Work from home has been a huge boon to employment access for disabled people.

“The jobless rate for disabled workers — typically in double digits and 12.3% two years ago — dropped to 5.8% in November … the lowest rate for people with disabilities since record-keeping began in 2008.”

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-12-15/long-left-out-of-job-market-people-with-disabilities-reap-benefits-of-covid-19s-teleworking-boom

Kroger projects $4.9 billion in profits in 2022.

Now it's purchasing Albertons, the second largest grocery store chain, for $25 billion.

Albertsons previously acquired Safeway for $9.2 billion.

Why are grocery prices up? Grocery store goliaths are buying the competition.

Two years ago this week, some QAnon clowns started a rumor that Pres. Biden was about to nominate me for Secretary of Education. They did this to fearmonger over the prospect of a trans woman running American public schools.

This was especially funny at the time because I have zero qualifications to be on my local school board, let alone lead the Department of Education.

Death threats. Doxxing. An avalanche of nasty messages. Delightful.

Fox News rather bizarrely took it seriously.

Solar cells the thickness of paper are morphing virtually any surface into a potential power source

https://news.mit.edu/2022/ultrathin-solar-cells-1209

Sandy Hook happened 10 years ago today. At the time, people said "how many more children have to die before we do something to stop the killing?"

The answer: 25,000

25,000 children killed by guns in America in the last decade.

And still virtually nothing has been done.

We all know Jane Goodall for her groundbreaking work studying the behavior of chimpanzees in the wild.

Well, now she's trained her eye on Donald Trump and sees a lot of similarities in their behavior.

Yep, that tracks.

https://www.comicsands.com/jane-goodall-trump-chimpanzee-comparison-2658964286.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=sand