I think this is largely correct, yeah. And in many ways it’s an indictment even more than a compliment but while I constantly wrestle with despair over the prospect of real change coming out of this, I do believe it’s more possible now than it has been

They want to claim the SPLC is “inventing” racism while high-level administration figures are regularly calling for ethnic cleansing.

ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.

Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social.

70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge.

30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation.

7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported.
sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

When Tekashi 6ix9ine, the rapper and former gang member, finished serving a three-month sentence at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, he left carrying a peculiar souvenir. He showed it off to two friends who were waiting outside the jail to collect him: it was a homemade SpongeBob SquarePants figurine with a jagged series of lines—not unlike a heartbeat monitor, or a mountain range—scribbled on it. This was, 6ix9ine explained, the autograph of Nicolás Maduro, the President of Venezuela. The signature was also dated, in Spanish, “2.º Abril.” “Look, one of one,” 6ix9ine said, holding up the SpongeBob, which, he later explained, another inmate had meticulously crafted, folding six hundred pieces of paper and sewing them together, over the course of two weeks. “Maduro signed it,” he said, proudly, before adding, “Venezuela forever.”

well *that* is a lede www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

I’m not against AI if it was environmentally self sustaining and it’s not. All of sudden no one cares about the stresses on water, land, heat island effect, electricity and the noise from the buildings. People are chasing $ and “slop”

#EarthDay 🌍🌎
Take a moment to listen & share ..AI is here to stay
But I keep thinking about our children's future

RAPID EXSPANSION of AI DATA CENTERS has happened & there is NO
COMPREHENSIVE FEDERAL LEGISLATION for concerns to the impact of ENERGY, WATER, & TOWNS

A disaster in the making

RFK Jr. Says Measles Outbreaks Not His Fault: ‘I’ve Never Been Anti-Vaccine’ The HHS secretary, known for spreading disinformation about vaccine safety, falsely claimed people aren’t getting vaccinated because “the government lied to them during COVID.”

Welcome to Day 2 of RFK Jr. testifying on Capitol Hill.

Yesterday, RFK -- who has spent decades spreading disinformation about vaccine safety -- testified to Congress that measles outbreaks aren't his fault and said he's "never been anti-vaccine." Really. Really! www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-me...

LAUSD will limit screen time for students at school. How will it work? A board resolution requires the school district to develop a policy that will curb how much time kids spend on computers and tablets.

LAUSD will start limiting screen time in schools, from pre-K through high school. Part of a growing wave of schools across the world that are recognizing the harmful impact of too much unregulated screen time in schools.

laist.com/news/educati...

If there are inefficiencies in NASA science spending (and I don't doubt there are!) then addressing those WITHOUT reducing the budget would mean more science, more innovation, more return on investment, more benefit to humanity. But realistically, cutting science funding by half just cuts science.

A number of space science organizations offered support for Isaacman's nomination because he is a proponent of space exploration and claimed he would support science. But now that science is on the chopping block -- and human spaceflight isn't -- he is volunteering to give NASA the DOGE treatment.

A lot of Dems in competitive races need to take a closer look at their districts. The prevailing wisdom among leadership & consultants is to avoid impeachment talk; that seems more likely to signal weakness and non-alignment with the majority than to actually pick up swing voters.

White House staffer Margo Martin tweets "Congratulations, Georgia Women's Tennis" with a photo of Trump and a bunch of dudes and some female heads way in the back

i had to triple check that this wasn't from a parody account

“Men” playing on women’s sports teams — BAD

Men taking credit for women’s sports teams — GOOD

Charlie's Roots - Past Time Paradise (Cover) [Trinidad & Tobago, Funk/Soul] (1977) - [3:40]

Charlie's Roots - Past Time Paradise (Cover) [Trinidad & Tobago, Funk/Soul] (1977) - [3:40]
https://redd.it/2tas0h
https://youtu.be/XEYQ1xkoErI

CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.

Hmm, I wonder why…

Forthcoming in @hoposjournal.bsky.social! I discuss the systemic injustice that saw women banned from scientific education in Victorian Britain through the lenses of how artisanal knowledges like weaving and knitting were severed from mathematical knowledge. #philsci

philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29274/

The Disappearance of the Public Bench Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest.

intriguing essay on the aspirations and realities of the public bench: placesjournal.org/article/the-...

Oklahoma Republicans Are Trying to Give Themselves Total Power Over Judicial Nominations Lawmakers are tired of having a judiciary that doesn't give them everything they want.

The prevailing sentiment among Republican lawmakers across the country is that even the tiniest limitations on their power are inherently unfair and illegal

What Is “Financialization” and What Is It Doing to Our Country? Financialization began as a trend involving Wall Street, moved to Main Street and nonfinancial businesses, and is now increasingly present in Americans’ everyday lives.

“The long-term vision is to financialize everything,” a prediction market CEO said recently.

Financialization isn’t new, but the push for profit maximization is now reaching deeper into daily life than ever before.

In a new blog, @bradlipton.bsky.social asks: is this the kind of economy we want?

New poll: 55% support impeaching Trump Support for impeachment rivals levels during Donald Trump's first presidency, when he was impeached twice, and for impeaching Richard Nixon after the Watergate scandal

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...

I have opposed gerrymandering every single time it has come up. It’s a perversion of the political process. I voted Yes in this election without hesitation. Unilateral disarmament is unacceptable.

it is very funny how these people are so accustomed to essentially bullying democratic politicians that they meltdown when met with appropriate pushback.

in any case, the process to amend the virginia constitution has multiple stages where, at any point, an amendment can be defeated.

Peter Thiel spent $9 million dollars trying to get Virginia to vote "no." The GOP lost.

No amount of money can make people buy what they don't want.

Congratulations Virginia!

Virginia voters approve Democrats' redistricting plan, giving the party a midterm election boost NBC News projects Democrats will be able to enact a new proposed map designed to net them up to four seats, as they push for control of the narrowly divided House.

BREAKING: Virginia voters approve a Democratic redistricting plan that could allow the party to pick up as many as four new seats in the midterm elections, NBC News projects.

truthout.org Locked Up by Israel at 15, Palestine Activist Is Now Jailed by ICE

Locked Up by Israel at 15, Palestine Activist Is Now Jailed by ICE #TruthOut

FASCISM USA These people got arrested... These people got pardoned...

When veterians get arrested protesting an illegal war, but insurectionists get pardoned illustrates how messed up the United States has become under Donald Trump!

Murray

Columbia, S.C., Record

April 21, 1926: George Washington Murray, the last Black congressman from South Carolina for nearly 100 years, dies at 72 in Chicago. The Republican who was a teacher and farmer served two terms in the 1890s before losing his seat because of white leaders' efforts to suppress the Black vote.

Snowcap Hummingbird

found in Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama

📷: John Crawley

#birds