National Treasure 👇 youtu.be/pQ8qGfF3Wnw

I always liked Robert De Niro as an actor. I like him even more as a political activist. He is not intimidated like some others of influence and as many vital institutions and corporations in 🇺🇸. In particular shame on the lawyer firms who folded without a legal battle.

The case for shedding and renewing your friendship pool: links.profgmedia.com/3P54WGw

While AI might technically be free, it has a hidden price, says Mia Silverio, our research lead at Prof G. If you want or need to outsource your work to AI, you should at least understand what you’re paying. She breaks it down in a livestream for our Substack subscribers: bit.ly/4f3T7uH

When you see clips of people celebrating in Hungary after corrupt Orban is gone, realize that Trump, Vance and Rubio did everything they could to keep those celebrations from happening so Putin’s puppet could remain in power.

10 May 1940 | A German Sinti girl, Hildegard Franz was born in Berlin. In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 30 March 1943. No. Z-6192 She perished in the camp on 19 June 1943. --- The fate of the Roma & Sinti in Auschwitz: 🎧 https://bit.ly/3OxLjXp 📖 https://bit.ly/44EVuxY

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Fascism, is, at its core, the complete rejection of competence. Expertise, education, diligence, science, those "hard" things are required to lift all of us up. But power, nepotism, corruption, lying, those things work for fascists because they are fine elevating a few by forcing most people down.

We are losing our best and brightest. Trump’s immigration policies will have an effect on immigrant scientists like Shirley Meng. She is stepping down as director of Energy Storage Research Alliance and will be relocating to Singapore. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

It remains great work

I wrote this in 2016.

The U.S. has spent billions to lose a war that enriches its oligarchs, impoverishes the citizenry, sabotages its alliances, and strengthens its enemies. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power. snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo...

Arthur Rothstein, Wash day, The daughter of a migrant fruit worker from Tennessee, now encamped near Winter Haven, Florida, 1937

Always close the door behind you in a fire to protect yourself and your neighbors. @fdny.bsky.social works hard to keep us safe, let's do our best to keep each other safe.

🎁🔗 Lemon Yogurt Cheesecake cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1024...

Interesting idea. It’s definitely time for some creative thinking

Artists' new, original creative works are being used without permission, to profit technology companies ingesting huge numbers of copyrighted works. Their AI systems generate mash-ups of text, images & sound without payment to the original creators.

I tried to warn everyone what the Roberts Court was about almost ten years ago www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Trump’s tariffs are an illegal tax on the American people. That was true of the tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court, and of the tariffs he replaced them with. This unconstitutional abuse of power is costing American families thousands of dollars and hurting our economy.

"The Government cannot escape liability for DOGE’s work by scapegoating ChatGPT." A US judge slammed DOGE's use of AI in a decision today blocking the termination of $100M in humanities grants, finding DOGE lacked authority and unlawfully based decisions on race and viewpoint buff.ly/Qw0qcDH

American workers, so many things are hard but you MUST learn your Weingarten rights. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weingar... As you read this, ask yourself… Don’t I really need a union actually? Like super badly?

🎁🔗 #cooking #recipe Pan-Seared Chicken With Peas and Prosciutto cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1026...

“To switch on that one data centre, we would need to shut off power for half the country,” Kenyan president William Ruto said, as he announced a decision to pull the plug on a $1 billion Microsoft data centre.

A major global realignment is coming. Steve Cook, @rosabrooks.bsky.social, and @edwardluce.bsky.social join @djrothkopf.bsky.social to break down why we might be witnessing the beginning of a post-American global order. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... youtu.be/GbBhnDMF_dA

On May 13, join us online for our annual #CancerNationalForum. Expert panelists and advocate storytellers will discuss the unique challenges rural communities face in cancer care, and what federal actions can be taken to improve #RuralCancerCare and #RuralHealth. RSVP: FightCancer.org/NationalForum

An important point to remember for today's elections in Scotland, Wales and England:

Your vote is precious. Today millions of people across Wales, Scotland and England are voting in the hope that their choice will improve their lives. I hope it will. Politicians are asking for your vote; it grants power and removes it. Use it and remind them never to take you for granted.

Cuba is a sovereign nation, not a plaything for the sociopathic imperialist in the White House. We must not normalize Presidents blithely threatening to take over other countries. (1/2)

"When I reached a former longtime senior FBI official to ask whether he’d ever seen personally branded liquor bottles distributed by a previous FBI director, he burst out laughing." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

New revelations prove Trump and Hegseth are covering up the truth about what a disaster the Iran War has been. It is Pentagon Papers 2.0. Should be a massive scandal. www.thedailybeast.com/the-scandal-...

Everyone's an expert

This

7 May 1912 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Eva Klein-Schuit, was born in Amsterdam. In November 1942 she was deported from #Westerbork to #Auschwitz. She did not survive. --- 📖The fate of Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/

Yeah obviously. As I just keep saying, this book is great

On the gas pump today

🎁🔗 Cuban Black Beans cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1013...

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Sweet Jesus what a stupid fucking world we live in.

Give this a watch. There are some excellent ideas about what we can do about SCOTUS. youtu.be/SRzS61buXkQ

Biden's presidency and the aftermath we're living through should be enough to destroy the "let's the turn page, let's look forward, let's move on" mantra that has animated centrist Democrats for decades now. Accountability matters. There has to be a reckoning.

🔎Here's what we're tracking today: Active Voting Rights Cases: 162 Active Redistricting Cases: 44 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 80 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 79 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 29 ✅ 84 Victories ❌ 35 Losses

President Biden made health insurance more affordable for millions of Americans in the ACA marketplace. The Republicans’ actions increased prices by 58% on average—amounting to huge extra costs for the average consumer each year. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart.

"Daniel was internationally recognized for her pioneering research on Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC), an aggressive cancer that disproportionately affects Black and Hispanic women." Black women are diagnosed with breast cancer at same rate as white women but 40% more likely to die from it.

"Distinguished University Professor Juliet Daniel was a world-class researcher and a trailblazer who led with both her heart and her mind. Her contributions to cancer research were monumental, yet she never lost her profound warmth or her commitment to her Caribbean roots." #Barbados