Let’s take care of each other today.

We need your help to see the full picture of how the dismantling of the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights is affecting students, parents, school employees and their wider communities. Here's how to reach out:

There's also this assumption that once POC have attained some elite credential, then a world of resources and privileges suddenly becomes easily accessible. But that's far from true. Racial discrimination persists! academic.oup.com/sf/article-a...

BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university Full statement from NU below:

Exclusive: Hegseth ordered everyone killed in the first alleged drug boat strike on Sept. 2, prompting a second hit to finish off survivors in the water in a mission led by SEAL Team 6. Ordering no quarter could legally perilous www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Federal judges block Texas from using redrawn congressional maps that would boost the GOP in the 2026 midterm elections.

When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.' people.com/donald-trump...

I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk? But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession. But that's just me

Looking for what you can do to make you voice heard? This campaign is gaining traction. The enablers have to feel it. weaintbuyingit.com

Starbucks’ CEO makes 6,666x what the average @sbworkersunited.org barista does. It would take less than one day of sales to finalize a fair contract. Baristas at Starbucks corporate stores nationwide are on strike to fight this corporate greed and get the fair contract they deserve.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.

Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves

Trump's super-power is that he simply refuses to acknowledge political wounds that would instantly kill anyone with a modicum of shame. Which has worked well enough for him that many people have fooled themselves into believing he isn't wounded at all. But he is! He always has been!

Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are.

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

Using CRISPR gene-editing to permanently reduce cholesterol and triglycerides holds tremendous promise. It almost sounds like science fiction. Go science! www.npr.org/2025/11/08/n...

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

It just keeps getting worse www.latimes.com/california/s...

I'm really proud of this paper I wrote with my grad student proposing that children's racial biases are driven in part by racial differences in social status. Part of making the world a better place for children of color is ending racial inequity.

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child. She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck. This is not about immigration enforcement. It's about terrorizing Americans.

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

We have the timidity of countless corporate and university GCs to thank for the fact DEI is treated as though it were illegal.

I have finished Andor 🥲🥲🥲 Easily the best series of Star Wars, and some of the best just tv in general

Rutgers October 13! Free copies of The People's Project to the first 50 @roxanegay.bsky.social @theferocity.bsky.social @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social

Today was a sad day in Seattle journalism. As someone who read and followed Cascade PBS's work every day (for my job), they produced unique and compelling work week in and week out. This will be a big loss...

We don't know what's going to happen so might as well fight for better. That's really my basic political orientation.

The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S.

Statement from Post Guild Leadership: The Washington Post Guild condemns the unjust firing of columnist Karen Attiah

I signed up for a gym and the contract said that they had the rights to my image “in perpetuity throughout the universe in any medium or format whatsoever now existing or hereafter created on any platform and for any purpose.” I was told that this was a standard contract 😳

"If Trump had demanded that these schools agree that 1+1=3 in order to have their funding restored, you can be sure that the schools would have done so, while adding a sub-clause noting that they have only the highest respect for the concept of mathematical truth."

"At this point, women have been cleared out of all of the military’s top jobs." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

PBS News is not going anywhere. We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air. We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.

Wow - may he rest in peace ❤️

The em dash is my favorite and now I’m self conscious about using it because apparently it’s an indicator that you used chatGPT 😭

It’s absolutely impossible to think this is the result of good faith legal analysis, especially when they refuse to provide any reasons!

I really like how the Supreme Court is just letting Trump dismantle the Department of Education but wouldn't let Biden forgive student debt. Funny how that works.

this came out yesterday. Times says: "We found that at key stages in the war, Netanyahu’s decisions extended the fighting in Gaza longer than even Israel’s senior military leadership deemed necessary."

Happy Caturday 🥰

If you read one thing today, please read this: It's about neglect, tragedy, collective memory, dignity and grief. It also includes the story of how my friend Charles worked to secure the burial of a fellow veteran he'd never met.

There is a moment in SINNERS I think about a lot. A character tells a horrible true story, and the weight of it is crushing, because not only did that thing really happen but it could happen, again and again and again. And then he laughs and starts to sing. He smiles and laughs and sings.

The ICE budget is now set to be approximately what the NIH budget was. We’re shifting money from solving real problems to solving fictitious problems.

I feel like I could be more productive if Harris were president b/c I wouldn’t constantly have to worry about America being dismantled and sold for parts

Policies are one thing, but the most discouraging part of this current moment in the United States is the complete lack of empathy and humanity. I cannot fathom treating any human being the way they are openly cheering the dehumanizing mistreatment of the most vulnerable people in our population.

Congress has passed Trump’s “big, beautiful” nightmare bill, leaving the safety net in shreds to fund tax cuts for the rich

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

I think most people severely underestimated how much fascism and kleptocracy would triumph through the surrender and default of forces that should have opposed it.

People have no idea, not really, how this budget is about to wreck their very foundations.

Breaking news: The Senate narrowly approved President Trump's massive tax and immigration bill, extending tax cuts for wealthy Americans and cutting nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid, SNAP and other programs. wapo.st/4esoFbg

USAID is shutting its doors today--marking the end of democracy, diplomacy, and decency all in one fell swoop.

A NYC candidate for mayor has called for reconsidering rent control in that city, while congressional Republicans are advancing a bill that would take a trillion dollars in health care away from working people all across America, but guess which one the pundits are all over right now?