Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:

Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%

Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

Awful awful news. And poor Minnesota, can’t get a break.

“Clearly a blatant liar,” based on what?
It seems quite possible he didn’t know about Swalwell’s predatory behavior. Swalwell’s victims say he had 2 personas. This needs to play out. Calling for him to step down is crazy & by that logic every single R should step down for terrible judgement.

Genuinely depressing to me that your partner has to Doordash to raise money for your cancer treatment when you get old. What happens if you don't have a partner? Are we just working to pay a landlord and save up for a medical emergency when we're elderly?

If you still haven’t cancelled your Amazon Prime membership, here’s a another sad reminder why you should. And this isn’t the first time a worker has died at an Amazon warehouse.

Will AI Be a Net Positive For Aquaculture? The US and Norway lead the world in developing AI tools for the farmed fish industry. Some of these are beginning to gain traction.

Finfish aquaculture faces a slew of challenges, including disease outbreaks, high mortality rates, and water pollution. AI systems are being introduced to tackle these issues, particularly in the U.S., but the solutions are newly emerging and not yet widely adopted.

@megwilcox.bsky.social reports ⬇️

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Seems like never.

This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.

“WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as ‘a search engine for the best webinars,’ is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit.”

Everyone’s business model is just crime now.

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing.

Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service:

cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Vineyard Wind, country's first large-scale offshore wind project, finishes construction After years of starts and stops, construction on Vineyard Wind, the country's first large-scale offshore wind project, wrapped up this week.

Last night was a big night for offshore wind:

Vineyard Wind finished construction and Revolution Wind began sending power to the grid @wbur.org #energysky

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Offshore wind farms race toward completion despite Trump’s attacks Trump is trying to kill offshore wind. But two big East Coast projects are poised to start producing power, and others are hitting key construction…

Trump tried to take these five offshore wind farms down. They’re all hitting huge operations and construction milestones this month.

A dark and killing cloud over Tehran And over a shamed America

This is chemical warfare and not at all about liberating or helping civilians. Utterly barbaric.
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Seems like a big middle finger to the people raising concerns about Noem. “Here ya go, I’ll give you someone even worse.”

I’m heartbroken too and I’m not from Texas. Big Bend is one of my favorite national parks. Such a gorgeous place.

Author Meg Wilcox

An #endocrine #disruptor found in widely used epoxy resins remains largely unregulated. We spoke with reporter @megwilcox.bsky.social about her prizewinning reporting on the topic, in #SEJournalInsideStory www.sej.org/publications... @sejorg.bsky.social @ejtodaynews.bsky.social

New drone footage from @floodlightnews.org - the fossil methane power plant Musk built specifically to create abusive and racist material on his social media website is still wildly breaching EPA regulations even after a ruling against using them -->>>

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Deep ocean aquaculture may be coming to the U.S. Maddie Voorhees,
@envdefensefund.bsky.social
says, "We don’t have the data to say [whether] it's the right move... and it’s going to be safe and environmentally sound. But we also don’t have the data to say that it’s not.”
@civileats.com

Trump EPA: "nothing to see here."

Catching a Chemical Slipping Through the Regulatory Cracks A chemical found in widely used epoxy resins is an endocrine disruptor that remains largely unregulated, despite its ubiquity. That was the subject of a prizewinning explanatory reporting series that ...

Thanks @sejorg.bsky.social for featuring me in this week's issue of the magazine--and of course for the award! It's such an honor. And thank you @ehnewsroom.bsky.social
and Brian Bienkowski, now at @thenewlede.bsky.social for working with me on the series.
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What a sick dude.

Disgusting that they find this funny.

He's right: in light of Republican policies, rural Americans will have decreasing access to real healthcare. They will have to settle for some garbage chatbot selling them snake oil.

It shouldn't be this way, but it absolutely will be this way if Republicans stay in power.

Tom Philpott @tomphilpott.bsky.social is my go-to guy for critical ag journalism. Here he and his colleagues respond to a critique of their latest work.

And this is only government scientists. University scientists are leaving for other countries because of lost research dollars and the hostile environment here. Talked to one yesterday. What short-sighted insanity.

Babies born to mothers living near mountaintop removal are 42% more likely to have birth defects, probably due to the ultrafine dust from blasting. It’s good to see new studies connecting more dots.

Chris Madel ends GOP bid for governor, says he can’t support federal ‘retribution’ against Minnesota His exit comes as some other Republicans have started to distance themselves from the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the state.

so chris madel was providing legal advice to ICE agent jonathan ross after he killed renee good in minneapolis, but after alex pettri gets killed by border patrol, madel is out of the governor’s race because the federal government is going too far?

www.startribune.com/chris-madel-...

Make America Sick Again. What stupidity.

Great story, Liza.

Listening to his words at an event yesterday, I thought the same thing... though his wisdom has always rung true for America, it really resonates now. The U.S. is in such moral crisis.