Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
(Published Nov. 2025)
Recently revealed memos showed that the CDC also ignored hundreds of studies on the safety and effectiveness of the COVID vaccine when it restricted its use back in May 2025. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Out today: “I made connections with my other coworkers … and it made me realize this is actually empowering and unifies us. I was very excited for the opportunity to show that you can exercise your right and it should be normal to organize your workplace and show your strength as a worker.”
We are preliminarily at 24 tornadoes from last week's storms.
Wisconsin averages 23 tornadoes per year.
Awww, Nikola
Oh, what an interesting and oddly gender-affirming thing!
Um… congrats, I guess?
(BV is super common and easily treated. Get thee to your healthcare provider!)
The switchboard is open to forward calls to your senators: +1 (202) 224-3121.
For more information on the Boundary Waters Wilderness and why it's so important to protect: morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/the-bounda.... 🌎
Save the Boundary Waters. 🌲
While the dispute over AI may be the most novel part of this strike, more fundamental job protections are top of mind for some employees.
www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/prop...
State abortion bans were designed to increase maternal mortality, and the evidence showing that they were successful in achieving that end grows by the day
Headline reads: White House budget seeks to scrap 54 major NASA science missions. Over an image of Jupiter.
Experts found that the White House budget request for the upcoming fiscal year could defund 54 NASA science missions, including a spacecraft currently studying Jupiter and two planned Venus missions: www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...
Wow, Tzipporah is quite the Native issues blogger it turns out. I look forward to great things from their Patreon.
#Native #Indigenous
Policy experts have expressed concern over how the administration could use the data, with fears including potential political retaliation or targeting of workers who sought certain medical care.
One more reason to turn push notifications off. 🚨📱⚖️
Trump's latest proposed budget is attempting to destroy federal funding for your local libraries and museums.
That's why we built all the tools you need to help fight back today.
action.everylibrary.org/saveimls2026 via @everylibrary.bsky.social
1. Last month was the hottest March on record for the contiguous US with alarmingly high temperatures across a large swath of the country that would have been nearly impossible without human-caused climate change.
Evers signs a bill that aims to improve the health of people incarcerated in Wisconsin through a federal Medicaid waiver @askennard.bsky.social reports. wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/new-w...
Record numbers of people are dying in ICE detention, and it isn't just because record numbers of people are being detained. The death rate per 10k people detained has skyrocketed under this administration.
This piece is well worth your time:
www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...
oh, this is very important to know!!
Look at these moon globes on the right… 🌝🌒🌕
A second photographer in Los Angeles lost an eye to law enforcement "less-lethal" munitions while just taking pictures at protests.
These weapons are supposed to be used ONLY for immediate violent threats.
Marshall Woodruff and now Tucker Collins were armed with nothing but a camera.
The worst part is, it’s not just the prison companies. It’s the companies selling products made with prison labor. It’s companies selling services to prisoners at an outrageous mark up. It’s the companies that have built fortunes around exploiting prisoners… and they’re household names.
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A bunch of well known artists like Neil Young, Ani DeFranco, Fiona Apple, etc have done good protest songs in the last few years, and if you expand to the last decade, you get to include Run the Jewels and A Tribe Called Quest, among others.
Not knowing personal tastes, I may be off base, but here are a few:
Carsie Blanton
Tom Kastle (ex m.youtube.com/watch?v=Avxg...)
Tracks off “Music for Good” (canmn.bandcamp.com/album/music-...)
Jesse Welles
Macklemore
Sasha Allen
Great song links: shoutsmusic.blog/dj-general-s...
