DC statehood yesterday

The messy plaintiffs behind so many anti-abortion lawsuits Allegations of domestic violence have turned yet another abortion-pill case into "a PR disaster."

For @motherjones.com: I take a look at the many anti-abortion Texas-based lawsuits that target abortion pills and why they keep relying on plaintiffs later revealed to be problematic and "abusive."

“These cases range from messy to downright wild,” says law professor @maryrziegler.bsky.social

Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity Demands for “viewpoint diversity,” a pillar of the Right’s strategy to remake higher education, collide with the pursuit of truth.

calls for “viewpoint diversity” are little more than demands for a quota system for political conservatives who otherwise could not hack it www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin should be freed immediately.

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since.

But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Tax Day Could Be Easy. They’re Fighting To Make It Hard. The IRS already knows what you owe. Why are you drowning in paperwork every April?

🎧LEVER TIME: The secret 40-year plot to bury you in tax paperwork & force you to pay accountants - rather than letting the IRS send you your completed tax returns like other countries do.

This story is enraging - it's a GOP plot to enrich tax prep companies & make you hate taxes.

people: the students aren't protesting and this means something because they should be and are cowards and lazy
also people:

free speech is when you're free to shut up and sit there while i give a speech

chelsea manning looking fly as hell in a nice suit being perp walked by a dipshit party city looking nypd cop named "anger"

yesterday in NYC, jewish voice for peace organized a protest against arms sale to israel. 90 people got detained after a traffic sit in held right in front of chuck schumer's office.

as usual, chelsea manning has the coolest perp walk photos. cop's name is "anger" lmfao.

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Columbia suspended, expelled, and retroactively revoked degrees in proceedings that were so arbitrary and capricious they were overturned by a NY state judge. Literally the only evidence Columbia submitted came from sealed records of dismissed arrests—records that Columbia shouldn't have even had.

Teen who went to photograph L.A. 'No Kings' rally shot, blinded by Homeland Security agent, attorney says Tucker Collins, an 18-year-old freshman at USC, attended a 'No Kings' protest in Los Angeles on Mar. 28. He ended up getting shot in the eye with a less-lethal projectile by a Department of Homeland S...

"Tucker Collins, an 18-year-old freshman at USC, attended a 'No Kings' protest in Los Angeles on Mar. 28. He ended up getting shot in the eye with a less-lethal projectile by a Department of Homeland Security agent and is now blind."

Order on Motion for Miscellaneous Relief AND Order on Motion for Preliminary Injunction AND Order on Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim AND Order on Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State ... MEMORANDUM RULING: IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Defendants' MOTION TO STAY THE CASE [Doc. 50] is GRANTED. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Plaintiffs' MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY RELIEF UNDER 5 U.S.C. § 705 [Doc. 2...

NEW: A federal judge granted Trump admin's request to pause a lawsuit seeking to end telemedicine prescriptions of the abortion drug mifepristone while FDA does a bullshit safety "review." Does NOT mean access to abortion pills is safe, just that Trump didn't want anything to happen before midterms

Absolutely horrifying. In our name

The banality of evil.

I feel like I have nothing to write. "Genocide is illegal and Trump must be tried for war crimes" feels, somehow, *under*whelming in this moment.

Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.

I fear that profs who post about war crimes in Iran will face more consequences than the people who order and execute them.

today sure feels like one of the all time ‘so i still just gotta go and do my little job during all this?!’ moments

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

The professor reportedly wrote in a March 18 newsletter, which he sent via the center’s listserv, that “Israeli actions tell us that they seek the destruction of the state, not just its ruling class.” The email, titled “More notes on the Iran war,” reportedly added that it “was always BS” that the Islamic Republic was pursuing nuclear weapons.

The U. of Washington stripped its Director of Middle East Studies of his position for writing an email that said “Israeli actions tell us that they seek the destruction of the state, not just its ruling class” and that Iran had not been pursuing nuclear weapons.

In other words, for stating facts.

Photo of a bombed-out facility

US-Israeli bombing destroys the Pasteur Institute

“Established in 1920, the institute is the first and oldest public health center in Iran—where staffers pioneered vaccine development and research on the prevention of infectious diseases.”

www.cnn.com/2026/04/02/w...

image of a white brick wall overlaid with text reading: for a story at The Guardian, I'm looking to speak to 1-2 people who have had their community/ political organizing work impacted by being expected or forced to organize with someone who assaulted or harassed them, and that staying silent was "for the good of the movement" I know this is an extremely common story, but also one people can't always share with their name or face: anonymity or pseudonyms will be provided. I am trained in trauma-informed strategies in working with survivors, am a survivor myself, and take digital hygiene and sources' security extremely seriously. Please reach out over signal @ lex_mcmenamin.68 . I'll take this down when I have enough folks. Thank you.

Source Callout:

for a story at the Guardian, I'm interviewing folks who were asked to keep working with someone after sexual assault or harassment or relationship abuse, and told to stay silent "for the good of the movement" (more info in pic with alt text).

reach out on Signal @ lex_mcmenamin.68

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you.

If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can.

Everyone give this a share after.

Between the conversion therapy ruling and the efforts to ban kids from the internet to “protect them” from “transgender influence,” we’re right back in a culture of violently enforced closeting. And the data around self-identifying as trans and queer already reflects this

This. Is. Murder. Even. If. No. One. Calls. It. That.