Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Louisiana GOP races to eliminate an elected office won by an exonerated man A New Orleans man exonerated after serving nearly 30 years in prison has a new fight on his hands. Calvin Duncan has been elected as the city's new clerk of criminal court, but now Republican lawmaker...

Nice reminder here that the legacy of Jim Crow is not only racism but authoritarianism apnews.com/article/new-...

White House Seeks $1.5 Trillion for Defense in New Budget Request

Strange agenda for a political party facing a referendum this November.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

Spring is here again: You can now ride the Coney Island Cyclone Luna Park is open for the reason

Spring is here again: You can now ride the Coney Island Cyclone gothamist.com/arts-enterta...

Hegseth Criticized for Removing Four Officers From Promotion List

Two Black officers and two women www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

Opinion | The Promise and Perils of Mamdani’s Millennial Playbook

Not a lot of sleep at Mamdani’s City Hall where a group of young and hungry progressives are out to prove the left can govern. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

Opinion | It Was One of the Cold War’s Greatest Crimes. No One Has Paid a Price.

Reading. (Reid's book is great, btw.) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/o...

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

Opinion | Trump Said This Policy Would Make Manhattan a ‘Ghost Town.’ He Was Wrong.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

UN votes to recognise enslavement of Africans as 'gravest crime against humanity' The landmark resolution calls for an apology and contributions to a reparations fund, without specifying an amount.

Ghana showing the way. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump’s Signature Is Set to Be Added to America’s Currency

U.S. treasurer’s name won’t appear on currency anymore, so Trump’s can instead.

The U.S. Treasurer:
“There is no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Donald J. Trump than U.S. dollar bills bearing his name..”

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/u...

Hegseth Strikes Two Black and Two Female Officers From Promotion List

Disturbing and important story about what is happening in our military www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

ICE Agents at Some Airports Begin Checking IDs in Security Lines

“Heidi Altman, vice president of policy at the National Immigration Law Center, said the deployment to airports was an affront to Americans after they had ‘watched ICE agents terrorize their neighborhoods for over a year’” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u...

U.S. Flight Attendants Demand Pay for TSA to Keep Airports Secure, Not Create Havoc with ICE - Association of Flight Attendants-CWA Washington, DC—As U.S. airports suffer long security delays, Flight Attendant Union leaders representing more than 100,000 of aviation’s first responders released the following joint statement:  “Tran...

Interesting afacwa.org/pay_tsa/

Opinion | How Italians Became ‘White’ (Published 2019) Vicious bigotry, reluctant acceptance: an American story.

Cc @bstaples.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Christopher Columbus Statue Is Installed on White House Grounds

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/a...

Opinion | Does Trump Risk Turning America Into a Rogue State?

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/o...

A teen girl's harrowing journey with measles highlights how serious the virus can be for the immunocompromised Makayla Skjerva, a North Dakota 14-year-old, contracted measles after being exposed at school in February. Makayla, who is immunocompromised, fell seriously ill.

Poor baby abcnews.com/Health/teen-...

Brooklyn

Inside the Underground Safe Houses Sheltering Immigrants From ICE

“These are not seasoned activists. They are neighbors, like Jean.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

Women With High-Risk Pregnancies Have Limited Options Under Abortion Bans Our reporting has found that abortion bans generally don’t include exceptions that cover health concerns pregnant women with chronic conditions can face — or if they do, doctors aren’t using them.

Tierra Walker knew that abortion was illegal in Texas, but she thought that hospitals could make an exception for patients like her, whose health was clearly on the line.

At 20 weeks pregnant, she died of preeclampsia.

(Published Jan. 2026)

States Move to Limit Access to H.I.V. Treatment

Tens of thousands of Americans are losing access to treatment for H.I.V. as nearly 20 states impose restrictions on assistance programs and several others weigh such changes.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/h...

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Here's a story about his death www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

NYU cancels affinity graduations - Washington Square News NYU canceled 13 culture, identity and faith-based graduation ceremonies due to the “current political climate,” according to student groups that are urging administrators to either rescind the order o...

Club organizers learned that affinity celebrations — where graduating students hold separate ceremonies honoring their historically underrepresented backgrounds — would no longer be permitted...The administrators instead proposed a single celebration at the Paulson Center.

The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?

Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards

My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

This week @jamellebouie.net had some questions for me about where the US is at now and why the term "concentration camp" might be a useful way to think about the crisis. (He interviewed me eight years ago for Slate on a similar topic. Let's hope we don't end up having the same discussion in 2034.)

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.

"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

With a Golden Gavel and a Threat to Iran, Trump Launches His Board of Peace

“Morocco, Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Indonesia and Vietnam all accepted invitations to join the Board of Peace.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u...

Jesse Jackson Knew Better Than to Forget The civil rights icon always held America to account—and never stopped fighting to preserve what he knew could be taken away

Jesse Jackson died Tuesday at the age of 84. The civil rights icon always held America to account—and never stopped fighting to preserve what he knew could be taken away. I wrote about how he saw our future so well.

Those butterflies you feel when you realize the pilot is Black 🫶🏽