As a former StoryCorps facilitator, this is fucking disgusting. End the project already, Dave. You created a good model: you encouraged people to sit and do oral history for 20 yrs. Turning StoryCorps into a surveillance capitalism nightmare is not worth the money to keep the project going.

In just purely objective terms there’s only one country in the Middle East that currently occupies the territory of three different countries and bombs another three

This is a snapshot of the failure of MSM and the concomitant ignorance within the American electorate about what is happening in and to their country.

Illinois made history as the first state to outlaw book bans once and for all. Marginalizing people, ideas, or facts has no place in our state — and they have no place in a democracy. This National Library Week, we continue our commitment to free thought and free speech.

Makes sense; the Supreme Court basically agreed it was illegal.

Unvarnished gutter racism akin to what you'd hear out of the mouth of eugenicist Social Darwinists in the early 20th century.

A couple points on this manifesto, apart from the racial superiority subtext others noted. Palantir is a company built on public contracts, they bill the state billions to surveil and target the state's population. The manifesto exists to justify their demand for even more. /1

Not a dime of taxpayer money or govt contracts should go to Palantir.

Dear CNN, we do separate religion from our government. And as a major outlet, your job is to remind everyone exactly on that.

Mamdani: "What are we fighting for?. When you look back at the history books of our party, 100 years ago we had a very clear vision of what we were fighting for. It's sad that for too many Americans, when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, then have to turn to a history book."

The Constitution did not anticipate a Congress that would abandon not only its responsibility but its power.

Great Question, Winona.......

Members Of FBI Director Kash Patel's Security Team Have Trouble Waking Him Up Due To His Excessive Drinking

WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Exactly one year ago today:

Some MAGA acolytes can't imagine people of different creeds, backgrounds, and cultures living peacefully side-by-side. The project to create a cosmopolitan society must be a dark conspiracy. IMO, the central issue of our time is this regressive idea of ethnic absolutism.

IMPORTANT: Under federal law, it's very hard, at times near-impossible, to sue federal law enforcement officers for civil rights violations. But legal theorists have said for decades that there is a possible way to sue under state law instead. This is a VERY big test case.

The Abuser-in-Chief has told some of the most abusive people in this country that they have permission to abuse with abandon and without any consequences. I cannot think of a bigger public safety threat than this.

CNN exposes a global “online rape academy” that teaches men how to drug and rape women without detection. Over 62 million men attended in February alone.

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

WOO! John Eastman has been OFFICIALLY DISBARRED.

The ultra wealthy pay less than ever under Trump's tax policies. You pay more through hidden mechanisms like tariffs and eliminated health credits. This system extracts from workers to fund billionaire slush funds. #TrumpRiggedYourTaxReturn

ZOHRAN: “I ran on taxing the rich — Today, we’re taxing the rich… the first ever pied-a-terre tax for second homes worth $5 Million+… $500 MILLION from the richest of the rich to fund child care, etc…💰” Promises kept.

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

DoorDash's head of public affairs said "no one is claiming it was a real delivery." I found a few people who were claiming that: Reuters, ABC, CBS, the AP, Fox, Newsmax, The Hill, the New York Post, and CSPAN, for starters. www.readtpa.com/p/a-real-del...

We filed a notice in federal court that officers at Florida's “Alligator Alcatraz” are failing to comply with a court order to give people access to attorneys. Guards cut off phone access for a day without warning and brutally beat and pepper sprayed people who spoke up. This can't continue.

What he says…

Two Palestinians were killed in separate strikes in southern Gaza on Monday, according to officials at Nasser hospital. More than 750 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the 2025 ceasefire.

Every STATE needs to follow this lead Trump cannot pardon .

Yes. Every state should do this.

Newly-Elected Hungarian PM Says Orbán Was Paying CPAC, Calls It a ‘Crime’ That ‘Will Have to Be Investigated’ #Mediaite

Immigrants contribute over $525B in taxes annually, including $12B to Social Security from undocumented workers who often get no benefits in return. They pay income, payroll & local taxes, & fund vital programs for us all. Protect our neighbors.

The testimony here about sexual violence by Israel against Palestinian prisoners is so beyond the pale everyone must see it. It is so bad I can’t in good conscience share a quote other than the headline, which somehow manages to understate the horror within. www.middleeasteye.net/news/i-wishe...

Yeah, it's definitely in the public interest to release the details of this agreement.

“The name of Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv, who boasted about destroying homes in Gaza during the war, has turned into a verb: 'To Zarbiv' – to flatten like Gaza. His nomination… to light an Independence Day torch marks Israel's moral collapse” www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...

Great piece.

523 Arrests in London The Met are yet to justify to the public why they U-turned on their policy to not make arrests following the High Court ruling that the proscription of Palestine Action is unlawful. There has been no legal status change since Feb 13. Why the arrests now?

to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

The U.S. just killed five more people in its latest boat strikes. The death toll of these extrajudicial killings is almost 170 civilians. And more deaths are on the horizon. Pentagon Reveals Attacks in Latin America Are Just the Beginning theintercept.com/2026/03/23/t...

A federal judge needs to extend his order blocking work on an immigration detention center in Maryland. The planned detention center would be located just 16 miles from the border with Pennsylvania. From @marylandmatters.org.web.brid.gy

If you don’t know about this, you need to read up. It’s the single bloodiest massacre in the history of Reconstruction, and it was perpetrated to overthrow the results of an election. It was emblematic of the sabotage of Reconstruction. And SCOTUS nullified the prosecution of those responsible.

Remember the @pewresearch.org data on the decline in Israel's standing in the US published last week? We asked them for the crosstabs which they graciously shared with us, and we're publishing for the 1st time. Bottom line: total collapse of Israel's standing among young Americans across the board.

Judges overseeing Louisiana’s landmark oil cases have financial stakes in defendants Federal judges held stock, bonds and leased mineral rights to Exxon, Chevron and others while hearing cases against the companies alleging damage to the Louisiana coast.

Increasingly mainstream news is just a fan fic commissioned by the white house

66 years ago this weekend, LBJ signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. States *can* ensure students are supported regardless of poverty, rural/urban, race, and special needs. But historically it’s taken the federal government to ensure all states do. 1/2

So it turns out paying people a living wage doesn’t collapse the economy; it’s almost like the rich have been lying to us to maintain their power over our lives.

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

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Holy shit! Survivors of the deadliest attack against US service members in the war w/ Iran are calling out Pete Hegseth for being an INCOMPETENT LIAR. Hegseth and the Pentagon not only lied to the American people about what happened, but also about how many casualties there were.