Black burial grounds are disappearing as families fight to protect them
A genealogical search led to a national struggle to protect historic Black cemeteries from neglect, development, and white supremacist vandalism.
A genealogical search led to a national struggle to protect historic Black cemeteries from neglect, development, and white supremacist vandalism.
The correct response to this question, for any and all politicians, is as simple as: why are you asking me about this, it's less common than lightning strikes or alligator attacks. Let's talk about protecting kids from lightning strikes and alligators instead.
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Co-published with our friends over at @theintercept.com
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Our latest over at @thelensnola.bsky.social from our series of reporting on immigration detention in Louisiana:
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Ed Burmila
“Idaho health officials are investigating how nearly 60 people got sick after drinking raw milk in the past two weeks.” Was it by drinking raw milk in the past two weeks, by any chance?
i know our admin staff are all doing like five people's jobs and receive woefully little recognition, but sometimes when i send an email like "hey can i hire this student with these funds" and get some long set of instructions in reply, i do wonder why that's my job and not theirs?
feel like the NCAA selling athlete stats/biometric data to a company that helps gambling companies make live lines has fallen a bit under the radar investors.geniussports.com/news/news-de...
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Genius Sports confirmed as the exclusive provider of official NCAA data to licensed sportsbooks for March Madness and all post-season tournaments through 2032. NCAA LiveStats to remain free for all me...
OB-GYN association, deviating from CDC guidance, issues its own vaccine recommendations
ACOG recommends that pregnant people receive Tdap, RSV, influenza, and Covid shots during pregnancy.
Delaney Nolan
Delaney Nolan
🧵 In the face of deepening inequalities, global ecological disaster and climate emergencies, leading experts agree that economic growth (GDP) has failed to eradicate poverty or to promote wellbeing. They confirm that poverty is not inevitable. Rather, it is manufactured. Yet another way is possible.
"The event is now scheduled for June 19 to coincide with Juneteenth festivities in the majority-Black parish." - @veritenews.org veritenews.org/2026/06/02/d...
Rebecca BrĂĽckmann
Talarico saying he's against "gender reassignment surgery for minors" to lots of nodding and impressed gestures from the Barro/Yglesias crowd and a lot of the politics press is, I think, a great example of how much the well has been poisoned on trans healthcare
