People should actually be very alarmed that while AP's business model is shot to bits, Americans are still very much reliant on the news it delivers. The alternatives in some cases are inferior or non-existent.
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1. In an unusual press briefing today in AZ, Sec. Kristi Noem made the extraordinary (but vaguely delivered) claim that as head of DHS, she has authorities over elections, including to make sure that “the right people are voting and electing the right leaders to lead this country.” That is false.
If this is accurate, Good was killed by a bullet fired after there was any conceivable argument Agent Ross was in the path of her vehicle, which means there was no legal justification for using deadly force. But DOJ says there’s no reason to investigate.
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And just like that, the world can no longer rely on American economic reports.
If it hasn't been done yet, this could be a fun & pretty straightforward empirical exercise for, say, MPP or MUP students looking for capstone projects. Which AV would be happy to fund!
The headline is deeply misleading. You can’t suspend habeas corpus just “for migrants.” As we’ve seen, ICE will pick *anyone* up. If you have legal status but no right to habeas corpus, you’ll have no ability to challenge your detention or deportation. Suspension for some is suspension for all.
Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...
Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
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Happy Jackie Robinson Day. It is important to remember our history. All of it. He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it.
Our correspondent @lelanargi.bsky.social was reporting on a $3 billion USDA climate program when the program abruptly went dark, leaving many thousands of farmers devastated.
Lela wrote about a story transforming midway through — turning into something much more sad.
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The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969.
One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.
the boys when it turns out Strom Thurmond and Elon Musk are having to devour feculence on the same night
Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
NEW: In October, we published secret recordings of Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term.
It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.
Am I takin crazy pills? Where is the Comptroller General of the United States in all this? The GAO is part of the legislative branch, precisely because only that branch has the power of the purse. This is Schoolhouse Rock level civics, but it's completely absent from literally all the coverage.
v proud to have played a big role in this 🙏
Trump accuses #SouthAfrica of "land confiscation" and "treating certain classes of people very badly", threatening to cut aid as he dismantles #USAID. Couldn't be farther from the truth. I've seen firsthand the hard work negotiating land returns in SA; tough, inspiring & measured
hearing that DOGE is now reviewing the Federal Rules of Evidence to eliminate any references to 'prejudice'
Indeed. I was being tongue in cheek! Of course he knows and chooses to play this dangerous game. Sadly, many don’t see through it
He went to law school, didn’t he? Surely he knows about checks and balances
This is giving ‘90s simulation game like when my kid put all the people in an amusement park pool w/ no ladders and flooded it “just to see what would happen.” Luckily, he did not turn out a psychopath! But those in charge now are, & they’re playing games with the lives and well being of real people
Elon Musk's friends have infiltrated another government agency: the General Services Administration.
His former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access GSA's tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more:
“This administration believes that the moon is made of cheese. This administration feels that there are 103 states. This administration asserts that penguins are communists. This administration thinks that Mickey Mouse did 9/11. This administration holds that mangoes are the real racists. This …”
Pretty soon a good number of voters who thought they were voting for someone to repair a few outlets and tune up the furnace to make it more efficient will wake up to realize that a swarm of workers spent a week taking their house down to the studs and then disappeared, never to be seen again.
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More than 100 years after its initial review that blamed Black men, the Dept. of Justice just released its report on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre
The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”
Spent the day talking to Europeans, and nobody can think of any precedent for what Musk just did to the US Congress. There is no businessman with that much power, the power to stop a routine spending bill, anywhere else in the democratic world.