People don't summon ghosts by candlelight in ominous Victorian mansions anymore, and honestly I think that’s a shame.

Working from home can make us healthier and happier. Employers benefit too. Here’s the evidence if you need any convincing The Fair Work Commission is considering basic rights to work from home. Here’s what the evidence says about the impacts of working from home on physical health and mental wellbeing.

This article has more links to other studies and The Conversation is a bit more trustworthy:

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Scientists have studied remote work for 4 years and have reached a clear conclusion: working from home makes us happier - Caring Minds United Scientists have spent four years diving deep into the world of remote work and stumbled upon a powerful truth: working from home genuinely makes us

Not only can working from home make you happier, for many disabled people it allows them to remain in the workforce

It gives them autonomy & independence. Flexibility to attend doctors appointments and care for their health

It’s a crucial accommodation, and removing it will harm disabled lives

The Ambiguity of Promise: An Autistic Interpretation — Disability Torah Project By Harper Hazelmare “The Ambiguity of Promise: An Autistic Interpretation” | Parashat Sh’lach | 5785

Hey, I wrote a thing! #Jewish #Torah #autism #parsha

Trump Says He Wants Alcatraz Restored as a Prison The project would be extraordinarily expensive at a time when the administration already plans to cut billions of dollars from the Justice Department’s budget.

President Trump said that he wanted federal law enforcement agencies to work on restoring Alcatraz, now a museum, to a functioning maximum-security prison.

Trump orders reopening of notorious Alcatraz prison President Trump says the famous island prison off San Francisco is to be reopened to house "ruthless and violent" offenders.

Trump orders reopening of notorious Alcatraz prison

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., temporarily blocked the Trump administration from further dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Services!

DHS is threatening to revoke Harvard’s ability to host international students and the IRS is looking at revoking their tax exemption.

The “stop the weaponization of government” crowd sure is quiet as fuck on this one.

Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library? An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.

Political appointees within the Department of the Navy's leadership picked a list of books on antiracism, sexuality and gender to ban from the U.S. Naval Academy's library while keeping many favorites of white supremacists, like Mein Kampf and The Camp of the Saints www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

When Is A Loss A Tax Loss? As Markets Tumble, Here’s What To Know About Capital Gains And Losses The rules for determining a capital gain or capital loss depend on how much you paid for an asset and how long you held onto it before you sold it.

When Is A Loss A Tax Loss? As Markets Tumble, Here’s What To Know About Capital Gains And Losses

H.H.S. Scraps Studies of Vaccines and Treatments for Future Pandemics (Gift Article) Federal officials cited the end of the Covid-19 pandemic in halting the research. But much of the work was focused on preventing outbreaks of other pathogens.

The Trump administration has canceled funding for dozens of studies seeking new vaccines and treatments for Covid-19 and other pathogens that may cause future pandemics.

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Yay America…we have been added to the global human rights watchlist over declining civil liberties….joining Serbia, Italy, Pakistan and the DRC….so is America great yet? time.com/7266334/us-h...

A new podcast from the Latchkey Insurgency.

Get more from Latchkey Insurgency on Patreon The decay of human rights and how to get the fuck out.

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What Trump’s New Student Loan Forgiveness Order Means

What Trump’s New Student Loan Forgiveness Order Means For 3 Million Borrowers http://on.forbes.com/633210Hiz1

Why Your Budget Soon Won’t Be Able to Include So Many Little Splurges The only thing holding this country together is the promise of a little treat, and these tariffs may just take them away.

The reality is that things are only going to get more expensive—and that could be the end of sweet treats and other small indulgences.

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

‘Daylight saving time’ is also sometimes called ‘daylight saving,’ ‘daylight savings,’ ‘daylight savings time,’ or ‘daylight time.’

So, listen to your heart.

Unionized Postal Workers Brace for Trump Administration’s Assault Trump is reportedly on the verge of issuing an executive order to dissolve the independent leadership of USPS.

Trump is reportedly on the verge of issuing an executive order to dissolve the independent leadership of USPS.

Breaking: DOGE got access to the child-support database

Sensitive system includes data on virtually all U.S. workers

The career civil servant who objected to DOGE earlier this week is no longer at HHS

Scoop with @jeffstein.bsky.social

Wow. No one should have to work under these conditions. I hope they sue. This is straight-up authoritarian.

NEW: DHS is now forcing employees to take polygraph tests to hunt down leakers.

US halts intelligence sharing with Ukraine The Trump administration said it wants to pressure Kyiv to get to the bargaining table.

US halts intelligence sharing with Ukraine

Shock as U.S. Caves to Russia in Cybersecurity Fight The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has reportedly received a new list of directives which exclude Russia as a threat.

The White House is not-so-privately dropping Russia from its list of threats to U.S. cybersecurity: “Putin is on the inside now.”

A fun fact about vitamin A supplementation is it can kill you

Iowa Legislature Votes to Eliminate Transgender Civil Rights Protections Iowa is poised to become the first state in US history to remove a protected class from its civil rights act.

While the hearing took place, protesters filled the halls of the Iowa State Capitol, holding signs warning that the bill “will kill” and chanting that the public “will never be divided.”

North Dakota House passes resolution urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its same-sex marriage ruling #NOH8

North Dakota House passes resolution urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its same-sex marriage ruling #NOH8

Those ears tho

The SEC Is Abandoning Its Biggest Crypto Lawsuits Regulators at the US Securities and Exchange Commission have called a sudden truce with the cryptocurrency industry, bringing an end to years of legal conflict.

Regulators at the US Securities and Exchange Commission have called a sudden truce with the cryptocurrency industry, bringing an end to years of legal conflict.