Samsung family in South Korea pays off record $8bn inheritance tax bill. IHT rate is 50%. The family said that "paying taxes is a natural duty of citizens". It establishes a benchmark for others. Can you imagine the super-rich doing the same in the UK?

Glad to see @bronwenmanby.bsky.social (LSE) on the podium as a speaker. I really appreciate her clear analysis on statelessness, always. It's a shame, though, that the room is devoid of listeners. What signal are European bureaucrats sending to those who are subject of this meeting?

🧵 I am going to watch a session at the European parliament (by the Subcommittee on Human Rights) on forced exile, removal of nationality and statelessness. Starting now. The room is completely EMPTY. A large TV screen shows figures fleeing, carrying backbacks and a trolley, amidst dust and flames.

Good morning nerds!

I just want to add, since this is breaking containment, that this can't be made right. these people, each one a whole universe, are gone. there can only be justice for the perpetrators; public remorse & restitution; & reform to ensure future aid systems are more just and less prone to imperial whims

just a historical note that I never miss an opportunity to bring up, Taibbi infamously fought (and overruled) the Rolling Stone fact checkers who flagged that the vampire squid does not actually have a blood funnel with which to jab anything

Checked Every Single Item On This List, And RepubliKKKans Are The Party Of Trump's Ass Being 💋 Kissed.....

One to three extra stories with a small, wheelchair-accessible elevator – this is what we’re fighting for

These jobs used to be hard to get!

People should really download this question from a young John Kerry because you’ll be asking it a lot over the next few years: 'How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?'

Reagan/Bush 1 -- ruined. Clinton -- fixed. Bush 2 -- ruined. Obama -- fixed. Trump 1 -- ruined. Biden -- fixed. Trump 2 -- ruined. Same pattern since at least 1980.

They tell us “there’s no money” for universal coverage, cheaper drugs, or rural hospitals. Then Trump and Hegseth find $200B for war with Iran. This isn’t about resources. It’s about priorities. #HealthcareNotWarfare

The AI-driven hard drive shortage is making it more expensive for the Internet Archive to operate, causing problems for Wikimedia, causing delays in academic and hobby archiving projects. Normal people and non AI companies simply can't find reasonably priced drives: www.404media.co/the-ai-hard-...

You know how you hate congress for not reining in Trump? It turns out congress could do a lot to stop the worst of the Supreme Court so you can hate them for that too.

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

Makary is blocking a treatment for incurable melanoma bc the multiple trials its undergone were not RCTs. The drug is intended for patients for whom other cancer therapies have not worked. An RCT would require a control group to continue to use chemotherapy that previously had not worked for them.

The Trump regime is using an official social media account — managed with taxpayer funds — to post offensive horseshit like this.

I think this is a very useful clip because when I say that “10 years of this man has done immeasurable damage to the social fabric of this country” what I mean is, in exemplary form, the children who came into consciousness while being told that their country’s democracy is a scam by those in power.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Bob Eckstein.

The pedestrian was hit and killed by a DRIVER. Fuck the passive voice and sentient cars.

Let me show you what hypocrisy looks like: •Bill Foster never showed up to protest ICE •Bill Foster is still silent as Israel has killed 250+ journalists •Bill Foster voted to fund DHS and went against Dem voters But now as local journalists win a pulitzer—he shows up to pretend he cares. HYPOCRITE

Plugging @doctorow.pluralistic.net’s suggestion for a Nuremberg caucus. Dems in office need to start drawing up charges NOW, if they’re serious about accountability. cc: @captmarkkelly.bsky.social @gallego.senate.gov pluralistic.net/2026/05/02/d...

2/2 Instead, the bartender said, “I’ve never heard an American say that before.” Shout “Fuck Trump” when you’re traveling and make friends around the world.

1/2 On this trip I’ve learned that the universal language is “Fuck Trump.” Years ago in Montreal a bartender gave me a thumbs up and said “Trump!” I yelled back across the bar, “Fuck Trump” The whole place went silent and I thought I was going to get my ass kicked…

Nonconsensual production of sexually explicit "deepfakes" with generative AI software is growing issue that disproportionately harms women (and sometimes even children). We looked at what occurred on a major hub for this abuse when three famous women made headlines. openmeasures.io/4chan-celebr...

