Lutnick just can't get his story straight about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein — from back in February, where I first got him to admit he had lied about their connection, to today. What is he hiding? Why does his story keep changing? The American people deserve the truth.

"Everyone is being put on notice. This Trump season will come to an end, and every one of your mergers is going to be reexamined on the law... and we will unravel mergers that work against the public interest." WATCH: @booker.senate.gov on @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social on the CLEAN Mergers Act📺👇

"It was shareholders of Spirit who indicated 'no, we'd rather take our chances with JetBlue,' even though many right away said there's no way that gets passed... If they had allowed the Frontier deal and embraced it perhaps among Spirit shareholders, maybe the airline would still be around today."

A Long, Strange Trip: How the G.O.P. Came to Embrace Psychedelic Drugs - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/s...

Psychedelic Bar Association statement on the recent executive order on psychedelics thepsychedelicbar.org/the-executiv...

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

The reason Peter Thiel destroyed Gawker--the real reason, not them reporting on the available info that he was gay, which they could pass off to dummies as cruel--was how viciously Valleywag reported on his hedge funds performing badly off his picks and guidance.

I wrote about RightsCon's cancellation after Zambia's government announced it would postpone the event to sort out its concerns over "thematic issues." With thousands about to depart (or already en route) to Lusaka, it's a huge blow to the digital and human rights field.

“Over the weekend, there was an act of horrible violence that never would’ve happened if we didn’t have a free press,” said President Donald Trump

Proposed schedule is out for next steps in Live Nation/Ticketmaster after jury verdict: Post-trial briefing til July, meanwhile DOJ will submit proposal detailing its allegedly corrupt settlement, public comments taken until late July-ish Disputed beyond that www.courtlistener.com/docket/68557...

MADELEINE DEAN: Why did you lie to the New York Post about your relationship with Epstein? LUTNICK: The House Oversight Committee and I agreed-- DEAN: Reclaiming my time. I do not accept that answer. We are our own committee. You're dodging the question. The coverup continues.

Help your students win #NationalPoetryMonth this April. Download our FREE iambic pentameter lesson plan, including four pages of classroom worksheets and print&cut sonnet puzzles. #poetry #teaching www.bicycle-comics.com/pages/poetry...

Some of most vital #poetry of 2025 came in the guise of federal employee resignation letters. #ResignationBook

a lot of bus stops in SF are literally just a pole you have to stand next to, but today some guerilla-installed benches suddenly appeared diy cozy architecture >>>>>

Whitehouse Directs FDA, HHS and VA to Expand Psychedelic Research Pathways psychedelicstoday.com/2026/04/20/w...

Been wondering how long the DEA would get to stall on this. Good stats are hard to come by but the estimate is 40% of drug arrests are for cannabis possession. Few of these are federal cases and states have their own drug laws, so these good steps do not automatically help vs local injustice.

My thoughts on why there were so many AI companies announcing biotech projects this month: www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-bi...

The U.S. Department of Justice published a final order Thursday loosening federal restrictions on medical marijuana products that fall within the ambit of state-regulated programs or have approval from the Food and Drug Administration. www.law360.com/articles/246...

People claim that psychedelics have been used by Indigenous groups around the world for millennia. But clear evidence of serotonergic psychedelic use has long been confined to the Americas. Until now. Here, we document clear evidence of Indigenous psilocybin use in Lesotho. 🍄 osf.io/preprints/so...

Now, over 4,000 actors, directors, and writers — including Robert De Niro, Sofia Coppola, and more — are opposing the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger. The coalition warns the merger will lead to less jobs, higher costs for consumers, and fewer TV shows and movies.

How does an eel think about its life? What are the steps? And when should it start to eat its own bones? This map tells you! “But SEH,” you say. “I don’t want to come here every time I need to see this!” Good news, friends! You can buy it here as a poster and put it on your wall! etsy.me/3Nvk5jK

Such a tired trope; why does no one acknowledge how some women go on and on about the postwar reconstruction of Germany and Japan, and really specifically the policy fights over deconcentration and Zaibatsu dissolution

This is makes me happy

To be clear, EVERY small press wants to get away from Amazon. Not one small press likes being part of this monopoly. But with other print and ebook distribution channels locked up by oligopolies, we don't always have the luxury of our convictions. In this TED talk, we'll… #booksky

From @linamkhan.bsky.social and @dohamekki.bsky.social in the NYT today: ✅ state AGs fight corporate power when feds don't ✅ juries can stop it when the gov't or judges won't ✅ antitrust enforcement cannot be so expensive ✅ talk to actual small business owners & workers

EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027. The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.

