“I think there’s some opportunism taking place. It’s going to be much easier to run these schools without a student newspaper.” At least 20 U.S. colleges have gutted student newspaper funding in the last five years, Ananya Chetia reports. In response, scrappy student journalists are fighting back.

Featured story: Flock has sold nearly 92,000 cameras to local police departments—including more than 10,000 in Texas, according to an open source map. Privacy advocates are determined to bring that number down, and they're starting to get their way.

Twenty years ago, men facing execution in Tennessee were regularly interviewed on television and in print. But access to the men and women on the state’s death row has been all but eliminated in the year since. ✍️: @iamstevenhale.bsky.social

the Supreme Court's order last night letting Alabama use a district map that lower courts already *found unconstitutional* confirms what I said last week Callais's harm goes beyond the VRA The GOP justices could only rewrite the VRA by rewriting the Constitution ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

They’re burning books. Yesterday, Jake Lang, a GOP candidate for U.S. Senate, burned a copy of Antiracist Baby. He also burned the Quran near the Islamic Center of America in Michigan. He previously burned the Talmud. 🎥 @bgonthescene

Vitamin k saves newborn lives Get them the shot #disability

"We were hearing, every day, the screams of other Palestinians who were being tortured inside this investigation center." Global Sumud Flotilla activist Saif Abukeshek describes the ten days he spent in Israeli detention after he was violently arrested at sea.

I do not need LEGO Minas Tirith. I have nowhere to put it. I do not need LEGO Minas Tirith. I have nowhere to put it. I do not need LEGO Minas Tirith. I have nowhere to put it. www.lego.com/en-us/produc...

The Payback is out in paperback today, it’s the same great student loan industry heist novel in a smaller size and lower price. www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Pa...

Oh, this is fantastic!

Many older adults who died of COVID weren’t close to death before infection, study suggests In fact, 28% would likely have lived at least another 5 years if they hadn't contracted the virus. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/man...

Last week, the Trump administration explicitly stated its intention to "neutralize" - its word, not mine - US trans people. Since then I can count on one hand the number of cis people who have even mentioned it. A whole bunch of cis people have talked about trans people demanding too much though.

The Heritage Foundation’s new “family” document gives the game away. This isn’t just about abortion. It’s about enforcing a narrow vision of who gets rights, who gets care, and who gets to live freely. www.importantcontext.news/p/heritage-f...

Meanwhile, Israel's illegal conquest of the West Bank & assaults on Palestinian life continue. apnews.com/article/isra...

A generation ship is the only form of interstellar travel viable without FTL. One of the main challenges in this would be making sure that successive generations maintain the mission they did not opt into, making political scientists the most important scientists for space exploration.

"An ICE takedown caught on camera left a 19-year-old bleeding and requiring stitches to his head. Cellphone video showed the teen get tackled by agents. Once they figured out they had made a mistake, they dropped him off at a park, bloody and bruised..." www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/d...

A few months ago, a reader asked us if we'd post about her dog, Stella, who'd just passed away. While there are plenty of places to put remembrances of humans online, there aren't too many options for people who want to memorialize their pets. So we made one. www.coyotemedia.org/bay-area-pet...

Now feels like a good time to re-up my new starter pack. Follow these accounts, join their newsletters, do whatever you need to to keep in touch with their output. Small presses rely on loyal customers. go.bsky.app/C2tf7oZ

BILL UPDATE: H.381: Expressing support for the designation of May 5, 2025, as the "National Da... ACTION: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each ca... #congress #military

It was quite a week in Tennessee last week. Photojournalist John Partipilo captured the week in photos.

getting flashbacks to one of the most alarming stories i've ever written rewirenewsgroup.com/2019/03/25/t...

Members of Congress must now decide whether they will honor their oaths to uphold the Constitution, or hand all power without accountability to the executive branch, effectively sanctioning an imperial presidency.

The University of Kentucky blamed much of its layoffs on funding changes, but its workers and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear want transparency.

