BREAKING: After losing five straight cases attempting to access state voter rolls, the DOJ tried to fix a key legal flaw in its Minnesota lawsuit — only to attach the wrong document and rely on a single, disputed allegation of noncitizen voting as its new justification.

This story is a part of "Power Hungry," our latest package on the AI oligarchs who are upending communities over their plans for massive data centers across the country. Check it out:

$75 million: Amount Amazon spent to acquire & promote Melania $75 million: Cost of the 246-foot yacht Jeff Bezos bought to follow his 417-foot yacht $100 million: 2025 loss by Bezos' Washington Post, which recently cut 40-plus percent of its staff The numbers our AI overlords don’t want you to see.

Woke 2 is going to hit so hard

Yay! Deeply grateful. One of the highlights of being president of the OAH this year. www.oah.org/2026/04/09/m...

Wonder if the NYT's "Mamdani struggling with black voters" story is going to be updated to note that Mamdani is doing better with black New Yorkers than almost any other demographic? maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/u...

Pittsburgh people! Join us today at 4:00 pm for the world premiere of *Becoming Benjamin Lay*, our new documentary film about history, politics, and how to resist an unjust world. Carnegie Library, Braddock, 419 Library Street. Join us! Tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/becoming-b...

Day—11 National Poetry Month ~ Naomi Shihab Nye Advice My friend, dying, said do the hard thing first.

‘My friends and relatives were safe where they were – my parents in the apartment where they have lived in central Beirut for almost fifty years. Yesterday, I was not so sure anymore. And they were not either.’ @loubnaelamine.bsky.social on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...

Shared this with a friend who essentially responded with Ho hum, but it's reads like truthtelling to me: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I saw this a couple of weeks ago and I can't stop thinking about it. It seems more true every day.

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum under the Trump administration has deleted its teaching materials about links between Nazi racism and the Jim Crow laws: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

that people still listen to him and sell out shows is deeply concerning. anyway. read it if you’re bored.

in 2018 i published an essay with npr music about kanye and gospel music. but also about the problem of celebrity and the refusal to reckon with empire. sadly, every single move he’s made since this essay has only intensified its truth. www.npr.org/2019/10/23/7...

Seismosis by John Keene (poetry) and Christopher Stackhouse (drawings) is one of the most exciting formal experiments of this century. I wish more people knew about and discussed it.

Emerging writers! There’s still time to submit a short story for the Arkansas International’s Henry Dumas Fiction Prize. ($1000 and publication.) The judge is John Keene, National Book Award winner & Lambda Literary Award Winner. Deadline is April 15. acwlp.submittable.com/submit/34853...

I recognize this image, which is the photo on the cover of @jstheater.bsky.social 's book Punks!

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Marigold Santos uses epiphytes — plants that grow on other plants without harming them — as a framework for the expansive ways diasporas form.

Joanne Bland, one of the youngest people to march on “Bloody Sunday,” has died. She was 72. "By the time I was 11-years-old, I had been arrested at least 13 documented times”

The dangerous anti-LGBTQIA+ bill is back in Ghana, with stronger political support. We stopped it once. Let’s stop it again. Please sign to defend equality: a.allout.org/s/P3wrb/

Read everything Julie K. Brown publishes on Epstein and Maxwell. Because the mainstream press sanitizes their elite sadistic pedophile network

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search. But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections. newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

In March 2024, the University of Utah women’s basketball team, which was staying in Coeur d’Alene during the NCAA tournament, said they’d been subjected to racial harassment so frightening that they fled town.

LAST DAY to send in your proposals! centerforthehumanities.org/what-we-desi... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cunyenglish.bsky.social @complitgccuny.bsky.social

I‘ve mentioned that thanks to the Epstein tranche I learned that one of my PhD advisors, Lee Smolin, continued to have contact with Epstein after 2007, which is not the impression I had It’s weird to say the least for my professional past to become a public story that demands feminist analysis

this is another absolutely brutal read. but a critical one, particularly for academics.

It's that time of year. Jane's Walk is accepting submissions for walking tours for its festival in early May. If you live in NYC, I really encourage you to submit a tour and to participate. It's really fun. www.mas.org/janes-walk-n...

You can sign the petition to release Rodney below! He’s being denied disability accommodations. He’s been placed in solitary confinement. His health is deteriorating. He’s been locked up for a year. It’s beyond cruel and unusual punishment. It’s eugenics. www.change.org/p/demand-the...

This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding. Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.

This month isn't even over yet. Jesus Christ.

"MacArthur Awards $10 Million to Strengthen the Humanities" www.macfound.org/press/press-...

"Fees are a paywall on opportunity, and paywalls do not measure merit. They measure means. When a field built on ideals of access and expression charges for the act of showing up, the rhetoric of equity collapses into the economics of endurance."

The world order as we’ve known for the last century is disappearing. And in its place, a new order shaped by the private interests of individual men and their fiercest allies, not the interests, private or public, fair or foul, good or bad, of a nation.

I want to highlight the Black voter number here because I’ve lived through decades of efforts to engineer and/or assert an antagonistic relationship, when, for the most part, Black people are more supportive of immigration than others.

If adults are missing work due to long COVID, don’t we think children are missing school from it too?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Yes, Ds should offer a resolute unified front - Congress, Govs, Mayors - against the European tariffs, the threats to the Western alliance, and Trump's plan to seize Greenland. Every person in America should know where we stand on this. Today. It's the right thing to do and good politics too. 3/

In October, we sent four trans journalists to five different No Kings rallies to report on trans representation at No Kings. One of our reporters was in attendance when senator @edmarkey.bsky.social addressed the crowd wrapped in a trans pride flag. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Jawdropping reporting here from @juddlegum.bsky.social......

Came in from winter break on this snowy 18F morning to discover someone opened the windows while we were gone. Lord knows how many days or weeks.

NYC: this Sunday is your chance to come hear me and bestie Jarrett talk about the new book! Hope to see you there. Events for January 2026 – BGSQD share.google/jJdRuuDadixH...

I went ahead and published this tonight, because it feels urgent.

thinking back to how Ta-Nehisi Coates anticipated this moment in 2017

The real upside-down world....

I think about this exchange a lot and figure others might find it interesting too. Happy MLK Day.

The autobiography concludes its section on this conversation interestingly: "I [Harry Belafonte] felt as if our moorings were unhinging. "Damn, Martin! If that's what you think, what would you have us do?" I asked. He gave me a look. "I guess we're just going to have to become firemen.""