Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

Former U.S. Marine and firefighter Chedrick Greene wins the Michigan SD-35 special election. With Greene's victory, Democrats retain their majority in the state senate.

Today Zohran has announced historic penalties against two Bronx mega-landlords, securing $31 million in penalties and new oversight of long-delayed repairs. The penalty is the largest ever obtained by the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development. /1

Howard Lutnick is testifying before Congress today about his close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

The Trump administration has gutted the CDC’s Vessel Sanitation Program, firing every full-time inspector responsible for investigating cruise ship outbreaks.

Converting Dean and Bergen into bike boulevards has been my dream since I got into advocacy and experienced my first Dutch fietsstraat. The devil is in the details, of course, but I hope @nycdot.bsky.social really goes for it and makes these as good as they possibly can be.

7 dollar gas. Well, I guess I'll buy an electric car. Oh those are 60 thousand dollars? Well at least electricity is cheap. Oh the government won't build solar panels because it's "Too transgender"? Well at least wages are going up. Oh the idea of jobs is fake now? Well at least everyone is happ

China's big bets: Solar power, high-speed rail, inexpensive high-quality EVs. US big bets: Bomb Iran, protect domestic car industry, dismantle wind power, the Freedom to Drive initiative. Who do you think is making the smarter bets?

YouTube has removed one of my videos because I reported that women can still access abortion pills. I shared *factual & medically accurate* information about women's health—yet the platform says I'm "facilitating the sale of illegal drugs"

New #ebook at Project Gutenberg: The first Moroccan crisis, 1904-1906 by Eugene N. Anderson https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78609

94% of teachers have to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. 85% of teachers are working second jobs during the school year, often just to keep up with the cost of living. Meanwhile, the average Wall Street employee got a bonus of $246,900 in 2025. Something has gone terribly wrong.

In the last 6 months, Amazon laid off 30,000 employees. But Jeff Bezos was able to find an extra $10 MILLION to sponsor the Met Gala. Funny how the employees who make him rich are disposable, but flaunting wealth at fancy parties is a priority.

They call them "data centers" because “mass-surveillance centers” would be harder to sell.

Our @ips-dc.org report shows that 5 - count them, FIVE - billionaires have also donated to the opposition campaign against this innovative CEO pay tax

Good morning. Independent Bookshops are the heartbeat of our high streets and communities. Please, if you are able do support them. They pay their taxes & business rates whilst some in the book world. Want to fly to Mars in a Met Gala bib & tucker. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NEW: If you paid taxes for 2025, you likely paid $40 for ICE — whose abuses most Americans disapprove of — vs. just $16 for energy efficiency & renewables. Real security is climate resilience. Invest in our future. Not in ICE.

WATCH: Massive explosion at fireworks factory in Guandu Township, Liuyang, China Monday afternoon. According to new information, 21 people were killed with 61 others injured.

New #ebook at Project Gutenberg: Poison mysteries in history, romance and crime by C. J. S. Thompson https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78589

Senate Republicans are now proposing using $1 billion in taxpayer money for the security upgrades in Trump's East Wing project.

Kevin O’Leary is now claiming without evidence that 90% of the people protesting his 40,000 acre Utah data center are “being bussed in” and don’t even live in the state.

Big news: States Newsroom is launching Daybreak, a new morning newsletter written by Madyson Fitzgerald featuring news from all 50 states and Washington, D.C. Daybreak will replace Stateline Daily starting tomorrow morning. Sign up here: https://www.newsfromthestates.com/newsletter/daybreak

Washington’s Supreme Court on Monday denied a conservative political committee’s request to pursue an attempt to repeal the state’s new income tax law with a referendum this fall. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/05/04/w...

Fair taxation of the super rich and fair political representation across all groups are bulwarks against violent revolution.

BREAKING: Indiana average diesel prices have reached $6/gal and are less than a penny away from surpassing 2022's high of $6.039/gal.

