“I looked up & the only thing that I could see was white men on horses with shotguns & as I looked around me, all I could see in my mind were Black men on their knees planting onions. We were literally slaves.” Incarcerated men expose conditions at the Cummins Unit, @vevalenz.bsky.social reports.

Incarcerated men expose forced labor conditions at Arkansas prison

Prisons often frame agricultural forced labor as “rehabilitation,” but incarcerated people say their working conditions are dehumanizing

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It would appear the Junta has created a million leftist bloggers with mental health issues.

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

"There are currently only three fanfics on the Archive of Our Own written in Swahili." In our latest, @soila.bsky.social writes about the dominance of English in fandom and especially fic, including the perspectives of fellow fans in Kenya, Nigeria, and Burundi. Read or listen to an audio version:

The Elation and Anxiety of Reading Fic in Your Native Tongue

For fans in Kenya, Nigeria, and Burundi, “uncringing” non-English fanfiction is an endeavor in decolonialism.

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Congress has let drug companies rip off Americans for decades. Lobbyists, campaign cash, and a system that protects industry profits. But it doesn’t have to be this way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnj-2yfL13U

Why Your Prescriptions Cost So Much

YouTube video by Jon Ossoff

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Democrat Brian Nathan wins special election for Hillsborough Senate seat www.cltampa.com/news/democra...

Democrat Brian Nathan wins special election for Hillsborough Senate seat

Brian Nathan at WMNF in Tampa, Florida on March 20, 2026. It’s been 224 days since Jay Collins resigned to become Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Lieutenant Governor,

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Everything happening now has a precedent. This is not new. Please understand that everything happening now is very American. The only change is that it is happening on camera to middle income white people. Ask BIPOC and low income white people about abuses by the state.

there is a decent chance i never spend a single dime at target again in my life www.startribune.com/target-gave-...

Target gave $1M to Trump inauguration fund, a first for the company

President Donald Trump raised a record amount of cash for his inauguration, including donations from several companies with operations in Minnesota.

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Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards

Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

washingtonpost.com

Slavery never ended in this country

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

A sheriff in Mississippi, the highest paid and most powerful public figure in his county, staffed his mother’s commercial chicken farm with inmates from the local jail and used taxpayer-purchased equipment to improve it, an investigation by The New York Times and Mississippi Today found.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account

The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.

If you’re a federal employee and want to talk about DOGE, my Signal username is annamerlan.30 and I simply love to chat with people on their non-work devices

If you're a researcher impacted by the NIH/CDC/FDA travel and communication pause and are open to chatting about your experience, big or small, please reach out to me at jmogensen@motherjones.com or DM for Signal

Illinois has put an end to the injustice of cash bail. And it’s working better than anyone expected.

Illinois Has Put an End to the Injustice of Cash Bail

Amid a national backlash against criminal justice reform, Illinois has achieved something extraordinary. It’s working better than anyone expected.

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