShadowDocket
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I always appreciated David Graeber's take on ideas with truths that so many others overlook with standard assumptions...
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VOTE! Special Elections 4/28 early voting starts 4/18, District 3 @NYCCouncil for @laylaLawGisiko "neo-liberal view that housing trickles down and supply will solve affordability crisis is a trap--doesn't work." Public land for public good. #saveDapolito Big NO to #CarlWilson!
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No refugee underfunded a hospital. No refugee closed a school. No refugee gave tax breaks to the rich.
Instead of scapegoating refugees, let's tackle the real problem: an unjust economic system that concentrates wealth in the hands of the few.
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DHS has proposed a rule restricting work permits for asylum seekers that would harm the economy, employers, and communities. Over 2.3 million asylum seekers support critical industries. Submit a comment opposing this rule by April 24, 2026: bit.ly/4lPKCVy
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Today is David Graeber's birthday. He'd have been 65 years old today.
His ideas are still here and his message is more important than ever before which must remind us that a better world is possible. #DontLoseHope
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Newsmax has absolutely no place on New York City streets.
I’m calling on the TLC to suspend their partnership with Curb until Newsmax is no longer being broadcast in 15,000 NYC cabs every single day.
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Billionaires aren’t just vulgar — they make plutocracy possible.
When someone hits $100 million, give them a beautiful golden certificate that says: capitalism completed.
Everything above that should be shared with workers, communities and the public.
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This month, the U.S. was the ONLY country to vote AGAINST a UN resolution to protect aid workers in war zones. Shameful.
As aid worker deaths rise around the world, I have introduced a bill to protect them & to cut off arms sales to any country who is found to be targeting them.
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I just came out of the briefing with Sec. Rubio and Sec. Hegseth on the military strikes in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Here's what I learned.
Bottom line: there is no legal or national security justification for what they're doing. Not even close.
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I will be pushing for a moratorium on the construction of data centers that are powering the unregulated sprint to develop & deploy AI.
The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.
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History will judge this government very harshly for its cruel and inhumane treatment of asylum seekers.
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Nobody should learn anything from a historic election with the highest voter turnout in 50 years
-New York Times
