Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.

Why t.f. does his citizenship matter?

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

New report from doctors shows the Iranian regime slaughtered 16,500 protesters during the communications shutdown.

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

it is sort of interesting watching Europe try to thread the needle of “Greenland belongs to its people” and “well it actually belongs to Denmark”

“We turn our hearts into museums of the people that we love to keep them alive inside us.”

I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."

Now that's a military parade I'd want to watch! #nokings #puppies

Keep thinking on the LSHTM-JHU estimate of excess mortality in Gaza (paid for by FCDO, all but ignored). In the *six months* from Feb last year, between 67,000 and 86,000 likely already died. Before the ceasefire. Before the full invasion. Before the UN warning today. And they didn’t count famine.

These proposed budget cuts look like the IMF's structural adjustment policies have been turned loose on the United States. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Stephen Miller Dead Behind Eyes At 39

Again, from Keguro: "Crisis patriotism undermines freedom work. It demands allegiance. It demands loyalty. It demands a chorus of voices determined to save and uphold damaged and damaging institutions and practices."

"We are told by USians that their nation is in crisis. That democracy is in crisis.... In response, some of the groups most targeted for harm by a flurry of executive orders are insisting that their task is to save democracy.... —Black and Queer and Trans USians Loyalty pledges are being activated."

Just so we're clear was it not a crisis when it was the other way around?

From our college president: "We are unpublishing websites pertaining to DEI—specifically our diversity statement and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion site and associated pages and links." www.washcoll.edu/people_depar...

"I am finally free." Leonard Peltier walked out of prison today at 8:40am, nearly 50 years after the U.S. govt lied to put him there. New statement from Peltier, along with photos of him moments after leaving prison, in the sun, happy. www.huffpost.com/entry/leonar...

They attacked Chernobyl. Yes, that one. "A drone armed with a warhead hit the outer protective shell of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant."

Ok here is the thing with action/praxis/protest/showing up: Sometimes you contribute by being a megaphone. Sometimes by being a wallet. Sometimes by being a physical body. Sometimes by being fuel or being relief. If you can’t be one thing at any given moment you can almost certainly be another.

Everyone in LA is sharing this story on insta, and I just want to make sure non-Angelenos know about this bear that crawled under a house during the fires. He had to be lured out with rotisserie chickens. Read it. You deserve a little treat.

What happens if you vape weed on a plane? Well, if the captain “comes into contact” with it, then he has to be medically evaluated and can no longer fly (we’re still on the ground) and we have to get a new captain.

Wut.

Screw-top American champagne, tenure edition.

Who among us …

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

Yes, The Onion buying InfoWars is funny, but the real best part is that the site will fight against gun violence alongside the Sandy Hook victims' families.

I’m starting a kick rocks/leave me alone starter pack. It’s just me; don’t ask to join. Leave me alone.

I was an election judge today in rural Maryland, and the number of people who were first-time voters over the age of 40 was … surprising. (We clapped even louder for them than the 18-year-olds.)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Maryland voters add protections for abortion rights to state constitution.

This is honestly one of the most harrowing stories from a pretty grim year.

Israel is just bombing Lebanon and we’re just supposed to accept this as the new normal. Is diplomacy dead?

There were some “receipts” for enslaved people up for auction on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, and Washington College was able to negotiate to buy them for archival and study for the region’s and college’s history. It was an individual who brought them to the college’s attention.

A student just sent me three gifs of themself throwing up to prove they were not faking illness. How's your day going?

Sometimes you find some art by someone where you can't help but mourn that they missed the internet by nearly three centuries.

“I don't really worry about the young, whose excesses are confined to lecture halls and quadrangles, so much as I fear the old, whose tyrannies are legislative.”

This is what representation feels like.

Libra season begins. Soon I will be at full power.

I had to spend 5 FULL minutes explaining pagers to undergrads before I could talk about the production and distribution networks that made this indiscriminate not-bombing possible. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

Hurt people hurt people, and greedy people lie www.nytimes.com/2024/09/08/m...

"Demonstrations shouldn’t just entice you to come up with rhyming chants; they should push you to inquire about how different groups of people think about complex issues." What gold!

"The last thing any university president should want is an apolitical campus." - this is a sub-tweet

Worth reading. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Apparently the Maryland Republican Party supports voting by mail