Required reading:

Trump Pardoned a Nursing Home Owner Who Owed Almost $19 Million to a Grieving Family Stories about pardons are often about presidential power. But what about people on the other side of that grace? The Coulson family may never receive millions from a wrongful death lawsuit it won years ago.

NEW: Stories about pardons are often told as stories about presidential power — who had access, who persuaded a president to intervene. But what drew reporter Jeremy Kohler to this story was the people on the other side of that act of grace.

Univ of Virginia's Max Brichta on Disinformation & Deception in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit

University of Virginia's Maximilian Brichta discussed disinformation and deception in decentralized finance (DeFi) and crypto at the Cambridge Disinformation Summit.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgjW...

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

Last week, a worker one of Amazon's Portland area facilities died on the warehouse floor. Employees were told to look away and keep working.

A new story by @ryanjhaas.bsky.social for @thewesternedge.bsky.social - reporting this news first.

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Came up on the NY Times as well

Exciting news that really makes me look forward to living every day!!!!

Death of Stalin has been the single best framework for the past year. "Remember in that movie when ...."

April 1, 2026 Today, for the first time in U.S.

April 1, 2026
Today, for the first time in U.S. history, a sitting president attended oral arguments at the United States Supreme Court. President Donald J. Trump broke precedent to take a seat in the front row of the Supreme Court’s public seating area….

26. It’s Not Only The Violence: Women are Enraged by Men’s Cultivated Ignorance A weekend long read that might make your blood boil, but might also help have better conversations about hard things.

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‚Cultivated ignorance is a psychological salve. For many men, acknowledging the reality of widespread male predation threatens their “protector” identities. It is easier to believe that a woman’s safety is a result of a man’s proximity rather than her own constant, invisible labor‘

I spent the afternoon at Sadler's Wells, two new ballets that are beautiful, human, and speak to the chaos and uncertainty of this moment. Chrystal Pite's choreography, as always, was powerful. Kameron Saunders was a disturbing and beautiful on the cyborg future.

The triumph of congestion pricing also offers a larger reminder: Government, done right, has immense power to improve people’s lives. Many Americans have grown cynical of government, and they are right to be disappointed about its frequent failure to deliver results in the 21st century. But the answer cannot be allowing the private market and pursuit of profits to dominate American life. Leaders should instead take political risks, as officials in New York did, to create programs that can deliver tangible results.

That congestion pricing is working -- like, really really working! -- is important for the larger effort to restore faith in govt. Take big swings, get big results that people can actually feel. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar, we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

Are White Men Missing Out?: Differences in Friendship Closeness by Gender and Ethnoracial Identity - Sex Roles Sex Roles - Research has consistently found that boys’ and men’s friendships are less close, intimate, supportive, and satisfying than girls’ and women’s...

So, what we've called a "gender" gap is better understood as a race, class, and gender phenomenon. Marginalization and hardship appear to foster the emotional intimacy that builds close friendships. Whiteness and class privilege may actually work against it. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"The Justice Department is increasingly telling judges it can’t defend ICE’s actions..."

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Following my reporting here I've learned NYCHH will not renew Palantir's contract when it expires in the fall.

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Hatzola ambulances set alight in Golders Green arson attack CCTV footage circulating on social media shows three men approaching the vehicles and then fleeing the scene as flames appear

I grew up in this community and I have a few thoughts I want to share.

A short thread.

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Paris is amazing right now. My son lives on a pedestrian-only street. He often walks to and from work--little planted areas and benches along the way--and can breathe.

Racialised impact for 300,000 children too. Policy design of barriers for working-class children and fast-tracks for the privileged is not one the government can answer. (Home Sec "parents are economic migrants" so we do/should differentiate kids (by social class + race)

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A quote by Rick Owens. It reads: "Working out is modern couture. No outfit is going to make you look or feel as good as having a fit body. Buy less clothing and go to the gym instead."

The proliferation of this quote is so interesting to me. It's often posted by right wing chuds who use it to defend conventional aesthetic ideas — such as the importance of having a lean, athletic body — but they don't really understand Owens's work.

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This is an extraordinary saga that Sunder is pursuing indefatigably. The BBC has repeatedly tried to excuse itself from responsibility for allowing Nigel Farage to lie egregiously about immigration without challenge. It is illustrative of a much wider malaise & so very important. Thank you, Sunder.

Yes. I quit reading. Seascraper was a lovely, "tender" surprise. And I still think about Endling.

The president who fired hundreds of thousands of federal workers is nonetheless spending far more every day than his predecessors. www.pbump.net/o/trump-like...

I have lived here for more than two decades and the improvement is remarkable.

Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to 'Topple' Theresa May The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that "we are overthrowing May right now" as he worked with Boris Johnson to remove the then Conservative Prime Minister from office

"In the days following the 2016 EU Referendum, Jeffrey Epstein had emailed another associate, Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, describing Brexit as 'just the beginning' of 'a return to tribalism, counter to globalisation, amazing new alliances'"

March 18, 2026 I was intending to take tonight off, but there’s big news—I mean, aside from all the other big news—that I want to make sure gets attention.

March 19, 2026

The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan) Should corporations be able to weaponize your personal data to rip you off?Well, they may already be doing that thanks t

The Washington Post is reportedly using readers' personal data to set subscription prices.

It's a tactic known as surveillance pricing.

Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains.

Fantastic news in the UK today - the government has apparently ditched its plan to force creatives to 'opt out' if they don't want AI companies training on their life's work.

www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...

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