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“Experts say residents may have been exposed for years and that children faced particular risks from contaminated soil and dust near the demolition sites.”
hard same
over the past 60 years, courts have used qualified immunity to excuse all sorts of egregious police abuses--saying 'maybe they didn't know they couldn't do that!'--and whittle down our constitutional right to be free from such abuses into nothingness
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The Trump administration is seeking medical records for millions of federal workers. After KFF Health News reported on the plan, some Democratic lawmakers are now questioning the legality of the request.
The agency has not publicly addressed concerns about its proposal.
Forbes is gamifying news about the horrific mass shooting in Shreveport, LA this weekend, encouraging readers to bet on the likelihood of gun regulation with fake money via its "ForbesPredict" feature.
Eight children were murdered in the shooting.
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my angry post about this case this morning is now an angry article
Roy Anthony Scott was in a mental health crisis and called 911 asking for help
Cops came and killed him, & now the Court is casting doubt on whether the cops can be held accountable for his death
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The work of transforming theories is not much without the work of transforming institutions.
State lawmakers are no longer scaling back two key tax exemptions that benefit hospitals.
“I think somebody told me I probably shouldn’t say this, but we were all bombarded with calls from lobbyists,” said Rep. Julia Howard. Another lawmaker shot back: “Yes, you were told not to bring that up.”
No surprise the Trump administration will acquiesce to an industry group to make it easier for health insurers to skimp on mental health benefits.
Now would be a good time to stop pretending corporate tax breaks are for the purpose of job creation.
Rockland County, NY, gave a $77 million data center tax break to JP Morgan Chase to create exactly one job. On a dollars-per-job basis it appears to be the costliest subsidy in U.S. history, possibly even a world record
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'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3
Members of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians voted unanimously to approve a moratorium prohibiting the development of data centers on tribal lands.
Get your community to step up too and enact a ban on data centers!
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Solidarity may be the best tool we have for improving population mental health.
Listen if RFK and co want to talk about non-pharmacological ways to address the "mental health crisis" let's do it: affordable housing, living wages, free health insurance, consumer protections, disability benefits, labor rights, clean environment, defund police, and prison abolition to start with.
“The pursuit of radical abundance lies at the heart of the communist tradition”
Radical Abundance by @kaiheron.bsky.social, @kmilb.bsky.social and @bertrussell.bsky.social reviewed in @bellacaledonia.bsky.social:
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The 2024 election had the largest Black-White turnout gap in more than three decades. It's a crisis, my friends.
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1. The paper with the implausibly large effects of Omega-3 fatty acids on mental health was now retracted. A little thread on the process where @ianhussey.mmmdata.io and I was involved.
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It reads like someone put all the manifestos of racist, misogynist mass shooters in an LLM
Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement
I've experienced parenting as continuously radicalizing. Lately I've been thinking about how we impose labor market discipline so early. We expect 3 year olds to get ready in the mornings - get dressed, eat, bathroom, etc - by a set time. That's not something humans in our evolution ever had to do.
I'm skeptical about news touting new medical treatments and technologies. They are so often over hyped. But this is genuinely remarkable.
Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."
OOP
New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
*stares directly at the camera*
Our expectations of public services in this country have been so degraded that not having trash piles covering side walks is a major initiative.
Tesla. Disney. CVS Health. United Airlines. PayPal. Billions in profits. $0 in federal corporate income taxes.
That money should be funding schools, healthcare, and public services.
This is why people are mad as hell.
I think about this a lot. Psychoanalysis is a critical tool against the psychic harms of capitalism. I'd argue psychoanalysis emerged in reaction to the capitalism's harms. However important to remember Freud turned against Marxist psychoanalysists and supported appeasing fascist governments.
“In a world of increasing commodification, psychoanalysis resists commercialised definitions of value…It challenges conventional conceptions of gender and sexual identity, and prioritises individual experiences of suffering and desire.”
"Under a degrowth framework, achieving any global poverty reduction would require Herculean efforts to eliminate inequality—so extensive that they are likely unattainable." 🤣🤣🤣
