ALERT: Two USF graduate assistants are currently missing. Zamil Limon (27) and Nahida S. Bristy (27) have not been seen or heard from since 4/16/2026.
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Btw, tonight's the peak of the Lyrids meteor shower, in case you wanted to try to see them.
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Fred from Scooby-Doo unmasking the bad guy at the end of a mystery, in two frames. First frame: Left side: a tied up man in a white featureless mask with eye holes. The caption over him in impact font reads, "SOMETHING I USED TO LOVE SUCKS NOW" Right side of frame, Fred has his hand on the mask, about to pull it off. The caption on him reads, "LET'S SEE WHO'S BEHIND THIS." Second frame: The unmasked bad guy has a pencil thin curling mustache, a pointy nose, and dark hair, with a widow's peak. The caption on him reads, "PRIVATE EQUITY"
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RFK Jr. just said HHS is "cleaning up the risk pool" (i.e., people who are unhealthy) to bring down healthcare costs.
We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.
“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.
(Published Dec. 2024)
Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.
At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.
Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”
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✊ So begins the largest veteran and military family act of civil disobedience since the Iraq war began, occupying the Cannon building Rotunda - protesting yet another forever war with Iran. Info below @gregjstoker.bsky.social
🏀 REPORT | Knicks owner James Dolan has built what WIRED calls a personal “deep state” across his venues – Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, and the Sphere in Las Vegas – using facial recognition, internal watchlists, and a security apparatus likened to a private intelligence agency. Surveillance reportedly extended beyond venue walls, with staff monitoring nearby neighborhoods and events. Databases allegedly included not just security threats, but people critical of Dolan on social media, lawyers suing MSG, and people loosely connected to them. An internal lawsuit and employee accounts describe real-time tracking across venues, in some cases down to the second. The most detailed case: “Nina Richards” (alias), a trans woman and regular Knicks fan, was allegedly monitored for two years. An internal report tracked routine movements - ordering drinks, interacting with staff, using the restroom. Security chief John Eversole allegedly ordered the surveillance and, according to accounts, referred to her as “him or it,” claiming her courtside presence could “damage MSG’s reputation.”
See new posts Conversation Pablo Torre Finds Out @pablofindsout REVEALED: Confidential report shows MSG surveilled Knicks super-fan, second-by-second — from entrance to bathroom to courtside. "This is not somebody threatening anyone at the Garden — this is a transgender woman on Pride Night, getting a good seat."
🏀 REPORT | Knicks owner James Dolan has built what WIRED calls a personal “deep state” across his venues – Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, and the Sphere in Las Vegas – using facial recognition, internal watchlists, and a security apparatus likened to a private intelligence agency...
Under SB 1095 in South Carolina, women who have abortions would be punished on misdemeanor criminal charges.
Even rape victims and those with nonviable pregnancies would face two years of prison time for having an abortion.
Students for Life president Kristan Hawkins calls it "an easy vote"
This is a remarkable and important step.
Ukraine, a country under full scale invasion for 4+ years, is signing deals to co-develop/produce weapons with other countries.
Saudi, UAE and Qatar are not only confident of but also banking on Ukraine being a functional nation state over the next decade.
Abortion rates in red states have not decreased, aside from medically necessary ones. Pregnancy has become much more dangerous. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):
NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2
MORGAN STANLEY: “.. The rise in gasoline prices, when viewed against data on tax refunds, keeps us comfortable with our prior downward revisions to our outlook for US GDP growth.”
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
It’s National Library Week, so support your fucking libraries people. Use them, fight for their funding, fight for your librarians. Don’t let your most reliable third space go to waste.
There's a lot of talk about leaving Substack & whether it will be the death-knell of your newsletter. I have been on Beehiiv for 7 months now & @tlpavlich.gay helped me run some numbers. So, was leaving Substack worth it? The answer, for me, has been a resounding "yes."
Here are the hard numbers:
That gives me an idea: what if a man killing their spouse really is legally a divorce, with the law stating all wealth and custody jointly held went to the survivors, excluding the killers family? The house, bank accounts, the kids, the works, automatically taken from the killer.
Baking set to opera. Found this weirdly satisfying.
Stop 👏 caping 👏 for 👏 cheap 👏 billionaire 👏 baseball 👏 owners 👏 who 👏 gaslight 👏 you 👏 into 👏 believing 👏 your 👏 favorite 👏 team 👏 is 👏 poor.
THE SAN DIEGO PADRES ARE ABOUT TO SELL FOR $3.9 BILLION. THEY WERE LAST SOLD FOR $800 MILLION IN 2012.
Today on the pod: how a few unique traits helped modern-style birds—the last living dinosaurs—survive the asteroid apocalypse that took out T. rex and other mighty beasts
On January 10, 2022, the Knicks played the San Antonio Spurs at the Garden. It was Pride night. Richards was there, attending with a friend. An 18-page report prepared by Eversole's Threat Management Group and reviewed by WIRED shows just how closely she was being monitored. 07:10:20 // CAM 0241 // scans her ticket to section 102, Row 8, Seat 5 07:11:14 // CAM 1434 // goes up terrace escalators on level 3 to level 6 concourse 07:12:52 // CAM AC10 // hugs usher Appendix A of the report has a screenshot of the embrace, with Richards circled in red. 08:08:58 // CAM 1093 // talking with F&B worker at the Draft Kings Bar 08:10:49 // CAM 0512 // pays for the drinks 08:31:19 // CAM 0485 // eating at a table It goes on and on. At 8:48 pm, camera 0489 spots another quick hug with an MSG “membership experience executive” (there's a grainy photo in the report's Appendix N). Two minutes and two seconds later, the same camera captures her heading into the women's bathroom. Her exit is noted after precisely two minutes and five seconds.
The owner of MSG and the Knicks compiled this kind of second-by-second surveillance of a trans woman while they were in the arena. They're doing this at all venues owned by James Dolan of perceived enemies. Crazy, crazy shit.
www.wired.com/story/madiso...
Hungary lesson: Don’t debate Trump on policy. Name the corruption—and threat to democracy. Connect it to people’s lives. $3,800/household from tariffs. $2.5B gutted from the CDC. Billions in Trump family crypto profits while your grocery bill climbs and your kid’s school loses funding.
Oh one more thing: If you cannot donate (no worries! I get it!), you can in whatever way you think best, spread the word about Callisto. We want people to know it exists. More info about the org & the April 24 Day of Reckoning (a free awareness campaign later this month): www.projectcallisto.org
The weatherman does not have his sleeves rolled up, St. Louisians.
what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...
Mastercard and Deloitte have both dropped off the list of companies sponsoring Trump's Freedom 250. The list of corporate sponsors of the White House's Christian nationalist Rededicate 250 event, "rededicating our country as One Nation Under God," has been updated, as of today.
Boys should also get the HPV vaccine, not only to help eliminate cervical cancer through building herd immunity but also because in this latest study it cancer risk in men by about half (in 10 years of follow up; the reduction may be larger with longer follow up)
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