Timothy Snyder argues that the immigrants and refugees being sent to the new US-based camps will -- if history is any guide -- be offered to US firms as slave labor so it'll be up to us, and corporates, to say no

Concentration Camp Labor

Cannot Become Normal

I had a friend who worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau At its peak, it was an amazing force helping to protect everyday americans from the usurious behavior of banks, lenders, and anyone in the money business Annie Lowrey also has a friend who works there -- but who was caught up in Musk/DOGE/Trump's push to dismantle the agency ... ... even as her friend got cancer Lowrey wrote a remarkable story:

The Atlantic

A Real Cancer in Washington

The quiet heroism of my friend in government

Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/BmG7e

I doubt folks around here need more explainers about the disastrous Supreme Court ruling that makes it essentially impossible for lower courts to overturn blatantly unconstitutional moves by the president But this is clearest explanation I’ve seen: https://archive.is/S74FW

There is nothing I love more than research finding that coffee is good for your health in this case, a four-decade-long study of 50,000 women

Could coffee be the key to 'healthy aging' in women? What to know

I always find this chart by Hannah Ritchie -- of Our World In Data -- deeply informative of how disjointed is our sense of personal risk

X (formerly Twitter)

Hannah Ritchie (@_HannahRitchie) on X

There's a big disconnect between what the media reports on & the reality for most of us Terrorism gets more than a third of coverage but is le...

A pediatrician reads the "Make America Healthy Again" report and discovers it is wildly contradictory It spends pages meticulously documenting how corporations spend billions of dollars developing highly addictive ultra-processed foods and marketing them to children ... ... and how this has caused child illnesses and obesity to boom It documents how other countries better regulate this But then it says "the US shouldn't regulate things":

Slate Magazine

I’m a Pediatrician. There’s So Much That the MAHA Report Does Get Right.

It sets up a compelling argument—then veers wildly off course.

Among the many dangerous things the Trump administration is doing ... ... this one's a doozy: the executive order giving his political appointees the power to determine what are "correct" scientific findings, and "the power to 'discipline' anyone who violates the way the administration views science" Gift link:

The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now It Wants to ‘Correct’ Research.

Thousands of scientists, academics, physicians and researchers have responded to the administration’s executive order about “restoring a gold ...

Hey NYC-area folks! Tonight (June 4), my friend Kevin Smokler is going to be at Greenlight Books in Brooklyn ... ... to do an event for his new book "Break the Frame", a collection of his interviews with pioneering female directors Tonight he'll be in conversation with Debra Granik, director of -- among other fabulous movies -- "Winter's Bone" Event details here:

Greenlight Bookstore

Kevin Smokler with Debra Granik

Brooklyn independent bookstore

super worth attending if you can!

Trump pardoned a man who'd been convicted of tax cheating -- he withheld over $10 million from the paychecks of nurses, doctors and other employees, money that was intended to make their tax contributions ... ... and blew it on a $2 million yacht and shopping he was caught, fined $4.4 million and given an 18-month jail term then his mother attended a $1 million Trump dinner ... ... and soon after he was pardoned Full story here: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/trump-pardoned-tax-cheat-after-mother-attended-1-million-maga-dinner/