Hospitals routinely use unreliable drug tests at childbirth, and many parents are reported to child welfare agencies and the police. Here’s what you can do.

If you want to remove your personal information online manually from each site, @yaelwrites.com's "Big Ass Data Broker Opt Out List" is the best place to start. If you want to do it automatically, we recommend EasyOptOuts.com on our doxxing guide: activistchecklist.org/doxxing

NO WAR!!!

📢Social justice-oriented civics education is crucial! Check out #LearningForJustice's new course on democracy, the U.S. government and our civic responsibilities, which can help us achieve our goal of developing a multiracial and inclusive #democracy: https://bit.ly/3OFeKGJ #CivicsForDemocracy

Across the country, people are resisting Flock Safety's mass spying. It's time for this invasive technology to get the Flock out of our communities.

‘You Cannot Change a Reality That You Cannot Name’: CounterSpin interview with Kimberlé Crenshaw on anti-Blackness - FAIR #democracy#zmail#zslider#transcripts

The top 1% in America now hoard $55.8 trillion — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined.

March is Long Covid Awareness Month and I got enamel ribbon pins made! Purchase here to support: www.ebay.com/itm/36623394... Wear on your mask, backpack, or shirt 🩵🩶🖤 @c19lap.bsky.social @longcovidkids.bsky.social @longcovidadvoc.com @longcovidjustice.org @longcovidsupport.bsky.social

Learn more about Long COVID and how to get involved this Long COVID Awareness Month: www.longhauler-advocacy.org/lcamonth2026

The death toll from the Israel-US bombing of the girls’ school in Minab has now risen to 165.

This morning, as EMS was trying to reach victims of a mass shooting in downtown Austin, a Waymo was blocking a point of access until a police officer was able to take manual control and move it. There’s no room for @waymo.bsky.social on our streets as long as they’re a safety hazard.

Get off Substack, y'all!

The attacks on Iran, including one which killed dozens at a school for girls, are beyond horrific. End the US/Israel war machine now!

Today is Disability Day of Mourning. Today we remember & honor all the disabled people murdered by their caregivers, their loved ones, & our society. We have lost SO MANY in our community this year alone due to eugenics… They deserve to be remembered. We must stop more from joining their number.

The US has waged many wars—but this is one of the most senseless we’ve ever seen. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Special Report: U.S. & Israel Launch Unprovoked Attack on Iran, Risking Broader Regional War

With a little help from his Sinners co-star Miles Caton, the near-nonagenarian legend gives the Tiny Desk a history lesson in the blues. n.pr/4tPjN7o

Black women led slave revolts. History tried to erase it. On Law and Disorder, Dr. Rebecca Hall talks women led resistance, colonial punishment, ancestral memory, and the link between slavery and modern incarceration. Listen at kpfa.org #KPFA #BlackHistory @wakerevolt.bsky.social

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Who affiliated with Rolling Stone as an organization benefits from framing horrific serial predation in this way? Cause doing this for fun is plausible as a *choice* it's more likely deflection on behalf of someone.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Premature death at the hands of armed agents of the state is merely a hazard of being Black in America. It’s not enough to “abolish ICE”; we have to abolish the police force and replace it with a radically different form of public safety.

JFC

The American people: please fight this fascist agenda, stop data center construction, and work to stop private equity from making life so unaffordable The Democrats: we’re rebranding the CIA into the SHE- IA! Let’s make ICE more NICE! The American People: 🫩

Trans Continental Pipeline-Donate to help queer relocation! Please support if and as you are able. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license. They can't even escape this by moving to another state.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam's violent arrest, by police who saw his walking stick as a weapon—and who, like the Border Patrol officers who dumped him, apparently made no attempt to reckon with his disability or his mental state—set off events that ended in his death. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

The problem is too many folks tie respect to authority when it should be tied to humanity

Aliya Rahman, arrested at Capitol: ‘Every time you try to break my body, you fuel my spirit.’ minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/25/a...

Something else you may have missed yesterday due to all the headlines being on the SOTU, the Supreme Court decided that you cannot sue the postal service or federal government for intentionally not sending you your mail. So when you dont get your mail-in ballots, you know why

"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts." massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social paydayreport.com/rio-police-c...

CALL YOUR CONGRESS PERSON NOW!!!!!! Tell them: — NO to KOSA — NO to Section 230 reform — NO to the SCREEN Act — NO to the App Store Accountability Act —NO age verification laws —NO to digital ID systems

The Rapid Support Forces, one of Sudan’s two main warring parties, targeted, abused, and killed people with disabilities during and after their October 26, 2025, takeover of El Fasher, North Darfur’s capital. New research from HRW:

Israel responsible for 84 of 129 journalist killings in 2025 tracked by the Committee to Protect Journalists.

As someone living with Alopecia, I know what it is to endure a vulnerable transformation not of my choosing. For many impacted by medical hair loss, unaffordable wigs deepen this hardship. Our WIGS bill will expand coverage for wigs, relieving financial barriers & inaccessibility.

Abolition Is Still the Only Way Out of This Forget the useless so-called “reforms” to ICE and policing currently on offer. We need much more fundamental change. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Of course it's the people of color again having to say things... the white Democrats in that room are sitting on their hands.

Tonight, at the State of the Union, several Epstein survivors will be in attendance. As people in power continue to ignore the atrocities named in the Epstein files, we join the survivors' demand for justice. We will not stay silent. We will not look away. We are with the survivors, always.

Beauty products shouldn’t contain ingredients linked to cancer or endocrine disruption. It’s time that braiding hair companies do better to keep consumers safe. Demand these companies remove dangerous contaminants from their products today.

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”

Sister Rosetta Tharpe (born Rosetta Nubin, March 20, 1915 – October 9, 1973) was an American gospel singer, guitarist, and songwriter celebrated as the Godmother of Rock & Roll. #GirlPower #RadicalWomen #BlackHistoryMonth

The SAVE Act will disproportionately impact women who have changed or hyphenated their names—which is over 80 percent of women married to men.

Enough of Trump’s lies and political theater. The real State of the Union belongs to the people. Join MoveOn for the People’s State of the Union – a live counter-program centering truth, accountability, and the voices this administration ignores. Watch here tomorrow at 8:00 PM: MoveOn.org/Live

I’m boycotting the #SOTU. Because I refuse to sit and listen to that man spew lies and hate while the State of our Union is traumatizing our children & families. Instead, I’ll be joining @moveon.org for some truth telling. Tune in to their livestream starting at 8PM.

This guy gets it.

The president, who drones on about protecting women’s sports, publicly mocked the women’s gold-medal hockey team. A reminder this was never about protecting women’s sports and it was always about transphobia and misogyny.