Black people prove once again that we are sophisticated and strategic voters who not only know how to navigate a political system trained against us but can defy mis- and disinformation.
Thank you, Virginia.
ICYMI at @americasvoice.bsky.social: Our Haitian neighbors won a historic victory last week, when the House passed legislation extending temporary protections for a further three years. “The bill is the first pro-immigrant bill to pass Congress this legislative session,” noted the ACLU:
🧵 I want to crack down on Big Tech as much as anyone, prob more than most. But the draconian and unworkable kids' online safety bill that the MA House passed earlier this month is not the way to do it. From @evangreer.bsky.social & me in today's @bostonglobe.com : www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/22/o...
Outrageous. @chiosse.bsky.social was protecting one of his neighbors from eviction, as a result of deed theft — a plague in Central Brooklyn right now. There was no reason for NYPD officers to roughly throw him to the ground. It sure doesn’t make anyone safer. Release him now.
Good for @sfchronicle.com in cataloguing all the Ai billboards in SF. There are so many all so offensive & anti-life. Also many of them read like total nonsense to someone who doesn't already know what the product is - impressive lack of creativity while they're at it...
The number of House Representatives has not changed since the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, which capped House Reps at 435, even though the population now is close to 3x what it was then, and we have two additional states.
It's time to uncap the House.
Please share! My lab has an open fully-funded PhD position at Vilnius University's Life Sciences Center in Lithuania. The PhD project will involve identifying missing orthomyxovirus segments from public sequence data. Applicants must hold an MSc by June & have bioinformatics experience. 1/2
Modern high yield crops on which we depend only produce that yield with several rounds of fertiliser application. A big proportion of that fertiliser can’t get out of the Middle East now. Millions of people are going to starve as a result of Bibi & Trump’s war.
New analysis from us showing how clean energy reduces electricity bills in Europe. Countries with a cleaner electricity mix see much smaller increases in power prices when gas prices rise.
Support for impeaching Trump is at 55%, according to a new Strength In Numbers/ @Verasight.io poll, with 37% of adults opposed. Crucially 1 in 5 of Trump’s own voters support impeachment.
Read and share:
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-22...
Libraries are great. We should have more library workers.
A small brown rodent (a pocket gopher) half emerged from a burrow and look to the left
The same pocket gopher now angled toward the camera as though just detecting the presence of the photographer
Same gopher eyeing the camera askance and looking as though it is about to beat a hasty retreat into its burrow
Oh, um, hello, didn’t see you there at first
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Pro tip for anyone watching NBA on Peacock: if you threaten to cancel your subscription, they will offer you a deal of $2.99/month for six months.
The price of two Costco hotdogs a month to watch the Olympics, SNL, playoff basketball, SNB, and SNF? That's a steal for me
the ai shit is so bad. i saw an ig post citing a paper - with a screenshot of the paper - but the typesetting was all wrong. someone had reproduced page 1 of this paper in chatgpt. i went and found the real paper to read it but 1. why do i have to fact-check and 2. how many people got fooled?
I hope every veteran drawing va disability is watching this. Hope many of us enrolled in MVP to help? They have more data on us than they do on most people on Medicaid. Do you think the people who call us losers and suckers are gonna save us?
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
The lack of public benches is frankly ableist.
Pretty good reminder how small Discourse World is even among poll respondents.
You thought you heard a roll of thunder, but it was actually thousands of medical historians cracking their knuckles and rolling up their sleeves to revisit centuries of “dirty immigrant” canards.
America abandons these brave Afghans who risked their lives for America. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...
A great book.
Writers trying to figure out how to make themselves seen will get a lot out of it.
ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
(Published Nov. 2025)
This is a great rundown, and also, I just watched Young Sherlock over the weekend and had a GREAT time, in large part because of the intensity of feeling between Sherlock and Moriarty in their friends-before-enemies era. As commenters in this thread have said, it’s really Moriarty’s show.
As of 2023, Sherlock Holmes is finally in the public domain in the United States -- which means that Arthur Conan Doyle's heirs and random other rights-holders can no longer insist that the character be free of any trace of homoeroticism.
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
someone get Taika Waititi and Rhys Darby on the phone, i have an idea…
Image of a Virginia Democrats' proposed congressional map that is drawn to elect a ten-to-one Democratic majority and flip four Republican seats in 2026. The district lines are displayed over top of a basemap with major roads and cities labeled. The districts are colored by the 2024 presidential winner's margin of victory, with Kamala Harris districts in blue and Donald Trump districts in red. Darker shades represent larger margins of victory. An embedded chart shows the 2024 presidential election results and the adult population racial demographics in each district. Harris won 10 of the 11 districts, with Trump winning just a single district in western Virginia. Black voters would retain their ability to elect their preferred candidates in Districts 3 and 4, which remain safely Democratic.
Breaking (🧵): Virginia has PASSED a referendum that would let Dems redraw the congressional map for 2026 in response to new GOP gerrymanders in other states (pending VA Supreme Court review).
It targets 4 Rs to elect a 10-1 Dem majority.
Interactive map+data: davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap...
it's also remarkable that *no one else in the gop was willing to explain this to him.*
Greg Abbott was in a solid position to tell Trump, "this is probably going to backfire; maybe reconsider."
Abbott has his own power base, and still looks like a solid lock for governor. but nope, wouldn't do it
HEAD QUARTERS MORRIS TOWN 12TH MARCH 1777 Sir You are hereby required immediately to send me an exact return of your regiment, and to send all your recruits, who have had the small pox to join the Army. Those, who have not, are to be sent to Philadelphia, and put under the direction of the commanding officer there, who will have them inoculated. You are to leave a sufficient number of proper officers to carry on the recruiting service, who are to bring up their men as soon as they are ready. No pleas, of delay, on account of the dispersion of the officers can be admitted, as every commanding officer ought to know where his inferior officers are, and they what recruits they have, and where they are to be found. You are to remain at Philadelphia, to procure arms clothing &c., and send on, your Major to Camp, to receive your detachments. Your Lieut. Colonel is also to come on, as soon as circumstances will permit. I am Sir Your most humble servant Go: Washington George Washington wrote this letter to Lt. Colonel David Grier on March 12, 1777. In it, Washington instructs Grier to send new soldiers to Philadelphia so they could be inoculated for smallpox. Washington wanted to make sure that his troops were not affected by disease, and he believed that inoculation would help with that. So, just before this letter was written, Washington created a mandated system of inoculating his soldiers.
George Washington wrote this letter to Lt. Col. David Grier on March 12, 1777. In it, Washington instructs Grier to send new soldiers to Philadelphia so they could be inoculated for smallpox... just before this letter was written, Washington created a mandated system of inoculating his soldiers."
those of us with bigger accounts have at least *a little* responsibility to include citations for our data posts. it's so, *so* easy, and it helps subject matter experts identify misinformation or otherwise constructively contribute to the discourse, which we can all agree is a good thing