Chicago Cyclists Are Buying Out Tamale Carts To Keep Vendors Home And Safe From ICE blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/17/c... This is just great! Chicago's cycling community is the best.

Take a picture of yourself at the No Kings rally. Print it. Put it in a frame. Your grandchildren will speak about you for generations to come. You took a stand against fascism. You stood up for democracy. 

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I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kings—idk man, go, don’t go, …but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing

“As I’ve studied these trickster stories, I’ve started to see many of the ideas running through them out in the world—and especially in US politics.” - Julian Brave NoiseCat in @thenation.com

PODCASTS Altmetric now tracks podcasts mentioning research In 2018 there were roughly 500,000 podcasts in existence. Just 3 years later that number was 2 million. Today it's around 4 million. Amid all the Squarespace ads there's citations to research. Let's go 1/7

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I thought this was lovely.

protests against this government should include white Boomer grandmothers who meet for pilates class, get a pitcher of mimosas & walk together to the public space we need people in the street who think everyone can talk their way out of a speeding ticket, they're key to winning

Billionaire corporations are already seeing the money roll in from the giant tax giveaways Donald Trump and the Republicans stuffed into their Big, Beautiful Bill. What about working Americans? They're losing their health care, and their costs just keep going up. It's shameful.

Calling all Johnson County cities: Overland Park, Olathe, Leawood, Shawnee, Lenexa, Merriam, Fairway, Gardner, De Soto, Bonner Springs, Edgerton, Spring Hill, Westwood, and Roeland Park! We’ve teamed up with coalitions across the county to bring you one big No Kings Event Saturday, October 18th!

💬 Viewpoint: Academic medicine should adopt the "s-index" to recognize and reward nonresearch contributions like service, mentorship, and diversity initiatives, promoting equity and improving faculty retention. ja.ma/4nRApYo

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

It’s new cargo bike day at the E-Bike Lending Library! Meet our P5i twins Avocado and Vail. Thanks to @ternbicycles.com for the hook up! If this is the first you’re seeing us, we’re a local non-profit. Our goal is to advance biking for transportation. To see us succeed, donate a the link below 😊

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Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

We’re eight days away from No Kings Day, and we have 2,500 protests planned in all 50 states and across the world. October 18 is going to be the biggest day of nonviolent protest in US history — and we want to see you there. Find your local event: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create. So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

Three newly published books argue that cars are destroying society as well as the planet. Is the world finally ready to rein in the automobile? My essay, in @bloomberg.com (gift link below)

Win or lose, sink or swim One thing is certain, we'll never give in Side by side, hand in hand We all stand together! Play the game, fight the fight But what's the point on a beautiful night? Arm in arm, hand in hand We all stand together! youtu.be/gVfaf43W9cM?... Good idea @sellybeth.bsky.social!

D'you reckon these protestors know that there's a song called We All Stand Together sung by a bunch of cartoon frogs? Seems like that would be an incredibly apt theme song for them. youtu.be/gVfaf43W9cM?...

Kids shouldn't have to act like heroes. Adults should have the courage to face accountability and the courage to build safer streets. Glad the girl is alright. Hope they find the driver that fled the scene. www.kctv5.com/2025/10/08/i...

Registration is OPEN for the 2026 Annual Assembly! Join us in person or catch sessions on demand — your experience, your way. No price increase for 2025 + early bird savings through Jan 12, 2026. Choose from 4-Day, One-Day, or On-Call options. https://ow.ly/L56s50X99Xw

Watching antisocial driver behavior in the school drop-off line makes it really clear that the pandemic destroyed whatever few shreds remained of the social compact, just pathological selfishness on display every day

@aclukansas.bsky.social has a phone bank tonight from 6-7 to protect voting rights in Johnson County! No experience needed — an ACLU field organizer will give a quick overview so you’ll feel confident making calls. All are welcome! Sign up below.

Join us this Saturday from 9:30-10:30am at the corners of 80th and Metcalf in downtown Overland Park, KS for the Democracy Needs You Now weekly protest. Protest is a right we need to exercise!

Psst. Yeah, you. The best time to introduce palliative care to a patient with a progressive condition was long ago when they were stable. The second best time is now.

- My talk is too long - But maybe if I read it fast - Lots of people have tried this - It didn't work for those people - But maybe ...

I'm not a quoter of scripture, but this seemed appropriate for the horror that has been unleashed because of the gutting of USAID. “Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.” -Jesus

I've been working on a book proposal and alternating between "this is meaningful" and "this is pointless," and a friend recently shared this quote that she stumble on in a Goodreads review: "Every book is a grand gesture of optimism on the part of both the reader and writer." Keep creating, friends.

Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Much better now, he thought to himself.

🤳EXCLUSIVE: We analyzed real data from over 800 U.S. TikTok users to reveal how the app transforms casual users into power users. Extremely proud of this one, over a year in the making w/ @richardsima.bsky.social Leslie Shapiro @asteckelberg.bsky.social @ence.bsky.social wapo.st/4obueib

Get ready for #HCWvsHunger 2025 because no one should have to go hungry.

Great win starting with the kids and closing with your starters. Kansas City Current just a joy to watch. #KCbaby

CBS = commercials before soccer #nwsl #KCbaby

They call it ACL cause my knees is hurting

From the comments - "It's not your fault the world is the way it is, it would just be your fault if it stays that way"

Jane Goodall being a true Mage archetype and telling people to launch billionaires into space as her final words. You don’t get much more mythic then that Dr. Goodall www.reddit.com/r/interestin...

We have an amazing group of speakers for our No Kings Rally on October 18th! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

Met lots of Democratic voters at the door today and there was a lot of energy to make sure we don’t bring the chaos and extremism of the national GOP down to this local level.

Caught Royel Otis and bby at the Uptown Theater in KC tonight. Good stuff!! #kcmusic

Major victory in Kansas for transgender people. The Kansas Supreme Court declined to block a lower court ruling on gender markers on drivers license. ACLU Kansas says trans people can get their licenses updated starting Tuesday. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

You might think that the mayor of Yellowknife, the capital of Canada's vast Northwest Territories, would be a fan of giant pickups. Nope. He's disgusted by car bloat. www.linkedin.com/posts/benjam...

A good political message for Dems is that Republicans say they are unwilling to hold Trump/Vought accountable, so elect someone who is.

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

While I didn't love OBAA like so many on here, I didn't hate it and treated it as a comedy instead of the satire it thinks it is. Brooke Obie puts into words the things that bothered me about it. blackgirlwatching.substack.com/p/one-battle...