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Today, 4 hedge fund managers on Wall St. earn more in a year than every kindergarten teacher in America combined.

Teachers: join us for a town hall tomorrow w/ leaders from the AFT & NEA to discuss the enormously important issue of raising teacher pay & saving public education.

'They chained me to the ground': Detainees at Alligator Alcatraz allege harsh punishment by guards While the new Everglades migrant detention center fends off complaints about its living conditions, some detainees claim guards are also doling out discipline for questioning rules — including standing in the hot Florida sun for extended periods. Officials deny the charge.

Some detainees claim guards are doling out discipline for questioning rules — including standing in the hot Florida sun for extended periods. Officials deny the charge. (reporting via WLRN)

Supreme Court allows Trump to fire 3 Democrats on consumer safety panel The decision further limits a 90-year-old high-court precedent that was aimed at protecting the independence of certain regulatory agencies.

The Supreme Court has allowed President Trump to terminate, without cause, former President Biden's appointees to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The court's three liberals dissented.

After Texas made performing abortions a felony, miscarriage became more dangerous. The number of blood transfusions in ED visits for first-trimester pregnancy loss shot up by 54%. My latest:

www.propublica.org/article/texa...

'Hunger Games'-Style Immigrant Reality Show Pitched To Homeland Security Sparks Outrage Their cruelty knows no bounds.

Just awful.

They really think their mass firings had nothing to do with the problems we’re now seeing.

The mayor of Newark was arrested today while protesting at a federal immigration detention center operated by GEO Group — a private prison company and major Trump donor.

Kudos to Ras Baraka for standing up to this authoritarian regime.

@tennesseelookout.com and @propublica.org are continuing to report on flex loans in Tennessee, where 110,000 borrowers have been sued by Advance Financial alone.

Have you been sued by a flex loan lender?

Call or text reporter @friedmanadam5.bsky.social at 615-249-8509 to share your experience.

Chicago Pope’s First Changes Deep-dish Eucharist wafers Oprah added to Sistine Chapel ceiling Sunday mass followed by improv set Brian Urlacher’s hair growth declared a miracle...

Most of these appeared in one form or another on Bluesky yesterday but it's nice to have them all compiled in one place

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/chi...

Texas Senate Approves Legislation to Clarify Exceptions to Abortion Ban Following ProPublica’s reporting, Republicans acknowledged women were denied care because medical providers were unsure what Texas’ abortion ban allowed. But the new legislation doesn’t remove what…

The new bill states that a life-threatening medical emergency doesn’t need to be “imminent” and says doctors can terminate ectopic pregnancies. It also clarifies that medical providers can discuss abortion with patients without violating the law.

By @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social & Lizzie Presser

Bigoted Asshole Makes The Best Barbecue

Bigoted Asshole Makes The Best Barbecue
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Business figures pay tribute to Warren Buffett after retirement announcement JP Morgan boss says Buffett represents ‘everything good about American capitalism and America itself’

Business figures pay tribute to Warren Buffett after retirement announcement

Sometimes I listen to 20 minutes of a VC Tech Bro podcast just to wonder what I would be like if I had that much irrational certainty (and ketamine.)

When even Rand Paul is like, “Yeah, that’s too extreme.”

A lawn flamingo, a lawn gnome who is shirtless and muscular, and flexing their bicep in a way that is only slightly uncomfortable for the viewer, a lawn pinwheel, and a human child all stand in a row. The text reads: Your lawn mower can't tell the difference. Always clear your lawn of objects and bystanders before mowing. Always look behind you before backing up your mower.

Your lawn mower doesn't know.

NBC POLITICS On Sunday, the secretary of state defended the Trump administration's deportation efforts, which have included deporting three children who are U.S. citizens - ages 2, 4 and 7 - alongside their mothers, according to The Washington Post. "Their mothers, who were illegally in this country, were deported. The children went with their mothers," Rubio told moderator Kristen Welker. "If those children are U.S. citizens, they can come back into the United States if there's their father or someone here who wants to assume them. But ultimately, who was deported was their mother, their mothers who were here illegally. The children just went with their mothers," the secretary of state added. Rubio called the story "misleading," saying that "you guys make it sound like ICE agents kicked down the door and grabbed the 2-year-old and threw him on an airplane."

