Reporting on Pacific newts made me love them so much I did some gonzo drawings about them, too. www.hcn.org/issues/58-5/...

New from 404 Media: the FBI says it wants to buy nationwide access to license plate readers. This would likely mean the FBI could track vehicles, and by extension people, without a warrant. FBI offering $36m. Only really two companies could do it: Flock and Motorola www.404media.co/the-fbi-want...

Trump Is Not the Golden Calf. He’s King Nebuchadnezzar. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

One of them was so sick already the DRC said they couldn’t care for her, and a US judge ordered her return on Wednesday. Unclear if that has happened yet. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

Ready to lead? IJA is calling for board candidates! Join our live Q&A to learn about board service on May 18 at 5:30 PM MST. Register for the Q&A or check eligibility https://tinyurl.com/bdckswa8 📝Declarations Due: May 25 🗳️Elections: July 8–23 ✊🏽 Shape the future of Indigenous media! #IJA2026

Breaking: Six people died in California immigration detention centers over the past year as the crowded sites struggled to provide basic medical care, according to a new state investigation detailing conditions inside the facilities. cal.news/3P58Ejx 📸 Anthony Albright

“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.

I really, really hate to sharing this, but last week, we @biographic.bsky.social learned that the California Academy of Sciences will no longer be providing the magazine with financial support, including money we were expecting to receive this year. We're in a real bind.

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

From me: Border wall crews damage 1,000-year-old site as tribe warns of risks www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

“I liken it to destroying the Nazca lines — something that culturally we should have been relishing and promoting. Not destroying,” Rick Martynec, an archaeologist, said.

I just completed a short and sweet update to BADBOOL. 💥I added information on how to opt out of National Public Data 💥I removed outdated “further reading” links, which I plan to revamp with new links and resources soon! 💥I added a donate link. github.com/yaelwrites/B...

Trump and Elon Musk destroyed most of the global H.I.V. program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Zambia. Now the US is threatening to cut remaining support, unless Zambia gives access to the country’s mineral resources. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

Sabastian Sawe of Kenya has become the first person to run a marathon in under 2 hours.

🚨 CPJ calls for urgent international investigation into Israel’s killing of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil. Israel’s failure to allow medical crews access in time to save her while she was injured may constitute a war crime. Read more: cpj.org/2026/04/cpj-...

GEO Group's top D lobbyist Richard Lyles Sullivan has been showering Democrats across the country with Trump concentration-camp cash

Quite the story in the Texas observer by @gaigedavila.bsky.social.

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.

“The federal government had access to that video within hours of the shooting on Jan. 14, the Minneapolis police chief said. Yet prosecutors did not watch the footage, an official said, until nearly three weeks after they filed charges against the two men.”

may this be the beginning of something

Royer Perez-Jimenez was 19 years old. He died by suicide at 3am on March 16 at Glades County Detention Center in Florida. He is the 2nd person to die in ICE custody this week, the 13th this year, and the 42nd under Trump. 🧵

You could—I believe in my heart of hearts—perform the entirety of Musgraves’ album Golden Hour at karaoke and no one would be upset at all. The whole bar would affirm your artistic choice. You would get phone numbers and a few ranch waters. You would be invited to the Tucson Gem Show.

Breaking news: A jury convicted people who protested outside an ICE facility in Texas of providing material support to terrorists, and other charges in a closely watched case in which the gov't argued the protesters were "Antifa". www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.

“Journalists and researchers from Bellingcat, The New York Times, The Associated Press and CNN analyzed satellite images, verified videos and U.S. statements about military positioning and found that the U.S. likely carried out the attack.” www.poynter.org/fact-checkin...

I feel this strongly: I don't care. I am DISGUSTED that 175 little girls are dead and that thousands are dead across the region and that 1 million people are displaced in Lebanon alone. THIS IS EVIL.

Iranian journalist reports in front of the flames of a burning Oil depot.

This has nothing to do with the specific content here, but Polymarket adopting the language of news, here with BREAKING, and with Texas election results earlier this week, is BAD. Polymarket is not and will never be a news org or break news. It's a betting app. It's Draft Kings for sociopaths.

green is better change it back

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

It’s always 건배, 건배, girl, what’s up? And never 건배, 건배, girl, how has life been treating you?

Contract worker dies at Rio Tinto mine in Guinea reut.rs/3MpgFOT

Jill Scott’s long awaited NPR Tiny Desk concert will premiere Monday at noon EST:

Amazon's latest data center construction outside Canton is one of a fleet of data centers announced statewide. Additional data centers are planned for Lauderdale & Rankin counties, & a third Amazon facility is planned for Vicksburg. Elon Musk's xAI is also building a data center in DeSoto County.

As Northwest Indiana residents’ utility frustrations mount over triple-digit increases, legislators, too, are feeling the pressure to use the tools at their disposal to help provide relief. https://gary.capitalbnews.org/indiana-utility-bill-relief-nipsco-costs/

Fell in love with the girl at the gem show 🎶

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

A rainbow, a family portrait, a heart. These are the drawings found in handwritten letters from children detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas. Read them today on @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Katie Mettler, a former chair of the Washington Post Guild, said on Saturday: “I’m glad Will Lewis has been fired. I wish it had happened before he fired all my friends.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...

It was an honor to photograph Jaylynn for this story.

Scenes from a Kristi Noem presser east of Nogales, Ariz this morning. Images made for Bloomberg.

If you are able, The Post's union has started a layoff fund for those fired by the world's fourth-richest man today. gofund.me/a310d0286

NEW: The FBI has been unable to access a Washington Post reporter’s seized iPhone because it was in Lockdown Mode, a sometimes overlooked feature that makes iPhones broadly more secure, according to recently filed court records.

“You don’t have to torture people. They’re not going anywhere—they’re on a plane.” A private equity–owned airline is profiting from Trump’s migrant crackdown. Now, ICE deportation flights are getting longer and crueler as a result.