Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program. (Published Dec. 2024)

The tech oligarchs are squandering our finite natural resources so I can log on to Instagram and talk with an AI-generated chatbot named “A Literal Horse.” (“Neigh,” it says, “neigh neighhh.”)

TikTok will now be owned by the Ellisons, Jared Kushner's firm, and Abu Dhabi's state investment fund.

BREAKING: The DC Circuit Court of Appeals denied DOGE's effort to prevent turning over much needed—and long overdue—information to CREW on its structure and operations. This is a huge win for transparency and accountability!

A very generous donor — Tom from Seattle — is matching all gifts made to his GoFundMe benefiting ProPublica, up to $15K. Make your gift and double your impact:

Global Witness exposed AI chatbots like Grok spewing climate denial venom, labeling COP30 elites as parasitic frauds and peddling manipulated data myths to fuel public ignorance. #ClimateAction

“Then came the chaos. Within days, Claudius had given away nearly all its inventory for free—including a PlayStation 5 it had been talked into buying for ‘marketing purposes’.” #AI www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

Brooks wrote this column in 2011, the same year he was pictured with Epstein in the photos released today by Dems Let’s All Feel Superior www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/o...

whyy.org/articles/phi... #WanamakerLightShow #Philadelphia

Looking a hell of a lot healthier than the 🍊💩

It is a real jump scare to click through and realize what you’re looking at without knowing in advance. Viewer discretion extremely advised.

A photo of David Brooks palling around with Epstein in the latest Epstein files drop three weeks after he wrote a column chiding America for caring about the Epstein story is some serious Rafael Palmeiro shit.

One in seven people who died in New Jersey’s state prisons since 2018 died of “unnatural causes” including overdoses, suicides, homicides, and accidents, a state watchdog found in a new report. via @newjerseymonitor.com

congress leaves EARLY so they won't be around to answer journalist's questions for whatever gets released on the #EPSTEIN files tomorrow m@ga mike johnson...at least he's a consistent COWARD 🤮 www.politico.com/live-updates...

Preach

Today, ProPublica launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and what the factories that made them are like. Here’s how to use it.

For many people, life can be a daily battle to stay positive. For people with severe depression, life can be a daily battle simply to stay. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-christ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Peter Arnett, who reported on the Vietnam and Gulf wars, has died

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

100 fucking BILLION.

Read more: kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

while i am not an academic i did see this coming and post about it on bluesky, which is why i am quoted in this article

Daniel Biss: "Following my confrontation with Greg Bovino, it is clear that ICE/CBP intends to persist with their community disruptions. I am calling for the immediate mobilization of rapid response teams to utilize whistles and other alert systems to protect our residents."

Love this.

Costs are already going up for families across America. Companies like Instacart shouldn’t be allowed to take advantage of uncertainty and squeeze families even more. We’re demanding answers.

LMAO McGovern is on fire right now 🔥🔥🔥

Call your member of Congress. Let’s win this for working people.

When you see the carnage two men were able to cause with a bolt action and pump action long gun, it just re-emphasizes the need for us in Canada to make damn sure we never loosen laws to allow for any rapid-fire style weapons. Ever. Gun lobby and conservatives be damned. #cdnpoli

Do you remember this? Back in 2019 *this post* caused quite a stir on social media.

"Starting 01/21/2026, AI Companion features will be automatically enabled for your account." Zoom is planning to auto enable AI on all accounts in January. You CAN disable this tech now and you CAN click a setting to not auto-enable it in the new year. Check your Settings.

This is the most important political, legal and democracy story right now. Yet, it has garnered relatively little coverage from legacy media outlets. The outcome in these cases may decide whether we have free and fair elections in 2026. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/as-...

MIT Professor Nuno F. Loureiro was shot multiple times in his Brookline, Mass home last night. He passed away this morning. Professor Loureiro was one of the world's leading experts in Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion. There is no suspect in custody.

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A majority of Americans are fearful of the rapid growth of AI and want to tax the obscene wealth of its billionaires. Yet neither political party cares much about the will of the people. Money talks. Democracy walks We need an anti-AI party. My final 2025 column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

@samanthamichaels.bsky.social has been a criminal justice reporter for over a decade. She has lived in an authoritarian country overseas. But she has never seen a police presence like the one in ICE-occupied Memphis. “The people supposedly eliminating crime are making the city unlivable.”

Been hunting high and low for Yukon Gold seed potatoes in the UK. No luck so far - not even Otter Farm @markdiacono.bsky.social , where I once found Amandine. Just read a Serious Eats piece explaining why Yukons are vanishing. Starting to make sense now.

what gets me is america will stop being "shocked" by what happened at brown university after a few days and move on meanwhile, the australian government is pushing for tougher gun safety laws the DAY AFTER the terrible killings in sydney - and no doubt they won't forget this day 🙏🏻

“If people wearing ski masks & tactical gear with no visible ID swarmed your workplace to take your coworkers away...could you tell the difference between fed law enforcement & a kidnapping?…We should not have to live in fear of masked, armed agents.” --ACLU www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-e...

Brown U., my alma mater, has been called "the Happy Ivy" by some because of the lifelong feeling of community it fosters. Saturday's mass shooting was another reminder that in a nation with 500 million guns, violence is eventually going to hit home My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/brow...

Honestly, it was never a personal choice. It takes a lot of work to keep most of it out of my life.

@technologyreview.com reporter @caseycrownhart.bsky.social says AI use is becoming less of a personal choice as AI becomes more embedded in our digital infrastructure. Now, a boom in construction of AI data centers is facing public backlash: buff.ly/CcMLqUj

NEW JERSEY — bonkers… the husband of an ICE agent uses her marked car to pretend to be Homeland Security and respond to a call HE MADE HIMSELF… with a gun and sirens and everything.