"This is an important thing to think about."

'She also documented how few women were in federally sponsored clinical trials for AIDS drugs...
That was significant, she told The San Francisco Chronicle, because “the clinical trials are the only way you can get treatment.”' Long helped save so many lives.

How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Defunding HBCUs Despite Donald Trump's false claim that he "saved HBCUs," he is overseeing the biggest economic attack on historically Black college institutions in U.S. history.

Donald Trump claims he “saved historically Black colleges.”

According to college administrators, HBCU presidents and the actual data, Trump is overseeing the worst attack on these institutions in American history.

An African American man and woman walk through their fields, showing their connection to the land despite decades of systemic discrimination. Photo credit: Aallyah Wright / Capital B.

Postscript: Discrimination has robbed Black farmers and their families of some $325 billion in generational wealth. In 1910, Black farmers owned 16 million acres and operated 14% of all U.S. farms. By 1999, Black farmers lost 85% of their land, and the number of Black farm operators declined 98%.

We are not okay

It's hard to articulate the level of anger & rage I have about watching this happen. I first saw weev doxx people I love *TWENTY* years ago. I spoke to founders of multiple social networks about the risk of these people over 15 years ago. I wrote about it all a dozen+ years ago. They let it happen.

LA! These kitties’ human passed away, and they need a new home! Please help them find one! Spread the word!

BREAKING: We're taking the government to court over Palantir Peter Thiel's surveillance firm is embedded in the NHS. Wes Streeting won't show us the briefings - so we have launched a legal challenge.

BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir.

The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm

So we’re taking legal action.

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-w...

NEW: In the middle of the night, the House tried to pass a bill that would have given President Trump and Stephen Miller the power to spy on Americans without a warrant for years to come.

It failed due to pressure from the public — but they plan to vote again in just 2 weeks.

Why does this look like a picture of an SNL sketch

Yes, this is the VP telling the Pope to be careful when he speaks about theology. He is telling the supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church to be careful when talking about Catholicism. THE BALLS ON THIS GUY.

ICE has reported the 16th detained death of 2026. Alejandro Cabrera Clemente, 49, from Mexico, died on April 11 at Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana. Here's what we know and what ICE isn't telling you. 🧵

A child. They shot him in the head while he was running for his life. He couldn't run fast enough.

Well…

Man I am at 3 out of 10 but what’s it mean when you been to #1 10 times and number #4 so many times you can’t count. Does this make it more like 5 out of 10 😁

Alleged white supremacist pleads guilty in fire at social justice center that trained civil rights icons The Highlander Research and Education Center hosted figures like Rosa Parks, John Lewis and Martin Luther King Jr. Regan Prater set it ablaze in 2019, according to prosecutors.

..."[He] also pleaded guilty to attempting to aid a foreign terrorist organization for efforts to provide the militant group Hezbollah "a list of personally identifiable information for individuals purportedly affiliated with the government of Israel,"...

I tell ya, fear had us sleeping on this one. We’ve got to vote for what we want, not vote for what we’ll settle for. #Becerra4CAgovenor

Black women have the highest maternal mortality rate among all racial groups in the U.S.

During Black Maternal Health Week, let us refocus on how we can provide resources and rights that help Black mothers thrive before, during, and after pregnancy. We must pass the #Momnibus

Protect this woman and her seat in the House 🙌🏾

More like her PLEASE!

Results, not vibes.

THIS THREAD
holy holy cow
Why do we pay politicians so much money to know nothing, read nothing, and learn nothing about government?

Artificial intelligence is not actually intelligent. It provides responses to specific prompts based on pattern recognition but does not understand the responses it gives, does not "think" about its responses in the same way that humans think.

Turned on NBC. They talked about “President tipping a DoorDash driver $100”.

This woman participated in GOP ads before playing other roles. There is no DoorDash deliveries to the Oval Office. Please exercise proper judgement when consuming news.

This evening marks Yom HaShoah, where we honor and remember the six million Jews who were killed and the survivors whose lives were never the same.

We say their names and tell their stories.

We must stand united to fight antisemitism and hate in all its forms.

How the f hasn’t this happened sooner! She absolutely deserves to be in. Congratulations to her

I mean once again we see why women choose the bear every time

How to Impeach the Bastard, for Real Now's the time to start organizing

"The president of the United States is a clear & present danger to America & the world. We’ve got to do whatever we legally can to remove him from office. The 25th Amendment would be useful if Trump’s Cabinet & key advisers had any integrity, but they don’t. Which leaves impeachment."

AP publishes a good multi-state rundown on pushback all over the country against plans for huge Trump prison camps:

apnews.com/article/immi...

🧵Missed diagnoses, delayed treatment and poor medical care are driving record deaths in ICE custody.

@kolyncheang.bsky.social and I spent months investigating the deaths of ICE detainees across the US. Over and over again, we found lapses in treatment that proved fatal.

A Newspaper Is Raided and a Rights Group Outlawed Amid Kremlin Crackdown As Moscow throttles Russia’s few remaining independent voices, the authorities targeted two of the most prominent, one a Nobel Peace Prize winner and the other headed by a Nobel laureate.

"The proceedings on Thursday against Memorial, the country’s oldest and most respected civil society group, took place in a closed courtroom, because it was classified as 'top secret.' No lawyer was allowed to participate..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/w...