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Demand for mental health care has grown. Self-reported poor mental health days rose by 25% since the 1990s, found one study analyzing survey data. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide rates in 2022 matched a 2018 high that hadn’t been seen in nearly 80 years.

Of the many Black figures targeted by the MAGA right, few have attracted its fury like Ibram X. Kendi.

A lot of you were continuing to report bugs and glitches yesterday (thank you!), but there were some questions in the comments that I think require a longer response, so my diary today is about why. Why Did We Have To Do This If DK5 Was Working Fine? (…if it ain’t broke…) I addressed the […]

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the government agency widely known as ICE, reported the death of a detainee for the 17th time so far in 2026. On April 12, Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt, a 27-year-old Cuban man, died in what has been labeled a suicide. But the death at a Miami detention facility is still under investigation. Earlier in April, a 52-year-old Mexican man died in California’s…

I have featured the musical genre dubbed “funk” here and here in the past. However those stories didn’t spotlight the musician nicknamed “WOO”—Bernie Worrell.