Some commenters are unhappy b/c no one should be that rich; billionaires should be taxed more & the money used for public funding of education, etc; & it's only a drop in the bucket of her wealth. But—education's under threat, esp. for Black students. This will do a lot of good. More of this, pls.

Not only do we routinely see kids dying in ICE custody, now they’re missing nearly 1000 people who were being held in Alligator Alcatraz? HOW THE HELL is this not a stop the presses moment? We can only hope it’s not a Brubaker moment.

I'm honestly in awe of the quality of writing in that clapback.

You want to read this story. I promise. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/how...

Yep, it's time for this again. Again, but louder this time.

Exactly. We can be against both bigotry AND murder/politically-motivated violence. We can mourn that someone has died while also not effacing their words and actions in some kind of haste to make a saint out of them.

We need more Jasmines

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Here’s an idea. The west has held about $300 billion in Russian assets. They should release 2 billion a day to Ukraine until Russia stops the war, or they disperse it all. Then Russia will have to accept the war has an additional real cost per day

Anhedonia, n. When you find out there's a free PDF of the entire book, Theological Aesthetics after von Balthasar, ed. Oleg Bychkov and James Fodor online AND you download it...and feel nothing.

ABSOLUTELY

Left-wing 'extremists' in the US would be considered moderates in Canada. The US has no left-wing extremism.

Alex Garcia-Rivera was my first PhD advisor, but tragically he was diagnosed w/stage-4 cancer my first semester, & died my third semester in. I wish I'd gotten to know him better, but he wasn't around much during that time. 1/2

A few days after Brian Kilmeade suggested “involuntary lethal injection,” two separate mass shootings targeted homeless encampments in Minnesota, injuring at least a dozen people. Yet Jimmy Kimmel is indefinitely suspended.

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Here in Detroit, give to the Ruth Ellis Center. They focus on supporting LGBT folks, with a deep commitment to intersectionality & justice.

Power begets wealth and wealth begets power. We're seeing how the extreme wealth concentration is distorting politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of billionaires. Kudos to Pope Leo for speaking out. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

There's a reason why the solution to all this isn't a simple electoral victory. It's radical overhaul of every. single. institution. The "administrative paradigm," the "CEO paradigm"... is parasitic. Administrators don't educate. CEOs don't build products. They get rich off other people's labor.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Hooray, the poem I’ve been wrangling lately, unsure I could pull it off, was a hit with my poetry group!

It's been fun watching all the response videos to that SciShow video on knitting. Besides exposing the implicit misogyny in the way "women's work" so often gets dismissed, I think these responses also hint at something even deeper. [1/6]

I think I did it. It’s due Saturday, but I think I’ve got my Call & Response poem ready to go. Will run it by my poetry group on Friday. I always worry I won’t be able to pull it off. This time, I was really worried about that.

The Sleepy Potato. No idea what it is.

At what point in a student's chain of emails suggesting their paper topic can I just say, "OK, you do you..."?

Always remember, girls and boys!

In my experience, no one doesn't get Ordinary Time like Episcopal priests. (Like the one I used to know who insisted it's also called "Normal Time.")

I want to write another pantoum. (I wrote my last one, oh, almost 30 years ago.) I am proud to announce: I have made a spreadsheet for it. I've really grown as a poet and as a person in those 30 years, haven't I?

Everyone can contribute something to the fight, but because certain actions tend to get all the coverage, it can be easy to feel shut out. So here's a thread of ways to help that do NOT include: Going anywhere Calling anyone Writing anything If you want to help, we want your help. Let's go....

Texas voters, Texas removed 100k voters from the voter rolls. Please spread the word and check your registration and re-register if necessary. thehill.com/homenews/484...

This is her happy place. (Taking care of a friend’s cats, & this one thinks I’m terrifying.)

Private prison and surveillance companies like Geo Group, CoreCivic, and Palantir just reported massive profits last quarter thanks to lucrative government contracts for Trump's mass deportation machine. All of course donated to Trump's inauguration. They're getting rich off cruelty.

Unions do more than just improve wages and benefits. They build stronger communities and strengthen democracy. A new report from @epi.org shows that where unions thrive, communities thrive. Imagine what we could achieve if more people had a voice at work. www.epi.org/publication/...

I feel...happy?! wtf

We’ve already been over this. I’ve got the degrees, the credentials, and the receipts. If you’re looking for “low IQ,” try looking in the mirror—or at your own Cabinet. (2/2)

I don't know much about this building, but I always love seeing the Obama mural on it. Also, given its location & the fact it was a department store (Federal's) built in 1949, I can be nearly certain my grandmother probably spent some time in there.

"Hope is always coming from God, and despair never is." --Fr. James Martin, SJ

Stephen Miller tried to claim only real "Americans" built the Empire State Building, but he left out the true stories of the Indigenous ironworkers who actually did. The Mohawk Skywalkers helped shape America's skylines—and shatter the lie behind Miller’s whitewashed nostalgia.

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They need to stop blaming Jesus for their twisted, hate-fueled ideology.

Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.” This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over. Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.

Covering the people's house with tacky gilt and ripping it up to add an unneeded $200 million ballroom - while sending troops into nearby streets to roust the people with nowhere to live. Nice.

Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

After talking to my doctor about weight loss options, the weather and my brain are doing a lot already to help, in terms of killing my appetite. The heat makes me not want to eat, and so does my brain telling me there are bugs in everything. (This even found its way into my dreams last night.)

Just saw someone call the military occupation of DC a distraction, and that’s it, the it’s a distraction people have lost it. We should wait until the bulldozer is running over your house and all chime in with “isn’t there something else we should be talking about”

Under Trump, being trans is literally viewed as more offensive than being a child rapist. 🤬

Anyone else call it "Quirkbooks"?

This seems massively important. "In 2024, there were about 349 reported violent crimes in the United States for every 100,000 Americans. That is the lowest rate of violent crime since 1969."