“One of the things that really gives me joy is the fact that there are so many amazing, brilliant, creative disabled people out there. But part of my rage — and it’s a very real rage — is that most people don’t really know about them.” Obit:

NEW — Rashida Tlaib and 20 other members of Congress have introduced a resolution to officially recognize Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people. It notes that between 10/23 and 11/25, the US sent $21,700,000,000 in military aid to Israel and authorized $30,000,000,000+ in new weapons deals.

DoorDash will pay $18 million to resolve a lawsuit by the city of Chicago in 2021 that alleged the delivery firm harmed restaurants and misled diners during the COVID-19 pandemic that decimated Chicago’s restaurant industry, city officials said Friday. https://to.wttw.com/441uPeu

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

I attended a meeting yesterday and it reminded me that every single organizer needs to get training on how to facilitate meetings. Truly. You lose more people through terrible meeting facilitation than I can express.

Add a toddler to the mix and it’s a full on party 🫠😳😩😭

You ever heard of Julie Dash? Some of you undoubtedly have,but quite a few I'd imagine not. Julie Dash is the first Black woman (ever) to have a full-length film with a theatrical release in the United States. In 1991. There's a book as well. Julie Dash turns 73 years old today

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

Today, I'm excited to share @capitalb.bsky.social's first strategic plan: capitalbnews.org/capitalb-202... It's a new time, and a new chapter for Capital B. We spent months of deep reflection and conversation to develop this plan. It's bold and ambitious, and won't be easy — especially right now.

Philadelphia, see you tonight! A few seats still available for the second seating.

An analysis of news pieces about Trump’s anti-trans decrees found that “70 percent did not include a quote from a single trans person. Instead, journalists turned to cisgender sources — mostly government officials — to speak about trans people, their lives, and how they would be affected.”

The genocide continues, in slower pace Genocide: "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part" "[E]ntire neighbourhoods controlled by the IDF have been levelled in less than a month" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It snows one (1) day and they're looking to gtfo (also I'll believe it when I see it)

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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

It wasn’t caving in when universities slashed entire programs and policies that supported students, staff, and faculty to appease conservatives…and its not caving in when the Democrats concede to the Republicans. They want this. They are superficially oppositional, not enemies.

We sold out 2 tamale vendors, bought out 2 more vendors, and absolutely swarmed a family owned bakery. It was a good day with some the very best of #BikeChi 🥰 for the 4th installment of the Street Vendor Bike Tour. We persist. ✊🏽

Head's up there is a Bluesky ban scam going around. This account just joined 40 mins ago and send me this DM. DO NOT CLICK THE LINK. Bluesky would NEVER send a DM like this and make you scared. This would come through email and would have a more professional email than this. Stay safe!

Free Walk-up grocery market at Chicago Chicken & Waffles,3933 S. King Drive (in the adjacent parking lot) happening right now. Bring your own bags.

Keep track of the victories when they come

Women from 17 different countries are working together to coordinate the global struggle against mass incarceration. buff.ly/PVtpTbY

Or Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been in America since he was two years old. He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him His health is declining, they won’t let him get his legs and they’ve placed him in solitary www.disabledginger.com/p/help-rodne...

OMFG. I could scream every time I read something that points out the erasure of Native American/Indigenous histories in canonical U.S. history books BY naming the Black/White binary.

EUROPEAN DESCENDED HISTORIANS ARE DRIVERS OF ANTI-BLACKNESS IN NATIVE AMERICAN/INDIGENOUS HISTORIOGRAPHY.

I really really want to write a public essay about belonging and U.S. settler colonialism, but but I have a dissertation to finish. I have the range and the writing skills. I just don't have the bandwidth. But maybe I can write something short?

Hollywood loves Emma Stone!

I nearly skipped voting for a mayor in Atlanta. Absolutely voted down ballot. Dickens had no real competition (don’t know why so many people are touting it as a major victory). And I wouldn’t dare vote for him. I get it.

Is there a doctor in the room?!

Shoutout to the camera person who kept going as long as possible.

For fellow professors that require “interview a professor“ assignments, just know I will find you and I will have my revenge.

Mmhmm. All of them should be doing this.

The Left has been thoroughly discredited. So has the "Right," doesn't really matter much. It's up from here.

Telling me a woman won election means little to nothing in this country.

Would love to know the political values of the women who won last night. Like first (progressive/liberal/etc) woman to win etc etc. Mamdani's coverage generally includes that he's a socialist.

LOCAL ELECTION RESULT: Let me congratulate @zysaidso.bsky.social for her election to the Charlottesville School Board. For those wondering: Zyahna Bryant was a student organizer who led the successful fight in removing two confederate statues from downtown Charlottesville.

Yoh know who has been leaving NYC? People who can no longer afford to live there. Good riddance to any rich people who leave (though they will not!)

And apartment listings.

My two favorite cities in this wretched place have two very strong organizing cultures. The mayor and mayor-elect are beneficiaries of the hard work of thousands of everyday people. Mamdani and Johnson are only as strong as the people who organize for what we deserve

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

May 44 stay far away from NYC politics 😩

Mamdani already lowering the crime rate in NYC lol

I voted for them both!

I don’t like it when the Morning Show pre-empts real life.

I definitely cried in my car listening to Black elected officials and community leaders being open to the national guard coming in. Now, the expected is happening.

Where are all the “let’s see how it goes before we judge” Black Memphis leaders who were open to playing with people’s lives?

Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground in Oklahoma. It has bubbled up near homes and a school — and it has killed farmers’ crops and ranchers’ calves. Help ProPublica and @readfrontier.bsky.social understand the full scale of the problem 👇

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

Im honestly afraid that im going to end up homeless.