Tech billionaires want Christians to believe in AI For Peter Thiel and JD Vance allies, the tech right is framing AI as a moral—even divine—mission.

“What becomes incredibly useful for these people to do is to present their products as the answer to the meaning of life.”

Can protecting conversion therapy help Texas LGTBQ+ therapy? The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled conversion therapy is free speech. Some LGBTQ+ advocates say the ruling applies to gender-affirming therapy, too, while others say the courts won’t protect them.

After conversion therapy ruling, therapists torn on future of Texas’ gender care ban

Here's What It Will Take For The Next President To Reverse Everything Trump Has Renamed For Himself How soon can we change it back to 'The Kennedy Center'?

When Trump is out of office, we're changing all the federal building names back, right?

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LAPD Deployed Drones to Spy on No Kings Protest Flight records show that Los Angeles police dispatched drones 32 times over last month’s No Kings rally.

As foretold by prophecy, LAPD used their "first responder" drones to spy on No Kings protests and anti-ICE protests: theintercept.com/2026/04/20/l...

Are There Climate Fingerprints in Tornado Activity? - Inside Climate News Parts of the Southern and Northeastern U.S. faced tornado threats this week. Scientists are trying to parse out the climate links in changing tornado activity.

"...tornadoes are notoriously difficult to predict, and sussing out their climate connection is even harder, scientists say. While many questions remain, any changes in tornado activity and ranges could have major consequences for the more populated Southeast and East Coast."

Can you survive inside a tornado? This scientist did by accident—he’s lucky to be alive Atmospheric scientist Perry Samson was doing fieldwork when he was unexpectedly caught inside a tornado—making him one of the few such people who have lived to tell the tale

Can you survive inside a tornado? This scientist did by accident—he’s lucky to be alive

At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours By Bryce P. Tetraeder, CEO, Global Tetrahedron

We have a deal. theonion.com/at-long-last...

Climate Change Is Fueling Extremes, Both Hot and Cold

“Colder colds. Hotter hots. These are the intense bouts of unusual weather that scientists for decades warned would become more common with global warming.”

What a ‘super’ El Niño means for the planet Early forecasts suggest this year may see the strongest El Niño in a decade—bringing with it more extreme weather.

What a ‘super’ El Niño means for the planet

Texas Matters: Sharia law rhetoric, abortion care fallout, and a contested death row case This week on Texas Matters: Why “Sharia law” has become a flashpoint in Texas politics. How the state’s abortion ban is tied to new scrutiny after three doctors were disciplined. And why a Texas death...

"Many of the state's biggest names in Republican politics" are claiming that Sharia law will be imposed in Texas "if they lose the coming election. This is their strategy to win."

@texaspublicradio.bsky.social on @joshkovensky.bsky.social's reporting

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A New Law Voids IDs of Transgender Kansans. It Also Threatens Their Voting Access. Kansas Republicans barred trans residents from getting licenses that reflect their gender identity and canceled existing IDs. The move also risks blocking their access to the polls.

Requiring trans people to identify themselves inaccurately at the polls can make them vulnerable to awkward or dangerous encounters, experts say. “Anytime you out yourself can be very risky,” says the director of a Kansas civil rights group.

How DNA forensics is transforming studies of ancient manuscripts Scientists are exposing the biological information hidden in ancient parchments without leaving a mark

"By analysing parchment, researchers are uncovering evidence of trade networks, animal husbandry, medical and ritual practices, climate change, epidemics and floods. In the process, they have found that ancient parchments preserve more than just words."

Scientists Still Don't Know How or When the Grand Canyon Formed. New Research May Hint at Its Ancient Origins Researchers say the ancestral Colorado River formed an ancient lake in northern Arizona roughly 6.6 million years ago that spilled out westward onto the landscape that would eventually become the Gran...

Scientists Still Don’t Know How or When the Grand Canyon Formed. New Research May Hint at Its Ancient Origins

The pandemic disrupted young children's early schooling. Their reading scores are still behind The data suggest the slump in academic performance is not rooted only in instructional disruption, but that broader societal shifts might be at play.

When COVID-19 wrought havoc on society in early 2020, today's youngest schoolchildren were infants or yet to be born. Now in their early school years, researchers are beginning to see how the pandemic years have shaped their education.
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Data centers are expensive, unpopular — and could be a tipping point in the midterms Anger over the data center boom has spilled into politics with voters unseating local politicians who support them. It's become an issue hard to ignore in the midterm elections.

Anger over the data center boom has spilled into politics with voters unseating local politicians who support them. It's become an issue hard to ignore in the midterm elections. n.pr/3QfF8I1

The Extremist History Behind a Small American Town When Trey Johanson drove down the roller-​coaster hill that led into town on February 26, 2020, she saw the Berkeley Springs Castle and wondered if the new owners had already arrived. Tourists and …

"It was never the movement—that group of people, including nativists, neo-​Nazis, and white nationalists who performed activism in response to the great replacement—that was to blame. It was always others."

