if the tech bros were a little less delusional, they would be making so much money right now by offering to let us pay for the AI-free version of their programs
Lured outside his state
βwe conceptualise venture capital as effectively a form of βmale-lens investingβ, illustrating the limitations of the male-dominated and profit-driven VC investment modelβ
This paper is giving me LIFE.
ICYMI β one of Elonβs DOGE guys Justin Fox saying a documentary is βDEIβ if itβs about how historical events impact led Black civil rights because itβs βnot for the betterment of humankindβ
Graph showing that the number of consumer complaints that credit bureau Experian closed with relief dropped significantly after Donald Trump's inauguration. The chart also shows the total complaints received has continued to rise over time. The x-axis shows year from 2021 to 2025 and the y-axis shows number of monthly complaints from 0 to 200K, with tick marks at increments of 50K.
Under Trump's CFPB, two of the three major credit bureaus have sharply reduced the share of complaints they resolved in customersβ favor.
In 2024, Experianβs relief rate was 20%. Last year, that figure fell to less than 1%: https://propub.li/3OY2qBw
βA DOJ job β a lifetime goal for countless lawyers until the past year β has become a job where embarrassing errors, at best, are regularly making it into court filings and where a constant question is whether a judge is going to threaten you with contempt β¦β
New report shows 42 states spend less on public schools than they did 20 years agoβnearly $600B in lost K-12 funding since 2016. Money matters and the lack of consistent financial support is a real problem, particularly for already disadvantaged districts. www.k12dive.com/news/42-stat...
Trump today: "Jobs are coming in through the roof and we have factories being built all over the country. We've taken in $18 tr plus in 11 months." The actual numbers:
Democrats picked prosecutor Scott Colom to run for U.S. Senate in Mississippi against Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Tuesday's primaries.
He ran after Hyde-Smith blocked him from getting a vote when President Joe Biden nominated him to serve on a federal court.
Sarah Weicksel, Executive Director of the American Historical Association and Chair of the Doctoral Futures Post-Degree Pathways Committee, shares how the committee is advancing strategies to support sustainable careers for humanities PhDs across sectors: https://bit.ly/4b0hmYd
Post by Ken Yang: Chart shows corporate profits rising since 1980 while labor compensation share declines.
The only real answer is UBI as a dividend to citizens as shareholders
NEW: Seeking special prosecutor to target ICE, coalition says Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke turned 'blind eye' to feds' violence
Reporting w/ @sophiesherry.bsky.social via @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
βFascism does not, generally speaking, believe in the possibility or utility of perpetual peace...War alone keys up all human energies to their maximum tension and sets the seal of nobility on those peoples who have the courage to face it.β The Doctrine of Fascism, 1932.
Oracle CEO Larry Elison has already achieved the Silicon Valley dream of operating a wholly self-containted island domain on LΔnaΚ»i; without needing to advertise it on X posts or online manifestos, Ellison acts as lord and master of his own fiefdom.
https://bit.ly/4loDgYU
Americans canβt afford groceries, housing, or health care.
But Trumpβs spending billions of taxpayer dollars overseas on another Middle East war.
Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income?
Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero.
Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit?
Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.
Cancer in people under 50 is a massive, massive problem. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Listen closely. Something like, "This screws over women the most, and people are going to think they have 'less good and less interesting jobs from THEIR perspective' and for Palantir technology to prosper we have to be integrated with the military." Some big problems, but hey, he wants to anyway?
CJEU press release: Member State legislation which does not permit the amendment of the gender data of one of its nationals who has exercised his or her right to freedom of movement is contrary to EU law A Bulgarian national was registered at birth as being male, with a name, personal identification number and identity documents corresponding to that sex. She currently lives in Italy, where she has begun hormone therapy, and now presents herself as a woman. She instituted proceedings before the Bulgarian courts seeking a declaration that she is a female person and to have her civil status data amended on her birth certificate. Despite the medical opinions and legal assessments confirming the gender identity claimed, her request was rejected. According to national legislation, as interpreted by the plenary assembly of civil chambers of the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation, the term βsexβ must be understood in its biological sense, excluding any amendment of the particulars relating to sex, name and identification number. The public interest, based on the moral and/or religious values of Bulgarian society, thus prevails over the interests of transgender persons. Hearing the dispute, the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation has doubts as to the compatibility of that legislation with EU law and has referred the matter to the Court of Justice. In its judgment, the Court holds that EU law precludes legislation of a Member State which does not permit the amendment of the gender data in the civil status registers of one of its nationals who has exercised his or her right to move and reside freely in another Member State. The Court emphasises first of all that, while the issue of identity documents falls within the competence of the Member States, they must exercise that competence in compliance with EU law...
Huge trans rights ruling from the EU's top court - if someone moves to another EU country and transitions, their home country can't refuse to amend their registration details to match their lived gender identity
You've inspired me to watch it again!
In honor of the 30th anniversary of The Birdcage, I wrote about only some of the brilliant layers of its confrontations of gender performance.
Truly, The Birdcage is an exceptional and important film for our moment for challenging bigots who can't wrap their minds around differences in human nature
What a joke. FBI agents are not street brawlers. They interview witnesses, uncover documents, analyze intelligence, and testify in court, usually while wearing a suit and tie. Just one more frolic for Kash at taxpayer expense.
variety.com/2026/politic...
So Trump WANTS you to pay more at the pump. Better for him and his billionaire buddies in the Epstein class
Just stumbling around trying to figure out how the world works.
Not normal. Strangelovian.
I was offered a position as a staff psychologist within a VA outpatient mental clinic in 2018, during Trump 1.0. I was told Iβd need to maintain a caseload of 150-200 patients. I turned down the job.
It was hard to imagine care standards getting worse. But it clearly has gotten much much worse.
Bluesky hits Capitol Hill (and Jimmy Kimmel)
The fallout from DOGE staffers' efforts to access sensitive Social Security data continues as an agency watchdog disclosed a new investigation into "potential misuse" reported by a whistleblower. n.pr/4bkaRi6
The extraordinary spending in Montana is part of a new era of political power for the rapidly growing number of billionaires minted over the past eight years. The Times analysis found that 300 billionaires and their immediate family members donated more than $3 billion - 19 percent of all contributions β in federal elections in 2024, either directly or through political action committees. Five presidential elections ago, before the Supreme Court's 2010 ruling that lifted many remaining campaign finance restrictions, the share of billionaire spending was almost zero - 0.3 percent, to be precise. The billionaire families gave an average total of $10 million each in 2024, an amount roughly equal to what 100,000 typical political donors gave, combined. And that does not count money that billionaires contributed through dark money groups that do not have to disclose their donors.
Since Citizens United, Billionairesβ GOP Donations control US elections.
In 2024, ~300 billionaires gave 19% ($3b!!!) of all reported federal campaign contributions. (In 2008, it was just .3%)
Of $3b, the GOP received $2.5bβor 5/6 of billionaireπ΅. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u... What democracy?
