“Worldwide, natural disasters drive people out of their homes more than twice as often as war and other conflict… The era of climate migration is already here. We’re just finally starting to realize it.”
All I want is a humble castle on the Irish coast, a crackling fire, a vintage mystery novel, an emotional support raven, a raging thunderstorm, a few purring cats, endless cups of tea, and a scandalous amount of freshly-baked pastries.
Last March, millions hit the streets worldwide to say No Kings. Now, with May Day fast approaching, people are looking for what’s next. So on May 1st, don’t work, don’t go to school, and don’t give big corporations a single cent. Join the fight this May Day!
Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.
The U.S. is blessed with one of the most scientifically and technologically advanced health care systems in the world.
And yet, when it comes to health outcomes among the world’s wealthiest countries, the U.S. ranks last.
Read "Sick in a Hospital Town," a 2026 Hillman Prize winner:
Hey is anybody else in tech really stressed
"Our findings add to a growing body of evidence that international conflicts can carry significant costs for domestic economies through their effects on foreign visitor flows." www.promarket.org/2026/04/21/t...
"If the standard is only that one cop felt something violated the law, the First Amendment is meaningless." www.techdirt.com/2026/04/21/j...
"This is a useful, if somewhat sobering, lesson from the US: initial warnings will be ignored at best, dismissed at worst. The opposition has to keep at it, laying the foundations and creating the record that it will build on when things start to fall apart."
I know it shouldn't be surprising to see Michigan show up in TPM, but it still surprises me. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/michiga...
Who the absolute fuck feels compelled to spend right now? I am continually appalled by my fellow citizens choosing to prioritize their comfort over political change and paying lip-service to progress while reveling in a thorough fucking by the status quo. www.axios.com/2026/04/01/r...
Nationwide General Strike Planned for May 1: No Kings Organizer | Common Dreams www.commondreams.org/news/no-king...
"Not broken in a “they pleaded it badly” kind of way, but broken in a “this theory does not describe an antitrust violation no matter how many drugs you’re taking or how convinced you are that the world owes you advertising dollars” kind of way." www.techdirt.com/2026/03/27/t...
On the incompetency of the facsimile of the Trump government. "They don't actually have a message. It's just a rotating series of rationales that are often in conflict with each other." www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLIW...
There's something about sitting on the couch, home sick from work, with an upset stomach, reading a book, and sipping a home-brewed ginger shrub that makes me feel like "Take that military-industrial complex! You can't exploit my labor The Man!"
Lisbon’s COVID-19 Dolphin Resurgence is Coming to an End
In Portugal, as around the world, the benefits of lockdown to wildlife have proved fleeting.
by @leahbortskuperman.bsky.social
www.biographic.com/lisbons-covi...
I've been wearing my t-shirt inside-out all day.
Well 2025 was the successful launch of a business intelligence team from scratch, as my partner in crime reminded me, and 2026 will be the successful launch of an entire SEO/GEO/AEO/ETC enterprise. It's so odd the breadth of what you can accomplish when you're allowed to.
Wide range of Michigan advocacy groups join coalition opposing constitutional convention • Michigan Advance michiganadvance.com/briefs/wide-...
As a public university, U of M is exempt from local zoning requirements — meaning the project does not require township approval. planetdetroit.org/2026/03/univ...
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SCOOP— Trump wants a 24k gold coin w/ his face on it for America 250, but an official at a late February coin advisory committee meeting called it something only done by "nations ruled by kings or dictators." After NYT reported the criticism, US Mint yanked online vid of the meeting w/o explanation.
"The entire exercise was supposed to pay for itself many times over. Instead, the taxpayer funded an $81 million operation that produced negative returns." www.techdirt.com/2026/03/17/d...
"A stunned and increasingly wounded world is now coming to terms with the realization that Trump’s disqualifying misbehavior is the sort of thing can happen in America, and moreover, the sort of thing that will be allowed to happen in America." www.techdirt.com/2026/03/16/a...
"I’m tired of working on myself as a full-time project. Not because I don’t care or I think nothing matters. But because turning every inner state into something that needs fixing has made life feel smaller, not more expansive." www.vogue.in/content/in-2...
Incredibly illuminating to compare income and hours worked across countries and states for ***the bottom 95% of earners only***. The typical Belgian earns as much as the typical Californian but works about 24% less
via sethackerman.substack.com
