www.berkeleyside.org/2026/04/22/m... "Even a poster of Martin Luther King Jr. has been yanked. Cal has also banned student organizations from hosting events at the center after complaints about pro-Palestinian signs."

The administration is hand picking US citizens to strip of said citizenship. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/u...

my edgy Covid take is that I while I did socially isolate until vaccines came online for the good of society, I absolutely loathed being unable to see people in person, throw a party, or travel for over a year, and I enjoyed absolutely nothing whatsoever about any of it

Did you know every state has an unclaimed property page that you can search your name on (or friends/family) and find unclaimed funds aka money you are OWED that was never given to you. My partner just found ours. So go search your states' page (and states you used to live) and claim your free money

re last RT: wish more people knew that a lot of libraries have seed libraries in them where you can go and get FREE seeds. We went last week and got a ton of seeds (vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers) for our garden this year. They are donated by folks who live in the area and they are FREEEEEEEE

I would love it if those of you who do not have library cards will apply for one at your local branch during #NationalLibraryWeek. Then let me know about it. 😇

1. This weekend, a federal judge permanently blocked funding threats to providers and hospitals that provide trans youth care. The judge also blocked "any similar policy." Hospitals have NO excuse and must return to providing care under many blue state laws. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Research on COVID is being hampered by a lack of interest by publishers and funding, imo. Considering we are only about 7 years into a brand-new disease, we lost interest pretty quickly.

The Trump admin has targeted students, faculty, universities, law firms, journalists, newsrooms, protesters -- anyone speaking in even tentatively oppositional ways to those in power. But there's been particular attack on immigrants & Palestinian rights speech. Horrible: apnews.com/article/mahm...

During the peak of COVID, a number of parents learned or re-learned that teaching is difficult. But this has had no lasting impact. Hasn't translated to calls to increase teacher pay, for example.

With the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) last week demanding 2024 election records from Wayne County, Michigan, the Trump administration is now aggressively targeting the voting process in perhaps the country’s three most pivotal voting jurisdictions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I think this is simplifying the matter. Many chronically ill people were relieved that there were fun virtual events that they were left out of before, rather than liking not leaving the house that much.

So many of these strong First Amendment cases -- challenging the Trump admin's censorial campaign to chill dissent -- are winning. Here's another win for free speech against surveillance & ICE tracking: www.theverge.com/policy/91461...

Happy National Library Week. In less than 10 years, U.S. spending on immigration policing & detention increased by 171% while funding for libraries didn't even keep up with inflation. Some priorities. 🤔

We’ll see similar results in kids. “…growing body of evidence that seasonal COVID vaccination can play a role in reducing disease burden & associated costs, and it highlights the value of increasing vaccination coverage at a time when US public health leaders have downplayed its importance”

The reality of "women and children first". 1/ "Two-thirds of mass shootings in the United States are linked to domestic violence, and 40% of the victims in domestic violence-related mass shootings are children." theconversation.com/intimate-par...

Public health experts have been begging news outlets to stop using needle shots because a quarter of Americans have needlephobia and will avoid getting vaccinated because of it and these images feed into it... and yet we (as an industry) still keep using them

One year after our original Guardian essay, Naomi Klein and I are excited to reveal the North American cover of our forthcoming book END TIMES FASCISM - and the Fight for the Living World. It will be on bookshelves on September 15th and is available for pre-order. More details below. bit.ly/4cbLfEr

Wow!!! 'A new water-based, eco-friendly battery based on tofu brine.' It is important to note that battery breakthroughs like this seem to happen all the time in academia, but not all “make it” to market. interestingengineering.com/energy/china...

No need for deep sea mining China’s water battery breakthrough can last 120,000+ cycles, outlast lithium-ion by decades Chinese scientists unveil a non-toxic, water-based battery that delivers over 120,000 cycles without fire risks of lithium-ion systems interestingengineering.com/energy/china...

