Brian Hart
@brianhart.bsky.social
Web designer/developer. Curious Pop. Proudly living in Cleveland, Ohio.
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About 90,000 people living near larger chemical plants face an unacceptable risk of developing cancer, the EPA says.
New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.
But Trump has halted those efforts.
New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.
But Trump has halted those efforts.
Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated
The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
About 90,000 people living near larger chemical plants face an unacceptable risk of developing cancer, the EPA says.
New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.
But Trump has halted those efforts.
New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.
But Trump has halted those efforts.
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www.nytimes.com/shared/comme... “We have reached peak insanity: $100B in annual compensation is equivalent to approximately 3M full-time minimum-wage workers (at $16/hr) for one year.
No accomplishment by any individual justifies receiving the same compensation as 3M people working full-time.”
No accomplishment by any individual justifies receiving the same compensation as 3M people working full-time.”
Read a Times Reader's Comment on: Elon Musk Wins $1 Trillion Tesla Pay Package
Tesla shareholders approved a plan to grant Elon Musk shares worth nearly $1 trillion if he meets ambitious goals, including vastly expanding the company’s stock market valuation.
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
www.nytimes.com/shared/comme... “We have reached peak insanity: $100B in annual compensation is equivalent to approximately 3M full-time minimum-wage workers (at $16/hr) for one year.
No accomplishment by any individual justifies receiving the same compensation as 3M people working full-time.”
No accomplishment by any individual justifies receiving the same compensation as 3M people working full-time.”
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📣 Firefox 144 is out!
What's new for developers:
🧩 View Transition API for SPAs
⚙️ New Map/WeakMap methods (getOrInsert)
🧱 Element.moveBefore()
📱 ScreenOrientation.lock()
🕐 Built-in time picker for (🧪exp.)
Read more 👇
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...
What's new for developers:
🧩 View Transition API for SPAs
⚙️ New Map/WeakMap methods (getOrInsert)
🧱 Element.moveBefore()
📱 ScreenOrientation.lock()
🕐 Built-in time picker for (🧪exp.)
Read more 👇
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...
Firefox 144 for developers - Mozilla | MDN
This article provides information about the changes in Firefox 144 that affect developers.
Firefox 144 was released on October 14, 2025.
developer.mozilla.org
October 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM
📣 Firefox 144 is out!
What's new for developers:
🧩 View Transition API for SPAs
⚙️ New Map/WeakMap methods (getOrInsert)
🧱 Element.moveBefore()
📱 ScreenOrientation.lock()
🕐 Built-in time picker for (🧪exp.)
Read more 👇
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...
What's new for developers:
🧩 View Transition API for SPAs
⚙️ New Map/WeakMap methods (getOrInsert)
🧱 Element.moveBefore()
📱 ScreenOrientation.lock()
🕐 Built-in time picker for (🧪exp.)
Read more 👇
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...
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✍️ New post: The Lifeblood of the Web
Because conferences are just 🔥🎉💙
#blogtober #web #conferences #community
matthiasott.com/notes/the-li...
Because conferences are just 🔥🎉💙
#blogtober #web #conferences #community
matthiasott.com/notes/the-li...
The Lifeblood of the Web · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.
matthiasott.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
✍️ New post: The Lifeblood of the Web
Because conferences are just 🔥🎉💙
#blogtober #web #conferences #community
matthiasott.com/notes/the-li...
Because conferences are just 🔥🎉💙
#blogtober #web #conferences #community
matthiasott.com/notes/the-li...
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A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”
By @megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
By @megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...
www.propublica.org
October 12, 2025 at 3:00 AM
A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”
By @megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
By @megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
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#ICYMI: Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.
As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.
As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers
Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...
www.propublica.org
September 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
#ICYMI: Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.
As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.
As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.
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there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
www.advocate.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
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The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people.
(Published May)
(Published May)
Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.
The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and...
www.propublica.org
August 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people.
(Published May)
(Published May)
AWS CEO Matt Garman calls replacing junior talent with AI “one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.”
He asks: “How’s that going to work…10 years in the future and you have no one that has built up or learned anything?”
www.entrepreneur.com/business-new...
#AI
He asks: “How’s that going to work…10 years in the future and you have no one that has built up or learned anything?”
www.entrepreneur.com/business-new...
#AI
Amazon Web Services CEO: Stop Replacing Workers With AI | Entrepreneur
Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman said that companies should not replace entry-level workers with AI because these employees cost the least and are most attuned to AI tools.
www.entrepreneur.com
August 20, 2025 at 1:57 AM
AWS CEO Matt Garman calls replacing junior talent with AI “one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.”
He asks: “How’s that going to work…10 years in the future and you have no one that has built up or learned anything?”
www.entrepreneur.com/business-new...
#AI
He asks: “How’s that going to work…10 years in the future and you have no one that has built up or learned anything?”
www.entrepreneur.com/business-new...
#AI
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In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies.
(Published April)
(Published April)
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose…
www.propublica.org
August 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies.
(Published April)
(Published April)
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ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.
