Cities turn streetlights red to protect nocturnal ecosystems
International Dark Sky Week is hailed as a global celebration of the night and a call for less light pollution.
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Killing of 8 children in Louisiana renews focus on domestic violence involving guns
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🗃️ Nota bene #skystorians and THANK YOU to all who make this access to #history possible at @archive.org 🙌
F.B.I. Director Sues The Atlantic Over Article Claiming Excessive Drinking
Patel accused the publication of defamation, asking for $250 million in damages. A spokeswoman for The Atlantic called the suit “meritless.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...
Trump Is Coming After Birth Control Access in a Terrifying New Way
HHS issued new Title X guidelines effectively subverting its purpose: to give the poorest US women effective contraception. Now it's aimed at getting more women pregnant, whether they want to be or not www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/o...
“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”
TRUST TEACHERS. Two words that, if people actually widely believed them, would utterly reform education in this country.
Searing opinion from a federal judge on Long Island, who describes "police state"-like tactics by ICE to arrest peopleand draw up after-the-fact warrants.
He says DOJ is damaging its credibility with the courts by trying to shield ICE from scrutiny. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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
Trump Administration Demand for Ballot Info Rebuffed by Michigan
The Department of Justice is seeking ballots and other materials from the 2024 election. Michigan officials call it election interference.
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Rebecca Solnit: Everything is Changing Fast
'one way you can see the new attitude in action is as local campaigns, often successful, to prevent tech corps from building data centers in their area and ICE from buying warehouses to convert to prisons'
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Four decades on, Chernobyl remains too dangerous for humans. But the wildlife has moved back in. https://to.pbs.org/48Ge7DM
Palantir's ImmigrationOS endangers democracy and the rule of law, according to a new law review paper from Fordham Law School’s Chinmayi Sharma and Sam Adler. In this week’s podcast, they break down the risks of AI-powered surveillance in immigration enforcement.
The men who are attempting to contextualize the horrific actions of Justin Fairfax are sending a clear signal that violence against women can be justified by supposed stress.
The attacks on the ambulances have drawn condemnation, including from the United Nations' human rights office, which said it was "shocked" and warned that intentionally targeting medics constituted a war crime. https://to.pbs.org/4dQHW89
a concert backdrop that says over 30 universities destroyed in iran against black and white picture of rubble
backdrop that says last standing university in gaza against a black and white image of al-israa university
giant three screen stage backdrop showing footage of the bombing of a university in gaza
The Strokes played Coachella against a backdrop listing all the world leaders that had been assassinated by the CIA, a count of the number of universities bombed in Iran, and footage of the bombing of the last university in Gaza
Trump didn’t create it. Over decades “we” have allowed the Supreme Court to become what it is.
Hamas Officials Say Group Is Ready to Hand Over Some Weapons
Two senior Hamas officials in Gaza said the group was prepared to relinquish some automatic rifles and other arms, a concession that falls short of Israeli-U.S. demands. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/w...
tgiFHI | How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire with Mélanie Lamotte
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"The company founded and formerly run by Trump Energy Secretary Chris Wright recorded $193 million of income last year but paid no 2025 federal corporate income taxes, according to its regulatory filings, and actually got more than $10 million back from the IRS..."
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The Hampshire model is irreconcilable with the preferred future of fund managers, EdTech entrepreneurs, neoliberal administrators, & reactionary reformers, in which HigherEd is a giant surveillance & indoctrination network you submit to in order to earn the right to live into adulthood.
WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/
Best Twitter riposte of the day.
The MAGA way. WaPo documents how Rep Cory Mills (R-FL) used overt political influence, including calls to Pam Bondi and Ed Martin, to avoid being arrested and prosecuted after he physically brutally assaulted a woman in Washington, DC. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Huh. Why would they ask for Wayne's ballots rather than the counties where Trump's people committed crimes in 2020?
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screenshot from linked to essay that reads: What is new is that, starting around 2015—in the wake of increased trans visibility in the media (sometimes called the “transgender tipping point”) and the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell legalizing same-sex marriage—social conservatives began shifting their efforts toward targeting trans people instead. The attacks have since grown into a highly coordinated and well–funded movement that churns out both anti-trans and broader anti-LGBTQ legislation at unprecedented levels. This is the real reason why Republicans have become obsessed with “fairness in women’s sports,” “biological sex,” “social contagion,” “restrooms,” “grooming,” and other soundbites that didn’t exist ten or fifteen years ago. In other words, there hasn’t been an organic shift in public opinion on trans people but rather a massive astroturfing campaign against us.
...btw I link to evidence that the anti-trans backlash was a highly coordinated and well–funded (especially via right-wing orgs) movement in this essay: www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
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
Have been wondering when candidates would start talking about this. One of the biggest corruption scandals is U.S. history playing out in real time.
