Wondering if it will wind up the parent chat group enough to get me booted out if I put the article about long COVID and school grades in there... 👀
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/stu...
"We are pleased to share more than 125,000 U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs. These materials which span nearly two centuries of American law are now freely accessible online."
"Includes records and briefs spanning cases from 1830 through 2019."
Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.
NYT INVESTIGATION: As the Trump administration & Congress last year moved to repeal sanctions on Syria, the Qatar-based family that most stood to benefit was privately negotiating a real-estate partnership with Jared Kushner and proposing a Trump golf course in Syria www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...
Good morning!
Since Trump was re-elected, Forbes estimates—
💰His net worth is up $2.1 billion, to $6.4 billion
💰Eric’s is up 10x, to $400 million
💰Don Jr.’s is up 6x, to $300 million
💰20-year-old Barron is worth $150 million
And Jared became a billionaire last year.
Have a great day!
It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...
We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!
“The global health community should name this politics of contempt for what it is, redouble efforts towards justice and accountability, and reject the false neutrality of silence in the face of impunity.”
While death and destruction rained down on Iran during the war’s first month, the world’s 100 biggest oil and gas companies brought in an extra $30 million per HOUR in windfall profits.
Yes, $30 million per HOUR.
All because of the deadly and reckless decision making of one man.
NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.
"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Tishman Auditorum theatre
@thenewschool.bsky.social is hosting our NYC premiere, Q&A feat. director @valerieveatch.bsky.social, @ezekieldixonroman.bsky.social, @jessienyc.bsky.social, @mckenziewark.bsky.social
Free with registration! Come out NYC, will be maje!
Sat May 2nd, doors 6:30
event.newschool.edu/ghostinthema...
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Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:
Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%
Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%
This is what a rigged system looks like.
heatmaps from the report showing tracking
BREAKING: You checked the weather this morning.
And you just told a surveillance company where you sleep.
Meet #Webloc, used by ICE, cops & foreign govs to track 500m+ phones.
No warrant required.
Our @citizenlab.ca investigation + how to protect yourself 🧵/1
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Louisiana GOP advances bill to criminalize homelessness, create internment camps
www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
Authoritarian Action Watch Just launched What’s the status of threats to democracy this week? Find out now with the Authoritarian Action Watch, our new tool tracking the ever-changing trajectory of authoritarian tactics in the U.S. actionwatch.org
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On #LocalNewsDay, a reminder that strong local journalism is essential for a healthy democracy.
Decades of policies favoring profit have hollowed out newsrooms, closed papers, and left communities underinformed. Rebuilding local newsrooms is critical.
For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it could collect roughly $13.
For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it could collect $26.
Wondering why the Trump regime has cut 25,000 IRS employees in the last year?
It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.
An Oklahoma farmer speaking out against a new proposed datacenter found himself in handcuffs after he went a few seconds over his time at a city council meeting.
Now, he vows to fight back.
NEW REPORT: “Uncovering Webloc: An Analysis of Penlink’s Ad-based Geolocation Surveillance Tech”
Our research confirms that ad-based surveillance tech Webloc is used by military, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies across the globe.
citizenlab.ca/research/ana...
Hall of fame FT correction
something strange and horrible and somehow fitting that we should have a very real threat of madman civilizational destruction at the very moment when we also have humans on the dark side of the moon taking pictures that show how small, precious, and beautiful our world and existence is
Agree 100% .
(Ron Fournier longtime AP bureau chief in DC.)
Ms. McIver was elected in 2024 as the youngest person to represent New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District. She had served in the local legislature in Newark, and was well known in her community, but she barely knew any of her colleagues in Congress when she was charged. “We were begging members for support and they were like, ‘Who are you?’” she said. “I’m like, ‘I just got here.’ We were in the middle of meet-and-greets when it happened.” In the first weeks after the incident, many of her colleagues tried to help by donating some of their campaign money to help pay her legal fees, hosting fund-raisers or sending emails on her behalf. While a small group of members still offer her moral support, she said that the aid has petered out over time. “It’s become more difficult,” she said. “Other bad things are happening; other members are being attacked. They moved onto the next awful thing, because they have plenty to choose from.”
From the NYT profile of LaMonica McIver, which I missed on Friday when it came out.
I feel like McIver ALWAYS gets forgotten when people discuss politicized prosecutions.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...
This is the NYT headline on Trump’s insane Easter tweet
gee, why would there be regulatory challenge? oh because people will be dead, misdiagnosed or otherwise harmed?
im tired of tech ecos portraying the rule of law as something they should be exempt from
Folks in LA, can you help find footage of this crime?
Never mind that I died inside when I heard Gorsuch say in Trump v Barbara arguments that there weren't any immigration laws in the 1860s. Taps new book 👇 in which I document the over a century of first colonial then state-level international and domestic migration laws before federalization.
The front cover shows President Xi in focus smiling at Trump who is in the foreground out of focus ranting. The Economist’s headline read/: “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
The new front cover of The Economist.
