Tim Cook Will Step Down as Apple C.E.O.

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Tim Cook Will Step Down as Apple C.E.O. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/t...

The Nobel Prize winning CRISPR technology was applied to treating a patient with sickle cell anemia. Jennifer Doudna, pictured here, shared the Nobel Prize (2020) with Emmanuelle Charpentier for CRISPR.

A reminder that work on CRISPR was supported by #NIH funding.
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Somebody don’t give a today

I needed this; thanks!

What is ICE doing with all of that taxpayer money? Although they’re off the front pages, there are substantial problems — but you have to be willing to look across the country & also at policy and personnel changes. I put some of those pieces together here. joycevance.substack.com/p/ice-and-th...

We are literally at the point in history where the Pope is battling the Antichrist. 🍿

Let’s count on it!

'There Is Only One Majority in This Country, That's the Working Class,' Says Mamdani | Common Dreams "It's time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of what it is that we're pursuing and not as part of the appendix."

Mamdani: Democratic socialism viable anywhere. “...this is a politics that can flourish anywhere, because there is only one majority in this country – that’s the working class, and it’s time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of [public policy]..." www.commondreams.org/news/mamdani...

We should be learning from other countries...

Stephen Colbert Delights in Trump’s ‘Ongoing Papal Feud’

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Getting under Trump's skin (ugh): Nobody does it better than Pope Leo & Stephen Colbert
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/a...

“The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants, yet it is held together by a multitude of supportive brothers and sisters.”

—Pope Leo XIV

ICE agent charged with two felonies for pointing his gun at motorists during Operation Metro Surge Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said a nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the surge.

A nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the enforcement surge in Minnesota.

The fact that Trump’s “Justice” Department met with Epstein’s accomplice for two days, but never met with a single survivor of Epstein and Maxwell’s crimes, tells us everything we need to know.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Chicago / facing west from the steps of the MCA

Key Trump lawyer who tried to overturn 2020 election permanently disbarred Eastman has remained active in election denial circles, continuing to push conspiracy theories about voting and elections.

🚨BREAKING: The California Supreme Court permanently disbarred John Eastman — a key architect in President Donald Trump’s failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election — delivering one of the most consequential professional penalties yet for an election denier. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

GOP puts taxpayers on hook for '$550 an hour' lawyers — to defend its use of lawyers The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports Republican lawmakers are letting taxpayers foot $500-an-hour attorney fees to defend against a lawsuit challenging them “over that very practice” of “using taxpayer money to hire private attorneys.” “The lawsuit, which was filed by liberal law firm Law Forward in February, followed a 2025 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation that found the state Legislature had spent about $26 million in taxpayer money on legal fees to private law firms since 2017,” reports MJS. The paper notes that the lawyer fees really kicked in after Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul won the November 2018 election, defeating Republican former Gov. Scott Walker and Attorney General Brad Schimel. The sharp increase in spending also followed a 2018 law passed by Republican legislators, authorizing legislative leaders to hire private lawyers with taxpayer money. That 2018 law sets no limit to the amount of taxpayer money the Legislature can spend on outside counsel. Milwaukee-based law firm Fox, O'Neill & Shannon is charging taxpayers $460 and hour to defend Republicans’ new right to hire them. Colorado firm Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell will charge the Senate “a blended rate of $550 an hour for all lawyers who work on this matter," reports MJS. "It's pretty ironic that the taxpayer will once again be on the hook for the Legislature's inclination to spend, spend, spend on outside lawyers," Jeff Mandell, president and general counsel of Law Forward, said in an emailed statement. "Wisconsin taxpayers are on the hook for a pretty hefty bill, not just from the Assembly, but from the Senate as well." Neither Assembly Speaker Robin Vos nor Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu responded to requests for an interview. The Sentinel reports Democratic lawmakers introduced a bill to require a vote by the full Assembly or Senate before either house could hire private counsel at taxpayer expense. That same proposal would require the vote of the full Legislature for a joint appointment. But Republican leadership killed that bill before a floor vote.

GOP puts taxpayers on hook for '$550 an hour' lawyers — to defend its use of lawyers

Release the #epsteinfiles

There is also a”war crimes” doctrine.

Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater.

This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning.

Never doubt your power to change the system.

The eyewatering hypocrisy writes itself.

Tax Day is a reminder of America’s unequal tax system. But we can fix it | Zohran Mamdani, Gabriel Zucman and Joseph Stiglitz There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us

"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

We need more folks in the Senate who know what it means to stretch $20 until the end of the month.

WARREN: I want to understand how slashing healthcare for families so Meta gets a $3b tax cut is a 'really good outcome for the American public'

IRS CEO BISIGNANO: I don't see the two as correlated

W: Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?

This is lunacy.

NEWS: Huge first win for Mayor Mamdani’s tax-the-rich plans in NYC.

Mamdani just secured a deal with Gov. Hochul to create the state’s first-ever tax on $5 million+ second homes owned by ultrawealthy out-of-state residents.

#trumpfail #aftertrump #savedemocracy @LJ Bromfield TikTok video by LJ Bromfield

After Trump, how do we proceed…

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8gU6xqK/

Khanna: They’re saying this technology is going to be bigger than nuclear, bigger than electricity, bigger than aviation.

Last I checked, we have an FAA for aviation, nuclear energy is regulated, and electricity is regulated.

The nonstop grift the Trump family is running on taxpayers is just extraordinary.