Also important to emphasize as these glasses will largely be used as a workaround against laws banning racial profiling more than anything.

Some are claiming this gerrymandering escalation was triggered by NY not Texas. That’s false. The NY Dems case is comparable to what NC Republicans did — a battle between the legislature and the courts over the post-2020 map. What Texas did is something else: rip up a map they wanted for a new one.

" .. and Harlow Donne, an academic who left behind his wife and young daughter to tell the ancient soldier’s tale. Martel was struck by how Homer’s Iliad focused on rich people: “It’s the Gateses and the Epsteins of the world, ruling things and squabbling because they have nothing better to do." 2/2

SEMAFOR RECOMMENDS
24 years after the success of Life of Pi, author Yann Martel reimagines ..
"the Trojan War through the lens of an ancient soldier and modern scholar. Son of Nobody tells the story of Psoas, who has abandoned his family in Greece to fight a war that serves the upper class .." 1/2

She warned the world before it was ready to listen.

Rachel Carson exposed the dangers of pesticides and helped launch the modern environmental movement.

Scientist. Author. A mind behind the science that saved lives.

Her work still shapes how we protect life.

#EarthDay #SheShed

🟡 Semafor Flagship: Trump extends Iran ceasefire | Semafor US President Donald Trump extends the ceasefire with Iran, India’s oil workarounds are running out, and former NASA astronauts weigh in on politics.

9. Airline surveillance pricing debate

"A customer complained that a fare had gone up $230 in a day; JetBlue suggested using an incognito window, prompting speculation that it meant the airline set prices using personal data, which JetBlue denied."
www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...

Caught in the Crackdown: As Arrests at Anti-ICE Protests Piled Up, Prosecutions Crumbled ProPublica and FRONTLINE found more than 300 protesters and bystanders who were arrested on charges like assaulting an immigration agent or interfering with law enforcement. Over and over, the accusat...

NEW: “Arrest as many people that touch you as you want to," Gregory Bovino told Border Patrol officers in 2025.

But a review of hundreds of such arrests shows that charges brought against protesters and bystanders repeatedly fell apart under scrutiny.

w/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

One of the most telling pics of the year ... so far.

Bessent: Trump has shown that he is good at getting energy prices down

(Gas prices have skyrocketed since the state of Trump's Iran war)

Ah yes. The 34-time convicted felon or the Vicar of Christ?
Hmm.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Republicans: "It's not fair! When we gerrymander, it's to make us win. When Democrats gerrymander, it's to make us lose."

Irish Star: Greenpeace activists erected a mock "wind farm" on the 4th green of one of Trump's Scottish golf courses to challenge his opposition to wind energy. Golfers were also met with a sign saying: "Choose Wind, Dump Trump." 😅
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans

#ProudBlue #Pinks #ResistanceUnited
Cracks are appearing in the Trump regime. MAGA loyalists are pulling away, judges are ruling against them and blue states, like Virginia are fighting back against gerrymandering. The most important thing we can do is VOTE and be visible and heard. We will win.

Since tRump is still talking about things that were rigged:

LUTNICK: It is outrageous that Canada will not put US spirits on the shelf. It is insulting and disrespectful to America


SHAHEEN: They won't do it because of the insults from this president and comments like yours

Nutlick rakes in a salary of $250,600 a year as Secretary of Commerce to be "not aware."

Through March 31, the number of grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year, a Post analysis found.

There are also fewer grants focused on women’s health, cancer and mental health, the analysis found. https://wapo.st/48dWJWX

" .. and believed the country was becoming dangerously divided.

“I am really so upset over this,” she said in a video she posted to FB the day of the assassination. “This isn’t the kind of America I want to live in.”

She had lamented his death, but also said some of his rhetoric was bigoted.
3/3

"VP Vance urged people to inform the bosses of anyone who might have celebrated the assassination.

Ms. McMahon was not an especially polarizing figure before Mr. Kirk’s death. Her first reaction to the killing was one of shock and sadness as someone who had spoken at the campus herself .." 2/3

College Where Charlie Kirk Was Killed Revokes Graduation Speaker’s Invite

Gift article: NY Times

"Scores of people — health care workers, lawyers, journalists, waiters and waitresses — had already been fired or faced other repercussions for their comments about Mr. Kirk." 1/3
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

How does an Iranian Navy that we obliterated do this? That’s so weird.

I really think that in high school, part of health class should be that the boys have to experience the period simulator.

I've seen the video of guys trying that thing, and they can't last five minutes. Meanwhile, we go through it every month and for way longer than five minutes!

✊ So begins the largest veteran and military family act of civil disobedience since the Iraq war began, occupying the Cannon building Rotunda - protesting yet another forever war with Iran. Info below @gregjstoker.bsky.social

The moron just can't shut his fat face.

“We were terrified they were going to kill us.”

Ecuadorian fishermen recount surviving one of Trump & Hegseth’s boat strikes.

Not drug runners. Fishermen. Drone strike. Boat blown up. Taken captive. By us.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

A federal judge just threw a big wrench into Trump’s efforts to slow-roll renewable-energy permits. The order temporarily blocked a set of Interior Department policies that wind and solar groups say froze new projects.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Fact File: No evidence Carney threatened emergency powers against Alberta separatists Claims that Prime Minister Mark Carney said he would invoke the Emergencies Act to quash Alberta independence appeared online last week. It was said Carney made the comments while addressing steelwork...

Turns out Alberta's head 'separatist' grifter, Jeffrey Rath, is a bald faced liar.

You can't explain that.

#ableg #cdnpoli

halifax.citynews.ca/2026/04/20/f...

AOC represents EVERY WOMAN in America right now who is sick and tired of misogyny & misinformation.

She represents us and the rage we feel.

A second French soldier in Lebanon has died from wounds in Saturday's 'ambush' by Hezbollah.