Big courtroom win for Rep. Joyce Beatty, reversing Trump's renaming of the Kennedy Center and halting Board plans to shut it down for two years, with the Court holding that the Board failed in its fiduciary duty to look out for the Center's best interests. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

Happy 76th Birthday to Mark Allen Mothersbaugh, co-founder, lead vocalist and keyboardist of the new wave band Devo, born May 18, 1950, Akron, Ohio Photo by Michael Ochs Archive #punk #punkrock #newwave #markmothersbaugh #devo #punkrockhistory

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

It’s weird that Republicans and most of the media seem to have decided what Trump does on social media and what he says when he’s riffing in speeches just doesn’t count. None of it. Doesn’t count.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leaned on an erroneous claim that Black voter turnout now tops white voter turnout, in his Callais v. Louisiana ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act, reports The Guardian. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

BREAKING: Federal Judge Rules to Restore National Endowment for the Humanities Funding In Historic Case This afternoon's ruling declared that the mass termination of more than 1,400 grants by the NEH was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” https://bit.ly/4wmbFg8

Tennessee Republicans did it. The final vote is in. They just gutted the only Black-majority district to lock in more Republican power. Black voters shut out, representation erased. Call it what it is, a white supremacy power grab. And a shameful day for Tennessee, the birth place of the KKK.

Call me when the NYT is ready for a "12 Bitches Who Were Right about Everything" piece.

My PhD dissertation on how the separation of work and home shaped gender identity in 19th century America would have been prohibited in 21st century Texas

After the 988 national suicide prevention hotline rolled out in 2022, the rate of suicides among young people in the U.S. dropped 11% below projections over two and a half years, a new study found. Suicides among young adults dropped most sharply in states that actively embraced the crisis line.

If you like what happened in Virginia, you’re gonna love DC statehood

Before they were arrested- Vets are demanding an end to the war on Iran at the Cannon Building in Washington, D.C.

Zohran Mamdani on CBS — “Socialist politics can flourish anywhere, because there is only one majority in this country, and that is the working class. It’s time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of what we’re doing, not in the appendix.” America’s Mayor can’t miss.

Look how Norway is fighting back at screens. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

Incredibly sad. I guess with this, podcast bros and AI girlfriends, their worlds will be complete.

Six minutes apart!

BREAKING: Iran includes "acceptance of enrichment" in the Farsi version of its ceasefire plan, something missing from English versions.

Imagine being a moderate Republican and getting outflanked on decency, morality, and basic humanity by these four nutters

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

To those of us who have seen it take hold up close, we know. We've known since the first term. The question is whether anyone will do something about it.

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But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Full-time salaries for most categories of faculty have remained about the same since 2002, adjusting for inflation, while admin pay soars. Faculty have had enough. We’re fighting back nationwide. ✊🏽✊🏻✊🏿 www.chronicle.com/article/amid...

A primary in Tennessee between Rep. Steve Cohen, a 76-year-old incumbent, and Justin Pearson, a 31-year-old state lawmaker, is one of several generational fights rocking the Democratic Party.

A staggering new finding from Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies: since 2001, the money left over each month for lower-income renters—after paying rent and utilities—has fallen 60 percent to a record low of $210. $210 left over for food, healthcare, childcare, and everything else.

Jane Fonda speaking at a protest at the Kennedy Center for the Committee for the First Amendment and Artists United for our Freedoms. 4/8

Since Trump and Republicans "defunded" Planned Parenthood, breast cancer exam visits fell by 25%. Cuts have hit low-income folks and folks in underserved areas hardest. Nobody benefits when people are getting fewer critical exams, paying more for care, or forgoing the care they need.

The damage has been incalculable and we aren't even at the halfway point.

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

I’m struggling to imagine a theology that believes a divine being would be so invested in fossil fuels as to suspend that pesky sixth commandment

The Cesar Chavez story discussed yesterday is out, in the New York Times. Two women say that he sexually assaulted them as children, beginning when they were 12 and 13. And Dolores Huerta says he raped her in 1966.

Billionaire groupthink is wild; they are now all in a rush to insist they have no inner life. No introspection, soul, interiority, light. They need you to know they are nothing but hungry ghosts, forever consuming, shaping the world to death to rule over a graveyard. They want you just as cynical.

Fortunately some of us are….

Was Marty Supreme completely shut out?

Our special issue for @j19journal.bsky.social honoring Frances E.W. Harper's 200th birthday is now out! It features *8* terrific essays on intriguing facets of Harper's work and concludes with a stirring afterword by @profkori.bsky.social. @dark-stars.bsky.social @c19americanists.bsky.social

Buttigieg: "We lived through a war that was sold to us on false pretenses when I was younger. This war has not been sold on any pretense. The president just went ahead and did it."

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

NEW: The Iranian drone strike that killed 6 U.S. troops in Kuwait at the start of the war was far more devastating than previously disclosed. Dozens suffered traumatic brain injuries, burns, and shrapnel wounds. At least one required an amputation. More than 30 remain hospitalized. (CBS News)

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

NEWS: Grammarly tells me it will let "experts" like me opt out of having their names used against their will and for no compensation as part of its "expert review" feature www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

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Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.