“What I didn’t know was that measles can cause long-term complications. A child can seem fine while the virus slowly replicates in her brain… Because both Britain and the United States are confronting outbreaks, I am sharing my story. Parents should know just how dangerous this disease is.”
Looks like putting American workers first meant rescinding “minimum wage requirements for home health care workers and people with disabilities”
and rolling back “rules governing exposure to harmful substances and safety procedures at mines.”
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If this weren't so horrifying, the idea of the Palantir dweebs as the standard-bearers for a "culture producing vital advances" would be beyond fucking hilarious
When the topic turns to "what comes next" and "what should we do," we should defer to historians in the same way we defer to doctors on vaccines, lawyers on criminal defense and military generals on strategy and tactics.
They're going to tell us stuff like this and it's vital to America's future.
“Not density OR trees, density AND trees.” Better cities are climate action. URBAN Truth Collective
Remember, not density OR trees. Density AND trees.
Better cities are climate action. #UrbanTruth
'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3
“Justice involved population” isn’t widely used outside of academia, where it applies to more than just people in prison. But since Andy Beshear hates when euphemisms are used in this area, here’s something for him to work on back home in Kentucky, where deaths in his state prisons have spiked.
If you’re not familiar with the Supreme Court’s scandalous use of the shadow docket, watch this video and read the story:
💯 (also people in public health & health policy prefer the term “justice-involved individual” in part because it’s person-centered, just like we try to avoid calling someone with diabetes “a diabetic” etc. The aim is to treat people with dignity, not to be politically correct or “woke”)
The damage that Trump has done to the federal government now has a number: $165.6 BILLION. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
🚨On April 30, 12-1pm ET, I’ll moderate a webinar on ICE detention centers with
-journalist @andreapitzer.bsky.social
-Afghan-American psychologist Rosalind Rogers
-Dr Brinkley-Rubinstein, scholar of incarceration
-infectious disease expert Chris Beyrer
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America First Policy Institute, a Trump administration-aligned thinktank claimed that Children are the “low-hanging fruit” in a longer effort to end gender-affirming care for all Americans
TAT: [Weakening civil rights]
“That Rümeysa felt she had to return to Turkey to escape the shadow of state violence says everything you need to know about the state of free speech and academic freedom in this country,” said Ramya Krishnan, an attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/m...
TODAY: Folks in Texas are protesting the Dilley ICE detention center, demanding the Trump administration shut it down.
Signs read: NO KIDS IN CAGES.
While your gas prices are skyrocketing, Big Oil executives have cashed out $1.4 BILLION in stock in a single quarter, a 15-year peak in insider selling.
In one quarter, Chevron’s CEO sold $104M, ConocoPhillips’ Chairman & CEO sold $54.3M, and Baker Hughes’ CEO sold $33M.
"A few politicians in Washington chose the interests of a foreign mining conglomerate over the will of the American people, over sound science, and over one of the most irreplaceable wild places on the planet."
America first indeed …
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We’re profiled in @momentummag.bsky.social! Please help us share it far and wide (as noted in the article, repetition, repetition, repetition…) #UrbanTruth
A modest tax on second homes is the scariest thing this rich lady has ever seen.
"Rahmstorf, who has studied the Amoc for 35 years, has said a collapse must be avoided 'at all costs'. 'I argued this when we thought the chance of an Amoc shutdown was maybe 5%, and even then we were saying that risk is too high, given the massive impacts. Now it looks like it’s more than 50%.'"
You’ve probably heard that the SAVE Act would be disastrous for voting rights for married women who’ve changed their names. But there are SO many other groups at risk. Policymakers need to defend the right to vote.
This article inspired me to make this list. Who am I missing?
Conservatives are now drilling down on distracting young women by pressuring early motherhood.
The Heritage Foundation’s 2026 report Saving America by Saving the Family, makes that explicitly clear.
Read at your own risk:
Meet some of the people whose lives were upended after their rural dialysis center closed. Some moved to be closer to care. One is living in a rental in another city on weekdays. Another drives 4+ hours roundtrip for care, three times a week.
Read and listen: www.npr.org/2026/04/15/n...
"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
“”He is a dangerous and corrupt gangster, and that is how we must treat him,” Mr. Davey [British MP] said of Mr. Trump.”
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Liberal candidates sweep school board elections as Moms for Liberty loses ground
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Fascinating that a guy who had a photo of a Methodist church on the cover of his book about his conversion to Catholicism fancies himself an expert on Catholicism, and more expert than … the head of the Catholic Church
Days after the president blasted the Pope as “weak on Crime,” his own DOJ moved to dismiss criminal cases against individuals convicted of conspiring to use force to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.
Some of the conduct for which Rhodes was convicted:
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A tax season reminder that Intuit TurboTax lobbied the government for years to block free public tax-filing.
Trump then terminated the free IRS Direct File program established under Biden, just a year after the tax prep giant gave his inauguration fund $1M.
Do you see how this works?
We are deciding right now if we are to be a nation of concentration camps and ethnic cleansing. And there is much citizens can do!
