It’s time. Meet in Selma. Saturday, May 16th. blackpowerwarroom.com/dayofaction/

When Rubio abruptly halted foreign aid last year, cleanup crews in Vietnam were forced to abandon one of the largest chemical spills in the world for weeks. Left exposed: open pits of soil contaminated with dioxin, the deadly byproduct of Agent Orange. From Pulitzer finalist “The End of Aid”:

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

🧵Today I am releasing a new, open source tool that combines information on energy use, emissions, and health impacts for over 2,000 proposed and operating data centers across the US. It draws on the outstanding work of FracTracker Alliance, @oilandgaswatch.bsky.social, and others. 1/12

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee quietly signed a law yesterday that requires healthcare providers to aggregate data about trans patients and their healthcare in a public report — as Republican lawmakers approved a new map axing a Black majority district www.huffpost.com/entry/tennes...

#tdih 1959 Palo Verde, La Loma, & Bishop were close-knit Mexican American communities, founded in 1840s, that the city of LA destroyed to make way for land that would be used for Dodger Stadium. Longtime residents were displaced from homes and community. ⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ch...

There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

Texas eliminated 5 Democratic seats with no voter approval. Louisiana suspended election with no voter approval. Tennessee erased last majority-Black district with no voter approval. But VA Supreme Court blocks redistricting map approved by 3 million voters www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Yup. Your job as regular person is not to parse whether particular policies are 'realistic' or 'possible.' You are supposed to actually demand what you need to live a dignified life.

It's amazing how quickly White politicians in the South rushed to PROVE exactly why we needed the Voting Rights Act!

Great to see African nations pushing back. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/w...

This is exactly why language matters: “women were given the vote” frames equality as a gift from men, instead of hard won political power extracted through organized resistance. Nobody gave women anything. Women fought, marched, strategized, endured violence, went to prison and died for it.

An experimental pancreatic cancer drug that’s been shown to double survival in patients with advanced stages of the disease is poised to revolutionize the way the cancer is treated, oncologists say.

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

EXCLUSIVE: My latest story for @theatlantic.com : www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Trevor Project released its annual LGBTQ youth mental health report. The results are shocking. 40% of trans youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year. Trans youth who wanted hormones but couldn’t access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could.

Today (until midnight) is the last day you can register a comment. Take the time you would have spent on social media to do this. They have to read and record every comment, and respond to the substantive ones. Instructions in the blog.

On this day nine years ago, 15-year-old Jordan Edwards was leaving a party with his brothers and friends in Balch Springs, Texas when police arrived. As they drove away, an officer opened fire on their car, killing Jordan.

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

Make college affordable. Fund research. Protect faculty's right to teach and students' right to learn. Expand workers' rights. These are core pillars of AAUP and AFT's national policy platform, the Blueprint for Strengthening and Transforming Higher Education. @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social

🧵 New post: "How MAHA Fucked Up My Surgery" I was catheterized by 2 new graduate nurses (one of whom had never done the procedure on a patient before), using incorrect technique, without adequate pain control, after a delay that doubled my volume past the hospital's own intervention threshold

For fuck's sake, sign up for The Onion, and get a free limited edition IW tote. A share of merch sales will go to the Sandy Hook families, which will be the first time they get any money since they filed this lawsuit eight years ago. Legal fees have been insane. Please sign up and help us out!

Right now where you live healthcare for trans kids is either being made literally illegal by your state or made functionally illegal by the unlawful threats of the federal government and a care infrastructure glad to sacrifice trans kids on the altar of appeasement. www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...

yeeahh there's a reason why he's targeting places like Detroit and Georgia www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735353...

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

He is the 17th person to die in ICE custody this year and the 55th person to die in immigration custody since Trump got back into the White House. We will include Carbonell-Betancourt in our next weekly update of our database. May he and all who have died rest in peace.

Florida seeks to bar undocumented immigrants from attending state colleges www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/04/16/f...

"the colleges that dominate the headlines are not the colleges that most Americans attend their core mission: to serve students from all backgrounds, at a price families can actually afford, prepare graduates for real careers and meaningful lives." www.geneseo.edu/enrollment-m...

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

I know that reporters often don't get to choose the headline, but this one is brutal. Ohio State is one of America's largest universities and a research and social mobility powerhouse. And yes, while they play sports, that's not their main contribution.

If you think legislation that targets “low enrollment degrees” only impacts the humanities please look at this list. Degrees in chemistry, math, physics, political science, data analytics, psychology and economics are being eliminated. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/16/o...

The House of Representatives voted down a war powers resolution that would have restricted President Trump’s war in Iran by just one vote Thursday, 214–213, from Representative Jared Golden of Maine. trib.al/l2I21Mo

For the cost of one Harvard Professor of the Constitution Only Applies to White People, you could endow 10 professorships of any less commonly taught language at any university in the USA

The U.S. rejected one in three student-visa applicants last year, according to just-released government data. Denial rates have ticked up over the past decade and are significantly higher than refusal rates for other nonimmigrant visas www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

Generative AI is the plastic of the 21st century send skeet

Grotesque: In a dispute over a will, two brothers including a retired Alabama state trooper now working at a federal courthouse, appear to have gotten their mother-in-law arrested by ICE. Using the state to remove disfavored family members is the sort of thing that happens in totalitarian regimes.

A nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the enforcement surge in Minnesota.

1) Influential right-wing figures say "they're the enemy, hate them" using lies, cherry-picks, and exaggerations 2) Followers believe them, get increasingly riled up 3) "The people don't trust the institutions, it's the institutions' fault" 4) Repeat 1 Worked on elections, higher ed, and more.

U.S. Senator Tina Smith announced her intention to hold the Senate floor to protest legislation that would remove protections for the Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

Want to see how messy the politics of school vouchers are for Dems? Here's likely 2028 candidate Mark Kelly on what a disaster vouchers have been for Arizona. Meanwhile, pro-voucher Dems are in Mass. today to push Gov. Maura Healey to sign onto Trump's voucher plan www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...

American higher Ed is a golden goose that’s delivered medical, tech, and science innovations, bolstered soft power internationally, and is one of the largest employers in every state. This admin is doing everything it can to kill it.

A Trump guy who was part of the team dismantling USAID didn't think political appointees could grasp the concept of drug-resistant tuberculosis so he asked workers to explain it as "Super TB" in "Barney-style" slides. www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

Among other things, Trump’s “ignorance” of a typical representation of Jesus makes it clear he rarely darkens the doorway of a house of worship.

"She is from British Columbia but moved to Texas in 2021 when she married her American husband. The family was driving home from a baby shower when they were stopped at a border patrol checkpoint. She and Ayla, who has autism, were fingerprinted and detained..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Same goes for every "genius" academic or scholar.

Caption contest:

These 2 pics are happening simultaneously: LEFT: Vance after he fails to secure permanent ceasefire to the illegal war Trump launched RIGHT: Trump attends UFC fight 5 days after threatening genocide of 90M people This is what happens when you elect a genocidal fascist and an unqualified sycophant

Hotlines for US soldiers thinking of leaving the armed forces as "conscientious objectors" are being overwhelmed. Almost all the calls mention the bombing of the girls' school in Iran that killed more than 100 school children. www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...

In his strongest words yet, Pope Leo XIV on Saturday denounced the “delusion of omnipotence” that is fueling the U.S.-Israel war in Iran and demanded political leaders stop and negotiate peace. on.nbcboston.com/EuC64VA