What an absolute honor to witness Dr. Mitzi J. Smith, PhD (@womanistprof67.bsky.social ) officially step into her role as the J. Davison Philips Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary! 🎉

@womanistprof67.bsky.social is offering an AMAZING lecture on Luke’s parables of enslavement at her chair installation at CTS. So lucky to listen and learn.

I wish I could have been there to celebrate this achievement @womanistprof67.bsky.social! Congratulations to Dr. Mitzi Smith on her installment as J. Davison Philips Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. 🤩👇🏼🔥

"Rural hospital leaders in Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri and Texas who spoke to The Washington Post warned that the enormous cuts congressional Republicans are weighing could further destroy limited health-care access in rural America..." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

buy from your indie and/or bookshop. most of these places offer shipping! and treat you like a person! if you're an author, one fun activity you can do (at least, i find it fun) is track down some bookstores you love where readers can get your books. i have a whole page on my site about it:

Ukraine now has an account on BlueSky. You are welcome to like , follow and repost this 🇺🇦

God gave us the power to create individual and collective miracles, instead we are satisfied with reading about a man who performed them 2,000 years ago.

If y'all are still looking for ways to increase your boycott of Google, here's an opensource app, available on all platforms to replace Google Keep (Notes) obsidian.md/download

Winner 🏆

Economic “black out” starts tonight through end of Feb 28, Friday (after midnight) or if you’re like me. I’m already in boycott mode and will remain in boycott mode indefinitely

Medicaid covers: - 21% of Americans nationally - 83 million low-income Americans - 4 in 10 children - 1 in 4 adults with disabilities - Nearly 50% of kids with special needs - 41% of births nationwide - 5 in 8 nursing home residents GOP: Your lives mean nothing. What matters is Elon mustn't pay tax

Coup…damn

The racists in the WH don’t need to be reminded of how mediocre they themselves are. #resist

Are the White Women for Rump happy yet?! #resist

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

We need to dust off these songs that we were raised on for such a time as this. A Civil Rights Era classic... www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdKE...

“God is in control” Or “God allowed Rump to win the election” are grossly insufficient, lazy, passive aggressive responses to a predicament that humans created. If we created it, we can and must fix it.

I’ve been In and I’m staying in!

Vile religion

Celebrating the chair I’ve held since I arrived in 2019.

The ordinarily cautious and conservative ABA is blowing the whistle: The break-the-glass moment has arrived. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

Howard University is now considered an R1 institution!

#tdih 1900 At Lincoln birthday event, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was first publicly performed by 500 school children at Stanton School in Jacksonville, Fla. School principal James Weldon Johnson wrote the words and his brother Rosamond set them to music. ⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/li...

Jalen Hurts is a class act. #integrity #skill

In 2024, Internet censorship affected roughly 4.8 billion people, making it a busy year for the team behind Proton VPN. Check out our latest blog post for a deep-dive into Proton's contributions to alleviate the effects of Internet censorship worldwide throughout 2024:

Google, Zoom … all supporting MAGA republicanism/terrorism. Need alternatives

BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Those employees who remain are being warned to expect their actions to be surveilled, from their swipes into government facilities to the keystrokes they type on their computers.” Definite Big Brother energy here. www.npr.org/2025/02/11/n...

Pure evil. Heartless thugs running our government and stealing our money.

It's called The Gulf of Mexico. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Yes! Resist!

A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

Feb 28 economic blackout… buy nothing except from small businesses and necessities

I’m in but I’m reducing my spending period and boycotting Amazon etc forever (starting months ago). Feb 28, 2025 black out—buy nothing, plz.

Request to progressive media/bloggers: Please do NOT use photos of #47, Musk, Miller, etc. as your featured image for every story. We've never shared their images in our feed, nor will we. If you write about the harm they do, then feature people they impact & who resist. Don't give hate free PR.