NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is proposing to have NY's estate tax kick in at $750,000 instead of more than $7 million, and lift the top rate to 50%
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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is proposing to have NY's estate tax kick in at $750,000 instead of more than $7 million, and lift the top rate to 50%
Even if you will not stop eating animals, please read labels and avoid products with palm oil.
A year after USAID was shuttered and funding was abruptly cut off, there has been an increase in avoidable deaths and suffering for some of the world’s most vulnerable populations. Data that might confirm that has largely vanished from public view.
Since President Trump took office last year, hundreds of states and cities have signed up to help ICE deport our immigrant neighbors and loved ones.
Our new report exposes how the 287(g) program puts our civil liberties at risk.
The more I think on recent work by @gruberte.bsky.social @jlappen1.bsky.social @shastingssimon.bsky.social @jmijin.bsky.social and friends, the more inevitable it seems that governments will need to take over/wind down certain fossil businesses to avoid catastrophic failures and inequities. This...
...will still likely lead to much better outcomes than letting fossil businesses decline in an unmanaged fashion. That could hurt a *lot* of people and fuel a propaganda fire that right-wing media and their funders ignite to mobilize public backlash and outrage against energy transitions.
Where Equinor has enriched Norwegians - providing public luxury of free universal services - what public ownership Americans get of US fossil businesses will likely shift debts, clean-up costs, and other liabilities onto taxpayers - impoverishing, rather than enriching us.
This sucks, but...
Anyway, where the Norwegian government has owned fossil business through highly profitable periods, local/state/federal governments in the US that take over fossil businesses will likely do so to manage their decline in an era when profits falter, finance dries up, and companies could fail suddenly.
Three elephants, Dara, Amoi, and Kelat, have been moved from Malaysia to Tennoji Zoo in Japan, amid scrutiny and welfare concerns. www.instagram.com/p/DVy4JL6DhSz/
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Compost can trigger a local microbial pulse. But pulses aren’t ecosystems, and compost doesn’t scale. Soil communities develop over decades through plants, roots, fungi, animals, and hydrology. A quick microbial bloom in a garden bed isn’t the same as restoring landscapes.
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Colorado Senator Lisa Cutter delivers closing remarks after bill SB26-123, to prohibit VSD+ by 2029, was postponed indefinitely.
“It is really a sad and shocking realization that the welfare of these animals just doesn't seem to matter.”
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"alien" crossed out, noncitizen written below
I just signed a bill to replace the term "alien" with "noncitizen" in our statutes.
Words have meaning. We got rid of an outdated — putting it generously — word and replaced it with one with an objective meaning.
Thanks to sponsor Rep. Thai.
Respectfully, eat shit. Those kids were expelled, arrested, and targeted relentlessly by their school administrations with the specific goal of preventing further protest. Eighteen year old kids were held down and maced by campus security, hit point blank with tear gas canisters by riot cops.
Shipping-container sized metal soundproof box in industrial beige.
What's this big box? It's Smith College's fossil gas combined heat and power plant, now turned off. Why? As our geo-exchange system comes online we can't use all of the steam it makes on campus. Mid-transition in action for the energy nerds on here. 🔌💡
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Zoos are evil. You kidnap nonhumans from their homes and imprison them in environments that are nothing like where they evolved to live. You force breed nonhumans—including monkeys! Who anyone with a brain and conscience knows are as close to humans as possible.
Callie posing with Dana Gould and I following a show circa 2018.
Callie and I posing with Jesse Thorne and Jordan Morris after a Jordan Jesse Go show circa 2019.
Callie using a briefcase as a pillow in the backseat of Josh's car. Circa 2019.
Callie staring at herself in a mirror at a hotel on a vacation in Baltimore in 2025.
She's been with me to court, depositions, stores, polling places, comedy shows, conferences, and movies.
"Striking a school full of children is sure to be recorded as one of the most devastating single military errors in recent decades."
Don’t look away: this atrocity was carried out with our tax dollars. Trump's attempts to misplace fault won't wash away the blood on his hands. Or, alas, on ours.
Honoured to have my paper, “Ghost Guns, Real Violence: The Strategic Use of 3D Printed Firearms in Far Right Terrorist Plots,” featured in this inaugural issue. The article examines how 3DPFs are becoming embedded in extremist attack planning, often alongside explosives and other weapons.
