Sarah Szalavitz💡

“Per the analysis by Open the Books, in September, the Pentagon spent $2 million on Alaskan king crab, $6.9 million on lobster tail, $15.1 million on ribeye steak, and $1 million on salmon.”

Spotify once had a reputation for underpaying music artists. It hopes to change that perception Residuals and royalties are often a point of contention between artists and streamers. Spotify says it's now the highest-paying retailer in the music industry. Here's how.

Spotify once had a reputation for underpaying music artists. It hopes to change that perception.

But not the reality!

“There are zero payments going directly to recording artists from Spotify. Recording artists deserve direct payment from the streaming platforms.”
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

*They're just allergic to monetization. In a better world, all of math and physics would be locked down with IP and streamed by the hour

"Plaintiffs provided numerous videos, which were received in evidence and unambiguously show DHS officers spraying OC Spray directly into the faces of peaceful and nonviolent protesters engaged in, at most, passive resistance and discharging tear gas and firing pepper-ball munitions into crowds of peaceful and nonviolent protestors," Simon wrote, using the term "OC Spray" to refer to pepper spray. "Defendants' conduct - physically harming protestors and journalists without prior dispersal warnings - is objectively chilling."

US judge limits federal agents’ use of teargas on protesters at Oregon ICE facility www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... "Defendants' conduct - physically harming protestors and journalists without prior dispersal warnings - is objectively chilling."

US Navy tells shipping industry Hormuz escorts not possible for now The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since ​the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high f...

Whoa. This is big. "The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

L.A.'s eviction defense program up in the air amid battle with city attorney The City Council was set to vote last week on a $177-million contract for Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles and other groups to continue representing tenants.

LA Legal Aid’s eviction defense program is up in the air. LA City Atty Feldstein Soto sent a confidential memo asking to ‘reconsider the award of such a large contract to a frequent litigant against the city’ www.latimes.com/california/s... punishing Legal Aid for successfully helping the public!?!

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

A campaign poster with large text reading "Mayor Mamdani" and a message urging to fund NYC public libraries at 0.5% of the city budget. Two photos of a man in a suit (Zohran Mamdani are shown, with a website link for more information.

You can let the Mayor know what you think about him breaking his promise. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

Justin Fox Deposition (Part 3) in MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit about the NEH YouTube video by ModernLanguageAssoc

It's stunning how ignorant the DOGE bros were who were sent into agencies. Justin Fox cannot even articulate in his own words what his "present understanding of DEI" is: he can't even formulate a coherent sentence about it. I wouldn't hire him for basic tech support. #NEH
youtu.be/jomaMvItnew?...

U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows

US Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian Girls School, @bellingcat.com’s video shows.

On Saturday, Trump claimed Iran was responsible for striking the school & killing 175 people, most of them children. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w... so if Trump said🇮🇷 did it, Hegseth can’t blame Anthropic, right?

Judge Voids Mass Layoffs at Voice of America

Judge Voids Mass Layoffs at Voice of America (& Kari Lake’s appointment is illegal) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/u...

The Times has independently interviewed 35 former employees, whose accounts trace a pattern of physical punishment Mr. Redzepi inflicted on his staff. Between 2009 and 2017, they said, he punched employees in the face, jabbed them with kitchen implements and slammed them against walls. They described lasting trauma from layers of psychological abuse, including intimidation, body shaming and public ridicule. Mr. Redzepi, they said, threatened to use his influence to get them blacklisted from restaurants around the world, to have their families deported, or to get their wives fired from their jobs at other businesses.

Punching, Slamming, Screaming: for 20+ years, René Redzepi inflicted physical & psychological violence on Noma’s team—-including 100+ unpaid interns per year, working 16 hour days!

“being hit was routine.”

“René raised a generation of bullies & they bullied us” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/d... 🤮

Are you at Scale in Pasadena? Come by the @civic.band booth in the expo hall & say hi & check out the magic.

Now that this was leaked, Trump & Hegseth will soon be publicly blaming Anthropic..:which must mean the DoD must have uninstalled Claude & are now using OpenAI & Grok.

Who feels safer? bsky.app/profile/just...

The Curious Case of the Block 'AI Layoffs' So was it AI or not?

The Curious Case of Block’s 'AI Layoffs' flip.it/4LZBCI “So basically, I saw my company discard 1/2 of my peers & double my pay. That’s not an honor. It feels shameful & dehumanizing. I’d rather see my peers keep their jobs than personally profit from their trauma”

Lets call it #KetamineCapitalism

Florida Has Deemed All Existing Intro to Sociology Textbooks Illegal and Produced Its Own The Board of Governors overseeing the new curricula includes roofing contractors, insurance execs, and no professors.

Florida Has Deemed All Existing Intro to Sociology Textbooks Illegal and Produced Its Own

The instructions state explicitly that explaining “unequal outcomes between men and women” in terms of “institutional sexism” would violate state law. flip.it/tzVw.A

This hip L.A. neighborhood is installing emergency sirens to warn of ICE raids Community activists are installing sirens across Highland Park in hopes of providing warnings on mobile devices to residents about possible ICE raids.

🚨Hip La neighborhood Highland Park installs emergency sirens🚨 to warn of ICE raids.

DHS is not thrilled with the idea: “This is quite literally insane,” www.latimes.com/california/s...
With DHS’s PR support, 🚨will join whistles & greet them in every community they invade.

Muji.

Tonight in Tehran

(Just in case: I was not questioning what you’d reported or what he’d said—it just struck me as even more horrifying?)

I had understood that he was himself driving—& it was his personal vehicle, rather than the city’s. But I definitely could be wrong & that would make it even more wtaf..

Wouldn’t it be awesome if we instead made laws to protect humans from machines that profit from harming them, especially by giving fraudulent legal advice?

Also: I’m on team Don’t Believe the Hype—but intelligence doesn’t protect folks from being fooled by AI’s certainty &/or sycophancy….

Maybe I’m missing something? But wouldn’t LAPD run his license plate before pulling him over?

Which suggests they’re pulling him over BECAUSE they know/in spite of knowing who he is?

Seems like cops pretending not to know who he is would be even more wtf & threatening? And not only “pretextual”?

Mar. 6, 1857 | Dred Scott Learn more about our history of racial injustice

Their case eventually reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford that Black people were not American citizens and had no right to sue in federal court. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

This is important & I don't want my response to get buried as a comment. Humans make mistakes under pressure. But umans can & should also be held accountable for them when they go beyond simple correctable errors & create catastrophic results like war crimes. 1/

Apparently Trump & Hegseth thought they could snap their fingers/post on social media & DoD would replace Anthropic with OpenAI & um Grok instantly.🫠

But once the DoD is no longer using Anthropic, I’d expect Trump & Hegseth to (self-incriminatingly) blame war crimes on them bsky.app/profile/dear...

Opinion | Daryl Hannah: How Can ‘Love Story’ Get Away With This?

How Can ‘Love Story’ Get Away With This? by @dhlovelife.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o... How @dhlovelife.bsky.social is portrayed is not only knowingly, cruelly & weirdly obviously false—but it is defamatory. No one should get away doing this to her or anyone, let alone profit from it!

Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.

My report:

Opinion | Daryl Hannah: How Can ‘Love Story’ Get Away With This?

How Can ‘Love Story’ Get Away With This? by @dhlovelife.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o... How @dhlovelife.bsky.social is portrayed is not only knowingly, cruelly & weirdly obviously false—but it is defamatory. No one should get away doing this to her or anyone, let alone profit from it!