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This article lays out really well how much information, privilege, cultural capital, and money you need to stay on the electoral rolls when the state is changing the rules around you.

Today we remember Fr. Stan Swamy, SJ, on the fourth anniversary of his death. As a #Jesuit priest, he worked for the rights of marginalized communities in India for 50 years and died as a prisoner after being unjustly incarcerated for his work as a human rights activist.

She was tracking post-Roe abortions. The government just pulled her funding. Diana Greene Foster, who was behind the landmark Turnaway Study, wanted to study the health and economic impacts of the loss of abortion access.

News: Diana Greene Foster, the MacArthur-winning author of the Turnaway Study, learned her NIH grant — funding a multi-year study on Dobbs' impact — has been pulled. She was told its bc the govt won't study "gender identity."

Her work has shaped our understanding of abortion bans' consequences.

US aid cuts could create untreatable TB bug ‘resistant to everything we have’ Projects to detect, treat and research new ways to fight TB among those disrupted by sudden funding freeze

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

pepfar serves twenty million people and is currently off. every last one of them will die of AIDS.

Not a conicidence www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”

kyivindependent.com/editorial-a-...

I think this is one of the biggest factors

The meanness of inviting someone to your house, only to berate them and then kick them out- it breaks every rule of hospitality in the world. It’s gross

Park rangers are the librarians of outside (compliment)

Manufacturing consent

If you have not read this book yet (or listened to it) you are not properly prepared for what we’re facing right now, full stop. And it is clear far too many have not.

Ukraine war live: Zelenskyy hails ‘three years of resistance’ on anniversary of Russian invasion Ukraine president pays tribute to ‘absolute heroism’ of Ukrainians as EU leaders arrive in Kyiv * See all our Ukraine coverage President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told his country’s people on Monday that he was proud of their ‘absolute heroism’ in…

Ukraine war live: Zelenskyy hails ‘three years of resistance’ on anniversary of Russian invasion

Most people don’t realize the value of the services they rely on until they’re gone.

Love watching the Halftime show with ASL performers

Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage

Profoundly important essay

By constantly reacting to Trump’s fascist acts, we are losing our minds

We must instead find passions of our own, imagine a better world, and mobilize & organize

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Operation ICE Ride-Along isn’t going as planned. 🔥

Fox News tagged along with ICE, hoping for an exclusive look at “dangerous criminals.” Instead, they got a whole lot of nothing. No threats, no big arrests—just a community that wasn’t having it. The narrative is falling apart.

Now is a good time to have an indoor cat, please.

Cry more. And then go amend the Constitution 👋🏽

Populism

Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny:

snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

Thou shalt not kill' also means 'thou shalt not let profit margins decide who lives and who dies.'

Some more archiving...

When we wrote this guide two months ago, it seems like we did not overestimate the chaos and the vindictiveness to come. Hope it’s useful.

Our Lady goes where people suffer most.

"You yourself a sword shall pierce that the thoughts of many hearts might be revealed." Simeon--from today's gospel for the feast of the Presentation. (Luke 2:35)

Who’s the artist who made this? It’s so striking!