AP publishes a good multi-state rundown on pushback all over the country against plans for huge Trump prison camps: apnews.com/article/immi...

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

In fifty years when people look back at the past decade or so, the big world-changing technological innovation won't be the chatbot slop machines, it'll be mRNA.

38% of Twin Cities residents protested ICE and/or provided support to immigrant neighbors during the occupation. That's BANANAS but also tracks with everything I've seen on the ground. (And that's not evenly distributed. I would guess that in some neighborhoods, it was pushing 50%.)

Teaching kids social-emotional skills is working! “Studies suggest youths are more empathetic and less narcissistic than in the past, as well as more open-minded and inclusive. Drug use is down, youth violence has dropped and teen pregnancies have declined.”

This is basically a textbook foreign emoluments clause case. This would theoretically have been an impeachable offense when we had a rule of law.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

The Iran War is showing that for a fraction of the military budget, the U.S. could invest in health care, housing, and education. Progressives proposed just this, via a 10% trim to the massive Pentagon budget, when they had a chance to pass it in 2021 under Biden. Most House Dems voted it down.

Billionaire-backed PACs are flooding Virginia with lies about this amendment — funded by Peter Thiel’s crew and GOP operatives who’ve meddled in Texas and beyond. They think they can buy our elections out from under us. Prove them wrong. #StopTrumpVoteYesVA

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.

Maybe people should have services.

God this poem is haunting me again.

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By my count, there are now over 50 House Democrats, along with two Senate Democrats, who have called for Trump to be impeached or removed via the 25th Amendment for his post on Iran. More here: www.axios.com/2026/04/07/t...

Not one word of this is hyperbole.

Every Member of Congress should condemn Trump’s genocidal threat to end Iranian civilization. Trump isn't a king — Republicans must do their constitutional duty and join Democrats to end the unwell president’s illegal war.

ICE shot a man on the side of I-5 in California this morning. Before we even know if he's alive, ICE has a press release out explaining why he deserved it. There is no death penalty in this country for being accused of a crime. ICE is not judge, jury, or executioner. youtube.com/shorts/pfrVQ...

the guys walking around in shoes that don’t fit are not gonna do a 25th Amendment

checked the calm app and there's no meditation to help you manage the stress of a tyrannical president calling for genocide

"President Donald Trump must be removed from office. He is manifestly unfit for office, and his continued presence in office is an existential danger to the United States of America and the world."

"it's giving war crime" in a southern accent is just going to play on loop in my head the rest of the day

People should read this in the context of the MULTI-YEAR campaign led mostly by young Black people in Chicago to INSIST that U Chicago open a level 1 trauma center on the Southside. blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/26/a...

Love this.

Today's newsletter focuses on the power of distributed organizing and presents some new analysis of our data collected at #NoKings 3 last weekend. danarfisher.com/2026/04/05/t...

The non-profit National Butterfly Center is a 100 acre (0.4 sq km) botanical garden located along the US-Mexico border near Mission, TX. It hosts 200 wild butterfly species on migrations to & from Mexico. And now it will be a construction zone so we can build a rusting metal wall.

US State department revoked innocent people’s green cards based only on their last name and Laura Loomer’s input and then publicly lied about it

Proposed rules about how the government buys and deploys AI could allow bureaucrats to sidestep necessary safeguards and supercharge mass surveillance. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I definitely recommend buying the book (or checking it out from your local library!) but if you want a preview in the meantime you can read an excerpt here: lithub.com/on-the-very-...

ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months. Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs. Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food. Placed in solitary. Denied medical accommodations. They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!

New study finds most electricity (~90%; residual needs provided by fuels) can be provided by renewables & storage as the renewable energy system is built out. As technology is deployed, costs will continue to drop due to enhanced learning curves. Which world should we build? 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋

All laughter All poems All strawberry shortcake All cello sonatas All orcas All drag queens All corrupt politicians All zen monks All single malt All phytoplankton All foolish youth All puppies All roses with dew drops All snow geese All tea ceremonies All acts of selflessness All of it, here

100+ year old Pasteur Institute in Tehran was a premier infectious disease research institute and vaccine manufacturer It is a reason Iranian kids like me born in 60s had access to measles vaccines soon after they were developed in the west

The U.S. has bombed the bridge connecting Tehran with Karaj, the highest and one of the most important bridges in the Middle East

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

we've got the gamification of gamification in a world where it is becoming impossible to tell what is real and everyone is grifting on disinformation.

imagine spending 18 years trying to raise a child and the first thing they do after moving out is sue a bird

Good luck to our NASA siblings tonight who are making the Artemis II launch to the moon happen!  They’re leading the charge in scientific research and discovery on Earth AND in orbit – and their @ifpte.bsky.social and AFGE union contracts should be restored. 🚀

if one feels like helping the protesters getting arrested in the idaho capitol about the bathroom law right now: www.gofundme.com/f/arrested-f...

Yeah that’s cool

This is true in science also. Good ideas are ten-a-penny - but what is impressive is actually getting it done. It’s the doing that makes the work worthwhile, not the initial spark (99 times out of hundred).

Since proponents of conversion therapy have chosen their language to be deliberately confusing and obfuscate their intent, I wrote this primer several years ago to help people spot warning signs. Hope it helps someone.

You don't have to be a queer leftist to research and understand that conversion therapy and its apologists use unscientific, abusive, and frankly ridiculous methods to make queer children less queer.

and keep in mind that algorithmic newsfeeds will keep picking up apr 1 articles for a month like they did last time, and everything that entails

Just literally the hall of fame now for “what to do with your platform” and doing it repeatedly.