(Published 2021)
(Published 2021)
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes,…
www.propublica.org
August 12, 2025 at 3:00 AM
ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.
(Published 2021)
(Published 2021)
I’m sure Steve would approve (not).
Tim Cook pathetically kisses Trump's ass by pretending him with a "24 karat gold" gift
August 7, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I’m sure Steve would approve (not).
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YouTube added a bunch of Hitchcock films free w/ ads — including 5 of the 7 Netflix just removed(*):
ROPE (1948)
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1955)
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956)*
VERTIGO (1958)*
PSYCHO (1960)*
THE BIRDS (1963)*
TORN CURTAIN (1966)
TOPAZ (1969)
FAMILY PLOT (1976)* #FilmSky
ROPE (1948)
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1955)
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956)*
VERTIGO (1958)*
PSYCHO (1960)*
THE BIRDS (1963)*
TORN CURTAIN (1966)
TOPAZ (1969)
FAMILY PLOT (1976)* #FilmSky
August 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
YouTube added a bunch of Hitchcock films free w/ ads — including 5 of the 7 Netflix just removed(*):
ROPE (1948)
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1955)
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956)*
VERTIGO (1958)*
PSYCHO (1960)*
THE BIRDS (1963)*
TORN CURTAIN (1966)
TOPAZ (1969)
FAMILY PLOT (1976)* #FilmSky
ROPE (1948)
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1955)
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956)*
VERTIGO (1958)*
PSYCHO (1960)*
THE BIRDS (1963)*
TORN CURTAIN (1966)
TOPAZ (1969)
FAMILY PLOT (1976)* #FilmSky
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More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban.
Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care.
“This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”
Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care.
“This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”
A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
www.propublica.org
August 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban.
Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care.
“This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”
Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care.
“This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”
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Several GOP senators from swing states or states with a Dem senator have nonetheless voted consistently for controversial Trump nominees. www.pbump.net/o/the-swing-...
August 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Several GOP senators from swing states or states with a Dem senator have nonetheless voted consistently for controversial Trump nominees. www.pbump.net/o/the-swing-...
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My favorite thing about Stephen Colbert is that he’s an actual Christian in the true meaning of the word (aspiring to be Christ-like) as opposed to the typical meaning of the word which is a bigot who uses Bible quotes to justify their bigotry.
The Easter Faith Of Stephen Colbert
In an interview last week, Stephen Colbert reminded us that laughter in the midst of loss is the central Christian witness to the resurrection.
www.patheos.com
July 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
My favorite thing about Stephen Colbert is that he’s an actual Christian in the true meaning of the word (aspiring to be Christ-like) as opposed to the typical meaning of the word which is a bigot who uses Bible quotes to justify their bigotry.
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The story about Colbert being cancelled because…. Trump doesn’t like him, should be a warning shot to everyone. The oligarchy has the power… they will use their money to silence you.
Time to rise up.
Time to rise up.
July 18, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The story about Colbert being cancelled because…. Trump doesn’t like him, should be a warning shot to everyone. The oligarchy has the power… they will use their money to silence you.
Time to rise up.
Time to rise up.
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Since the dark money group that made the payments to Noem’s private company does not disclose the names of its donors, the original source of the funds remains unknown.
By @justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social, @amierjeski.bsky.social
By @justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social, @amierjeski.bsky.social
Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics…
www.propublica.org
July 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Since the dark money group that made the payments to Noem’s private company does not disclose the names of its donors, the original source of the funds remains unknown.
By @justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social, @amierjeski.bsky.social
By @justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social, @amierjeski.bsky.social
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It’s so frustrating that there is this illusion that we are all 49%/49% right now. Us versus them, good versus bad, and it’s all because of the BS that is the electoral system. It’s very likely 70% versus 30% and we’re just not seeing representative government.There’s just no common sense right now
July 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
It’s so frustrating that there is this illusion that we are all 49%/49% right now. Us versus them, good versus bad, and it’s all because of the BS that is the electoral system. It’s very likely 70% versus 30% and we’re just not seeing representative government.There’s just no common sense right now
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By the numbers, Clarence Thomas has been treated to:
• At least 38 destination vacations;
• 26 private jet flights;
• 12 VIP passes to pro & college sporting events;
• 2 stays at luxury resorts;
• 1 standing invite to an uber-exclusive golf club
(Published 2023)
• At least 38 destination vacations;
• 26 private jet flights;
• 12 VIP passes to pro & college sporting events;
• 2 stays at luxury resorts;
• 1 standing invite to an uber-exclusive golf club
(Published 2023)
Clarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice to Luxury Travel
The fullest accounting yet shows how Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood.
www.propublica.org
June 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
By the numbers, Clarence Thomas has been treated to:
• At least 38 destination vacations;
• 26 private jet flights;
• 12 VIP passes to pro & college sporting events;
• 2 stays at luxury resorts;
• 1 standing invite to an uber-exclusive golf club
(Published 2023)
• At least 38 destination vacations;
• 26 private jet flights;
• 12 VIP passes to pro & college sporting events;
• 2 stays at luxury resorts;
• 1 standing invite to an uber-exclusive golf club
(Published 2023)