“critics say”. Ya think? This also excludes millions of single parent households.

i think it’s SO SUPER TELLING that a lot of this manifesto, which demands that we allow Silicon Valley to enact fascism and endless genocidal violence at home & abroad out of a “moral debt” to the govt that funded its rise, is expressed in the language of anti-wokeness and cancel culture discourse

personally I agree that we should indeed reject the hollow pluralism of pretending that we shouldn't judge Klan, Nazi, and sparkling eugenicist subcultures according to what they have historically produced, and would enthusiastically endorse rejecting inclusion of them in public life

Palantir-bros: "we should reject hollow pluralism. empathy is evil" The masses: "Okay, your technofash ideas about what culture is and should be are worth less than the paper they're written on." Palantir-bros: "wait, not like that! we should bring back grace and empathy, but only for tech CEOs"

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

“To say no to President Trump would be saying no to God.” Paula White, Trump’s Spiritual Advisor

Now more than ever: shootmenintospace.com www.cnn.com/interactive/...

The three countries pledge more aid to Cuba and say Cubans must decide their own future amid a US pressure campaign.

'She also documented how few women were in federally sponsored clinical trials for AIDS drugs... That was significant, she told The San Francisco Chronicle, because “the clinical trials are the only way you can get treatment.”' Long helped save so many lives.

April Wilkens has spent 27 years behind bars for killing her ex-fiancé — after years of abuse, stalking and calls to the police that went nowhere. Her story underscores a legal experiment in Oklahoma, where a new law called the Oklahoma Survivors’ Act offers prisoners like her a chance at freedom.

While your gas prices are skyrocketing, Big Oil executives have cashed out $1.4 BILLION in stock in a single quarter, a 15-year peak in insider selling. In one quarter, Chevron’s CEO sold $104M, ConocoPhillips’ Chairman & CEO sold $54.3M, and Baker Hughes’ CEO sold $33M.

Analilia Mejia is winning NJ-11 by nearly 20 points, about 12 points better than Kamala Harris did. This is the type of red-to-blue suburban district where Dems typically nominate center-left mods. A paradigm shift if a Bernie-AOC progressive can dominate vs a Republican here.

TODAY: Folks in Texas are protesting the Dilley ICE detention center, demanding the Trump administration shut it down. Signs read: NO KIDS IN CAGES.

JUST IN - Brazil, Mexico and Spain issue a joint statement expressing their "great concern about the humanitarian #crisis in #Cuba" and reaffirm that the "Cuban people themselves" must decide their future in full freedom. Source:

Food wastage should be a crime with so many millions near starvation, but a lady in Spain is doing her best. Bravo!

Let's all use this occasion to take a look at the many ways Tennessee Republicans have shown how much they value and respect the Traditional Nuclear Family™

Unbelievable corruption right in front of our faces.

We should be learning from other countries...

This is a must-read account of shadow docket deliberations. Note Roberts' push to halt an Obama-era policy b/c it would generate "substantial and irreversible reordering of the domestic power sector." Yet SCOTUS has greenlit far more disruptive Trump-era policies. /1 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

This is crazy. Just open-air larceny.

May 2026 archive.ph/Rchvy Sam Altman’s Stargate datacenter in Abilene, Texas, will be “roughly the size of New York’s Central Park," while OpenAI’s Project ­Jupiter in New Mexico could be larger still. Amazon and Anthropic are developing Project Rainier on 1,200 acres outside Indiana.

Declining birth rates have been the supposed rationale for much of the Trump administration’s unabashed pronatalist agenda. But unpacking the complicated realities of teen pregnancy and parenting can make for a far stickier set of political talking points.

ZOHRAN: “TBH, I don’t think too much about how Republicans portray me. The power of an ideology is judged in the worth of its delivery— to be told a city-run grocery store is implausible but $500 MILLION/day to kill ppl in Iran & Lebanon is necessary speaks to a broken politics.”

The “big, beautiful bill” weakened crucial federal health-care and safety net programs. Tatyannah King reports on what it means for Black women’s health:

They're calling it the best democracy ever. www.ft.com/content/7529...

it really is remarkable *how mild* the op-ed that she wrote was. It really shouldn’t matter what she said, but I think they chose to make an example of her precisely *because* she didn’t do anything remotely wrong. They wanted to show they could do this to anyone.

This shit is deeply weird. They want it to be popular. It’s not. It’s a fringe weird minority

NEW: In court filing, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro asks a court to order the handover of taxpayer-funded reimbursement money to a pair of Jan 6 riot defendants The defendants had been ordered to pay damages to a fund to help victims & repair Capitol Instead, we'll pay for it

Nice (and infuriating) FOIA win from @annabower.bsky.social and @lawfaremedia.org!

