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...
RFK Jr. just said HHS is "cleaning up the risk pool" (i.e., people who are unhealthy) to bring down healthcare costs.
“In 2018, the killing of the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi by government agents in Istanbul caused a global outcry and **briefly** made the prince a pariah.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/w...
I promise I'm not trying to revive this discussion. Just wanted to highlight how this aligns with my "whose trust?" question. Nobody seems to care about the ways my trust in higher ed has been eroded.
Text of letter to Senator Gary Peters, opposing the proposed dissolution of the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate.
In case it is useful, here is what I put in my letter.
Just spent some of Sunday writing to my senator @peters.senate.gov about the Trump admin's proposed dissolution of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences at NSF. You can do it too! Here are the senators on the relevant subcommittee: www.appropriations.senate.gov/subcommittee...
And the House 👇🏽
I am forever saying that if refusal isn't a live option in any decision making process about "AI", then no ethical practice is possible. You've got to be able to stop if the thing is unacceptable.
We all have days like this
BREAKING
The Speaker of Iran’s parliament says that President Trump has repeatedly lied today and that the Islamic Republic of Iran is closing the Strait of Hormuz as long as the US military’s blockade remains in place.
Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt is the 17th Reported ICE Detention Death of 2026
A 27-year-old man from Cuba died on April 12, one day after the 16th death of the year. The pace of detention deaths holds at an average of 1 every 6 days.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/aled-damie...
Once again, I am begging major Jewish organizations across the country to stop platforming & richly compensating Bari Weiss to cosplay someone serious about the problem of antisemitism (or for that matter, literally anything else) in America.
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In 2024 The Conversation had 8.3M in revenue and 7.8M in expenses and paid $0 to writers. Is that really ok with you?
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🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: It is important that Russia is held accountable for this aggression – legally and in practice. And that Russian war criminals do not enjoy normal life, but face fair sentences. This is necessary. Just as it was necessary after the Second World War.
"Military says war conditions prompted suspension"
WAR CONDITIONS ARE YOUR WORK CONDITIONS. WHAT IN THE EVER LIVING BLUE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?
You can't get them FOOD because "there's a war?" Gee, if only we had some sort of organization that handled that sort of thing.
Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.
New research published in the medical journal JAMA on deaths in ICE custody shows that “systemic weakness” in medical care at the agency has become more serious in the past two decades, physicians say.
DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the research.
I’m about as excited as one can be about a documentary about three-decade old legislation!! 😂 Can you DM or email me info about distribution?
I had the pleasure of hearing from Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon when they were in Pittsburgh last year. These kinds of dialogues are the only thing that gives me hope for something approaching peace in Israel/Palestine in my lifetime. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/b...
Probably several reasons. I think news is hard to take these days, there’s a lot of really hard news to hear all the time. And a lot of it is delivered in the same way. I think people want to hear a real person’s authentic voice. I’m still trying to figure it out, honestly, because it’s been, like, just over a
let people talk how they talk and look how they look
kind of a lovely story. this part tho: "I would have preferred doing broadcast journalism, but you don’t really see anybody on TV that looks like me." stop fucking airbrushing anchors and reporters and put regular people with their own accents on tv. ffs. as she says...+
It's genuinely hard running all this stuff.
A photo of a tray with three sections empty. One has chopped carrot in it. The other has what can only be described as a posit of brown dog vomit and an insole liner of a sneaker (or a used panty liner from the mid 1700s). The kind of meal that would have you happily tossing yourself overboard.
NEW: Growing fears of food shortages on USS Tripoli & other US ships in the Middle East.
This photo is the kind of meals now being served. It was sent by a sailor to her family.
Families are now trying to send food parcels to the ships.
Full story 👉 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Can’t quite figure this one out but it seems like very good news given the current state of our country: Trump to Nominate Doctor Who Has Publicly Supported Vaccines as C.D.C. Director www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/h...
DHS is not posting custodial death reports because "of the ongoing shutdown of the department as Congress [fights] over funding it." Incredibly, these reports are considered to be "non-essential [and] can be slowed even as ICE continues its core mission." www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
This was seventeen years ago today. Can’t help wondering how different things would be now if rhe architects of the torture program had been held accountable in some way rather than honored and appointed to more presigious posts. www.nytimes.com/2009/04/17/u...
Sonia girl you were right the first time
Got asked an ideology question during my talk at Chicago and shared that my first question is always "Which viewpoints are y'all looking for? Folks who say I'm not human because I'm Black?"
Say it with your whole chest.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
The U.S. Has Murdered 175 People in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All.
51 attacks and counting. All of them chronicled @theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...
You cannot fix the immigration system without Congress. That is the message I have. No president can do it on their own. The system is fundamentally flawed and needs major systemic reform.
Amazing! Any chance parts of the documentary will be available by November, when I'll be teaching about IIRAIRA? I'm expanding an immigration policy unit into a full semester class & this is a topic that I don't know as well as I should.
