NEW: A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.

"Records requests to 62 police departments statewide found 28 had policies allowing or requiring collaboration with ICE. Another 24 didn’t have policies or didn’t respond. Only three had rules restricting communicating with ICE." More great reporting on ICE from @sweetadelinevt.bsky.social

Excellent article. The “liberal consensus” they’re dismantling is the shed where the guillotines are locked away.

“These plans are so central to the state's ability to meet its emissions reduction goals and prevent energy bills from getting even more expensive, that if the companies don't come back with better plans, the Attorney General's office suggested imposing financial penalties.”

This is a reason that Anthropic’s warnings ring hollow. It appears hypocritical to constantly warn that AI will lead to mass layoffs while building the leading tool(s) driving mass layoffs in the software industry. There is no “human cloning is bad but we’re the top human cloning company” CEO on TV

"political violence is never acceptable," is a phrase you don't hear politicians say after cops beat the shit out of peaceful demonstrators

When radioactivity was discovered, there was a rush to market for all sorts of radioactive consumer goods. There were water jugs made out of uranium glass, for example. I think about that a lot these days whenever I see AI products being marketed to consumers.

the irony is that there are many journalists who are threatened and killed for their work globally, except they don’t overlap at all with the people willing to attend the MAGA White House correspondent’s dinner

This wild document is the basis for the State Department's decision to cancel the visas and green cards of tech researchers who study the social media platforms and of tech regulators who enforce privacy and transparency laws. Disclosed to us last night in @thecoalition.bsky.social v. Rubio.

"Who is paint bombing Oakland’s Flock cameras?" "Some of OPD’s license plate readers have been vandalized with paint. The vandalism coincides with a nationwide pushback against surveillance" #directactiongetsthegoods oaklandside.org/2026/04/24/w...

The special services soldier appears not to have understood that insider betting on Polymarket and similar fora is reserved as a privilege for members of the president's family and immediate entourage. abcnews.com/US/doj-arres...

Fun fact: Women's sports are segregated not to protect women, but to protect *men* from losing *to* a woman. Don't believe me? Look up Jackie Mitchell. Struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Then suddenly women were unfit to play baseball.

"Benches are where optimistic visions of civic life meet reality. To remove them, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it." NEW: Why benches are slowly disappearing from public spaces — and why we need them back:

By the way, there are two ICE charters headed to Africa right now. The Afghans in the NYT story aren’t onboard since they are in Qatar. But hundreds of immigrants who had been living in the US, sometimes for decades, have already been sent to 8 African “third-countries,” most of which are unstable.

SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Trump's latest budget is the culmination of 40 years of increasing social control in America. Remember that over half of defense spending flows to private contractors, like the drone manufacturers Trump's sons are now major investors in. All of this is absurd.

“Our ancestral knowledge is valuable, and it’s not about money—it’s about sustaining life.” Beautiful story that illustrates the need to document the crucial web of life H/T @ontopunk.bsky.social

On Anarchism.

Has anyone written a piece about Black and indigenous Americans' responses to the European Americans fleeing this country after European Americans made it all fucked up like this?

Great news. A couple of weeks ago we learned that the FBI used the iPhone notifications database to harvest Signal messages after they had been deleted. They just fixed that bug! ✅ Upgrade to the latest iOS version now: 26.4.2 (Settings > General > Software Update) (Pass it on)

"[S]everal university police departments opted to enter into agreements with ICE, granting campus police the authority to interrogate anyone who is believed to be an immigrant about their status, make arrests without a warrant, detain people ... and transport them to detention centers."

I like how people call Trump mentally ill when he is completely consistent with who he has been since he first appeared within the public sphere, the only difference being orders of magnitude as the exact behavior he does now has been rewarded or excused by others every time.

Favorite scene in All The President’s Men: Woodward & Bernstein attend White House Correspondents Dinner, hobnob with Nixon Administration officials, have such a swell time that they back off Watergate investigation so they don’t lose their access.

sucks that it’s come to this, but if congressional Republicans wanted to put up a national gerrymandering ban or multi member districts etc, it would pass *for sure*. until then fight fire with fire

Oh wait I have screenshots lol

We won. Tesla Chicago is closed. Their new location is in a ghost town. They sacrificed visibility to thousands/day--& proximity to the other luxury car dealerships--to get away from us, because we'd turned their brand ambassador location into a liability. Organizing works. @teslatakedown.com

The only way we unfuck our country is through a puritanical anti-corruption drive. We need to rip out a vast substrate of corrupt elites and marginalize an even larger contingent of mere incompetents and cowards. Ppl need to be terrified of the white-collar criminal laws of the United States again.

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. We must get rid of Palantir altogether. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

"I cannot march. I cannot vote in this election or the next. I cannot call my congressperson from this phone without paying a corporation for the privilege. But I can write. I can tell you what I see when I read about Palestinian prisoners, and what I see is us."

Poor people are just supposed to move every three years in a big loop around their broader metro area to make sure that we can keep building luxury condos forever at a rate that never materially fixes anything for anyone

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

People with an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated family member have a 2.6-year shorter life expectancy than those with no incarcerated family members. Mass incarceration has created a public health crisis across the country.

Every billionaire who's conspired to violate the law and the Constitution with this regime -- their businesses get nationalized, their assets seized. They lose everything. Literally the rings off their fingers and the watches off their wrists get taken away.

Transphobia should be opposed simply because it's awful for trans people. But if you need another reason, the way Black and Brown cis women are dehumanized and demeaned by transphobes is absolutely vile. www.huffpost.com/entry/the-pi...

nonzero chance the FBI is plugging LLMs into wiretap data under the legal theory AI alone can’t implicate 4th amendment concerns (semi-known 702 issue). or the NSA has now hard coded wiretaps across all newly built US data centers due to expanded ECSP scope. or probably both.

Please call your rep and ask them to vote YES to extend TPS to Haitians!!

The MLB-approved statement the teams’ broadcasters are reading about Jackie Robinson Day is an embarrassment. Jackie didn’t face “adversity” — he faced loud, violent, entrenched racism. He integrated baseball & saved it from collapsing in on itself. Say that.

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According to data analyzed by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Black USians have suffered the most under regime’s tariffs program Relief for Black-owned businesses, workers and homeowners is nowhere in sight as Trump’s war in Iran also drives up gas and energy prices. #BlackSky

Can confirm

wrote about the most important architectural legacy of the Trump administration: the conversion of logistics warehouses into detention centers www.thenation.com/article/soci...

She wants to *disable* location tracking but *impose* surveillance to record daily usage times? What, in technical terms, the fuck? www.wcvb.com/article/mass...

BREAKING: A jury has found Live Nation and Ticketmaster to be an illegal monopoly that overcharges fans. After the federal government settled the case, 34 states kept pursuing the giant ticket and concert company. Now, the states have won.

MONTANA SUPREME COURT: “Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination,” and is subject to strict scrutiny under the Montana Constitution.

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

"I had no idea that USAID did this kind of work," USAID's chief of staff told our client, former USAID Global Health chief Nicholas Enrich, as he described the agency's life-saving programs. "I just assumed it was just abortions." Which USAID never funded. More: https://ow.ly/PPyh50YITax

My favorite part of going to the doctor is when he touches my forehead holding the glowing orb of light

evangelicals eagerly, gleefully pretended not to see the myriad ways trump is the most heretical politician to hold american higher office in modern history so i don't think we should take their outrage as sincere now that they need a way out of his sinking coalition