You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo A U.S. aid worker said that the Afghans, who were evacuated to Qatar, would face a choice between moving to the Democratic Republic of Congo and living under the Taliban.

Breaking News: President Trump is said to be in talks to send Afghans who helped the U.S. war effort to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Virginia Democrats have won a ballot measure to redraw the state's congressional maps, netting up to four new blue seats.

This directly counteracts Trump and Republicans' gerrymander in Texas.

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

John Roberts Is Always a Republican First This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis.  It...

In public, the chief justice loves talking about how the Supreme Court’s work is not political. Memos published by The New York Times show just how political the Supreme Court’s work actually is.

Well a little good news!

Your State-by-State Guide to the 2026 Supreme Court Elections - Bolts Abortion, redistricting, and ballot access remain heated issues as voters face dozens of supreme court races across 32 states this year.

Tremendous resource by @taniel.bsky.social for folks interested in state supreme courts! boltsmag.org/your-state-b...

We Forget About ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ at Our Peril The abuses are piling up, and Democrats and activists are desperate to get the word out.

"Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz told me she saw 1,500 detainees housed in cages at the site, a cage area that smelled like urine, and one cage configuration where detainees appear to have no option but to go to the bathroom in front of everyone."

Obama and Holder clarify their support for Virginia redistricting in new videos "Deceitful" and "racist" GOP ads untruthfully claimed that Obama opposed current redistricting efforts in Virginia.

Former president Barack Obama made perhaps his clearest case for supporting Virginia Democrats’ redistricting efforts in a video released Friday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Today (April 20) is the 27th anniversary of Columbine.

I was a sophomore in high school when it happened, and I remember the school's response was to "ban trench coats." 🤔

People might kill people, but guns do it faster and more efficiently.

We needed gun control then and we need it now.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

My heart is breaking for Shreveport, Louisiana.

Eight young lives stolen in a devastating act of domestic gun violence.

All of us should be outraged that we live in a country that routinely subjects our kids to such unimaginable violence.

If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?

Why Yale’s term paper on what’s wrong with college gets a ‘D-’ | Will Bunch An Ivy League university's report on the loss of faith in higher ed ignores what really killed the American Dream of college.

That Yale report on what's wrong with U.S. college saw some trees (high cost, unfair admission, etc.) but missed the forest: the 60-year right-wing crusade to undermine higher ed, from slashing budgets to stifling speech

How to really fix college. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/yale...

Really gotta emphasize this: the targets & requirements in the Clean Power Plan were *so* modest, *so* conservative, *so* unambitious that *the power sector met them anyway, in the course of normal market operation*. The regs would have had basically no effect at all relative to the status quo.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

Worth a thousand words.

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media

"It’s not clear who created the A.I. accounts, and determining whether they are the product of a hired content farm, a foreign influence operation, an experiment or something else is difficult, experts said."

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It will never stop pissing me off how much trump is going to walk away from this presidency as a “real” billionaire in a way he never was before, and it is going to be solely because of the public office

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

A trans woman was tracked and monitored using AI technology at a Knicks game just for being trans.

This isn't 1940's Germany this is right now

www.wired.com/story/madiso...

The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

On multiple occasions Patel’s security detail had difficulty waking him because he was seemingly intoxicated, according to info supplied to DOJ and White House officials. A request for “breaching equipment”was made because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors

It’s the classic media problem: Democrats are supposed to be moral and consistent, so doing a cynical move to counter Republican bullshit is grounds for a handwringing and somewhat complex story.

Republicans blatantly cheating with a mid-decade seat-stealing campaign is treated like the weather.

Camp Mystic Is Still a Crime Scene—and Getting Ready for 850 Girls This Summer After floods killed 27 girls at the Texas camp, its directors are under investigation and the community is torn apart over its plans to reopen May 30

Camp Mystic Is Still a Crime Scene—and Getting Ready for 850 Girls This Summer www.wsj.com/us-news/texa...

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

China exports a ton of cleantech — and the world is poised to want… The nation’s battery and EV exports in particular have grown in recent years. Now, the Middle East war could spur even more demand for Chinese…

China should be throwing Trump parades.

Kenyan firm sacks more than 1,000 workers after losing Meta contract Meta paused work with Sama last month after allegations about staff viewing private scenes filmed by smart glasses

I’m sure this is unrelated to the fact that last month data workers revealed they were asked by Meta to review video from Meta Ray Bans of user’s intimate moments like having sex or using the bathroom.

Todd Lyons, ICE head and South Boston native, on why he’s leaving the Trump administration - The Boston Globe Lyons told the Globe in an interview Friday he is leaving "on my own terms."

Lyons says he’s coming back to MA so he won’t miss any of his son’s football games. Too bad he’s made so many other parents miss their kids’ activities. I suspect he wants us to feel for him, and forget the cruel irony of what he’s done to so many other families.
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Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts University grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey - The Boston Globe The government and Öztürk’s legal team have jointly moved to dismiss her immigration proceedings.

America is losing a talented researcher today.
Rümeysa Öztürk, whose abduction by masked men prompted a search and her eventual release by ICE, has returned to Turkey. She wants to resume a career without "state-imposed violence and hostility."
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