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  1. Justice Elena Kagan asks judges to avoid increasing threats star-news.press/wp

    ,Justice Elena Kagan asks judges to avoid increasing threats star-news.press/wp, 2025-07-24 19:32:00 Lawrence Hurley #Justice #Elena #Kagan #asks #judges #avoid #increasing #threats

    star-news.press/justice-elena-

  2. #Please #sell #more of your #cool #stuff and #services and #art and #music en la #fedi.

    I will — in #solidarity with your #crass #SelfServing effort to get monetary #permission you use to let others know they're #allowed to give you #food to eat and #housing to sleep under a roof and such without themselves #increasing their #risk under #capitalism of having neither — at least block people who complain about it.

    Don't mistake this for endorsing #advertising and #sponsorships, because I do not.

  3. #Solar #energy is the
    ⭐️ most widely available energy resource on Earth,
    and its economic attractiveness is improving fast in a cycle of #increasing #investments.

    Here we use data-driven conditional technology and economic forecasting modelling to establish which zero carbon power sources could become dominant worldwide.

    We find that, due to technological trajectories set in motion by past policy,
    a global #irreversible solar #tipping #point may have passed where solar energy gradually comes to #dominate global #electricity #markets,
    without any further climate policies.

    🆘Uncertainties arise, however, over #grid #stability in a renewables-dominated power system,
    the availability of #sufficient #finance in underdeveloped economies,
    the capacity of #supply #chains and #political #resistance from regions that lose employment.

    ❇️Policies resolving these barriers may be more effective than price instruments to accelerate the transition to clean energy

    nature.com/articles/s41467-023

  4. For as long as I can remember, Americans have been concerned that the government’s #Social #Security program will run out of money by the time they get to use it because the Baby Boomers will suck the well dry.

    But as former Secretary of Labor #Robert #Reich explains,
    ❇️Social Security trustees planned for the Boomers
    🆘but will face a shortfall in the next decade 💥because of increased #income #inequality in the US.💥

    The Social Security trustees anticipated the boom in boomer retirements.
    This is why Social Security was amended back in 1983, to gradually increase the age for collecting full retirement benefits from age 65 to 67.
    That change is helping finance the boomers’ retirement.
    ❓So what did the trustees fail to anticipate? ❓
    Answer: ❗️the degree of income #inequality in 21st century America.❗️

    Put simply, a big part of the American working population is earning less than the Social Security trustees (including me) anticipated decades ago
    — and therefore paying less in Social Security payroll tax.

    Had the #pay of American workers kept up with what had been the trend decades ago
    — and kept up with their own #increasing #productivity
    — their ⭐️Social Security payroll tax payments would have been enough to keep the program flush.

    At the same time, 🆘a much larger chunk of the nation’s total income is going to the top than was expected decades ago.

    Here’s the thing: 🔥Income subject to the payroll tax is #capped.
    Every dollar of earnings in excess of the cap is not subject to Social Security payroll taxes.
    This year’s cap is $160,200.

    kottke.org/24/08/the-reason-so

  5. For as long as I can remember, Americans have been concerned that the government’s #Social #Security program will run out of money by the time they get to use it because the Baby Boomers will suck the well dry.

    But as former Secretary of Labor #Robert #Reich explains,
    ❇️Social Security trustees planned for the Boomers
    🆘but will face a shortfall in the next decade 💥because of increased #income #inequality in the US.💥

    The Social Security trustees anticipated the boom in boomer retirements.
    This is why Social Security was amended back in 1983, to gradually increase the age for collecting full retirement benefits from age 65 to 67.
    That change is helping finance the boomers’ retirement.
    ❓So what did the trustees fail to anticipate? ❓
    Answer: ❗️the degree of income #inequality in 21st century America.❗️

    Put simply, a big part of the American working population is earning less than the Social Security trustees (including me) anticipated decades ago
    — and therefore paying less in Social Security payroll tax.

    Had the #pay of American workers kept up with what had been the trend decades ago
    — and kept up with their own #increasing #productivity
    — their ⭐️Social Security payroll tax payments would have been enough to keep the program flush.

    At the same time, 🆘a much larger chunk of the nation’s total income is going to the top than was expected decades ago.

