Black Caucus scholarships discriminate based on race, lawsuit alleges The lawsuit, filed by an anti-affirmative action group, is part of a broader movement to dismantle programs meant to remedy the effects of past discrimination.

For decades, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation has offered college scholarships to Black students.

A new lawsuit by a prominent anti-affirmative action group now alleges those scholarships discriminate on the basis of race.

Awww thank you!

Not too worry, this is simply an efficient allocation of correctly priced risk to parties willing to hold it, and we can be sure of that because if markets ever systematically mispriced the risks associated with structured financial products, we would have seen episodes of contagion and crisis.

From Torsten Slok, chief economist, Apollo:
For every $5 the U.S. government collects in taxes, $1 goes toward paying interest on the debt.

I should clarify that there were two separate findings of liability involving 37,500 violations. So that's ~$375 million in a state that contains 0.62% of the US population.

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Who gets to set limits on AI? We’ll unpack the fight between Big Tech and the Trump administration over artificial intelligence.

I spoke to Marketplace "Make Me Smart" podcast host and senior Washington correspondent @kimberlyadams.bsky.social about the Anthropic-Pentagon dispute and what it tells us about where tech firms are drawing their "red lines" when it comes to military applications of AI.

My nephew is 13 and I started talking to him about my experiences of sexual assault just recently. He was clearly shook. I chatted with his mother first, and we agreed on a strategy & appropriate language in advance, but these conversations are important.

I made it out before the storm! But thanks!

For many Black women, the Target boycott is not over. It may never be. A faith leader announced the end of a yearlong “Target fast,” but many Black women who helped launch the boycott say the movement wasn’t his to call off.

We spoke to Black women who started the Target boycott & who sustained it for a yr+. They'll likely never go back.

Teacher Laverne Mickens put it like this: “[Black women] will say if & when it’s over. And I can tell you right now: That will be the 15th of never ever.”
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As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

Medicaid Is Paying for More Dental Care. GOP Cuts Threaten To Reverse the Trend. - KFF Health News More than three dozen states cover dental services for low-income and disabled individuals on Medicaid, in recognition of such care’s importance to overall health. But with about $900 billion in fundi...

Several states have expanded dental services for Medicaid patients in recent years. But with federal funding cuts looming from the Big Beautiful Bill, many states could roll back coverage.

“We will lose all the gains we have made,” one dental policy researcher said.

Nods in agreement.

Again… and we in the media cannot say this enough…. Almost ALL of the tariffs are being paid by US consumers and companies.

Trump’s plan to have tech companies pay for electricity from data center use… was already happening.

Microsoft promises to fully pay for electricity, replenish water that data centers use The tech giant laid out a five-point plan to address backlash in communities around the country over AI infrastructure buildouts.

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TrumpRx: What's the Value for Customers? | KFF In February, the Trump administration launched TrumpRx, a government website that provides prescription drug discounts to consumers. This brief examines issues that may impact consumers, especially th...

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trump again says other countries pay tariffs, but that's not true. we pay tariffs. they're costing the average us household more than $1000 per year.

Someone asked me earlier today if I was going to try to fact-check what the president would say about the economy in the SOTU tonight… and I just stared blankly at the horizon.

Omg I can’t even

I have to watch the State of the Union because I sinned in a past life and am
being punished by a vengeful God.

Union: WNBA made enough money for revenue sharing The WNBA players union says that the league generated enough revenue to trigger revenue sharing.

For the first time in league history, the WNBA generated enough revenue in 2025 to trigger revenue sharing with players. Players will receive $8 million.

The union will also pay out $9.25 million from revenue generated from its group licensing program.

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Congress set aside $50 billion to transform rural health care. Will it work? We’ll explain the ins and outs of the Rural Health Transformation Program.

What do Medicaid cuts, ACA premium hikes, and the Rural Health Transformation Program mean for rural hospitals+patients?

Listen to my interview on Make Me Smart from @marketplace.org! Thanks for having me on+caring about rural health, @kimberlyadams.bsky.social!

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THREAD: The Supreme Court has just ruled that the International Economic Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA) does not authorize the President to impose tariffs. Trump used IEEPA to impose large swaths of his “reciprocal” tariffs.

Here's some of our research & stay tuned for more 👇

84 years ago #todayinhistory, an executive order mandated sending Japanese Americans to "relocation centers." Descendants of the prisoners have restored a baseball field on the Manzanar site as a way to both celebrate the resiliency of so many of their ancestors.
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OMG I ported this over from twitter... it was from YEARS ago and I never did find out what it was. Thanks for finally solving the mystery!

As ICE arrests reach record highs, percent with criminal record plummets A new analysis of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests confirms that ICE tactics have changed since Trump’s first term, with more arrests made at

My new research on ICE activity in Trump 2.0 highlighted by @colorado.edu

"Our results reveal that the reality of immigration enforcement diverges sharply from the public narrative.”

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Sex workers at Pahrump brothel are unionizing, alleging unfair contracts and conditions - The Nevada Independent In the last week, the brothel has fired three workers who challenged a new contract that they say is unfair. Lawyers have filed an injunction with the federal labor board.

🌟 Sex workers at Sheri’s Ranch, a legal brothel in Pahrump, Nevada, are unionizing with the Communications Workers of America @cwaunion.bsky.social

Last week, management fired several pro-union workers—including the union’s primary organizer, Jupiter Jetson
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Nearly 30,000 Minnesotans trained as constitutional observers The Immigrant Defense Network works with more than 100 organizations to help train constitutional observers. At the end of November, there were 2,500 trained observers. That number has soared as more ...

A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.

For every year from 1994 to 2023, immigrants in the US paid more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government. Check out the latest study from Cato’s David Bier.

US citizens accounted for 95% of federal welfare fraud losses from 2013 to 2024. Noncitizens commit benefits fraud, but they are not a major part of the problem. Learn more from Cato’s David Bier

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