"SLACs face so many challenges today that their precarious survival may be more surprising than their escalating demise.... And yet the shuttering of Hampshire... feels different, not so much another liberal arts domino falling as the symbolic end of a whole tradition of progressive education"
More likely Hitler’s proposed Arc for Berlin.
The three countries pledge more aid to Cuba and say Cubans must decide their own future amid a US pressure campaign.
It’s as if the Iran war was fought to sustain the Russian economy. Lifting sanctions for Russians does nothing for Americans. It just makes it easier for Russia to continue its war in Ukraine.
Another reminder to get off as many Google services as possible.
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Joseph Schwartz’s case is the latest in a string of health care fraud pardons by Trump.
The president also granted clemency to nursing home magnate Philip Esformes, convicted of a $1.3B scheme, and Judith Negron, convicted in a $200M fraud case.
A headline reads: "Senate Votes to Allow Mining Near Minnesota Wilderness." Aerial view of a frozen, blue lake. Brown trees are in the background. Photo by Tim Gruber for The New York Times.
The Senate voted on Thursday to allow mining upstream from Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, one of the largest and most visited expanses of federally protected lakes and forests in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/c...
One piece of legislation drafted by a Leonard Leo-supported nonprofit would effectively bar cities and towns from bringing lawsuits against corporations and others when the issue is a broad public harm like climate change.
Lawmakers who represent leftward and rightward flanks of their parties call for reform after Congress members resign.
An examination by ProPublica shows how thoroughly and expansively the Trump administration has overhauled the federal government into what some fear is a vehicle for making sure elections go his way.
Gimmick
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who led Iran's delegation in talks to end the war, said US delegation 'failed to gain trust'.
Here is @aoc.bsky.social thankfully telling everyone exactly what to do to stop a concentration camp from being built where you live.
Please take it to heart and take action.
And yeah, it's this piece, out this morning. "The federal government that serves us is being starved while the federal government that serves the Trump agenda and the oligarchy is glutting itself on taxpayer money...."
Image of Tony Carruthers, a Black man wearing a jacket. Underneath that image, there is text reading "Tennessee is rushing to execute Tony Carruthers without considering critical evidence that could prove his innocence."
The state of Tennessee is planning to execute Tony Carruthers for a crime he didn’t commit, all because they refuse to carry out DNA and fingerprint testing from the scene of the crime.
And repudiation of JD Vance who’s not doing too well this week.
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historic rejection of JD Vance
Stallwell’s former chief of staff. Believe the women who have accused Stallwell. He must drop out of the CA governor’s race. #believeher
I’ll have more to say later, but for now: I’m heartbroken. I know her, I respect her, and I believe her. You should too.
To get the sanctions lifted permanently. The Trump fam and circle will take any payoff, grifters all.
Pope Leo XIV on Saturday called on world leaders to reject war as a means of settling their differences, urging a global commitment to peace.
Thank you for recording the horror of this moment.
The US and Iran agreed to a two-week conditional ceasefire after a last-minute diplomatic intervention led by Pakistan, canceling an ultimatum from Donald Trump for Iran to surrender or face widespread destruction.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Beyond its fundamental immorality, the law is part of a larger, accelerating effort to systematically end once and for all the possibility of a Palestinian state,” Talia Sasson writes from Tel Aviv about legislation passed last week by the Israeli parliament.
Israeli prime minister welcomes US decision to suspend attacks on Iran, but says the truce does not apply to Lebanon.
Very smart analysis. The narrative didn’t make sense to me, it seemed over the top. Botched uranium raid makes sense. But why did the Pentagon publish all those details of the rescue?
