Nice coverage of this historic restoration effort 🦋 by Bay Nature magazine

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I was very pleased to talk to the Harvard University gazette about the soon to be argued case in the Supreme Court about whether Idaho’s abortion law is preempted by EMTALA in cases related to the health of the pregnant person news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

In this #SeeItHearIt , Michelle Mello discusses federal government move to end nonconsensual pelvic exams by students on CBS News. stanford.io/4aTjOgk

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“From a researcher’s perspective, there’s reason to be worried,” said SLS Professor @hankgreelylsju for Scientific American in 'IVF Treatment in the U.S. May Be at Risk, Scientists Warn.'

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Like everyone, I get lots of these. But this one was particularly good, because the article of mine that it cites was about... concrete.

I argued in Unnatural that 'Playing God' was a 20th century invention, without any real theological basis. Nick's book (with that title) gives a nice overview of the idea and its contemporary context.

Interesting! Law prof preprint says the original intent of the 16th Amendment (federal income tax) may bite conservatives by showing that it allowed feds to tax unrealized gains. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm
Will be interesting to see what this Court does if that issue arises.

I'm NOT a tax policy scholar. But yes, the rich pay a huge share of federal taxes (& also in some states, like mine own Ca). But I think there's some cherry picking or distractions in these charts as noted below.
BTW, if we were to look taxes in proportion to wealth, what then?

In a time of vastly increasing inequality, over the last 30 yrs (actually, 30 of the last 35 yrs, not counting 2020 and on), average income tax rate paid by the top 1% has moved up 0.7% points, or ca 3%.

Top 1% looks flat for the last 30 years. (And I wonder what before 1979 shows? Honest question. I don't know.)

Another reason is in the US a large chunk of taxes go to states and localities, which account for little to no taxation in other countries. Maybe the right comparison is total taxation (federal and other) in US v other countries, but federal v. total other countries isn't right

The reason the OECD revenues exceed the U.S. by 7.5% of GDP is because they raise 7.2% with VATs.

Scandinavia's larger overage is nearly all VATs & Social Security taxes.

Those are broad-based taxes, not extra taxes on the rich. Europe's taxes are less progressive than the U.S.

'wage taxes.' But the real rich make their money off capital, not wages. Cherry picking....

The number of new prescriptions written for biosimilar versions of the Humira rheumatoid arthritis treatment, one of the best-selling medicines in the U.S., surged to 36% from just 5% during the first week of April. trib.al/y5008iv

/2 The new Rx's are almost all for a drug called Hyrimoz, wh/is jointly marketed by 'Cordavis, a new subsidiary that CVS created last August specifically to sell any number of biosimilar medicines in the US' Good for patients w/hi drug co-pays. Also good for CVS, wh/makes more $$