feel like if they sent out covid stimulus checks they can send out tariff refund checks

My bhai in India keeping it as real as possible: grifting off the fascists to pay for his medical education. Uncritical support 🤩🤣🤣

The union representing thousands of Harvard graduate students just went on strike - The Boston Globe The university and its graduate student union are at odds over pay and protections for noncitizen students.

Faculty, your job is to be annoyed at the administration and back the students 100%!

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/21/b...

Is AI the greatest art heist in history? New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with it

Reject Slopenheimer www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

Screenshot of an article headlined “Salah Sarsour: A Pillar Taken, A Community That Will Not Yield,” by Dr. Hatem Bazian, dated April 9, 2026. Below the headline is a family photo of a smiling middle-aged man seated on a couch, hugging two young girls in matching white tops and bright pink pants. One girl holds a small toy phone and stretches an arm outward while the other leans into him. Large windows and trees are visible behind them.

"His gift for bringing people together is his most precious quality. In a Palestinian movement that can sometimes fracture along the edges of ego & disagreement, Salah is the bridge."

Dr. Hatem Bazian on ICE’s abduction of the beloved Salah Sarsour.

inthesetimes.com/article/sala...

Salah Sarsour came to the US from the West Bank and built a life for himself as a Palestinian American community leader in Milwaukee. Now, he’s being held captive by ICE.

The Trump administration continues to target Palestinian activists to silence dissent.

Salah Sarsour, a beloved community leader and Palestinian refugee in Milwaukee, was targeted for his activism against the genocide and illegally abducted by ICE.

Salah is a legal permanent resident and should be home with his mother, wife, and six children. Free Salah Sarsour.

🚨BREAKING: According to the Adirondack Weather Rope, it is windy.

I think another way to phrase this is that access to education as curiosity driven inquiry is increasingly predicated upon one’s ability to access private capital.

My dude where were you for the Catholic Church of my youth! 😩. Now do abortion (as in, surprise us)

Why I will not stand for Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day siren A state that commits genocide cannot claim to honor the Holocaust. Each ceremony it holds in its name defiles the memory of the victims.

Deeply moved and unsettled (complimentary) by this essay from Iranian-Jewish Israeli Orly Noy, whom I've admired for years:

It’s so tough that he’s spitting truths but I still hate this institution for everything it did to hurt me 😩

the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?

Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now WIRED tracked down some of the most prominent figures of last year’s DOGE invasion. Here's where they are now—in government and beyond.

WIRED tracked down some of the most prominent figures of last year’s DOGE invasion. Here's where they are now—in government and beyond.

Political allegories in movies YouTube video by Pop Culture Detective

Still the hottest shorts on the web rn @popdetective.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/JkqBo...

"There is a bitter and unforgivable cruelty in seeing these universities — centers of learning, debate, and resistance to authoritarianism — reduced to ruins by those who claim to come as liberators ... We stand in solidarity with the students whose education and lives have been upended."

"I didn't have any pen or paper ... [W]ith soap, the soap that [ICE] gave us, I would write [attorneys' phone numbers to remember] on the walls."

NEW: Censorship and Surveillance at US Universities Dear Friends and Comrades, Today we’re publishing the first piece from our forthcoming issue on campus activism and repression since October 7, 2023. In “Censorship and Surveillance at US Universitie...

In “Censorship and Surveillance at US Universities,” Torin Monahan details the expansive apparatus used by university administrations, often following federal or state political pressures, to police pro-Palestine and progressive speech on campuses across the country.

@merip.bsky.social

Takano has the power to initiate the process for Trump's removal! If you really truly believe he should be, the answer is impeachment. It's not the 25th Amendment. Pretending it's up to Vance and the Cabinet is a complete dodge. The body that matters here is the one Takano has a vote in, not RFK.

I’ve introduced Articles of Impeachment against Pete Hegseth for violating his oath, endangering U.S. servicemembers, and committing war crimes, including attacks on civilians and a girls’ school in Minab, Iran. Only Congress can declare war; his actions demand immediate removal.

One last spicy lunchtime take: gestures like this matter. It takes bravery that too many Dem leaders in the House will never have. Kudos ✊

have there been similarly culturally pervasive “everyone needs to start using this tech right now” pushes over such a relatively brief time frame as we’re currently seeing with LLMs? (This is a very genuine question)

I’m in this picture and frankly that’s the best

I’ve always moved through life with such low expectations of men. It’s a perfunctory, predictable thing, like the sun rising in morning 😤😬

I’d say 85% of the men I know, & 100% of cis men, would not confront a man they know who is an abuser. & it’s almost always someone he knows closely, someone who’s abusive power indirectly benefits a lot of other men around him. It’s a grim picture.

It’s so rare that you can feel unequivocally that a parenting strategy was a success. After 4 years of us inventing daycare & school-safe curse words, upon seeing seeing a squirrel invade the bird feeder, our kid screams “LOOK AT THAT LITTLE SQUANCHPANTS” 🤣🤣

Asylum once formed an antidote to a world where the sanctity of national borders is placed above that of human life. Then, over centuries of erosion and decades of attack, it was gutted.

Read Tanvi Misra's essential new essay from our Spring 2026 issue jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...

The teddy bear The blast lifted me up and off of the street and tossed me into a stone wall. Crumbling already before any of this. I had remarked not a moment earlier on some of its silly graffiti. We had tea just near here once I had said and thought now again in my cartwheeling. Right over there on the old patio. You remember this place right? When I awoke some time later there came a vibration through the pavement beneath me. The pebbled granite levitating in the dust. Where was my sister? Ok. Ok. Just there. I tried to stand to go to her but my body was no longer under my command. I reached out for her leg all the same to pull her to safety but soon passed out again. Coming to once more and there was the bulldozer. I crawled over the splintered wood and glass an inch at a time but I was too slow. Mere feet away an impossible distance. She was alive. I want you all to know that. For it to be marked down. I saw that she was alive. Watched her slight turn inward before I looked away. Like a child sleeping. I saw the driver seeing her as well and felt something like pity and then an alien guilt. For what we must have done to have made them do this to us. Surely they would regret it later. Surely any person would have to.

A bunch of new short pieces in this one as well.

www.welcometohellworld.com/wide-open-on...

Mom of 5 in immigration detention in Texas was taken to ER, sparking urgent calls for her release A court filing says authorities at a detention center in Dilley, Texas, refused for weeks to get Hayman El Gamal a CT scan after she found an abnormal growth in her chest.

If all of the enablers of the regime both inside & outside of government do not suffer consequences for their crimes, we’re in deep, deep trouble. A new example of extreme cruelty daily: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

It’s just not fair my man looks that hot. Then again, def the fit he and we deserve 😍