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If we taxed billionaires just 1% we could give every American GLP-1 injections (not immigrants).

Run on that.

Like Trump took over his account. Really, can't you hear it?

Are things slowing down or speeding up?

It's so hard to tell these days.

Always infuriating when Cohen slips into the feed & slides in some unsubstantiated BS; casually framing someone as a racist without citation in this one, not expecting follow-up, & receiving none, sadly. That dynamic's a little too "Real Time w/ Bill Maher". Skipping these appearances from now on.

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Fiverr CEO Micha Kaufman explains why everyone needs to upskill with AI Kaufman recently sent out a memo warning that “AI is coming for your jobs,” including his role as CEO of the freelance hiring platform.

The email in question? Written by AI. www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...

Trump says he's ending federal funding for NPR and PBS. They say he can't In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS. They say he can't. PBS chief Paula Kerger calls it "blatantly unlawful".

The poise & tact shown by NPR & PBS correspondents in covering the administration's ongoing efforts to destroy public media.

It's giving Al Gore presiding over electoral college certification.

www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...

YouTube video by NEON 2073 - Official Trailer

#2073 goes hard. I thought I was here for Morvern Callar doing some 12 Monkeys stuff in dystopic landscape, then I'm whisked into an unsparing, found footage documentary of the modern era? Cannot shake it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDE9...

Solving For Why - This American Life American doctors returning from Gaza compare notes and start to see a pattern. (28 minutes)

The segment on US doctors working abroad consistently encountering identical cases of children receiving direct sniper shots to the head & chest is peak This American Life.

www.thisamericanlife.org/859/chaos-gr...

'No More Tears' author discusses Johnson & Johnson's questionable business practices J&J recently lost a bid to settle lawsuits that claimed its talc powder products, including baby powder, caused cancer. Author Gardiner Harris says the company's defense "is beginning to crumble."

So talc & asbestos are linked minerals; all talc has asbestos & all asbestos contains talc? And people have rubbed this carcinogen on their babies' nether regions for a century? www.npr.org/2025/04/10/n... That the olfactory memory is triggered by the mere mention of talcum powder makes me cringe.

All this tariff-chaos has put into focus how US manufactures next to nothing, along w/ cries that making shoes is impossible w/o cheap foreign labor. But I've crunched the numbers & looks like America could domestically produce quality sneakers. Just need to lose a few high-cost positions up top.

Chicago, right? Sears tower? I'm sold.

What's the bare minimum prerequisite for calling yourself a "filmmaker"?

Giving up food in order to pay the higher, tariff-induced costs of coffee.

New word of the day: "Fauxlibuster"

Job listing caveat:

"This opportunity is likely for someone who lives outside the US in a lower living cost location or for someone who has other financial support."

Everybody having "just the flu" all the time. The new normal.

Israeli strikes across Gaza kill more than 400 Palestinians and shatter ceasefire with Hamas The attack shattered a ceasefire with Hamas and threatened to fully reignite the 17-month-old war that has already killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and caused widespread destruction.

Ah, the ol' Ceasefire Psych-Out trick apnews.com/article/isra...

I'm so put off by US states that incessantly call themselves commonwealths. Time to let it go already.

Today I learned that US Presidents are wholly exempt from conflict of interest violations (which doesn't seem right).

However, a "special government employee" with multiple government contracts & a car company is not.

Attorneys for Mahmoud Khalil release video of his arrest Attorneys for Mahmoud Khalil shared video of his arrest inside his university-owned residence. The clip shows immigration agents confronting Khalil in the lobby, informing him that he is “going to be ...

"you're gonna be under arrest."

apnews.com/video/attorn...

Can't think of a single Democratic politician that couldn't be improved by being AOC. Get the hell out of her way.

Catching myself listening to podcasts while editing another podcast.

Spend all your money, before it's all gone.

In the US we've done a good job of normalizing the abnormal for so long that there's very little of the unacceptable that we won't accept so long as we don't have to do anything different.

Centrist Dem group rails against leftist identity politics and purity tests Centrist Democrats produced a five-page document of takeaways at a retreat organized by Third Way.

The commision to transform Democrats into Republicans (to combat the Republicans who have become an authoritarian cult) has returned from their retreat (surrender) with some findings (that neolibs have always wanted). www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Dude! I know this dude!