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They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth. Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has a...

NEW: They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.

Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care.

By @amyyurkanin.bsky.social

The Trump administration will somehow make $10 billion off the TikTok deal The unusually large fee comes after the president brokered the sale of the company's US operations to investors allied with his administration.

The fee is about *70 percent* of the new US TikTok’s $14 billion valuation

The Secret History of Rock’s Wildest Stage Prop: P-Funk’s Mothership

The Secret History of Rock’s Wildest Stage Prop: P-Funk’s Mothership www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/a...

Anthropic Isn’t Exaggerating About an AI Panopticon In the debate about the military’s use of artificial intelligence, prompted by Anthropic’s dispute with the Pentagon that’s now headed to the courts, much has been said about the concerns related to a...

We should heed Anthropic's warning that laws have not caught up to the ways AI can invade our privacy, @davelee.me says www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Finland Is Ready for Russia. Is Anyone Else? The Arctic nation offers Europe a master class in combat readiness

Go to a bar in Finland and shout: “Who can shoot an anti-tank weapon?” All the men will stand. @liamdenning.bsky.social and @loupalune.bsky.social went to the Arctic to embed with the NATO-backed army preparing for war with Russia
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Live Nation Can ‘Gouge’ Fans on Fees, Ticketing Executives Boast Two Live Nation Entertainment Inc. ticketing directors bragged about the high fees the company charges fans at its venues, joking in internal messages that the company is “robbing them blind” and that...

Two Live Nation executives bragged about the high fees the company charges at its venues, joking in internal messages that the company is “robbing them blind” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Tycoon Who Had a Secret Life as an Alleged Scam Kingpin Chen Zhi developed a sprawling network of politicians and banks while he built a global fortune and alleged “pig butchering” scam hubs.

A mysterious Cambodia-based tycoon built an alleged global scam empire and a web of political connections to become seemingly untouchable. That was, until late 2025, when everything changed www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Florida’s Young Republicans Have a Hate Problem An ugly feature of the Republican Party in the MAGA era resurfaced this month in Florida, even though the GOP has long been trying to hide it.

You can’t ban classroom discussion of race, gender and religion and then be shocked by hate speech. Florida Republicans own the racist group chat scandal, says @maryellenklas.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

A Trump Order Protected a Weedkiller. And Also a Weapon of War.

A Trump Order Protected a Weedkiller. And Also a Weapon of War. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/c...

Ketamine, Prostitution and Money: Details of a Secret DEA Probe of Jeffrey Epstein A Department of Justice document combined with interviews reveal that a long-running investigation into organized crime led law enforcement to suspect the serial sex abuser of money laundering, distri...

The DEA secretly investigated Jeffrey Epstein and a dozen others over suspicions of distributing ‘club drugs,’ money laundering and procuring Eastern European prostitutes for elite clients. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Why Apple Decided the Time Was Right for a $599 MacBook “Budget-friendly” isn’t typically a descriptor you find next to “MacBook.” But at $599 — $499 with a student discount — Apple Inc.’s new MacBook Neo is the least expensive laptop it has ever offered. ...

Apple is making a concession to affordability with the budget MacBook Neo, @davelee.me says www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

America Second, Israel First? It was bad enough that Donald Trump hasn’t been able to explain clearly why he yet again felt he had to attack Iran, and why now. His national security advisor and secretary of state, Marco Rubio, the...

Marco Rubio lets slip that the US attacked Iran because Israel had already decided to do so. If true, that is bloodcurdling, says @andreaskluth.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The Supreme Court Has a Marijuana Problem The 17.7 million Americans who use marijuana daily or near-daily can relax: The Supreme Court appears poised to hold that Congress can’t prohibit them from owning firearms. More significantly, the arg...

A case about marijuana users and firearms exposes the practical flaws in the Supreme Court's Second Amendment doctrine, writes @profnoahfeldman.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

Casey Means Lacks the Right Stuff to Be America’s Top Doctor Casey Means, a wellness influencer, entrepreneur, and physician, this week tried to convince the Senate Health Committee that she is up to the task of serving as the US surgeon general.

Casey Means’ Senate testimony showed she's not up for the job of surgeon general, writes @lisamjarvis.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Dan ‘Razin’ Caine Spoke Truth to Power, and Power Didn’t Like It Last year I expressed cautious hope that Dan “Razin” Caine, as chairman of the Joint Chiefs and highest-ranking military officer in the United States, would be the one in this administration to assume...

