Marion Stokes was an American TV producer, civil rights demonstrator, activist & librarian. She was known for recording & archiving over 330,000 hours of television news footage from 1977 until her death in 2012. Makes a compelling case for guerrilla archiving. Don’t let them rewrite history!

I finally visited the Alex Pretti memorial. Damn, Minneapolis, we've been through a lot. A lot of things touched me, but this kid's letter broke open a bunch of things I've been keeping in tidy boxes to deal with later. We need to win, for them.

Mexico is planning free universal healthcare for 120 million people. It builds on a longer record of expanding public health coverage. The first phase began this month, with citizens aged 85 and older now eligible. Novara Media buff.ly/AWVCJZG #ShareGoodNewsToo

It's a white nationalist party. This isn't really a mystery.

here's where the difference between British and American English really stands out (pitching dates for your mate!!!)

This spring, a New Jersey town’s all-Republican council passed a resolution opposing ICE’s plan to convert a local warehouse into a detention center. But the resolution hasn’t stopped ICE from moving forward with developing the site.

“The name of [an ICE] officer accused of strangling a man in Fitchburg during an immigration arrest has been revealed in court, despite the federal government’s attempts to keep his identity a secret. The officer’s name is David Jackson, an acting supervisory detention and deportation officer.”

@blackangst.bsky.social @smaddoxsr.bsky.social @iveyjanette.bsky.social @elderreed.bsky.social

Nick also broke the news that the brothers were returned home today. A few hours later, the New York Times and Washington Post reported the same thing, once again, neither credited him. I don't understand why it's so hard for big national papers to credit smaller local pubs. Nick's latest:

ICE flights. Thursday, April 30, 2026.

Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar Barrios was completing her residency in South Texas when ICE locked her away. Her colleagues call her Ruby. They say that as an emergency and trauma doctor, she serves every patient with empathy and dedication. Being bilingual, she makes people feel seen and heard.

Solar tech has improved so much and come down in price some in CH use them to build fences. Balcony solar panels for flats produce enough to charge most devices. Rainfall capture is a big thing here too. So your house is completely off the grid for water supply as well.

"Amisha Patel lived and organized to make Chicago a model for the rest of the country, showing how we can build powerful movements that are based in deep relationship, trust, creativity, and heart." inthesetimes.com/article/amis...

A life well lived. I feel we are in danger of forgetting Melissa Hortman's life and legacy, and that would be a tragedy on top of the sickening violence of her murder

The first chapter was so emotionally rich and devastating that I need to put the book down for a while. How is it that I have only recently discovered this brilliant writer?

A major donor-advised fund blocking donations to Southern Poverty Law Center. This is one three-alarm fire among so many others. It's shocking (not surprising but truly shocking nevertheless) that Fidelity is abetting the attacks on a group that is doing so much good and important work

This should be a bigger story. I didn't know Isaiah but almost everyone in my lab, my TA, and a few close colleagues knew him well. They all say he was a sweet guy who was just really into herps. This is a tragedy.

People died for the right to vote. People died for the right to vote. People died for the right to vote. This is not ancient history. This is my parents' generation. Today the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. We cannot forget what it cost to get it.

Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she's never captured. She died in 2011. #WomenInHistory 🗃️ #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 1/2

people fucking died for the voting rights act. to wave it away with a magic wand is just so grotesque

Move over Dante

Another story here with a first person sent to DRC to identify themselves: Colombian torture survivor Adriana Quiroz Zapata. Appears she may have been targeted for Congo removal in retaliation for filing a complaint against an ICE agent. www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-deport...

Officials from the state Department of Health have tried to get in to inspect 10 times since 2023. But The GEO Group, which runs the for-profit detention center, has kept turning them away, the state says. (Jake Goldstein-Street / Washington State Standard)

A well-reported update on the 15 South American people ICE sent to DR Congo two weeks ago. Trapped in a rat-infested hotel by the airport with no options but going back to the countries they fled. This is what we're doing to legal asylum-seekers who "followed the rules." www.npr.org/2026/04/28/n...

Unite Here co-president demands improvement in working conditions and urges Fifa to keep ICE away from matches www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This is AWFUL and should get national press.

They're literally building concentration camps.

Infinity Song finally has a Tiny Desk Concert!! 🎶🎤✊🏾👏🏾 Love them 🩵👑 #BlackSky #DanceBreak 🌱

You know what? My students write some terrific stories. www.reportingtexas.com/new-texas-ab...

Agreed.

I love this! Just what I needed today!

This is why people ride dems & keep holding their feet to the fire demanding they use what power they have, whenever they have it— even down to the tiniest, meanest fucking morsel— to help the people they claim to represent. Because when we don't— & sometimes even when we do— they do shit like this.

epical, iconical even

this is money workers earned, and may not even be aware is theirs. if you've ever worked in SF and didn't get healthcare from your employer, which may not have even bothered to inform you about your Healthy SF benefits, this may be you sfstandard.com/2026/04/24/s...

i knew there was a far side comic for the news today

In the canyonlands of Texas, people began painting surreal murals 5,500 years ago. For example: a 13-foot-tall red figure with a U-shaped head holding an atlatl. Now archaeologists are trying to decipher the motifs' meanings. archaeology.org/issues/may-june-2026/features/art-for-the-ages/

I am viewing this lovely picture with special appreciation as I am currently trapped under a cat as big as the one in the foreground

“We as citizens have come out to say no ICE facility in Suffolk today, no ICE facilities in Suffolk yesterday, no ICE facilities in Suffolk tomorrow,” community activist Brandon Randleman said during the rally.

good for these kids! they have such higher standards than we would have at that age, i was surprised the school even made the guys publicly apologize and forfeit the game, thats WAY more than my school would have done, and thats not enough for them, nor should it be. go yell at the archdiocese!

The problem is not that older faculty are sticking around - it’s that they are not being replaced. The argument of this piece is quite pernicious as it substitutes a class war btw workers and a neoliberal administration w an age war btw different ranks of workers

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

I’m ignoring my Muse To bring you sad musical news— Michael Tilson Thomas is dead. And here’s a gift 🎁 to be read: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/a...

Starbucks: Screw you, Seattle. All our unionizing woes will be over once we leave you for Tennessee. Tennessee:

Sad to hear this news about Michael Tilson Thomas. Years ago, when I was just starting out as a Yiddishist, I had the privilege of attending his tribute to his grandparents, Yiddish theatre stars Bessie and Boris Thomashefsky. What an incredible project. michaeltilsonthomas.com/projects/the...

This is where our money is going to as taxpayers. We are funding horrific camps where human beings are treated as garbage

I mean. They’d be innocent even if they WERE related, because that’s not how guilt works.

If you want to have nice things, you need to facilitate those nice things. For everybody. Lots of talk about community, but if you’re not counting queer, disabled, impoverished, unhoused, and yes, even unpleasant people, it’s not real.

Mhmmm... if I can't at least, AT A MINIMUM 'check out as guest' I will simply not use your platform, or buy your product.

🚨ICE prison hunger strike extends into third day at Michigan’s North Lake Detention Center. “They’re treating us like animals,” one prisoner says. Female prisoners held SOS sign to window. Via @jordanchariton.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/statusco...

'Following J.D. Vance’s comments earlier this week that the Pope should “stick to morality,” Williams said that he feels “slightly sorry” for the recent Catholic convert – “with just a hint of schadenfreude.”'