‘How come I can’t breathe?': Musk’s data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
By Ariel Wittenberg for Politico, May 6th 2025
The whole administration is one giant conspiracy to scam U.S. taxpayers Trump’s new vaccine research initiative will directly benefit NIH’s new principal deputy director, Matthew Memoli, who awards himself $500,000,000 for in-house vaccine research Reports @katherinejwu.com @theatlantic.com
— Jenn Burrill (@jennburrill.bsky.social) May 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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“They Actually Had a List”: ICE Arrests Workers Involved in Landmark Labor Rights Case
“We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a union official about a raid in western New York.
By Noah Hurowitz for the Intercept, May 5 2025
1/ Yesterday, it was announced that RFK Jr. is requiring placebo-controlled studies for new vaccines—potentially delaying this fall’s COVID shots as well as the approval of other vaccines. RFK Jr.’s repeated claims is that vaccines were “never tested against placebos” is simply not true 👇
— Your Local Epidemiologist (@ylepidemiologist.bsky.social) May 2, 2025 at 8:23 AM
How much will Donald Trump’s tariffs cost US families?
US households will have to pay an estimated $4,000 more per year due to tariffs imposed by the US president.
By Louis Jacobson for Al Jazeera, May 6th 2025
Mythworks, the team behind THE WILDSEA and SLUGBLASTER TTRPGs, is forced to keep its games in the China factory warehouses due to the tariffs for importing them costing more than publishing the games.
— Chris Hutton the News Nerd @ TTRPG Insider (@newsnerd.bsky.social) May 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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a fun story about this is that i interviewed the cofounders of this website, a christian fundraising site that is extremely welcoming to hate groups, and the female cofounder proceeded to periodically email me for the next *four years* praying for my salvation
— Talia Lavin (@swordsjew.bsky.social) May 4, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Cuts to federal volunteer program AmeriCorps leave Wisconsin programs scrambling
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
by Trevor Hook for Wisconsin Watch, May 6th, 2025
Just before May Day, Congress gave federal workers the finger. 🖕The House Oversight Committee voted to slash our benefits: higher retirement contributions/ reduce take-home pay, smaller pensions, weaker job protections. It’s not law yet—final vote likely in July. 😡Thread with details ⬇️
— Alt CDC (they/them) (@altcdc.altgov.info) May 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Republicans Are Already Plotting to Steal the Midterms
With Trump’s help, Republicans across the country are sowing doubt about next year’s congressional elections—and gearing up for 2028.
By Ross Rosenfeld for the New Republic, May 6, 2025
We have updated our catalog of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes. By our tally, there have been 215 of them since Inauguration Day. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors buff.ly/CS5I4Zt
— McSweeney's (@mcsweeneys.net) May 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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President Trump’s Media Company Is Offering Movies About ‘Lizard People’ And Other Wild Conspiracy Theories
Among other things, movies on the Truth+ streaming service have suggested Jesus Christ and Buddha are aliens.
By Hunter Walker for the Talking Points Memo, May 6, 2025