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Infowars’ endless afterlife The Onion may finally boot Alex Jones from his studio, but years of damage have already been done.

“His ideas and what he built are so ubiquitous now," a former Infowars employee explains. "It’s been in the White House for two terms. You have all these young people picking up the torch. It’s getting far worse. The damage is done.”

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Black-and-white chest X-ray image with overlaid text promoting an In These Times article. The headline reads, “After Decades of Quiet Rumbling, an Epidemic Is Erupting Among California Stoneworkers.” Smaller text below says the engineered stone industry is worth nearly $30 billion, but workers at its core are falling sick and dying from silicosis, and many—most of them young immigrants—are suing manufacturers. Byline: Kayla Yup. In These Times logo at bottom.

"When Hernandez and his coworkers transform slabs of engineered stone into the puzzle pieces of counters and shower walls, countless nanosized silica particles are released — so small they can penetrate respirators and pass directly into the lungs."

inthesetimes.com/article/deca...

K Petrin K Petrin's personal site

had a bit of fun rebuilding my website with hugo, because I got too annoyed keeping up with ruby changes on jekyll

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Forbes Prediction Market Gamefies Story About Mass Shooting of 8 Children In another sign that the depravity economy has no bottom, Forbes published a story about a Louisiana man that killed 8 children over the weekend containing a box that asked readers to predict whether ...

horrified by that mass shooting story? Forbes would love you to predict what comes next

Support independent, nonprofit news led by journalists of color Join Prism's community of justice seekers and truth-tellers, building collective power through journalism. Understanding the full story has never mattered more.When Prism was established in 2019, it w...

⏸️ Prism is observing our annual Spring pause from April 20–23.

“Prism On Pause” is an org-wide break recognizing our labor & the toll reporting, editing & publishing can collectively take on us.

We invite you to support our journalism & join our newsletter. See you upon our return!👋

Trump’s Memphis Crime Task Force Arrested Over 800 Immigrants, Records Show. Only 2% of the Arrests Were for Violent Crimes. Businesses closed. Churches emptied. Parents afraid to take kids to school. Advocates say what was supposed to be a crime-fighting effort is keeping a community in fear.

Businesses closed. Churches emptied. Parents afraid to take kids to school.

Advocates say what was supposed to be a crime-fighting effort is keeping a community in fear.

With @mlk50.com

States eulogize Charlie Kirk with new laws promoting religion and free speech A new law named after Charlie Kirk is encouraging Tennessee teachers to include the positive impacts of religion in American history classes.

A new law named after Charlie Kirk is encouraging Tennessee teachers to include the positive impacts of religion in American history classes.

Event poster for "Holding the Line" featuring images of four speakers (Zendaya Blossom, David Chiu, Honey Mahogany, and Per Sia) with event details for a trans rights discussion on April 28, 6 PM, at SF LGBT Center. Free RSVP. Hosted by TJA and Coyote Media Collective.

San Francisco is holding the line — we’re going deep on how.

Join us & @coyotemedia.org April 28 at the SF LGBT Center for a live interview series featuring leaders in the fight for trans rights, interviewed by trans journalists who ask the right questions.

RSVP: bit.ly/tjaSF

Thomson Reuters Shareholders Demand Investigation into ICE Contracts The shareholders explicitly cited multiple 404 Media investigations, including one that showed Thomson Reuters' CLEAR is integrated with a tool ICE uses to find neighborhoods to target.

NEW: On Wednesday shareholders in Thomson Reuters demanded the company’s board launch an investigation into whether its products have contributed to human rights violations, specifically with regards to Thomson Reuters’ ongoing sale of peoples’ personal data to ICE.

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This Indian Billionaire is Trying to Get Trump to Drop His Bribery Charges. Meanwhile, His Company is Forcing Out Another Indigenous Tribe for Coal. Billionaire Gautam Adani is accused of building a global energy empire through bribes, bypassing sanctions, violating tribal rights, and targeting journalists. While his rival has been stopped by…

To protect its business interests, the Adani Group engages in what @rsf.org describes as a “relentless legal offensive against journalists” in India to silence press scrutiny.

Now that his domestic dominance is secured, Adani is trying to establish rapport with U.S. President Donald Trump.

EXPOSED: How Viktor Orbán Bankrolled the Network Around Reform UK As Hungary’s Prime Minister suffers a historic electoral defeat, Byline Times maps out how his government’s funding arm channelled hundreds of thousands of pounds into organisations at the heart of Britain’s hard right.