"What's your strategy?" "The strategy is laser focused." "Great. And what exactly is that strategy?" "Laser. Focused." "Right. Focused on ...?" "LASER focused. Kinetic. Lethal warfightering. Strategy."

🚨BREAKING: The lead plaintiff in the case that destroyed the VRA has a history of promoting false election conspiracies and anti-voting policies, and was at the Stop the Steal protest at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

You don't wage war against the watchdog agency when you aren't doing anything wrong. www.huffpost.com/entry/immigr...

Rose Tico is one of the best Star Wars characters and her line about winning by "not fighting what we hate, but saving what we love" is one more people should take to heart.

Not to be a doomer, but because everyone is now aware how unpopular this president is, this feels like desperation to build up a massive army loyal to Trump to retain control of the country. Come what may with elections or civil resistance.

Another week, another couple of emails from people accusing me of no longer writing a newsletter, despite the 100,000+ words I’ve sent out to my subscribers since early August last year. What can I do, apart from reshare this... substack.com/home/post/p-...

If we do this 1st campaign well, every single time anyone hears about the fake, manipulative 15-minute city conspiracy myth, they also hear about how completely ridiculous it is, and they also hear about the REAL conspiracy, the #IHourCityConspiracy. Every time. Repetition, repetition, repetition.

Mayor Mamdani Is Not Going To The Met,Instead He's Spotlighting Those Who Sustain New Yorks Fashion! Mamdani Says "The REAL Glamour,Are Garment Workers, Laborers,Union Organizers And The Delivery Drivers" end quote!

The one thing you can’t do is treat a coup attempt like a normal white collar criminal event and put it on a judicial timeline instead of a political one.

Dersh is such a foul little creature.

“I’ve worked on Wall Street. I’ve worked in the government. I’ve worked at a nonprofit trying to pass tougher rules on banks and Big Tech. I joke that I’ve cased the joint, and now I’m ready for the heist—except it’s not a heist, because it’s our money. They stole it first.“

It's a very odd feeling to read that the cost of your firing was $20 billion to the US economy. Studies like this are so important. It's hard to put a value on a public service. Trustworthy economic data is vital to so much economic activity in a $29 trillion economy. Worth your time to read.

The Adventures of Prince Achmed just turned one hundred years old. It's still among the best movies ever made. For the film's birthday, we're sharing Lotte Reiniger's wonderful firsthand account of its creation: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/a-film-tha...

I only discovered the films of Lotte Reiniger last year and they're just beautiful. Her films are remarkable works of art, a high watermark not just in animation but movies in general.

Just hours before the 2026 #MetGala, hundreds gathered in the Meatpacking District to watch people walk down a different red carpet in custom couture. The "Ball Without Billionaires" - a runway show co-hosted by fashion stylist Gabriella Karefa-Johnson and 'Abbott Elementary' actress Lisa Ann Walter

Big ol' bully www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/fa...

User complaints about the side effects of psycho-therapeutics spurred a two parallel industries: 1) the pharmaceutical industry developed new formulations and more effective medicines without as many side effects. 2) the pop-psych industry published a bunch of bullshit books that helped no one.

I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them

Why does he need to fundraise for his own company? He's worth over $200 billion. He could cover $100 million in annual losses for 2,000 years.

The news keeps saying he "bumped" them while showing a kid yelling that his foot got run over. IMAGINE if this had been reversed and a protestor did this to the Cornell president. It'd be assault with a deadly weapon (which it is).

I just heard Good Morning America describe the Cornell President as "backing slowly into students." The use of "slowly" is certainly a choice aimed at downplaying what happened. I'd argue it *wasn't* slow, but even still, using a multi-ton vehicle as a weapon should never be minimized.

eyes up, islanders. let's find this tourist and get him home safe.

Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.

NEW: Elizabeth Warren and other U.S. senators sent letters grilling the nation’s major credit bureaus after a ProPublica investigation revealed two of the companies were fixing fewer consumers’ credit reports under the Trump administration.

More in the ongoing saga of trying to get that drone footage that the Boston Police took over a protest back in January. 1/2