'The country has grown up too. People like to stay in Aotearoa now, or if they leave for an OE, they actually come back. Turns out it was the chronically low-wage economy — kept that way on purpose, for decades, to keep the inflation boogeyman at bay — and lack of any real opportunity that was driving people away. Who knew!'
— Josh Drummond's latest

https://badnewsletter.substack.com/p/the-brighter-future

Anyone with a US residential mailing address can again order 4 free COVID rapid tests via USPS. It's really easy.

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"There’s a saying among the Bohemians, as the club’s members call themselves: The only place you should be publicly associated with the Grove is in your obituary. That privacy is paramount, members said, in part to allow the powerful to speak freely — and party — without worrying about showing up in the press. Only designated photographers are allowed to take pictures. Cellphones are strictly forbidden."

@ProPublica's latest on Justice #ClarenceThomas

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-secretly-attended-koch-brothers-donor-events-scotus