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25.9% of teenagers who spend four or more hours daily on screens experienced depression symptoms in the past two weeks. 27.1% reported anxiety symptoms. Higher durations of Internet use increases depression levels. Adolescents who spend more than three hours online daily are more likely to fall into the

The two centrist senators handed Trump control of the National Labor Relations Board, dealing a blow to labor unions and workers.

President Trump is hawking a memecoin and collecting most of the revenue from the sale of a separate coin from a company called World Liberty Financial.

Countries must form new alliances and end their dependence on US tech in response to Trump’s trade war

I am grateful to Dr Tim Rideout for drawing my attention to the GDP Now forecast run by the Atlanta Fed in the USA. As they say of this: The growth rate of real gross domestic product (GDP) is a key indicator of economic activity, but the official estimate is released with...

The FFCKUS, on his media platform: All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agita...

A compact assessment of where capitalism is taking us.

A detailed timeline of apparent efforts to politicize and weaponize the Department of Justice under the second Trump administration.

Facebook Cybertruck Owners Group Copes With Relentless Mockery: A Facebook group for Cybertruck owners is full of videos and photos of passersby and other drivers flicking them off, leaving notes that say "WHAT'S ELON'S CUM TASTE LIKE?," and "NAZI CAR," and people kicking their cars, throwing slices of cheese at it, etc. Another post shows images of words people had drawn on the side of a ...

This is a great post from Mike Masnick about why Techdirt is writing more or less full-time about the Trump regime’s attack on democracy: Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not). I agree with every word of it. One of the po

We aren’t the only species on this planet that have domesticated another species. There is one kind of ancient ant that herds and cares for insect aphids in order to milk them of honeydew sugar. But we are the only … Continue reading →

# Rep. Julia Reed's House Bill 1839 would bring in over $200 million a year for higher education in by closing a tax loophole benefiting Amazon and Microsoft. The money is sorely needed to curb tuition and raise enrollment.

An amateur's field guide to Armentano, Niehaus, and Vogl

The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) — a group of current and former Amazon workers in New York City’s Staten Island — takes on one of the world’s largest and most powerful companies in the fight to unionize.

'Union' didn't get an Oscar nomination, but the producer says its distribution journey is just getting started.

It's time to rekindle the movement.

On January 20th, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an order directing federal agencies to terminate remote work arrangements and mandate employees

DOGE operatives claim that mass layoffs are necessary to prevent the U.S. government from going bankrupt. Let’s do the math.

The Skyraider II is the official designation of the new light attack platform for U.S. Special Forces.

To meet the magnitude of this moment we must work collaboratively in ways that promote decentralization over top-down hierarchies, relationships over transactions, and emergence over control.

Metrics matter for policy and policy matters for well-being. In this report, the co-chairs of the OECD-hosted High Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Jean-Paul Fitoussi and Martine Durand, show how over-reliance on GDP as the ...

A report submitted to the EU in September, as interpreted by Michael Roberts, casts considerable doubt on the standard right-libertarian party line regarding investment.  The standard right-libertarian talking point is that labor is dependent on investment, that investment — in the form either of credit or equity — comes from previous capital accumulation, and that...

There were numerous news items last week about surveillance and algorithmic decision-making in the workplace. These kinds of stories aren’t new, of course. But as Elon Musk has infiltrated the White House, instructing his minions to eliminate as much of the federal workforce as possible; and as the Trump

Lindsay Young: I am the Executive Director of 18F and 18F's longest running employee- I have been at 18F for 10 years. You may not have heard of us, but last night proved that we are powerful. The way the administration ran to get rid of us under the cover of night and shut us down without warning proves that they were scared. They are too afraid to even speak to us. [...] We were living ...

Just over a year ago, I finally wrote down my theory about why youth voting participation remains persistently low. https://docs.google.com/document/d/11MsplckerAHO_l80SUd30yE1Je-IlzfBc8Cf4FJAaRQ/edit?tab...

American democracy is more resilient than you might think.