Among a mountain of bad-faith factual claims and frivolous constitutional arguments, Eastman's ultimate plan was for VP Pence (or Sen. Grassley) to *knowingly violate the Electoral Count Act* and let SCOTUS block any subsequent lawsuits on political question grounds. Just shit from start to finish.

America is losing a talented researcher today. Rümeysa Öztürk, whose abduction by masked men prompted a search and her eventual release by ICE, has returned to Turkey. She wants to resume a career without "state-imposed violence and hostility." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/m...

In order to watch the whole clip of Summer Lee I had to finally watch RFK Jr.... I don't know how anyone who hears him can imagine he should hold a job, much less this one. And he seems to say the quiet part under his breath: he wants to abolish DEI *because* DEI saves Black lives.

Keystone, NJ “The old Aeromarine landfill has been cited multiple times over the last five decades for being improperly sealed off, and for leaching at least five known carcinogens, as well as other toxins.” It later became a hang-out site for teenagers. www.nj.com/news/2026/04...

First group of migrants deported from the US ​under recent third country deportation with DRC have now been forcibly shipped off to Kinshasa. Deportees are originally from Colombia, Peru, Ecuador. This deportation agreement follows a partnership granting US preferential access to Congo's minerals.

NEW, FROM ME: The organizers with Community Solidarity Project, a local LA mutual aid group, organized from their main hub at Bernies Coffee Shop for years. Now, they've been asked to move, and are asking for the public's help. They've set up a online fundraiser and Goodbye Party tomorrow, April 19

Russia has designated chemist Alexander Kabanov, whose research has helped develop promising new cancer drugs, as a "foreign agent." In Russia, even helping to cure cancer isn't enough to keep you off the state's shitlist if you're also criticizing the war in Ukraine. minjust.gov.ru/ru/events/51...

When people steal thousands of dollars from their bosses, they're prosecuted.

This was absolutely one of the most striking things about moving from suburban Atlanta to Manhattan when I was in my 20s. I remember being back home for a visit and, like, struggling to articulate to my parents just how different—and how much better and friendlier—the world felt on foot.

Example, courtesy of @prisonculture.bsky.social, of the decades of work by organizers to connect the dots between jails, prisons, and immigration detention: solidaritycity.wordpress.com

Pete Hegseth has issued a memo directing the Pentagon to terminate the union contracts of 300,000 workers in the Department of Defense. This illegal move will undoubtedly be challenged in court.

CASAR: You've met with CEOs, you've met with billionaires. How many have you met with that have lost their health insurance? RFK Jr: I've met with the advocacy community on virtually everything C: Have you met with any of the 1.4m who lost their coverage? K: They're almost all illegal immigrants

There's only one way to get the bought and paid for out of power. That's to vote in enough congresspeople interested in freedom to take power away from them. There is no other way. Without building a better coalition, there will be nothing but the bought and paid for. (The work doesn't end there)

🚨FISA VOTE TONIGHT! 🚨 While you are sleeping, Republicans plan to jam a bill through the House tonight allowing the Admin to spy and collect data for the next FIVE YEARS. No warrants REQUIRED. No real assurances a shady AG, FBI, or DNI director will follow the law. I am a NO!

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Data center “We have stood at people’s doorsteps as they realize nitrate may have caused their miscarriages or cancers. People can’t sell or refinance their homes. They are stuck and sick; they are tired of polluters getting away with theft of their health and wealth.” www.opb.org/article/2026...

Why Was the Prairieland Jury Persuaded to Convict Given the Government’s Weak Case? Questions linger about a “loud uproar” in the jury room on the day of the verdict, as juror misconduct is alleged in a post-verdict motion seeking a new trial. unicornriot.ninja/2026/why-was...

NEW: WIRED tracked down some of the most prominent figures of last year’s DOGE invasion. Here's where they are now—in government and beyond. read @telliotter.bsky.social:

The press can’t be free if it’s constantly under watch. Check out our recent event to learn why Congress shouldn’t renew the spy law known as Section 702 of FISA without making reforms to protect journalists and Americans from warrantless surveillance.

Earlier this evening: dozens of people gathered in Chicago's far north side Rogers (Phillip) Park in support of an 18-year-old Mather High School student and his mother, who, according to the student's older brother, were abducted from the Chicago immigration court at Ida B. Wells Drive in March.

CA parole board denies incarcerated man a hearing based on ‘potential false-positive’ alcohol test, @glentalk.bsky.social reports. Roque Martinez, a leader in his prison’s recovery community, said he’s been a victim of numerous false-positive results that should have no bearing on his parole.