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BlackRock Won’t Let Billionaires Cash Out of Its $26B Fund. That Should Worry Everyone. BlackRock (NYSE:BLK) is blocking investors from fully exiting its $26 billion HPS Corporate Lending Fund after redemption requests hit 9.3% of shares in Q1, well above the fund’s 5% quarterly cap. It ...

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Calling Cormac McCarthy’s authorial style a “mistake” that AI no longer makes is so funny

This War With Iran Will Cost More Than We Can Afford Iraq cost us $6 trillion. Even a short Iran war could add $1 trillion to a budget deficit that Trump may already be tripling.

Let’s don’t pretend wars are free like we did in Iraq. That war cost $6 trillion. Even a short Iran war will cost $50-$75 billion, and arguably as much as $1 trillion. My latest.

How the US nazis said that they were going to accomplish this

* US kids learn about the Holocaust in school

* So make it illegal / difficult to teach about the Holocaust in schools

* Start with anti-Blackness. Make it illegal to teach about civil rights, then fold in teaching about antisemitism

Yup.

~10 years ago, Black people tried to tell y'all that this was the inevitable outcome of the detailed plan written by literal nazis in the US.

We told white folk exactly how they planned to accomplish this, and why.

And instead of listening to us, people in the US listened to literal nazis?🤦🏿‍♂️

Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it The company tells Platformer it will let experts opt out of the controversial feature — but how different is it than what every other AI company is doing?

Wait, what?! Grammarly made an AI persona of me and all these other journalists?!!!!!

Thank you @caseynewton.bsky.social for shaming them into at least offering a paltry optout— although obviously that is not enough.

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Opinion | Governors denying tax credits for school choice hurt their own states Can Colorado Gov. Jared Polis lead the way for fellow Democrats?

Whelp the Washington post sure isn’t www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... every day is full of fresh horrors and disappointment

@ericmgarcia.bsky.social do you know anyone reporting in this?
One of the many areas where DC’s lack of statehood leaves us incredibly vulnerable.

Texas and Eight Other States Attack Section 504 and the Right of Disabled People to Live in their Communities The nine states say that a rule about the integration mandate published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is unlawful and unconstitutional and should be blocked. If they are su...

are failing. This administration is basically bribing local and state governments to abandon the responsibilities laid out in IDEA while simultaneously using the judiciary to destroy what’s left of 504 protections thearc.org/blog/texas-a...

they have no intention of actually meeting our kids and our families with that they need where they are.
They are working overtime to forever shutter the one agency that actually provides protection, transparency, and accountability for our school systems and helps get justice for students who we

At a time when the department of education has been reduced to ruble, we need more protections for our kids-not to provide subsidies for rich privileged families who already have the means and resources to send their kids to private schools.
They mapped the whole plan out in Project 2025-we know

ProPublica Sues Education Department for Withholding Records About Discrimination in Schools Under Secretary Linda McMahon, the work of the Office for Civil Rights, which aims to protect students from discrimination, is cloaked in secrecy.

This voucher program is a clear attempt to further erode funding for public schools which we need now more than ever. Public schools are the only schools that guaranteed our children services. There are no guardrails or guarantees with this “funding program”. www.propublica.org/article/educ...

Hosting the DME tomorrow at the next Ward 3 Ed Net meeting interactivestrategies.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Planning on asking him why @mayorbowser.dc.gov seems to be considering President Trump’s voucher program which would be horrible for our kids with disabilities thearc.org/resource/res...

Trump is talking about banning mail-in voting with a few exceptions (military, etc) then starts riffing off-script talking about how if it’s given by your daughter she must be “of age — like above 6 years old.”

Obviously makes no sense in this context, but also, in what context is above 6 “of age?”

DC folks actually sort of need to demand that heads roll over this. It’s a real problem if law enforcement in the capital is so pathetic, weak, and supine that their instinct is to act as stormtroopers for illicit federal power grabs.

Chris Murphy: "I think it's likely the United States that carried out this attack on this school. I think it's unforgivable under any circumstances, but the fact this was one of our first targeting decisions speaks to the incompetence of our leadership at the Dept of Defense."

He’s said he’s holding the war funding hostage for his weird “men in women’s sports” obsession.

Ok. So, weird + troop hate. Sorry. Those are the rules.

morals of others were inferior to those of Christians, and that they therefore had every right, and could use any means, to change them, the collision, between cultures-and the schizophrenia in the mind of Christendom-had rendered the domain of morals as chartless as the sea once was, and as treacherous as the sea still is. It is not too much to say that whoever wishes to become a truly moral human being (and let us not ask whether or not this is pos-sible; I think we must believe that it is possible). must first divorce himself from all the prohibitions, crimes, and hypocrisies of the Christian church. If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

“If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him. “— James Baldwin

Fox & Friends: "We want to acknowledge a mistake made earlier on our program. During our coverage of yesterday's dignified transfer, we inadvertently aired video from an older dignified transfer instead of the ceremony that took place yesterday. We deeply regret the error."

Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

I don't ever want to hear that it's wrong to call them Nazis again.

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The trans sports panic, helping women athletes by imposing a £185 fee

Damn.

When American workers have to dip into their 401(k)s just to cover emergencies, that’s a ringing alarm bell about the state of our economy. Americans simply can’t afford Donald Trump’s harmful policies.

"To believe in laws over belief in people is to be colonized.”

I really need someone to do a deep dive into parents/caregivers having to leave the work force to take care of family members with disabilities…the short term and long term impacts and what it all looks like at a macro level.

AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

NEW: Wikipedia editors have implemented new policies and restricted a number of contributors who were paid to use AI to translate existing Wikipedia articles into other languages after they discovered these AI translations added AI “hallucinations,” or errors, to the resulting article.