In the last 5 days, Michigan's average diesel price has soared 90 cents per gallon to $6, a new record, just as farmers are getting into their fields. Illinois has also set a new record, and Indiana and Ohio are poised to be next.

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We went from "armed gunman mere seconds away from shooting the president is killed by Secret Service" to "guy with a shotgun falls down on a different floor well outside the entrance of the ballroom and we can't find the bullets because that just happens sometimes" awfully fast.

RESULT out of Texas. The Lake Travis school district in the Austin area become a focal point for book bans (see this story from 2024: www.kut.org/education/20...) Two conservatives school board members who were integral to that push just lost their reelection bids tonight, and are ousted.

POTUS has a dentist on call 24/7. This is another weird disappearance around the first of the month for Trump.

It's already been over a month since I gave up on my YouTube channel apparently 🤯👀 #blog #YouTube #writing #blogger bookswithnoelle.wordpress.com/2026/03/29/g...

Remember, while average Americans suffer due to high prices, billionaires are profiting.

Texas State Senate District 4 Special Election Early Vote from Jefferson County: 🔵 Brett Ligon - 1,393 (73.4%) 🔴 Ron Angeletti - 505 (26.6%)

Has anyone noticed the prices of ~everything~ suddenly shooting up?

Less war and more: Libraries Public media Free healthcare Affordable groceries Clean energy Affordable rent

I owe my position as Mayor of New York City to the power of working people and I will always govern with them in mind. 

We’ve delivered millions of dollars in corporate settlements to workers — nearly $100K each day we’ve been in office. 

We’re just getting started. Happy May Day, New York.

🎯Amazon is stuck with months of repairs after drone strikes on their data centers by Iran - at an estimated cost of $150 million per month A likely consequence of investing so heavily in the current Trump administration.

just imagine what airlines are contending with... here's the cost to fill a Boeing 777-300ER today: Chicago $213,111 Dallas $179,779 Minneapolis $181,695 New York City $182,269 Los Angeles $217,708 Seattle $225,849

New record: the national average price of gasoline has *never been higher* on the second day in May than it is today: 5/2/26: $4.45 5/2/25: $3.16 5/2/24: $3.68 5/2/23: $3.57 5/2/22: $4.19 5/2/21: $2.89

Now that Spirit Airlines is going out of business can we have high speed rail?? Please? 🥺🙏

Trump is killing the economy. Spirit Airlines is gone. After 34 years, the airline shut down before dawn this morning every flight canceled, every employee out of a job, millions of passengers left scrambling. And the story of how it happened is a direct line back to Trump’s war with Iran.

landlords, and airbnb hosts most of all, operate under the incredible delusion that they are entitled to infinite, guaranteed profit. all reward, no risk.

Since Trump entered office: — Air pollution levels in the US have increased by the most in 25 years — Regulatory rollbacks have put over 5 million Americans at increased risk of lung cancer — The EPA has taken a record low number of enforcement actions against air polluters

The average home price is up 433% since 1983. Today, the average price of a home is $405,300. In 1983 that number was just $75,900.

Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon have announced that they now plan to spend $725 billion on infrastructure this year — mostly AI data centers. With that money America could end homelessness, alleviate hunger, make public colleges free, and more.

An important update: Texas courts created such an unprecedented situation in an emergency filing last night, no one knows who is in charge of InfoWars, and therefore no one can pay rent. Since no one controls these assets right now, it does appear InfoWars will shut down tonight at midnight.

(WSJ) - The U.S. national debt now exceeds 100% of gross domestic product, crossing a once-unthinkable threshold, on the way toward breaking the record set in the wake of World War II. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-...

Half of the AI data centers have been cancelled. A quarter are under review. And just 24% are being built as planned. The AI scam is dying.

Notice how a book can make you gay, a vaccine can make you autistic, a mask can make you sicker, and a poster of the Ten Commandments can make you moral, but guns don’t kill people.