Trying to Make Sense of the Louisiana and Virginia Murder-Suicides The Trace sits down with Jacquelyn Campbell, the professor who invented the Danger Assessment, a tool to determine the likelihood of deadly intimate partner violence.

The Trace sits down with Jacquelyn Campbell, the professor who invented the Danger Assessment, a tool to determine the likelihood of deadly intimate partner violence.

HK Ad Depicts Coffee Shop Shooting to Market New Pistol A new commercial from Heckler & Koch stokes the fear of gun violence in public to sell more guns for concealed carry.

Using fear to sell weapons is nothing new for the gun industry — but this is a new low.

Last year, the flu vaccine saved 12,000 lives and prevented over 100,000 hospitalizations according to the CDC.

RFK Jr. has destroyed over a quarter of health dept's expert panels Under Kennedy, the health dept. has wiped out 75 advisory boards, corrupted others.

RFK Jr. has destroyed over a quarter of health dept’s expert panels
Under Kennedy, the health dept. has wiped out 75 advisory boards, corrupted others.
He is a conspiracy theorist, not a doctor, don't believe him.
arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

Locked Up by Israel at 15, Palestine Activist Is Now Jailed by ICE Doxxed by Canary Mission and jailed by ICE, Salah Sarsour calls on his Wisconsin community to challenge injustice.

truthout.org/articles/loc...

Polls close in Virginia in just under two hours at 7pm eastern.

You can see the results as they roll in via this NYT link, and we will be live-posting at @the-downballot.com

Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

Coworker told me she attended a recent forum at @thecityclub.bsky.social. Seated at their table was the Bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland.

in conversation, he learned where she worked.

“Sewer district?” the bishop said. “With the great social media?”

Republicans have stopped holding Oversight Committee hearings to help Pam Bondi avoid accountability—enabling the most egregious cover up in American history. What a joke. Here’s what’s going on.

I come from a union family, and I know firsthand what unions have done for millions of Americans.

I spent my morning with the Chicago & Cook County Building & Construction Trades Council and the Illinois AFL-CIO to thank them for the hard work they do maintaining the American dream.

The polls are open until 7pm eastern, and same-day voter registration is available if you aren’t registered already.

We will be covering the results at @the-downballot.com

Cynthia J. Tong '14 Is Making Room on Broadway

I was happy to speak with producer Cynthia J. Tong for our new issue of Wesleyan University Magazine: “Tong is not only helping bring new works and voices to Broadway, but she is also helping reshape who gets to be part of the process—onstage and in the rooms where decisions are made.” #TheaterSKY

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Mayor Mamdani and a group of children hold hands while running through red tape in a hallway.

For too long, bureaucracy kept 7 child care centers across our city empty — spaces that should have been alive with laughter instead collected dust.

We've run through that red tape. This fall, all 7 will open their doors, bringing an additional 240 free 3-K seats & real relief to working families.

Warsh came under fire from Democrats in the Senate over his plans to divest tens of millions of dollars in financial assets if confirmed to lead the central bank reut.rs/3QDo6Ud

David Drake's pottery is AMAZING. Best of the best.

David Drake's pottery is AMAZING. Best of the best.

A Work Gifted to David Drake’s Descendants Is the Star of Theaster Gates’s Powerful Gagosian Show Theaster Gates has gifted a vessel by David Drake to his descendants. The work stars in an exhibition of Gates's work about Drake at Gagosian.

Theaster Gates gifted his Drake vessel to the artist’s descendants and facilitated the transfer of two of Drake's pots owned by the MFA in Boston to them also.

The transfers, the Drake vessel, and his own art about Drake are the focus of "Dave: All My Relations".

At Gagosian (NYC) until May 2

Nobody is safe as long as this man is in office. Impeach now.

crass and unbelievable before, crass and unbelievable now. Some stains (like Putin's) cannot be removed.

crass and unbelievable before, crass and unbelievable now. Some stains (like Putin's) cannot be removed.

We are NOT forgiving Tucker Carlson.

Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigns minutes before hearing on whether she should be expelled The Ethics Committee was considering recommending that the House expel Florida's Cherfilus-McCormick over allegations, which she has denied, that she stole federal funds.

Fl. Rep. Cherfilus McCormick

resigns from the House due to ethics probe

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

It was great to see so many familiar faces this morning at the Minnesota Building Trades Breakfast!

Minnesota’s labor unions keep the lights on and the water running... literally. That’s why I’m one of labor’s strongest supporters – I always have been, and I always will be.

Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

Currently, Kennedy is at a senate hearing on the 2027 HHS budget.

This a an op ed from a mother whose child contracted measles & died before she turned 11.

Hospital visits
MRIs
Brain swelling
Seizures
Breathing tubes
Subacute sclerosing pancephalitis

YOU DO NOT WANT THIS

🧪 archive.today/aAM9t

Students Rise Up on May Day: Sunrise Movement Princeton University · Mobilize We’ve watched as college gets more expensive, ICE kidnaps our friends, politicians go to war on our dime, good jobs disappear, and our futures get more uncertain. Billionaires want to rig the system,...

#RiseUp
#MayDay
#NewJersey
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Students Rise Up on May Day:
Sunrise Movement
Princeton University
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Spent Saturday with President Obama and New York's Cutest — turns out my first name is Mayor and I need to be doing more squats. 

Here’s to building a City where families can thrive and every classroom is full of this much joy.

thanks, Paul!

Hard frost here. Songbirds were perplexed in the morning to find the water in their tray frozen.