Billionaire Tom Steyer just said on stage “Me paying more taxes is not the answer!”
Run this on loop.

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"He has told aides he has no intention of still being in the International Ballroom at the Washington Hilton when the Wall Street Journal is honored with the Katherine Graham award for its scoop about a bawdy letter Trump allegedly wrote for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday card."

Peter Hotez discusses tropical disease, the importance of science communication, career advice for young scientists, and more He describes his work in tropical disease, and how climate change has been elevating it in areas like the Gulf Coast of the United States. Plus, the importance of elevating scientists, what he has fou...

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The housing affordability crisis isn’t just crushing millennials—it’s squeezing out buyers in their 50s and older, too | Fortune “When purchasing power declines, fewer people buy homes at 28—but also fewer purchase at 38 or 48,” writes Housing Center codirector Ed Pinto.

I don't have a gift link, but this headline grabbed me. #GenX
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Two Iranian Women in ICE Detention Are Not, In Fact, Related to Qasem Soleimani, Documents Show After Laura Loomer pointed to two women she claimed were connected to the late Iranian military commander, they were arrested and remain in immigration detention. One is now gravely ill.

Loomerism. Laura Loomer got Marco Rubio to throw two Iranian women with green cards in ICE jail to be stripped of status and deported, claiming they were related to Qasem Soleimani. Official documents provided to dropsitenews.com
appear to show they are NOT related; they're innocent.

AI Has Emboldened Child Predators, and Investigators Can't Keep Up To find real kids in danger, law enforcement must sift through a surge of AI-generated sex imagery.

🎁 Gift Link: AI Has Emboldened Child Predators, and Investigators Can't Keep Up
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PabloReports: What do you make of Stephen Miller and Tom Homan asking for all this money but then refusing to show up to the hearing today?

Frost: That’s what happens when you have a lapdog as speaker.

The Disappearance of the Public Bench Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest.

“Benches aren’t just disappearing from large railroad stations, but also from subways, parks, plazas, sidewalks, and esplanades…in the past decade, across the U.S., hundreds of places to sit in public have quietly disappeared.”

The Disappearance of the Public Bench.

By @placesjournal.bsky.social

right-wing populism is currently the greatest force for moral and epistemic relativism on the planet

C.D.C. Cancels Publication of Study Showing Benefits of Covid Vaccines

Jay Bhattacharya pulls a study because he doesn’t like the conclusions. I cannot explain how bad this is and how it reeks of the stench of ideological zealotry and has no basis in science. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

How Prior Authorizations Limit Access to Health Care Putting Patients and Physicians in an Unnavigable Maze

My book Coverage Denied comes out tomorrow & I'm grateful to @donmoyn.bsky.social for the space to lay out the core findings, which show how prior auth's extension into most corners of health care burdens patients & their physicians, and in doing so deepens inequity open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Sweet Jesus. The taxpayers just gifted $1.25M to this asshole. KBJ was right when she said the Oval Office would become the seat of criminality in America if Roberts granted Trump immunity.

Here in New Jersey, more than 2/3rds of voters support balcony solar panels. A bill to allow them is stalled by concerns* from power companies.

Average new UK electric car price is now lower than petrol vehicles Autotrader says average EV cost is £785 cheaper, in an important milestone in the move away from fossil fuels

Average new UK electric car price is now lower than petrol vehicles.

Autotrader says average EV cost is £785 cheaper, in an important milestone in the move away from fossil fuels.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What institution did they find these people in?

My Administration made the largest investment in building affordable and accessible housing in Maine history, but there's more work to be done.

Owning a home is part of the American dream — as Senator, I'll work to make that dream a reality for all Maine people.

Fannie, Freddie to accept 'predictive' credit scores, US officials say Housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are now accepting additional credit scores ​that take into account rent and utility payments, a U.S. ‌government official overseeing the agencies announced on Wednesday.

Fannie, Freddie to accept 'predictive' credit scores, US officials say reut.rs/4tnrvFf

‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

What the American "drug war" looks like on the ground: Ecuadorian fishermen were attacked in a double drone strike, arrested at gupoint, taken to El Salvador and then finally released.
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My grandpa learned the hard way to never let the kids name the farm animals something cute. He was the only one to eat an entire heffer one year. After that they were named stuff like Hamburger and Brisket.

I was perfectly happy way back with WordPerfect 5.2, Paradox, and Lotus 1-2-3.

Why Democrats with 2028 hopes are calling Lina Khan – and what she’s telling them about remaking the economy | CNN Politics Lina Khan is getting constant calls from Democrats, many of them thinking about presidential runs, to sound out problems and workshop potential solutions. That’s a shift from when she was Federal Trad...

If you want to lead our party (and lead our country), then of course you should be calling Lina Khan.

Let's stand up to out-of-control monopolies. Let's rein in unchecked corporate power. Democrats should be the party that fights for working people.

Trump may do more for the energy transition than any other individual through sheer incompetence, just like JD Vance may do more than anyone else for the cause of global antifascism simply by being viscerally repellent.

less than a week ago the president told the world the strait of hormuz had been reopened and would never close again in the history of the planet

Texas GOP candidate bet on his own election on Kalshi Zeke Enriquez, who ran in the GOP primary for Texas’ 21st Congressional District, was fined and barred from the prediction market platform for five years. Two candidates in other states were suspended...

How Texas Republican Zeke Enriquez bet on his own race for the TX-21 house seat, and got caught doing it. A very Texas GOP thing to do.

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My hot take is that the median social system breaks under too much optimization pressure, and we should stop trying to optimize things

news Exclusive: Microsoft Moving All GitHub Copilot Subscribers To Token-Based Billing In June Ed Zitron Apr 22, 2026 2 min read Executive Summary: Internal documents reveal Microsoft’s planned rollout for token-based billing for all GitHub Copilot customers starting in June. Copilot Business Customers will pay $19 per-user-per-month and receive $30 of pooled AI credits. Copilot Enterprise customers will pay $39 per-user-per-month and receive $70 of pooled AI credits. It is unclear what will happen to individual subscribers. The company is expected to make the announcement on 4/23.

Exclusive: Microsoft is shifting GitHub Copilot subscribers to token-Based Billing In June, with business users paying either $19-a-month for $30 or $39-a-month for $70 of pooled AI credits billed at token rates. It's unclear what happens to individual accounts.
www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-mi...

They have to search sooooo hard to find these people.

Top Trump Terror Official Suspended Over Sugar Baby Allegations The 29-year-old is under investigation after a report revealed she dated an older man she met on a sugar daddy website.

A top Trump-appointed official was suspended after she was accused in a bombshell report of being on a sugar daddy website.