Overcrowding, bad (no) medical care, not enough food, filth — these are average and expected in this country’s jails and prisons everywhere.
ICE detention conditions aren’t below the norm — that’s the norm. That’s what 2 million ppl and their families experience every day.
JUST IN: Governor Abigail Spanberger last night returned this bill to lawmakers with an amendment request (rather than signing it).
Her amendment would clarify that sheriffs/jails are allowed to honor ICE detainers, i.e. warrantless ICE requests to keep someone in jail beyond their release.
ICE Reports 16th Detained Death of 2026 at Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana
Alejandro Cabrera Clemente, a 49-year-old man from Mexico, died on April 11 at a private prison in rural Louisiana. The pace of one death every 6 days continues to hold.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-report...
Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...
"The right’s characterization of higher education is a fiction. Students across the ideological spectrum feel free to express themselves, think their education is worth the cost and don’t think their views are silenced." Only 3% of Republican students feel out of place on campus for their views.
Israel kills more than 300 in Beirut. Unclear what the targets were. 1/3 of victims women, children and elderly. Israel said it hit Hezbollah command and control centers, but the only Hezbollah official reported killed was a top aide to the group's secretary general.
apnews.com/article/leba...
Just to spell this out…
You need ID to vote in Kansas. For most, that means a driver’s license.
Kansas has canceled valid licenses of people who’d updated their gender marker. Many of those affected will need new licenses to be able to vote.
A new license costs $16.
= Poll tax on trans people.
just got an email about the CBS x The Free Press x Paramount (sponsored by Bank of America) Bari Weiss extravaganza that UVA is hosting & promoting. really embarrassing if you ask me. people who do not care one bit about the brutal realities of this world because they're benefiting from it.
let's be clear about what's happening: donald trump and benjamin netanyahu, whose countries have been committing genocide in gaza since 2023, unilaterally started a war with iran, and are now threatening genocide there.
A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!
God help us.
TB dunk 🥲
@ncaa.bsky.social pls
bro pls play one shining moment and let me go to bed
lol, lmfao even
NEW: Like many of you, I found the revelations about César Chávez’s sexual abuse of Dolores Huerta, Ana Murguia, and Debra Rojas absolutely devastating. For @prismreports.org, I wrote about the importance of grappling with Chávez’s true legacy—both as as a civil rights leader and a rapist.
the former
or just any good writing from the left on prediction markets.....
is there anyone who's written intelligently from the left on this idea that "markets," prediction or otherwise, can produce good information because they incentivize people with knowledge to act on it?
Every so often I think about how I had to fight to get the phrase "persistent economic inequity," in a NYT story because they wanted to use "trapped in poverty" instead, and it had to go to the standards editor because they thought persistent economic inequity might be biased
The community has been “shaken to its foundation,” said Monica Ramirez, the founder of Justice for Migrant Women. She and other leaders are now trying to push forward the farmworker movement and continue the work that many women — not just Chavez — spearheaded.
19thnews.org/2026/03/wome...
And more from Dolores Huerta: "I have never identified myself as a victim, but I now understand that I am a survivor — of violence, of sexual abuse, of domineering men who saw me, and other women, as property, or things to control."
after Charlie Kirk died pundits like Ezra Klein praised his "hard conversations" with students.
under the higher ed backlash he helped start, the real hard-to-have conversations are about gender, race, sexuality, protest.
the feminists touring colleges with academic bans: @us.theguardian.com
The extent to which every single one of these guys has absolutely no idea what the fuck they're talking about is frankly stunning. You should be embarrassed to go out in public and spout shit like this. It should scar your soul and make you weep in shame, but that requires introspection, so...shit.
once at a DC salon during trump's first term I said that I grew up adjacent to TEA partiers and Christian fundamentalists and yes, racism is and was a big part of the whole deal... the entire room full of beltway insiders acted like *I* was the out-of-touch one
we expelled them, blacklisted them, called cops to beat the shit out of them, and deported them. why aren't they protesting again? i'm very smart
Meatpacking plant workers in Colorado are set to strike on Monday in what would be the first and largest labor action to hit the industry in decades
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
i just.......
“What have the years done to him? What has his billion dollars made of him?” Read @oliviapaschal.com on Upton Sinclair’s 1937 novel about Henry Ford. www.hnn.us/article/what...
New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document. Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary apps—video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...
