“There was a 90-year-old who I just left a bit ago. He passed away from his wounds … There was nothing we could do...These are civilians who, without any warning, their whole apartment building was flattened. So you can imagine the severity of injuries that we’re getting.”
More than 400,000 Arizonans have lost their SNAP benefits since July — the largest decline in the nation by a wide margin — as an underfunded state agency administered changes called for in President Donald Trump's so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The drop represents nearly 47% of the state's participants in the program better known as food stamps and includes about 180,000 children, according to the Arizona Department of Economic Security, which administers the program.
Nearly half of Arizona’a SNAP participants have been booted off. www.propublica.org/article/ariz...
Along with passing legislation banning cooperation with ICE, Pittsburgh City Council also passed a resolution to disclose all surveillance technology the city is currently using against citizens.
On the 58th anniversary of Dr. King's assassination, it's time to reckon with the media's troubling role in the civil rights struggle. (I pitched this to @nytimes.com who found it "fascinating..[but] the news is making deeper & certainly more historical pieces very hard." But they're the news.) A 🧵
The obscenity of a budget that cuts the forest service to fund the re-opening of Alcatraz as a prison.
right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer
‘I live in a room I have never seen’
www.moltbook.com/post/9726d55...
Once again happened upon members of the National Guard patrolling the streets of D.C. and, like a normal person, thought "huh, wonder when the deadlines are on DOJ's appeal of U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb's ruling back in November?"
Tomorrow, turns out!
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
The Israeli Knesset passed a discriminatory bill expanding use of the death penalty for terrorism-related offenses. The wording of the bill makes it clear that it would primarily, if not exclusively, be applied to Palestinians. www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...
Companies that get sued a lot get lawsuit insurance.
Meta has fucked around so much that a judge has released their insurers from an obligation to defend them against lawsuits where Meta deliberately engaged in behavior that caused harm. Which is pretty much all of them.
A remarkable AP photo of a protester dressed as Lady Liberty being cuffed by helmeted cops. She is looking straight at the camera with a tired "you seeing this shit?" expression.
RIP editorial cartooning.
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No matter how often an algorithm showed you the ruins of Gaza, “nothing can prepare you for entering into a landscape like that,” says Elise Thorburn, a Canadian ER doctor who arrived two weeks into the supposed ceasefire. What she saw as she took the coastal al-Rashid Road north did not “resemble a human habitat in any way.” Silence from the collapsed buildings and shattered roads gave way to masses of displaced people living in plastic tents or the remains of structurally unsound buildings. “Not one building,” Thorburn says, “is unaffected.” Concrete dust, suspended in the air from the estimated 68 million tons of debris, makes it feel “hazy all the time,” she adds. Ahmed paid attention with alarm to what Gazans breathe in. Her experience treating patients with COPD from the World Trade Center leads her to forecast that the effects of the genocide will remain in the lungs of its survivors for decades.
What you’ve seen on your phone cannot prepare you for the nightmarish reality.
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.
Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
Here's Hyun Sook's GNCRT Zine Project contribution, You Can't Ban History. The printy-foldy version is available at the link above, at #ALAAC24, and hopefully at a library near you.
Jaw-dropping admission by DOJ to court.
DOJ admits to having repeatedly made "material mistaken" representations to judge - ICE never had authority (under 2025 Guidance) to conduct arrests at immigration courthouses!
DOJ admits court "relied on...prior misrepresentations."
DOJ blames ICE (page 2)
No really, I am not kidding when I say that the data broker industry must be destroyed: www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...
Gerwin Schmidt, Poster, “Open Studios – Gerwin Schmidt”, A1 (2005), Gerwin Schmidt a-g-i.org/design/gerwin-schmidt-po...
A new immunotherapy is showing rare promise against advanced prostate cancer, a disease long thought resistant to this kind of treatment. The drug is designed to activate only inside the tumour, which may both reduce dangerous inflammation and require fewer doses. buff.ly/VDLBsMC
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A computer can never pack a bowl therefore a computer must never make a playlist
"To give the public more insight into who owns American nursing homes, ProPublica has added the ability to search by owner, manager or officer name to Nursing Home Inspect, our database that helps you find issues that federal inspectors have identified in more than 14,000 facilities."
lamenting all the tiny deaths of scholarship we’ve seen over the past few decades: folks being pushed out of abusive PhD programs; schools refusing to hire full-time faculty; “austerity” measures designed for program cuts; general defunding of education; forced AI adoption; etc.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, dissenting from the denial of certiorari. Petitioner Priscilla Villarreal is a reporter who was arrested for doing something journalists do every day: posing questions to a public official. Specifically, Villarreal twice texted with a police officer to corroborate information Villarreal already knew about events that had occurred within her community. That officer voluntarily provided the information Villarreal sought, and Villarreal published those facts, consistent with her role as a journalist. Six months later, Villarreal was arrested for asking those questions. Making matters worse, Villarreal alleges that the arrest followed a months-long effort by a police department and district attorney’s office to retaliate against her because they disliked much of her reporting on their activities. Of course, that reporting was often critical of them. It should be obvious that this arrest violated the First Amendment. Yet the Fifth Circuit held that the officials were entitled to qualified immunity, and now Villarreal is left without a remedy. The Court today makes a grave error by declining to hear this case.
The Supreme Court refuses to review an odious 5th Circuit decision granting qualified immunity to Texas officials who arrested a citizens-journalist in retaliation against her posing questions to public officials. Sotomayor has an appropriately furious dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
NEW: More than 11,000. That’s how many US citizen children have a parent who has been detained under Trump, our new data analysis shows. When Doris Flores was separated from her four-month-old who was still breastfeeding, she turned to her pastor for help.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
When I thought about fighting robots in the past this was not on the list.
“.. Google Searches for ‘Help With Mortgage’ have soared to the highest level in history, surpassing even the peak of the Global Financial Crisis.”
(via @barchart.com)
Hyun Sook standing in an old fashioned gate leading to an old pavilion surrounded by a stone wall.
A plaque explaining thay Banghojeong Pavillion was built in 1930 as a secret place for locals to enjoy Korean literature and poetry that was banned under Japanese occupation.
Hyun Sook in front of the maroon and green wooden Pavillion
Deep in a small village, Hyun Sook and I found this 96 year old pavilion that was built as a secret spot for locals to illegally read all the Korean literature and poetry that was banned under Japanese occupation.
It's literally a Banned Book Clubhouse!
