Many of the babies’ autopsy reports were clear: Vitamin K deficiency was the immediate cause of death, or contributed to it. The reports also included details about parents refusing the vitamin K shot, a long-standard injection, for their newborns.

US employers spend over $1.5 billion annually to fight their workers' unionization efforts www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I’m calling on the General Assembly to vote to reconvene for special session to impeach or censure the Governor. Governor Polis commuted Tina Peters’ sentence after the legislative session, likely in an effort to avoid accountability for misconduct. The people of Colorado demand accountability.

“.. We spotted nine Polymarket accounts .. who made collectively $2.4 million betting almost exclusively on U.S. Military operations. .. “.. Now, here is the crazy part. 98% win rates.” @mediaite.com www.mediaite.com/media/news/6...

🇺🇸 🔥 @aoc.bsky.social in Alabama: “It wasn’t until the Voting Rights Act was passed that we even had a democracy in this country — they’re afraid of us coming together… Alabama, Tennessee, etc. is the crucible… what they thought was the final blow is actually just the opening salvo.”

The Long Island Rail Road, North America’s busiest commuter rail system, shut down after unionized workers in the New York City area went on strike

Backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan. Facility would require more power than entire state uses and suck up vast amount of water in drought-stricken area. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

ICE agents are walking around with a list of 20 million people to detain in their pockets because of this Palantir database: www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...

We are watching the worst assault on multiracial democracy since the Pettus bridge. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

It happened again. The most corrupt administration in history.

i want just one (1) tech reporter to ask sam altman this exact question “if your ai is so advanced, dont you have a fiduciary duty to your company to fire yourself and replace you with your highly advanced model?”

SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

RED FLAG: The Trump Justice Department has demanded the identities of every worker who staffed the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia, according to court records. The demand targets employees of Fulton County elections as well as volunteer poll workers, who likely numbered in the thousands.

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Trump: "I took three cognitive tests. Aced all of them, by the way. I'm the only president to take a cognitive test. I don't think Obama could pass it. The first question is very easy -- it's a lion, a giraffe, a bear, and a shark. They say, 'Which one is the bear?'"

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

The editorial cartoonist's pen is one of the sharpest tools in journalism, whittling issues down to basics for satire or rage. I'm proud to say that my long-ago colleague, Milt Priggee, is unafraid to shock with a tough point of view.

Everyone should pay attention to this. Antivaxxers are trying to force you to get another preventable disease and they are better funded than ever. They already got one Lyme vaccine pulled from market with the same tactics of straight-up lying, & climate change keeps making Lyme a much wider problem

Amazing graphic of US drought crisis, reaching beyond “extreme” into “exceptional.” New levels of extreme weather from fossil fuel pollution.

Eliot Jacobson: As of the latest Niño 3.4 anomaly forecast dated May 1, 2026, the y-axis has been extended to now include the possibility of a +4°C El Niño. Meanwhile major US media appear not to understand the import of these developments or to report on them. This is called science illiteracy.

In space no one can hear you scream…but everyone can still hear Trump whinging.

ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who murdered a Minnesota housewife named Renee Good in January, has been reassigned to a different state and continues to work for the government. Ross' execution-style slaying of Good was captured on numerous cameras on Jan 7. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

Can Ohio's one remaining Democratic justice survive this year? Jennifer Brunner, a former secretary of state, is seeking a second term and will face a GOP challenger who will be selected by voters in the May primary.

yes. and if we are going to bring up GPS and Einstein, we must also say another important name, Gladys West. A pioneer in the field of geodesy, she developed the math to accurately measure the Earth's geometric shape, making it possible to use Einstein's work for GPS. www.npr.org/2026/01/23/n...

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

I just finished writing my reflections on tonight's big win in Virginia. I've been fighting this fight for ten years, including three cases in SCOTUS. Tonight we won a big one at the ballot box. Subscribe to Democracy Docket. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

Amazon saw lower prices at competitors and urged the brands to pressure those competitors to raise their prices, which they did. In writing. @robbonta.bsky.social has the receipts of this cartel behavior. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/t...

A feed for trans memes. If you want your meme included use #transmemes as a tag. bsky.app/profile/did:...

A feed for transgender related news. Use #transnews if you want your post included in the feed. bsky.app/profile/did:...

I decided to write about at each & every one of the 32 states with supreme court elections this year. Why? On abortion, redistricting, death penalty, & more, these institutions & their elections remain so critical. So here's everything you need to know. NEW from me:

We all need to watch this carefully. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The Senate version of the bill is SB3977 Call your state Senator and tell them to vote no on this bill! www.ilga.gov/Legislation/...

nonzero chance the FBI is plugging LLMs into wiretap data under the legal theory AI alone can’t implicate 4th amendment concerns (semi-known 702 issue). or the NSA has now hard coded wiretaps across all newly built US data centers due to expanded ECSP scope. or probably both.

"Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data."

Can we not just focus on the climate crisis.

Tens of people went to see VP JD Vance at today’s Turning Point USA event  🎥 Jake Traylor

If you don't live in a "swing state," your vote counts less. But we can reform the Electoral College and fix that. Since we made this video, Maine and now Virginia have joined the National Popular Vote compact. Here's what you need to know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXPwJqSdLfE

This is a frightening map, especially given the fact that this is normally near the peak in snowpack across the West. There are many far-reaching consequences from this historic snow drought, ranging from increasing risk of summer wildfires to major water concerns. Map by nwcc-apps.sc.egov.usda.gov

Interested to learn that No Kings protests are, according to national poll, far more popular than any American politician — which may have implications for American politicians. This is a video of my speech at No Kings #3, 3/28, Cincinnati youtu.be/hHErbPXonus

seems a wee bit beyond the level of "very, very, very concerned," but anyway... theintercept.com/2026/04/10/r...

This is what it sounds like to live next to a data center

The U.S. Supreme Court is going to “kill” Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), said former Vice President Kamala Harris today at the National Action Network (NAN) convention in New York. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

When people compare ICE facilities to concentration camps, now you understand why

Newly unsealed search warrants in the California ballot seizure case paint a chilling picture of how the types of anti-voting conspiracy theories weaponized by the White House to investigate the 2020 presidential election can be used to target elections on a state and local level.

The 25th Amendment process isn't for "crazy." It's for "comatose." And it's not easier than impeachment. It's harder.

No American is served by creating ever bigger media monopolies funded by ever more elusive foreign entities.

I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.

Isn’t it weird how “AI literacy” being pushed on students isn’t about learning how it works, the cost of how it works, learning to spot disinformation, media and tech literacy. But instead is just “employers will like it if you get it to write your emails :)”