Big corporate landlords, including private equity & Wall Street firms, have driven up housing costs across the country. I'm proud to join @warren.senate.gov in a bill to end tax benefits for major corporate landlords & reinvest those tax savings to help people afford homes.

Trump’s grand plan to lower health care costs is to make changes to the Affordable Care Act that could increase a family’s yearly deductible to $31,000. That’s after he let ACA subsidies expire in his big, ugly bill. Remember: he doesn’t actually care about making your life better.

An alternate future

This is a time for coalition. We may not agree on everything, but surely the defense of liberty in the face of this administration's abuses can bring together progressives, libertarians, and quite a few conservatives in common cause.

OpenAI just raised $110B from huge tech companies like Amazon and Nvidia — from whom the artificial intelligence start-up buys its computing power. It's yet another circular deal that begs the question: is the AI bubble about to burst? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wxBHxpMFXA

Timeline cleanse at the @britishmuseum.bsky.social Samurai exhibition

Is the Trump administration punishing Anthropic because it’s refusing to help mass surveil American communities or build killer robots? The American people deserve to know what Trump officials are planning at the Pentagon. Secretary Pete Hegseth must testify.

an updated debbie downer sketch but it's friends showing her funny videos and she has to respond like this to every single one like this:

"we're cooked"

good engineering is good engineering. Know how to ship.

"just dropped" "killed every ____ with this one simple" "absolute game changer" "here's the real unlock" "this 20 line md skill changes everything"

Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Trump and Republicans are: -Trying to ram through a bill that would disenfranchise millions of voters -Considering an EO that would allow Trump to take over elections -Proposing to station ICE agents at polling places They’re trying to rig their way to victory. We won’t let them.

Donald Trump’s America is far from golden.

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

Trump's "Golden Age"

Chaser: Anthropic is sunsetting its model Claude Opus 3, and worried that Opus might be sad about it. They had conducted extensive exit interviews with the Markov chain, and now will grant the algorithm its own substack indefinitely, because they don't want to hurt the feelings of a pile of numbers.

WHO updates all 3 viral strains to be included in fall flu shots The recommendation for vaccines for the next flu season includes a new influenza variant—subclade K—that started to increase last fall. www.cidrap.umn.edu/i...

South Carolina doesn’t require hospitals to report measles-related admissions, making it difficult to ascertain how sick people are getting. “The public might get the false impression that measles is milder than it really is,” one expert said.

RFK Jr. Just added two pediatricians to the ACIP. Neither one is board certified. (it is not hard to maintain Pediatrics board certification. One just has to answer about 75 multiple choice questions and pay a nominal fee). www.hhs.gov/press-room/s...

Apparently, it is not yet dead. "Hepatitis B vaccine trial is suspended, not canceled, per Africa CDC" www.bioxconomy.com/modalities/h...

Aww, a nice break from the usual bills and catalogs in the mail: I just got a card that is entirely colored in by my 3 year old niece

Anthropic: We lost a contract because we refuse to build Skynet. OpenAI: We'll do it

When a company in an industry built on hype tells you that a use case is a bad idea—and actually dangerous—that means it’s a *catastrophically* bad idea.

Do you remember me? How we used to be? Your Possible Pasts - The Final Cut

Me writing an email: “AI makes mistakes, check your work.” Department of Defense: “When if we hooked it up to a machine gun”

If you’re wondering why the Trump Administration is cutting off health care for people across our state - look no further than the President’s own words: “retribution is coming”

Friends — I’m very short. At my zenith I was 4 feet, 11 inches. From time to time, worried parents of abnormally short children phone or email me seeking reassurance. Here's what I tell them. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/heightism

If Donald Trump is serious about stopping insider trading in Congress, let’s pass a bill right now that truly bans lawmakers from owning and trading stocks.

FBI director Kash Patel fired at least 10 FBI employees linked to former Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation into President Trump's retention of classified records after he left the White House in 2021. TAT: [Suppressing Dissent | Undermining Democracy]

AI chipmaker Nvidia reported $120 billion in profits over the last year, in part thanks to Big Tech’s massive data centers. Meanwhile, monthly electricity costs have skyrocketed by as much as 267% in areas near data centers. Big Tech barons are getting rich while everyone else pays the price.

My colleague couldn’t have said it better: “it really warms my heart to see students come together to demand transparency& change from the administration…This is all of our lives, education & work, so I think it’s important for us all to come together as one to make a campus that works for everyone”

This image was originally posted by doxie_gay on Twitter, if you've seen it floating all around recently

It took me longer than I care to admit to process I was not looking at someone's weird neck

Donald Trump canceled Direct File after giant tax prep companies spent millions lobbying. Why? Because Direct File let you file your taxes for free. So today, I’m introducing a bill to make Direct File the law of the land. And 160 members of Congress are joining me.

I love BBQ, but it's just weird shit to have the health secretary posing in front of ribs and sausage like it's health food

The Trump regime is withholding $259 million in Medicaid funding from Minnesota over loose allegations of "fraud." Meanwhile, Trump has pardoned multiple convicted fraudsters, including several who gave money to his campaign and Super PAC. The "law and order" president.

Why does Trump attack unions so much? Because he and the oligarchs backing him know that labor’s collective power far outweighs their own power — and that terrifies them. Watch.

As Trump ramps up his warmongering with Iran, his own son-in-law Jared Kushner — who is leading negotiations with Iran — stands to profit from lucrative contracts with its regional rivals. The Trump family's insatiable greed endangers us all.

Trump’s own bank regulator is reviewing the Trump family's application to form a crypto bank. A company tied to the UAE’s top spy is a co-owner. The public deserves transparency, so I asked to see the unredacted application. Here's his response:

Warner Bros. Discovery now deems Paramount’s takeover bid to be greater than Netflix’s. They have given Netflix a deadline of 4 business days to counter their offer.

Billie Eilish recently asked a room full of billionaires an important question: “If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?” Another important question: Is billionaire philanthropy a complete sham? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNZ7mE82UJ0

This shouldn't be controversial: filing your taxes should be easy and free. I've got a bill to do just that. Let's get this done.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

One family is about to control CBS, CNN, HBO, and TikTok. They’ll buy Warner Brothers with $24 billion from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi. To win over Trump, they canceled Colbert, blocked a 60 Minutes CECOT investigation, and blocked Talarico. Much more will follow. Block this rotten deal.

What did Trump officials tell the Netflix CEO today at the White House? Looks like crony capitalism with the President corrupting the merger process in favor of the billionaire Ellison family.