    Here’s the thing: 🔥Income subject to the payroll tax is #capped.
    Every dollar of earnings in excess of the cap is not subject to Social Security payroll taxes.
    This year’s cap is $160,200.

    kottke.org/24/08/the-reason-so

  6. For as long as I can remember, Americans have been concerned that the government’s #Social #Security program will run out of money by the time they get to use it because the Baby Boomers will suck the well dry.

    But as former Secretary of Labor #Robert #Reich explains,
    ❇️Social Security trustees planned for the Boomers
    🆘but will face a shortfall in the next decade 💥because of increased #income #inequality in the US.💥

    The Social Security trustees anticipated the boom in boomer retirements.
    This is why Social Security was amended back in 1983, to gradually increase the age for collecting full retirement benefits from age 65 to 67.
    That change is helping finance the boomers’ retirement.
    ❓So what did the trustees fail to anticipate? ❓
    Answer: ❗️the degree of income #inequality in 21st century America.❗️

    Put simply, a big part of the American working population is earning less than the Social Security trustees (including me) anticipated decades ago
    — and therefore paying less in Social Security payroll tax.

    Had the #pay of American workers kept up with what had been the trend decades ago
    — and kept up with their own #increasing #productivity
    — their ⭐️Social Security payroll tax payments would have been enough to keep the program flush.

    At the same time, 🆘a much larger chunk of the nation’s total income is going to the top than was expected decades ago.

    Here’s the thing: 🔥Income subject to the payroll tax is #capped.
    Every dollar of earnings in excess of the cap is not subject to Social Security payroll taxes.
    This year’s cap is $160,200.

    kottke.org/24/08/the-reason-so

  7. For as long as I can remember, Americans have been concerned that the government’s #Social #Security program will run out of money by the time they get to use it because the Baby Boomers will suck the well dry.

    But as former Secretary of Labor #Robert #Reich explains,
    ❇️Social Security trustees planned for the Boomers
    🆘but will face a shortfall in the next decade 💥because of increased #income #inequality in the US.💥

    The Social Security trustees anticipated the boom in boomer retirements.
    This is why Social Security was amended back in 1983, to gradually increase the age for collecting full retirement benefits from age 65 to 67.
    That change is helping finance the boomers’ retirement.
    ❓So what did the trustees fail to anticipate? ❓
    Answer: ❗️the degree of income #inequality in 21st century America.❗️

    Put simply, a big part of the American working population is earning less than the Social Security trustees (including me) anticipated decades ago
    — and therefore paying less in Social Security payroll tax.

    Had the #pay of American workers kept up with what had been the trend decades ago
    — and kept up with their own #increasing #productivity
    — their ⭐️Social Security payroll tax payments would have been enough to keep the program flush.

    At the same time, 🆘a much larger chunk of the nation’s total income is going to the top than was expected decades ago.

    Here’s the thing: 🔥Income subject to the payroll tax is #capped.
    Every dollar of earnings in excess of the cap is not subject to Social Security payroll taxes.
    This year’s cap is $160,200.

    kottke.org/24/08/the-reason-so

  8. For as long as I can remember, Americans have been concerned that the government’s #Social #Security program will run out of money by the time they get to use it because the Baby Boomers will suck the well dry.

    But as former Secretary of Labor #Robert #Reich explains,
    ❇️Social Security trustees planned for the Boomers
    🆘but will face a shortfall in the next decade 💥because of increased #income #inequality in the US.💥

    The Social Security trustees anticipated the boom in boomer retirements.
    This is why Social Security was amended back in 1983, to gradually increase the age for collecting full retirement benefits from age 65 to 67.
    That change is helping finance the boomers’ retirement.
    ❓So what did the trustees fail to anticipate? ❓
    Answer: ❗️the degree of income #inequality in 21st century America.❗️

    Put simply, a big part of the American working population is earning less than the Social Security trustees (including me) anticipated decades ago
    — and therefore paying less in Social Security payroll tax.

    Had the #pay of American workers kept up with what had been the trend decades ago
    — and kept up with their own #increasing #productivity
    — their ⭐️Social Security payroll tax payments would have been enough to keep the program flush.

    At the same time, 🆘a much larger chunk of the nation’s total income is going to the top than was expected decades ago.

    Here’s the thing: 🔥Income subject to the payroll tax is #capped.
    Every dollar of earnings in excess of the cap is not subject to Social Security payroll taxes.
    This year’s cap is $160,200.

    kottke.org/24/08/the-reason-so