VICTORY! WA House approves landmark legislation to update + strengthen qualifications and accountability for sheriffs and chiefs Senate Bill 5974, one of NPI's priority bills for 2026, is almost through the Legislature. The extremely popular legislation would require sheriffs, police chiefs, and…

My new article on the vaccine schedule is up! I got to interview an expert on vaccines for this and learned a lot about how the schedule works. Worth a read, especially for new parents or anyone who's curious about vaccine safety! www.cspi.org/article/chil...

Jaelynn Scott, the executive director of the nationwide Black Trans advocacy organization, Lavender Rights Project, has received a flurry of endorsements within days of launching her campaign as Washington state representative for the 37th legislative district’s position 2 seat.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea. newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

You can make them fear a primary. You should make them fear a primary.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

🧵 Today’s news: Proton turned over payment info for a Stop Cop City account. Not good — it's state repression in action. Controversial opinion: We don't think this means all activists should abandon Proton for docs/email. It depends on your threat model. Let's explore. (Long thread incoming 👇)

Until women are no longer brutalized and murdered by men en masse, I don’t want to hear anything about our complaints when it comes to men, be it online or off. We are literally dying out here (yes the numbers are high for Black women)

very aspect of life in this country is designed so that people do not form bonds or relationships with other people, it's wild to watch in action. Never seen divide and conquer applied this rigorously to a domestic population that is not under foreign occupation

I've worked with PAHO and have a huge amount of respect for the organization, but the timing of this looks really, really bad; RFK Jr asks PAHO for more time, and the scheduled April meeting gets pushed to November, so the US keeps its elimination status until the mid-terms....

NEW: Contractors for Meta say they've been tasked with reviewing smart glasses footage in order to train the company's AI. The contractors say they've seen videos showing wearers having sex, undressing & using the bathroom. san.com/cc/what-your...

After remaining silent for almost a year about the U.S. measles outbreak, NIH/CDC poseur Jay Bhattacharya is now recommending measles vaccines. And this is where he gets to see the impact of the destruction of trust in public health and vaccines, for which he is partially responsible.

kind reminder that this time of year—the beginning of lockdowns for many—can be a traumaversary. even if you logically feel fine, your body may remember those feelings.

I thought the article was bad. Then I watched the video. Metro Councilor Mary Nolan's "apology" is unbelievably appalling. Councilor Juan Carlos González did not deserve this. Portland Metro residents deserve better representation. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

“I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven’t lived in blood and bone. That doesn’t mean I want my people bombed, killed, their homes in ruins.” - Sahar Delijani

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

For a few hundred years, towns across New England have conducted Town Meeting Days via floor votes, which can be inaccessible to disabled people. This situation shows how accessibility and tradition can go head-to-head. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I swear to GOD. Were people alive when Obama launched a war on Libya WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL AUTHORIZATION? www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXF8...

Starting out at 60% against a war is actually terrible. I am old enough to vividly remember a number of US wars since 1990. In 2003, I remember polls that showed that 55% to 60% of people were in favor of war on Iraq. 4 years later, 60% of people polled said that US should have stayed out of Iraq.

The DA in Minneapolis is investigating Bovino and others.

Well today in AI scams targeting authors. I received an email claiming to want to include my book in a book club. Not only do all the photos of authors they claim to work with look AI generated but look at @colsonwhitehead.com and @zadiesmith.bsky.social and then look at these photos

Hello! I am a trans journalist looking to speak with trans kids and parents of trans kids across the US who have been impacted by the clinic closures---please get in touch or share!

is everyone on glue

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

Unaccompanied children as young as 13 who are pregnant, often from rape, are being moved to Texas so the Trump administration can avoid getting them access to abortion, critics say. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

We could have fully funded education with well-paid teachers. No one has to be unhoused or go to bed hungry. We have the money. The US just prefers to spend it on war.

2026 US measles outbreak hits 1100, mostly unvaccinated children. Reminder: It's March 1st. www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap... via @skepticalraptor.bsky.social

What is AI good for? They're not investing billions in it just so you don't have to write your own emails and your kids never learn to draw. If you want to understand why AI is important to them, look at Gaza. In cheerful corporate lingo, they are preparing massacres on an unimaginable scale.

Wow I’ve got a bunch of very high profile mutuals following this account.

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.

This is so frustrating and disheartening. I spent months in 2020-21 on this feature about how all psychologists needed to prepare for an influx of Long Covid patients, yet APA's work largely stopped there. www.apa.org/monitor/2021...

Shared this quote from the depths of cognitive fog so I’m relieved to be able to say I stand by it 🙃 The harm ignorant therapists/psychs cause to clients with Long Covid can be just as enormous as the harm MDs inflict. (APAB until proven otherwise!)

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

Nurul Amin Shah Alam's violent arrest, by police who saw his walking stick as a weapon—and who, like the Border Patrol officers who dumped him, apparently made no attempt to reckon with his disability or his mental state—set off events that ended in his death. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

“The picture that emerged was of a slow shift playing out beneath the surface of entire populations: a rise in cognitive problems, subtle declines in functional capacity, and lost independence”

Tomorrow, Council will vote on a resolution I’m cosponsoring to commemorate the life of George Floyd and reaffirm our commitment to racial justice, developed in partnership with Brown Hope.

I would like to see Pritzker and Newsom declare a state tax receivership fund whereby citizens pay their federal tax liabilities into a state-run escrow account rather than directly to the IRS. The state can hold these funds in trust for the federal government until Trump obeys the Impoundment Act.

One would think that this would merit an emergency convening of all Blue state governors, Attorneys generals and Congressional representatives. It's a declaration of war on one state which means they'll do it to others too.

Dispatches from MN: it's getting really hard, guys. The media has left, the donations are drying up, and ICE is still here kidnapping people. It's hard not to be resentful that other people have the option of setting this aside for.other things.

NEW: Amazon is telling people who use its wishlists feature to switch to post office boxes or non-residential delivery addresses if they want to ensure their home addresses remain private, as part of a change in how it processes gifts bought from third-party sellers.

@governorwalz.mn.gov what are you doing? Folks in MN are days away from rent being due but 10s of thousands of people are being impacted by ICE and the Federal government. You need to push to pass a rent moratorium until ICE IS OUT of MN. Please move on this fast.

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

Tommy Robinson visited the US State Department today at the invite of the Trump administration. He's Britain's most prominent far-right street thug with criminal convictions for assault, violence, fraud, stalking & harassment. He was jailed in 2012 for trying to enter the US with a false passport.

Last week, my mother took me and my kids to see the school where, 60 years ago, she was among the first wave of Black students to integrate a previously all-White school. We wanted to remind my kids that Black history is not just famous people in textbooks, it is often the people right next to you.

I can't even speak about Nurul Amin Shah Alam. All I have to say is that the people constantly distinguishing between ICE, CBP and the REGULAR COPS are fools. That's it.

This is not a conversation of disability versus racism, the reality is that disabled Black people experience the worst of both. Ableism is inherently rooted in anti-blackness & eugenics.

This reply of mine has gotten the most views I think, so I feel here is a good place to direct people to watch these comments by Jumaane Williams, a Black man with Tourette's with copralalia and an N-word compulsion, speaking from a place of intersectionality I cannot: youtu.be/FgaqKIxS4Hs?...

I'm sure there will be think pieces about this and I really think Black people with tourette's should be reached out to for that.

We're seeing a drop off in newborn donations in Minneapolis. Birth workers are seeing small/early babies due to stress/food insecurity—ICE has not stopped—families still in desperate need of support. If you're able, here is a wishlist compiled by folks doing mutual aid www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...