We Will Not Be Silent: May Day Rally & March · AFL-CIO Friday, May 1, 4:00PM: Join the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO; New York Immigration Coalition; union & community members from across the City to commemorate International Workers Day!…

On Friday, May 1 at 4PM we will take to the streets to make our voices heard!

Join us in Washington Square Park!

🔗 www.mobilize.us/aflcio/event... #MayDay2026

(alongside images of the US, megaphones, Liam Conejo Ramos’ bunny hat, and signs that read “NO ICE WAREHOUSE,” “SHUTDOWN DETENTION CENTERS,” and “NOT HERE/NOT ANYWHERE”) NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION STOP ICE WAREHOUSE DETENTION APRIL 25, 2026

On April 25, join a local event in defense of immigrants in your community. As the regime buys up warehouses to convert into concentration camps, it’s critical that we come together to oppose the literal warehousing of people in our country: www.mobilize.us/disappearedi...

Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92

"She tutored the activists on immunology and virology and schooled them in the intricacies of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval process and pharmaceutical research protocols."

[Gift article]

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

Supreme Court Sides With Oil Companies in Louisiana Coastal Lawsuits

"The Supreme Court agreed on Friday that energy companies facing lawsuits over environmental damage to Louisiana’s coast from oil and gas production can move the challenges from state courts into friendlier federal venues."

Gift article from The NYT:
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...

'When asked by the Guardian whether Acker denied writing the messages, his attorney responded: “Your understanding that Mr Acker does not deny this is not correct or incorrect.”'

okay then

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

How to Be Young, Hardcore & Black in Suburban New Jersey Sat, Apr 18 online

TODAY at 12 noon EST: “How to Be Young, Hardcore & Black in Suburban New Jersey,” a Black Zine Fair 2026 virtual event. withfriends.events/event/JWfARg... #zines #BlackZineFair #BZF2026

this is one of the most interesting things I've read about AI. Ben Affleck just sold his AI startup to Netflix for $600m. it's based on his analysis - as someone who's worked in movies for decades - of what AI is *actually useful for*. which is eg: adjusting film lighting.

archive.ph/OLsfn

'In the tumultuous years since the creation of the Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery Initiative, three memorial committee members have stepped down and researchers have been fired largely over disputes related to engaging descendant communities.'

What Happens If We Win? The pro-democracy movement is getting better at resistance.

open.substack.com/pub/antiauth...

Is it fake news or real? News or opinion? Why Americans don't know — and how we can get better Utah is at the forefront of efforts to teach young people principles of “news literacy.”

1/ “It’s so important that people have a healthy skepticism. We don’t want people to shut down; we don’t want people to trust everything. We want people to look at something & say, you know what, I have the skills to verify this." - NLP's Elliott Goodman

#NewsLiteracy

clearest sign he's going to run for President.

A journalist filmed an ICE protest at a Minnesota church. Then federal agents showed up at her door After Georgia Fort and Don Lemon reported from a church whose pastor reportedly works for ICE, agents arrested Fort in front of her children

Georgia Fort, an award-winning Minnesota journalist, filmed a protest in a church during the ICE surge. The federal government is charging her for it. We talked about how the case has affected her, her family, her work - and what it means for journalism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Today I’m thinking of the two accomplished Black women who came forward in 2019 and publicly shared what Justin Fairfax did to them. They saved Virginia from making this man governor, as he compared himself to Emmett Till.

I am sure they are wrecked today. No one wants to be vindicated like this.

I study racism for a living and can still manage to be shocked by how institutionalized it is. What do you mean they were giving tax-breaks to white supremacists celebrating treason?

just a wild country

NYU Press author Andrew Guthrie Ferguson is quoted in today's @inquirer.com investigation into Philadelphia's largely unmonitored police drone program.

His book, "Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance," is a timely book on digital surveillance.

The solution to problems generated by unregulated technology is always more technology.

The entire country has seemingly hallucinated an ultra woke 2024 campaign that featured a far left progressive candidate who lost in a massive landslide election. None of that happened!

Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit “This is the Strait of Hormuz in the data economy. If you want to make a change, this is where you cut it off. Anything short of that is theatrical political posture.”

“In my view this stuff isn’t complicated. You say, ‘don’t set the cookie.’ They set the cookie. The regulators see a fox going into the henhouse and the fox says, ‘I’m just here to count the eggs, not to eat any chickens.’ And they take them at their word."

Replace every how-to-publish panel with one on the material realities of publishing. This is where I’m at.

We gone spend some time with this today

When we said that the police were defunding everything else in every municipality and needed to be defunded, most of the country lost its mind, lololololol.

we were right.

The country's descent into fascism cannot be understood without interrogating U.S. policing. But folks across the political spectrum are allergic to this so here we are.

Lately, “Oh.” is about all I can muster with most national news.

A deadly massacre of the post-slavery era finally gets a suitable memorial The new memorial lists the names of 57 Black people killed in the Colfax Massacre in 1873.

Here’s a piece on the current Colfax Massacre memorial, placed in 2023: www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

The Colfax Massacre inspired an incredibly jaw-dropping historical marker (since removed):

“On this site occurred the Colfax Riot in which three white men and 150 negroes were slain. The event on April 13, 1873, marked the end of carpetbag misrule in the South.” www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=34602 @hmdb.org

A New Generation of LGBTQ+ Bookstores Is Popping Up Across the U.S. Queer entrepreneurs are defying anti-trans legislation and book bans.

"Some say the pandemic prompted them to reconsider unsatisfying corporate jobs, while others say that because they could not find LGBTQ+ literature in their local bookstores, they decided to open their own."

University of Michigan launches statewide database of firearm deaths with access to real-time data • Michigan Advance University of Michigan launches statewide database of firearm deaths with access to real-time data

Michigan has a decentralized medical examiner system. In order to collect this type of information, researchers had to collect the data county-by-county, and are still working to get data from a number of counties, especially in the U.P. and northern Michigan.

Story by @kdailey.bsky.social