Ben 🔔🧑🏻💻
@beninquiring.bsky.social
sociology phd 👥🎓 data engineer 📉🛠️ american soccer analysis ✍️🎙️⚽️
After DOGE layoffs & record cuts, Trump’s freezing the pay of all our civil servants in 2027. With 3.4% inflation, this amounts to a pay cut for those who care for our veterans, process benefits, & deliver essential services. Congress must pass the FAIR Act & override this decision.
Trump officially plans for civilian federal pay freeze in 2027 | Federal News Network
The alternative pay plan that the White House issued this week carves out exceptions to give larger raises to federal law enforcement and military personnel.
federalnewsnetwork.com
Wait, he can reset the clock by sitting out a term or two once he’s hit his limit??
A K@aklingus.bsky.social · 16h agoThey're gonna do their best to shank this guy every day until he's term-limited out (and then runs again later lol), and it's not going to work because there's just not enough to overturn the fact that people like this guy bsky.app/profile/zhug...
As always, the floor here is hell. But the ceiling is that this genuinely could be the biggest signing the Rapids have made in their history.
Tom Bogert@tombogert.bsky.social · 17h ago🏴 The Colorado Rapids have signed English winger Morgan Whittaker from Middlesbrough. Deal is a club-record fee of $10.7m, per sources.
Bioshock Infinite was a documentary
alan-a.bsky.social@alan-a.bsky.social · 21h agoWTF is this? Is it Liberty? Is it an angel or goddess? Is it hodgepodge? Was it design by AI? Some whacked out design company came up with it. Not an artist. Did Trump tell them what? Without approval, the would be king is starting the Arch with is offensive thing. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
Unless you are charting nautical courses you should not be using a Mercator!
Le Monde in English@english.lemonde.fr · 17h agoFrance adopts fairer world map ahead of UN vote on more balanced geography
what does history usually think about armies that have to abandon all their regional bases and allow them to be destroyed at the very beginning of a war they started
Mentions that he’s seen things online about people being surprised about the transfer window. Says he can only go by what he’s seen on his time but believes the FO backs his vision and makes big calls on his say so with big calls for players going out and players coming in.
My favorite thing I’ve ever done for ASA was code the Swiss cheese into the keep wheels 😂😂😂
Matthew Doyle@mattdoyle.bsky.social · 2d agoThe transfer window is closed and the grades are in! I weighed in on the work all 30 MLS teams did this summer. And look, there's a lot to talk about. But one thing's now pretty clear: Red Bull should sell the club & get out. tacticsfreezone.ghost.io/transfer-gra...
This country needs a decades-long reckoning with corruption. And that isn’t just restricted to the government. The companies that are playing ball with Trump will need to be dealt with.
Le Monde in English@english.lemonde.fr · 2d agoWhite House pressures US companies to avoid Paris space summit, report says
resegregation www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...
Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
nytimes.com
that small upward spike there in 2021-22 is like half of what drove the billionaire class completely nuts
Mike Konczal@mtkonczal.bsky.social · 2d agoBLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."
It’s also going to show up in the form of reduced bonus/raise pools and fewer new hires
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2d agoEmployers predict an average 8.2 percent increase in the cost of their insurance plans, the largest spike in health care costs in over two decades. Workers will shoulder some of the costs, in the form of higher premiums and reductions in coverage.
the attention to Flock has exploded in recent weeks in April, bolts published an article on the length that a Wisconsin town went through to get Flock to take down its cameras — including covering them in trash bags. what the mayor told us:
Philanthropy is a tax shelter, that’s right at least. Tax these fucking people until they have to work for a living & then we decide democratically what to do with the money.
🗽LOLGOP🗽@thefarce.org · 2d agoAmazing moment. Coinbase's CEO says he doesn't believe in charity because " If you look at like the Ford Foundation, I think Henry Ford would be like turning over in his grave."
Elon Musk claiming to be able to identify "real" Jewish people through DNA sequences is amazingly antisemitic and evil. It is shocking that no one seems to care. not the media. Ds barely talk about him. wtf?
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 2d agoGonna print this out and put it under wipers on Teslas in Los Angeles
Will someone please ask who ICE would be arresting in a polling place given that immigrants are not allowed to vote? American citizens?
Hey so how’s that McGuire move working ou— oh
Tom Bogert@tombogert.bsky.social · 3d ago🇿🇦🟠 BREAKING: Houston Dynamo finalizing a deal to sign South Africa int'l forward Lyle Foster from Burnley on loan, per sources. - Loan until summer - $7m purchase option Foster, turning 26 tomorrow, has 10 goals in 28 caps for South Africa www.nytimes.com/athletic/755...
"the right cant understand things until it affects them personally" is true but one wild phenomenon we experienced during the height of the pandemic is seeing that play out except they were still denying that covid was real despite being sick with it in the hospital
Good on the AP for acknowledging the Rapids’ existence, it’s usually a coin flip whether we get that dignity when Stan is mentioned lol
Jason Briggeman@jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 3d agoClearest indicator yet that Arsenal did win the league
As somebody who grew up during the era in which there was a massive public push to reduce teen pregnancy, it’s absolutely wild to me to see people on Fox News now complaining that not enough teens are getting pregnant.
Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 3d agoFox News complains that underage teenage girls aren’t getting pregnant enough: “The problem is teens and young adults. From ages 15-19, the fertility rate is down 70% in the last 2 decades, which means we are telling people who are young not to have babies.”
Sometimes i think about how, in the late 90s, USPS was moving to set up a secure email address for every US resident and how congress prevented it.
Tuta@tuta.com · 5d agoIf you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
It is hilarious that Kroenke is shelling out these $4 billion because this is exactly what he intends to do with the MLS team he bought 22 years ago
Aaron Gleeman@aarongleeman.bsky.social · 3d agoArte Moreno bought the Angels for $183.5 million, ran the team horribly on and off the field for 20 years, and solid it for $4 billion.