AIPAC has poured $15M in the past month into primaries in four deep-blue Illinois House districts (IL-09, IL-08, IL-07, IL-02)—not counting its spending in the Senate race to boost Raja Krishnamoorthi. Election Day is still 2 weeks away.
This level of outside money is warping our democracy.
Binance Holdings Limited ("Binance" or "Plaintiff'), as and for its Complaint against Dow Jones & Company, Inc. d/b/a The Wall Street Journal ("Dow Jones" or "Wall Street Journal"), alleges as follows: INTRODUCTION 1. Binance brings this action against the Wall Street Journal for publishing a false and defamatory article on February 23, 2026, which is the subject of this complaint (the "Article"). In the Article, the Wall Street Journal made numerous false and disparaging statements about Binance, and did so knowingly, recklessly, or negligently, and despite the fact that Binance provided factual corrections prior to publication, which the Wall Street Journal disregarded. 2. Binance is the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and users. In addition to holding licenses, registrations, and authorizations in more than 20 jurisdictions, Binance is the first cryptocurrency exchange to have secured full authorization under the Financial Services Regulatory Authority
hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars in its compliance program, and a significant share of these resources is dedicated to maintaining a world-class compliance team. 3. Despite this progress, the Wall Street Journal and its reporters have made a business of maligning both the cryptocurrency industry generally and Binance specifically, regardless of facts and reality. Indeed, this strategy appears tailored to generating sensationalist headlines designed to drive pageviews and the Wall Street Journal's bottom line. The Article is a case-in-point. 4. Here, the Wall Street Journal ignored the strength of Binance's compliance program, disregarded specific facts provided by Binance, and instead chose to publish a false and misleading Article based on anonymous, unsupported sources. The Article begins with a false, defamatory and reckless headline, "Binance Fired Staff Who Flagged $1 Billion Moving to Sanctioned Iran Entities," and then launches into a narrative rife with bogus claims. 5. Spe
c. The Wall Street Journal claims that Binance diminished its compliance with law enforcement requests. That is false. The compliance investigation started as a result of law enforcement requests seeking information about transactions, and Binance complied with those requests and cooperated with law enforcement, while also conducting an independent investigation that resulted in Binance oflboarding user accounts it identified that were engaged in suspicious activity. d. The Wall Street Journal claims that Binance knowingly registered customers with false documentation and provided preferential treatment to those customers. That is false. Identity verification is mandatory for all customers. 6. The Wall Street Journal contacted Binance at the eleventh hour seeking any comment Binance had on identified points and questions related to the Article, and refused to grant a good-faith extension for Binance to respond. Binance nevertheless worked with all haste to get factual corrections to th
The Binance crypto exchange has just filed a defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over its article reporting that Binance's own compliance investigators had found $1 billion in transfers to Iran-backed terror groups, and then were fired.
I may be missing something obvious, but who thinks we need to communicate more effectively with fossil fuel interests? Don’t we need to communicate more effectively with regular people about how their futures are threatened and what the near future holds (so we make policy changes)?
I don't think anyone serious believes that the main obstacle to solving climate change is bad language, but insofar as it takes politics to overthrow or disempower fossil fuel incumbents, I don't see how we do politics w/out campagning, which means at least some attention to language.
The horrifying irony that any Nuremberg 2.0 will feature Israeli and US leaders prominently
You’ve likely never heard of the curious Red #Colobus, #WestAfrica’s rarest #primate 🐒🐵🙉 Researchers now know that protecting them and the #rainforest will protect all other rare #species. Fight for their survival! #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2025/07/27/p...
Do they permit ICE to abduct patients?
said that a fintech company cut a contract from $10M to $5M and that universities & business-to-business companies have switched providers. Said govt is affirmatively reaching out to their customers & urging them to stop working with Anthropic. They fear an executive order may target them ...
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Toad speeds down the hill on the sled, thinking Frog is still on the sled with him. Frog is not. From "Down the Hill" In *Frog and Toad All Year*
Toad leaped over a snowbank. “I could not steer the sled without you, Frog,” he said.
“Winter is fun!”