ICYMI: A circuit court ruled the “human life” definition in Kentucky’s abortion ban unconstitutional, the maternal mortality rate for Indigenous Minnesotans is 12 times higher than the state average, and a new lawsuit contends Arkansas' abortion ban denies life-saving care.

He really looked at every transportation crisis facing this country and said you know what we really need is me back on Road Rules

A tool called DROP lets California residents fill out a few forms to keep their personal data from being tracked or sold by data brokers.

NEW: Mike Collins, a congressman from Georgia, wants to take away commercial driver’s licenses from noncitizens. Over the past 25 years, truckers for his businesses have been involved in crashes that killed five people and injured more than 50 people.

This Nextdoor comment is amazing. Apparently 1500 square feet is basically a prison. First time I have seen the anti-housing side claim to want a bigger project.

It's Period Poverty Awareness Week so I'm raising money! V v v brief info here, but will be writing more about why/how I got involved and how you can help this week and next heading into Menstrual Hygiene Day on May 28

Hey folks, found a copy of Nitro Gen Omega in my inbox, and while I unfortunately have to decline as I'm far too busy and swamped at the moment, but as usual I'm giving a shout-out because it looks extremely neat and has a demo you can try right now, so maybe give it a look?

Folks in Kentucky, when the state says you can start the renewal process for your RealID six months before renewal, understand that you NEED to start six months early. Especially if you want the 8 year renewal, which is ONLY available in person.

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

It’s my birthday today 🥷🐈‍⬛️ I put part of this year’s drawings on the floor to see where I’ve been going without always noticing. Apparently… I made a lot of sketches. Thank you for being here 🫂🩵 There’s a cat watching over everything somewhere in the picture. Can you spot it? #artsky #sketch

Would you like some whimsy? We're sharing introductions to each of the rats in our Rat Trail by artist/maker Fong Scott. Watch now on our YouTube playlist! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said. From the archives:

At least 79 kids have been harmed by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s immigration crackdown. In most cases, they were going about their days when officers shot chemical munitions near their homes and schools and into their cars.

Before Mother’s Day, a group of senators raised the alarm about the “appalling and horrific treatment” of pregnant and nursing people in immigration detention. “There are virtually no legal safeguards for pregnant women in federal custody.”

So my list of foods & ingredients available in Medieval Europe is getting a bit out of hand, so I'm giving it it's own article, you can find it here: fakehistoryhunter.net/2026/05/10/f...

Most of the overall profits on the prediction market platform, Polymarket, have gone to 0.05 percent of its users, a new Post analysis finds.

Donald Trump and his family have added billions to their net worth since Inauguration Day, with much of that new wealth coming from a dizzying array of crypto projects. But some of those gains are under threat, thanks to the crypto sector’s recent struggles.

Hi everyone. Transfem artist/arg dev in need of support. 1/2 ko-fi.com/withkindereyes

Studies have shown students using ai for research have less white brain matter than those who don’t All the stuff they said watching too much tv would do to us is EXACTLY what AI is doing Probably working as designed Make humans incapable of critical thought pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

I'm making a little list of all the types of food, spices & herbs available in Europe during the middle ages. Check it out and let me know if I missed any or should remove some. I can't cook to save my life, so the kitchen is an alien place to me ;) fakehistoryhunter.net/2019/09/10/m...

The US did NOT contact airline passengers who flew with people known to have been infected with hantavirus. Cool cool.

The recent Supreme Court decision, which effectively killed the last remaining provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, represents the life’s work of John Roberts. The Roberts Court has now gutted the VRA on three different occasions, and Roberts wrote or joined all those opinions.

Bathroom bans are unworkable in practice. When pushed, supporters admit they expect trans people to break their laws. Creating laws trans people have no choice but to break isn't an accident. The intent is punishment of the ones they hate. The intent is driving trans people out of public life

If we play our cards right, soon we’ll be able to send handguns through the postal service but not birth control or ballots

#christianity #bible #art #mothersday HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY

“We’re seeing the greatest purge of Black power since the era of Reconstruction.”