Awesome that they dropped this just days after somebody shot and killed 4 homeless people on the L for no apparent reason
I'd love for this to become the public safety litmus test to challenge SCOTUS overturning the Chevron doctrine. BH can claim they are 'harmed' by inspections to get a judge to overrule food safety enforcement. We need a huge public outcry to enforce regulatory authority back in the hands of experts
"It is hard to wrap your head around how food could be produced in these conditions by this company and under the gaze of the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service inspectors."
-- OPINION -- The years of inspection reports (Here are the Inspection Reports in PDF.) leave little doubt that the Boar’s Head plant’s food safety plan
Why is it that if a newspaper publishes or a bookstore distributes illegal material their owners can go to jail, but when it happens on social media their owners simply become billionaires? What the hell is going on here? hartmannreport.com/p/the-social...
A federal ruling could finally tear down the legal shield that lets platforms profit from poisonous content—and it’s about time…
Why isn't there a Fox-type person on MSNBC, just to keep 'em honest and create some useful tension? Quentin Tarantino recently asked that on Bill Maher's show. Oliver Darcy's reply: status.news/p/quentin-ta...
Those headlines, translated: "Zuckerberg Regrets that His Tool to Enable Global Fascism Didn't Kill More People By Spreading COVID-19 Misinformation"
I have a new piece up @tnr.bsky.social, on the truly historic decline on homicides In the first half of 2024. It is perhaps not surprising, tho frustrating, that the media is not paying it much attention. It’s a lot more surprising that Harris’s campaign seems to not be hyping it either.
There’s a story here, if the Harris-Walz campaign wants to tell it.
I mean, don't get me started, you'll make me write words on the internet and all! * berjon.com/public-inter...berjon.com/internet-tra...
What if the internet were public interest technology? Is that too wildly speculative? I think not. I am not talking about a utopian project here — a public interest internet would be a glorious imperf...
He somehow topped that with this shit lmaooo. He is the worst candidate ever. There's a LITERAL SIGN at Pat's telling you how to order "wiz wit" or "wiz without" so you know what to do I don't think anyone in history has asked for Swiss on a cheesesteak. American, provolone, cheddar. Sure.
Elon Musk’s financial headaches at X continue as advertiser’s boycott causes an 84% collapse in revenue leaving Musk admitting X could face bankruptcy and asset managers fearing he will devalue Tesla as he sells off up to $2bn of shares to prop it up. fortune.com/2024/08/15/e...
Plunging U.S. revenue at X risks opening up a "massive hole" on its balance sheet that Musk needs to plug to stave off its financial collapse.
I love sharing this piece every so often. Written in 1941 by Dorothy Thompson. It remains very sharp. harpers.org/archive/1941...
