So Minneapolis is $33 million in the hole. The PD was $20 million over budget in 2025, targeting $20 million again in 2026, on top of a massive raise & bonuses. As far as I know they still expect to get a $38+ million playground.
Your police are defunding you.
"Olivia Miles. ... She's playing unbelievable basketball. She's playing with such confidence, you wouldn't even know that she's a rookie."
Naismith Basketball Memorial HOFer Teresa Weatherspoon breaks down which WNBA players are standing out this season 💪
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I used to use Flo, in 2020 I started seeing ads *everywhere* for baby stuff. Turns out I hadn't updated the app for a few months, it told loads of advertisers I was pregnant. It fuelled my interest in following data sharing trails.
Gillibrand's son graduated from undergrad on Sunday. Today it's reported that he's received $30 million in venture capital funding to launch a derivatives exchange. His mom sat on the Senate Agriculture committee—which has jurisdiction over derivates—until this past year
Every day, we happily and freely export the texture of our lives to the cloud via our chief stenographer, the smartphone. You’re not just writing emails and texting close friends. You’re writing to everyone: loose federations of group chats; your neighbors on WhatsApp and Facebook; acquaintances in Instagram DMs; prospects on dating apps; co-workers on Slack. You’re typing into Search, Notes, Venmo.
Realizing your trove exists is terrifying. So is learning that it’s never been more vulnerable. Cybercrime is rising at harrowing rates. It can also become exposed to the public through explicitly legal means. You don’t need to be the target of litigation yourself to find your private conversations suddenly available to a wider audience: see the 2025 lawsuit filed by Elon Musk against Sam Altman and OpenAI, which exposed more than a decade of group chats and emails between some of the world’s richest men, squabbling over their personal financial stakes in the fate of humankind.
It could be your coworker, your friend, your family member — why else would texts from Matt Damon’s wife, non-famous person Luciana Damon, become a matter of public record? She can thank Blake Lively for suing Justin Baldoni and dragging her iMessage history into discovery.
Most of us, however, no matter how seemingly unimportant, conduct ourselves differently in public than we do in the digital realm, our version of behind closed doors. The problem now is that this private self has been recorded in your trove. Its very existence, and the sheer volume of its contents, means it could be useful, interesting, compromising, or lucrative to someone, somewhere, given the right set of circumstances.
For our Cover Story, Bridget Read reports on how hacks, lawsuits, and data breaches are increasingly exposing our digital records — threatening to spill everything into the public: https://t.co/lo0u3RZFx5
NYT: A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas weeks after Defense Secretary Hegseth announced that U.S. troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu, defense officials said.
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the Ferguson uprising was 12 years ago! and Ferguson uprising political prisoner, Josh Williams is still locked up! never forget the movement prisoners who have sacrificed so much! solidarity with Josh Williams! solidarity with all political prisoners fighting for liberation!
FWIW, Sen. Rounds last month violated the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act after being five months late disclosing a stock sale valued at between $1 million and $5 million.
See here: https://t.co/A7KK8XTFop