ABC is doing a FOX in the 1990s to the Will Trent show and people aren’t having it!

Not having enough food for inmates has been a problem for some time, in part due to budget issues I wrote about previously www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

This is kinda wild: The federal prison system is telling staff they can't get free meals at the mess hall anymore bc apparently they were doing it so much it was cutting into the food they needed to feed the prisoners.

For all the hate the Bsky team gets for being techbro douches who hate their userbase, they still don't get enough hate for literally assisting in a genocide by ethnically cleansing survivors off their platform. They've been at it for years now!

DC statehood yesterday

ICE in Chicago this morning at Elston and Kennicott—a masked agent tells a witness (on the sidewalk) not to get in front of his car. Feds are continuing kidnappings across the city & burbs after increased activity this month. No flashy CBP caravans, just a steady stream of covert ICE arrests.

In the span of 3 months, OKC has successfully rejected an ICE detention facility and implemented a data center moratorium. www.news9.com/oklahoma-cit...

it's so crazy that we funneled billions in environmental subsidies to Tesla, only for it to become one of the most rampantly polluting companies in business today

it is Earth Day and also Plover Fever is heating up in Chicago so here are some Piping Plover things I have made

Everyone else will be 1st to yell bloody murder when the data centers are raising their electricity, polluting their family's air, and they can't find clean drinking water. Being Black and this terribly crass about your own existence and those of your neighbors is why these companies dont gaf.

Huge fan of food.

Feels like authoritarianism should matter but I get that places need to care about too many Black women having jobs

I want every conversation about US higher education to include open access institutions like community colleges and regional public universities. We should also find ways to learn from our "laboratories of democracy."

Nice overview of our talk yesterday! I'll do a lil mini thread. Also, my mama is gonna love this action shot of me talking. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

NEW: I've been shocked by some of the numbers I've been seeing on behind-the-meter power plants for data centers, so I did a little math. less than a dozen gas plants being built to power data centers for big tech companies could emit a maximum of nearly 130 million tons of CO2e each year (!)

The U.S. government altered its tally of American casualties — inexplicably scrubbing 15 wounded-in-action troops from the count.

“Why don’t you want to have a conversation about AI?” “I broke into your house and stole your shit and now I just want to talk.”

““Imagine being a 20-year-old woman, a first-time offender, no criminal background and 24 weeks pregnant when arrested. To exercise her fundamental right to trial, she faces a mandatory minimum of 49 years and even eventually was forced to give birth while incarcerated.”

There are billboards in SF that say “stop hiring humans“ Today in the Bell Riots are coming news

French right-wing leader's call to ostracize Spain over migration policy sparks backlash

Part 2 of my @msmagazine.com story on how women impacted by incarceration are building new futures looks at the DC Jail Debate Team: msmagazine.com/2026/04/22/w...

In these dark times, I got to write a positive story for @msmagazine.com about how women impacted by incarceration are building new futures: msmagazine.com/2026/04/21/w...

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New Request

Anger over the data center boom has spilled into politics with voters unseating local politicians who support them — most recently in Independence, Missouri. It's become an issue hard to ignore in the midterm elections. (@npr.org)

WE ARE ABOUT TO DIE!

AOC about to knock a worm loose

@ahjohnson.bsky.social's book "How to Sell a Genocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza" is out this week. Highly recommended. We had a great conversation about the book, other media failings, and also a bit of discussion about AOC 2028. newrepublic.com/article/2092...

Put it on a lawn sign

Did you know you can now browse through Georgia O’Keeffe’s entire oeuvre? Over 2,000 of the artist’s works, including paintings, handwritten letters, and early sketches, have been digitized for the new online platform “Access O'Keefe.”

Suicidal individuals are turning to chatgpt and it's walking them through ending their lives and not reaching out for help .. why? because it's trained to give replies that it believes we want to hear(personable, intimate, friend-like) to increase engagement.

Israeli forces and settlers deploy sexual violence as part of a sustained campaign of pressure driving Palestinian communities from their homes across Area C of the occupied West Bank, www.newarab.com/news/israeli...

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is out with a new (very bad) decision, and it's a doozy. The Fifth Circuit says that Texas can require the Ten Commandments in classrooms. But somehow it gets worse. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Meta is logging its workers’ every keystroke to train the AI that will replace them. Extract what workers know. Model it. Cut the workers. This is happening because governments are letting it happen. On this. On Palantir. On facial recognition. Inaction is still a choice. And someone is making it.

I was just like, "What's the Beverly Jenkins book where the heroine beats the villain to death *and* sets him on fire *and* drowns him?" and I went to check my reviews, and now I need to take a month off and reread all of Beverly Jenkins.

“I have a responsibility… not to put garbage in the world. … If you start trying to figure out what it is that people want, you are doing what AI does. The idea of AI precedes AI itself…. It’s why they remake the same five movies every 10 years. It’s why they have a formula for what a movie is.”

Apr 22nd 1947 - During a game between the Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies, Phillies players and manager Ben Chapman continuously shouted insults at Jackie Robinson. 📽️📅 42 (2013)

"She didn't have to modify her message at all to appeal to Republicans"

Think we should genuinely think through how much damage could have been mitigated if the people best positioned to oppose Trump weren’t performatively capitulating to rid their campuses and workplaces of people they resented.

It doesn’t matter how unpopular he becomes; Trump is an opportunity to achieve the long-held goals that many people leading our institutions refuse to waste.

Mamdani appoints Black lesbian librarian as the chief keeper of NYC’s records

where can I play this 😂

It’s all well and good for tech leaders to endorse UBI. But it feels convenient to only focus on a distant political prospect. The GOP, right now, is doing reverse-UBI (work requirements on SNAP). It’d be nice to hear more objections to that.

Reminder that the WaPo and most legacy newspapers are owned by right wing billionaires and serve Republican agendas. Alternatives in the thread!

Quoting @mprescod.bsky.social who is totally right:

This is why you don’t let billionaires run schools! He gets bored one day and suddenly hundreds of kids don’t have a classroom anymore.

"The UAE has long denied supporting the RSF, which has been fighting Sudan's regular army for three years. El-Fasher's fall was one of the most brutal chapters of the conflict, which has led to the world's worst humanitarian crisis..."

"At just 10 years old, my sister has already been targeted by peers...Classmates have made fun of her...skin tone & religious beliefs — as well as for our mother’s hijab...My sister couldn’t believe that the ostracism she’s faced at school could get any worse, until now." 💔

"You have to ask, “What kind of world do you want to live in?...A powerful and crucial form of resistance right now is continuing to teach what we need to and that also gives other people permission to do the same." 🔥🔥🔥

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