making a best restaurants list without a map view is crazy

Mike Collins, a congressman from Georgia, wants to take away commercial driver’s licenses from noncitizens. Over the past 25 years, truckers for his businesses have been involved in crashes that killed five people and injured more than 50 people. @maxblau.bsky.social @joeljacobs.bsky.social

In the paradoxical standard set forward by the Supreme Court, the only way to tell if districts were drawn for racism is if the people drawing them say so. But if the districts are drawn so that Black voters in the South get almost no representatives, that's not racism.

BREAKING: In a loss for Democrats, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled the congressional map voters approved last month to counter GOP gerrymanders cannot go into effect. The decision overturns the will of voters for technical reasons and gives Republicans a leg up for the 2026 midterms.

well... well... WELL www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...

"The Government suggests that there is no real constitutional problem here because any viewpoint-based classification was ChatGPT’s doing, rather than the Government’s. There is no distinction to be drawn here between the Government and ChatGPT."

"ProPublica’s tally of kids harmed by tear gas or pepper spray is nearly four times the number cited in a recent congressional report that relied on news stories, yet it is likely still a vast undercount."

very normal behavior by KA$H here (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The newsrooms reviewed nearly 60 years of legislation and identified over five dozen flood safety bills rejected by lawmakers. Must read reporting from Lexi Churchill, Emily Foxhall and Pratheek Rebala. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

gosh if only we had a word for when people are spending more on everything

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

“In almost every case, the babies’ deaths could have been prevented with a long-standard vitamin K shot. But across the country, families — first in smatterings, now in droves — are declining the single, inexpensive injection given at birth” www.propublica.org/article/more...

Well,

Excited to unveil a new look for @propublica.org: www.propublica.org/article/why-...

NEW: Elizabeth Warren and other U.S. senators sent letters grilling the nation’s major credit bureaus after a ProPublica investigation revealed two of the companies were fixing fewer consumers’ credit reports under the Trump administration.

big week for @propublica.org: a Pulitzer win, 2 Pulitzer finalists, and a fresh redesign @ propublica.org

Very cool that @propublica.org news app Rx Inspector is a Pulitzer finalist. Heroic work by @bxroberts.org, Ruth Talbot, @nickmcmillian.bsky.social and many others

JUST IN: ProPublica and @ctmirror.org's “On the Hook” series, which exposed how Connecticut laws had come to favor towing companies at the expense of low-income residents, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. It’s ProPublica’s ninth Pulitzer Prize.

We got our hands on internal ICE records that show how widespread use of force, like punches, kicks, takedown maneuvers, restraint holds, and less-lethal weapons such as Tasers and pepper spray in detention centers has grown wapo.st/4tdgBRA (1/)

NEW: Two days before Musk v. Altman trial, Elon Musk messaged Greg Brockman about a settlement, according to filing. Brockman wrote that both sides should drop claims; Musk allegedly responded: “By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America. If you insist, so it will be”

Kinda burying the lead here, NPR

I'm back in the courtroom for another day of Musk v. Altman, starting a thread here. Here's what I expect: —one more hour of Elon Musk cross-examination —testimony from Musk's right-hand man, Jared Birchall —Musk's expert witness Stuart Russell, an...interesting AI safety guy —Possibly Greg Brockman

OpenAI's attorney mentions term sheet Altman sent to Musk in 2018 or '19 (I'm not positive on year) about creating capped-profit company. Trying to establish Musk knew for-profit was coming, didn't object then “I did not read the fine print,” Musk said. Attorney counters: “It’s a 4-page document.”

Fun start to cross-exam. OpenAI attorney William Savitt asks about Musk's earlier testimony, when he said: “No, Tesla is not pursuing AGI. It’s literally trying to make a car drive from A to B.” Savitt then showed Musk an X post from a month ago: "Tesla will be one of the companies to make AGI"

Folks will try to parse language around this, using words such as “limits” the VRA or “diminishes” the VRA, but the acts most potent tools for ensuring Black representation or that Black people can pick their representation have been eliminated.

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

Wow. The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families

Trump is directing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to prioritize cases of discrimination against white men, but commission staff are "struggling to find complaints with merit"

Incredible work by the Times photo editors -- www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...

We've updated our habeas tracker again, and more than **40,000** new cases have been opened since Trump took office again. projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...

They didn’t just double tap. They hunted her like an animal. First they sent her death threats. They struck her, then followed her to where she tried to take shelter & struck her there. They struck the rescue workers who came for her & only after hours, after she died, did they allow retrieval

Staten Island traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck blasting through school zones or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. The truck belongs to James Giovansanti, who lives and works there as an NYPD officer. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/t...

Okay, last one for now, sorry, but scientists gave cocaine to some salmon and you will absolutely believe what happened next

I just updated 527 Explorer, which includes filings through the end of Q1 2026. 1.2M total new records detailing contributions, expenditures and other organizational information. projects.propublica.org/527-explorer/

This is actually a huge problem. The taxes haven’t kept up with infrastructure needs for about 20 years, a thing painfully made very real when the I-35 bridge fell into the river in Minneapolis.

Umm the DOJ charges vs the SPLC: -SPLC said they were “dismantling” Klan groups -But SPLC paid undercover agents, so $$ went to those groups -That’s fraud on the donors! -(Even though those agents *did* disrupt the groups) Who’s the Galaxy Brain on this one? www.justice.gov/opa/media/14...

1. Boy, Amazon is in a heap of trouble. Evidence made public yesterday by California AG @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov shows blatant price fixing. And there are so many examples. Here's Amazon scheming with a pet food supplier to get Chewy to raise its prices.

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

I’d love to understand where this figure came from. I assume it was industry-produced or at least friendly…

This is wild

NPR announces it has secured philanthropic gifts totaling more than $110 million -- including the largest by a living donor in NPR's history -- as a strategic investment in its future. This comes after Congress chose to eliminate federal funding for all public media. https://loom.ly/B71nWB8

Today in Maps Don't Make (enough) Money (by the measure of money perverts)

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

Trump: "Do you think that men should play in women's sports?" Doordash driver: "I really don't have an opinion on that." Trump: "You don't? I bet you do." Doordash driver: "No, I'm here about…" Trump: "Pizza." Doordash driver: "No tax on tips."

Gotta pay to play, baby.

NEW: When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would largely be missing. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social @jenafifield.bsky.social

“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears. "She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..." azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...

[feeling anxious] i bet i need more coffee

TIL: recent iOS updates are locking cops out of seized iPhones. For months now, forensic tools like Cellebrite haven’t been able to extract data from some of these devices One workaround I’ve heard: police will subpoena jail phone systems to get defendants PINs…then try those codes on the phones