People continue to protect those who do not need protection. And abandon those who do.

Best concert in 2025 for me. She’s fantastic live

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Currently on the couch with a glass of wine and a Nancy Jackie episode, very glad that for once my past me didn’t agree to some Saturday shenanigans that present me would definitely be scheming to get out of! 😂

Baltimore is not playing around with their street art. Straight to the point.

B-more is not a game. Don't play with that city, remember...Tupac's mom left Baltimore for the projects...for a better life.

Ontario buys used $28.9M private jet for Doug Ford: sources A senior official confirmed that the province this week took possession of a 2016 Bombardier Challenger 650 executive jet.

Ontario takes over Billy Bishop Airport, promises to build it out for jets despite total lack of business case.

Barely a month later, Ontario buys jet for Doug Ford.

www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Despicable fucking government.

French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to marry 1950s sweetheart The family of Marie-Thérèse, from Brittany, fear for her health after she was cuffed and placed in a detention centre

French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to marry 1950s sweetheart | France | The Guardian

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

JAMA viewpoint article "The First AI Drug Prescriber" by Daniel G. Aaron, MD, JD@1 and Christopher Robertson, JD, PhD@2. Published online April 13, 2026. doi: 10.1001/jama.2026.3533.

💬 Viewpoint: Utah authorized the first autonomous #AI drug prescriber for nearly 200 medications, bypassing physician oversight and FDA review, raising questions about safety and regulatory gaps.

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Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

ICYMI:

Y'all need to get the fuck off Substack.

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

Workers at an Amazon fulfillment center in Troutdale, Oregon, said they were told to keep working as a colleague lay dying on the floor.

“Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work,” Sam recalled the manager saying.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little just signed a law that fines schools $100,000 if a counselor doesn't out a trans kid to their parents within 72 hours. A physical therapist has already closed his practice and left the state. This is what "parental rights" looks like in practice.

I get why people are focusing on the rationality or irrationality of a counter-blockade, but I think the big takeaway here is “Trump’s unpopular war will continue indefinitely”

Stalking victim sues OpenAI, claims ChatGPT fueled her abuser's delusions and ignored her warnings | TechCrunch OpenAI ignored three warnings that a ChatGPT user was dangerous — including its own mass casualty flag — while he stalked and harassed his ex-girlfriend, a new lawsuit alleges.

“…legal pressure is now colliding directly with OpenAI’s legislative strategy: the company is backing an Illinois bill that would shield AI labs from liability even in cases involving mass deaths or catastrophic financial harm.”

When a so-called ceasefire produces the deadliest day of the war.

Trump’s New Red Scare Is Coming to State and Local Police Near You Internal emails show the FBI is instructing state and local police on how to enforce the president’s crackdown on left-wing dissent.

zeteo.com/p/trump-fbi-...

Meanwhile

QNN: Israeli aircraft bombed and completely destroyed multi-story homes across #Lebanon, targeting more than 100 homes and apartments in 21 towns, leaving hundreds of Lebanese killed and injured in the airstrikes, according to the Lebanese Health Minister.

Iran closes all diplomatic and indirect channels of communication with the U.S., suspending the exchange of messages, following Trump’s threat to kill Iran's "whole civilization." -Reuters

for those keeping track: antizionism is antisemitism but bombing a synagogue is, of course, fine to do

‘Proactively fall in line:’ Holocaust Memorial Museum quietly changed content after Trump returned to office Two former employees said they believed the museum was altering its content preemptively to avoid unwanted negative attention from the Trump administration.

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum under the Trump administration has deleted its teaching materials about links between Nazi racism and the Jim Crow laws: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

BREAKING @Narjes_Rahmati
The US-Israel have just bombed Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran's most prestigious school for science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Iran's "MIT", its graduates are sought after by universities and companies globally.

Starting in September, Boston will become the first major city in the country to ensure high school students graduate with AI proficiency, helping students use AI as a tool for learning while preparing them for college and the workforce.

Monstrous Intimacies at 15 promotional poster sharing the quotation: “The nation that re-creates oppression as freedom for some bodies… discursively re-creates itself as free.” The poster also includes the conference dates: June 22nd - 24th and location: Toronto, Ontario. This text is placed on the zoomed in picture of an inkwell from an art piece by Boz Deseo Garden.

In Monstrous Intimacies, @hystericalblkns.bsky.social surfaces the inextricability of the desire for freedom from the desire for slavery, outlining their mutual intrication in the antiblack project of nation building. Come join us in Toronto this summer to discuss this and other insights!

Oracle slashes 30,000 jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email Oracle began laying off up to 30,000 employees globally, notifying them via a 6 a.m. email from "Oracle Leadership" with no prior warning from HR or managers.

Oracle slashes 30,000 jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email

Avi Lewis: "We have shoved Canada Post so far into the market mindset that every few months we have a national conversation about why isn't Canada Post making money. Does the ambulance service make money? Do the police services make money? We're talking about a fundamental public service."

What does it say about a Florida state government, supposedly governing for the people, when said state government is suing/will sue the NFL to stop interviewing minorities. Not hire, interview.
This is how comically desperate these fools are now.

1 in 6 trans people have been incarcerated at some point, including half of Black trans people.

Today is Transgender Day of Visibility.

Far too many trans people are targeted by the carceral system and caught in its vicious conditions.

The Warehouse: A Public Library Art Takeover in NYC (April 4-June 27) A Community-Based Exhibition at Bedford Library in Brooklyn

“Fascism is constantly and deliberately shrinking the definition of who is considered a person. Art, especially art made by and for marginalized populations, does the opposite. It expands and complicates our understanding of the human condition.”

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