✍️ NEW: Abdul El-Sayed just released a policy proposal to take on AI companies and redistribute their wealth to Americans.
The platform includes a public ownership and governance model. Read more below:
This isn’t about saving my own employment. There are plenty of people who could do this work as well or much better than me. But the mission matters. The local reporters who make this work possible deserve to be honoured, not cast aside in arbitrary job cuts. It has been the privilege of a lifetime to work alongside this team. The loss their axing would entail is unthinkable.
#SaveThePost
Let's be clear: Big Law didn't start undermining the rule of law when they began making deals with Trump. They've been perverting our justice system for years by ensuring the rich and powerful get away with murder -- often literally.
Most Americans, including most professors, don't realize that US higher ed was a research backwater until the mid-century surge in public spending helped to catapult it to dominance.
“Australian sandalwood’s downfall is that it’s one of the most fragrant species of sandalwood in the world …
A lot of people know sandalwood (because of its fragrance) but very few know it’s declining in the wild & has been over-harvested for decades”
https://t.co/1dvnrBJ3jN
From deporting agricultural workers to cutting back SNAP and free school meals, the policies Trump or his advisers have espoused could wreak havoc on households’ food budgets.
From @heathershorn
https://t.co/szCbqiju4L
Podiatrists are the weirdest doctors. It's like going to medieval barber surgeon. You tell them your problem and they nod and say "we can fix that" and pull out a knife.
“Oil companies are conveying an unlikely message to the GOP and its presidential candidate: Spare President Biden’s signature climate law. At least the parts that benefit the oil industry.” https://t.co/hxJbJvY84L
Man, @skirchy's track record of breaking bonkers stories about conservatives & animal cruelty is...something.
First, Kevin Roberts & the dog/shovel: https://t.co/Ri4vQiqknE
Now, Doug Hamlin & the cat torture: https://t.co/bLVz700WsL
We show 3 main things in the data:
- Abusive men suppress women’s economic outcomes from the start of relationships
- It’s a repeated pattern that even happens when abusers cohabit with women who don’t report abuse themselves
- Suppression is partly strategically motivated
“We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled. We are stepping into a critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis.” https://t.co/dFlDchwgyb
The last of this year’s condor cohort have been released!
A8 and A9 took flight the morning of October 4th, 2024. These birds, both 2.5-year-old males, were hatched at Oregon Zoo’s Jonsson Center. There are now 18 condors flying over Yurok territory and the surrounding areas.