I know it’s competing with an illegal war and 10,000 other major scandals but I feel like people should be making a bigger deal out of the DefSec systematically trying to resegregate the military

If this is accurate, it's pretty awful.

The Trump DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases in the first six months of Trump's second term — abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to immigration cases, according to an analysis by ProPublica.

Israel's new law mandating death by hanging for Palestinians who are convicted of murdering Israelis, which further cements Israel’s apartheid system, is drawing condemnation from rights groups and other countries.

Books by LGBTQ+ and racially marginalized authors exploring gender, sexuality, race, and racism "are overwhelmingly targeted," sending a chill through the publishing industry, disproportionately affecting women, queer, and racially marginalized authors. womensmediacenter.com/news-feature...

“I am afraid that one day they will get me, and I will leave the baby alone." Immigrant moms are hiding from ICE: skipping postpartum visits, losing income because they're avoiding work, afraid to go buy food or diapers. 1/3 of maternal deaths happen in the postpartum year. Most are preventable.

He’s desperate

Is *Maddow* saying the oil blockade on Cuba is ok?!

I suspect we will remember this case as the precedent for overturning bans on hate speech. 8-1, with even liberal justices arguing that all words are protected, even if those words are violent and threaten the lives and well-being of the listeners.

This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...

I have the stomach to say one more thing: as meaningful as what students saw in response to their protests (repression) is what they didn't (US shifting away from support for genocide). describing this as *their* failure as opposed to the supposed adults in the room is a joke and not the funny kind

JK Rowling is calling women athletes men even after they pass genetic testing. People in her replies are talking about these women having “ambiguous” genitalia. We are in an extremely frightening moment for ALL women thanks to transphobia.

the biggest disconnect between most people and government is that they don’t feel like government is doing anything useful for them bridging this divide is as difficult as it’s ever been in the age of fractured social media, but I genuinely do not think anyone is doing it better than Zohran

Three countries stood alone as 123 nations voted to formally label the transatlantic slave trade the “gravest crime against humanity” the U.S., Israel, and Argentina all voted no on the Ghana-led UN reparations resolution.

An explosion of reported measles cases in Texas’ federal detention facilities broke through to the public last month, infecting at least four El Paso residents who worked in one of the centers and potentially exposing the highly contagious disease to the wider population.

Trump’s signature is about to appear on U.S. currency a first in American history. Starting in June, new $100 bills will carry his name alongside Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s, replacing the Treasurer’s signature for the first time in 165 years. Presidents have always appeared on our money,

The California sheriff who last month seized over 650,000 ballots has ties to a movement of radical right-wing local enforcement officials that has embraced election denialism and conspiracism. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/cali...

I often am able to get more discussion going on fb than here. I would love to get some good discussion going here. Do you disagree with any of the following? I'd like to make it stronger. Please let me know which parts are not evident to you. 1/6

US Regime showing its true colours The UN General Assembly just adopted a resolution on the enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity. Here is the vote total below - 123 in favor. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Banning nearly all future routers will hit consumers hard. Supply chains and practicality need to be considered before such sweeping rules.

Mississippi Department of Public Safety officials discovered Ku Klux Klan items while cleaning out a closet to move to the department’s new headquarters

You may wonder why Trump bundled trans issues into the SAVE Act. It’s because many Republican voters will vote against their self-interest if they have the chance to marginalize trans people.

Over the past few years, I have heard *a lot* of stories from survivors who were deeply, deeply harmed by a mandate that they participate in restorative justice—especially if an organization’s true motivation to use RJ was to protect a perpetrator’s space in an organization.

Exclusive: The Cuban government refused a request by the U.S. Embassy in Havana to import diesel fuel for its generators this week, calling the ask “shameless,” given the Trump administration’s fuel blockade on the island, according to diplomatic cables.

One of the big shifts that I noticed was that when the .com bubble burst there were suddenly a lot fewer women riding CalTrain. It was really obvious who they were laying off first.

