Tom Sabino-Benowitz

GABBARD HAS REFERRED UKRAINE WHISTLEBLOWER TO DOJ FOR POSSIBLE CRIMINAL PROSECUTION DNI Tulsi Gabbard referred the whistleblower whose complaint led to the first impeachment of President Trump and the Inspector General who deemed their complaint “credible” for possible criminal prosecution by the Justice Department on Wednesday. The whistleblower complaint led to Trump’s impeachment by the House in 2019 for pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate his then-political rival Joe Biden. The Senate later acquitted Trump in a largely party-line vote. A spokesperson for Gabbard’s office confirmed to MS NOW that she had sent the criminal referral to the Justice Department but declined to provide further details regarding what crimes the whistleblower and inspector general allegedly may have committed. The criminal referral was first reported by Fox News. Gabbard’s referral, according to Fox News, states, “The possible criminal activity concerns the circumstances described in the following congressional briefings: Discussion with Intelligence Community Inspector General, House Permanent Select Comm. on Intel., 116th Cong. (2019); Briefing by the Intelligence Community Inspector General, House Permanent Select Comm. on Intel., 116th Cong. (2019).” The identity of the whistleblower has not been publicly disclosed. The former intelligence community inspector general did not immediately respond to a request for comment from MS NOW. A former Justice Department official who worked with Atkinson, who served as a career DOJ lawyer for roughly two decades before becoming an Inspector General, praised his work. "He was an exceedingly careful and thoughtful attorney and public servant," the former DOJ official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, citing concern about possible retaliation, told MS NOW. "The notion that he would have engaged in any criminal wrongdoing is preposterous."

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Full disclosure: This is why I left Google DeepMind. There was tangible pressure to avoid doing work that might upset the current administration (for example, by using the "d" word -- democracy).

Powerful analysis on a slew of issues arising in the Iran conflict from Rice University's David Satterfield.

The most auspicious omen of this time is the fact that if you lose a lot of weight on GLP-1s, no one thinks that that's a bulleted weight loss journey. It's equal in everyone's eyes. I really hope they don't cause health problems.

@mcuban Are there other bizes where high-purchase-expense equipment/RE results in a low-transparency price for the end beneficiary, or examples where the problem has been solved? Because seems like insurance probably hate paying hosp. for using expensive facilities and testing machines?

Almost right. It’s more expensive because CEOs of self insured companies, hire the biggest insurance companies to manage their spend on care. Resulting in them having no idea how they spend their money. Look up those same prices from transparent surgery centers. Or better yet, the cash price from the same hospitals they use If CEOs realized that every penny they save on healthcare goes right to the bottom line, they might get a clue So hospitals with monopoly power over charge. Absolutely. But even they would charge less if CEOs knew how their benefit costs worked Costpluswellness.Com

seattletimes.com/games-nytimes-… You can digitally do the daily NYT crossword on The Seattle Times website for free (and the past few days'). Wonder if I can still do Tuesdays.

My only email == bleach@tutanota.de accept no substitutes!

Even today there are tombs to be opened, and often the stones sealing them are so heavy and so closely guarded that they seem to be immovable. Some weigh heavily on the human heart, such as mistrust, fear, selfishness and resentment; others, stemming from these inner struggles, sever the bonds between us through war, injustice and the isolation of peoples and nations. Let us not allow ourselves to be paralyzed by them! #Easter

@CarlBovisNature Sidelong is the best Duckrow orientation! These are adorable!

If you see this photo, please leave a comment! As it's Good Friday, here are 3 Shelduck chicks, which I rescued from a busy main road a few years ago... twice!😁 I took the photo as I escorted them down a drive.. but they turned around & ran straight back into the road! 😱😅😍

The forceful rejection by conservative justices of the Trump birth citizenship policy is welcome and speaks to a willingness of conservatives to defend the constitution qua the law of the land regardless of political recriminations and prev unthinkable presidential intimidation.

“National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals, a necessary condition for self-improvement" – Richard Rorty

WWT Passover holiday arriving the same week as Easter this year, I'm going to make double the Charoset tn. One portion for Seder, but another will help bring to my life my wild idea for "Baruch-schetta", which I'll bring to Easter Sunday & introduce Charoset to the gentile world.

part 2 of this fascinating interview.

𝙁𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧: Flowers only evolved ~130 million years ago. That means there were dinosaurs around for 100 million years before flowers showed up. In this excellent interview author David Haskell argues that flowers are responsible for a revolution in the world!

Why is autism more common in males? Interesting finding here (as with other sex differences, men's lack of a redundant X chromosome has a role), but it's a sign of the lack of Darwinian thinking in medicine that a more basic explanation (from the late Robert Trivers) is unmentioned: the greater variance in male reproductive success (some with many offspring, many with none) selects for a developmental program which optimizes at every level for some chance at building the strongest phenotype, at a cost of many defective ones. gsas.harvard.edu/news/why-autis…