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May 1 sunrise

If Bodycams Drop Black Incarceration 10%, Who Was Getting Locked Up Before?

The weight is coming on. New Friday banana to look his best. Eye inspections today and blood tests. Keep your fingers crossed for him! Off to get his smoked salmon and poached chicken. We’re both happy to be alive 🙏

"Every time the president leans into belligerence... the stock market falls." Markets can’t vote, but they can mark down the price of risk.

«Is it still there?!» A dog's reaction to seeing a horse for the first time. Original post

Feeling like you can't be as happy as you once were? Add some friction into your dopamine. https://cnn.it/3OC7j3v

A movie about a couple that would definitely have a podcast:

“The power to do good is also the power to do harm; those who control the power today may not tomorrow; and, more important, what one man regards as good, another may regard as harm”.

"It is past time for Congress to strip the FCC of its censorial powers." [David Inserra]

Lifer! Have you ever seen a more gorgeous bird? This is a male blue grosbeak. ❤️ #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

Looking at Manhattan from the Brooklyn Bridge Park. #UrbanGaze #NewYorkCity #Brooklyn #Photography #Architecture #ECK.

Precious Punch 🩵

🤎💖 All animals deserve love and compassion 🤎🤎💖🤎🤎

💖 hope this makes ya smile animals are amazing 🧡🩷🧡

Housing is the largest single expense for most Americans and has been at the frontline of “affordability” politics. At the Cato Institute, we developed federal, state, and local policy ideas to improve housing affordability. Check out our “Handbook on Affordability”: https://ow.ly/bEgR50YR43v

“To the liberal, the appropriate means are free discussion and voluntary cooperation, which implies that any form of coercion is inappropriate. (…) From this standpoint, the role of the market, as already noted, is that it permits unanimity without conformity (…)”

Not now Shiela 🥰 I’m on Duty

💖 may we evolve with unity & love, like the animals 🖤🤍🤎

I love when humans respect animals

Steller’s Jay with fluffy blue feathers looking around #birds #jay #birding #corvid

If you want to read something that turns Orwell on its head without treating the reader like an idiot, I'd recommend Sandra Newman's Julia, a retelling of 1984 from Julia's POV: bookshop.org/p/books/juli...

Anti-trust is perhaps the area of public policy that could benefit the most from more Econ 101 thinking: “Persistent monopolization is extremely difficult in the absence of regulatory barriers to entry, which are the main thing to talk about if you’re fired-up about competition.”

Bateleur eagle is often referred to as "the warrior bird" by some African cultures. This raptor can spend up to 9 hours a day in the air, soaring over vast distances (up to 300 miles) with little effort. They are currently listed as Endangered or Vulnerable. TT: hawkconservancytrust

"The Department of Homeland Security is posting meme videos about how much they love deporting 'criminal aliens.' They made 'deportation ASMR' to the sound of shuffling feet and clanking chains. There is no mystery at all here, no secret to be uncovered." www.liberalcurrents.com/what-is-woke...

New research from North Carolina finds body-worn cameras reduced Black incarceration rates by 10.5%. When prosecutors see what actually happened instead of relying solely on police reports, racial disparities in convictions and sentencing shrink. https://ow.ly/RWsv50YR4Zq

The White House will continue to hype any new investments in American factories, for obvious reasons. But it is becoming obvious that those investments are happening not because of the tariffs, but despite them.

Imagine how your air travel would be if you had to buy tickets through your employer, with your employer’s permission, from a list of airlines and flights that your employer chose for its own reasons. That would be a crazy system, and it’s also a lot like American healthcare.

I have been shopping to both Republican and Democratic health wonks a hybrid strategy for reform of the tax exclusion for employer sponsored health insurance. I call that hybrid strategy Universal Health Accounts. This oped lays out the basic idea.

"One of us helped to design and implement the ACA. The other fought that law every step of the way and still supports repeal. Yet we each recognize that many of the problems the law seeks to address stem from this feature of the federal tax code."

In this post, I condemn Trump's shameful policy of deporting Russian dissenters fleeing Putin's regime. It's unjust, illegal, and damaging to US interests. But consistent in those respects with Trump's other refugee policies: reason.com/volokh/2026/...

We need to re-legalize the very cheap, bare bones housing that keeps people off the street. More broadly, we need policymakers to be ok with letting people build types of housing that they would not particularly want to live in.

España habilita asesoría gratuita para proceso de regularización que beneficiaría a miles de migrantes hondureños

BREAKING: The Supreme Court significantly narrowed a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, further eroding the impact of the landmark civil rights-era law.

Kind-Hearted Dog Comforts Orphaned Fawns Rescued by Her Human She was never trained for this — but something in her heart told her exactly what to do. One by one, she lay beside the orphaned baby deer… as if to say, "You're safe now." 💛 Original post

Tariffs on construction materials and a deportation campaign against much of the workforce have dealt a one-two punch to homebuilders. A bipartisan House bill would attempt at least mild relief on the workforce side [Tahra Hoops, The Rebuild]

Pokémon! This species is native only to Madagascar and is famous for its incredible camouflage, perfectly mimicking dead leaves to hide from predators. IG: reptilesupershow Satanic leaf-tailed gecko

"Economists across the political spectrum have noted that making employer coverage tax-free...reduces price sensitivity. That means higher prices, higher premiums and more health care spending overall." www.washingtonpost.c...

Today, the The Washington Post published my oped with former Baucus/Obama/Biden health advisor Liz Fowler on THE most important issue in health policy.