Scrap the asylum system—and build something better Rich countries need to separate asylum from labour migration

“If liberals do not build a better system, populists will build a worse one.” (Gift article)

economist.com/leaders/2025...

People told my dad not to bother educating his 4 daughters. He didn't listen On Father's Day, Esther Ngumbi thinks of the sacrifices her Kenyan dad made to ensure that not only his son but his four daughters got an education. He'd say, "I choose to educate you, my girls."

People told my dad not to bother educating his 4 daughters. He didn't listen : Goats and Soda : NPR share.google/XsG17kN7el8T...

Here's a really happy papillon.

Opinion | Trump Wants You to Think Resistance Is Futile. It Is Not. (Gift Article) Every time we make ourselves into obstacles, we also make it a little less likely that the administration’s authoritarian fantasy becomes our reality.

wrote about the importance of ambition and political leadership

Your friendly reminder that it is literally a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison for the President, Vice President, or any employee of the White House to directly or indirectly ask the IRS to open an investigation into any specific taxpayer.

SAVE THE PENGUINS.
STOP TRUMP’S TARIFFS.

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Ohio walking away from $5.5B because of problems with child care, new report says The report on Ohio's child care crisis was from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation.

Update from Ohio :(

"Ohio’s economy is losing nearly $5.5 billion a year in wages, business profits and taxes because of problems parents have accessing child care"

www.cleveland.com/news/2025/04...

An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

Oh. My. Fucking. God.

"Trump lawyers said the court has no ability to bring him back now that Abrego Garcia is in Salvadoran custody."

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Just in case the role of Secretary of Defense opens up, Kiki is ready.

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.

Very stuffie energy

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

Um. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Only MAGA allowed

As a software engineer in this space, my interactions with AI are 1. trying to clean garbage input data to be somewhat useful and 2. deleting the vomit copilot spews all over my IDE.

Uhm. Peter Thiel.

This is Kiki. She's (barely) two years old, illiterate, an unregistered foreign national, and mouse and bird serial killer. She sees none of this as an impediment to announcing her 2028 presidential run.

Invest in education, all y'all :(

This feels like a way for Elon to funnel more money to himself and get a ton of unique training data as if that could help his hot mess of an LLM...