EXPOSED: How Viktor Orbán Bankrolled the Network Around Reform UK

As Hungary’s Prime Minister suffers a historic electoral defeat, Byline Times maps out how his government’s funding arm channelled hundreds of thousands of pounds into organisations at the heart of Britain’s hard right.

‘How Could You Be Against Joy?’: Bay Area Artists Are Turning on the Civic Joy Fund A private initiative founded by the mayor and backed by a crypto billionaire is increasingly shaping San Francisco’s arts scene. Musicians are asking questions — and some are calling for a boycott.

SF’s Civic Joy Fund is one of those hidden-picture tests: Do you see a lamp or a woman’s face? Are billionaires using tax loopholes to advance a technofash takeover of public space, or are they philanthropists swooping in to save the arts when no one else will? www.coyotemedia.org/how-could-yo...

tfw the code has bad vibes

My course on Critical Data Exploration with Spreadsheets comes out this summer.

It answers some of the most frequent questions I get about ensuring your work is right, spotting errors, cleaning data, and showing your work in spreadsheets.

A big update on the Open Visualization Academy New instructors, new courses, and what to expect in the next 12-15 months

BIG OPEN VISUALIZATION ACADEMY UPDATE: 10+ more instructors and 10+ more courses to be released on a monthly basis #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization @alyssafowers.bsky.social @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social @petrinkae.bsky.social @rsimmon.bsky.social and many others

The scammers profiting off Trump's immigration crackdown Fake judges. Fake lawyers. Real deportations.

Fake judges. Fake lawyers. Real deportations.

Scammers are profiting off Trump’s immigration crackdown, and the impacts on victims are endless.

My Strange Dysphoria Growing up in India, ‘The Pitt’ actor Supriya Ganesh writes, I never questioned my gender. When I moved to the U.S. at 18, I began to feel increasingly disconnected from my body.

Growing up in India, ‘The Pitt’ actor Supriya Ganesh writes, I never questioned my gender. When I moved to the U.S. at 18, I began to feel increasingly disconnected from my body.

How Police Track Your Data: Send Us Your Questions - Bolts As tech products play an increasingly integral role in all of our lives, they’re generating a trove of personal data that police and law enforcement can easily access. Cities and... Read More

NEW: Andrew Ferguson, a law professor, wrote a new book on digital surveillance and policing — & how the police track & exploit your personal data.

He's agreed to answer questions on this sent by Bolts readers.

Check out more info below, & you can drop a question in the form!

here's how the FBI extracted deleted Signal messages from an iPhone:

Watch more about this, and subscribe, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNUO...

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-...

Republicans tear through Beshear’s vetoes, overriding nearly all of them In one fell swoop, the Republican supermajority overrode nearly all of Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto attempts Tuesday, with one day left in the 2026 legislative session.

In one fell swoop, the Republican supermajority overrode nearly all of Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto attempts Tuesday, with one day left in the 2026 legislative session. www.lpm.org/news/2026-04...

States change custody laws to keep children of detained immigrants out of foster care As parents become separated from their children because of ICE arrests, legal advocates worry immigrants’ children are at risk of being placed in foster care systems.

States change custody laws to keep children of detained immigrants out of foster care 19thnews.org/2026/04/ice-... via @19thnews.org

Federal grants can save the lives of abuse victims. $200 million is sitting unspent. Changes made by the White House are preventing the distribution of funds meant to help survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking and trafficking. This year’s grants are missing too.

Federal grants can save the lives of abuse victims. $200 million is sitting unspent.

@jazzmyth.bsky.social reports

The wild saga of FDR’s $1 million gay military sex sting In 1919, before he was president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt approved a secret operation that led senators to say he should never be allowed to hold public office.

some important history to start the week with, from @shoeleatherkate.bsky.social

Buzz of the Week: Who should have access to your voter data? Utah quietly rewrote its voter privacy rules this session. SB 153 strips most existing protections from voter registration records — name, address, party affiliation, voting history — and opens them to certain non-government individuals and organizations.

Utah quietly rewrote its voter privacy rules this session. SB 153 strips most existing protections from voter registration records — name, address, party affiliation, voting history — and opens them to certain non-government individuals and organizations.

Government Workers Say They're Getting Inundated With Religion “This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”

“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.” www.wired.com/story/govern...