J40
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J40
@north40.bsky.social
the north, eh. law-licensed.
bingo. of course.
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CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. 

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
July 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Riley: Don’t tell me you give a shit about the middle class when all you are doing is shitting on the middle class
July 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Among the sickening things about this process was watching the vice president smugly presiding, and casting the decisive vote, to loot the Medicaid system that is so important to communities like the one where he came from in Ohio — all for the billionaires so important to him now.
July 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Anyone who ever believed this gang of malevolent clowns wanted to improve the safety of vaccines was being taken for a ride. They said what they needed to say to get into a position to do as much damage to public health as possible.
@rvawonk.bsky.social:
The more we see his agenda being put into action, the more it looks like RFK and his allies don’t actually want to improve the safety of vaccines – they want to use the idea of unsafe vaccines to undermine public confidence and build support for the anti-vaccine movement.
RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine appointees try to dismantle U.S. vaccine program
His latest appointee led an anti-vaccine group that compared the CDC’s work to Nazi propaganda.
weaponizedspaces.substack.com
June 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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If you were born before 1990, consider getting a measles vaccine booster.
‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home
www.nytimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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REMINDER: Obama admin and US allies had reached a deal with Iran to ensure they would not develop a nuclear weapon. But in 2018 Trump ended that deal at the request of Netanyahu. This is 2018 article from Times of Israel www.timesofisrael.com/in-recording...
June 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.
June 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Do I support the Constitution?

Literally, I do.

(That’s me carrying a gigantic one down Main Street. )

#NoKings Los Angeles
June 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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When Tim Walz became Kamala Harris's running mate, progressives highlighted policies passed. It could not have been possible without Melissa Hortman.
-Free school breakfast and lunch
-Restoring voting rights for felons
-Paid leave
Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social
19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...
Rep. Melissa Hortman, killed in targeted attack, was a champion for Minnesotan families
Hortman worked closely with Gov. Tim Walz to enact policies that prioritized children and expanded protections for abortion and gender-affirming care
19thnews.org
June 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. 

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
May 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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could someone check with John Roberts whether accepting a $400 million plane for your personal use is a core executive power that congress may not constitutionally regulate or merely an action for which the president is presumptively immune from any accountability?
May 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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*Everyone* needs to read your newsletter, particularly this one.

Heard back from Novavax. Not available anywhere in the US now. They can’t assure new formulation availability in Mexico for the fall—and we were *this close* to full approval before the plug was pulled.
May 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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On the Novavax earnings call today, the head of R&D made an interesting claim.

She said that the Novavax COVID vaccine is capable of inducing mucosal antibodies that could protect against infection.

This lines up with previous data that has been published on the vaccine. 🧵

#COVID19 #SarsCov2
May 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Boasberg has game: "To permit officials to freely annul the judgments of the courts of the United States wd not just “destroy the rights acquired under those judgments”; it would make “a solemn mockery” of “the constitution itself.” (Marshall, C.J.). “So fatal a result must be deprecated by all.”
April 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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trump saw the stock market briefly go back up on rumors he was going to cancel the tariffs and went "no we're not doing that"
Hahahahahhahahahahga

*TRUMP THREATENS 50% ADDITIONAL TARIFF ON CHINA STARTING APRIL 9
April 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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The circuit breakers are based on the S&P 500.

7% off for the day, 15-minute break

13% off, another 15-minute break

20% off, markets close
www.nasdaq.com/articles/mar...
April 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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he wants to abolish the income tax and fund the government almost entirely through tariffs, thereby delivering the most regressive bonanza to the rich in the history of American taxation. He has said this many many times. He said it *at the announcement* and yet pieces like this just ignore it.
April 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.
April 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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This was a choice. Fine won by 8 pts in the district Mike Waltz won by 30 pts just 5 months ago.

That the NYT frames it as “easily won” is a leading reason we are where we are.

Headlines matter. Framing matters.
April 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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If Musk doesn't end his evening in a squad car, Wisconsin is just announcing that sufficiently wealthy & connected people get to publicly announce they're committing crimes, and the state will be too afraid to do anything about it. Criminal law is for the poor.
March 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Guys named Paul Weiss getting absolutely obliterated on LinkedIn right now
March 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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6/ In any case, there’s lots of very bad stuff going on right now. But put the big law firm stuff higher on your radar. Obviously not the most flashy or even sympathetic ‘victims’. But big picture it’s probably an even bigger deal than some of the more high profile horror stories.
March 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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(5/X) I don't mean this to sound doomy, I think Elon is becoming toxic politically. While the media and Times/Atlantic reader types have some strange respect for Elon, he just seems like an asshole to normal people.
February 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Begging some hero in the Department of Ed to rename the student loan record file folder "DEI training materials" before unlocking the door for the DOGE bros
February 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM