New in PN: Trump's systemic attack on whistleblowers, explained by @donmoyn.bsky.social
“The parallel is Trump’s private businesses, where, since the early ‘90s, he’s had everyone around him sign NDAs, including porn stars he wanted to hush up. Now he’s applying that model to the public sector."
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Ominous clouds over National Cathedral
Kroger and Walmart want to scan your face, profile your habits, and charge you more than the person next to you. Same box of cereal, different price. That's not a market, that's a shakedown. Ban surveillance pricing now. www.forbes.com/advisor/cred...
"The cost to democracy is a loss of accountability and oversight."
The average US worker's real wage is now no higher than it was in January 2025. Trump's war has spiked energy prices and erased a year and a half of pay increases
A new USPS rule created to carry out Trump’s plans to restrict mail-in voting is an “unconstitutional attack,” the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) said.
Congress created the USPS as an independent entity from the White House, the union says. https://bit.ly/4v0an9x
"reign"
Aaron Rupar
Monique Morrissey
Monique Morrissey
It’s not every day that the great @paulkrugman.substack.com.web.brid.gy & the great @jimmykimmel.com are on the same page: Effect of SpaceX IPO on 401(k) plans.
Kimmel’s Musk takedown starts around 7:58 but his coverage of the Knicks’ miraculous comeback is also fun. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb5w...
Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
the following are all probably true and not in the least contradictory:
1. There's a huge bubble in AI investment, the crash is going to be bad
2. A majority of the tasks we've been promised AI will "take over," it will not
3. AI will completely transform coding
The Trump administration’s decision to start a war with Iran has imposed disastrous costs—both economic and humanitarian—around the world. The U.S. has been more insulated from these costs than most o...
