This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

A difficult concept to navigate properly is that *testing* is itself a major problem in education (most exemplified by the No Child Left Behind testing regimes. This can mean that the very tests revealing declines in learning are themselves part of what is causing the decline.

I do AV work for a funeral home and this is one of the most common song choices. It seems to be one of those songs that elderly boomers and silent generation folks turn to as they’re thinking about death.

highly recommend this book by Adam Johnson of @citationspod.bsky.social, which soberly lays out the hard data of the discourse that center-left media has decided is acceptable, in which Palestinians are not allowed humanity

In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of accounts have emerged on social media featuring A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace. Several accounts have already amassed thousands followers. Some of the posts have more than half a million views.

Explosive & really outrageous revelations in here about a billionaire's private surveillance network completely run amok. If we can't stop Dolan from spying on us at MSG, let's at least cancel his sweetheart tax break. (1/2)

Shoutout to @people.com, which covered horrific abuses at the Everglades camp that the administration refers to as "Alligator Alcatraz," citing several folks (including me) who call it a concentration camp.

4/17, Northampton MA: local middle-schoolers organized a 3-mi march from JFK school to a De-ICE Citizens Bank rally on King St where they spoke beautifully. An inspiration. @maddow.bsky.social @in-slwm.bsky.social #northamptonma @johnmajercak.bsky.social

Whenever we hear about Spirit troubles, corporate shills say it's Lina Khan's fault for blocking the JetBlue merger. But: 1-DOJ Antitrust challenged that merger, not Lina 2-Spirit could've said at trial they'd fail w/o a merger & they didn't 3-The problems are due to high jet fuel, aka Trump's war

Good summary of last night's ultimately failed shenanigans on FISA from @jamesjbaratta.bsky.social. Reform advocates are in the best position they've been maybe ever. prospect.org/2026/04/17/m...

Trillion dollar military, headed to $1.5 trillion. This is what a meal looks like on a naval ship. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

3 members of Ironworkers Local 401 died on the job recently in a catastrophic construction accident in Philadelphia. This is my union’s statement on their passing.

Statement from the PASNAP Staff Union on the passing of Ironworkers Local 401 members:

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Zohran Mamdani getting Kathy Hochul to agree to a pied-a-terre tax breaks the stone wall against taxing the rich that Hochul had been building since Mamdani's election. It's a critical moment, writes @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social. prospect.org/2026/04/16/m...

In about 20 minutes I'll be moderating a panel on health care in America with Wendell Potter and others. You can watch live here. t.co/04WhiuDHCW

For the Star Tribune, it's always city council's fault.

Platner apologized for using the r-word in a recent interview. I was the first journalist to criticize this usage in my article, so I do take some credit to bringing attention to the problem. www.wmtw.com/article/grah...

Journalist @acatwithnews.bsky.social was shoved by police at least three times in the back, shoulders and chest, and hit with a police baton at least twice in the arm, at an immigration protest in LA on Saturday. One officer aimed his projectile launcher at him.

Democrats in the House led by Rep. Yassamin Ansari, the first Iranian American Democrat elected to Congress, are planning to file five articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Wednesday.

🚨 Record high of 40 Senators have just voted to block $300M of bulldozers to Israel. Blumenthal, Coons, Cortez Masto, Fetterman, Gillibrand, Rosen, Schumer voted w/ Republicans. Along with demolishing Palestinian homes, Israel used a bulldozer to kill 23-year-old American Rachel Corrie.

Yesterday MPHA & affiliated nonprofit Community Housing Resources filed a combined 48 evictions. These alone represent 85% of Hennepin County filings & 57% of all statewide filings on 4/14/26. Average of alleged overdue rent amounts: $628. 81% of the cases allege less than $1,000 in overdue rent.

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

The City of Minneapolis, evicting 48 of the poorest families in its care, for a total of $30,144.

Very much appreciate @katearonoff.bsky.social questioning whether we actually need all these data centers. Too often taken for granted in energy policy circles that the only question is how to mitigate the impacts/extract benefits. newrepublic.com/article/2089...

🔥🔥🔥A thousand writers, directors, and actors signed a letter opposing the Paramount-Warner merger. That's a HUGE deal, since there was massive fear in the industry. It was organized by @markruffalo.bsky.social who I will now call the mayor of Hollywood. www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

appreciate Mehdi doing some historical education here on 67 and the Irgun

Is the tightening grip of a triopoly... good? No, it's not. Here's what local food folks had to say.

I value @msifry.bsky.social's writings because they focus on how to improve the *practice* of electoral work. For those doing this work, I find his latest piece a must-read. Here's a canvassing script that tends to be much more effective than the usual model but one VAN cannot really accommodate.

NEW: Teenage boys are pulling classmates' photos off Insta and running them through cheap nudify apps and the fallout has now hit nearly 90 schools across 28 countries with 600+ known victims since 2023, per a WIRED/Indicator analysis. UNICEF estimates 1.2M children were targeted last year alone.

Turns out that when every Somali case I have in court suddenly got expedited and reassigned to a new judge, it wasn't just me! The DOJ has officially denied that there is an expedited "Somali Docket," but now the public data refutes their denial. Here are the highlights: 🧵 bklg.org/blog/somali-...

This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline. A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.

Oh hell yeah, ready to read this @ahjohnson.bsky.social

New: Thomson Reuters, which runs the CLEAR database ICE uses, fired a longstanding employee for speaking out against ICE, a new lawsuit says. Billie Little led an internal effort raising concerns; was fired. We've shown CLEAR is linked to ICE's Palantir tool www.404media.co/thomson-reut...

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

NEWS: Virginia's governor vetoed a bill late last night that'd have banned prosecutors from pressuring Virginians into waiving their constitutional rights. That's right, local prosecutors often get defendants to sign away Fourth Amendment protections to get a plea — for years.

Chicago folks: Please consider coming out to this on April 24.

"As programs for the poor are gutted and slashed, about half of the annual federal discretionary budget goes to the military." @sarahlazare.bsky.social on the sadism and violence of a system choosing war over care. inthesetimes.com/article/perm...

Plus an oral history of the immigration crackdown, new news for the Aquatennial, and pitch your own ice cream flavor in today's Flyover news roundup.

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), launched by Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus, who died in November 2024, has been a leading advocate both in making the case to go to war against Iran and to continue it. buff.ly/m7KoLa2

people hated Covid era supply chain disruptions, disruptions that were caused by the near-total control that Wall Street has over American political economy. people loved tight labor markets. Why do a bullshit job when you can quiet quit instead?

We are deciding right now if we are to be a nation of concentration camps and ethnic cleansing. And there is much citizens can do!

The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for. apnews.com/article/pitt...

CHICAGO! How to Sell a Genocide Join @citationspod.bsky.social co-host @ahjohnson.bsky.social in conversation with Nashwa Bawab on the media's complicity in the destruction of Gaza. With @plutopress.bsky.social. Fri April 24 at 6:30 PM RSVP:

This finds that the average person in the US who pays taxes paid $4,000 last year for weapons and war.

The FISA reauthorization vote is coming up THIS WEEK—and we just learned of a new way that intelligence agencies have been digging through our data. We must stop Congress —and Democrat Jim Himes—from throwing our data privacy under the bus. Call your House rep ASAP! Script in first comment.

Voters in a small Missouri town, unhappy with the city council’s approval of a $6B data center, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection

i feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content