“The widow of Renee Good has asked a court to order the federal government to hand over the vehicle her spouse was driving when she was fatally shot by an immigration agent in January.”

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https://www.startribune.com/renee-goods-widow-asks-feds-to-hand-over-vehicle-late-wife-was-driving-during-fatal-ice-shooting/601804458

Feds not doing any investigation but holding on to the property anyway to block state investigations.

COVID becomes a cold: “patterns indicate that new strains are relatively more capable of overcoming our immune responses, but the infection outcomes are more mild”

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https://www.statnews.com/2026/04/27/is-covid-still-a-thing-expert-analysis-who-needs-vaccine-booster-shot/

Immunity + virus evolution + non-exposed vulnerable are dead. Annual booster uncertain value.

Open question: do all coronaviruses cause a degree of vascular brain injury? How does that accumulate over a lifespan?

“Never Trumpers, the Always Trumpers, and then this really key group in the middle that’s pretty dispositive in terms of which way they swing and it’s dispositive in terms of determining election outcomes”

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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-vibes-with-jared-bernstein

“What I think of them, at least in the context of our conversation, are people who believed Trump when he said, “I’m going to lower prices on day one.”

It’s powerfully tempting to consider this group simply dumb. They are not academics for sure. I suspect, however, that if we disregard their explanations their distress is sending a critical message.

Lessons from the wins and losses of the Tennessee Valley Authority: “Malaria affected close to 30 percent of the population”

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https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/04/dirty-energy-and-the-lost-promise-of-the-tva/

TVA was public-private. We may be doing a lot more like that. So need to know this history.

“In the 1970s, TVA’s coal-fired facilities were responsible for about 14 percent of all toxic sulfur-dioxide emissions nationwide”

“The land the Clovis people entered around 13,000 years ago was full of enormous ambulatory meat lockers with little-to-no experience of human predation.”

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https://patrickwyman.substack.com/p/anzick-1-the-clovis-people-and-life

I loved this informed recreation of life of early Americans.

A few hundred exploded across the continent. “The sheer speed of their expansion is remarkable, and in my opinion, perhaps the clearest example of demographic success we can see anywhere in prehistory.”

“A study by Peking University analyzed more than a million online job postings in China between 2018 and 2024 …. functions that could be performed using AI had seen a significant decline in hiring … computer programming, accounting, editing, and sal

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https://restofworld.org/2026/china-ai-anxiety-openclaw-jobs-redundancy/

The tranquility and calm of 2025 was a kind of golden age. More seriously, employment anxiety in China has multiple causes.

US Senator: “a, nominee say things. In the committee that you know, the nominee knows, everybody in the room knows, are complete and utter bullshit”

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https://www.contrariannews.org/p/which-cabinet-member-is-next-on-the

Yes, they aren’t stupid. They know the nominees are just bullshitting through their hearings. They ask the questions hoping it makes good TV. The awful thing is that the media plays along as though nominee hearings were actually for real. All about the clicks.

“The punch will never go away, and what we’ve done will never go away.” Sheldon compares America to an abusive husband assaulting their spouse.

“there is a fundamental conflict between the efficiency with which markets spread information and the incentives to acquire information.”

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https://mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-simple-economic-paradox-wrecking

“… Grossman-Stiglitz Paradox … Important or valuable information can be costly to obtain or produce … information gets transmitted to the rest of the marketplace when the information producers can exploit a market opening … the more widely distributed information becomes in a marketplace, you’re likelier to lose your money if you keep investing in producing high-quality information. So everyone stops producing new information”