Robinhood promises free trades. Did one user pay with his life?

View in browser   April 30, 2021 Happy Friday! As I lay in bed last night, I kept envisioning an angel and a devil perched on my shoulders. "This has been the longest week ever," said the angel. (I don't know why it is an angel who says this. Bear with me here.) "Well, actually," replied the devil, "every week is exactly the same length of time—seven days, or 168 hours, or 10,080 minutes. Saying that one week is longer than another is like saying that a clock runs fast. It's impossible." The angel said something about the subjectivity of human perception, and the devil spouted off about objective truth, and their bickering continued until I dozed off. That said, hasn't this week felt unbearably long? Kick off the weekend with the following stories from Mother Jones. And if you work weekends, I hope you enjoy some time off soon. —Abigail Weinberg Advertisement   Florida Republicans Just Passed a Georgia-Style Voter Suppression Bill The Florida GOP loved mail voting—until Democrats started using it more BY ARI BERMAN   The social transformation that gave us the Real ID BY JOHN TORPEY Biden's plan to transform the economy by taxing the rich is already winning over Americans BY INAE OH Remote places desperately need vaccines. Drones could help. BY RAMENDA CYRUS A call to return land to tribal nations grows stronger BY ANDREA GUZMAN Advertisement   Robinhood Promises Free Trades. Did Alex Kearns Pay With His Life? How a stock app turns young and inexperienced investors into Wall Street profits. BY HANNAH LEVINTOVA   Support from readers allows Mother Jones to do journalism that doesn't just follow the pack. Donate SOME GOOD NEWS, FOR ONCE From Our Archives, Conspiracy Watch! Each Friday, we bring you an article from our archives to propel you into the weekend. For some time, there was a short, lively feature in this magazine called Conspiracy Watch. It did not have an exclamation point, but I read it as such: Conspiracy Watch! Sometimes mimicking the zeal and verve of the conspiracy writers themselves, staff members would break down why a Lady Gaga music video was probably not an Illuminati plot or why it didn’t sound quite right that infamous superdollars (counterfeit bills traced back to North Korea) were, in fact, produced by the CIA. Each is affixed with a “kookiness rating”: “1=maybe they're on to something, 5=break out the tinfoil hat!” CIA superdollars got a 3; Lady Gaga droning you into submission got a 5. There are others to enjoy. Rumors of Operation Couch Potato, a plan to give us better TVs so we can sit on our butts and watch in high definition instead of overturning the government. And the idea that all the gold in Fort Knox is gone. A classic? The idea that the Mafia caused the stock market crash. —Jacob Rosenberg Did you enjoy this newsletter? Help us out by forwarding it to a friend or sharing it on Facebook and Twitter. Donate Subscribe This message was sent to franchmaverickk.secretwords123@blogger.com. To change the messages you receive from us, you can edit your email preferences or unsubscribe from all mailings. For advertising opportunities see our online media kit. Were you forwarded this email? Sign up for Mother Jones' newsletters today. www.MotherJones.com PO Box 8539, Big Sandy, TX 75755