#Retirees
After years of watching the Silver Sneakers at the gym, my buddy and I finally worked up the nerve to start playing pickleball. We got destroyed. These retirees couldn’t run to escape the building if it was on fire, but mopped the floor with us.
November 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM Everybody can reply
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There are a fair number of British retirees here as it's got a great all year round climate and is much warmer than the UK. It's a two and a half hour flight from the UK to Málaga, so it's not far. I'm not keen on Florida either - it might have something to do with Krasnov being there.🫶🎶
November 3, 2025 at 1:37 AM Everybody can reply
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Biden did not run for a second term. We won population-wise, but lost electoral college. Blue voters are far too concentrated in too few state. To win consistently we need blue retirees to relocate their home base in purple or light pink states & districts.
November 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM Everybody can reply
Phil Longman and Gillen Tener Martin (@gillenmartin.bsky.social) offer a creative plan to save Social Security that avoids raising taxes on average Americans, boosts benefits to retirees who need it, and promotes a healthier and more productive America.

washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/02/h...
How Democrats Can Save Social Security—and Win Elections
Republican tax cuts and immigration crackdowns have deepened Social Security’s crisis. How to fix it without punishing working Americans.
washingtonmonthly.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:18 AM Everybody can reply
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tonight was more about vibes and a send off for our retirees for me, but i also am going to be #tactical for a sec and say that that was the best we’ve seen lara look and a good relationship bw her and mina can take us places next year
November 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM Everybody can reply
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The ObamaCare Blue-City Bailout.

Federal taxpayers pay as municipalities save billions by dumping their retirees onto the government exchanges.
Opinion | The ObamaCare Blue-City Bailout
Federal taxpayers pay as municipalities save billions by dumping their retirees onto the government exchanges.
www.wsj.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM Everybody can reply
Some people have 401ks. People with permanent salaried jobs, which is fewer and fewer people in today's economy. Not gig workers. Not retirees. Not workers who don't earn enough to contribute even when their employers do offer a 401k.
November 3, 2025 at 12:53 AM Everybody can reply
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You know what I want? Classes to teach a new skill offered outside of 8-5 hours. Learning to mosaic or make your own clothes shouldn't only be available to teens and retirees.
Could I take a collage course to become a certified yoga instructor, or learn to weld? Yup. But I'd have to quit my job.
November 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM Everybody can reply
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The richest retirees get franking credits, the poorest get co-payments.
#auspol #EndCapitalism
November 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM Everybody can reply
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small villages are all owned by retirees, hardly anybody with kids could afford the housing.
November 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM Everybody can reply
We certainly haven't developed customs that show it at least--such reverence for retirees but whenever the rest of us (at this point, the numerical majority of the profession!) get forced out? the profession hasn't developed anything to recognize that--just rolls onward : (
November 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM Everybody can reply
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Social Security’s 2026 COLA Is a Lose-Lose Scenario for Retirees

https://www.newsbeep.com/us/267537/

It’s a more generous boost than 2025’s COLA, but it still probably won’t do enough. For some retired…
Social Security's 2026 COLA Is a Lose-Lose Scenario for Retirees - United States News Beep
It's a more generous boost than 2025's COLA, but it still probably won't do enough.
www.newsbeep.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:54 PM Everybody can reply
Yet, discounts for military/veterans/students/retirees are fairly common. Discounts for civilian government employees less common these days, but not unseen.
November 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM Everybody can reply
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USA: There aren’t enough young people to replace retirees.

Japan: First time?
November 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM Everybody can reply
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When we moved in, the neighborhood was mostly empty nesters and retirees. We’re at the corner of a cul-de-sac on the outside of the development, so any kids usually skipped us. (There are apartments and duplexes a couple of blocks away.)

The older folks have either moved or passed. 1/
November 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM Everybody can reply
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There is a weird Protestantism that hangs about contemporary academia. We have festschrifts for retirees but absolutely no customs to manage losing SO MANY from our communities before we reach that point.
There is no churching when contracts are renewed, no Placebos when careers are lost.
November 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM Everybody can reply
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The swapping NIC into IT seems both an inevitability and indeed a good policy outcome. Given that NIC is just IT with a moustache on retirees should not be paying lower levels of tax on pension income than workers are
November 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM Everybody can reply
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Therefore federal retirees did get paid, I was wondering if it was gonna happen. It’s never early at fiscal year end.
November 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM Everybody can reply
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