The mean salary for RNs in 2024 was $94,480 and the top 10 percent earned well over $100,000. BLS numbers. What do you think an appropriate salary would be?

To traditional Christians, “Mormons aren’t Christian” is predominantly a theological issue. To Latter-day Saints, it’s a theological issue, yes, but also historical and even existential. 👇

It does seem that the LDS are being unfairly singled out here. If the essential criterion for Christianity is Trinitarian theology, why do the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Christian Scientists, Oneness Pentecostals, and even Quakers (in some instances) get a pass here?

This is the dumbest tweet ever written by an American, an astonishing achievement given the depth of competition for that accolade. It's hard to know where to even start. I'll go from the top and try wade through it, to arrive at where the focus should already be. /1

Stephen A. Smith begs Donald Trump to stay away from Madison Square Garden for Game 3 of the NBA Finals: “He’s coming to Game three of the Finals, and I don’t want him there. It has nothing to do with politics, policy, or anything like that. It has everything to do with him disrupting and contributing at the same time to the chaos that’s going to be existing at Madison Square Garden. If it were Barack Obama coming to the Garden, I would say, ‘Stay home.’ Stay at the White House… I have been covering sports for over 30 years. And I’m telling you right now, come Monday, for Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden, I expect to see an environment I have never seen in my entire career covering sports."

Generationally bad take about Anthropic’s valuation 💀

I wouldn't put much stock on one noisy chart, but... There may be a divergence brewing between job availability and worker perception of job availability. Job openings (yellow line) have been rising all year. The QUITS rate is back at post-COVID lows.

The reason you can’t afford a house, can’t find a doctor, can’t send your kids to a decent school, and can’t walk home safely at night is simple: your leaders imported tens of millions of people who hate you.

The funny thing is people rate their own economic circumstances far more favorably now than they did during the Great Recession. This lines up with the data. It's the external economy that rates poorly. Explanations that rely on people not doing well individually don't fit.

Adding it to my collection

Climate activists have spent decades shutting down nuclear, blocking clean energy transmission, and trying to ban research on cooling the planet... but the movement that wins the next century will be led by the people doing the work, not those protesting it. New essay out today👇