This unbearably sad story makes clear what glib eugenicist talk like “cleaning up the risk pool” actually means at the level of individuals and families, in this case a child who died years after measles infection in infancy. Devastating.
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Last night, after an hours-long public hearing, Monterey Park became the first city in California to pass an ordinance permanently banning data centers.
The city council voted unanimously to declare data centers a public nuisance, and to "prohibit all data centers within city limits."
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Fair said the group no longer uses paid informants, but pushed back hard on the investigation, saying those informants “risked their lives to infiltrate and inform on the activities of our nation’s most radical and violent extremist groups.”
It's only inflation when the Fed does it. Otherwise it's from the sparking price increase region of France
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@alsobrooks.senate.gov asked Warsh about Trump efforts to fire Lisa Cook from Fed and criminal investigation into Powell. Declines to comment on either, saying some combination of litigation is ongoing, he trusts the courts, and he lacks the legal expertise because he only took one course in conlaw.
The Southern Poverty Law Center announced its under Justice Dept investigation targeted for its past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups. Interim CEO Fair said in a video that the Trump administration has “made no secret of who they want to protect and who they want to destroy.”
Conservative Washington Examiner column confirms it: "TRUMP IS LOSING HIS MIND"
whY iS evERyONe aROunD TRUmP tiEd To EPstEiN?
1/2 The military moving backwards on vaccines reverses a long history that (as @katelynburns.com highlights!) goes back to Washington and smallpox, and has continued to the (almost) present day - see below from Open Evidence (go-to medical AI resource).
Let's Make Our Military Sicker Again...
Annual flu vaccine no longer required for U.S. military, Hegseth says wapo.st/4u6awr3
Teoscar Hernández is supporting his son — and spreading autism awareness — every time he takes the field for the Dodgers.
Spoke with Hernández about why it was important to him, and how he drew the inspiration to wear custom gear to honor Teo (unlocked): www.nytimes.com/athletic/721...
I wish I could find it now but there was an article last week from a man behind the scenes at the KC detailing the dysfunction and the alarming raiding of artworks. I have a feeling it's all going to end up in Florida.
“This is different from classic #narcissism, in which a grandiose but fragile self-image can mask deep insecurity. What I’m talking about is a self-definition in which the individual grows to the size of the universe, and the #universe vanishes.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
New post: Technology and cybersecurity in the Silver Economy.
We claim to be “user‑centric” but still design for the young, not the 65+.
Time to involve seniors in every stage of tech design
pabloyglesias.medium.com/85d59c3538f4
Ain’t just cybersecurity et al. Almost all everything designed w assumption user is able bodied 5’ 6” fully able to see person w certain physical strength. Live w someone who is 99; the tiny buttons on the cable TV remote, (yes, we still have cable, for her) these tiny buttons do not work for her.
This story shows the real, horrible consequences vaccination exemptions have on people who are unable to protect themselves from totally preventable illnesses. So tragic and completely avoidable.
Gift Link:
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How people still believe in, support, and enable this guy sickens me. Traitors to America, in my opinion. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
Baby gets measles before old enough for vaccine. Dies 11 yrs later.
Mom: “Refusing vaccinations doesn’t just put your own child at risk. It puts other children at risk. I don’t know where Renae picked up measles. It’s one of the most contagious viruses that exists.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
In the national divorce we are now adding "heterosexual marriage" to the NFL, butter, cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and Catholicism. This list will update until morale improves.
Right: [reviles academia for generations, celebrates deportations for writing op-eds and protesting, dismantles departments it doesn’t like, enacts de jure speech codes]
Left: [is sometimes annoying and unserious]
Some Academics:
This is a five-alarm fire and should be covered as such by the media.
Jared Kushner wasn't elected to anything by the voters. He doesn't have a security clearance. He wasn't confirmed by the Senate.
He's being paid billions by the Saudis, who have a financial interest in the Iran War continuing.
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virginians, if you planned to vote in today’s election & have not already: don’t forget we have same day, in person registration AND if you’re 17 but will turn 18 before nov 3, you can register and vote today.
(post from the charlottesville office of voter registration & elections)
Murray
Columbia, S.C., Record
April 21, 1926: George Washington Murray, the last Black congressman from South Carolina for nearly 100 years, dies at 72 in Chicago. The Republican who was a teacher and farmer served two terms in the 1890s before losing his seat because of white leaders' efforts to suppress the Black vote.
Sahan’s analysis of court records and federal deportation data represents the most thorough accounting yet of the Minnesota children detained during Operation Metro Surge.
By @bzosiad.bsky.social and @cynthiatu.bsky.social
Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...
