Via @boltsmag.org and the Investigative reporting lab at Yale: An Alabama teen was shot alongside his friend, then prosecuted for his killing. His case highlights a particularly harsh doctrine in American criminal punishment: felony murder.

Really great content this week at @boltsmag.org! I expect you may have missed some, so here we go: 1️⃣ Buffalo jails is notoriously deadly for people who are locked in. And little has changed under the new GOP sheriff, despite a lot of talk, @rainalips.bsky.social And yet, he's running unopposed:

I have spent multiple weeks working on this story. We are not dropping it. I hope you will give this a read.

kennedy is going to kill a lot of people

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive ― James Baldwin Night 💚📖

I have, since I was a child, had a trauma reaction to Holocaust-like images and this last year has tested my ability to remain functional because the daily onslaught of images from Gaza are incredibly triggering To see the skin and bones children in Gaza now is to look at the Holocaust

Venus Williams has Sjögren’s syndrome. Linking health care with jobs means people with disabilities or chronic illnesses either cannot quit working or face not being able to have health insurance because they can’t work. Now remember that 300,000 Black women lost jobs in the last 3 months.

"Local. Trusted. Defunded." That's what the big digital sign outside GBH's building in Boston says now. Like other PBS/NPR stations, it is starting a new fund-raising push: "We're not backing down" despite the federal funding loss, "but we can't do it without you"

And it never seems to occur to the complainers that they could go to city council to advocate for more homeless services, or volunteer their time to help the homeless. Instead, they blame the library for homeless people existing. They're exhausting.

Reactionary centrists: People hate the Dems because they're language police! Stop forcing your woke pronouns on me! Also reactionary centrists: Zohran won't condemn "globalize the intifada!" He's a murder endorser! Language matters! This is why I have to vote for the sex pest!

“.. traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter ..” @niemanreports.org #Hellsite niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...

going to keep saying: a society that wants to safeguard it's present and future needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Israel assassinated the director of the Indonesian Hospital, Dr. Marwan Sultan, and killed his wife and five children in a targeted strike on the family’s apartment in Gaza earlier today. There is now reportedly only one cardiologist left alive in northern Gaza.

The cafe, one of the few businesses to continue operating during the 20-month war, was a gathering spot for residents seeking internet access and a place to charge their phones.

Brian Kendall was 17 when police accused him of a homicide he insisted he didn’t commit. A Brooklyn DA unit now says he’s “likely innocent.”

I obtained this from a community member minutes after arriving on scene following a raid at the Cypress Park Home Depot this morning. they detained day laborers.

New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

ICE raids have led to fear and anxiety for immigrants in Los Angeles. That fear extends even to those who are in the U.S. legally, keeping many away from public life.

Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. What's happened since? A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.

Please consider donating to The Xylom or sharing this post if you can't give $$! Alex and team are constantly publishing incredible stories that you cannot find at any other outlet. I'm honored to have been on their advisory board for the last couple of years.

The number of immigrants detained in ICE facilities across the country has reached a record high of more than 56,000, the most since 2019.

Absolutely unhinged statement from a government agency. All that paused grant funding was highly vetted by peer reviewers. The damage being done to our science infrastructure will take decades (if we are lucky) to undo.

With everything LA has gone through in the last few months (and couple of years), let's celebrate the hatching of: TEN CALIFORNIA CONDORS!!!!!!!!! Congrats to the team at the Los Angeles Zoo!!!

As I've said, right now, because of the NIH cuts, cancer patients are not getting novel cancer treatments that work. I'm so sorry, Richard. You deserve better.

“I find it unconscionable that someone could step up to serve, voluntarily, in our military and be willing to sacrifice their life for our country only to have their families torn apart.” This article first appeared @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social

The 250th anniversary of the Army is marked by it turning on its own people. America has a long, long way to come back from all this. Authoritarian dictatorship & fascism. Unfolding right in front of our eyes.

Last night, federal immigration officials sent text messages instructing immigrants to appear at an unmarked ICE office at 478 Tehama Street this weekend — an unusual move outside standard weekday operations. In response, hundreds of community members gathered at 7 a.m. to protest.

For two days, Caroline Dias Goncalves’ family didn’t know what happened to her. They had been tracking her phone and noticed her location froze in Aurora. It wasn’t until she was finally allowed to call them that they learned ICE had taken her.

NEW: 60 Killed, Including 20 Children, in Israeli Strike on Residential Building in Tehran An Israeli airstrike on Friday hit a residential building in Tehran’s Shahid Chamran Township, killing 60 people—including 20 children—according to Iranian state media.

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

Kristi Noem is seen as a "delicate, beautiful, tiny woman" while leading DHS, yet Rep. McIver was arrested for protesting it, and Sen. Padilla was tackled for even questioning it. It's clear who gets to be “delicate, beautiful, and tiny,” and who is seen as a violent threat to law enforcement.

Spanish language misinfo just makes the very people being targeted even less safe. Just diabolically noxious.

4 years ago, Eric Cole was tragically run over by a Springfield, OH, officer after he called for help — because he was the victim of a shooting. He was 42. No family should suffer this kind of pain. This preventable loss demands accountability. Rest in Power, Eric.

I’ve seen a lot of hand wringing about the dangers of going to No Kings protests and gently, I want to tell people to chill a little. These are permitted marches and the point is to be out there and seen en masse. Please don’t scare off people who are maybe going to their very first protest

5-7 weeks puts us right into hurricane seasons, btw. What happens when there’s a storm but the shelves are already empty?

The world is moving towards an international treaty on crimes against humanity. A huge opportunity to enhance justice for children - governments should consider kids now. We have some ideas in a new paper released today: cahtreatynow.org/justice-for-... @hrw.org @veroaubert.bsky.social

Evidence mounts that across the political spectrum, officeholders see themselves as lords of their own petty fiefdoms rather than temporary public servants meant to return to the body politic as regular people

A newly published study has found that nearly 75% of bird species in North America are sharply declining across their ranges, and 8/10 plummeting in the areas where they’re thought to be thriving and plentiful.

nothing received even $50 puts us able to cover basics

On this day in 1884, crusading journalist Ida B. Wells was dragged off a train when she refused to move from a whites-only railroad car. mississippitoday.org/2025/05/04/o...

“Autism has always existed. It is not a disease. Autism is a brain profile—a part of human neurodiversity that has always been here.” - Clain Udy, author of Rebranding Autism: A Guide to Seeing Strength on the Spectrum.

love to make america great again by essentially expelling the people that enrich our children’s lives

“1 in 31 children will be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder by age 8.” That’s not an epidemic, it’s a data point that RFK Jr. and others have twisted into a movement of misinformation.

NEW at @dropsitenews.com: Tennessee Man Has Been Stranded in Guatemala Since 2022 Over Tattoo A major legal challenge seeks to overturn a Biden-era case that helped lay the groundwork for Trump’s tattoo-based deportation regime. Story by @mazmhussain.bsky.social

The president is playing videos at his political rallies of people getting their heads shaved at what is effectively a concentration camp. He’s sending people to that camp with no due process, and 9 in 10 have no criminal record. The rallies are eating it up. Forget “can.” It is happening here.