With these new rules, I would not have been able to afford undergrad much less grad school twice without having to take out extortionate private loans. Without my 2 master's degrees, I would not have been able to get the professional jobs that pulled me out of poverty.

reporting live from Delaney Hall in NJ, where protesters are out in droves (along with the media) in support of hunger striking detainees, in a movement spreading to other detention centers in Texas, California and NM

Chaco Canyon is one of the oldest places in North America. The Trump Admin wants to open the historic site to oil and gas drilling. Pueblo leaders are trying to stop it, and calling on local politicians to take action. ictnews.org/news/greater...

Almost 300 rescued southern sea otters of all ages have been released back to their ocean home after being cared for in our Sea Otter Program, helping restore their populations and revive the beautiful coastal habitats they call home. 🦦🌊

I was recently asked for a breakdown of my daily device hygiene, communication stack, and physical safety boundaries, so I wrote about it. These are not my recommendations or options for others, but what I actually do myself. blog.yaelwrites.com/what-my-priv...

In case you missed when I posted last night, my piece on Pope Leo, slavery and the context of the apology in light of AI www.ms.now/opinion/pope...

"Little wonder, then, that after California passed a “unilateral” divorce bill in 1969, allowing individuals to leave an unhappy marriage even if their partner objected, states that followed suit saw women’s suicide rates decline by 20% over the next five years."

Look no further for your summer TBR.

A Pope is a Pope and will always believe many things I do not believe, but that does not change how absolutely bang-on correct and beautifully articulated this is.

“The turbines are running near Southaven, Mississippi, a residential community with homes, schools, churches, and workplaces. The city, which is part of the greater Memphis metro area, is about one-third Black.” wordinblack.com/2026/05/elon...

ICYMI — I went through more than 1,100 lawsuits and found hundreds of Minnesota immigrants detained despite living and working legally in the U.S.

neighborhood peonies 💟

I have struggled to get competent healthcare my entire life, across my lifetime's various income brackets. GLP-1s are the first and ONLY drug that every doctor, NP, phlebotomist, facialist have pushed on me. No info-seeking from me. No appointment. Just constant offers to give me GLP-1s.

#Measles: 2026 cases (2,132) have already surpassed 2025’s total #Ebola: Officials track ~600 suspected #Ebola cases in DRC/Uganda #Hantavirus 11 cases (9 confirmed/2 probable); latest case in Canada (May 16) Stay updated and subscribe to our weekly tracking report: mailchi.mp/brown/tracki...

🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 19thnews.org/2026/05/geor...

With the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy, the U.S. continues to incarcerate more people than any other country. Nearly 2 million people are locked up in the U.S., according to @prisonpolicy.org’s 2026 report.

People who lost family members in the fight for the Voting Rights Act tell @talkingpointsmemo.com how they feel about the Supreme Court’s decision demolishing it. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/their-l...

Philadelphia designates May 21 as Ona Judge Day, honoring woman who escaped George Washington’s household whyy.org/articles/ona...

About 90 percent of people who develop type 1 diabetes do not have a family risk. Tests to screen for early signs of the disease exist. Children do better if they are diagnosed earlier, and there is now a drug called teplizumab that can delay progression to the disease for those in an early stage.

less A quotas and more of this! THINKING remains the sine qua non

Baby beavers, live!

Now streaming: Full Documentary W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With A Cause | Full Documentary | American Masters | PBS www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2_G...

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

About 90 percent of people who develop type 1 diabetes do not have a family risk. Tests to screen for early signs of the disease exist. Children do better if they are diagnosed earlier, and there is now a drug called teplizumab that can delay progression to the disease for those in an early stage.

“Everyone, especially in South Sudan, wanted to know if the US really had cut off aid. It was easier for them to believe that the aid organizations were lying to them than to think that the United States would do this.”

Incredibly common student experience. Pundits work tirelessly to convince you this isn't the norm in college classrooms.

