BREAKING: After losing five straight cases attempting to access state voter rolls, the DOJ tried to fix a key legal flaw in its Minnesota lawsuit — only to attach the wrong document and rely on a single, disputed allegation of noncitizen voting as its new justification.
This story is a part of "Power Hungry," our latest package on the AI oligarchs who are upending communities over their plans for massive data centers across the country.
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$75 million: Amount Amazon spent to acquire & promote Melania
$75 million: Cost of the 246-foot yacht Jeff Bezos bought to follow his 417-foot yacht
$100 million: 2025 loss by Bezos' Washington Post, which recently cut 40-plus percent of its staff
The numbers our AI overlords don’t want you to see.
Woke 2 is going to hit so hard
"When Badin died, he left behind diaries, a vast book collection, private letters and an autobiography offering a window into his life in 18th- and 19th-century Stockholm." New Black Europe exhibition at the Swedish National Museum #earlymodern 🗃️
Yay! Deeply grateful. One of the highlights of being president of the OAH this year.
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Wonder if the NYT's "Mamdani struggling with black voters" story is going to be updated to note that Mamdani is doing better with black New Yorkers than almost any other demographic?
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Pittsburgh people! Join us today at 4:00 pm for the world premiere of *Becoming Benjamin Lay*, our new documentary film about history, politics, and how to resist an unjust world. Carnegie Library, Braddock, 419 Library Street. Join us! Tickets here:
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Advice Naomi Shihab Nye My friend, dying, said do the hard thing first. Always do the hard thing and you will have a better day. The second thing will seem less hard. She didn't tell me what to do when everything seems hard.
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~ Naomi Shihab Nye
Advice
My friend, dying, said
do the hard thing first.
‘My friends and relatives were safe where they were – my parents in the apartment where they have lived in central Beirut for almost fifty years. Yesterday, I was not so sure anymore. And they were not either.’
@loubnaelamine.bsky.social on the blog.
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I should add that I don't agree with Snyder on everything in here but the basic premise about what's happening in the US sounds right.
Shared this with a friend who essentially responded with Ho hum, but it's reads like truthtelling to me: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This entire "presidency" is like being tied to a chair and watching a toddler play with a loaded pistol.
I saw this a couple of weeks ago and I can't stop thinking about it.
It seems more true every day.
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum under the Trump administration has deleted its teaching materials about links between Nazi racism and the Jim Crow laws: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
Jeff Bezos has $222 billion.
If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over.
And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.
that people still listen to him and sell out shows is deeply concerning. anyway. read it if you’re bored.
in 2018 i published an essay with npr music about kanye and gospel music. but also about the problem of celebrity and the refusal to reckon with empire. sadly, every single move he’s made since this essay has only intensified its truth.
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Cover of Seismosis featuring line drawings by Christopher Stackhouse.
Seismosis by John Keene (poetry) and Christopher Stackhouse (drawings) is one of the most exciting formal experiments of this century.
I wish more people knew about and discussed it.
Emerging writers! There’s still time to submit a short story for the Arkansas International’s Henry Dumas Fiction Prize. ($1000 and publication.) The judge is John Keene, National Book Award winner & Lambda Literary Award Winner. Deadline is April 15. acwlp.submittable.com/submit/34853...
I recognize this image, which is the photo on the cover of @jstheater.bsky.social 's book Punks!
Follow up: if you're unsure if you're a party (author/publisher) in the Anthropic AI settlement, you can check here (secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup) & then file a claim. You can search by ISBN/ASIN, Title, Author, Publisher & Copyright Reg #.
The deadline is **March 30, 2026**.
Marigold Santos uses epiphytes — plants that grow on other plants without harming them — as a framework for the expansive ways diasporas form.
Joanne Bland, one of the youngest people to march on “Bloody Sunday,” has died. She was 72.
"By the time I was 11-years-old, I had been arrested at least 13 documented times”
The dangerous anti-LGBTQIA+ bill is back in Ghana, with stronger political support. We stopped it once. Let’s stop it again. Please sign to defend equality: a.allout.org/s/P3wrb/
Read everything Julie K. Brown publishes on Epstein and Maxwell. Because the mainstream press sanitizes their elite sadistic pedophile network
The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search.
But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections.
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In March 2024, the University of Utah women’s basketball team, which was staying in Coeur d’Alene during the NCAA tournament, said they’d been subjected to racial harassment so frightening that they fled town.
LAST DAY to send in your proposals!
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