Exclusive: The acting director of the CDC has delayed publication of a report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists.

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this is something which, plainly, AI cannot do. journalism is by definition out-of-distribution, and even if you presumed that everyone wanted to read more Claudeprose than people already do, "writing up one's findings" is not the primary job a journalist performs!

I genuinely do not understand management's refusal to agree to basic protections, like that they won't replace us with AI. It's baffling. Makes no sense. We're on strike to show management how serious we are about this, and how eager we are to get a contract done!

According to an Iraqi official, American freelance journalist Shelly Kittleson has been released by her kidnappers.

“‘It’s a bright spot on the moon,’ Mr. Hansen said, his voice breaking up, ‘and we would like to call it Carroll.’”

And... the top Catholic chaplain said in an interview taped yesterday that of the Iran strikes: "I do think that it's hard to- to cast this war, you know, as- as- as something that would be sponsored by- by the Lord."

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(Lapsed) Catholic here… The note says “no Catholic Mass” There is never Mass for Catholics on Good Friday. There is no Eucharist. There is a liturgy, but the day is supposed to be solemn. It would be weird if there *was* a Catholic Mass

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

People really memory holed-covid, due to a huge far right propaganda effort. That's why all you hear about is lockdowns, and not: - hospitals out of capacity - Skype calls with family members in quarantine as they died - bodies stored in freezer trailors - mass graves in NYC

There's a lot you probably don't know about Todd Blanche. Here are a few gems from my years of reporting on his work on Trump's legal team. www.notus.org/trump-white-...

Greg Jaffe Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt on the byline with a source on background saying the dismissal was tied to refusal to comply with Hegseth’s directive to remove the 2 black and 2 female officers from the promotion list to one star general www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

Amazon must negotiate with Staten Island warehouse workers, NLRB says reut.rs/41JyGey

I’m very glad to see someone is suing over the recent new restrictions on flying drones within 3000 feet of even *moving* DHS vehicles and assets. It’s a ridiculous new rule that I absolutely do think violates first amendment rights.

NEW: A @wired.com investigation based on DHS records ID’d the paramilitary Border Patrol units involved in high-profile violent confrontations with civilians during Midway Blitz—and much more. @awinston.bsky.social & @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop www.wired.com/story/border...

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

Read the kids Brian Floca’s Moonshot tonight

Extremely cool to hear all the launch control chatter on live TV in the Artemis II launch

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The inimitable @rusty.todayintabs.com remains undefeated. www.todayintabs.com/p/who-goes-ai

Kavanaugh twice says that he thinks their arguments about other countries adopting different rules is a good argument as a policy matter (ugh). Sauer falsely claims "almost every other country" doesn't have birthright citizenship, which is wildly wrong.

well at least the resulting hardware and subscription is too expensive for folks who can't currently afford internet access

The Trump admin is trying to spin a new meaning to this one line. But every legal scholar I've spoken to says it's painfully obvious: No matter your legal status, if you're caught breaking the law you're subject to the jurisdiction of that locality. So that means just about everyone but diplomats.

I'm at the Supreme Court this morning, and we're expecting President Trump to attend oral arguments over his attempts to unilaterally re-interpret the 14th Amendment. Several nearby streets are closed. Secret Service agents & some guys in military olive drab & sidearms are roaming the hallways.

Conversational seating 4 life

Good story by @sophlebo.bsky.social in Streetsblog today:

This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...

This 50 yr old woman spent 5 months in jail accused of a crime in a state she's never even been to, because Clearview AI misidentified her as the suspect. A judge signed off on it, cops went along with it, no process in place to even question the AI. www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/u...

Robot on the beat—Waymo (with human chaperone) in SOHO

Why Trump is sharing this and what Johnson and others are taking away from this are two different things

Like maybe this is true. But it's also true of heroin

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution. There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.

DOJ argues they don't have to tell grand jurors that targets of an indictment are journalists and were acting as such. [The underlying citation has nothing to do w/1A.] storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Also, to be clear—the only valid reason (and it is a valid one) to write directly into the CMS is if your adrenal circuitry is shot from years of deadline stress and you just want to *feel* something, even if that something is danger

He’s talking about using a chatbot to rephrase press releases

The work is and has always been developing sources, obtaining documents, triangulating facts. Then you stare at a blank page and try to figure out how to structure that mess so that someone else can understand in a few minutes what took you days or weeks or months.

[email protected] had the details first on what the redesign will look like. The redesign was first floated by ex-Mayor Eric Adams' DOT in 2024, as myself and @simko-bednarski.bsky.social reported: www.nydailynews.com/2024/09/04/n... nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/27/m...

Teach your kids about subway signaling and interlockings at home before they learn it from someone else on the playground

Best money I spend every month

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Nearly 500 TSA agents quit, US airport security delays drag on reut.rs/3NSkDA2

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If the Trump administration succeeds in chipping away at constitutional protections for basic journalistic practices, "reporters who wish to do anything more than regime stenography may risk imprisonment." Read more from FPF's Seth Stern in @theintercept.com:

NY Times throwing fountain-pen shade: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/u...

And makes me so angry that Alden closed the newsroom and sent us all to work from home … alone.

Opening Day was always one of the best days to be working in the Daily News newsroom. When the great Leon Carter was the sports editor, he would bring in his Foreman grill and grill hot dogs for the crew. Moments like those - and the comraderie of the DN staff - was what made the job such a joy.

“A man wearing a black trench coat and an ID tag around his neck then boarded the plane, and asked the flight attendant to read a list of what Jane described as Spanish-sounding names, and for those passengers to come forward.”

Per MTA, the 20 stations where the agency is testing new fare arrays:

Good reporting from NPR on how U.S. federal agencies are simply buying people's private information and location data to use in investigations — without getting warrants.