The Trump administration is closing NASA’s largest research library on Friday, a facility that houses tens of thousands of books, documents and journals — many of them not digitized or available anywhere else. Jacob Richmond, a NASA spokesman, said the agency would review the library holdings over the next 60 days and some material would be stored in a government warehouse while the rest would be tossed away. “This process is an established method that is used by federal agencies to properly dispose of federally owned property,” Mr. Richmond said. The shutdown of the library at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., is part of a larger reorganization under the Trump administration that includes the closure of 13 buildings and more than 100 science and engineering laboratories on the 1,270-acre campus by March 2026.
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race,...
Billionaires with $1 salaries – and other legal tax dodges the ultrawealthy use to keep their riches Billionaires can enjoy growing wealth entirely free of income tax and reporting Mark Zuckerberg was the lowest-paid employee at Meta in 2024, and he made US$1. But he is not the only very rich person who has collected $1 for a year’s work. Why would incredibly rich CEOs make only $1 a year when they could pay themselves millions? The reason is taxes. Income from work is the most heavily taxed type of income, as it is subject to both income and payroll taxes. A self-employed person who makes a modest income of $60,000 will pay over $13,000 of it in payroll and income taxes. Meanwhile, high-income earners who earn a $400,000 salary can pay about 30% of their income in payroll and income taxes. So the first step in avoiding taxes is avoiding salary, and that is what our richest Americans often do.
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Billionaires with $1 salaries – and other legal tax dodges the ultrawealthy use to keep their riches
Billionaires can enjoy growing wealth entirely free of income tax and reporting.
Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.
A new ad campaign is fighting ICE by trying to convince agents to quit their jobs. In the minute-long spot, an ICE agent returns home to his young daughter after a long day that includes real footage of masked federal agents breaking car windows and terrorizing immigrants. “Daddy, how was your day?” she asks. As he hugs her, text appears on the screen: “What will you say when she asks about your day?” The evocative ads from Women’s March Win encourage agents to “walk away before the shame follows you home” They have run in Chicago and Charlotte, North Carolina, where ICE has been deployed, and in West Palm Beach, home to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club
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More than 20% of the videos that YouTube’s algorithm shows to new users are “AI slop” – low-quality AI-generated content designed to farm views, research has found. The video-editing company Kapwing surveyed 15,000 of the world’s most popular YouTube channels – the top 100 in every country – and found that 278 of them contain only AI slop. Together, these AI slop channels have amassed more than 63 billion views and 221 million subscribers, -- generating about $117m (£90m) in revenue each year, according to estimates. The researchers also made a new YouTube account and found that 104 of the first 500 videos recommended to its feed were AI slop. One-third of the 500 videos were “#brainrot”, a category that includes AI slop and other low-quality content made to monetise attention.
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More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds
Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media – and generating about $117m a year, data shows
"democratic values, in the reality that the United States has walked away from them … what should the allies do?"
Matt Gurney: 'We will never fucking trust you again'
Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum.
"I’m sure she’ll take it under consideration and look at it seriously. … Trump hasn’t made a secret about the retribution that he is asking some of his U.S. attorneys to take against his perceived enemies. It is an extraordinary request, but maybe this is an extraordinary situation." — Professor Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law, in comments given to Law.com, concerning a request made by ex-CIA Director John Brennan’s lawyers to Chief District Judge Cecilia Altonaga of the Southern District of Florida, 👉to block Judge #Aileen #Cannon from hearing the case. The letter submitted by Brennan’s lawyers to Altonaga reads, in relevant part: “The United States attorney’s efforts to funnel this investigation to the judge who issued this string of rulings that consistently favored President Trump’s positions in previous litigations should be seen for what it is.”
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Lawyers Try To Bench Aileen Cannon From Case, Arguing She’s Been In Trump’s Corner One Too Many Times - Above the Law
Attorneys think Cannon’s pattern of deference to Trump has destroyed any appearance of neutrality.
GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-presidential-pardon-process-dda97c15?st=cjezHF&reflink=article_copyURL_share
Days after starting his second term, Donald Trump issued a series of executive orders that targeted DEI programs and policies for elimination, decrying them as illegal and immoral. Museums across the country scrambled to react — and in many cases, comply. Within days, Washington’s National Gallery of Art announced it would close its office of belonging and inclusion and remove the words “diversity, equity, access and inclusion” from its list of values on its website. Five days later, the Smithsonian followed suit. ⭐️But the Japanese American National Museum, a relatively small institution in downtown Los Angeles, chose a different path. Founded in 1992 at the site of a historic Buddhist temple in L.A.’s Little Tokyo, the museum took a stand against Trump and his anti-DEI edicts while other museums acquiesced. Two weeks after the Smithsonian shuttered its DEI office and stripped its websites of DEI-related language, JANM’s leaders announced that they would not waver from their commitment to DEI or their mission of telling the full truth about the Japanese American experience, World War II incarceration camps and all. ✅ We will scrub nothing, JANM announced, in what would become a slogan for the museum’s defiance. ❌ That stance came with significant risks: At stake were millions in federal grants from institutions like the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. 
This L.A. Museum Is Standing Up to Trump’s Whitewashing, Vowing to ‘Scrub Nothing’
The Japanese American National Museum stands out among cultural institutions by refusing to bend to President Trump’s attacks on diversity, histo...
A new study suggests that #dementia may be driven in part by faulty blood flow in the brain. Researchers found that losing a key lipid causes blood vessels to become overactive, disrupting circulation and starving brain tissue. When the missing molecule was restored, normal blood flow returned. This discovery opens the door to new treatments aimed at fixing vascular problems in dementia.
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Scientists found a way to restore brain blood flow in dementia
A new study suggests that dementia may be driven in part by faulty blood flow in the brain. Researchers found that losing a key lipid causes blood ...