States Face Another Challenge With Medicaid Work Rules: Staffing Shortages - KFF Health News Some states already don’t have enough staff to quickly process Medicaid applications and answer enrollees’ phone calls. Researchers say they may not be prepared to handle new Medicaid work rules, pred...

Cool cool so you have to meet means testing to retain your Medicaid coverage, but offices are understaffed so the people who administer that means testing are hopelessly behind.

Trump’s math behind Medicaid fraud claims doesn’t add up — literally An administration official admitted their estimate of New Yorkers receiving home care was off by more than 4.5 million people.

CMS bragged at a House committee hearing about its "fraud war room." Well, as I blogged for @motherjones.com, it messed up on math by *millions* while calculating how many New Yorkers receive home care. Very dangerous during a war on Medicaid by Trump and co.

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"...arrests of migrants in public spaces have increased by more than 1,100%, detentions of people without criminal records have risen by 770%, and releases on bail have practically ground to a halt." english.elpais.com/usa/2026-04-...

Undocumented immigrants in Texas are delaying medical care Since Gov. Greg Abbott ordered Texas hospitals to start asking patients for their citizenship status in November 2024, reported visits by undocumented immigrants have dropped.

“Don’t Take Me to the Hospital”: Undocumented immigrants in Texas are delaying medical care

The Trump administration just updated rules for CDC's vaccine advisory panel, allowing inclusion of RFK Jr. allies The changes published Thursday come after a recent legal defeat that has at least temporarily halted meetings of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which for decades has recommended how best to use the nation's vaccines.

The Trump administration has updated the charter of a key federal vaccine advisory committee in ways that may increase the voices of anti-vaccine activists, the latest in a series of moves that critics say are undermining confidence in life-saving shots. https://to.pbs.org/4mp387q

How the Internet Fringe Infiltrated Republican Politics Inside the battle for the post-MAGA G.O.P.

During a recent focus group of 20 Gen Z Republicans conducted by a conservative think tank, a subset of participants were asked to share their thoughts on Hitler. Only one responded with outright criticism. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/diysM7

Extremists Links: The Republican Party's Nazi Problem Prominent members of the Republican Party are 'deploying Nazi imagery and rhetoric, and espouse ideas associated with the Nazi Party during its rise to power in the early 1930s.'

Extremists Links: Prominent members of the Republican Party are 'deploying Nazi imagery and rhetoric, and espouse ideas associated with the Nazi Party during its rise to power in the early 1930s.'

The Mississippi Department of Public Safety uncovers rare KKK artifacts in one of its offices A notebook with meeting minutes and a ledger are among the Ku Klux Klan-related items found recently when a Mississippi government office was cleared out.

“A notebook with meeting minutes and a ledger are among Ku Klux Klan-related items that the Mississippi state government uncovered while clearing out an office, offering new glimpses into the violent white supremacist group known for its secrecy and links to law enforcement.”

The Election Integrity Network and Beyond: Cleta Mitchell’s Expanding Influence Cleta Mitchell has transformed from a behind-the-scenes lawyer into a leading force in the effort to reshape U.S. elections. She has built a nationwide network advancing election denial, restrictive p...

Cleta Mitchell has spent years building a nationwide election denial infrastructure, training operatives, backing restrictive policies, and pushing new voting systems. After the 2024 United States presidential election, those efforts are increasingly tied to government power.

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Juan-Luis García and Claudio Latorre collecting samples from Monte Verde in southern Chile. Their new study suggests the site is only around 8,000 years old —or younger—not 14,500 years old, as researchers in the 1970s previously found.

“If Monte Verde’s age is disputed, its seminal role in history is not. Since Monte Verde, archaeologists have looked for, and found, many other archaeological sites older than Clovis in both North and South America.” www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

​A ghost forest along the Atlantic Coast. (Image Credit: Ken Schulze/Shutterstock)

Ghost Forests Could Tell Us Which Coastal Regions Are Vulnerable to Environmental Change www.discovermagazine.com/ghost-forest...

Secret docs: Neo-Nazi group's newest member is ex-Navy SEAL tied to war crimes case Records from the white supremacist group Patriot Front show one of its newest recruits is Corey Scott, who once testified that he killed an unarmed captive in Iraq.

Pretty incredible leak from @nick-martin.bsky.social who obtained internal vetting interviews and other docs from inside the white supremacist group Patriot Front to reveal a former Navy SEAL linked to a war crimes case is a member of the organization. www.informant.news/patriot-fron...

How RFK’s War on Fluoride Is Taking Over the Dentist’s Office Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has maintained that the...

How RFK’s War on Fluoride Is Taking Over the Dentist’s Office talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-rfk...

A portrait of Cordelia Sanders, a mixed-race woman, daughter to Richard Walpole Cogdell and Sarah Martha Sanders, ca. 1860. Courtesy Library Company of Philadelphia.

“Decades before eugenics peaked around the turn of the twentieth century, eugenic thinking lay at the foundation of chattel slavery. Debates over the fertility of mixed-race women were enmeshed in what was essentially a mass slave-breeding program in the US..." daily.jstor.org/race-fertili...