Steph Ramones

Meanwhile more than 2 years later in Baltimore . . .

Imagine a doctor refusing to diagnose you with a condition for which you have the symptoms, because the doctor believes the condition is rare, and therefore there's an imaginary quota on how many people are allowed be diagnosed with that, and you're not one of those people.

Amazon is removing 4K streaming from Prime Video starting today • It’s now locked behind its ad-free tier • The ad-free tier has also increased from $3 to $5 a month

Hot take:

This is propaganda.

Today, The Intercept reported that the federal government is ordering Reddit to appear before a grand jury in connection with the anonymous speech of a user who criticized the Trump administration's deportation efforts. Immigration and Customs Enforcement tried to identify a user based in the Pacific Northwest without success. They approached Reddit, demanding identifying information on the user and refusing to specify the posts that caught ICE’s attention. Reddit has not identified the user. Reddit’s own attorneys reviewed the user’s posts for any speech not protected by the First Amendment, and found none. Government critics are not suspects and free speech is not a crime. The First Amendment protects our right to criticize the government anonymously — an American tradition that dates back to the founding. So far, the government hasn’t been able to point to a single Reddit post that’s not protected by the First Amendment. Not one. By putting the administration’s feelings above the First Amendment, government agents are sending a deliberate message to each of us: Don’t criticize us — or else. How we respond to this chilling moment matters. Today, lawmakers from both parties are busy promoting age-verification laws that would force each of us to reveal our identity before we speak online. If lawmakers had their way, the Reddit user would already be standing in court just for expressing his or her beliefs. Who knows how many of us would be hauled up next?

Los Angeles Olympics tickets include a 24% service fee, compared to 1.5% charged for Paris 2024. LA28 told FOS that it accounts for processing and delivering tickets in a manner that will “align with standard industry practices for ticketing live events in the U.S.”

Apple is closing down the first of its US stores to unionize. Apple says that because of the collective bargaining agreement with these workers, they "couldn’t offer to transfer them to nearby locations.” The union is outraged, and exploring options to hold Apple accountable.