The US will soon learn how bad its PFAS crisis is. But Maine has already begun to look—and is waking up to a nightmare. For The Atlantic I spoke to a family realizing they drank toxic water for 30 years, and what it may have cost them. Maine is a warning: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

After 8 pm on a Thursday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reveals he signed a Big Business-backed bill that will erase local living wage laws adopted by cities across Florida.

The bill also stops communities from passing local heat-protection and predictable-scheduling laws, too.

For more than a year, MA State Police abandoned criminal case files — incl. rape kit components and homicide evidence — in the ruins of a former center for disabled kids. The Globe found least one unsolved murder among the cases left behind. w/ @draillih:

bostonglobe.com/2024/04/10/met…

Sometimes it’s helpful to ask the dumbest question you can think of, so this is mine: Are there a lot of conservatives out there who not only believe in having and funding a public option in journalism but who strive to work for it?

This man makes 13 cents an hour as a prison janitor.

After working 136 hours, he donated $17.74 to relief efforts in Gaza.

Such a beautiful interview-essay by Aala Abdullahi:

themarshallproject.org/2024/04/05/pri…

If you're looking for eclipse glasses right now you understand why same day voter registration is important

Full news story on Dawn Staley’s comments supporting transgender athletes today, including information and notes about where law and policy stands as it pertains to college sports. espn.com/womens-college…

What the country's largest newspaper chain is doing down in Austin should be getting national media attention.

Here's the video and transcript:

'If you consider yourself a woman and you want to play sports or vice versa, you should be able to play.'

'Now the barnstormer people are going to flood my timeline and be a distraction to me ... and I'm okay with that. I really am.'

On Monday, an 82-year-old man in Oklahoma City set himself on fire when deputies tried to evict him and his wife, who has Alzheimer’s.

I’ve been monitoring evictions with similar outcomes since July 2021 and one thing is clear: this case is not isolated and won’t be the last.

Confirmed: FL's two-visit, 24-hour waiting period requirement will continue despite the 6-week ban. That means women would have to attend 2 in-person appointments within two weeks after their first missed period to abort -- a 'virtually impossible' task. orlandosentinel.com/2024/04/02/flo…

Doctors say children have been deliberately targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza; they reported treating 'a steady stream of children, elderly people and others who were clearly not combatants with single bullet wounds to the head or chest.'
theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

lol

trans day of visibility and easter. No matter how u slice it just a huge day for eggs

Trans people actually did change the calendar to make TDOV and Easter Sunday the same day just to mess with you and we’re not stopping there. Toyotathon is never going to be the same.

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Many of NY's prisons are in the path of totality for next month's eclipse.

Incarcerated people wanted a chance to see this rare occurrence.

Instead, they're going into total lockdown for it.

Rebecca McCray has the story.

hellgatenyc.com/incarcerated-n…

Recirculating this, not bc Julie Delpy was the French woman ayo was impersonating but to illustrate that the impersonation of so so many French women talking to black Americans was so spot on.

Ayo Edebiri, the chameleon that you are.

congrats once again to the editorial team at the cut lol thecut.com/article/age-ga…

More coverage than her entire last decade of music I’m gonna be sick

The missing men are from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras & Mexico, and live in Dundalk & Highlandtown. They are in their 30s and 40s, he said, w spouses & children.
All of them came to the city for a better life.
“They are all hard-working, humble men' thebaltimorebanner.com/community/tran…