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The Democratic Doctors Caucus met to strategize and plan activities to stand up for the health programs our communities rely on. We are fighting back to protect Medicaid!

"Common sense" is often just a polite synonym for "unexamined prejudice."

100 shit show days of chaos, division, and broken promises.

I will keep fighting every day for the people: for affordable health care, for our veterans, and for the working families Trump keeps leaving behind.

Mohsen Mahdawi wearing a keffiyeh scarf as he stands atop a platform, surrounded by people. The text reads: "Columbia Student Who Was Arrested at Citizenship Interview Is Freed." Photo by Bing Guan for The New York Times.

Breaking News: Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia University student and organizer of the pro-Palestinian movement, was freed from federal custody on Wednesday after ICE tried to rescind his green card and deport him. nyti.ms/4iGIa0m

💥 BREAKING: The Heritage Foundation withdrew its anti-DEI proposal to IBM for shareholder vote today, originally submitted for vote at IBM's annual meeting. Why Heritage withdrew its anti-DEI proposal is unknown.

Earlier today, shareholders at American Express voted to reject an anti-DEI proposal.

From dogs to rabbits, NPR readers share how adopting shelter pets impacted them National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day is on April 30. To bring awareness to the day, the Up First newsletter is sharing some stories from readers about how their pet has impacted their lives.

National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day is on April 30. To bring awareness to the day, the Up First newsletter is sharing some stories from readers about how their pet has impacted their lives.

Andry José Hernández Romero

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.

No one has heard from you in 43 days.

As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

Kennedy Center’s events scheduled for LGBTQ+ pride celebration canceled, organizers say Organizers and the Kennedy Center have canceled a week’s worth of events celebrating LGBTQ+ rights for this summer’s World Pride festival in Washington, D.C.

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Someone tell AP that Ric Grenell, the right-winger now running the Kennedy Center, is gay. That would add some culture war dimension to how the rapist-felon operates

Self-loathing on full display

How Trump team turned a dinner invite into a crypto boon worth millions iNearly two dozen crypto wallets acquired more than 100,000 $TRUMP meme coins, worth roughly $100 million, after the team said top buyers could join the president for dinner.

"The most brazenly corrupt thing a President has ever done. Not close.”

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Happy Easter, from my kin pack to yours!

Review: In Don Bachardy's vivid portraits at the Huntington, show business isn't what you think A revelatory show at the Huntington puts Don Bachardy's prolific portrait drawings into a welcome new light.

We tend to think of drawings as preparation for paintings or sculptures, which they had been for centuries. But drawing is the most direct record of evolving artistic thought — a charged current running from brain to hand to sheet. Don Bachardy's wonderful portraits, for example. bit.ly/4jI8CHT

I just got back from the protest in Columbus, Ohio. Beautiful day! Huge turnout. 5/5

#50501Movement #HandsOff #NoKings

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

Unions Form Pro Bono Legal Network for Federal Workers Targeted by Trump Organized labor has taken a leading role in challenging the Trump administration’s downsizing agenda in court. A new service will offer more individualized representation.

The largest federation of unions in the U.S. has put together a pro bono legal network that aims to help federal employees whose jobs have been lost or threatened under the Trump administration.

Judge Finds Probable Cause to Hold Trump Officials in Contempt Over Deportation Flights The move was a remarkable attempt by a jurist to hold the White House accountable for its apparent willingness to flout court orders.

A federal judge in Washington threatened on Wednesday to open a high-stakes contempt investigation into whether the Trump administration violated an order he issued last month directing officials to stop planes of Venezuelan migrants from being sent to El Salvador.

Tuesday, MLB's annual Jackie Robinson commemoration served as a flashpoint of President Donald Trump’s quest to eliminate DEI efforts.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar used a Dodger Stadium speech to issue a forceful rebuke of Trump’s policies.

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Big piece on why Sanders went to Coachella and how his strategy for reaching out to young voters is drawing them back into the fight.

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is onstage with the musical artist Clairo at the Coachella music festival. A headline reads: "Bernie Sanders, a Surprise Guest at Coachella, Urges Opposition to Trump." Photo by Emma Mcintyre/Getty Images for Coachella.

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont delivered an impromptu speech onstage at the Coachella music festival in California on Saturday night in which he urged young people to oppose President Trump’s policies. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...

Gee 7 whole years 😂

I’m a hell NO on the Republican budget framework.

Why? Because it guts federal support for:
❌ Head Start
❌ After-school programs
❌ SNAP
❌ Medicaid

All to hand $5 TRILLION in tax breaks to billionaires. Unacceptable. I voted NO.

Canada's own Neil Young.
Keep on rocking in the free world Neil.
#handsoff #elbowsup

Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.

“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

#HANDSOFF #NYC

Now is our time.
It is our time to defend democracy.
I will continue to fight for and with each one of you!
This is just the beginning.
#handsoff

Susan Crawford, wearing a blue jacket and jeans, walking outside a polling station. A headline reads: "Susan Crawford’s Win Keeps Liberal Majority On Wisconsin Supreme Court." Photo by Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times.

Breaking News: Susan Crawford, a liberal judge, won a pivotal Wisconsin Supreme Court seat despite $25 million in spending by Elon Musk on her opponent. nyti.ms/4jbwPWD

Senator Cory Booker, his voice still booming after more than a day spent on the Senate floor railing against the Trump administration, surpassed Strom Thurmond for the longest Senate speech on record, in an act of astonishing stamina that he framed as a call to action. nyti.ms/4iXMx8m

Raskin: I call on my colleagues to take down the wanted posters with judges’ faces on them outside of offices in House office buildings

A ballooning list of lawyer-quislings. Good to know.