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National Domestic Workers Alliance is getting nominations right now for the Caregiver Appreciation Award: act.domesticworkers.org/a/caregiver-... If you have a professional caregiver helping in your life, please nominate them!

Michael Tracey published what he said was the ID of the "Jane Doe" in the Cornell case. Then he took it down, claiming he just wanted to make a point and didn't want to see harm to the person he named. What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records.

If people understood the amount of detailed work in that, it would be going for at least a few thousand. Hopefully you get more visibility.

Exclusive from @propublica.org, details from inside USPS planning meetings that corroborate the whistleblower report warning of potential for mass disenfranchisement if mail voting regulations move forward for the midterms NEW: www.propublica.org/article/mail...

finally read this piece I've had in a to-read tab for a while and when I tell y'all these two paragraphs gave me *whiplash* like, historical milkshake duck hammerandhope.org/article/robi...

You don’t have to be a UVW member to apply for this. (If you do join, it’ll helps us do more important work like this.)

"Right now, in some underfunded lab, a scientist is chasing a question that sounds pointless.... No one can say if they will succeed. But a century of experience says that funding people to do this work is a good bet. If we stop making that bet, we will pay for it in cures no one will know to miss."

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

Drop everything and read Annie's story. I've been looking forward to this since she started reporting on it. Among other things, I've started scrutinizing the cheese at grocery stores to make sure everything I buy is made from pasteurized milk!

Just want to point out that it is incredibly difficult to get two lawyers to agree on the text of anything, let alone 100+

this week's post is about how AI doesn't even do the things people pretend it does margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/ai-doesnt-...

I know everything is shit. It's not good, it's mostly all bad. I am STILL going to enjoy this morning. I am STILL going to be happy. I am STILL going to listen to some of my favorite music. I will NOT be separated from simply joys. I WILL have hope. And I WILL fight to keep it.

Here's what a senior homeland official told me about their development of ICE smart glasses: "It might be portrayed as seeking to identify illegal aliens...but the reality is that a push in this direction affects all Americans, particularly protesters." www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months. Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs. Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food. Placed in solitary. Denied medical accommodations. They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!

According to the Cato Institute, The Trump administration is reportedly receiving millions of immigration applications, pocketing the hefty fees, and never processing the applications. It’s collected over $1 billion in fees so far. Where is the outcry over this fraud and abuse?

Elizabeth Banks

Outrageous. Stripping Liam Conejo Ramos and his family of asylum is beyond cruel and indefensible. This decision must be overturned. Shame.

This is what ICE has done to journalist Estefany Rodriguez.

After working with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal died in the country he spent years of his life helping. The cruelty is endless.

The FDA has asked Raw Farm to recall the cheddar cheese linked to the outbreak and "it has declined." But E.coli 0157 H7 is a very pathogenic bacteria. So buyer be aware and beware here. 1/3

WIRED named the DOGE operative accused here of planning to take Social Security data to his new job. It's John Solly, and he works for the government contractor Leidos, a company that has millions in contracts with SSA. read more here:

The girls' school likely destroyed by an American missile had colorful murals *visible from space* as far back as 2018. By @pearswick.press & Ryan McNeil: www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Reminder that this wasn't just an accusation, this was captured on film

#withalttext

The same company behind Alligator Alcatraz was just paid $313 million to build another one in Surprise, Arizona. I’m fighting to get the answers the community deserves.

Parents of Gays held its first meeting in NYC #OnThisDay in 1973; over the following half century #PFLAG would become the largest #LGBTQ family ally organization in the US; this is me giving the opening keynote speech at the API Rainbow Parents of PFLAG NYC (11.12.22) www.history.com/this-day-in-...

The money that could have given Americans universal healthcare here at home is being spent instead to murder schoolgirls overseas.

I'm getting questions about why there are trans characters in my Fantasy novel. There's a simple answer: trans people don't need to justify existing. Glad to clear that up!

BREAKING: 18 Senate Dems confirm Trump's NSA Director: Baldwin Coons Cortez Masto Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kelly King Peters Reed Rosen Schiff Shaheen Slotkin Warner Whitehouse Idk what needs to happen for corporate Dems to be the opposition party—not fascism is OK party😐

Well, I will not be buying Meta glasses. "You think that if they knew about the extent of the data collection, no one would dare to use the glasses”.

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 new short film by Minneapolis filmmaker Yasmin Yassin follows two Somali American sisters running a social-media matchmaking business as they move through Lake Street, exploring friendship, femininity and the in-between world of first-generation Somali life.

Markwayne Mullin is awful and corrupt for many reasons. Not having a college degree is not one of them. I know plenty of people W/O degrees who have more moral backbone, smarts, common sense, and compassion than at least half of Congress. Mullin isn't one, but not bc he did not graduate college.

"Anthropic has much more in common with the Department of War than we have differences."

A Haitian man confined at an Arizona immigration detention center for months died at a hospital Monday after a tooth infection was left untreated, the man’s brother said.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

No US or Israeli apology for, or even acknowledgment of, the murder of nearly 200 children. Nothing. "A missile directly hit Shajareh Tayyebeh school, in Minab, southern Iran, demolishing its concrete building and killing dozens of seven to 12-year-old girls." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...