CBS turned their news operation into propaganda, kicked Colbert off the air for making too much trouble, and all that just to have Charles Barkley go on the air on one of their most-watched telecasts of the year and say this lmao

Happening now: a small protest at O'Hare is marching through terminal 1 this evening outside Chicago. ICE agents have been spotted inside the airport all week. Folks chanting, "ICE out of O'Hare! ICE out of everywhere!"

I looked into if Medicaid-funded providers who oversee disabled people living independently are ready for worsening climate events. The support they need from the federal government isn’t there, and it’s worsened under Trump. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

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As a cis woman it is hard to find the words to articulate how I feel about my safety being used as a pretence for this egregious bullying of children

the cruelty. ffs these are *children* and this is trauma

As ICE continues to intimidate and violently assault people without provocation protests like the one seen here, outside of airports, need to continue until ICE withdraws! Credits: @atlantanewsfirst IG

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has issued a rare condemnation of the U.S. over Trump’s “disastrous” war on Iran, saying that it causes an irreparable rupture with the U.S. akin to Germany’s rupture with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it. From the Penn student paper: www.thedp.com/article/2026...

I wonder how much of some people's discomfort with "eugenics was a science, and framing it as outside the histories of science is dangerous" is because they need to believe in science as moral/good. Ive yet to meet a historian who would believe this, though (I am happy to be corrected).

She's right, and she should say it. Bluntly: people do not know how to criticize the scientific process and scientists specifically without pretending that modern normative science isn't really, really fucking racist, sexist, ableist, and riddled with bigotry of all flavors.

The Sora implosion is the first big breakthrough moment with AI that gives Metaverse vibes, or at the very least Dot Com Bubble vibes.

the first domino to fall in the ai bubble

NEW: The California AG has asked a court to immediately pause a Republican county sheriff’s investigation into last year’s redistricting referendum election, arguing his seizure of more than 650,000 ballots “threatens to create a dangerous precedent.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“It’s inevitable” “you can’t roll it back” “you just have to accept it”

BREAKING: A New Mexico jury found Meta violated state law in a lawsuit brought by the state attorney general, who accused the company of misleading users about the safety of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp and of enabling child sexual exploitation on those platforms reut.rs/3Pr7oHe

BREAKING: New Mexico jury finds that Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp are harmful to children's mental health and orders Meta to pay a $375 million penalty.

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This! 👇🏽 I've quite literally lost count of the number of medical terms that we are renaming so they are not named after the nazi doctors that discovered them...

"eugenics and scientific or medical racism etc wasn't real science™" Be for real, come on. Science has always been part of heinous things, was implicated in and facilitated colonization, slavery, the Holocaust more. All of this IS part of the story of science. WHY are you sanitizing this?

"Gen AI is good for accessibiwity" not the current one, actually. On the other hand, telling autistic people to rely on a machine that lies to them is actually a really funny appeal to accessibility to defend Gen AI use.

Weird how every journalist writing ‘balanced’ feature stories on this issue turns out to be a deranged conspiracist and ideologue the second you hear them speak off the cuff

And what I’m calling “opportunity theft” is the theft of someone’s future and their potential by means of robbing them of appreticeship, menteeship, and experience now. Using AI to perform the tasks that students and trainees do in the early phases of training and education is opportunity theft.

There are hundreds of reasons to be against GenAI. Here is YET ANOTHER that I think lots of people haven't considered.

Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia was released from an ICE detention facility in Texas after a year in custody. The 33-year-old from the occupied West Bank was the last person connected to the Columbia University pro-Palestine protests still held by US immigration authorities.

Pro-Israel groups pour millions into Democratic primaries in Chicago area as support for US ally hits a historic low.

"[H]ospitals, schools, and water and sanitation systems — upon which children depend to survive — have been attacked, damaged, or destroyed ... Nothing justifies the killing and maiming of children, or the destruction and disruption of essential services that children depend on."

Since the United States and Israel launched an unprovoked war on Iran at the end of February, more than 1,100 youth have been killed or injured in related violence across the Middle East, the United Nations Children’s Fund has said.

"After being held in isolation for about five days. Rodríguez was forced to strip naked in a shower while an officer "poured some kind of chemical liquid on her head, which seemed to be something used to clean floors and burned her eyes,” the filing read."