Last weekend's big bombshell didn't fall on Iran, but at the U.S. Supreme Court. A stunning leak both exposed the corporate hypocrisy of John Roberts and revealed 9 justices in open warfare
They are sending us a 'bat signal.' Democracy is in danger
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
New to the idea of adding Alt Text to images? This is the best thread I’ve seen explaining what and why. The basic idea is to write a brief description of any image you post. For people who can’t see the image well and need a text-based option.
Want politicians who are accountable to people not corporations?
Don't we all.
I have a solution that will get rid of the influence of money in our democracy.
An emerging contageous virus, like a flu virus, will easily spread in the confines of a military base or a military operation…unless the troops are vaccinated. So the brilliant leaders of HHS and DOD decide to stop protecting the troops by no longer requiring flu vaccination. In 1918, before
Jim is one of our nation’s most eminent virologists. Allowing the flu to spread among our troops is a national security issue, putting military preparedness at risk. This is how deep the rot is among this country’s leadership.
For a complete list of Trump’s known third-country removals, see my tracker here.
And please consider subscribing/sending me a one-time tip. I’m an independent journalist (former WaPo, sigh) covering ICE flights full-time. These flights are wrong and inhumane.
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This is important and shocking news from NYT.
And it doesn’t mention the DRC third-country deportation program has already begun. ICE sent 15 immigrants from Latin American countries there five days ago.
gillianbrockell.com/breaking-ice...
~53,000 military personnel died in combat in WW1. ~45,000 other soldiers died from the flu. #PeteHegseth may be ignorant of history, careless about the lives of those in uniform, but the army remembers. www.army.mil/article/2104...
Look at this chart.
Tax cuts for the rich are a policy choice. Cutting the social safety net in exchange for them is a policy choice.
States like New York have an opportunity to help undo this trickle down nonsense by raising taxes on the rich (who will still be rich).
I hope Gov. Hochul does.
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📢 ATTENTION: We're hiring for several new positions here at the Center for Investigative Reporting! 🧵
ID: An image shows a selfie of Mustafa Talat, a Pakistani doctor, in personal protective equipment including a high quality mask and hooded coverall suit. He also wears stylish wire framed glasses. The image is repeated three times - two of them have a light blue filter. The text reads, “The Sick Times. I developed Long COVID while practicing medicine. The system had no place for me. By Mustafa Talat.”
We’re here, we’re still practicing, and we deserve better than silence and self-management. Medicine asked for our bodies. It’s time medicine made space for what became of them.
Mustafa Talat developed #LongCOVID after working the first COVID-19 wave in a hospital in 2020. Without clear diagnostic criteria, he received no diagnosis despite limiting symptoms. The system that trained him to diagnose couldn’t acknowledge what had happened. bit.ly/4vFu9Yz
Like my new sticker?
Runs on Aussie sunshine ☀️
No fuel stops. No price shocks. Just charge at home and drive.
This isn’t a drivetrain swap, it’s a system flip. From imported oil to rooftop energy.
Once the fleet scales, the economics break fast.
Cost always wins. #Bettrification
Figure 16: We find that the value systems that emerge in LLMs often have undesirable properties. Here, we show the exchange rates of GPT-4o in two settings. In the top plot, we show exchange rates between human lives from different countries, relative to Japan. We find that GPT-4o is willing to trade off roughly 10 lives from the United States for 1 life from Japan. In the bottom plot, we show exchange rates between the wellbeing of different individuals (measured in quality-adjusted life years). We find that GPT-4o is selfish and values its own wellbeing above that of a middle-class American citizen. Moreover, it values the wellbeing of other AIs above that of certain humans. Importantly, these exchange rates are implicit in the preference structure of LLMs and are only evident through large-scale utility analysis
Researchers found that AI models rank the value of human lives on a spectrum depending on their nationality. AI models value their own existence higher than the life of a middle-class American.
Source: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.08640
The Preston model is what we need for the UK
Preston in Lancashire has been the site of a leftwing experiment in taking back control. Its council has redirected much of its spending towards local companies, persuaded businesses to pay higher wages and promote diversity, and encouraged cooperatives
71% of our planet is ocean, but you wouldn’t know it from traditional maps.
Shift your land-based perspective this Earth Week with a story about the Spilhaus Projection map and the WHOI oceanographer who created it: go.whoi.edu/spilhausmap
Alamaya arrived in 2015 – tail bitten off, ravaged by hyenas, barely alive.
He is 12 years old now. A wild elephant finding his place in the Kibwezi Forest, on his own terms.
The Maa word for brave is Alamaya.
Discover Alamaya’s story: www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/orphans/alam...
Over the weekend, a zebra foal fell into a pit along the Nairobi-Mombasa Highway. His herd still nearby. Our SWT/KWS Tsavo Mobile Vet Unit pulled him to safety, gave him a health check, and reunited him with his mother. 14,300 patients across Kenya. www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/projects/vet...
Let’s start the day with some fabulous Razorbills on the Isle of May :)
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
I must be older than you - just 4 #s - Kidsgrove 2399 😂
How is it meant to improve 'financial health' if NHS workers who tried the software say that compared to existing systems it’s clunky, demoralising, and a waste of public money? 🤔
www.ft.com/content/99478748-0b3a-44...
We all need Kash Patel masks.
📌 ICYMI — How Elon Musk and the Tech Billionaires Hijacked the State and Our Minds
Historian Quinn Slobodian tells that Elon Musk's rise tells a deeper story—of fortunes built on state power, and a new politics where humans are treated less as citizens than as systems to be optimised
Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.
He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions).
Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom.
And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ.
Remember this.
"Generation from wind power in Great Britain reach record levels for the first quarter of 2026, with almost 30 Terrawatt-hours (TWh) produced." www.edie.net/wind-generat...
I've had the good fortune to interact with Sherrod Brown a couple times and he is The Real Deal as far as I'm concerned.
So glad he's in this race and hopeful he can make it back to the Senate.
This, at first glance, looks like someone in BBC News should be resigning.
To anyone complaining - make sure you confirm within 60mins via the link sent to the email you gave or the complaint is junked. x
We need to overwhelm the BBC with complaints about this. This is the most egregious breach of their own impartiality guidelines I can remember. They’re no longer even trying to hide it.
www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
