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RESULT: Omaha's Republican Mayor Jean Stothert just lost to her Democratic challenger John Ewing.

Stothert, who was running for a fourth term, resorted to anti-trans ads and messaging around who uses bathrooms in the final stretch of the campaign.

Ewing will be Omaha's first Black mayor.

New study reveals wealth inequality was never inevitable A recent study published in the journal PNAS is overturning traditional wisdom regarding the origins and inevitability of wealth inequality

A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it.
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...

Let me guess…the risk score is closely associated with race

Such an easy fix to make this headline more accurate: “RFK Jr falsely claims some vaccines are risky or ineffective”

TIL measles is a respiratory illness. I’d rather not have to learn this kind of info from news of another unvaccinated child dying from measles

The Onion is back at putting out some bangers again

How to add alt text to images on Bluesky (and why you should) Alt text is far more important than you might think, and Bluesky makes it fairly easy for you to add it to images you post.

I wish some of the biggest accounts here on Bluesky would use alt text more. It really doesn't take that much time to do.

Here's a link to a quick explainer.

www.zdnet.com/article/how-...

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

the trump admin aggressively separating gay/lesbian people from trans people is a temporary strategic measure meant to reduce pushback and build power to target all LGBT people. 1

Breaking: Trump is Scrubbing HIPAA Info off HHS Website The White House is deleting information on reproductive health privacy and discrimination at pharmacies

This from @jessicavalenti.bsky.social is exactly right. There's little doubt that Trump will act to eliminate the HIPAA privacy protections the Biden Administration built for reproductive health information. open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

Trump signs executive order to create sovereign wealth fund U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ordering the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments to create a sovereign wealth fund.

Convicted felon, Donald Trump, “signed an executive order on Monday ordering the creation of a sovereign wealth fund within the next year, saying it could potentially buy TikTok.

State-owned media? What could go wrong? 😑

www.reuters.com/markets/weal...