Schulman's compensation last year was $34 million. He believes 20-30% unemployment is almost at hand, and his solution is "more education and reskilling." I don't think he understands what it would be like when a population armed to the teeth has 20-30% unemployment and no social safety net.

JUST IN: The Shreveport, Louisiana, gunman was the father of seven of the eight children he killed, police said. He also shot their mother and another woman.

Marwan Barghouti is the most popular Palestinian alive and has expressed support for a partition along the pre June 1967 borders into a separate state. Barghouti has been in Israeli jail for two decades and is routinely tortured and even threatened with murder by Israeli politicians and guards.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

Honored and humbled (and truly stunned!) to have won the LA Times Book Prize. My profound thanks to the five families at the heart of this book, whose trust and generosity made it all possible. I will never stop being grateful to them.

ugh bsky does not have the juice on the old one i would've had a pdf in two minutes, even at 22:40 on a friday

It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen

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BREAKING: A record-high 40 senators just voted to block weapons to Israel, up from 27 last July. There is much more work to be done, but today was yet another statement that the movement for Palestinian rights is growing in the halls of power.

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This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.

🚨 Record high of 40 Senators have just voted to block $300M of bulldozers to Israel. Blumenthal, Coons, Cortez Masto, Fetterman, Gillibrand, Rosen, Schumer voted w/ Republicans. Along with demolishing Palestinian homes, Israel used a bulldozer to kill 23-year-old American Rachel Corrie.

Crucial vote for the future (assuming the present doesn't destroy it completely)

I know I keep beating this drum, but 80% of this country's government based problems revolve around the fact we have infinite friction to create literally any social, transportation, or educational programs, and absolutely zero friction to just kill people.

Yeah, Mackenzie Scott is a fascinating case. She is literally ignoring the SOPs of philanthropy in order to give away wealth as quickly and efficiently as possible and she’s still getting richer. At her level it is impossible not to make money. Tax billionaires, A LOT.

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Sal Khan is spinning up an alternative post-secondary credential in concert with the largest tech companies in the world. Anyone who cares about human-centered education should wish it nothing but failure. Thankfully, Khan has practice at that. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

It is a profound irony when the nation under attack feels more empathy for the attacker's citizens than the attacking government itself.

External funding is rapidly reaching crazy levels of competition. Good luck, folks. www.gf.org/stories/anno...

I've been thinking about this framing all day.

We should judge our economy by how well the poorest are doing.

City Councilors Mitch Green, Tiffany Koyama Lane, and Candace Avalos calling on the Cudd administration to stop the worst layoffs in PSU history and fight for funding outside PSU's Board of Trustees

Uh oh, people who are fucking annoying are starting to find this post! Fortunately being wildly misread is familiar to me, a novelist, and only makes me marvel more at the power of the written word & the sublime variation in human soul & temperament 🤗

First round of donors includes Dan Ryan, TJ McHugh (Portland Metro Chamber, formerly worked for Dan Ryan), Julia Brim-Edwards, and Shah Smith (former Rene Gonzales Chief of Staff). The business class has spoken. They have their candidate in D3.

I just called both my Senators to ask them to support Sanders' Joint Resolutions of Disapproval to block weapons to Israel. It's easy; your phone rings, pick up & you're automatically connected to each of your Senators' offices. There's a script if you want. actionnetwork.org/call_campaig...

Blaming "the algorithm" sounds very much like advisers in European Courts of the 19th and early 20th century blaming "The Radical Press" for riling up the peasants, who were perfectly happy before

Ladies, just going to throw out there that I'm one of the 48% who will not potentially gamble away our life savings

It doesn't matter whether you are on twitter or bluesky, you will always see long threads of men arguing w/ each other about whether economic feelings are real without seeing anyone mention childcare costs, rising unsheltered homelessness or the fact that uncountable numbers of families live in cars

When I'm reading the magic mountain for the first time and the paperback is disintegrating as I go that's an object lesson

These are the kind of images that are on the website to advertise. How many images like this have we seen out of Gaza, just before unarmed human beings are killed or maimed, their rescuers double-tapped too? What kind of world do we want to live in? What kind of business does PDX want to nurture?

Portland residents, @portlanddsa.bsky.social learned that a local company called Sightline Intelligence is shipping lethal drone tech to Israel. Take 2 mins to click & ask electeds to look into Sightline, which uses PDX area footage in its chilling promo materials: actionnetwork.org/letters/sigh...

I wonder how it feels to be the u.s. government knowing your populace is vigorously sharing the Iranian government's memes absolutely owning you

The Bezoses would prefer you read the puff piece about the wife instead of this. It's not just that they want you to look away; they have the power to create something else to look at.

The President of Iran condemns insults to the Pope and the desecration of Jesus by the President of the United States. What a time to be alive.

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.

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It’s so cool that the pope can’t stop tweeting about how much God hates the American government

Lebanon isn't "Christian-led". It has a sectarian system with positions allocated based on sects. Yes, the president has to be Maronite, but the prime minister has to be Sunni and the Speaker of Parliament Shia. It's more of a troika system with the PM and Speaker technically holding more power.

Nearly six years reporting on working homeless families taught me one thing: the precarity isn't incidental to the profits. It's how you get them. Kimberly-Clark could pay a living wage and still clear almost $2 billion a year. They can afford to pay workers enough to live. They just choose not to.

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

Just said the words "you wanted that baton life, this is baton life" to my child while wielding bobby pins, how did this happen

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The last time support was this low for these 21 families in Gaza was during the last wave of famine at the end of June 2025. And here we are again, bakeries at half capacity, and friends writing that they aren't eating so their kids can get a bite. Make it recurring:

The woman being murdered in the video Trump posted was an immigrant. Her name was Nilufar Yasmin. She was from Bangladesh. Trump is weaponizing her death against communities like hers. Outstanding reporting from @pabloreports.bsky.social for Migrant Insider. migrantinsider.com/p/her-name-w...

OpenAI wants to be off the hook if its frontier AI models go rogue and cause 100+ deaths or more than $1 billion in financial damages. from @mzeff.bsky.social

The New York Times on Toni Morrison in 1979, for anyone thinking them targeting minorities with atrocious dehumanizing tropes is at all new “poking a finger into her scalp and scratching ‐a strange, primitive gesture” www.nytimes.com/1979/05/20/a...

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After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

These people claim to be the guardians of civilization, but their beliefs are absolutely barbaric. They are the lowest form of humanity.