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Negotiator. Conflict Advisor. Former Harvard Negotiation Project Former Kennedy School & NUS Lecturer Managing Director, Sea-Change Partners Co-author, "Negotiating Hostage Crises with the New Terrorists" Photographer https://www.linkedin.com/in/keithfitz
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Data = Information – Humanity

Humans really are a problem. Psychoactive drug pollution makes fish less risk-averse Clobazam, an anti-anxiety drug, is polluting our waterways. A Swedish study found traces of the drug had altered the way wild Atlantic salmon migrate. www.dw.com/en/psychoact...

Worth a read www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/o...

Sweden's two main Christian NGOs, plus Human Rights Watch Nordic, call for Sweden's government to take action to stop Israel's mass killings of Palestinians.

The Trump admin pronounces DEI with a hard r. insideclimatenews.org/news/1104202...

WOW. They grabbed her off the street even while the State Department itself said that she had done nothing wrong.

I would read a "where journalists like me went wrong" post written by Chuck Todd. www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...

A comical response to a completely self-imposed crisis.

This is what real Resistance looks like. #Myanmar #TeamWatermelon youtube.com/watch?v=w8cD...

this report, though not decisive, suggests that state department principals, like rubio, are taking decisions at odds with advice from interested bureaus - including L (legal)? consular? that is, if they are even seeking it.

republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover

THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

In his first term it was "Build the wall." In his second, it protectionist tariffs. In his heart, Donald Trump is just a big, scared coward, afraid of the world, who needs his blankey and his binky.

I'd say there is now a 50% chance that ICE will arrest John Oliver, strip him of his US citizenship, deport him to El Salvador, and shave his head.

There's a reason ICE agents wear masks in the street. From Kristi Noem's war-crime propaganda to the airport officers harassing innocent tourists, the MAGA deportation regime is not just immoral but increasingly criminal Someday, there must be justice. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

Since Musk is already coming for everything else I value (education, truth, the rule of law), sure, why not IP too techcrunch.com/2025/04/13/j...

China should only export phones and computers to the US that have Chinese characters and Chinese language.

IED Hires

This is all an elaborate plan to drive the world's biggest investors into TrumpKKKoin instead of US Treasuries.

This would be like SpaceX promising you a trip to Mars; charging you for it; and then dropping you off between exits on the New Jersey Turnpike. DOGE Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...

The false alarm in the comic is based on a real event in the 1950s in which… …a flock of geese was mistakenly interpreted as Soviet nuclear weapon armed bombers. www-ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/Bre...

Jesus Effing Christ

Not even any bone spurs? Trump's doctor is desperately in need of a cognitive exam.

Sorry, but is there some reason why people care about what this guy thinks? He seems like an extreme attention whore – even for these times.

Significant arson damage to Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro's home. Looks like what happened to civil rights leaders in the 1950s

This read like an Onion item imagining a second Trump term circa 2022

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That's an output, not an outcome.

They all want the world to believe they are "self-made billionaires." That they got where they are because they're geniuses. Of course, there is no such thing as a "self-made billionaire" (or even a self-made millionaire). But to promote the myth, they must erase the contributions of all others.

If you don’t live in MA you may not have caught this, but the good citizens of Cambridge gave Harvard an earful yesterday. Has there ever been a time in U.S. history when regular folks had to yell at an elite university to stand up to the president? #MomSky www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/12/m...

“I’ve been disappeared because a rainforest killing plagiarism machine picked me out of a hat”, coming to a dystopia near you

Two of the least creative billionaires on the planet HaVe ThOtS

"Beam me up, Scotty!" needs to make a comeback. And, can Scotty beam us to a different timeline? What say you, Trekkies?

We also now need to wonder if "disease accelerationism" is now a thing in the US.

It honestly wouldn't surprise me if another million Americans die because, once again, the Trump Administration didn't take a disease outbreak seriously enough and because tens of millions of Americans won't get vaccinated.

I wrote about how Musk's DOGE could actually cost taxpayers money. open.substack.com/pub/theweekl...

BREAM: The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget calls the budget "an absolute disgrace." The GOP is supposed to be the party of fiscal discipline. Why did you vote yes? LANKFORD: That is the wonderful DC math that's coming through on this

If I were an editor at a prestigious national publication I would simply ask writers to define what they mean by words like "forced" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is a must-watch. How stock market turmoil led to the Great Depression, the rise of fascism, World War II, and the Holocaust. Eerily familiar. tv.apple.com/us/show/1929...

“The former casino owner in the White House brags that he has never gambled. But he is gambling with Americans’ lives and futures.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/o...

They're such dipshits. Klueless Klux Klan

Inside a bomb shelter for schoolchildren, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Scott Pelley. The school is mourning after a Russian missile killed nine children on a playground. Tonight on 60 Minutes.

Apparently, the word "unprecedented" now means "I've never heard of it happening before. "

Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat next to DNI Tulsi Gabbard, who was two seats down from FBI Director Kash Patel. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. chatted with Sen. Ted Cruz. Elon Musk sat to Trump’s left in a pit-side seat. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...