My God these women are so brave. Seeing them as girls is so painful. Our society has failed them in so many ways and while there can be no true justice, we must demand accountability.

On this day in 1900, a mob of 300 white people in Limon, Colorado, chained Preston “John” Porter Jr., a 15-year-old Black teen, to a stake and burned him alive.

From The New Yorker

Waiting for airline CEOs, who abused their power to end COVID travel precautions, to wield that same power to end the government shutdown…

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Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco/Bay Area - here are some restaurants helping with food if you’re struggling with loss of SNAP benefits. Please share!

The President went to the Supreme Court to protect his ability to deny food assistance to citizens. Sometimes you gotta pause and marvel at the awfulness of all of it.

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published February)

A year ago today, we had a really terrible election night, and because I know how people fall into despair I sat down at 11pm and wondered what I could tell you. I told you:

My Governor just told TFG to fuck all the way off and I’m dying laughing! 🤣🤣☠️☠️🙌🙌

Just reread this to remind myself to “train my eyes, ears, and spirit to what’s good in the world.” open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

The Education Of Diane Ravitch www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...

We have the timidity of countless corporate and university GCs to thank for the fact DEI is treated as though it were illegal.

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Day 11: The longer you spend thinking about falling asleep, the more difficult it will be to do it. If you find yourself tossing and turning in bed, it’s better to get up and distract yourself for a while rather than stress about how many hours of sleep you’ll manage to get. #sleep #insomnia #rest

Jack Ciattarelli, Republican nominee for Governor of New Jersey, apparently doesn’t think it’s worth answering the question of how important Black and Hispanic voters are to his campaign.

Pritzker is handing Dems a script & a playbook to pushback on the authoritarianism. STILL, so many Dems are too cowardly (see, Schumer, Jeffries) or incompetent (see, Schumer, Jeffries) to use it. It's maddening to have to beg these electeds whose salaries we are paying to actually fight for us.

Worth watching this brief clip. -Note the reporter who asked about Memphis. -Note that every other reporter should have picked up the baton and kept asking that same question. Missed opportunity to do their professional, collegial, and civic duty. Please try it next time.

On this day in 1664, the Maryland legislature passed the first colonial law intended to prevent interracial marriage. It would take over 300 years for such “anti-miscegenation” laws to be banned across the U.S.

My friend and colleague Wesley Morris and I had a very sobering conversation about America since the 1619 Project published and how it feels to be falling back under the veil that W.E.B. Du Bois so mournfully wrote about. I hope you’ll listen to this episode of Cannonball @nytimes.com

“I am breaking just like Gaza is breaking right now.”

I guess I just want to say that Trump has captured every single institution. You can track variation in, say, court decisions or changing positions on tariffs but even conceding those things accepts that his whims run institutions’ priorities. Not a single one of them really stood.

Yes. Saying "well, Harvard is fighting" while Columbia and Penn cave, while UVa and Indiana U. use Trump as cover for kneecapping faculty and student freedoms is evidence that Prof. Cottom is correct, not that the institutions have stood. It's a matter of degree now. And it's only been 6 months.

AI this, AI that, what about how much energy AI actually uses? “It blows my mind that you can buy a car and know how many miles per gallon it consumes, yet we use all these AI tools every day and we have absolutely no efficiency metrics, emissions factors, nothing." From the experts:

Not good. “'This sends a dangerous message to scholars globally: that academic publishing contracts are conditional, revocable, and subject to external political calculations.'”

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What does it say about our country that this isn't even one of the top-5 biggest stories right now?

16 million people would lose health coverage and become uninsured under the Republican health agenda, including 460,000 people in Illinois. Policymakers should protect people’s health care, not cut it.

16 million people would lose health coverage and become uninsured under the Republican health agenda, including 49,000 people in Idaho. Policymakers should protect people’s health care, not cut it.

16 million people would lose health coverage and become uninsured under the Republican health agenda, including 57,000 people in Hawaii. Policymakers should protect people’s health care, not cut it.

For when Black people say "immigration is not our fight", show them this.

The federal government is telling you they cannot afford to house you, feed you, educate you or heal you — but that they do have enough resources and scale to criminalize, assault, deport and incarcerate your neighbors simply going to work or taking their kids to graduation.

A scary decision for millions of working people. This ruling will enable President Trump and DOGE to steal Americans’ private and personal data. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Commentary: ICE arrested a California union leader. Does Trump understand what that means? www.latimes.com/california/s...

I don't know what to say. I gathered signatures for a higher minimum wage and earned sick time and bodily autonomy and all three were passed by voters in my state. Republicans disregard our Constitution and our will. They don't give a shit. missouriindependent.com/2025/05/14/m...

Please repeat over and over: “Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.” —Gov. JB Pritzker

THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS. Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!” Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.

This is about all of us. Never forget that.

This is the way: boycott early adopters of AI tyranny.

Texas governor signs largest US school voucher law in win for rich Texans, powerful MAGA donors, anti-union forces, segregationists, and evangelical churches.

Remember this after the next school shooting devastates an American community and Republicans point to a lack of mental health care. This $1 billion that Trump just took away was BIPARTISAN funding for schools authorized by Congress after the Uvalde massacre www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Remember these words… “I will vote for you if you are brave…”

Nothing makes me block faster than people using AI to make MORE images of Trump and Musk. I do not need to see them more! I never want to see them again.

We were clear from our discussions with experts on authoritarianism back in 2020 that if Trump had a second term he would go after non-profits. That’s what they do.

This is an unusual order for several reasons, suggesting the majority thought it necessary. This was issued: • after midnight • before the government even responded (perhaps most irregular) • while a Fifth Circuit request remains pending & • before a dissenting justice could finish their statement.