NEW: Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth The vitamin K shot, a lifesaving injection given to newborns to prevent uncontrollable bleeding of the brain and intestines, has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

In the past year alone, Jeff Bezos's net worth has increased by $75 billion. That’s $205,479,452 per day $8,561,643 per hour $142,694 per minute $2,378 per second The median American’s weekly earnings is $1,235 ($64,220/yr).

A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

Go Big Red! Husker Hoops makes history! Hallelujah!!

It’s not “identity politics” to not want to be denied equality or mistreated because of your identity. In case anyone was wondering.

Why Every Book Sucks whyeverybooksucks.substack.com?r=tk4qs&utm_...

MAGA is a nihilistic death cult. And it's us, not them, they want dead. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—

Chris Fowler: "Alabama has never had a bowl loss like this. Ever." Chris was alive and aware of the 1972 Orange Bowl, in which Nebraska beat Alabama 38-6. We (UNL) are now the Grey Gardens of college football programs, but we beat the shit out of Bama back then.

Nixon: 18 minutes Drumpf: 16 photos

The Big Ten has completed its regular season so it's time to hand out some awards and pick all-conference teams. Here are my takes on Player, Setter, Freshman, Libero and Coach of the Year in the Big Ten. Plus actual teams for all-league honors! www.si.com/college/nebr...

Nebraska’s path to the national championship, should seeds hold, would be: - Long Island - No. 8 San Diego - No. 4 Kansas - No. 2 Louisville - No. 1 Pitt - No. 1 Kentucky/No. 1 Texas

Longer mortgages, shorter lifespans. Sounds awesome.

Media and Society class was fun today

Welcome to the Heritage Foundation's Christian Nationalist America, co-sponsored by the Federalist Society and Palantir Technologies, hosted by reality TV's Donald Trump.

US added 177,000 in April, but most of those went to Marco Rubio.

it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months

Here's a great NFL mock draft by Stevenson student Jimmy Rudolph: stevensonvillager.com/34616/uncate...

A draft of an executive order to gut the State Department includes eliminating Africa operations, ending the foreign service exam and closing offices that focus on climate change, democracy and human rights. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/us/politics/trump-state-department-overhaul.html?unlocke

In fiscal year 2024, Target CEO Brian Cornell received total compensation of $19,203,353. This included a base salary of $1.4 million, $14.7 million in stock awards, and $3.1 million in other compensation. This compensation was 719 times the median employee pay of $26,696.

NOTE: There are more people *in this frame of television* than there are transgender athletes in the State of Maine *All* of this is theater for stupid people

You do realize this is where Trump is taking us, right? Let’s support the truth tellers among American journalists. Without them, we really have no country anymore www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...

What has the demented, criminal dictator decreed today?

We have the most anti-free speech government in modern American history. (And yet, in true Orwellian fashion, they claim to be champions of free speech.)

Journalists: you cannot deport U.S. citizens out of their own country. Do not simply regurgitate the words of the administration if those words are inaccurate. To do so is spreading disinformation. Deportation, according to the govt itself, is for people with no legal right to be here.

A great story by Stevenson student Daniel Mihm. Your feel-good news for today. stevensonvillager.com/34361/featur...

Americans voted against the most successful economic recovery of any nation on the planet for this, because they were mad at their servants being paid more and listened to liars who made them feel good.

“This is not what we voted for.” Yes, yes, it is. You just didn’t think it could destroy you, too.

The 400 books on racism, gender and inequality (in addition to other subjects) pulled off the shelvers of the U.S. Naval Academy's library. media.defense.gov/2025/Apr/04/...

He doesn’t care about those who’ve served. Never has. Never will.

It's broken 40,000. In the wrong direction.

What's up? No, the question is "What's down?" The answer: Everything.

France is really making America look like the shitty city on the hill today. We have a convicted felon squatting in the WH cuz there is no rule of law.

Black history is American history.

Yep

The sheer existence of DOGE and the incredible access it has enjoyed is failed state shit. It simply couldn’t exist in a country on anything but a rapid downward trajectory.

Future history books will refer to the "Great American scientific migration of the 21st century," that time when most of America's great young minds fled to other countries to pursue what became illegal in the U.S.: honest scientific inquiry.

Outsourcing Cruelty: Immigrants Sent to El Salvador's Prisons Likely to Face Human Rights Abuses Marco Rubio's Department of State is fully aware of the human rights abuses in Bukele's El Salvador as shown in their country conditions reports. austinkocher.substack.com/p/outsourcin...

Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones. Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

GOP representative: “I support Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency.” Town hall crowd: “BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!” Let’s keep making Republicans own their complicity in President Musk’s hostile takeover. Take action near you during this congressional recess: indivisible.org/muskorus

When you erase the history of the code talkers, you are erasing the history of the Second World War. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Several politicians just bought shares of Palantir, a data analytics firms with ties to Trump and Musk that specializes in defense and surveillance. The company is poised to benefit from outsourcing and privatizing the federal government. From @sludge.bsky.social: readsludge.com/2025/03/18/l....

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Lede: As President Donald Trump’s anti-media rhetoric turns into action, educators are reminding student journalists that this is when “journalism is needed most.” Chatwan Mongkol Mar 17, 2025

The White House did not *obey.* That is the more relevant verb, given that this is about flouting a court order, separation of powers, and the Constitutional crisis we are in. This kind of word choice is critical.

Book club has been postponed, Charm City.