Trump should listen hard to what his top military officer has told him about the risks of war with Iran, says @andreaskluth.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

How to Curtail Homeland Security’s Spy Tech Shopping Spree After receiving $170 billion in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the Department of Homeland Security went on a shopping spree. One result has been an expanding arsenal of surveillance tools that it is ...

DHS’s growing use of surveillance technology in immigration enforcement threatens the constitutional rights of American citizens, say Ruth Whittaker, @sarahpierce.bsky.social and @mikesexton.bsky.social of @thirdway.bsky.social

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The BAFTA Tourette’s Scandal May Fade. The Dialogue Shouldn’t Over the last several days, I’ve watched people turn into overnight experts on Tourette syndrome — the neurological disorder I live with.

Eventually the BAFTA Tourette's headlines will move on, but this hurtful moment needs to have a lasting impression in how we talk about inclusivity, writes @PamelaComedy www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Anthropic Should Stand Its Ground Against the Pentagon They say your values aren’t truly values until they cost you something. For Anthropic co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei, that cost might come as soon as Tuesday when he visits the Pe...

Anthropic's ethical concerns about the Defense Department's use of its technology don't make it "woke," @davelee.me says
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The non-profit Baltimore Banner has quietly registered the domain names dcbanner.com and thedcbanner.com You can see where they're going with that. And they are not the only ones, @status.news reports.

www.status.news/p/washington... [no paywall on weekends]

Whitewashing ‘Wuthering Heights’ Now Hits Differently Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights has been adapted to the big screen numerous times and, save for Andrea Arnold’s 2011 version, has largely been consistent in one disappointing way: the whitewashing of...

Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of "Wuthering Heights" is not the first to whitewash Heathcliff, but in the current political climate, it's more uncomfortable to watch www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Has Trump Delivered on His Promises? What These 12 Metrics Tell Us The president is struggling to sell his “economic miracle” to voters. What do the numbers say? These data points cut through the political noise.

President Trump’s campaign promised voters lower prices, higher wages and a massive deportation campaign. What has he achieved? Bloomberg Opinion analyzed 12 metrics to cut through the political noise
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

F.B.I. Director Celebrates Hockey Victory as Bureau Stares Down Crises

F.B.I. Director Celebrates Hockey Victory as Bureau Stares Down Crises www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/u...

When Faced With Claims of Racism, Trump Points to His Black Friends

When Faced With Claims of Racism, Trump Points to His Black Friends www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/u...

The Supreme Court’s Ruling on Tariffs Marks a Turning Point It took almost a decade, but Chief Justice John Roberts and the Supreme Court finally found a way to stand up to President Donald Trump’s executive power overreach, striking down the tariffs that are ...

The Supreme Court’s decision on tariffs strengthens its legitimacy and challenges President Trump to choose confrontation or compliance, writes @profnoahfeldman.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The ‘Board of Peace’ Is an Ego Trip The American president, in his new and additional function as chairman of a so-called Board of Peace, is about to host the leaders of some two dozen countries whom he has invited to join as members. T...

Trump's Board of Peace no longer has anything to do with its UN mandate and should be blackballed, says @andreaskluth.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The FCC Is Using ‘Equal Time’ to Silence Late Night The First Amendment looms behind the dispute between Stephen Colbert and CBS about the network’s decision to not air the host’s interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico. The net...

From Jimmy Kimmel to Stephen Colbert, the message from the FCC undermines the principles of the First Amendment, writes @profnoahfeldman.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

NIH Director Bhattacharya to lead CDC after O’Neill’s exit He's the third leader of the public health agency since this summer.

NIH Director Bhattacharya to lead CDC after O’Neill’s exit www.statnews.com/2026/02/18/c... via @statnews.com

FDA reverses course, agrees to review Moderna’s flu vaccine The FDA reversed course and told Moderna it would review its application for a new flu vaccine, the company announced Wednesday.

#FDA backs down on #Moderna: The agency had refused to review the company's licensure application for an mRNA flu vaccine, but after significant pushback has relented. www.statnews.com/2026/02/18/f...

One Year of RFK Jr. Has Left Public Health Devastated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a lot of promises on his way to becoming health secretary. He pledged to Make America Healthy Again, of course, and to restore trust in embattled health agencies. And he sai...

One year, lasting damage: @lisamjarvis.bsky.social takes stock of RFK Jr.’s dizzying, disheartening tenure at the top of America’s health bureaucracy www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...