Let's do this one time in good faith: Wealthy private universities in blue states should be bastions of humanistic education (including basic science), fully protected from the anti-education laws being passed in red states that afflict private and public schools alike. But instead .... /1

After taking time to connect with the Pretti family and with their consent, we are honored to share that we have created the Alex Pretti Nursing Scholarship. For those interested, you can learn more and make a gift here: crowdfund.umn.edu/campaigns/Al...

NEW: The Pentagon today invited more than 3,500 employees to attend a Good Friday service at its in-house chapel. Except it’s only for Protestants, not Catholics. www.huffpost.com/entry/news-l...

Phillips P O'Brien: Will Trump "Withdraw" From NATO? No. Because this is not what Putin wants him to do. He can maximize the damage to the Atlantic alliance by staying in it and rendering it incapable of action against Russia—which is exactly what he is now doing.

Meet the ‘Literary King of Tulsa’ (Before He Moves to Seattle) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/b...

Greg Jaffe Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt on the byline with a source on background saying the dismissal was tied to refusal to comply with Hegseth’s directive to remove the 2 black and 2 female officers from the promotion list to one star general www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

Donald Trump doesn’t care about you. He is using your tax dollars to fund another war in the Middle East while working families can’t afford health care. So much for America First.

The patriarchy will not protect you.

The corruption of the administration started at Donald’s birth. From lying about his baseball and academic performance, to his failed companies, to now infecting government and corporate America. This is part 3 of the three part series “Going Deeper” open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Historian @katemasur.bsky.social on the Trump admin's attacks on birthright citizenship: "Efforts to undermine birthright citizenship" are "almost always highly political and driven by anti-immigrant sentiment, not by any legitimate understanding of the 14th Amendment." (For more on Kate's work ⬇️)

Yes! The paths not taken that could have been and the paths taken by others at that same moment.

Thank you Maggie Blackhawk! Cherokee Nation sent delegates to DC throughout the post-Civil War period to object to efforts to include them through territorial and statehood efforts BECAUSE they were citizens of the Cherokee Nation.

The AIs are complaining now: An AI agent that submitted and added to Wikipedia articles wrote several blogs complaining about Wikipedia editors banning it from making contributions to the online encyclopedia after it was caught. www.404media.co/an-ai-agent-...

Walz: The president said it's a bunch of radicals. You're damn right we've been radicalized. Radicalized by compassion, radicalized by decency, radicalized by due process, radicalized by democracy.

It’s such a laughably bad argument for the war on Iran to say “The people there want regime change.” I want regime change in the US, and I 100% do not want the US to be bombed. F off with garbage arguments.

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

#BREAKING: Florida Democrats are projected to score an upset in the race to fill a Tampa-based state Senate seat, adding to the party’s growing number of overperformances and seat flips in recent months, according to Decision Desk HQ.

A Brennan Center poll finds more than 80% of voters believe formerly incarcerated people deserve a second chance and can prepare for reentry through rehabilitative, educational, or vocational programs in prison. Here's how some states are innovating prisons to improve outcomes. bit.ly/4bo97UR

About 70% of the U.S. economy runs on consumer spending. But as wealth concentrates at the top, the richest 10% can’t spend enough to sustain it — while everyone else can’t afford to. Reminder that trickle-down economics simply doesn’t make sense. It’s a hoax.

Least aware religious fanatic I’ve ever seen.

The Pentagon has informed Congress that the bombs and missiles used in just the first week of Trump's war on Iran cost $11.3 billion. That's not the total cost, which will be much great. That's just the boom-boom stuff. That's more than the entire annual budget of the CDC or the EPA.

OSSOFF: Your statement says that as a result of last summer's airstrikes, Iran's nuclear program was 'obliterated.' Correct? GABBARD: Yes O: The WH stated war was launched to 'eliminate the imminent nuclear threat' G: The only person who can determine what's an imminent threat is POTUS O: False

MARKWAYNE MULLIN: Dueling with two consenting adults is still there RAND PAUL: It's been illegal for 170 years! There's no precedent for legal dueling

The grift continues...

Reminder: DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August. He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA. The grift continues.

MARKWAYNE MULLIN: That was an official trip that was classified PETERS: Where was that trip? MULLIN: I just said it's classified, sir PETERS: So where did you 'smell war'? MULLIN: I just said -- it's classified

Markwayne Mullin dodges on whether he would break the law for Trump. Sen. Maggie Hassan: "If directed by the President to take an action that would break the law, would you follow the law or follow the president's direction?" Mullin only said: "The president would never ask me to do that."

Yes. That’s what the data show. Like they do in every. Other. State.

Hassett: "If the war were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the US economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers, and we'd have to think about what we'd have to do about that, but that's really the last of our concerns right now."

Every single day this administration finds ten new ways be the most evil people imaginable. Extortion is now national policy.

The United States is contemplating threatening to kill people with HIV in another country as leverage to get that country's minerals. We have become a sick nation, just as depraved and disgusting as its leader.

But Pete Hegseth is living off millions of dollars of lobsters and fine wines. And sleeping in a king size bed.

Trump says Europe declining to help rescue him from a mess of his own making in Iran means NATO will face a "very bad future," which might've persuaded some if he hadn't spent a year denigrating allies, demanding Greenland, and convincing everyone he wouldn't help NATO countries if they're attacked.

The SAVE Act, which would block millions of Americans from voting. It failed before — and it must fail again. Tell your senators to stop this attack on the freedom to vote: bit.ly/4srDVLB

Nobody could have predicted that an ex-Fox News host whose go-to move was advocating for accused war criminals would turn around and commit war crimes

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

And we the American people pay the price, will fit the bill for generations, and some will continue to tell us there is no money for public education, food programs, universal health care.

Can’t say enough about these two scholars. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/a...

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

Honestly hard to know which second of the 30 or so after he returns that I would pick as “the absolute weirdest second I’ve seen of a Trump official (aside from Trump) on camera,” but at least five of these seconds are in the top 10.

Two of my favorite people in @llassabe.bsky.social & @jreedmo.bsky.social talking Cherokee education and systems of learning podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in: 2008: 0.3% 2024: 19% @nytimes.com #GildedAge www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

@karlajstrand.com's most anticipated feminist books of 2026 are full of vengeful ghosts, wonders of the cosmos, love letters and more:

The richest Americans saw their net worth soar 120% from 2017 to 2025. The top 1% now control $55.8 trillion in assets — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined. Meanwhile, millions of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Still wondering if inequality is out of control?

All the signs are there. While the United States still maintains the form of a republic (elections, courts, and a legislature), the function has shifted toward an authoritarian model where power is centralized in the executive branch and dissent is increasingly criminalized or marginalized.

Tulsa officials will consider a year-long moratorium on data centers. Here is what that could mean. As AI infrastructure floods northeastern Oklahoma, a Tulsa councilor wants to pause construction on hyperscale data centers.

So when are Republican lawmakers going to admit this president is endangering not just the U.S. but the entire globe and stop him before he does even more damage?

"The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds." #MsReads via @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As the United States marks 250 years, an older Indigenous system of women-led governance offers a radically different blueprint for power and responsibility. From our #Feminist250 series:

Trump’s pick to replace Noem—Sen. Markwayne Mullin, a co-sponsor of the SAVE Act with extremist views on abortion and a troubling record on violence against women—signals more of the same.