Richest Americans now pay less tax than working class in historical first newsweek.com/richest-americ…

The Pentagon pays Johns Hopkins University more than $1 billion every year.

Pro-Palestinian student protesters want to cut that funding off: “Johns Hopkins is a military research institution with a university as a side project.” thebaltimorebanner.com/education/high…

along with owning Manchester City Football Club, Sheikh Mansour is also the primary connection between the UAE government and their allies in the RSF who are carrying out these unspeakable atrocities

ICYMI: Today, Rick Scott admitted to overseeing the largest Medicare fraud in history:

💰His company was fined $1.7 billion for defrauding Medicare recipients
🤐 He invoked the Fifth amendment 75 times in a deposition
🏧 He pocketed $300 million

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A baby saved by C-section after his parents were killed by an Israeli air strike back in October has now been killed by an Israeli air strike on Rafah. This one killed his two sisters, grandparents and 4 other family members.

Another normal day in Gaza:
middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-…

Western Rafah 🇵🇸 tonight.

Over 600,000 children are in Rafah.

Biden, Sunak & Starmer supported a monster. Never forgive them.

Tim Cook It is a heartbreaking, uncomfortable, and egotistic advertisement. When I see this result, I'm ashamed to buy Apple products since nineteen years.

It was quite easy to find these little angels' names/ages. That's Muhammad, age 8. He's got his arm around his brother, Hamdan, who is 6. They are not numbers. These are the images out of #Rafah , while the West indulged in fashion critique of the #MetGala . I have no words.

According to a newly-released document, OpenAI is 'exploring' how to 'provide the ability to generate NSFW content in age-appropriate contexts.' Its definition of NSFW content includes erotica, extreme gore, slurs, and profanity. my story: wired.com/story/openai-i…

Anyway if you want to read a book about a girl trapped on a Semester-at-Sea-inspired cruise ship with a schmurderer, but everyone thinks she dunnit... GET IT IN WHATEVER FORMAT FLOATS YOUR BOAT

They're booing Kim Kardashian

As a kid, I learned Steve Albini's name because he was the connecting thread between the most intense, uncompromising, urgent-sounding albums I had ever heard. Nobody else made drums sound like that.

'This matters more to me than the degree'

Facing suspension, MIT protesters vow to maintain encampment

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Baked into the discussion of student debt is the idea that the function of education is to prepare someone to work, that it is a ticket for the ride of employment. This is a dangerously toxic notion that deserves no respect. Education is learning, literally anything.

The point of this raid was terror. They waited for those kids to fall asleep. And then they pulled the tents from under them while they were sleeping. Shame on the University of Chicago.

I’m not asking journalists to campaign for Joe Biden. I’m asking journalists to say clearly that there’s a right-wing plot to create a fascist dictatorship.
Many journalists are afraid to say it even though it’s true. And their refusal to say it makes a dictatorship more likely.

What Donald Trump’s version of “quite well” means:

Did The Washington Post publisher, Will Lewis, ‘pervert the course of justice’ under Murdoch? Nick Davies examines evidence that is emerging in - yet to be tested - court documents prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/ph…

Buy and keep real things. Books. Vinyl. Instruments. Art supplies. This destruction of actual things that you can own and keep, replaced by permanent renting of “virtual” content, is what they are aiming at.

Nat Geo laid of all its writers, and most of its old editors. They’re now hiring social media managers, content strategists, SEO editors, etc.

Who needs writers when you could hire new staff to “assist managers [with] best-in-class creative social stunts”?