Thank you @moiradonegan.bsky.social for writing this critical piece. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Shocked by the number of people who fall for this one. “Feminists and misogynists are the same because they are both dissatisfied with gender relations.”

I became a subscriber to the Inquirer just to read Will Bunch. His outrage at Sherrill's actions is warranted. We are in a period in which Democrats have to choose between supporting capital or opposing fascism. Sherrill is choosing to stand with capital.

share.inquirer.com/g63mad - 🎁 link

Of all the cruelty, this is especially heartbreaking: A pregnant woman from Ghana locked in an airport room for a week, forced to choose between the health of herself and her unborn child and that of her son for whom she was seeking medical treatment. It matters not that she followed all the rules.

Trial by jury is the final line of defense against injustice. That's why fascists seek to disempower it. Good historical review by @foxmike90.bsky.social

We're seeing the ultra-high-profile cases where DOJ lawyers indict a former FBI director over a photo of seashells. But there are certainly many more cases out there like what happened in Chicago. And we need to find out all about it.

Westworld 3.0! "The ultimate AI-age fantasy could be the chance to spend the rest of our lives being told we’re really, really special by a gorgeous robot ranch hand on a billion-dollar luxury retreat for people no longer emotionally equipped to handle reality." www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Rallying in support of grotesque sexual violence. Appalling.

I wonder if these monsters who turn their backs on women giving birth in jail consider themselves right to-lifers? Horrifying story. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

This Louisiana Republican is campaigning to lobotomize jurors and make them mindlessly compliant with unjust authority www.cato.org/blog/jurys-c...

Are astronomically high public defender caseloads and a lack of investigators railroading Californians to prison? calmatters.org/investigatio...

Let's take a moment to appreciate the plummeting of the murder rate open.substack.com/pub/jasher/p...

How courts in the US South are systematically whittling away at Atkins, paving the way for more executions of the intellectually disabled www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A must-read for understanding the Supreme Court's dismantling of voting rights and what must be done to stop its unconstitutional sovereignty

A sliver of good news www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger endorsed a constitutional amendment to automatically restore voting rights to people with felony convictions when they leave prison. State lawmakers passed the amendment and it will now appear on the state ballot.

"Public health researchers... estimate that just [1] day of above average summer temperatures is associated with a nearly 4% increase in prison deaths. Suicides spike 23% in the [3] days following a heat wave. And for every 10 degrees above the average summer temperature, prison deaths increase 5%."

What-no Vance? Insanity defined: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. #IranWarFiasco

Peter Thiel's new scheme for AI attack on journalism merits greater scrutiny and push-back

Witness the mesmerizing murmuration of starlings in Italy, a stunning display of nature's coordination and beauty as they dance through the sky in unison.

Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.

🎁 The @sfchronicle.com details how it got the Swalwel story, how it worked to get the accuser to come forward, how it raced CNN... Really interesting account of how journalism actually works. Gift link: 🎁 www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

in persian culture, telling someone "we're going to kill you all" is considered deeply offensive

And she has since been deported. Link here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Shadowy Opus Dei plays huge role in conservative rise to power; I don't understand why Pope Leo's meeting with investigative reporter @garethgore.bsky.social isn't bigger news www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Essential listening

So, thing that is apparently better understood inside academia than outside of it: International students pay sticker price. Most domestic students do not. International students are subsidizing the education costs for domestic students, as per student governmental funding drops.

Your alleged resistance warriors are being bought up by AI, CRYPTO, and AIPAC money. Suppose these Democrats win. What makes you think anything, structurally, will change? (It won't.) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

Rain puddle reflection, Chartres street, New Orleans

This messianic stuff is scary as heck! www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

'Out and proud' as a trans woman in a Missouri men's prison www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/27/t...

BBC NewsHour just had a thrilling report on this case of sperm whales collectively assisting a birth — a scene like nothing observed before in species other than human — behavior most nearly described 175 yrs ago by Melville in The Grand Armada chapter of Moby Dick. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If @willbunch.bsky.social wrote it, you should read it.©

Gavin, know where you stand and stand there. You said you what you meant. I don’t know what billionaire got in your ear but it’s not working for you. This is not how you are going to win. It’s Apartheid and it’s a Genocide. Today! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"NPR found five other people in Illinois, Oregon and Minnesota who...said they were arrested, seemingly without provocation, while protesting ICE and then had officers take or try to take what appeared to be a sample of their DNA." www.npr.org/2026/03/18/n...

“Our extensive DNA analysis shows that one hyper-fertile dairy deliveryman going about his door-to-door rounds inseminated the mothers of nearly all babies born in the United States between 1946 and 1964,” said lead researcher Emily Lentz

When something bad leads to something good #FarmworkersDay #California abc7news.com/post/califor...

Huge win for Abu Ghraib torture victims #BetterLateThanNever ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

Complex grief www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

Gavin Newsom an the moral test of 2028 open.substack.com/pub/theprogr...

Confused about the endgame in Iran? Here's everything you need to know. 👇👇👇 realdialectical.substack.com/p/the-war-on...

5 Israeli soldiers gang-raped a Palestinian prisoner so brutally he was hospitalised. They filmed it. When the video was leaked, the rapists were arrested. Israelis rioted, protesting that they had the right to rape. The charges against the 5 alleged rapists have now been dropped. #IsraeliTerrorism

I wrote about the domestic politics fueling Trump’s war on Iran. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.

What it says about human nature when a chatbot tells you to kill your spouse or start a fire - fascinating essay on human nature and virtue ethics by Dan Kagan-Kas (gift link) How 6,000 Bad Coding Lessons Turned a Chatbot Evil www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/o...