"ChatGPT, the most heavily used AI service, gave wrong information in 46% of its answers, including making up an expenses scandal, giving inaccurate replies on voter eligibility rules and getting the date of the election wrong by two months." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Appreciate this. Had to cancel a talk at Brown, which I hated to do, because of this and I'm the least affected in this mess.

one member of Los Angeles County's board of supervisors has more constituents than the U.S. senators of 12 states

As Sonja and others have admirably shown, that just isn’t how royal portraits work — at all. Portraits aren't Polaroids. They're complex pieces of public messaging that reflect dynastic priorities & shifting alliances more than familial affinity. Let’s consider the portraiture of Elizabeth I. /2

It's not 1536, but Anne Boleyn has taken over the news. Recently a team of computer scientists, electrical engineers and a historical novelist think they have discovered the “true face” of Anne (& her mother) by applying AI-based computational facial recognition to Holbein sketches. The catch? /1

I’ve been invited to testify on what the House calls “Court Packing: A Threat to SCOTUS’s Legitimacy.” Drawing on research w/ Daphna Renan for our book, Supremacy, Congress has the duty—and all the tools it needs—to protect our Constitution from judicial supremacy. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I saw this barred owl yesterday as well, just feet from where the egret was hanging about. I'm not entirely sure what it was doing, I took this photo from directly below so it was essentially laying down on the branch and looking at me. #Scrollback #BirdOfTheDay #Photography #Birds #Owls

The San Diego mosque shooters met online and left writings expressing hate toward different religions and races, the FBI says. apnews.com/article/isla...

Not enough news coverage of how the insurrectionist reparations fund is a clear violation of the 14th Amendment. We need to enforce the Constitution in its original meaning and plain text. You can't imagine away parts of the Constitution just because it is politically inconvenient.

Anyone saying “history will remember this” needs to understand that our collective wormhole around Reconstruction shows that to be a lie. We’ll remember whatever history fits. Everything else will be cast aside, downplayed, or outright banned. History remembers what it’s told to.

Wow some terrible reporting about Google's latest horrible ideas about how to distort information access in the name of "convenience" (or something): techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/g... A short thread 🧵>>

New student loan limits challenged by Democratic attorneys general, governors in lawsuit, New from Shauneen Miranda for @statesnewsroom.com: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/new-...

The same medications and procedures that induce abortions are used to treat miscarriages. “You can’t just silo one aspect of pregnancy care” as all of that care is inextricably linked, says obstetrician and gynecologist Maria Rodriguez. “Women’s health, in particular, is over-legislated.”

Thank you @strictscrutiny.bsky.social for citing our reporting that lawyers advised clinicians in some restrictive states not to prescribe mifepristone *even in-person* during the time the Fifth Circuit ruling was in effect crooked.com/podcast/how-...

Very few propositions command such wide assent among political scientists. Legislative term limits empower executive branches and lobbyists at the legislature’s expense.

Yesterday's shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego was the 24th high-profile shooting at a house of worship in the U.S. over the past two decades, according to our analysis:

"So arraignments are crowded, and there are no doctors in 120 Schermerhorn. Three people have died while waiting for arraignments in that building since last March." This is a horror. hellgatenyc.com/birth-in-bro...

Thomas Jefferson envisioned America as a lily white republic that rigorously excluded Black people. Join us next week - online or in person - for a frank discussion of race and racism at the founding of The United States. events.leapevents.com/tickets/anne...

Viruses do not recognize visas, passports, or ideology. Ebola in eastern DRC, mpox in Central Africa, H5N1, novel respiratory viruses, our safety has always depended on detecting threats early and controlling them at the source. That requires solidarity, resources, and trust.

The WHO has warned that these losses weaken outbreak surveillance &emergency response capacity globally. You cannot dismantle pieces of the global public health infrastructure, retreat from international cooperation, and then rely on border restrictions as the primary defense vs.emerging pathogens.

Over the last two years the U.S. has dramatically reduced global health engagement by cutting international health funding, stepping back from multilateral partnerships, halting WHO contributions, and ultimately withdrawing from the organization altogether while leaving substantial unpaid dues.

They tortured her, cut her child out of her, and made her watch as they murdered the baby

Absolutely horrified at this planned study from my own institution: www.404media.co/researchers-... >>