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Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.

— W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939

Home - Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota

One little thing you can do if you’re feeling helpless tonight: throw a few bucks to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. They’re reportedly stretched thin for obvious reasons and could use some help if you can offer it.

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One thing you may not recognize if you’re not from here: This isn’t a puritanical town, but casual swearing in public is much less common here than elsewhere.

Now? Now, pretty staid folks say “FUCK ICE” like it’s a greeting and it’s on signs everywhere. The unofficial motto of Minneapolis.

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

Literally everyone who even vaguely knew what a tariff was said this when they were introduced! You don’t need a team of economists to analyze the situation — no one who lives in reality was confused by this!

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CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. 

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Riley: Don’t tell me you give a shit about the middle class when all you are doing is shitting on the middle class

Among the sickening things about this process was watching the vice president smugly presiding, and casting the decisive vote, to loot the Medicaid system that is so important to communities like the one where he came from in Ohio — all for the billionaires so important to him now.

Anyone who ever believed this gang of malevolent clowns wanted to improve the safety of vaccines was being taken for a ride. They said what they needed to say to get into a position to do as much damage to public health as possible.

‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home

If you were born before 1990, consider getting a measles vaccine booster.

REMINDER: Obama admin and US allies had reached a deal with Iran to ensure they would not develop a nuclear weapon. But in 2018 Trump ended that deal at the request of Netanyahu. This is 2018 article from Times of Israel www.timesofisrael.com/in-recording...

The New York Times front page.

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

Demonstrators carry a massive replica of the U.S. Constitution at the No Kings protest in downtown Los Angeles

Me doing my part carrying the gigantic U.S. constitution down Main Street.

Do I support the Constitution?

Literally, I do.

(That’s me carrying a gigantic one down Main Street. )

#NoKings Los Angeles

Rep. Melissa Hortman, killed in targeted attack, was a champion for Minnesotan families Hortman worked closely with Gov. Tim Walz to enact policies that prioritized children and expanded protections for abortion and gender-affirming care

When Tim Walz became Kamala Harris's running mate, progressives highlighted policies passed. It could not have been possible without Melissa Hortman.
-Free school breakfast and lunch
-Restoring voting rights for felons
-Paid leave
Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social
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CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. 

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

could someone check with John Roberts whether accepting a $400 million plane for your personal use is a core executive power that congress may not constitutionally regulate or merely an action for which the president is presumptively immune from any accountability?

*Everyone* needs to read your newsletter, particularly this one.

Heard back from Novavax. Not available anywhere in the US now. They can’t assure new formulation availability in Mexico for the fall—and we were *this close* to full approval before the plug was pulled.

Additional exploratory data in the context of our COVID vaccine have shown that our technology platform can induce mucosal antibodies. Mucosal protection is important not only for the person receiving the vaccine, but for instance for reducing virus transmission. - Ruxandra Draghia-Akli, MD, PhD, Head of Research & Development at Novavax

On the Novavax earnings call today, the head of R&D made an interesting claim.

She said that the Novavax COVID vaccine is capable of inducing mucosal antibodies that could protect against infection.

This lines up with previous data that has been published on the vaccine. 🧵

#COVID19 #SarsCov2

Boasberg has game: "To permit officials to freely annul the judgments of the courts of the United States wd not just “destroy the rights acquired under those judgments”; it would make “a solemn mockery” of “the constitution itself.” (Marshall, C.J.). “So fatal a result must be deprecated by all.”

trump saw the stock market briefly go back up on rumors he was going to cancel the tariffs and went "no we're not doing that"

The circuit breakers are based on the S&P 500.

7% off for the day, 15-minute break

13% off, another 15-minute break

20% off, markets close
www.nasdaq.com/articles/mar...

he wants to abolish the income tax and fund the government almost entirely through tariffs, thereby delivering the most regressive bonanza to the rich in the history of American taxation. He has said this many many times. He said it *at the announcement* and yet pieces like this just ignore it.

It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.

Breaking News 3m ago Randy Fine, a state senator, easily won a House seat in Florida, adding to the G.O.P. majority.

This was a choice. Fine won by 8 pts in the district Mike Waltz won by 30 pts just 5 months ago.

That the NYT frames it as “easily won” is a leading reason we are where we are.

Headlines matter. Framing matters.

If Musk doesn't end his evening in a squad car, Wisconsin is just announcing that sufficiently wealthy & connected people get to publicly announce they're committing crimes, and the state will be too afraid to do anything about it. Criminal law is for the poor.

Do we know if Bluesky also has a bot presence? That’s one of many ridiculous things about twitter

Guys named Paul Weiss getting absolutely obliterated on LinkedIn right now

6/ In any case, there’s lots of very bad stuff going on right now. But put the big law firm stuff higher on your radar. Obviously not the most flashy or even sympathetic ‘victims’. But big picture it’s probably an even bigger deal than some of the more high profile horror stories.

(5/X) I don't mean this to sound doomy, I think Elon is becoming toxic politically. While the media and Times/Atlantic reader types have some strange respect for Elon, he just seems like an asshole to normal people.