Musk called DOGE “maximally transparent,” but it has refused to release info about its spending and operations — including the names of its employees.
ProPublica has identified 46 of them, including 12 new names we've just added.
It’s an open secret among medical professionals: Many drugs maintain their ability to combat ailments well after their expiration date. One pharmacist says he sometimes takes home expired OTC medicine so he and his family can use it.
(Published 2017, but there's no expiration date for this story)
Can't emphasize enough how good these are. Learned a lot about @jessicaramosqns.bsky.social that I wouldn't have otherwise. Incredibly useful for New York voters. Every candidate should participate. nyeditorialboard.substack.com/p/jessica-ra...
Huge changes across Facebook's platforms coming soon. Mark Zuckerberg says the recent elections "feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech..." www.facebook.com/zuck/videos/...
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New by me —>
There’s now a way for journalists to verify their Bluesky accounts through their employers (while still keeping control of them)
www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/ther...
Text from AP article: “And though the Justice Department in 2021 halted the practice of secretly seizing reporters' phone records during leak investigation, Patel has said he intends to aggressively hunt down government officials who leak information to reporters and change the law to make it easier to sue journalists. During an interview with Steve Bannon last December, Patel said he and others "will go out and find the conspirators not just in government but in the media." "We're going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections," Patel said, referring to the 2020 presidential election in which Biden, the Democratic challenger, defeated Trump. "We're going to come after you, whether it's criminally or civilly. We'll figure that out. But yeah, we're putting you all on notice."
Trump taps Kash Patel for FBI director, a loyalist who would aid effort to upend law enforcement apnews.com/article/trum...
New paper out in @ScienceMagazine! In 8 studies (multiple platforms, methods, time periods) we find: misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, when it does it's shared more + ppl are less likely to read before sharing. w/ @killianmcl1 @Klonick @mollycrockett 🧵👇
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Trump has vowed to crack down on universities involved in misinformation research, or what he dubs the "censorship cartel" - e.g. by curbing funds to those that have "flagged content for removal”, or legal threats
“I'm pretty fucking scared," one professor tells me.
www.ft.com/content/bfb4...
HKFP looks at the democrats imprisoned for subversion, from the activists, including Joshua Wong, to the former lawmakers.
In full: https://buff.ly/3CEMe1H
Donald Trump's education pick Linda McMahon, in a questionnaire for a 2009 post on a Connecticut state education board, incorrectly said she had a bachelor’s degree in education.
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At least 20 White House staffers sign letter to Biden after administration failed to follow through on vaguely worded threat to penalise Israel for impeding Gaza aid. “You are running out of time to do the right thing, decisive action could save precious lives.” www.politico.com/newsletters/...
Ohio officials have denounced a small contingent of neo-Nazis who paraded Saturday afternoon through a Columbus neighborhood – waving flags featuring swastikas and shouting a racist slur – in the latest public demonstration by White nationalists in recent years across the United States.
“Whisper inserted made-up statements that ‘include explicit harms such as perpetuating violence, making up inaccurate associations, or implying false authority’”
Stats on homelessness in NYC schools
One in eight kids in the New York City public school system are homeless. One in eight. In one of the richest cities on the planet.
Can confirm
The best account on the Internet has joined us here!
I’m up in Washington Heights… it seems to be almost daily at this point 😩
The Leonid meteor shower is seen streaking across a starry sky, as viewed from North Macedonia in November 2020. Photo by Georgi Licovski/EPA, via Shutterstock. A headline reads: "How to Watch the Leonids Meteor Shower Peak This Weekend."
You can observe only a fraction of astronomical phenomena with your naked eye. Meteor showers are one of them. The latest observable meteor shower will be the Leonids, which reach their peak Saturday night into Sunday morning. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/s...
Elon Musk wants to eliminate $2 trillion from the US budget. To understand that, we looked at his history of slashing at his companies which has led to the removal of — among other stuff — cereal, toilet paper and sensors that could have made Teslas safer.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/t...
New: Mayor Adams’ office has ordered all city agencies to set up accounts on BlueSky.
An agency staffer tells me the move comes after city employees have complained about not wanting to continue using X amid growing "fascist" sentiment on the platform. www.nydailynews.com/2024/11/14/m...