Marco Rubio saying the 2-year-old went w/ her mother ignores the fact that ICE and DOJ officials knew about and ignored the fact that the father and a guardian, as well as their lawyers, were trying to assert their rights. ICE nonetheless deported them w/in 3 days. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-depo...

“Not Just Measles”: Whooping Cough Cases Are Soaring as Vaccine Rates Decline While much of the country is focused on the spiraling measles outbreak, experts warn that whooping cough and other preventable diseases could get much worse with falling vaccination rates and Trump’s ...

While much of the country is focused on the spiraling measles outbreak concentrated in the small, dusty towns of West Texas, cases of pertussis have skyrocketed by more than 1,500% nationwide since hitting a recent low in 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The corpses of several bluegill, in the yard. Don't worry, birds will eat them.

A couple days before I came home there was extensive flooding in our area, including an overflow from a neighboring pond streaming into our yard, thus, our lawn is currently occupied with a large number of yard fish.

Trump’s ‘idiotic’ and flawed tariff calculations stun economists ‘Willing sycophants’ came up with simplistic formula that has thrown global economy into disarray

Trump’s ‘idiotic’ and flawed tariff calculations stun economists

Trump's tariffs are so far-reaching they include several remote, uninhabited islands The global tariffs Trump announced this week include remote territories like Heard and McDonald Islands in the Indian Ocean that don't actually have human populations. Here's what to know about them.

The global tariffs Trump announced this week include remote territories like Heard and McDonald Islands in the Indian Ocean that don't actually have human populations. Here's what to know about them.

If trump's tariffs were a picture

Mass layoffs are underway at the nation's public health agencies Employees across the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have begun receiving notices of dismissal in a major overhaul expected to ultimately lay off up to 10,000 people.

10,000 Health and Human Services employees are being laid off.

These are the people who track diseases, conduct research, make sure our food and medicine is safe, and administer health insurance for nearly half the country.

Tell me how this will "make America healthy again."

Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, let’s steal some of their policies.

In Denmark:

- Health care and college are free.  

- The starting wage is $22/hr.

- Paid parental leave is 1 year.

- Paid vacation is 6 weeks.  

- All workers get pensions.

Delta plane and Air Force jet ordered to maneuver to avoid collision near DCA airport A Delta passenger plane and an Air Force jet flew narrowly close to one another outside Washington, D.C., on Friday, prompting a collision warning and "corrective instructions" from air traffic contro...

A Delta passenger plane and an Air Force jet flew narrowly close to one another outside Washington, D.C., on Friday, prompting a collision warning and "corrective instructions" from air traffic controllers.

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Are there any Dems in Utah who can stand up for the good folks in Ogden ? Their town could soon face their own Great Recession

Conservatives Boycott Computers After Noticing Keyboard Can Be Used To Type ‘Trans’

Conservatives Boycott Computers After Noticing Keyboard Can Be Used To Type ‘Trans’
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I knew it!

A post on X by Aaron Rupar (@atrupar , 3h ago): "Trump announces that the Small Business Administration will immediately handle all federal student loans, and RFK Jr is now in charge of 'handling special needs and all of the nutrition programs and everything else.'" Below, a Fox News broadcast image shows Trump speaking at a desk in the White House, with a chyron that reads: "BREAKING NEWS: TRUMP SPEAKS ON DISMANTLING EDUCATION DEPT," and a ticker below stating: "ADMINISTRATION headed by Kelly / FOX NEWS ALERT." The broadcast timestamp is 11:32 AM ET.

A day ago, they said that the Department of Education would continue to handle these despite cutbacks. Don’t believe a thing this administration says.