The ABA rejects efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

“Trans rights are human rights.”

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

I continue to believe kindness is not antithetical to fighting for what matters, but an essential part of it. Niceness is quiet; kindness is open. Niceness is polite; kindness is defiantly standing with—and fighting for—those who need it. And at some point, we all need it.

Great graphic from the NYT

47,000+ Palestinians killed. 111,000 injured. Trump’s response? Forcibly expel Palestinians to make Gaza “a real estate development for the future. A beautiful piece of land.”  No. Gaza must be rebuilt for the Palestinian people, not billionaire tourists.

#BlueCrew - Quote of the Day

“If you gaze into the darkness too long, you risk letting it become a part of you. Acknowledge it, feel anger or sorrow if you must, but don't let it take root within you. Instead, let your light shine-through kindness, love, and understanding. That is the most powerful way to resist from within.”

Well, this is going pretty much as expected.

Scientists at the CDC were ordered late on Friday to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “LGBT” or “pregnant people.”

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

What the world needs now is a healing MySpace Top 8 meetup of Kindness Avengers. Panel featuring LeVar Burton, Ms. Rachel, Elyse Myers, Bindi & Robert Irwin, Tabitha Brown, Steve from Blue’s Clues, and Dolly Parton in conversation with Elmo at a library? Kindness for our hearts! I’m just sayin’ 💚 🌎

Hope & resistance 🫶

Facts

Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books. bookshop.org/ebooks

Nerds recharging after a long week 👾🫶

@jellyroots.bsky.social 🚨 ‘major breaking news’🚨

Looks like he🏒🏒 has finally frozen over, friends ❄️❄️❄️

The US Department of Justice has ordered its civil rights division to pause any ongoing litigation left over from the administration of former President Joe Biden, according to an internal memo reviewed by Reuters reut.rs/4g8Zdqv

Sure is a bad time to be a person who cares about things.

as we’re seeing the endpoint of the anti-DEI hysteria is just opening the door to rampant employment discrimination

BREAKING: In a new executive order sent out by the White House, Donald Trump has revoked the federal contractor nondiscrimination executive order, EO 11246, that was signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 and has protected employees of businesses seeking federal contracts from discrimination ever since.

‘A Noviça Rebelde’ (1965)

Folks should always remember that remaining silent and not being an asshole is free.

Under Trump's executive order, every single person in America is now legally classified as female. All embryos begin by developing female sex organs, with male sex organs only replacing them at around 6 weeks of gestation.

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In the darkest, meanest things, there alway, alway something sings. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” - Dr. Martin Luther King

"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed" -MLK, Jr Letter From A Birmingham Jail Read it: www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen... #MLKDay #WeShallOvercome #MakeGoodTrouble

"We need leaders not in love with money but in love with Justice "Not in love with publicity but in love with humanity "Leaders who can subject their particular egos to the pressing urgencies of the great cause of freedom." -MLK, Jr #MLKday #WeShallOvercome

One act of kindness a day.

Dr. King said it best #MLKDay