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The entire piece is worth a read. "The evidence suggests that compromising on basic humanity doesn’t broaden coalitions; it hollows them out. The work now is to find ways to expand our reach without abandoning our foundation—to bridge gaps, yes, but never at the expense of our neighbor’s humanity."

New Report Finds Low Share of R&D Funds Goes to HBCUs https://bit.ly/4gEjgio

I told someone yesterday that we need to be intentional about logging off social media the same way our elders had to log off the news. Because while you are informed, it will poison us with lies, bring us down, or distract us. And we don’t have time or space for these things.

"But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." (Matthew 24:36. Because some of us actually *read* the Bible.)

This wasn’t overnight. The disparaging, ableist, and inaccurate remarks about autism and the quality of life of autistic people were made last spring. Noted: they said they were working on something. But people are so ableist, they will believe pseudoscience over facts.

From @hcrichardson.bsky.social: "the U.S. Dept of Agriculture is ending its annual report on household food security." An expert who explains that this is troubling because inflation is up & the job market is unstable, both of which increase food insecurity. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

“Sexual misconduct is different to prescribing fraud or a speeding ticket and it requires specialist handling.” The BMJ hears why the process for dealing with UK doctors who are guilty of sexual misconduct is “deeply flawed” www.bmj.com/content/390/...

“One way of posing the question of who ‘we’ are in these times of war is by asking whose lives are considered valuable, whose lives are mourned, and whose lives are considered ungrievable.”

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

“Bullet wound raises fears of gunshots” “Burning forest raises fears of fire” ”Corpse raises fears of death”

Yes, you went through all of that but you're still worthy. Save this and read it later.

The damaging effects of experiencing or witnessing domestic violence reverberate in multiple directions, often passing down from generation to generation. Domestic abuse cannot be explained away as a “little fight.” Everyday this man telegraphs to the world just how vile and disgusting he is.

Medscape (USA): Long COVID Hitting Doctors and Nurses Hard www.medscape.com/viewarticle/... Discussion of Long Covid's impact on "hundreds of thousands of doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers." #LongCovid #PASC #PostCovid #Novid

The Chicago school district has sent multiple emails to families assuring them the district is prepared for a potential National Guard presence in the city after comments from President Donald Trump stating Chicago is next for deploying military force.

Live in or plan on visiting Hapoy Valley, PA and looking for a fun wine tasting event? Come spend September with the Centre County Pearls on Sept 20th for a Saturday sip and soirée. 🩷💚🍂🍷 www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

10/10 🎯

Great to see the US climate scientists that Trump fired, fight back by setting up a parallel infrastructure website - climate.us - a crowdsourced nonprofit that aims to rebuild an independent version of the Government climate website that was closed down. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

So who is surprised to learn that, despite massive investments in AI, companies are receiving zero returns? Another case of the perils of heedlessly pursuing the shiny new object.

Perhaps time to introduce to some and remind others to read (or re-read Khalil Muhammad’s *The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America.* Find an excerpt here: www.hup.harvard.edu/file/feeds/P...

The 2026 AERA Graduate Research-in-Progress Roundtable Series Call for Submissions is now open! The deadline to submit is October 8. View the Call for Submissions here: www.aera.net/Education-Re...

This is sexual harassment. This is racist harassment. And they feel so emboldened to harass simply for the qualification of being committed to white supremacy and patriarchy.

Everything is working according to plan.

Taking walks with people I love and before you know it we’ve met the sunrise, sunset, or simply felt the gentle reminder of what Love truly is. ☀️

Saw my beautiful sister last year at a convening and I left her with the book I was reading on the plane. I told her what a joy it is to read books, not work-related, not self-help, just pure love of stories. She couldn’t put it down. And what did she send me today? The sequel! I can’t wait! 💛💐💝🙏🏾

The cost of food has risen faster than overall inflation in the last year.

Elite New York High School Admits 8 Black Students in a Class of 781 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/n...

Right-wingers are so insecure and covetousness that after they gathered public goods, land, economy and education for themselves they wanted the one thing we had: the story of oppression. They want this more than anything else b/c of the powerful narrative & culture we created from it.

Universities acquiescing to both the AI inevitability marketing & to the desire of industry to shift responsibility for job training to higher ed is a large part of why we’re here though. There’s no way “work-based learning” doesn’t turn into exploitation via unpaid internships & apprenticeships.

Jim Crow, but make it national.

An inevitable stand-off created by this Court’s distorted interpretation of the 14th Amendment to require colorblindness. How can a legislature could draw districts that don’t violate the Voting Rights Act w/o looking at race? It can’t be done. But the Court’s rightwing could not care less.

Whose next? US higher education is in free fall. https:www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/30/white-house-duke-university-racial-discrimination

It’s ironic on this day the same people celebrating the anniversary of the ADA people are engaging in ableist discourse, praising the new eugenic discovery that would eliminate Down syndrome. So which is it? Performative allyship clocked.

Being a eugenist is absolutely 100% a short-cut to heterodox credibility in the high-stakes game of intellectual bona fides.

“trisomy rescue” is an interesting choice of words here but then they had to posit Down syndrome as a problem to frame this eugenic discovery as a scientific breakthrough. Eugenics is a global mission that runs on the current of greed, domination, & apathy.

Look at the double exploitation. Inhumane.

Yeah but “boy mom” culture effectively deputized millions of white moms (but not just white ones) to politically align with this administration’s patriarchal vision. So it did what it was supposed to do.

🚨 New pub 🚨 co-authored w Dr. Keishana Barnes & Dr. Elizabeth Morgan, we uplift Black mothers’ advocacy work. “Moving from Silence into Language and Action.” (Re)Imagining Advocacy with Black Motherscholars and Their Motherwork Across Multiple Contexts www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

People think they have amazing stories about ChatGPT. And they tell them all the time. You just don’t register them as amazing if you are a normal ish adult human being because it’s mid shit like, “it told me to eat brisket!” or “it wrote twenty emails no one wants!”

My favorite fitness influencer is 79 years old. I’m not kidding. And it’s not even close. youtu.be/hZuFl9vL-bA?...

Thank you for EVERYTHING, @pbs.org ✨ We love you, we will never give up on you!The support from viewers like us for you is eternal! Public media teaches us kindness, teaches us to enjoy learning, teaches us that we all belong. PBS is my reason to stay. PBS, always and forever ❤️‍🩹💙🩵💚

The countdown is on! We're one week away from the #AERA2026 deadline! www.aera.net/Events-Meeti...

I gotta say. The cancellation of Colbert’s show is really messing with me. This is REALLY bad.

3 guesses.

What in the actual hell. God help us all.

Ok yes. And Black people have been saying this. Whitelash, similar to after reconstruction where the idea of Black people having equal rights sparks white rage, has been identified by Black scholars from Du Bois to Carol Anderson.