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Minnesota - Nurse Charged With Inmate’s Death Remains Free Between Court Appearances unicornriot.ninja/2025/nurse-c...

LA –Seven inmates at the St. Mary Parish Law Enforcement center recently graduated with their welding certification. Sheriff Gary Driskell said this was the first ever graduation class and is a milestone for inmate rehabilitation in the parish. www.klfy.com/local/st-mar...

How prosecutors say NY prison guards beat an inmate to death — and tried to cover it up www.syracuse.com/news/2025/04...

Moose Lake inmates make history by opening first American Legion Post inside a Minnesota correctional facility www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Aboard the 'silver trains', China's retirees do their bit to offset Trump's tariffs www.bbc.com/news/article...

Russian authorities are systematically seizing thousands of homes from Ukrainian residents who fled Mariupol, a BBC Verify investigation has found as the city marks three years of occupation www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

This Lagos museum is challenging the traditional ‘Eurocentric’ model www.cnn.com/style/john-r...

Science on our sleeves: the research that inspires our tattoos Inked scientists choose scientific images to mark career accomplishments and illustrate their research passion www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Vanderbilt University Medical Center eliminating all DEI programs “VUMC will continue to comply with federal mandates and directives.” www.wsmv.com/2025/04/16/v...

Smugglers' paradise: How US guns flow to gang-ravaged Haiti www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has suspended almost half a million government credit cards in use by federal officials www.newsweek.com/doge-credit-...

Trump intends to eliminate nearly all federal funding for public media – which includes NPR and PBS. In a memo, the administration accused both networks of spreading "radical, woke propaganda, disguised as 'news.'" www.npr.org/2025/04/16/n...

Trump administration asks IRS to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status The directive to the IRS is a significant escalation of President Donald Trump’s feud with Harvard University and other Ivy League institutions and other nonprofit groups www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the national life expectancy in the United States in 2022 was 77.5 years — in 2021 in Louisiana, it was 72.2 years www.nola.com/entertainmen...

How psychiatric patients get caught in a cycle of homelessness and spotty care www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Horrified Texas lawmakers demand crackdown on body broker industry An NBC News investigation that exposed how corpses were used for research without consent prompted Texas legislators to push new limits on the body trade www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Oregon - Uncertainty around gun laws drives Rogue Valley residents to stock up www.opb.org/article/2025...

Reflections on decolonizing truth-telling in the writing of Behrouz Boochani journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Elon Musk’s Wild Plan to Father ‘Legion’ of Kids by Hitting Women Up on X Revealed www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-w...

JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)

The Trump administration issued an order Wednesday to stop construction on a major offshore wind project to power more than 500,000 New York homes, the latest in a series of moves targeting the industry www.yahoo.com/news/trump-a...

The Canadian Association of University Teachers, which boasts a membership of 72,000 staff at 125 universities across Canada, recommended in an advisory published Tuesday that “academic staff travel to the U.S. only if essential and necessary.” www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

We Are Displaced, But We Are More Than That: Using Anarchist Principles to Materialize Capitalism’s Cracks at Sites of Contemporary Forced Displacement in Europe link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Democratizing care to care for democracy: community care workers and anti-racist public health academic.oup.com/healthaffair...

Four Ways Survivors of Violence in Guatemala are Driving Changes www.ijm.org/news/4-ways-...

Family of Malik Jones plans social justice center in his honor ctmirror.org/2025/04/15/m...

Canada - Where the Parties Stand on the Toxic Drug Crisis After briefly approaching overdose deaths as a health problem, the ‘war on drugs’ appears to be making a comeback. thetyee.ca/News/2025/04...

Is the Supreme Court About to Make Police Violence Much Worse? slate.com/news-and-pol...

Syracuse police punch one man, throw another to the ground after traffic stop—NYCLU condemns arrest www.yahoo.com/news/syracus...

As Fentanyl Deaths Slow, Meth Comes for Maine www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/h...

Anarchy and Its Overlooked Role in Health and Healthcare www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Texas Bill Could Expand Sterile Syringe Access—for a Fee filtermag.org/texas-bill-s...

Canada - BC Enters 10th Year of Overdose Crisis, as It Shutters Harm Reduction Policies filtermag.org/bc-enters-10...

End Slavery in Minnesota Bill Advocates for Fair Wages in Prisons unicornriot.ninja/2025/end-sla...

Woman to Woman: Helping women impacted by incarceration www.wtnh.com/on-air/conne...

Panel calls for improved psychiatric care in African prisons. Recommended reforms focus on providing basic services during incarceration and continuing community care after release. newsroom.uw.edu/news-release...

Direct cash assistance can help drive down our state's prison population. Providing direct support to people returning from incarceration can provide them with greater economic stability and job security, helping to break the cycle of recidivism. www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...

Northwestern study yields insights for improving outcomes for justice-involved youth. Preventing progression from juvenile detention to adult jails and prisons is key, experts say news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025...

Report Alleges Systemic Illegal Detention of Migrants in Greek Police Stations www.tovima.com/society/repo...

Family says ICE agents smashed car window in seizing Guatemalan man who’s seeking asylum apnews.com/article/ice-...

A federal judge has dismissed a contempt case against an agent for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement whose arrest of a man during his trial sparked criticism among the law enforcement community in Boston. apnews.com/article/ice-...

The Trump administration plans to eliminate habitat protections for endangered and threatened species in a move environmentalists say would lead to the extinction of critically endangered species because of logging, mining, development and other activities. apnews.com/article/trum...

The EPA can’t end grants from $20 billion Biden-era fund for climate-friendly projects, a judge says apnews.com/article/epa-...

Attorney General Pam Bondi says Kilmar Abrego Garcia ‘is not coming back to our country’ apnews.com/live/donald-...

Judge orders Trump administration not to deport Columbia student out of Vermont www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/n...

Washington bill, if signed, would bring end to riot charges in juvenile detention www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

US senator says El Salvador denied request to meet Kilmar Ábrego García Chris Van Hollen condemns ‘unjust situation’ and says vice-president blocked access to wrongly deported man www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Postmortems of rescue workers killed in Gaza show ‘gunshots to head and torso’ Findings likely to increase pressure on Israel to give a full account of incident amid accusations of war crime www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

‘Book brigade’: US town forms human chain to move 9,100 books one-by-one A small Michigan community banded together to help a beloved local bookstore move its stock to a new storefront www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A crack in the manosphere: Joe Rogan’s guests are revolting Signs of discontent are appearing as the podcaster’s friends turn against him and Elon Musk. How long before he changes his mind? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...