The report highlights how little is known about the cost of Amazon’s expansion to taxpayers around the planet.

Quiet title laws across the Midwest can disproportionately affect homeowners who don’t speak English, like Natalia Esteban, who emigrated from Mexico over 20 years ago.

“Our system isn’t broken — it’s designed to do what it’s doing: produce measurable inequity,” Gary Chambers Jr. says in the powerful spot

The couple may have attempted to use NFTs to launder some stolen Bitcoin, the Department of Justice complaint says.

Yesterday, superproducer Steve Albini sparked a social-media debate when he posted to Twitter that Juggalos (a nickname for Insane Clown Posse fans) are superior to Deadheads, after arguing that if ICP can learn from their problematic lyrics, Joe Rogan should be able to properly apologize for his use of the N-word. “Yes, I’m saying the Juggalos are good,” Albini wrote. “A non-judgmental, inclusive community for people on the fringe, built on a beautiful communion they call ‘family.’ They remind me of punk/queer chosen families and I love them. I haven’t heard much of the music, it’s atrocious. Who cares.”

The comedian threatened to pull his business interests from the village of Yellow Springs.

Attorney Mark Mueller promised a caring workplace. But at his Austin compound, some former employees say, his eccentricities veered into sexual harassment. The shaman lights a hand-rolled cigarette, inhales, and blows plumes of pungent Amazonian tobacco smoke onto the heads, chests, backs, and clasped hands of his acolytes. Next, he might move about the room while beating on a drum. Standing six foot four, with an unruly shock of platinum-blond hair, he’s accustomed to being the center of attention. These ceremonies have taken place nearly every week for years inside his downtown Austin compound. Some Indigenous Americans believe the tobacco, known as mapacho, possesses healing and protective qualities. But this self-professed shaman isn’t Indigenous. He’s a white, 69-year-old attorney named Mark Mueller, and his acolytes are lawyers, paralegals, and others who work for him. A Wisconsin native who earned his law degree from the University of Houston—and later graduated from the Power Path Seminars & School of Shamanism, in New Mexico—Mueller seems to revel in his eccentricities.

In retrospect, shoveling snow onto the hood of a pick-up truck blocking a Park Slope bus stop wasn’t the best decision Tony Melone made last Monday. But that provocation seems quaint compared to what followed. “I’m gonna kill you, Melone,” an unidentified man told him over the phone an hour later — one of five threatening calls Melone would receive that day. “I’m gonna fuck you and your wife,” a caller said later. Nearly as unsettling to Melone as the threats was the question of how the caller, or callers, knew his name and phone number in the first place. Melone had filed a 311 complaint to the NYPD earlier that day about the illegally parked truck and included his own name and number on the report. The city says it keeps that information confidential. Somehow it made its way to the furious caller. “The 311 system is supposed to be a way for people to report problems,” Melone, 45, said later about the ordeal. “If it’s getting used to harass the people that are reporting the problems, that’s really disturbing.” The episode fits into a broader pattern of harassment that New Yorkers have faced after filing 311 complaints to the NYPD, a pattern now under city investigation following a Streetsblog report. But the calls received by Melone were by far the most extreme of any documented by Streetsblog, as they included death threats and violent and vulgar references to Melone’s wife and children, according to Melone, who shared recordings of the calls with Streetsblog.

The bill, which would bar the 'discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity' in primary schools, passed the Florida Senate Education Committee on Tuesday. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis voiced his support for a bill that would prohibit the discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in the state's primary schools. Asked by reporters at a Miami event Monday, he said it was "entirely inappropriate" for teachers to be having conversations with students about gender identity, citing instances of them telling children, “Don’t worry, don’t pick your gender yet," and also "hiding" classroom lessons from parents.

He campaigned for reelection claiming he'd banned the type of no-knock warrants Minneapolis Police used to kill Amir Locke. After Minneapolis Police killed Amir Locke, Frey had an opportunity to step up. He chose to hide behind the same old excuses instead. On January 31, Vogue Magazine ran a glowing profile of recently re-elected Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, citing his “boyishness” and dubbing him an “elder millennial” whose time in office, per the article’s framing, was akin to running a marathon. Marathons, coincidentally, are Frey’s favorite pastime, and the impetus for moving to Minnesota to begin with (his first time in Minneapolis was for a race, where he noticed “the sun was shining, the music was playing,” and the city’s Lake Nokomis “was just sparkling with colors”). Frey’s time in office, of course, has been defined by the murder of George Floyd by former Minneapolis Police Office Derek Chauvin. In the days following Floyd’s death, as a protest movement erupted in Minneapolis and spread across the nation, Frey tried and utterly failed to connect with the furious residents of his city, preferring appearances on MSNBC to managing the situation the ground. In last month’s profile, he mused to Vogue that running a city is in many ways more difficult than other elected roles. “If this was just takin’ a vote — That ain’t how it works here…you can’t hide as mayor,” he said. But it certainly looks like Frey is hiding again.

The hospital industry is lobbying the White House to help drive down wages for health care workers across the U.S. after many travel nurses saw a rise in wages during the covid-19 pandemic, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. And despite a critical shortage of nurses in the U.S., hospitals are doing everything they can to make sure they earn less money. Travel nurses, which are used to temporarily supplement existing staff during times of crisis, have seen their wages rise from about $1,706 in December 2019 to $3,290 a week in December 2021, according to the WSJ and Vivan Health. What can the U.S. government do to stop wages from rising? Hospitals argue that wages for travel nurses have gone up due to an influx of federal money from covid-19 relief funds and FEMA grants for natural disasters. But staffing agencies that connect nurses with hospital systems across the country argue that it’s simply a matter of supply and demand.

A powerful magnetic storm takes out most of a batch of Starlink satellites the day after launch.

Transgender people have been contacted by the Gender Unity Project for a documentary that's actually being made by transphobic Matt Walsh.

The jumble of misinformation, online fundraising groups and amplification from right-wing political figures suggests there’s more to these protests than meets the eye.

Convinced that sissy hypno porn has ‘manipulated’ them into liking men, cross-dressing and becoming trans, guys are turning to the problematic ‘feminization recovery’ industry for help

Her syllables often land just behind the beat, keeping time like a water-logged wristwatch. Her rhyme schemes could only charitably be described as rhymes; often, the vowels that end her line wouldn’t recognize the next set of vowels if they met them in the street.

The controversy surrounding John Comaroff, an anthropologist, has divided the faculty, with scholars like Jill Lepore and Henry Louis Gates Jr. supporting their colleague.

In 2011, I left my job as the second employee at Pinterest — before I vested any of my stock — to work on what I thought would be my life’s work. I thought Gumroad would become a billion-dollar company, with hundreds of employees. It would IPO, and I would work on it until I died. Something like that. Needless to say, that didn’t happen.

17 Georgia state senators have proposed a new bill aimed at getting rid of all routine childhood vaccination requirements.

An hour into a February 1 meeting of the council that controls the Constitutional Republic City of Oroville, which for months has stood at the precipice of war with the neighboring United States, regime leader Chuck Reynolds—the humble, blue-collar owner of a multi-million-dollar construction business and a convicted felon—gave a long, winding monologue in which he railed against his enemies while explaining that he doesn’t have any money because of evil billionaires, his own generosity, and the U.S. government.