Antoinette Errante

Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.

My report:

A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

John Ryan ... A nation that can instantly fund war but debates funding healthcare has a values problem, not a budget problem.

This 😏👇

From FT comments

Ohio State faculty excellence initiative launches with appointment of chief judge The Ohio State University announced today that it is appointing a chief judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals and one of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars to the Moritz College of Law, kickin...

I see Ohio State is continuing to cater to the reactionaries in the legislature, now touting the hiring of a retiring judge who’s ruled against gay marriage and trans rights as its new exemplar of “faculty excellence”

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

I will never understand how anyone could conclude--or even just hope, cross their fingers-- that the dude endorsed by this guy would make a better deal for Palestinians.

All I can say is solidarity. It feels like walking into 250mph winds on mile 19 of a marathon.

Charity Gala on Friday night at MAL

NEW: In a statement, VoteVets calls out Donald Trump for recklessly launching an unconstitutional, aimless war with Iran, ignoring warnings and endangering lives while lying to Americans. Republicans must hold him accountable.

In 2026, colleges must teach students that this is not the end of the world. We must teach hope. Current undergraduates can barely remember a time before the threats of climate change and authoritarianism loomed to catastrophic scale. Since 2010, the future depicted in TV, books, and games has been dystopian or apocalyptic, so for our current students the end of the world feels more familiar and realistic than a future with hope. Now we are asking them to choose majors and life paths when the desirability, indeed the very existence, of whole sectors of employment are in question, due to the overwhelming promises of LLMs and machine learning. As young people hear daily that vocation after vocation may vanish into automation’s maw, and that democracy, liberty, land, sea, and sky are all in jeopardy, despair is growing. Despair is very emotionally tempting. It means freedom from the responsibility to shape the future. This is a terrifying turning point, but many generations before us have faced such turning points, and met them. We can offer our students perspective. Only a few dozen institutions on Earth are more than 900 years old, and the vast majority are universities. The university system is not a house of straw to buckle in this storm: We are the rocks that have sheltered the knowledge, hope, and truth through tumults which have toppled kingdoms while classrooms endured. We can endure this, and be a guiding light through it, but only by recentering, by teaching citizens, not workers; power, not PowerPoint; aspiration, not apocalypse. Despair is how we lose. The classroom is where we battle it. All other battles flow from here. Ada Palmer is an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago.

This, from Ada Palmer as part of The Chronicle's survey of 11 scholars on the future of higher ed, is what I needed to end the week.

How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account Our national project of elite impunity

The big questions voters need to answer going into the midterms: are we the most powerful nation in the world, or the one nation in the world too weak to hold the powerful to account? Do the seats for which we vote belong to a party or to the voters? (1/2)
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I think we must never again elect a Presidents who dogs would not love.

characteristically good work from Serwer. again saying: we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him

A white woman who is not a doctor & doesn’t believe in science is currently undergoing Senate confirmation hearings to be the US Surgeon General.

Black people, don’t EVER let these people tell you that you are a “diversity hire” or don’t deserve the roles you have so richly prepared for & earned.

Bob Taft, Larry Householder, Leslie Wexner and John Wolfe is a nightmare blunt rotation.

Rodney Tayor and other disabled folks in custody keep me up at night. This story broke me.

Trump Invites Victims Of Jeffrey Epstein Investigation As SOTU Guests

Trump Invites Victims Of Jeffrey Epstein Investigation As SOTU Guests

This is the singular legacy of the Biden administration, the failing that preceeded all subsequent failings. What good there was (and there was real tangible good!) will have to be excavated from a legacy of failing while in power to punish the plotters and beneficiares of an attempted coup.

United Healthcare Reins in Access to Specialty Care in Medicare Advantage May 1 policy could burden doctors, frustrate patients, and delay care, advocates fear

United Healthcare doubles down on denial.
Now patients in its Medicare "Advantage" plan require time-consuming visits with primary care before seeing a specialist.
Lessons:
- Avoid UHC
- Ditto "Advantage plans
- Support Medicare for All

www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

I can only think, and fume, about what a slap in the face this is to every person who fought and/or died for the right to learn, who were attacked or killed because they demanded to learn. people who would do anything, anything, for the privilege of a homework assignment

In America, we can't eradicate racism with law or policy. But we can make racism shameful again. Doing so is ultimately a political and cultural act, and it must be a conscious one. And it is an important part to restore some semblance of our liberal democracy.

/fin

We’ve been convinced for so long that we’re supposed to look like teenage boys with breasts, completely hairless, without a wrinkle or a mark on our skin. And it was a bunch of pedophiles telling us that.

The damage done to women and girls is incalculable.

A resurfaced 1990s BBC documentary clip shows former party attendees describing Trump at NYC modeling events surrounded by very young European girls, estimated 14–16 years old. Witnesses called his behavior predatory, noting he openly mingled with and eyed the underage models amid older attendees.

One reason Republicans are so laser targeted on trans kids existing, is that trans kids existing requires accepting the bodily autonomy and consent of children.

Which is something republicans absolutely can't do, since they are pedophiles.

Their transphobia and pedophilia is them being consistent

This is some fascist shit.

“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔

(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )

A storefront in Hollywood glows during the golden hour. Some palm trees line the street it’s on. Circa 2005 maybe? They used this building on Beverly and Gardner as the Peach Pit in the newer version of 90210. I drove or walked by it every day so would see them filming. One day while driving by, they weren’t actively filming and I saw Tristan Wilds. I leaned out the window and yelled “yo Omar’s coming.” He liked that so he smiled and waved. I don’t usually take pictures within the city, but the last one seemed to be liked so here goes. I’ll be back to mountains, rivers and oceans soon enough I suppose.

Slavery is white history, how we survived it is Black history. - Malcolm Jamal Warner

Pic of the day

#photography

The fact that some democratic governors are going to visit Trump at the White House despite all that has happened tells you a lot about the rot at the root of the party. It isn’t even about Trump being petty and inviting only Republicans. The man is a monster who literally murders Americans.