New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
This dog was placed on the euthanasia list because she had mange. Now she's healthy and thriving in her forever home with two of our followers ❤️🩹
What is a "homelessness-related offense"?
Bolts@boltsmag.org · 4d agoJohn McKinney, an LA prosecutor, is running for city attorney this fall and has called for more vigorous prosecution of some crimes, including illegal gun possession. He also supports ramping up enforcement of homelessness-related offenses.
John McKinney, an LA prosecutor, is running for city attorney this fall and has called for more vigorous prosecution of some crimes, including illegal gun possession. He also supports ramping up enforcement of homelessness-related offenses.
The Most Overlooked But Wide-Reaching Office on the Los Angeles Ballot - Bolts
Voters face a stark choice between two candidates in the race for city attorney, an office with a large mandate from policing homelessness to enforcing consumer and tenant protections.
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some kinda new weird …surveillance system? Outside Heritage HQ
fucking foghorn leghorn-ass poseur. dude went to fucking oxford and he puts on this “aw shucks i’m just a country bumpkin” routine
I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart
2. He is one of the biggest live draws in music, filling stadiums across the United States and in major cities around the world. Bryan served eight years on active duty in the US Navy and served overseas in Bahrain and Djibouti.
Want to learn about the history of our city? Well you’re in luck. This month, we’re hosting a massive scavenger hunt across the city — all about the history of organizing in NYC. Sign up at organize.nyc.gov and come see the city through the eyes of the people who built it.
Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos
Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.
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Lyft has agreed to pay $272.5 million to settle claims by the state of California and three of its largest cities that the company mislabeled drivers as independent contractors rather than its employees to save money.
Lyft will pay $272.5 million to settle California driver wage theft claims
Lyft has agreed to pay $272.5 million to settle claims by the state of California and three of its largest cities that the company mislabeled drivers as independent contractors rather than its employees to save money.
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BREAKING: we just struck the 1st blow against Trump's illegal impoundment of almost $1B appropriated by Congress to help average folks We & partners sued to stop him from flushing away vast sums in housing support. Housing! The court just SUSPENDED his illegal action while we fully brief the case
Trump White House misspells “United” on the official “super intelligence” document with AI executives. Instead of “President of the United States,” it reads: “President of the Unites States.” Nothing says “super intelligence” quite like misspelling the name of the country.
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
This tidbit was in the article. 🎈💥 ? "Goldman Sachs warned Friday that AI hyperscalers, including Meta, need to generate roughly $300 billion a year in AI services revenue just to break even on their capital spending—and $1 trillion annually to earn meaningful profits—spooking investors."
Mark Zuckerberg Loses $9 Billion In A Day As Goldman Sachs Pours Cold Water On Meta Stock Rally
Zuckerberg’s $9 billion loss was the biggest single-day drop among any billionaire Friday.
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Last month, we refurbished 10 tennis courts in Crotona Park — the only public tennis courts in the Bronx with lights for night play. We stopped by recently to see how things were going. Thank you to NYJTL, USTA and Yonex for helping us deliver high-quality public spaces that New Yorkers deserve.
FYI it has now been 40 days since Angie Nixon defeated Alexander Vindman in the Florida Dem Senate Primary & despite sitting on at least $8M cash and promising to support Nixon, Vindman has not donated a single penny to Angie Nixon for US Senate. WHY IS THIS VIOLATION OF DUTY BEING TOLERATED? 1/2
The Klingons are great when you realize they're not really a warrior race as much as they are a bunch of theater people with knives
I'm amazed by new CRISPR findings for aggressive blood cancers (AML/MDS)! Doctors can edit donor stem cells to remove CD33, letting therapies target cancer without hitting healthy cells. In a trial, 19 of 30 patients maintained blood counts. Incredible protection!
CRISPR could help doctors attack blood cancer without destroying healthy cells
A new Phase 1/2 clinical trial involving 30 patients demonstrates that genetically modifying donor stem cells with CRISPR to remove the CD33 protein can allow targeted cancer therapies to attack aggre
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Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
A United Airlines passenger says she was forced to sit next to a man who pleasured himself while staring at her during a flight She said she told she had to return to her seat during landing in spite of it because there were no other available seats
Passenger says United ‘trapped’ her next to a man who masturbated on flight. Then the airline let him leave.
The woman said she was told she had to return to her seat during landing in spite of the sexual harassment she reported because there were no other available seats.
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Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Costco to pull popular beer from shelves within weeks — here’s why
Costco to pull popular beer from shelves within weeks — here’s why
Two Kirkland Signature brews are disappearing from shelves
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The speaker says his group sued for access to LAPD’s secondary-employment records — and won. He says Chief Jim McDonnell then ignored an August 26 public-records request for the documents.
LAPD cops working for ICE contractors off duty — while the department fights to keep its moonlighting records hidden. That is the accusation now being leveled directly at LAPD leadership after a judge ordered the records turned over.
the greatest lesson of my political life was watching Rob Ford accrue power in Toronto because, i shit you not, when he was a city councillor you could call up his office about whatever small issues (potholes, permitting, etc) and he'd actually help you out
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3w agoStay tuned for more on this from mainstream reporting hopefully later today, but Bob's got the gist of it; last week, it appears that ICE began disappearing people from the Online Detainee Locator System the moment they get a final order of removal. Yes, this is as deeply screwed up as it sounds.