Tomorrow. D.C. The National Mall. Sunup to sundown.

Sunset shot a few nights ago from Mohave National Preserve

Praying for the Jamaican people tonight. www.nbcnews.com/weather/stor...

Recognizing Palestine. Recognizing genocide in Palestine. Ok, so are you going to stop it? Are you going to intervene? To withdraw your material support at the very least? Otherwise it’s just words.

Really struggling to mentally recover from having an argument over email with a senior academic about whether Karen Attiah was the last remaining Black full staff opinion writer at Washington Post. I don’t get it, like why wouldn’t he just believe her? 😔

But everything that isn’t named has more power over us. When we ignore it, hush, don't face it, it hurts us more. The hidden rot causes so much damage. When we speak something out loud, it looses its power. open.substack.com/pub/nadiamel...

In London, hate will never win.

The first thing you need to know about returning to office... some of y'all smell stronger than hurt feelings

I'm kind of obsessed with my city

Add this one instead.

This didn't age well......

none of our institutions are democratic.

When is this going to end? What is there to even say anymore?

Puerto Rico has just banned gender affirming care for trans people up to age 21. It is now the ban with the highest age limit in the United States. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

“What you are seeking is already seeking you”… 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Malak during a meeting today.

Last year, the final of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River were removed in the largest project of its kind in US history. The river that straddles the California-Oregon border has since been reborn.

LAPD radio comms. Can't make this up, y'all.

This is a real photograph

Political violence must always be condemned.

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.

We’re in! CU Denver’s Center for Psychedelic Research is a community partner for #PsychedelicScience2025 🙌 buff.ly/AIK9OPG 📍In our city. With our people. 🎤 Don’t miss Vivian Shyu on June 20! #CUDenver #Psychedelics #MeetYourMoment #PS2025

Who's attending #PS2025 in Denver? Will we see you there? www.psychedelicscience.org

I am beyond excited to attend #PS2025 with 9 Counseling and Family Therapy Graduate students from School of Education & Human Development (SEHD). Come say hello! #CUDenver #PsychedelicScience2025 #CUDenver_SEHD @cudenveralumni.bsky.social

It feels like speaking your truth in a voice barely above a whisper, and realizing it carries more weight than all the shouting you’ve done just to be heard. It feels like giving yourself permission to rest and not feeling guilty for needing it. open.substack.com/pub/camiyux/...

The hunger to be everything was only ever a longing to be loved. open.substack.com/pub/odetoapo...

On Nakba Day let's recall British complicity in covering up the horrors of 1948 and the years preceding it. Below, a Guardian article from 1977 by the Historian Bernard Wasserstein reveals the destruction of key documents related to Palestine by the British State in the decade after the Nakba.

You've asked, we've listened: all @insidehighered.com articles now feature a Bluesky share button. Happy sharing! #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky

Can I go further? If black cops - the least likely to be included in the blue code — cannot be convicted of a savage beating, captured on camera, then it was already beyond bleak. 🙁

As someone who uses solution budesonide for nasal polyps, I cannot even imagine people trying to drink it 🤮🤮. The relief i have of getting my refill before the chaos begins.

The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

It was finals week and some kids were just in the library studying.

Disability Reading List

Happy #MothersDay

happy mother’s day

Good morning, @bsky.app and #CatsOfBluesky I think my mother is that big fur-less thing that gives me food and cuddle. #HappyMothersDay to all of you who celebrate today.

This right here......

I'm in a season of change that has been forced upon me.

I still can’t believe he let her just fall like that. Republican men care only about themselves.

Brooooo, you didn't even try to catch her.....

Global health organizations to follow go.bsky.app/Df5hsLV

I mean, I was posting about my union saving my healthcare plan but this is even more useful

The urge to book a flight to New Zealand instead of California is too high. Nothing about a funeral and 5 days with my family is feeling affirming.

NEW: President Donald Trump directs the DOJ "to take all necessary action to help secure the release" of Tina Peters, calling her a "hostage." The former GOP elections clerk serving a nine-year sentence in Colorado for tampering with voting systems. #copolitics

Indeed, it is a rare gift to find someone who rejoices in discovering your true self. But how is this possible when the person you were yesterday is now a stranger to even yourself? open.substack.com/pub/shyamagr...

"Palestine Is Really the Center of the World": Angela Davis on Gaza, Black-Jewish Solidarity & Trump

I was talking with my Lebanese colleague about the required compartmentalization of academic work while your personal life is being blown up. And the insensitivity from higher education to want high performance and perfection regardless.

The hardest part of group work is being witnessed by others and them challenging you to go a little deeper. Individual therapy allows us to take our time, to slowly walk through our experiences and process what we are feeling. Group work asks us to challenge how we move through experience.

Prompt 1: What does healing look like for me right now? Not what it used to look like. Not what it should look like. Just... right now. In this version of me. open.substack.com/pub/cuidate/...

So, apparently, there was a turkey in New York (I think this is Queens?) First of all. . . y'all told me turkeys can't fly!

so we keep going. scrolling. branding. building resilience like it’s a personality trait and numbing out on information and ambient despair. open.substack.com/pub/caitlynr...