1970s: There were 1500+ murders per year in NYC in the 1970s. There were several active serial killers. That's not counting the DeMeo crew that killed ~200 people, including random civilians for "practice." 2025: NYC had only 75 murders, the lowest number ever recorded since record keeping began.

Here is my thread on Trump's budget request, which I'll update throughout the day. He calls to cut domestic discretionary funding to the lowest level in the modern era. Trump's budget reimagines Americans' relationship with our govt, and proposes a country that does less to help people get by.

“Closure is the worst-case scenario, but it also doesn’t preclude hospitals from having to make really tough decisions about cutting services that might be essential to those communities but are just no longer financially viable,” O’Grady said. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

reminder LA was found guilty in court recently for forging documents lying about why they tossed an unhoused woman's work supplies repeatedly during sweeps

"in 80% of the cases when participants chose to consult ChatGPT, they went with wrong answers without stopping to scrutinize them"

"If even the fractional number of known contractor injuries is added to the tally, the casualty count for Americans and those on U.S. bases may top 13,600."

Someone sent me this.

So the rumors were true. Bunker Boy wanted a $400,000,000 place to hide. That figure is *double* what Karoline Leavitt said the "ballroom" would cost. How much of that increase will wind up in Donald's pockets? www.newsweek.com/trump-buildi...

“WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit.”

Economists Warn That Even Their Friend’s Son Who Went To Business School Can’t Find A Job

Let's be honest. Western mainstream media focuses on News that is of interest within their audience's attention span and is either breaking news (sensational) or provides entertainment/watercooler value. A daily grind of unseen rubble deaths from unnoticed bombing runs does not meet those criteria.

Musk’s Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2026: $827.2 billion Bezos’ Wealth 2012: $18.4 billion 2026: $222.7 billion Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2012: $17.5 billion 2026: $204.2 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Three words: tax the rich.

“A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal.” Really well-written & thought-provoking piece around the human collateral of decades of “friction reduction” in military targeting.

I looked into if Medicaid-funded providers who oversee disabled people living independently are ready for worsening climate events. The support they need from the federal government isn’t there, and it’s worsened under Trump. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The public perception around this topic seems to shift. Slowly, but some hope exists that we will end up in a better position someday ssir.org/articles/ent...

I do think this matters. yes, she was hired to impose a fascist ideology...but Ellison believed that imposing a fascist ideology would be extremely popular with viewers. the fact that it is not is a surprise to him, and not a happy one. 1

Normalise COVID. Yes. That means dealing with it as you would any other chronic disease or risk factor. Not ignoring it.

People with #LongCovid, #MECFS and similar conditions don’t get the recognition and funding they deserve — @DrAmirKhanGP.bsky.social Unless decision makers have been personally affected, it’s almost as if they think ‘it won’t happen to me’ — @ZackPolanski.bsky.social

Sighs. www.news-medical.net/news/2026031...

Microsoft OneDrive is a hot mess. Just trying to back my stuff up so I can finally delete this garbage app, along with Office 365, off my computer. Should have done this ages ago. Spending way more time than should be necessary for this. 🖕Microsoft. #enshittification

This cover of War Pigs kicks ass. www.youtube.com/shorts/kZ1XS...

genuinely why does anyone report anything he says at all as if it means anything still

Remember when people were fired for *reposting* accurate quotes from Charlie Kirk after he was killed.

It’s amazing how quickly Black women have been targeted by these laws and doubly so how little this factors into the analysis around the sexual and gender politics of this movement.

NEW: RFK Jr. is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back when trust in shots — or access to them — falters.

Prediction markets are creating incentives for gamblers to target all manner of public figures—including journalists, @cwarzel.bsky.social writes. He spoke with one reporter who’d found himself the subject of death threats over his article:

Zuckerberg set $83 billion on fire so he could pretend his shitty ad monopoly was interesting and innovative with the help of a lazy access tech press then fired a ton of his employees when his incompetent gambit ran aground.

1. 'But what stood out to him were the patterns behind the unrecognized likely COVID deaths: they were most likely to have occurred among Hispanic people, at home, among less educated people, and among people with lower incomes'. Never ignore the social determinants of health.

Mood for 2026, (the artist is Ainsley Drew, on Instagram)

"Pistols or swords?" I hear it all the time. It's how we settle people cutting in line at Dunkin Donuts. So tired of this regime of 🤡🤡🤡

This is an amazing clip. Everyone in the room knows that email is complete BS designed to trick Trump's supporters into donating. But obviously none of the Trump administration officials can actually *say that* so they all just leave open the possibility that he's selling national security secrets.

ME, MCAS, & Dysautonomia can all look like this & rates are through the roof now bc of Covid. If therapists don’t catch up they can cause so much harm. And they can’t rely on clients’ doctors to diagnose either… they need to not only learn about the conditions but also how marginalized they are

But Pete Hegseth is living off millions of dollars of lobsters and fine wines. And sleeping in a king size bed.

This would just be achingly sad if this terrified, willful ignorance and amorality didn't make life worse every day for so many millions of people.

Crazy crazy story. Times of Israel reporter ( English language Israeli news site ) gets escalating death threats to change story that’s at center of big polymarket bet. www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...

Fast forward five years: “sexy suicide coach” is the hottest new career path slash Halloween costume for Gen-Z, alongside “slop wrangler,” “TikTok oil influencer” and “human battery.”

The most disturbing aspect of the AI era is realizing how many people have only ever valued others for their labor and not their humanity.

For #LongCovid Awareness Day, we’re releasing the 2026 Long Covid Fact Sheet! This is a list of key statistics about LC, using recent data to reflect contemporary risks. We hope this will be useful for journalists, policymakers, patients, & others! /1

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?

“You’re not just becoming disabled,” said Elle Seibert, 31, who has dealt with debilitating fatigue and cardiac symptoms since 2020. “You’re realizing how easily society at large and people in your life will abandon you when you cannot offer them things.” www.latimes.com/science/stor...

My dog was so excited about my husband coming home that he stole a salt shaker off the table and ran around the house with it and spilled salt in a fairly decent circle. Totally out of character for him, but I guess we discovered that we have a sorcerer dog who just cast a protection spell?

“…when a virus can create durable immune dysfunction, you do not keep defining it by the first doorway it used to enter the body. You define it by the system it damages.” Stop calling COVID “a respiratory infection” if it’s crushing immune systems open.substack.com/pub/natocrac...

saw this coming and hate this a lot

I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

Hegseth’s pomposity, bombast, boasting, preening, vanity, love of hearing his own voice…even the gourmet champagne and lobster parties on the public dime are reminiscent of Herman Goering

Dude he has surpassed even my worst predictions of brazen behavior. This is HOF worthy corruption. I'm actually impressed By the way we should've figured out how not to pay the king like a year ago. The federal government isn't a real thing. It's his piggy bank! Someday people will realize

"where are the student protestors now" as if they were not expelled, arrested, threatened, derided, abandoned, and deported. as if we didn't systematically punish what could have been our own next generation of active political leaders. jfc.

the stink of gender resentment coming off Silicon Valley has been obvious for a while. these men hate women because they hate being told no.