More Pride flags popped up in windows on Boston university’s campus today. People are distributing them. I really don’t know where the administration thinks this will go.

"Black women ...comprise 6 percent of the overall U.S. labor force and 12 percent of the federal labor force. But of the almost 300,000 federal jobs slashed in 2025, Black women were a stunning 33 percent of those cuts."

@doctorow.pluralistic.net I'm enjoying Picks & Shovels. (I don't get the title yet...) Horchata is usually made from rice not oats, at least the Mexican horchata I used to get in the mission.

You can tell a lot about my state by our roads. Our rural highways look like the people in charge. They are broken and skimmed with a chip and seal veneer that wears thin as soon as the election is over. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

The dementia-ravaged president is increasingly spewing nonsense and acting erratically, with dangerous consequences for the entire world and it seems like that really should be all we're talking about.

On March 13, ICE agents surrounded Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal in front of his home in Texas as he prepared to drive his children to school. The 41-year-old father, who had served alongside the 3rd Battalion of the U.S. Army Special Forces in Afghanistan, died in ICE custody the next day.

One woman was adopted at the age of 2 from an Iranian orphanage by a U.S. Air Force veteran in 1973. Her parents, who never completed her naturalization, are dead. This February, DHS notified her that she is subject to deportation because she overstayed her visa in March 1974 — at 4 years old.

The pattern is unmistakable: The more U.S. bombs have fallen on Iran, the more ICE has arrested and abused Iranians en masse in the United States. As of September 2025, 320 documented final orders of removal had been issued to Iranians.

Amazon is now rolling out 1-hour and 3-hour delivery. Injuries have already been increasing near 'last-mile' Amazon warehouses that handle the last leg of the delivery process. And workers at the many Amazon sub-contractors are already heavily exploited and over-worked.

Trump and Carr are threatening to revoke licenses to broadcast networks because they don’t like their coverage of Trump’s unauthorized war. This is a direct attack on the free press in the United States. It cannot be allowed to stand. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Just remembered that for the promo for Samantha Bee's Not the White House Correspondents Dinner several years ago, I joked that President Trump was going to Hell. He seems pretty committed to that goal these days.

I analyzed the Proud Boys donor list. The most common occupation was real estate (realtor, mortgage broker) — the same parasitic class that was over-represented among Jan 6th rioters.

Oh no people were targeting the DOGE boys? www.propublica.org/article/doge...

FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatens broadcast licenses over Iran War coverage

It’s a pernicious belief in this country that suing someone is justice.

Sen. Josh Hawley filed legislation this week that would direct the FDA to withdraw its approval of mifepristone to terminate pregnancies, make distributing the drug a violation of federal law and allow women to sue abortion drug manufacturers.

I'm hoping everyone who was excited Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey used the F-word against ICE can read this piece, because he just vetoed an ordinance that would have paused evictions, after the passed city council. Important reporting by Amie Stager.

Warning: Public Health Announcement Today Trump’s EPA moved to roll back limits on ethylene oxide emissions from medical device sterilization plants a cancer-causing gas that’s also essential to keeping those devices safe to use.

Horrific. Georgia police charged a woman with murder after she allegedly used misoprostol. Hospital may have reported her. @pregnancyjust.bsky.social calls it “an unprecedented murder charge for an alleged abortion, even though no law in the state of Georgia permits such a charge." bit.ly/46W2Ezb

We have a job: theclaremontcolleges.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/POM-faculty-... Please consider applying if interested in a temp (up to 3 yrs) job at a small liberal arts college where you'll teach 4 math courses and supervise 3 senior theses per year. Pomona is a neat place to work at. #iteachmath

This new book Math Decoded by James Tanton belongs in every math teacher’s book collection. It encourages deep thinking around many natural questions that kids ask about numbers. Book launches this week!

The Senate GOP posted an AI deepfake of Texas Senate candidate James Talarico. Using this tech isn't just a profound threat to our democracy - it's a disgraceful attempt to intentionally deceive voters. Congress must swiftly pass federal AI protections.