so, to be clear: ICE has been doing neoStarlight Tours, if instead of taking natives a three hour walk out of town in -40° and ditching them there without their personal effects, to kill them, they drove folks hundreds of kilometers away and ditched them without their personal effects, to kill them.
America’s largest bank is expanding its data center in Orangeburg, NY, near the New Jersey border.
In exchange for $77 million in tax breaks from the state and county, the bank promises to create exactly one permanent job.
My story in @nysfocus.com: nysfocus.com/2026/04/20/d...
Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products. n.pr/3Ovl8k8
🇪🇺🏳️🌈⚖️🇭🇺 A legal earthquake - CJEU finds Hungary to have violated EU law on multiple counts with its anti-LGBT+ legislation (as expected) but also for the first time in history, in an EU law-reshaping precedent, finds Hungary to violate Art 2 TEU in a self-standing manner.
headphones that aren't small, loseable, and expensive that you don't have to shove into your ear canals with force (some of us have small canals and it hurts like hell) and you don't have to charge and also fit into any phone without an adapter. we'll call them "headphones 2003-2016." they cost $15
"'If you can increase the diversity of the scientific workforce, there’s some evidence that you can increase the trust in scientists,' Druckman explained... [diversity] encompassing not just race and gender but also rurality, religiosity, and class background."
cps.isr.umich.edu/news-events/...
Evergreen reminder this 420: No one should be in prison for weed.
Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.
"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X
The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.
I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).
So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.
Exciting and good news from the Glaze/Nightshade UChicago team!
They are releasing a new non-profit, ETCH, whose mission is specifically to assist and prioritize humans in this GenAi era!
One of the first public releases of ETCH is Quicksilver, an solid GenAi detector for music!
The 1996 welfare retrenchment actually changed policy (for better or for worse).The 2025 welfare retrenchment-which will hurt more people than the 1996 reform-is administrative in nature. It's all about making it impossible for eligible people to actually navigate the system to receive benefits
The ICE Detention Reengineering Initiative ($38 billion to convert commercial warehouses into a network of massive detention centers) is not being built primarily by GEO Group and CoreCivic. ICE is turning to a crop of relatively untested contractors. A look at who. 🧵
Flyer for talk KIRK LECTURE BOOK PANEL Capitalism and the Future of Democracy Wednesday, April 22,4:30 p.m. Sturm Hall, Lindsay Auditorium (online and in person) This panel asks: Is capitalism compatible with democracy? And how can we better understand the moral frameworks that sustain or challenge these systems? Drawing on Lucia Hulsether's Capitalist Humanitarianism, panelists will explore how ethical ideals like charity, freedom, and justice, shape political and economic life through a religious studies lens. The panelists reflections examine how capitalism absorbs moral critique, often reframing inequality as ethical opportunity. The session features brief reflections from Religious Studies and DU-Iliff Joint Doctoral Program students, a response from Dr. Hulsether, and a moderated Q&A, inviting the community to engage some defining questions of our time. Panelists: • Zane Johnson, DU-Iliff Joint Doctoral Program for the Study of Religion, Student • Devyn Whitaker, Master of Arts in Religious Studies, Student Kirsten Dalquist, DU-lliff Joint Doctoral Program for the Study of Religion, Student • Andrew Robb-Scott, DU-Iliff Joint Doctoral Program for the Study of Religion, Student David Kemp, DU-lliff Joint Doctoral Program for the Study of Religion, Candidate College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences UNIVERSITY OF DENVER Live Stream Also Available RSVP
Hi friends! Join us on 4/22, 4/23 for 2 events @uofdenver.bsky.social Religious Studies is hosting! Both are in person/online (link sent after registration)
Join us Wed, 4/22 @430pm
#Capitalism & the Future of #Democracy
Book panel & discussion w/@lhulseth.bsky.social & DU RLGS MA, PHD students.
Screenshot of flyer for talk KIRK LECTURE Socially Responsible Sweatshops: The Politics of "Ethical Capitalism" | Thursday, April 23, 5 p.m. Anderson Academic Commons 290 Over the past five decades, elites have absorbed left critiques into capitalism, framing racial equity initiatives, microloans, and fair-trade consumption as ways the system can address its own harms. These efforts sustain the belief that capitalism, aligned with humanitarian goals, can repair its violence. But what happens when even these modest reforms face backlash - not from the left, but from ethno-nationalists attacking "woke capitalism"? When gestures toward inclusion are cast as threats? Reflecting on her book,Capitalist Humanitarianism, Lucia Hulsether argues that today's right-wing movements are not a rupture from neoliberal globalism, but another expression of its underlying logic. RSVP Live Stream Also Available • College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
Join us on Thurs, 4/23 @6pm (reception @5pm) In-person/livestream
@uofdenver.bsky.social Religious Studies welcomes the incomparable @lhulseth.bsky.social to deliver this year’s Kirk Lecture.
She discusses her award-winning book Capitalist Humanitarianism & the anathema of “ethical” #capitalism.
We've had administrations where the Civil Rights Division took a less watchful eye to the rights of racial minorities or diverted its energies to address other issues, but this is the first administration in history to pervert it wholly into a tool to *hurt* the people its supposed to protect.
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Aerial view of large scale devastation inflicted on the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, with an Israeli tank parked in the center of the photo.
This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon
“Bread shortages have worsened across Gaza in recent days as bakeries scale back production because of dwindling flour and fuel supplies, leaving Palestinians to queue for hours despite a cease-fire intended to improve humanitarian conditions in the territory.”
Don’t take your eye off Gaza.
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.
Someone was taken near 20th & Central tonight at 10 PM. Within 5 minutes, there were over 20 people on a call and even more people on foot in the area to respond.
Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros:
Paramount+
CBS
CNN
Showtime
HBO
Warner Bros
TNT
TBS
MTV
DC Studios
Nickelodeon
Comedy Central
Cartoon Network
And more...
This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped.
State AGs must step in and block it.
EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027.
The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.
In the United States between 2020 and 2024, law enforcement reported to the FBI “more than 11,000 domestic violence murder victims and an additional 1.1 million victims of domestic violence. Nearly 75 percent of the victims were female.”
Gwynne Dyer: We are entering a period where some major changes in climate policy will need to happen quite fast—a decade or two—if we are to avoid ending up on full ‘Hothouse Earth’ by the end of the century.
www.hilltimes.com/2026/04/16/c...
Thomson Reuters sells access to the CLEAR investigative database, which can include peoples' names, addresses, car registration information, Social Security numbers, and details on someone's ethnicity.
ICE uses CLEAR data to find neighborhoods to target.
Climate science pals: How much methane abatement would be needed to reduce the risk of AMOC collapse to a tolerable level (e.g. <1-5%)? How much carbon dioxide abatement? Could you use those two results to define an exchange rate between CH4 and CO2, like a GWP but specific to this tipping point?
Black folk in the US are still angry over what many of us see as multiple betrayals.
People focus on Harris, Booker, and Jeffries. Yes, sure.
But look at Bowman, Bush, and now Crockett. Al Green, censured twice. Black SES & life metrics, cratering. Silence re: Ed Blum & AA attacks.
We all we got.
Points for a lack of an execution enthusiast?
Plainly telling his own staff “I will ignore the Constitution to enact revenge on my imagined enemies” sure seems to me like a valid basis for impeachment proceedings for a life-term judge in the highest court.
I am offering to host the potluck/retreat to plan the youtube channel and maybe film a pilot and some episodes
Picture of tandoori chicken drumsticks marinating in a big white bowl of red-orange marinade.
fuck it, i’m making tandoori.
