Adam VanHo

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So I did something today.

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Economist estimates that "between 462,000 and 728,000 Russian soldiers were out of action by mid-June—more than Russia’s estimated invading force in February 2022." www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

How many Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine?www.economist.com Four charts illustrate a grim new milestone

Sending prayers to my friends in Texas and the impacted region.

Tropical Storm Beryl is poised to gain strength as it passes over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and is predicted to become a hurricane again later Sunday on approach to the Texas coast.

Live updates: Beryl set to strengthen on approach to Texas coastwww.washingtonpost.com Beryl is forecast to make landfall in Texas as a Category 1 hurricane early Monday. It’s gaining strength in the Gulf after hitting Mexico, Jamaica and other Caribbean islands.

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✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼 Kansas Supreme Court Strikes Down Second-Trimester Abortion Ban

Kansas Supreme Court Strikes Down Second-Trimester Abortion Bantruthout.org In a 5-1 ruling striking down two laws, the court found that the state constitution protects the right to abortion.

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There’s a reason so many confederate flags are flown at maga rallies

I do not regret analogizing these people to the men who took photos of themselves at lynchings www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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Possibly the only time this headline has ever been written.

RFK Jr. denies eating a dog while sidestepping sexual assault allegations in Vanity Fair article | CNN Politicswww.cnn.com Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has denied allegations made in a new Vanity Fair report that he had previously eaten a dog while sidestepping accusations of sexual assault lev...

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This make me seethe

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NEW: The FBI is investigating NYC mayor Eric Adams’s use of a private e-mail server and how records from seven different trips he made to China have disappeared, per the NY Post

Feds probing Eric Adams' use of private email server, missing emails...nypost.com Both the FBI and Manhattan federal prosecutors have flagged at least one trip taken by Adams that was partly funded by the Chinese Communist Party when he headed the Brooklyn Borough President's...

So my Dad grew up in one of Ohio’s smallest counties (about 3 hours away) — for the first time since he died in January, I stopped to pay my respects. After I left, I got stuck in a traffic jam on Route 91 in Hudson — and sure as Hell, the car in front of me had plates from his home county. 🥲

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It's not just a ban, but requires companies to tell workers that their existing ones are "null and void." This takes the California rules, which make ordinary workers not be subject to noncompetes national, which should push up wages significantly. wapo.st/4d8O9cO

FTC bans noncompete agreements for workerswapo.st The rule makes it illegal to include the agreements in employment contracts and requires firms with active noncompete agreements to inform workers they are void.

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The new CEO of The Washington Post and his hand-picked news chief come from a tradition of rough-and-tumble British journalism that plays loose with ethics, compared to U.S. media.

New 'Washington Post' chiefs can’t shake their past in Londonwww.npr.org The new CEO of The Washington Post and his hand-picked news chief come from a tradition of rough-and-tumble British journalism that plays loose with ethics, compared to U.S. media.

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“amorphous things like the end of democracy”

My god, what a paragraph.

Biking Across Kansas completed with the dipping of the bike in the Missouri River. 505 miles later and I’m beat tired.

Blues in a small town bar in Kansas. 🌻 #BAK2024

They were pointing us to pie! #BAK2024

From today’s ride ….

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Mexicans head to the polls Sunday in a presidential election headlined by two women — a matchup that’s underscored the country’s progress on gender equity even as it wrestles with concerns about an overall weakening of democratic institutions.

Mexico is choosing a new president. Here’s why the election is historic.www.washingtonpost.com Voters on Sunday are expected to elect Mexico’s first female president.

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Finally read this. The context for the slur makes it entirely believable. But the rest is just as awful. NBC knowingly resurrected a washed up, racist, misogynist, parasitic con man, and presented him to the country as a brilliant, cutting-edge businessman. It felt dirty just reading it.

For 20 Years, I Couldn’t Say What Donald Trump Did on the Set of The Apprentice. Now I Can.slate.com The con we pulled on America just won’t die.

OK BlueSky - I have a twelve hour (each way) road trip across the Midwest coming up and need podcast and music recommendations.

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🎵The ghost in you She does fade🎵

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So Robert Barnes had the Alito story in 2021 and didn’t run it www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Wife of Justice Alito called upside-down flag ‘signal of distress’www.washingtonpost.com In January 2021, Martha-Ann Alito said the flag, a symbol embraced by election deniers, was raised outside her home in response to a neighborhood dispute.

Damn it — I was looking forward to this concert. www.beaconjournal.com/story/entert...

The Black Keys appear to cancel fall U.S. tour, leaving fans wondering what happenedwww.beaconjournal.com On Friday the Akron natives removed dates on their website for the fall "International Players" tour and TicketMaster showed dates as canceled.

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Even beyond the fact it's four indistinguishable white dudes, it's four dudes who are not exactly in a position to be particularly knowledgeable about AI concerns. It's a bunch of tech execs. Is there no one at Meta who could turn to Zuck and say "yo, this is bad." techcrunch.com/2024/05/22/m...

Meta’s new AI council is composed entirely of white men | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com Meanwhile, women and people of color are disproportionately impacted by irresponsible AI.

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Four years after covid sent a new class of remote workers in search of stunning scenery and cheaper housing across the Mountain West, residents in Montana are reeling from tax hikes driven by extraordinary growth in property values.

Montana’s real estate bonanza turns political as property taxes soarwapo.st The downside of the pandemic-powered boom has gripped state legislatures across the West and is a hot campaign issue in Montana’s gubernatorial race.

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This is all the more impressive when you consider that Biden (1) inherited far fewer vacancies than Donald Trump, (2) had to deal with a much more closely divided Senate, and (3) had to contend with an opposition party that is much less likely to compromise.

New: President Joe Biden is set to secure U.S. Senate confirmation of his 200th appointment to the federal judiciary on Wednesday, surpassing his Republican predecessor Donald Trump's pace even as the clock ticks toward their Nov. 5 election rematch.

Biden to secure 200th judicial confirmation as election loomswww.reuters.com President Joe Biden is set to secure U.S. Senate confirmation of his 200th appointment to the federal judiciary on Wednesday, surpassing his Republican predecessor Donald Trump's pace even as the clock ticks toward their Nov. 5 election rematch.

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The problem isn't the TA pay. The problem is how much the lecturer was paid. After Learning Her TA Would Be Paid More Than She Was, This Lecturer Quit www.chronicle.com/article/afte...

After Learning Her TA Would Be Paid More Than She Was, This Lecturer Quitwww.chronicle.com Labor activism has graduate teaching assistants out-earning some faculty members in the University of California system.

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I don't know who is still out there trying to hide from this fact, but Trump courting the former head of Hells Angels is a pretty clear signal that we're headed for more violence this election.

Chuck Zito, who was a former leader of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang, was among the crowd of Donald Trump’s supporters at his hush-money trial in Manhattan on Monday. He was joined by several other allies who have been charged with crimes.

A Former Leader of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Gang Joins Trump in Courtwww.nytimes.com Chuck Zito, who did time on drug conspiracy charges, has tried to recast his persona as a general-purpose tough guy around town.

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“Once everyone’s blood is contaminated, there is no control group with which to compare, making it difficult to establish responsibility.”

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe www.propublica.org/article/3m-f...

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safewww.propublica.org Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...

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Judge Carlton Reeves has a new opinion out condemning qualified immunity as unlawful and egregiously unjust. He calls the doctrine a "perpetuation of racial inequality" and "an extra-constitutional affront to other cherished values of our democracy." s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...