Congestion pricing was designed to finance more than $15 billion in critical transit upgrades in New York City. Those investments will take years. But the parallel changes at street level are already apparent. Here’s what we know so far. nyti.ms/4mbuGg0

Elon Musk’s regulatory troubles? Vanishing fast. Since Trump returned to the White House, federal agencies that once scrutinized Musk’s empire are being gutted or redirected. At the USDA, Trump fired the official investigating Neuralink.

Aggressive immigration enforcement makes musicians rethink U.S. tours In a time of aggressive immigration enforcement, some international musicians are deciding that going through the complicated process of getting a U.S. artist visa may not be worth the financial and s...

In a time of aggressive immigration enforcement, some international musicians are deciding that going through the complicated process of getting a U.S. artist visa may not be worth the financial and safety risks.

Heat map of measles cases across the US in shades of blue. The darkest state is Texas with 250+ cases, then New Mexico with 50-99 cases. California, Kansas, Oklahoma, Ohio, and Pennsylvania have 10-49 cases. Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York City, New York State, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington each have 1-9 cases.

“It’s frustrating because we have the solution.”

As of 5/8 there are 1,001 confirmed measles cases across 30 US states. 709 are in TX. We are probably confirming ~1 in 3 cases meaning the true number is closer to 3000 at minimum. There are 922 confirmed cases across the border in Chihuahua, Mexico

YouTube video by More Perfect Union The $140 Billion A Year of Waste That DOGE Won't Touch

If only They cared about efficiency, or anything useful to the people

U.S. judge says 2-year-old apparently deported to Honduras 'with no meaningful process' The toddler, a U.S. citizen, was apparently sent to Honduras with her mother and 11-year-old sister, even as a federal judge tried to contact an attorney representing the government.

The toddler, a U.S. citizen, was apparently sent to Honduras with her mother and 11-year-old sister, even as a federal judge tried to contact an attorney representing the government.

The Worst Thing We've Ever Done | On the Media | WNYC Studios How do you fix a case of national amnesia? A case study in Berlin, and in Montgomery.

If you listened to this week’s show and were blown away by Bryan Stevenson, go back and listen to the show that @brookegladstone.bsky.social made about the museum Stevenson built www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

It is breaking our hearts to hear of people taking their lives over the the pain this administration has caused. Please keep your eyes on and your hearts open to your loved ones. Below are resources for anyone struggling.

“That they should be the ones to welcome Pope Francis’s coffin in the basilica is because these people are those who represented the focus of his mission,” said Father Giulio Albanese, head of missionary cooperation and communications for the Vicariate of Rome. “They are those who live on the peripheries, geographical and existential peripheries.”

The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.

Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

Others, including local attorney Jack Birch, questioned why Prologis couldn’t work with the local power company to extend power lines to a less objectionable, urban site. “All we have to do is get some right of way and extend some power lines—a minor inconvenience as opposed to putting this monstrosity in the middle of the most productive farmland in our county,” Birch said.

www.insideindianabusiness.com/articles/not...

Somehow I don't think extending a transmission line dozens of miles and somehow finding a suitable urban location is more convenient than allowing a landowner near 3 transmission lines to sell 554 acres to a data center.

2 year old US citizen deported to Honduras

Oh my Lord

🤔😱😓

The Brazilian Judge Taking On the Digital Far Right Alexandre de Moraes’s efforts to fight extremism online have pitted him against Jair Bolsonaro, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump.

The Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes’s fight against right-wing extremism provided an example of how a nation can protect democracy. In a new profile, de Moraes talks about the Bolsonaro insurrection, governing in the era of social media, and Elon Musk.

Wonder how much is going to fElon…

Donald Trump says his administration has approved a defense budget of approximately $1 trillion. This would be the largest Pentagon budget ever, from an administration that's claiming to cut costs.

📢 Rumor has it the DOGE Traitor Tots were spotted at AmeriCorps.

First they gutted Peace Corps—now AmeriCorps is in their sights.

Because in Trump’s world, the best way to "cut waste" is to go after VOLUNTEERS strengthening communities at home and abroad 🙃.

we are maybe two weeks from jesse watters declaring that it’s gay for men to have sex with women

Claim by the White House:

The Supreme Court ruling made it “very clear” that Trump was “well within his constitutional authority” to carry out deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.

What the Supreme Court actually ruled:

Exclusive: Musk's DOGE using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using artificial intelligence to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to President Donald Trump and his agenda, said two people with knowledge of the matter.

Fed fam:

Do the opposite of this administration.

Be smart—keep work talk on work devices, personal/political chat on personal ones.

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AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.

Good.

The First Amendment ensures freedom of the press for all news organizations, not just the president's preferred outlets.

“Congress shall have power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises.”

- The Constitution

Time for Congress to reclaim its powers from this out-of-control administration before we have a global depression.

Gee, I wonder why?

BREAKING: The Justice Department has shut down its National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team.

Notice to all corporations: if you try to pass the cost of tariffs on to me I will "pass" on buying your product. As far as I'm concerned this is a "you problem"

The Other Side of Signalgate The Trump Administration’s extraordinary security breach has elicited shock, amusement, and anger. An eyewitness in Yemen describes what happened when the bombs started to fall.

An eyewitness said that the U.S.’s March attack on the Houthis, detailed in the Signal security breach, killed women and children, including a newborn baby. Did the Trump Administration have the authority to make the strikes, and was the intelligence reliable?

When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king, the palace becomes a circus. -Turkish proverb