I don't understand the point of detaining physicians in areas that already have a shortage: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...

NEW: In this majority-Latino city in California, the GOP had long maintained an iron grip on local government. But that all changed this spring: Anger toward ICE raids, immigrant organizing, and surging turnout for local elections, it all made for a Dem sweep—& flip. Check out the story:

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

Breaking News: Federal and state officials are said to be in talks to close the “Alligator Alcatraz” immigrant detention center in Florida.

Since 1980, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has provided detailed information on the increasing number of large-scale climate disasters in the US. But last May, Noaa stopped updating its database due to “evolving priorities, statutory mandates and staffing changes”.

More than half of trans youth have considered suicide, but any mention of trans people has been deleted from a survey about youth mental health. Researchers at UCLA also found at least 360 federal data collections in which questions about gender identity or sexual orientation have been removed.

Though hunger is rampant is the US, the USDA terminated the only national survey of food insecurity and called it survey “redundant” and said it does “nothing more than fear monger”. Now, experts say understanding the impacts of the recent Snap cuts on hunger in the US is nearly impossible.

The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (Prams) is the nation’s most comprehensive survey on women’s experiences before, during and after pregnancy. The Trump administration fired the CDC team working on Prams, and the data is now completely inaccessible to the public.

For decades, the US federal government has been one of the foremost producers of information in the world. But over the past year, the Trump administration has been altering and removing decades’ worth of datasets, with enormous impact on all aspects of life. 🧵

There is a little too much emphasis on formal contracts between local police and DHS in the media. (Part of this is just the ability to quantify and data viz 287g agreements.) But, informal cooperation is wildly common and most people will never know. nysfocus.com/2026/05/07/o...

“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.

"Trump’s freeze on processing immigration applications from people born in certain countries, however, has halted this influx of talent. It has trapped thousands of legal immigrants in an indefinite bureaucratic limbo." - Ava Benach https://bit.ly/48Q0Qsy

Daily Memo: A Push for ‘Quieter’ Immigration Raids and An Increasing Use of Force at Detention Centers We are also exactly a month away from June 6th, when the Border Patrol arrived in Los Angeles and began the raids that terrorized so many around the country. lataco.com/quieter-ice-...

Future generations are doomed. It's not their fault. Sigh. nymag.com/intelligence...

Well that’s a little on the nose. Message I just received from the New York City Bar Association:

A nightclub in Mexico City has gone viral for charging Americans a nearly $300 cover charge, while citizens from any other country pay just $20 for access

"Jose" is picking cherries in the Bakersfield California area earning $6 a 20 lb bucket. "On average in an 8-hour day, if I work hard I can harvest 25 buckets. It's tiring work going up and down ladders to harvest the sweet fruit but it feeds my family." #WeFeedYou

City Council passed a motion requesting the LAPD Commission ban pretext stops, ban "consensual" searches & improve oversight of stops to help address cases like ⤵️, where a man was harassed, punched, had his 🚗 impounded & faces criminal charges for being dble parked la.streetsblog.org/2026/03/06/c...

Shocking stuff from the CEO of Vornado Realty Trust on his latest earnings call:

“Nearly 280 bicycles abandoned by hospital patients over two decades — many by unhoused people — were discovered gathering dust in the basement of the shuttered old LA County General.”

Good memory

BARCLAYS: “.. The next few weeks are the runway that the world economy has left, before demand destruction really kicks in.  . . . markets have decided that the energy shock simply doesn’t matter anymore. .. we disagree — this is a crisis delayed, but not yet averted.” www.ft.com/content/8ebe...

Keep the margaritas & tacos away from the bigots today. Deadass. You ain't about to be enjoying the delights immigrants have brought you while hating them!

It’s all so embarrassing.

I'm thinking L.A. should not let Frank McCourt off the hook for $443,000. www.latimes.com/sports/story... via @latimes.com

It's a very odd feeling to read that the cost of your firing was $20 billion to the US economy. Studies like this are so important. It's hard to put a value on a public service. Trustworthy economic data is vital to so much economic activity in a $29 trillion economy. Worth your time to read.

Mifepristone is: ✅ safe ✅ effective ✅ backed by decades of science ✅ critical for abortion and miscarriage care ✅ essential to protecting our reproductive freedom

A survivor of the Kent State Massacre rings the bell on campus today, May 4, at exactly 12:20, the moment his classmates fell, 56 years ago.

How the unreported killing of an American by ICE shattered two Texas families

1. ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 MONTHS The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a MASSIVE SPIKE in detainee deaths. This is a health crisis and a moral crisis. Follow along for details. 🧵

"The incident was one of at least 780 in which staff members at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities used physical force or chemical agents to control immigrant detainees during the first year of the Trump administration." Gift link: wapo.st/4tdgBRA

Ardyth Bradley

"On Polymarket, the Journal found, 67% of profits go to just 0.1% of accounts. That means less than 2,000 accounts netted a total of nearly half a billion dollars."

Or, hear me out, you could just pay some teachers?

I mean my parents grew up in Jim Crow & a lot of our parents did. They came so far to watch all this come to pass.

Triangle of Sadness (2026).

The number of people who still willingly book cruises and pay for the privelege of getting a virus you've never heard of while stuck on a death trap with overflowing latrines in the middle of the ocean befuddles me

"Maribel" says: "I live in Monterey County. I work in the fields—rain, mud, wind, and heat—for minimum wage: $16.90 an hour. By the end of the day, I leave exhausted, but I remind myself that the rent won't wait—it's almost the end of the month again." #WeFeedYou

Trump ending humanitarian protections against deportation has nothing to do with if it's safe to go to those countries now and everything to do with him trying to purge the country of nonwhite people Yet Sotomayor and KBJ were the only justices talking about it ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/supre...

Tickets for LA's official World Cup fan zones go on sale tomorrow — the fan festival at the Coliseum went on sale last month — and contrary to popular belief, they are (mostly) not free. Plus LA28's community engagement meetings, open streets funding, and much more in the latest Hot Links 🔥

27% of Alabama’s population is Black

amazing piece by @jearica.bsky.social

This song is really good. This album & Rostam’s new stuff make me excited about the music we’re headed into this summer.

This is why they killed the CFPB. Predatory loans are man-made weapons of economic disaster. We should have a government that bans them & enforces those bans.

Heidi Clover, contemporary Finnish ceramic artist based in Kingsbridge, Devon, UK #WomensArt

This is true of so many marque policies for the Trump Administration, including its war on immigrants, the disastrous tariffs, etc. Once Americans see what it all means, the support dissolves.

On this day in 1898, Septima Poinsette Clark was born. She became a tireless advocate for education and civil rights. Martin Luther King, Jr., called her the “Mother of the Movement.” Her motto was “literacy means liberation.” #WeTheMen

“A Justice Department that is willing to stretch both the facts and the law to mislead a grand jury into returning an indictment could literally charge any American with a crime"