Headline: Prego Has a Dinner-Conversation-Recording Device, Capisce? Sub-headline: The pasta-sauce company has partnered with the nonprofit StoryCorps on a device designed to record family conversations around the table and save them for all time.
Babe, what's wrong, you've been so quiet at dinner since I bought the pasta sauce branded big brother surveillance device
We reviewed an 18-page report detailing the second-by-second surveillance of a trans woman. They followed her as she went in and out of the bathroom, even though she posed 'no threat."
It's one of a bunch of new details in this deep dive that @robertsilverman.bsky.social and I took for @wired.com
'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3
Who could have predicted this?
(We all predicted this)
this is what America can be
Ruperto Vicens Marquez is from Mexico but he lives in Middletown.
He co-owns a Mexican restaurant. He also has a visa that allows him to work legally in the United States until 2029.
But that official documentation wasn’t enough to stop ICE from detaining him for a month.
As a transgender man told lawmakers, “Every single day when I’m out in public, I have to decide: Do I feel like going to jail today, or do I feel like being attacked"
Trump: "Millions of American small businesses, including corner stores. What is a corner store? I've never heard that term. I know what a corner store is but I've never heard it described-- a corner store. Who the hell wrote that?"
🚨The last time Senator Wyden raised the alarm this urgently, it was in March 2013 when Wyden asked DNI Clapper in a public hearing about the NSA surveilling the phone records and emails of every American. Three months after that hearing, the first Edward Snowden mass surveillance story dropped.🚨
who could have seen this coming
The head of Chicago's biggest police union was really angry about a measure to rid the CPD of cops with extremist ties
A tweet by TMZ with the headline: “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Cut Penis off Raccoon”. The image shows RFK Jr with two raccoons over his shoulders. The raccoon on the left looks outraged. The raccoon on the right, more devastated. RFK Jr looks half dead as usual.
I really like how the art here captures the wide range of emotional responses to this news in the raccoon community, from mad (l) to sad (r)
Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...
The most dangerous time for a woman is when she tries to leave a marriage.
Never forget that when you want to blame a woman for staying with an abuser. It takes seven tries on average before she has the will, strength, and resources to follow through.
An Ohio school district made a teacher take down a "Hate Has No Home Here" poster because they said it violated a state law against teaching about sexual orientation or gender identity without parental permission reason.com/2026/04/15/a...
The most patriotic thing you can do is hold your government accountable.
it’s a trap dot gif
Do Gannet papers have literally everyone on a real VPN blocked? Because that seems...dumb.
The Pope is soft on crime though.
meanwhile the houston police union is posting AI slop of the city council members who sponsored the ICE policy
FYI you can buy ebooks through Bookshop.org to support local independent bookstores and you can get audiobooks on Libro.fm!
French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to marry 1950s sweetheart | France | The Guardian
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The incident is notable because Flock cameras are often pitched to police as tools for solving serious crimes, finding stolen vehicles, and locating missing people. www.404media.co/police-used-...
Tennessee’s Charlie Kirk Act bans student walkouts, protects conservative speakers
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Notifications for deleted shouldn't remain in any OS notification database, and we've asked Apple to address this.
In the meantime, you can prevent any preview text from your Signal messages from appearing in your notifications.
Signal Settings > Notifications > Show “No Name or Content”
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Another Jan. 6 defendant pardoned by Trump has agreed to plead guilty to charges of child sexual abuse.
David Daniel, who earlier pleaded guilty to assaulting police on Jan. 6, is now pleading to federal child pornography charges.
One victim was under 12 years old.
"A vehicle connected to the incident, however, had been identified. The county's statement said investigators later discovered the license plates had been changed shortly after Thao was released."
We had a #vaccine against #Lyme disease in the 90s that was pulled after a few years bc of ultimately unfounded safety concerns. Now we may get another shot at a vaccine to prevent a potentially debilitating disease that's only increasing today.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/lyme...
