Cover of Upturn's new report titled "Calculated Need: Algorithms and the Fight for Medicaid Home Care. A Comparison of Five States' Eligibility Algorithms." The authors are Miriam Osman, Emily Paul, and Emma Weil. Published in October 2025.

1/ NEW: Read our new report, “Calculated Need: Algorithms and the Fight for Medicaid Home Care.” We show how automated eligibility determinations are political tools that draw a subjective line between who is deserving and undeserving of getting care in their home. www.upturn.org/work/calcula...

At the risk of pointing out the obvious, ChatGPT is clearly a danger to civilization.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

A sign reading "No Kings Just Prince"

The most Minnesotan protest sign. #NoKings

I have friends everywhere.
#NoKings

NYPD announces that zero arrests were made at the massive No Kings protests today after Republicans spent days claiming the protestors are violent terrorists.

Times Square, NYC. #NoKings

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

As Brazil prepares to host #COP30, we are calling as part of LEAD (Leaders’ Network for Environmental Activists and Defenders) on @govbrazil and @UNFCCC to embed clear protections for civic space and environmental defenders:
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Corporate accountability win in #Brazil!

Our member Justiça nos Trilhos received @theicar.bsky.social Gwynne Skinner Award for decades of resistance to mining abuses & pollution in Piquiá de Baixo, securing relocation of 312 families.

The fight for justice continues!

www.fidh.org/en/issues/bu...

Congrats to Justiça nos Trilhos on receiving the Gwynne Skinner Human Rights Award! SAGE is so proud to have supported JnT's work (with FIDH!) to seek justice for the community of Piquiá de Baixo, building a new neighborhood safe from pollution from Vale's steel production.
@theicar.bsky.social

A historic day for the Xinka people, who have engaged in a court-ordered consultation with the gov't on the Escobal mine for 7 years - a process that would not have been as robust but for their leadership. Yesterday, they said no, in part because the state lacks the capacity to manage the risks.

An absolutely devastating account of our new police state

Considering the current inventory levels, which represent approximately two quarters' worth of sales, and the apparent production slowdown, the future of the Cybertruck program is uncertain. Despite initial projections of producing 250,000 units annually, it appears Tesla might struggle to sell even 20,000 Cybertrucks per year in the current market climate.

“Despite initial projections of producing 250,000 units annually, it appears Tesla might struggle to sell even 20,000 Cybertrucks per year in the current market climate.”

Nice work, @teslatakedown.com!

BREAKING: A federal court ruled that our client Rümeysa Öztürk must be released on bail immediately. She will return home to New England as her case proceeds.

I am outraged by the unjust arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka earlier this afternoon outside of Delaney Hall in Newark.

I am calling for his immediate release by federal law enforcement.

Mohsen Mahdawi is free! And defiantly still speaking for peace. #freemahmoudkhalil #freerumeysaozturk #freethemall Bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia and all the gulag prisoners home

The fragility of capitalism tho....

Huge kudos to Corporate Accountability Lab for calling this what it is. Read the solid Nation article too. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The Bitter Taste of Labor Violations | Charity Ryerson At Corporate Accountability Lab, we've been doing some soul searching since U.S. Customs and Border Protection decided, without evidence of remediation, to allow sugar produced with forced labor f...

This is what corruption in this administration looks like - as well as the unraveling of the rule of law and what few human rights protections we have for workers who make the products we buy. Read Charity's post all the way through
www.linkedin.com/posts/charit...

RFK Jr. is very loud and very WRONG about Autism.

1. It’s not a disease
2. There are thousands of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder who pay taxes, have jobs, can use the bathroom on their own, and are thriving in life.

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

NEW from me: A whistleblower says DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data...and then someone posted a threatening letter to his door.

www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

Just a reminder that Trump/DOJ continuing to let Abrego Garcia sit in CECOT is *a crime*. Deprivation of rights under color of law is a crime. Was it an "error" at first? Maybe. But once they were aware of the error, and ordered by a judge to return him, and then refusing, it's willful 1/

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

HE IS PROMISING TO SEND AMERICANS TO FOREIGN DEATH CAMPS.

This is it. This is where America ends.

Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.”

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Walrus screaming

“You can tariff our fish, but you will never take..Our FREEDOMMM!!

-William Walrus, Militant leader of McDonald Island

Mom, 3 kids detained in ‘horrifying’ ICE probe in Northern NY The family has been transferred out of New York state.

A mother and her three children were snatched by ICE from a dairy farm in Sackets Harbor, a rural town in northern New York.

But the location is no coincidence—Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, LIVES THERE. He allowed his own neighbors, including a third grader, to be jailed. Deplorable.