Elon Musk’s X to stop allowing users to hide their blue checks (arstechnica.com)
No coherent strategy. X circles the drain. You gotta love it. Oh, Lonnie…
The Toxic Culture at Tesla (www.thenation.com)
This article shares some employees’ experiences of racism, sexism, and other forms of abuse at Tesla factories.
After Decades of Imprisoning Patients, Idaho Approves Secure Mental Health Facility (www.propublica.org)
Nearly 9 in 10 Trans People in State Prisons Have Undergone Solitary Confinement (truthout.org)
A Southwest Boeing 737 lost engine cover during takeoff, FAA is investigating (www.cnbc.com)
Touching fentanyl won’t kill you. Why won’t cops and policymakers get the memo? (www.salon.com)
Forecasters issue highest Atlantic hurricane season outlook in nearly 30 years (www.local10.com)
Chinese signatures on graduation certificates upset northern Virginia police chief (apnews.com)
A northern Virginia town has been excluded from a countywide police training academy after the town’s chief complained about Chinese signatures on trainees’ graduation certificates....
100,000 live salmon spilled off a truck. Most landed in a creek and lived. (www.nytimes.com)
A tanker carrying young salmon crashed. But most of the fish flopped into a creek and “hit the water running,” a wildlife official said....
Teenager 18 smashes into a beloved mom and three children in a minivan at 112mph, as he's caught smiling after pretending to look sad as charges read out to him in the hospital bed (www.dailymail.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/22781196...
Freight railroads must keep 2-person crews, according to new federal rule first proposed under Obama (apnews.com)
“As trains — many carrying hazardous material — have grown longer, crews should not be getting smaller,” said Eddie Hall, the president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen union. He praised the FRA for taking the step President Joe Biden promised. Hall said keeping two people in the cab of a...
Paralyzed man who can walk again shows potential benefit of stem cell therapy (abcnews.go.com)
A Mayo Clinic study used a patient’s stem cells to help repair the spinal cord....
Trump Gets Bond Deal to Ward Off $454 Million Judgment, for Now (www.nytimes.com)
Former President Donald J. Trump averted a financial disaster on Monday, reaching a deal that will spare him from paying a $454 million judgment in his civil fraud case while he appeals the penalty....
10 trans people share how their life satisfaction has changed after transition (www.nbcnews.com)
400 people with mental illness are sitting in Colorado jails. Some state lawmakers want to divert them to treatment instead. (coloradosun.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/400-people-with-mental-illness-…
Inside the Historic Suit That the Gun Industry and Republicans Are on the Verge of Killing (www.propublica.org)
Oklahoma official facing recall over white nationalist ties defends marching in Charlottesville (www.nbcnews.com)
Judd Blevins, who is fighting to keep his seat on the Enid, Oklahoma, City Council, said he was motivated by “the same issues that got Donald Trump elected."...
Trump's net worth reportedly soars to $6.5 billion after media company stock jumps (www.cnbc.com)
NBC’s McDaniel mess threatens to explode (www.politico.com)
Charter school teacher fired after discovered she's an aspiring rap artist (thehill.com)
Russian officials suggest without evidence that Ukraine may have been involved in terror attack (www.cnn.com)
A handful of Russian officials have suggested without evidence that Ukraine may have been involved in Friday’s attack on the Crocus City complex near Moscow....
Man who helped drag police officer into mob gets over 5 years in prison for Capitol riot attacks (apnews.com)
A Colorado man who helped other rioters drag a police officer into a mob storming the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Thursday to more than five years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack....
3 Idaho corrections officers shot as gunman breaks an inmate out of Boise hospital, police say (apnews.com)
A suspect staged a brazen attack to break a prison inmate out of a Boise hospital overnight, shooting and seriously wounding two Idaho corrections officers, police said. A third was also shot and wounded when arriving police mistook the officer for the suspect and opened fire....
State Medicaid offices target dead people’s homes to recoup their health care costs (abcnews.go.com)
EPA bans asbestos, a deadly carcinogen still in use decades after a partial ban was enacted (apnews.com)
