hey! are you doomscrolling? Small efforts can still have big impacts. Remember how good it feels to eat something when you're really hungry? The power of someone's encouragement? Or a compliment from a stranger? There are lots of things you can do to help yourself and other people. Keep going.

Applications are open for penguin random house internships. They close on the 16th. It’s remote! #blackbooksky careers.penguinrandomhouse.com/internships/

I am fortunate, I have plans for travel this week, Im feeling worried about it- all the what if's My packing has gone well I will not be able to walk as much as I would have hoped, pain will be kept at bay by pain killers- always a bummer to resort to, a balance between being present and being able

Hey Maine - Yall might want to consider this candidate for your Democratic primary. Ya know, someoke who isn't a Nazi.

When you need a break from your own thoughts, take a walk and put on some tunes.

Missed a week with my 8th graders due to the storm, so one last Black History Month poem as a bridge into Women's History Month. This one is by Lucille Clifton, which has a line I think about often: "come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed."

Perfectly said. 10/10. No notes.

Colours of the ocean #Shetland

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

“Great Grey Owl Takeoff”

I'm hiring! 🏛️ This is a VA-based, hybrid 3-year position for a historian working on digital projects related to religious history. We'll also be hiring a historian working on onsite programming and training related to religious history. Feel free to reach out! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Augusta Baker was a children's librarian at NYPL in the 1930s through the 1970s. She was dedicated to curating collections with positive portrayals of Black people in children's books, becoming a storytelling specialist. #BlackHistoryMonth educatingsouthcarolina.blogspot.com/2011/07/augu...

It's #sneckdown time again!

My favorite Team USA commercial included these guys www.sportingnews.com/us/nba/news/... I gasped!

One of the greatest bollard walks in history. #WorldBollardAssociation

Wow Norway- what amazing athletes!

Librarian here: I have never had any ghosts or anything like that in my home, and I'm literally a werewolf.

"“Do you move a school and a hospital away from the noise, or simply move the cars?” says [Colorado State U. Prof David] Rojas-Rueda, who was involved in a study that found Barcelona’s Superblock model of pedestrian-first zones led to major reductions in air and noise pollution.

Come to @nycplan.org's Queens People's Assembly on March 21 to learn more about our public libraries and what we need to do to properly resource them. www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-public... - help spread the word.

Georgia lost 80,000 jobs last year since Trump took office, 27 family farms have filed for bankruptcy, 500,000 are going to lose their health care coverage without the ACA subsidy extension and the premiums are going to double for 1.4 million Georgians.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

BREAKING: We reached a settlement that requires the Trump administration to permanently maintain medical research that had been erased on a government website. The government doesn't get to censor science.

This book is rewiring my brain, my heart, and my ambitions.

What I can't get over in old magazines is the number of ads for various book clubs, other magazines, lectures, etc. A vast universe of literary consumption that just doesn't exist anymore.

Do's and Don'ts for Living as an Introvert | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Statement by King Charles on the passing of Reverend Jesse Jackson

Jesse Jackson's life in civil rights, diplomacy, and politics www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Denver, 2008: Seeing I was lost, Jackson offered me a seat and shared his perspective about what was about to take place. I saved tape from what he said on record, memory from he said off record. Minutes later and just a few yards away, Obama accepted the nomination. Rest in peace, Jesse Jackson.

My students starting singing “We’re all in this together” when they realized Ramadan and Lent are at the same time this year. 🤣😩

Mickalene Thomas billboard debuts on The High Line by Chadd Scott for See Great Art www.seegreatart.art/mickalene-th...

Thank you May your family be held in peace www.commondreams.org/news/jess-ja...

Spent today talking to just a few of the Black women who credit Jesse Jackson with their start in national politics. By inviting them in, he ensured they would help shape democracy for years to come. My latest on the coalition he built as part of his towering legacy: 19thnews.org/2026/02/jess...

Only Raptors

This one goes out to all my buckaroos on Lunar New Year

Unrelated I've been losing my mind at this figure skating videographer for a day now. www.instagram.com/reel/DUxzy9k...

"They are chaotic and undisciplined and they operate in an incredibly incompetent way," said U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree.

i hope i dream in tlingit tonight, that you’re all there, and we’re still singing and dancing together what a beautiful homecoming for our ancestors! you can feel the love in the hall tonight as our voices became one in welcoming them home after 100 yrs next, we need to sing our people home too 😉🫶🏼

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

Jill Scott’s long awaited NPR Tiny Desk concert will premiere Monday at noon EST:

NEW: Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found. The government keeps doing it nonetheless. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Food Safety Alert ⚠️ There is a multi-drug resistant Salmonella outbreak affecting Rosabella brand moringa leaf powder capsules. There are 7 cases in 7 states and 3 hospitalizations. Do not consume these products and immediately dispose of them: www.cdc.gov/salmonella/o...

It's Day 1451 of the attempt to wipe Ukraine off the map/ Russian athletes compete at the #WinterOlympics while a Ukrainian athlete is in court right now trying to overturn his ban. This is THE daily thread. Facts not fabrication. Proof not propaganda. Every single day.

incredible how white men are given the benefit of the doubt when anything coming from marginalized groups are treated with utmost suspicion and distorted beyond recognition

Hassan: "What is happening here is unacceptable to the people in my state of New Hampshire and to people from every corner, and in fact people around the globe. I just got back from the country of Greenland. Their children are scared of the United States of America."

The New York Times just launched a new "newsletter about the law and the courts." They are calling it "The Docket." The Times may not care that Democracy Docket has been publishing "On the Docket" and "Daily Docket" for years, but I believe our 400,000 subscribers might. More on this tomorrow.

For an in-depth analysis of what the Trump administration can and can’t do recdenaturalization, see my @lawfaremedia.org piece from July. They can’t do nearly as much as what they want to scare people into thinking they can do. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...