June’s drop in the unemployment rate was because of an exodus of workers from the labor force.

The labor force participation rate, which measures the working-age population of those either employed or looking for a job, fell to 61.5%, the lowest since March 2021, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Excluding the Covid-era jobs market, it was the lowest participation rate since June 1976.

The labor force plummeted by 720,000 in June.

... Despite all the (play) fighting

Bonus pics (this time a bit boring maybe):

Mother loves flowers and to look from the balcony

And again the little ones cuddling

Sadly Fenri is a bit sick, because his mother was a stray and vaccinated.
So we're currently fighting for his health and sometimes he's just done, breathing heavy while just lying down.
But mostly he is just a kitten and plays and explores with his brother, so we have quite some hope that he makes it

All of them are getting supplements and mother gets 2 times a day ear flushes against mites
It's becoming a full time job, but the rewards are amazing

Full Report: From Vanity to Insanity: How the White House Cheated the American People Out of Their 250th Birthday.

Today, House Natural Resources Committee released a new 55-page report following months of investigative work by Committee Democrats exposing how Donald Trump hijacked what was supposed to be a unifying, non-political celebration of our country's 250th birthday and made it all about him – his vanity projects, his political and religious agenda, his business ventures, and his cronies who gorged on public funds under cover of a shadow corporation shielded from public scrutiny.

The term bourgeois originated in medieval France, where it denoted an inhabitant of a walled town. Its overtones became important in the 18th century, when the middle class of professionals, manufacturers, and their literary and political allies began to demand an influence in politics consistent with their economic status. Marx was one of many thinkers who treated the French Revolution as a revolution of the bourgeois.

Source: Britannica

I was in an art gallery and so confused about the use of the term with respect to art contemporary to re French Revolution. So I looked it up lol

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48939604

Source: https://mastodon.social/@warandpeas/116851225144907630

Inspirational credit to @_NetNomad@fedia.io

This ad just popped up and it should be more infuriating than just mildly, But it's more of Google being Google. How many different tiers of YouTube are there now so Alphabet can skim off slightly higher margins from each user possible? Premium LITE? Really? And I am just tickled by the fact that the main perk is not that it removes ads but that there will be slightly less of them. "Pay us to watch ads" Is the new corporate standard.

Reports citing emergency dispatch audio said responders were called to McConnell's residence on June 14 for an unconscious patient and later discussed "CPR in progress" for a possible cardiac emergency.

Oh! So, we've escalated from him being found unconscious and rushed to the hospital to active CPR? Wouldn't it have been something if the Republican stance of allowing doctors to decline giving medical care on moral grounds ended up being applied against the interests of the long-term cancer that is McConnell?

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1235927/any-government-that-prevents-its-prisoners-from-voting-has-a-tremendous-incentive-to-arr

Siehe verlinkter Artikel. Beschluss Nr. 32 des Reformpakets im Wortlaut:

Wir werden das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) unter Wahrung des Rechts auf den Zugang zu amtlichen Informationen und in Abstimmung mit dem BfDI weiterentwickeln und an die aktuellen Herausforderungen anpassen. Wir werden das komplizierte IFG für die Bürgerinnen und Bürger verständlicher und transparenter machen. Wir wollen die Auskunftsrechte künftig auf natürliche Personen fokussieren, die ein berechtigtes Interesse an einer Auskunft haben und diese nicht durch andere Regelungen erreichen können. Dabei prüfen wir, ob wir den Kreis der betreffenden Personen auf in Deutschland lebende Deutsche und Unionsbürger beschränken. Wir wollen unsere Beschäftigten vor Anfeindungen und Drohungen schützen, indem wir die Namen der Mitarbeitenden schwärzen. In Zeiten einer komplexen Bedrohungslage von innen und von außen wollen wir die staatliche Resilienz erhöhen und dem besonderen Schutzbedarf bestimmter Bereiche wie dem der Kritischen Infrastruktur, der Spionageabwehr, der Terrorismusbekämpfung oder auch der wissenschaftlichen Forschung stärker Rechnung tragen. Die IFG-Gebühren werden wir im Einklang mit dem Kostendeckungsprinzip anpassen.

Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/48945530

Ahead of a Syracuse, New York, stop on his “Bigger & Weirder” tour, Yankovic revealed to Syracuse.com in an interview published this week that he was offered “a nice pile of money” to appear in a commercial for business-focused software, but he backed out once he realized the ad would involve AI. “I’m not a fan of AI,” he said.

Hello, aquarium enthusiasts!

I live in Washington DC and have a 25 million liter short rimless fish tank which I'd like to stock with plants and animals. Annoyingly, it's only about 45cm deep at the shallow ends, so I'm not sure what would work best.

It's also outdoors, and obviously a bit too large to move. Please help! The algae is going NUTS, so I'd like to prevent that. Plecos? Saltwater? Idk, this kind of isn't my field of expertise and my cabinet is really busy with this whole "Texas secessionist movement" bullshit.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday fired two members of the state’s clemency board after they spoke out against his controversial decision to grant clemency to Tina Peters – an election denier whose sentence was cut in half by the outgoing Democratic governor in May.

Azra Taslimi and Hannah Seigel Proff told CNN they were fired after speaking out publicly, including in a New York Times article in June, in which they revealed secret details about the clemency process and criticized the governor for overruling the board. They told the Times the clemency board twice voted unanimously behind closed doors to reject Peters’ application for an early release from prison.

Polis’ decision in May to release Peters came after Donald Trump waged a long pressure campaign against Colorado to free her. Peters – who was released from prison in June – was the last Trump ally still in prison for 2020 election-related crimes.

They grow up so fast!

Taken with my new (to me) XH2S & Tamron 150-500mm.