Holy shit. The FBI raided this woman's house with a helicopter based on the word of a "gait analysis" quack they found on X.

Pouring one out for all the librarians and archivists who are now confronting angry patrons demanding to see an item that doesn't exist because "AI told me it does."*

*story just recounted to me by a friend

what I really want to emphasize is that these folks are brave and they are taking big risks to challenge their dehumanizing conditions and they need as much support from out here as we can muster.

there are now hunger strikes in at least two immigrant prisons: North Lake here in MI and Moshannon in PA.

folks inside in PA say one of their comrades vomited a nasty green and guards told them it was just a cold.

folks in MI are talking about months in prison with no idea what's happening.

Frontier AI Models Are Doing Something Absolutely Bizarre When Asked to Diagnose Medical X-Rays Frontier AI models generated "detailed image descriptions and elaborate reasoning traces" without ever seeing the images.

"A team of researchers at Stanford University found that frontier AI models readily generated 'detailed image descriptions and elaborate reasoning traces, including pathology-biased clinical findings, for images never provided.'"

screenshot of fact sheet from Planned Parenthood Federation of America (c3) and Planned Parenthood Action Fund (c4) with first bullet point highlighted in yellow: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/68/a6/68a6c411-5e28-4112-b7ec-ce3bc3043574/fact_sheet_c3c4.pdf Republican Lawmakers and President Trump are Decreasing Access to Birth Control and Dismantling the Health Care Safety Net H.R. 1 [the "Big Beautiful Bill"] and its provision “defunding” Planned Parenthood to try to block patients from using Medicaid at Planned Parenthood health centers — combined with the months of withheld Title X funds in 2025 — left entire communities without access to basic care. As attacks from the Trump administration and its backers in Congress continue, health care costs are rising for patients and communities, as other providers cannot fill the gap left by Planned Parenthood health centers. IT’S EVEN HARDER TO GET BIRTH CONTROL Taking away access to birth control and basic care creates contraceptive deserts in more communities *In 2025, over 50 Planned Parenthood health centers closed across 18 states, including over 20 closures since H.R. 1 was passed. Nearly all closures occurred in contraceptive deserts. • When people cannot afford the full cost of contraception, they rely on a network of publicly funded providers that offer free or reduced-fee care through public funding, primarily Medicaid coverage and Title X-funded services for individuals living with low-incomes or uninsured. *Planned Parenthood health centers serve one-third of all female patients seeking contraceptive care at publicly funded health clinics. • Over half of the counties where a Planned Parenthood health center closed now lack any Planned Parenthood provider. In those counties, these centers provided the majority of contraceptive care for low-income women in those counties

The war on birth control access is well underway, it's just less explicit

Planned Parenthood says 50 of its clinics closed last year as a result of an anti-abortion budget provision—and nearly all of them were in contraceptive deserts (link in alt). Translation: it's now harder to get birth control

another nice thing about having politicians who aren’t from the crypt is you can use power shots like this one. that stuff really does matter. the obama vibes aren’t coincidental

The "private prisons" line many people use is well-intended but misleading. For-profit prisons incarcerate less than 10% of the prison population. The problem isn't for-profit prisons... it's the American institution of prison altogether.

I thought this point Eric made about how libraries are early introductions to a social contract was really interesting, too:

The US government has never provided evidence that *any* of the ~180 people killed were involved in drug trafficking. And even so, that’s not justification for extrajudicial killings. Yet somehow it just carries on.

it is devastating to notice how few benches there are in the world and how some benches have been replaced by weird "leaning" things. the world is incredibly cruel to disabled, elderly, poor, pregnant, tired, homeless, and all people. there should be benches fucking everywhere for everyone

Suburban Living the Worst for Carbon Emissions — New Research A new study indicates that people in urban areas, on average, have the smallest carbon footprints, while those living in the suburbs have the highest.

Living in a dense urbanized city is one of the best choices you can make to protect the planet - a fun fact you can deploy against people who want to get all self-righteous about the supposed evils of cities.

"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–"

yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up

‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

There's no legal basis for these boat strikes, and US officials involved in them should be prosecuted for attempted murder and murder. The OLC memo green-lighting the strikes is still secret, but there's nothing it could say that would make these strikes lawful. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

yeah you got it, dont worry, im doing my part there 👍

While the Trump administration faces scrutiny over efforts to strip or alter public data, New York City elevates Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz as a leader committed to preserving it.

https://mrf.lu/Xqp3

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

NEW: I've been shocked by some of the numbers I've been seeing on behind-the-meter power plants for data centers, so I did a little math.

less than a dozen gas plants being built to power data centers for big tech companies could emit a maximum of nearly 130 million tons of CO2e each year (!)

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Add these bills from the dropdown as a ‘proponent’: SB 4060 - Missing Middle Housing SB 4061 - Single Stairway SB 4062 - Standard Impact Fees SB 4063 - Permitting Timelines SB 4064 - Parking Minimums SB 4071 - Accessory Dwelling Units

Select “Record of Appearance Only”. This will record your position, without needing to testify or make a statement.

Let the Illinois State Senate know you want more homes in Illinois! 🏘️

Follow the instructions below to file a witness slip showing your support of @govpritzker.illinois.gov's BUILD Plan before Thursday's senate hearing at: ilga.gov/Senate/heari...

C.D.C. Cancels Publication of Study Showing Benefits of Covid Vaccines

The acting head of the CDC has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

Waymo taxi swept away Monday in San Antonio floodwaters A Waymo waits for a passenger in Austin. Self-driving taxi company Waymo is temporarily suspending services in San Antonio after one of its robo-vehicles

Waters carried away the unoccupied self-driving vehicle as it tried to traverse a flooded roadway.

ICE in Chicago this morning at Elston and Kennicott—a masked agent tells a witness (on the sidewalk) not to get in front of his car.

Feds are continuing kidnappings across the city & burbs after increased activity this month.

No flashy CBP caravans, just a steady stream of covert ICE arrests.

Testing finds toxic metals where Tesla discharges wastewater The drainage district that commissioned the testing has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the company, which says it is in compliance with all requirements for its state wastewater discharge permit.

I’m shocked. www.texastribune.org/2026/04/21/t...

So, open eugenics.

Not The Onion.

US FDA approves Merck's pill combo to treat HIV infection The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved ​Merck's once-daily, oral, combination regimen for HIV infections, the drugmaker ‌said on Tuesday, giving patients another treatment option to manage the condition.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Merck's once-daily, oral, combination regimen for HIV infections, the drugmaker said on Tuesday, giving patients another treatment option to manage the condition.

This is horrific. I feel physically ill.

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I Know the SPLC’s Flaws Better Than Most. This Investigation Still Looks Like a Witch Hunt. MAGA has wanted to take down the SPLC for years. Now it has the DOJ to try.

"...it was almost inevitable that a weaponized DOJ would try something like this. Discrediting the SPLC is a way of retroactively rehabilitating everyone the SPLC ever exposed."

Want to Resist a Data Center? These Organizers Share How They Did It. Organizers from Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Arizona share strategies for resisting data centers in other communities.

"The community resistance on both sides of the aisle is so enormous. This feels like the one thing that is connecting everybody together."

My new @truthout.org roundtable with three organizers across the US fighting data centers - and their lessons for others.

I just hope the next time I wear my nearly identical sweater folks don't think I got it bc I saw it on her

Trump is within sight of an under 30% overall approval rating.

One of the most important causes right now is to establish a media narrative and popular support behind severe punishments and consequences to our present criminals running things.