Jean Mikle
@jeanmikle.bsky.social
Journalist at the Asbury Park Press, app.com. Music lover. Yankees fan. Proud member of APP-MCJ Guild.
“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
NEW INFO HAS REVEALED that the 28-year-old Mexican man killed while running from ICE last week was just visiting on short tourist visa—and already had a plane ticket to go home. newrepublic.com/post/213277/...
Man Who Died Running From ICE Was Tourist With a Ticket Home
The man has been identified as Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran, who was in the U.S. on a tourist visa and already had a plane ticket to go back to Mexico.
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This sales pitch from Donald Trump sent out three days before he was sworn in to his second term has ended up being disastrously bad financial advice for most of the buyers. Only a small set of traders who moved fast to buy the coin, then quickly dumped it made $$. Almost everyone else lost bigly
Music America: The Songs that Shaped Us Night Two. June 5, 2026. 📸: Pam Springsteen
Sonny Rollins, one of the most influential Jazz musicians of our time, died this afternoon. He was 95
Thomas Stockett's Baltimore Afro-American cartoon on the Voting Rights Act, August 1965.
Open reentrenchment of white supremacy, across the South, at a staggering speed.
Ari Berman@ariberman.bsky.social · 3mo agoTN eliminated only majority-Black district AL, LA eliminating majority-Black districts SC planning to oust only Black Democrat since Reconstruction MS planning to oust only Black rep GA planning special session to eliminate majority-Black districts This is what return to Jim Crow looks like
Republicans stripping majority-Black Memphis, where 39-year-old Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated 58 years ago, of its majority-Black congressional district takes its place in a rancid arc of American history that seems to be bending backwards.
The Great Whitening Comes Without Irony or Shame
America’s Original Sin Republicans stripping majority-Black Memphis, where 39-year-old Dr. Martin Luther...
talkingpointsmemo.com
While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.
Here’s my piece on the “now-completed demolition” of the Voting Rights Act in @thenation.com The VRA is the most important piece of legislation in American history. It more than anything is what ended American-style apartheid. And now Republicans have killed it.
The Supreme Court Has Completed Its Quest to Kill the Voting Rights Act
In its 6-3 decision, the court gutted the legislation that ended apartheid in this country—and once again gave white people the ability to suppress Black political power.
thenation.com
The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.
Unionized staff at ProPublica have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike after more than two years of bargaining their first contract. Let them know you’ll honor the picket line. nycclc.org/news/take-ac...
Take Action: Tell ProPublica You'll Honor a Digital Picket Line
Unionized staff at ProPublica have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike after more than two years of bargaining their first contract.ProPublica management has:
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Below is a statement from the unionized workers of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial
Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.
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Members of the journalist union at Pro Publica went on a 24-hour strike as part of their efforts to add protections against layoffs due to efficiencies from using AI technologies into their contracts. White collar worker unions fighting for such protections will be the new normal.
ProPublica journalists walk off the job in first U.S. newsroom strike over AI
On the picket line in New York, union leaders said they expect "more concentrated conflicts" over AI in the news industry.
niemanlab.org
Breaking News: The U.S. was responsible for a missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, an ongoing military investigation found. The inquiry said the strike — which Iranian officials said killed at least 175 people, most of them children — was the result of a targeting mistake.
U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says
Outdated targeting data may have resulted in a mistaken missile strike, according to the ongoing military investigation, which undercuts President Trump’s assertion that Iran could be to blame.
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IRE calls for the immediate release of Estefany Rodríguez, a reporter for Nashville Noticias and Univision 42 Nashville, who was taken into custody while in a marked news vehicle, according to reports. Read the rest of our statement: https://bit.ly/4sto4Mh
Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say
Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...
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Maybe it’s a bad idea to put people in charge of government who are eager for the rapture.
Contrary to Trump's claims, immigrants, even illegal ones, use fewer services and commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans, according to Cato Institute studies.
Want To Reduce The Debt And Lower The Crime Rate? Bring In Even More Immigrants.
Contrary to Trump's claims, immigrants, even illegal ones, use fewer services and commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans, according to Cato Institute studies.
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NEW: After an unexpectedly tight race, former Rep. Tom Malinowski conceded to Analilia Mejia in New Jersey’s special Democratic primary.
Former Rep. Malinowski concedes New Jersey House Democratic primary to progressive Mejia
He also ssued a warning against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, whose super PAC spent more than $2 million against him.
politico.com
NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
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Chappell Roan is leaving her talent agency led by Casey Wasserman after he appeared in the Epstein files.
