What a story. What a blessing she was to the fight. "At that first meeting, Dr. Long realized that the activists needed a guide who was fluent in science to help them expedite the approval of drugs to treat AIDS & the H.I.V. virus that causes it. “She was their scientific North Star." #GiftLink 🎁

The Coachella music festival is in the news with the minimum price of sold out 3-day ticket costing $549. Contrast that with "Nicolas" who is currently harvesting onions in the Coachella area and getting paid $22 for a $900lb crate. #WeFeedYou #coachella2026

Going to remind the country that we already do safe and effective identity verification via licensed agents called notaries. Problem for tech companies is you can't extract rent from the notary public framework because compensation per transaction is legally fixed.

“Zoom said that hosts can enable a Deep Face waiting room to require all participants to verify their identity. Participants can also request mid-call that someone verify themselves on the spot.”

Baby showers getting down to business.

“Prior to being an eating habit, cannibalism is a way to articulate social relations.” -Mondher Kilani What is neoliberalism but subjugation by anthropophagical monsters?

There is still time to apply to work with us this summer! We are looking for early-career researchers. The application close NEXT MONDAY (4/20) at midnight and we are looking for a fellow for this summer. Full details can be found here —> —> https://short.lucyparsonslabs.com/summer2026

The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles. That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org. (All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).

NEW: We’ve identified the man who runs the far-right troll account on X “HowlingMutant,” whose jokes about rape and the Holocaust have earned him nearly 200,000 followers, which include Vice President JD Vance. His name is Alexander Norden, from Rockaway Park in New York City.

In February 2025 alone, the DOJ dropped nearly 11,000 cases — the most in a month since at least 2004. The previous high was just over 6,500 cases in September 2019, during Trump’s first administration.

Spoiler alert: the season finale of The Pitt does NOT give you any full frontal of Patrick Ball despite taking you right to the edge and I’m very disappointed. ☹️

Sex work is bad because *checks notes* it causes ghost infestations in your quantum holofractal fields.

San Francisco confirms a measles case in an infant: www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...

BREAKING: A jury has found Live Nation and Ticketmaster to be an illegal monopoly that overcharges fans. After the federal government settled the case, 34 states kept pursuing the giant ticket and concert company. Now, the states have won.

If you’d like to know more about your reproductive rights in prison, register for a booklet launch panel on May 6 here: bit.ly/KYRBooklet Proceeds from the sale of booklet will go towards free distribution to those incarcerated within the CA womens prison system: www.lulu.com/shop/unapolo...

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: The journal Surveillance & Society is seeking nominations for new Associate Editors. Please share with others and consider applying! #surveillance #openaccess Deadline: April 30, 2026 ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

Too many people practically worship a writer who continues to compare this era of reproductive control to the fictional Handmaid's Tale, rather than to the very real US history of forced reproduction under chattel slavery and forced eugenic sterilization. It's just social media bait at this point

Two Tennessee Republicans are seeking to impose the death penalty on women who have abortions www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

If you’re wondering if the Indio PD is hitting their quotas, 97 attendees were arrested at Coachella: 59 for drug possession, 14 for false identification, 3 for drug or alcohol intoxication, 1 property crime, 20 for undefined crimes of “other” www.themirror.com/entertainmen...

The state ethics board has fined the local social media influencer Kevin Dahlgren for violating state law when he worked in homeless services for the city of Gresham. Dahlgren faced previous legal peril in a Multnomah County criminal case over the same conduct, but state ethics law still applies.

We found out several things during the wait. 1) target uses AI for theft prevention which often falsely targets people. 2) they purposly don't notify you if you don't scan all items in a self checkout lane. 3) if u hit the ok button on the self checkout and you miss an item they say thats stealing

While California is at the forefront of print blocking, the impacts will be felt far outside of its borders. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

#OtD 14 Apr 1931 radical workers attacked the women's prison on Carrer Amalia, Barcelona, freeing the prisoners therein. Anarchist Maria Rius was one of the women involved in the assault, who had previously been jailed for planning jailbreaks stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8538...

I love when SWERFS drop the mask and reveal their authoritarian side.

A lot of feminists push for the criminalization of sex work & the destruction of digital spaces for sex workers to post ads + screen clients. This essay shows you one outcome of that: a marketplace that favors the clients over the providers by every conceivable metric by cultivating whorephobia.

new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:

A new report from the University of California shows that the state's decision to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hr didn’t hurt jobs, or raise prices much. Data from over 2,000 restaurants shows that the $20/hr minimum wage didn’t reduce employment. /1

there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

Did any millennials ever really grow out wanting to go to space camp? youtu.be/EPLW9HYq9J8?...

coming up this Thursday, April 16: my free online talk, "A Short History of Nazi-Satanism." At 1pm EST/10am PST. You can register by following the link below! spencersunshine.com/2026/04/13/t...

I’m not a Coachella person but I’m fascinated that a music festival in the desert would ban advanced first aid kits including tourniquets. If things went badly at a festival of this side their on-site medics would be overwhelmed quickly. www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

Take a look at the CNN sourcing and fact-checking on their Swalwell article. Look at how many extra people they contacted in order to corroborate claims. They viewed screenshots, called parents/husbands/friends/colleagues. They viewed TV footage and interviews, & more. Two things worth pointing out:

One of the things they don’t warn you about aging is how one day you go to apply makeup but now all of the sudden it’s like you’re trying to apply eye liner to a ballsack.

“They are trying to invent antifa as an int'l threat to tie it to groups...in the US...the administration is further down the path of twisting the counterterrorism machinery of the U.S. gov't to going after domestic political opponents than people realize.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

To be very frank, I’d feel a whole lot safer in this city if the suspect was released back into the community. www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...

Undiluted white supremacy is currently the governing logic of US refugee policy.

Important investigation into failures with ICE medial care that have likely caused multiple deaths. I'll note that these failures are common in the criminal justice system, and are just as deadly there, which is one reason why a solution is to heavily restrict the use of immigration detention.

Tune Up Tues SF: Liz Henry from Grassroots Open Assistive Technology & Vincent Lopez from ILRCSF Wheelchair Repair Program will be at the DCC every 1st Tues to talk about how to give your wheel/powerchair, scooter, walker, & other mobility gear some love disabilityculturalcenter.org/event/tune-u...

Last night I gave a talk at the Princeton Adult School on the legacies of the civil rights movement and the links to our world today. Just posted it on CAMPAIGN TRAILS:

💢 Israeli strike kills Lebanese radio journalist in her home, Committee to Protect Journalists reports Ghada Dayekh, a presenter w/ privately owned Sawt Al-Farah radio, was killed when an Israeli airstrike hit her apartment building in the southern coastal city of Tyre, destroying it, according...

Contact the Center on Conscience & War if you’re in the US military and want to seek discharge or reassignment as a Conscientious Objector. centeronconscience.org/who-is-milit...

You do not have to choose military orders over your own conscience. There are people who will help you get out or be reassigned. Check out the website down thread or call 1-800-379-2679

I would like to talk more about how ICE shot someone else yesterday and he is in critical condition! The coverage is really horrifying because DHS is giving a similar story to the one they gave about Renee Good and so much news coverage is just buying it. Please talk about Carlos Mendoza Hernandez.

April 18 - Jail Support 101 - 2 to 4 pm - www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/jai...

After TSA shared more than 31,000 records www.reuters.com/world/ice-ar... #NoICE

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DHS threatens to halt international travel at SFO over sanctuary policies www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

When the data doesn’t back up their arguments, anti-abortion groups turn to misinformation to make their case. That includes self-publishing unsubstantiated data to influence public opinion, and even using that data to justify a national abortion ban.