Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

"To address the climate crisis... requires that we not just change or adapt, but that we transform society, from extractive to regenerative... And it requires that we focus... on harnessing our imaginations and our creativity." ❤️‍🔥

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

When I read it in school I thought 1984 was an exaggeration.

The Trump regime actually let two guys with zero government experience use ChatGPT to cancel $100M in grants—including Holocaust education. A federal judge just humiliated them, called it unconstitutional, and reversed every single cut. Read how she did it: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-federal-...

One former FDA official said if the agency lifted restrictions on peptides, “it would be a disruption of the societal pact we have had since 1962 that drugs will be studied to see if they work before they are marketed in the U.S.” (Published April)

Events like the Black Zine Fair are INCREDIBLY important in 2026. With every passing day, right wing billionaires seize control of more of our communications infrastructure and publishing and media outlets. We HAVE to support alternate, genuinely independent means of communication.

"The tremendous energy unleashed by these fights, and their sensible and unifying demands, have the potential to form the foundations of a new and powerful populist coalition, one poised to help define a working-class agenda that meets this moment and resonates with disaffected voters."

mario kart is making us all racecar drivers

This is *insane.* Even if you are too worn out to follow the news you have to understand this one. The Louisiana governor has now *suspended an active election with 42k votes already cast* just so they can use a different congressional map that rolls back minority representation. This is insane.

elon musk spends two-thirds of his time spreading racist pseudoscience and hating trans people and here is Ezra Klein in 2026 saying Musk is relentlessly focused on the only things that matter to him: EVs and going to Mars. I'm sorry but the guy's just very very dim

AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less. “[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“ www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Today (until midnight) is the last day you can register a comment. Take the time you would have spent on social media to do this. They have to read and record every comment, and respond to the substantive ones. Instructions in the blog.

Almost like the VRA was doing what it was supposed to do! And if anyone wonders why Black representation increased so quickly in the ‘90s, it was because the Supreme Court handed down Thornburg v. Gingles in ‘86, establishing a framework for VRA Section 2 violations. 1/2

The Surgeon General nomination for Casey Means was withdrawn today. Great!! A wellness influencer isn’t going to be the next Surgeon General. (Which is a wild statement if you think about that hard enough.)

House passes the Senate-approved DHS funding bill by a voice vote. It funds everything in DHS except ICE/CBP, including TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard, CISA. This ends a 75-day shutdown. Bill now goes to Trump to become law. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

The AI industry is all about the upward transfer of wealth: "Tech executives are experts at exaggeration and deception, and all too often their lies shape the public conversation to the companies’ benefit, leaving us ill-prepared to address the real impacts of their business models."

The "public comments at the hearing before the vote left little doubt that Monterey Park residents overwhelmingly disdained not only the prospect of a massive, noisy, and polluting infrastructure project being erected in their backyards, but who that project would benefit, at their expense.”

"Monterey Park becomes the first city in California to ban "all data centers within city limits"" Extremely clean and elegant quote here. This is pretty much it folks: www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/monterey-p...

Drone as Freedom Restrictor.

DOGE has backfired horrifically and the people who did this to us must be held accountable. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

The damage that Trump has done to the federal government now has a number: $165.6 BILLION. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

On April 25, join a local event in defense of immigrants in your community. As the regime buys up warehouses to convert into concentration camps, it’s critical that we come together to oppose the literal warehousing of people in our country: www.mobilize.us/disappearedi...

Postscript: Discrimination has robbed Black farmers and their families of some $325 billion in generational wealth. In 1910, Black farmers owned 16 million acres and operated 14% of all U.S. farms. By 1999, Black farmers lost 85% of their land, and the number of Black farm operators declined 98%.

DOGE turbocharged the deficit. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...

After decades of working in the tech industry, I'm convinced that the jobs most easily replaced by AI are the typical senior executive roles occupied typically by mediocre white men. AI can already generate plausible-sounding and confidently wrong takes. That's 90% of the job.

We just got the first numbers showing economic effects of the war in Iran. Headline inflation is up sharply, and there's more to come. Stay tuned.

how much money does the marine corps lose

Sam Altman has a new plan to make money from generative AI: he wants intelligence to be treated like water or electricity — and we’ll all have to pay him for it. His chatbots are degrading people’s ability to retain information and think critically. Now he wants to sell smarts back to us.

“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.”

"That is why the debate cannot be reduced to whether AI might do good one day, because the system being built right now is already redistributing power upwards while pushing environmental costs and information risks outwards" www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

It's indeed possible to beat bad things backed by big money

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...

"They want us tired and resigned. Don’t give them that satisfaction. "These forests belong to you. Fight for them like your life depends on it. "Because it does."

Errors present in 45% of AI generated reports of news stories 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

I rarely use my little platform here for my job, but managing all that as well as running standwithmn is pushing me to ask for help. Last week, we launched a campaign called MN vs. Big Oil. We are looking for stories of how Minnesotans have been impacted by the costs of the climate crisis.

The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.

remember when trump said the reason for wildfires was forest mismanagement and that he would do it better

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

GOP politicians and a few complicit profs are out here questioning birthright citizenship even tho Congress expressly adopted the Fourteenth Amendment to put the citizenship of disfavored minorities beyond political dispute it's insulting, gross, & wrong as hell ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birth...

“In their briefs to the court, Trump administration lawyers cite several scholars who campaigned against birthright citizenship in the 1800s, a movement fueled by anti-Black and anti-Chinese racism in the aftermath of Reconstruction and a rise in anti-immigrant views.”

"'Reinstating a hereditary, lifelong, inferior status' without political rights or welfare benefits 'recreates the conditions for the growth of a racialized slave economy.' "America has been down that road before."

The difference between these two is racism

Swalwell: "I want to knock out this argument we even need ICE doing what they're doing in the first place. If they are so easily moved from our streets, where they are terrorizing people, to passing out bottles of water in the airport, did we really need them terrorizing people in the first place?"

Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities

If ICE in the airports does materialize this should be yet another sign to journalists to stop using terms like "immigration enforcement" or "immigration crackdown" with regard to ICE. They are merely Trump's paramilitary force to be used as he pleases.

“What was really surprising to me during my initial dive into all of this was how, when you look at the question of superintelligence as a documentarian or journalist, it doesn’t take long before you smack your forehead into the low doorframe of race science, because it’s baked into this technology”

Awful. A teenager, dead by suicide in an ICE detention center. There is now a crisis of suicide inside the detention system; I have never seen anything like it. Suicide has happened before, but they were very rare. This is the third or fourth this year.

As the Senate preps to debate the SAVE Act, some research I've done w @brennancenter.org to add context 1. We surveyed (with UMD and VoteRiders) Americans to understand who doesn't have easy access to proof of citizenship. The answer? 21.3m! (This number has gotten a lot of play; this is the source)