In the outcry about ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good, we must continue to call out ICE's daily, horrific targeting of people based on mere suspicion, too often race/ethnicity based, of being here without legal grounds and subjecting them to kidnapping, torture, deportation, and, yes, death.

I haven’t done any fact-checking yet but this epitomizes what I fear most…. The "administration is closing NASA’s largest research library say its holdings, some of which are not digitized or available elsewhere, will either be placed in a warehouse or thrown away.” (NY Times Morning)

This is not abstract. Its coming for a fundamental rule of law. I object. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Civil legal services in dire need of funding in face of budget cuts, officials say (via Queens Daily Eagle)

Read a NYT Book Review interview w/ Louis Sachar (I didn’t know about) and was struck by the 1st q - reading as a child: he recalled “Yellow Eyes” about a cougar! Me too!! Researched- I’d forgotten/blocked that the cub’s mom & littermates were killed by a hunter; just recall him learning to hunt

Good to see/hear actual analysis rather than “the ‘other side' is stupid.” — saying the current pres won by saying what rural etc folks need to hear - “'I see you.' And even though most of it was a con, they listened, because no one else had."

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Flag for the Fourth. www.johngerrard.net/western-flag...

🧠📚 Learning balanced facts can reduce political polarisation

When people engaged with both sides of a debate (like gun control), their views became more moderate – and stayed that way a month later.

🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

#SciComm #SocialScience 🧪 #Polarisation

A top scientist at Harvard who has spent years unraveling the mysteries of tuberculosis woke up Tuesday morning and discovered an order from the federal government telling her to halt her research.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/15/m...

New York State prison culture is toxic. This is just a rare example of where news about it got out. www.rmoutlook.com/world-news/n...

"You can also commit injustice by doing nothing." — Marcus Aurelius

Don't ignore, don't tolerate, this and all the other efforts to hide history. www.cnn.com/2025/04/06/u....

The Center and allies have moved to intervene in a lawsuit challenging a 2008 federal rule protecting North Atlantic right whales from speeding ships and other vessels.

Learn more: biodiv.us/4jzUEb9

Disinterest or disbelief greeted my comment to people next to me leaving “Fidelio” at the Metropolitan Opera. “New York prisons are just as bad.” Few engaged. One woman who did ask questions had not heard about the man killed by guards. I repeated his name as we parted – “Robert Brooks.”