Wow. The Times of London devotes its lead editorial to the pernicious influence of the Global Disinformation Index, saying 'it has helped to stymie valuable and independent-minded journalism on the basis of little more than ideological prejudice.' 🔥

Don't quite understand electoral appeal of upward mobility bios. Lots of people make it in USA-but it often becomes a kind of entitlement, as if that makes them better, more able to pronounce moral judgment. Riches-to-rags-to-riches stories at least have the riches-to-rags part.

Schumer: 'Our Republican colleagues may have given up on acting on the border, but Democrats have not.” Now would be a good time for Johnson to pass just one (1) provision of HR2 and send it to the Senate. See if Schumer and Dems pass it.

.@Axios still pushing an impending Biden 212(f) border shutdown. axios.com/newsletters/ax… Had previously said it would come by the end of April. axios.com/2024/04/10/bid…

Intriguing shifts-seeing fallout of Prigozhin insurrection. Important new Defense Minister has economic expertise/Maintaining short & longterm economic strength critical/New taxes to be levied to pay for war/Putin reassigns Shoigu, longtime defense minster washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/…

On this day in 1862, Robert Smalls stole a Confederate Ship and sailed it to Freedom disguised as a captain, freeing his crew and their families.

A THREAD!

Reporter: Can we explain to Californians how we moved from $100 billion surplus to such a significant deficit in just a few years?

Gavin Newsom: Climate Change

Don't make me like 'Mumford and Sons' yahoo.com/news/pelosi-re…

'A conviction for former president over hush money allegations would boost support in Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida' telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

I label this claim as the 'Lump of Migrants' theory.
In reality, more begets more b/c foreigners are rational and want to help their kids.

Paul Schrader or anyone should be free to honestly take stock of a long career. What's odd is holding a grievance against those who don't back our films - which is pretty much everyone. #film

Am rereading Nora Ephron's media criticism ('Scribble Scribble') She was colossal.

What makes this even more remarkable is that, though I'm sure it varies a lot by country, we have a lot of evidence that social desirability bias is large on this topic, so real opposition to immigration is likely significantly higher in many places.

“Interviews with 19 women involved in human rights activism in Asia, Europe and North America revealed a culture in which powerful men can get away with unprofessional and sometimes even predatory behavior without consequence.”

Read the investigation: notus.org/policy/human-r…

This is Biden’s “Infrastructure Week.”

CNN's Fareed Zakaria says that President Joe Biden needs to implement former President Donald Trump's asylum policies to deal with the illegal immigration crisis.

He says that Trump's policies are 'correct' and 'the right policy because the old asylum system is being gamed by…

Mexico’s Migrant Crackdown on La Bestia Continues.

Mexico's security and migration forces have intensified their efforts in Zacatecas, Durango, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Chihuahua to reduce migrants heading to the U.S., leading to human rights issues. Despite the crackdown,…

Can 'flip the script' be banned?