Last night’s ICE abduction near 20th & Central didn’t happen in a vacuum. Friday morning they were found stalking people at Huset Park and earlier in April they kidnapped someone near East Phillips community center.

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy! Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user ha...

#oopsie
Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
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People continue to protect those who do not need protection. And abandon those who do.

Great example of baronial behavior in action.

"You did not show me the proper deference! Hell, you used your 1A rights to make fun of me? OF. ME!? You are now resisting arrest."

It's why "resisting arrest" is often called "contempt of cop." Because the police use it when they feel disrespected.

Look how adorable 😩

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What does it say that Black women can dot our is and cross our ts and still be killed in the same homes as our children, by our partners, in homes with picket fences, and the world will ask:

"But how did you not know? Why didn't you choose better?" What a remarkable display of apathy.

Mississippi Reveals Its Full History for America’s Anniversary Year Mississippi has taken to revealing its history as part of the state’s official commemoration of the nation’s 250th anniversary of the founding.

Nan Prince, director of collections for the Mississippi Department of Archives & History, said the instructions were simple.

“Don’t brush over anything, don’t whitewash anything," she said. "Just tell the absolute truth.”

A colorful illustration of the front of a library with a librarian at the door waving to members of the community outside. A banner over the library reads "FIND YOUR JOY!" Logos for American Library Association and Library Champions in top right. Text below the illustration reads "Celebrate NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK, April 19-25, 2026"

It's #NationalLibraryWeek! Take time to discover what brings you joy at your library: browse the shelves, join a book club, attend a program, or get started on your next creative project in a makerspace.

Be sure to visit your library or ilovelibraries.org and celebrate your library all week long!

Photos: In this part of the world, nearly every chile pepper farmer is a woman Chile peppers are a traditional part of Indian cuisine — and a key crop for women farmers. They say it's too demanding for men. "In spite of the challenges," says one, "we've found freedom."

Freedom and chile peppers - I would never use another dried one in my cooking (which is almost daily) without thinking about the women farmers! An eye-opening piece from @kamal-t.bsky.social

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Maryland to Become First US State to Ban Surveillance Pricing That Charges More After Mining Personal Data Maryland will become the first US state to ban surveillance pricing in retail stores, after passing Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.

Maryland is set to become the first US state to ban surveillance pricing in retail grocery stores, after the legislature last week passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act. www.goodnewsnetwork.org/maryland-to-...

If you kill your wife, you don't get to be a husband anymore Some lessons from the media coverage of Dr. Cerina Fairfax and Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer's murders.

My latest.

I’ve been watching the media coverage of the murders of Dr. Cerina Fairfax and Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer.

One way media can fight back against male violence:

If you kill your wife, you don’t get to be called a “husband” any more.

You’re her killer.

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I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Many Americans plan to cut food to afford ACA health insurance, new poll shows About 8 in 10 Americans who re-enrolled in Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage say their health care costs are higher this year, according to a new survey from the health care research nonprofit ...

About 8 in 10 Americans who re-enrolled in Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage say their health care costs are higher this year, including about half who say their costs are "a lot" higher, according to a survey from the health care research nonprofit KFF.
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safronia Triumph and tragedy converge in this universal yet personal Afro-surrealist tale of the Great Migration by Chicago’s first-ever poet laureate, avery r. young.

last night, i was privileged to attend the world premiere of “safronia,” a musical work from chicago’s first-ever poet laureate, avery r. young. ”safronia” was brilliant and soul moving, and deserves to be shared widely. i implore you to go see it - www.lyricopera.org/shows/upcomi...

One Death Every Six Days

ashanti allen
victoria alexander
tynice friday
myneika scott

we also speak your names.

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Apr. 17, 1915 | White Mob Lynches Black Man Accused of Stealing Meat in Georgia Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 1915, a white mob took a Black man named Caesar Sheffield from jail and shot him to death near Lake Park, Georgia, for allegedly stealing meat from a smokehouse.

Tbh it’s so disingenuous to equate MH with violence, and specifically in instances like this. While there may be MH involved, it is not the cause of the high rate of murders and abuse amongst BW. Call it what it is. It is patriarchy, misogyny, and a societal issue allowed to fester for far too long

Texas Medical Board Sanctions Three Doctors for Delayed Care That Led to the Deaths of Two Pregnant Women The two women died during miscarriages. The state’s medical board has ruled that substandard care led to their deaths.

NEW: Porsha Ngumezi and Nevaeh Crain died during miscarriages in Texas after doctors delayed treatment.

The state’s medical board has ruled that substandard care led to the deaths, but the doctors were given minimal punishment.

By Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser

Earlier this evening: dozens of people gathered in Chicago's far north side Rogers (Phillip) Park in support of an 18-year-old Mather High School student and his mother, who, according to the student's older brother, were abducted from the Chicago immigration court at Ida B. Wells Drive in March.

I see people attributing the murder of Cerina Fairfax to "mental health struggles" and I attribute it to domestic abuse.

Israel destroys over 1,000 homes a day in Lebanon, report finds In just over a month of war, Israeli attacks on Lebanon have partially or completely destroyed tens of thousands of housing units, mostly in the south.

Israeli forces are destroying more than 1,000 homes a day in Lebanon, according to a preliminary assessment by Lebanon’s National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS), which described Israeli attacks on the country as an "unprecedented escalation"

dr. cerina fairfax
vice mayor nancy metayer bowen
pastor tammy mccollum

may the ancestors, though weary of the nature of your transition, rejoice in your return. our communities are less full, less vibrant, and less brilliant without you. we speak your names.

Exposing a global ‘online rape academy’ that is teaching men how to abuse women and evade detection CNN exposes an online network of men encouraging each other to drug and assault their partners, and swap tips on how to get away with it.

I'll have to finish reading this later.
It's too upsetting.

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2 men charged with attempted murder, hate crime involving Danville alderman PARIS, Ill. (WCIA) — Two people that were arrested following a “disturbance involving a firearm,” in Paris earlier this month are now being charged with attempted first-degree mur…

3 white men in their 20s attempted to lynch 3 Black men for....fishing last Friday. The only reason it's an attempted murder charge is one of the Black men was armed and a better shot. It's not about the year someone was born, it's about the racism

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Discriminatory language from a century ago still exists in some Tulsa property records Tulsa’s midtown neighborhoods have a history of discriminatory housing. But residents can get that property language removed.

Hidden in fine print, discriminatory language from a century ago still exists today in some Tulsa, Oklahoma, property records

“It said that no Africans may rent, lease, buy except if there are quarters built for them at the back of the property"

Man shot by ICE agents during California traffic stop arrested by FBI after hospital release, lawyer says | CNN A man who was shot by ICE agents during a traffic stop in Central California last week was arrested by the FBI upon release from the hospital Monday, according to his lawyer.

A man who was shot seven times by ICE agents during a traffic stop in Central California last week was arrested by the FBI upon release from the hospital Monday, according to his lawyer. ICE contends he's wanted for murder but his family insists it's a case of mistaken identity as he was acquitted.