I think the gerrymandering race to the bottom is genuinely bad and undemocratic and unfortunately what the dems are doing is the least bad of the bad options available.

Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

Gift Article
"The group includes interpreters for the U.S. military, former members of the Afghan Special Operations forces and family members of American service members. More than 400 children are among them."
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

Bhattacharya suppressed publication because:

-he strongly opposes free speech (except for his own—“free speech for me but not for thee!”)

-a study showing the benefits of COVID vaccines goes against the ethos of the anti-vaxx MAHA/MAGA/Brownstone Institute/Great Barrington Declaration cult

Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o... Heartbreaking. Contracted measles at age 5 months (too young for MMR vaccine) and died of encephalitis at age 11.

Opinion | Why Are Palantir and OpenAI Scared of Alex Bores?

Why Are Palantir and OpenAI Scared of Alex Bores? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

If you live or know people on Nadler’s NY Congressional District 12 this is an important read. I have been inundated with negative mailings for several months. This is a gift article.

While Americans are hurting, the Mar-a-Lago mafia are finding ways to profit. YouTube video by Jon Ossoff

youtube.com/shorts/JGxWH...

Opinion | It’s the End of the Internet as We Know It

It’s the End of the Internet as We Know It

By Raffi Krikorian, Chief Technology Officer at Mozilla

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

Has anyone ever been able to access Ha’aretz via a gift link?

In response to Justice Robert’s rush to halt the Obama/EPA plan, Justice Breyer said: Why the rush? The circuit court had already set a date to hear the case in June. The first deadline for power plants to reduce their emissions was six years away; full compliance was not required until 2030.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

Further proof that SCOTUS is rotten to its core.

The Supreme Court long relied on careful, time-tested procedures to issue decisions. But secret memos by the justices, obtained by The New York Times, show how the court decided to bypass those procedures and create its modern “shadow docket.” See key takeaways: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Silicon Valley Is Spending Millions to Stop One of Its Own Alex Bores, a former Palantir employee, helped pass one of the country’s toughest AI laws. Now Silicon Valley’s biggest names are trying to stop his rise to Congress.

Alex Bores, a former Palantir employee, helped pass one of the country’s toughest AI laws. Now Silicon Valley’s biggest names are trying to stop his rise to Congress. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

What if New York did your taxes for you? New Yorkers: This year should be the last year you ever file taxes. Our state government could implement a common-sense tax policy to save millions of us the headache — and the cash — that comes with ...

Tax filing should be free, easy, and automatic for every American.

I ran on that in 2022 and it's why @agounardes.bsky.social and I fought to make NY one of the first 4 states to deliver free filing for state income.

www.nydailynews.com/2022/04/14/w...

Ro Khanna Blasts Spineless Democratic Leaders YouTube video by Robert Reich

Here is a good one: m.youtube.com/shorts/u5EX9...

New Evidence Further Implicates U.S. Missiles in Strikes That Killed 21 Civilians in Iran

"The Gazification Method, per the Israeli government, not only for Gaza, but also Lebanon, and Iran… with the United States." - Christiane Amanpour.
Critical NYT investigation on people killed and civilian infrastructure struck.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/w...

Opinion | A Stunning New Verdict Rewrites the Rules of Corporate Morality

This seems important.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/o...

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

How to Tax Billionaires Step one: Abolish the estate tax. No, really.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Immigrants Are Scared to File Taxes. It Could Cost the U.S. Billions.

Immigrants Are Scared to File Taxes. It Could Cost the U.S. Billions. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

_War in the Middle East_ Live updates The request, which arrived as part of President Trump’s new budget, would amount to a roughly 40 percent increase from what the United States spent on the Pentagon this fiscal year. The administration coupled the proposal with a call for $73 billion in cuts spread across many domestic agencies, including the elimination of key federal health, housing and education programs, some of which serve minority groups and the poor.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

White House Seeks $1.5 Trillion for Defense in New Budget Request

What he won't tell Americans who are being asked to trade food, healthcare, and social security for bombs, is that this money isn't actually for defense. It's for offense - and to line the pockets of his donors and family in the process. (Gift @nytimes.com article.)

White House Seeks $1.5 Trillion for Defense in New Budget Request

Absolutely Disgusting.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

Opinion | Trump Will Lose the Birthright Citizenship Case. But in a Way, He’s Already Won.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o...

Confessions of a 17th-Century Diarist, Power Broker and Predator

"At what moment does a man become a ladies’ man, a ladies’s man a skirt chaser, a skirt chaser a Lothario, a Lothario a libertine, a libertine a pervert, a pervert a groper, a groper a groomer and a groomer a rapist?" asks the reviewer of a book on Samuel Pepys.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/b...

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San Francisco, you turned OUT! 🙌 Thank you so much to everyone who participated in any capacity.

Next up, May Day! No school, no work, no shopping, on May 1 💪

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New Political Group to Push Trump’s A.I. Agenda in Midterms

Gifted article:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/b...

Keep the #NoKings energy going. May 1, demonstrate where the real economic power lies...with you & me.
#workersOverBillionaires
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Washington desperately needs more leaders with real experience building & preserving affordable housing, as well as protecting tenants' rights. That's been the work of my career. (1/2)

The ugly history behind the Olympics’ new gender test How Nazi-era fears about gender gave rise to sex testing—and why the policy is resurfacing now.

On March 26, the International Olympic Committee announced that all athletes competing in women’s sports will be required to undergo genetic eligibility testing.

Policies like these have their roots in Nazi-era fears about gender, marking a return to a discriminatory model of surveillance.