Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.

As usual @prisonculture.bsky.social is right.

'I feel violated': How a Toronto retiree was falsely accused of being the Charlie Kirk shooter - who has never been to Utah and was not even in the US #Canada 77-year-old’s name and photo shared by an account impersonating a Fox news channel www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Pity the nation whose people are sheep And whose shepherds mislead them Pity the nation whose leaders are liars Whose sages are silenced And whose bigots haunt the airwaves

June 12th is Loving Day, a holiday that commemorates the Loving v. Virginia case, which allowed interracial marriage in all parts of the U.S. NPR readers share how the case changed their lives.

It’s interesting that ICE is not conducting raids on the farms and slaughterhouses in South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska etc. where 86% of the workers are undocumented… I wonder if Kristi Noem, as former governor of South Dakota, has an answer…

It was entirely clear this is what they were doing. They say it's about immigrants but nothing would stop them from using this on citizens. It's a clear violation of the privacy act. They're combining databases from DHS, HHS, SSA, and IRS to surveil everyone. www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

Maryland Deportee Told Senator He Had Been in Isolation in El Salvador Prison NYT's Congressional Correspondent Robert Jimison traveled to El Salvador to accompany Senator Chris Van Hollen. He filed this story from Dulles International Airport. Gift link!

BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.

Good work, Tallahassee! Getting people out there! Three and a half hours after it hit social media. "Due process" isn't enough if ICE can just hang onto U.S. citizens. For breathing.

The right for autistic people with intellectual disabilities (and other disabled people) to live outside of institutions was only granted by the US Supreme Court in 1999.

I was adopted, and my name changed, before I was a legal adult. The SAVE act will make it nearly impossible for me to vote. I've spent years tracking down my birth certificate and adoption papers. I was born in Florida. I've paid taxes for 25 years.

“The victims, all from the country’s east, died on a grueling three-hour walk in scorching heat as they tried to reach the nearest remaining health facility, the agency said in a statement.”

This week, my Somerville constituent Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted in broad daylight by DHS officials and sent to Louisiana to be locked in a detention center. She has not been charged with any crime.

The threat to deport undocumented immigrants is a threat to deport documented immigrants is a threat to deport the descendants of immigrants is a threat to deport anyone who they think looks like an immigrant is a threat to deport anyone who disagrees with them

These people instinctively view due process -- and more generally, *rights* -- as a kind of treat, a privilege, that the hegemonic group extends to marginalized groups ... and can yank away the moment it gets anxious.

crowd chanting: we don't want your Nazi cars take a one way trip to Mars #teslatakedown #Boston

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

Diversity initiatives were meant to overcome the old patterns of nepotism, so I guess it makes sense that the enemies of diversity are big fans of nepotism.

When people say 'politics is too divisive now,' what they really mean is 'I was more comfortable when certain groups suffered quietly.'

It's a good day because Maintenance Phase has a new podcast out. I love screaming "NO!!!" accidentally in unison w @michaelhobbes.bsky.social @yrfatfriend.bsky.social

Overnight: Five Trump cabinet members now face a lawsuit accusing them of violating US recordkeeping laws by using the messaging platform Signal for official business

Reminder. When you start with this approach to the nation’s secrets, a Signal group chat on unfolding military plans probably feels like a good and normal thing. A fish rots from the head down.

This is the message federal employees receive after trying to send in their mandatory “5 bullets” email about what they did this week:

begging democrats to make this more than a one-day story. remember hillary's emails? you have agency here to shape press coverage of this grotesque and likely illegal level of incompetency.

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

it is truly terrifying when this level of international fame doesn't offer any protection. If a recent Oscar winner can be attacked and disappeared like this, we can make assumptions about what happens to people who have no international friends and support.

Two friends in gov tell me this is common practice in this admin as Trump & Co try to circumvent the Presidential Records Act and FOIA requests. So much for us plebes that followed the rules!

is ur child texting state secrets in a Signal chat? ily - I Leaked Yemen (attack details) smh - Secret Message Hahahaha tbh - Talkin 'Bout Houthis idk - I Doubt Korea (is in this signal chat) gtg - Gonna Text Goldberg

This is so horrific. Read this. time.com/7269604/el-s...

Elon Musk is stealing your data so he can steal your money, your freedom and your security.

I grew up a Jew in the south and was regularly told I was going to hell by smiling people who genuinely thought they were doing me a favor. They were helping me. They were giving me a chance.

So on March 9, a French scientist, on a visa to attend a conference in Houston, was denied entry to the US and subsequently expelled because his phone had messages decrying scientific policies put forward by the Trump administration: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

ICYMI, my grand debut for @orartswatch.org - a step-by-step account of the month-long clusterfuck which began with the NEA sneaking transphobia into the fine print for all grant applicants and culminated in four theaters saying "I'll see you in court" about it www.orartswatch.org/trumps-execu...

EPA is warning people in Chicago, Gary, Grand Rapids (MI), and St. Louis to not go outside in the dust storm. AQI is over 300 in from PM10 (dust); AQI over 300 is “Hazardous”; over 500 is off-scale. Poor air quality will move east through Michigan into Ontario tonight. Consult www.airnow.gov.

It's at 3131 Olympic Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90404. If you're taking the Metro E Line into Santa Monica get off at the Bergamot/26th street station. The theater's about half a mile to the east. If you're planning on protesting outside the theater, wear a hat. There's not much shade.

Schumer had 11 protesters ARRESTED! They were protesting peacefully in front of his office! What the fuck @schumer.senate.gov you ass!

Here's the latest edition of Open Access 19th-century Periodicals, with a number of new listings, ranging from the Journal of the Institute of Bankers to the Asiatic Quarterly Review to Wide World Magazine. Suggestions very welcome. www.victorianresearch.org/openaccesspe... #C19 #19th-c

FBI telling Citibank to freeze accounts of Habitat for Humanity, the United Way, and the State of NY Dept of Taxation, among a few dozen others.

Research from 2022 that every Democrat apologist should chew on: “We do not find any evidence that accommodative strategies reduce radical right support. If anything, our results suggest that they lead to more voters defecting to the radical right.“ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Specifically, *right-wing white evangelicals* have been fed decades of lies by a hyperorganized apparatus of political organizations, churches, televangelists, and related organizations and influencers that a liberal, pluralistic, diverse democracy is in direct conflict with their religious freedom.

I'll share what I conveyed to a grad student recently: There is much that remains unknown and out of our control right now. The future is extremely uncertain. Multiple job markets have already imploded. Focus on what you can control. Can you finish the dissertation? Then finish the dissertation.

Seattle Times and the AP partnered to investigate school surveillance, & reporters “inadvertently received access to almost 3,500 sensitive, unredacted student documents through a records request. The documents were stored without a password or firewall, and anyone with the link could read them.”

New: we've obtained a leaked list of the more than 200 sites, services, apps an ICE surveillance contractor monitors. Bluesky, OnlyFans, many more. Used to track targets. Highly relevant with the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil by ICE. We've published the full list here: www.404media.co/the-200-site...