Native Americans had dice and games of probability long before other cultures. Dice and associated activities were first developed in the present-day Southwestern US 12,000 years ago, research suggests. www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

Theory becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses. Our annual Theory Sale runs now through April 10th at 11:59pm. Don't miss out on your chance to save 40% on a selection of key texts both old and new.

A recent federal court decision would allow land surrounding Chaco Canyon National Historic Park to lose its public land protection, leaving more than 300,000 acres vulnerable to oil & gas drilling. Public needs to weigh in by April 6 (link in article). nativenewsonline.net/environment/...

This is such important work. There are so few truly democratic participatory spaces. And so few people have the experience of being an active valued member of an intentional deliberative community to contrast with our experiences as consumers and workers.

You 🫵🏾 are used to being a "user" on another person's platform. I will turn you into community that practices agency or fail trying.

The right and center left have spent decades defunding public goods. Privatization and “public-private” partnerships have left billions of people without safety nets. This message needs to be hammered home daily.

What I learned from my first few weeks as a Green MP? Most politicians have no clue how tough things are out there | Hannah Spencer

EXCLUSIVE: Carrburritos, a popular Carrboro burrito restaurant, will soon take over the Carr Mill Mall suite previously occupied by Grata Diner. The space is most famous for being the former home of Elmo’s Diner. Here are the details:

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Many graduate programs in the US exclude "radical" feminist, critical race, anti colonial, and anti capitalist theory, so that oppression is always having to be "rediscovered" in empirical studies. Authors can participate in unveiling these inequities without political risk or critical analysis.

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

1/ My first story as a @propublica.org climate reporter: I discovered that the Trump appointee in charge of rewriting methane rules at the EPA was – just four years ago – an unnamed author of an oil industry response to those same rules. His name isn't in the document itself, but…

Modern agriculture is collapsing under climate change. Indigenous farming has answers www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/01/n...

🚨NEW DATA: As the number of people in ICE custody has grown, deaths have followed. But ICE facilities are black boxes, and they don't want you to know what's happening inside. The UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project has stepped in to fill the gap 👇 uclaprisondata.org/ice-deaths-i...

I should add that John Sauer went to Duke

Most plausible reason they took it.

DON’T lose sight of (3), (4). There will be dozen op-eds when Trump loses abt “SCOTUS finds its independence” or such nonsense. Think Roberts was often good at producing just enough outcomes like this to maintain a favorable narrative while consistently doing real harm to democracy. Don’t bite.

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So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

“Experts describe ‘surveillance wages’ as a system in which wages are based not on an employee’s performance or seniority, but on formulas that use their personal data, often collected without employees’ knowledge.”

One year into his second term, Trump has installed political appointees across the federal government. Join us April 8 for a walkthrough from our reporters on navigating our database of appointees’ financial disclosures & potential conflicts of interest. Submit a question:

As a Jewish historian who works at a university, I think it’s great that an administration committed to destroying “the internal globalist enemy” which is staffed by groyper antisemites is collecting lists of Jews. Can’t see any potential downside here at all.

Wild that conversion "therapy" - a harmful and disproven approach - is considered "free speech," yet 27 states are allowed to have policies that limit/ban gender affirming care for youth - care that is known to be life-affirming and life-saving.

Review of We Grow Together: "What really delights me about the book is what delights me about abolition as a theory and a practice: its demand that we transform how we relate to one another, in the here and now, in the smallest of our interactions, as well as in the governance of our society."

Look at what the good folks @readlux.bsky.social are doing as an example. They don't have the big money behind them that Turning Points has and they are still doing this. Why can't others do the same? They can.

I would read a book about animal friendships

Good! The systemic racism our peoples families have endured and the vile tactics by child protection agencies is egregiously disgusting. 🪶😡💔🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

People should get to decide whether to take medication

It’s actually not okay to pay someone with a PhD $2500 to teach a college course

Available for preorder - Control Science: How Management Made the Modern World by Henry Snow "With great breadth, it reveals how the capitalist workplace has always been a laboratory." - Gabe Winant

The Handbasket will never feature a story even partially produced by AI and that's a promise.

Rush, an 18-year-old Black woman, died in 1954 after state prison guards gagged her. Her death sparked protests, investigations, and newspaper coverage—and now a federal cold-case board has released documents so her story won’t be forgotten.

The North Carolina Utilities Commission is hosting three public hearings this week where customers can share their feedback on Duke Energy’s latest requested rate hike ncnewsline.com/briefs/nc-ut... by @christinezhu.bsky.social

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Lest we forget... America's anti-choice movement has its roots in segregation and racism.

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Tonight, Monday March 30th at 6:30 PM [ET], watch The Story of Capital book launch live stream. Free registration for the event featuring @davidharvey.org in conversation with @adamtooze.bsky.social is available here: peoplesforum.org/events/the-s...

The latest monthly status on carbon dioxide and methane levels... For more data/info: gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/

Often overshadowed in the attention around Trump’s pardons is the emotional and financial devastation left behind. Few decisions illustrate that more clearly than the case of Joseph Schwartz, who paid himself millions from his nursing homes while diverting money owed to taxpayers and employees.

“Rowling has made it abundantly clear that she thinks attacking transgender people via the legal system is a worthwhile cause and a good use of her vast personal fortune…there’s no way to watch this show without supporting Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting…”

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

The software giving you medical advice and writing your doctor's notes:

If we want people to eat "healthier," we have to make it easier to find joy in things other than food. Like, by guaranteeing paid time off, increasing wages to reduce overwork, lowering housing costs to reduce commutes, and providing healthcare to ensure that bodies/minds are strong enough for fun.

The biodiversity crisis is as urgent as the climate crisis.

Extensive research shows structural inequities are among the most important determinants of health. But students don't need to know about them? The LCME is showing it will abandon scientific principle and undercut care quality at a whiff of political pressure. Should be a legitimacy crisis for LCME.

"The leading medical school accreditation body in the U.S. has removed language from its standards that had required schools it validates to teach about health inequities." Shame. We don't live in a vacuum. All physicians should understand the structural forces that impact their patients' health.

Taking stimulants for ADHD does not increase risk of addiction, actually lowers it