Over 70 former federal employees have submitted resignation letters for our next book. Senate-confirmed officials, entry-level office workers. If you wrote a head-snapping resignation letter last year yet you /aren't/ in this book, your former colleagues might ask you why. #ResignationBook

"People are finding that, because of the way the machines are changing the world, more and more of their old values don't apply any more. People have no choice but to become second-rate machines themselves, or wards of the machines." - Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano, 1952

Today's executive order on psychedelics signals a real shift: accelerates FDA review, clarifies access via Right to Try law (for terminally ill patients etc), directs $50M to state partnerships, anything that completes Phase III trials considered for rescheduling www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Breaking News: President Trump ordered U.S. agencies to loosen restrictions on psychedelic drugs, in a move aimed at accelerating research.

Opinion: The Supreme Court could resolve a circuit split on a question that goes to the foundation of the SEC’s remedial authority: Must the SEC show that the target’s conduct caused pecuniary harm to investors for a disgorgement remedy?

Scientists find evidence some Alzheimer’s symptoms may begin outside the brain

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

Zohran Mamdani getting Kathy Hochul to agree to a pied-a-terre tax breaks the stone wall against taxing the rich that Hochul had been building since Mamdani's election. It's a critical moment, writes @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social. prospect.org/2026/04/16/m...

Since Google started putting AI Overviews at the top of its search results, traffic to websites all around the world has plummeted. This is a problem. 🧵

Behind the acid blood and jump scares of the Alien franchise is an even more insidious horror: a single employer with unchecked power. How Weyland-Yutani helps explain monopsony — and the rise of inequality on Earth. n.pr/4dGFaCl

The Google antitrust remedies are actually going to lead to advertisers getting cash back. If you spent more than $10k on Google ads, you can file for damages here. The lawyer is Ashley Keller, he's a super creative antitrust litigator. adsrefund.com

NEW: Big Tech's AI money is flooding campaigns across the country. OpenAI, Palantir, and a16z are spending hundreds of millions to oppose candidates who support AI safety, chatbot protections, and data privacy. We're calling on Dems to disavow Big Tech's Trump-connected backers.

BOOM! When Trump tried to sabotage the Ticketmaster antitrust case, the state attorneys general kept it going. And won. The antitrust revolution goes onward.

1. New evidence shows Amazon compelling specific sellers to hike their prices on other shopping sites. This is from depositions in the California antitrust case obtained by The Guardian. Expect a lot more to come out at trial. This drives prices up & is why Amazon has an iron grip.

Live Nation Monopoly Overcharged Fans by $1.72 Per Ticket, Jury Finds

Count 1: yes Live Nation Illegally Monopolized Ticketing Market, Jury Finds

People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.

Useful rundown of the policy positions of Magyar and supermajority party Tisza, including power to reverse backsliding on rule of law in Hungary 👇

"The current system whereby the individual views of the minister are controlling and his executive power transcends any legislative enactment must be done away with" -- American State & War Department joint postwar mission to Japan, 1946

I wrote about Eric Swalwell, why he's been abandoned so quickly, why a political class that surely knew about his antics didn't do anything about it and continued to support him, and what that says about accountability in America. prospect.org/2026/04/12/e...

NEW: There is real appetite among House members in both parties to expel Swalwell, Gonzales, Cherfilus-McCormick and Mills in one go and be done with it, @axios.com has found. "We want a full house cleaning," said one Democrat. "Get the garbage out of here." www.axios.com/2026/04/12/s...

"Everything I learned in law school tells me I cannot remain here another day. For that matter, everything I learned in Hebrew school reinforces that same feeling…." -former employee Dept. of Interior Did you resign in 2025? www.bicycle-comics.com/pages/resign... #ResignationBook #AltGov