Former Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Joyce Beatty explains why she opposed the Kirk resolution: "The end of your story does not change the chapters you wrote. How you leave this world does not erase how you lived in it. I can grieve the tragedy without celebrating the legacy"

it really is astonishing how quickly it goes from “civil war” and “blood in the streets” to “wow guys it’s just a sad tragedy” when it becomes inconvenient

Also, shame on any democrat politician who thought for one moment this was a radicalized progressive. We don’t radicalize toward weaponry and murder. We generally radicalize toward justice, protest, mutual aid, and community action.

Three high schoolers, who likely didn't make a career out of enabling and encouraging fascism, were shot in Colorado today.

National Dems send endless emails begging for money but almost never organize people for real action. Mamdani is now doing the opposite. Telling supporters to close their checkbooks and put on their walking shoes to go talk to their neighbors.

Giving Salem, 1692

The funny thing is animals actually can suffer and we slaughter them by the billions but sure let’s have an existential panic over whether a software program screams when we turn it off

Ugh this just makes me want a Dell's lemonade so. damn. much.

Find your friends. Hug your kids. Choose your fight.

Learn Mary Sheffield’s name now, she’s a Black female politician who is basically a lock to be Detroit’s next mayor and that will fix her firmly in his misogynoir cross hairs.

I would prefer not to invest my retirement money in the thing that makes it less likely for me to have a job

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

This is all true and leads to an insanely toxic environment for all players. “Mid” players end up being driven away from healthy activity and team development by players and parents who think they have “a shot” and that the average, rec league kids are holding their kids back.

When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.

My overwhelming memory from Hebrew school is being young and seeing images of ancestors starving in the camps. “Never again” was our religion. Here is the paper of record today. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

to all of you in the comments bringing up 1930s Germany, look first to American history. At the Ugly Laws, for instance, which allowed the state to criminalize unhoused people. Look at the histories of forcible incarceration in insane asylums, workhouses, epileptic colonies and more across the US

Our family spare sock basket feels exceedingly seen RN 😆

Burnout is clinically understood as a combo of 6 factors—work overload, lack of control, insufficient rewards, breakdown in community, absence of fairness, & value conflicts—and only a fraction of it is under your control. Burnout is a systemic problem, so be kind to yourself and hard on the system.

*yells for the thousandth time* The states already control K12 public schools so dismantling the DOE reduces federal support for already underfunded and under supported k12 public schools. Hope that helps.

"I don’t care if Clinton is in the Epstein files. I don’t care if any Democrats are on the client list. I don’t care if any progressives are on the client list... You know why? Because I'm not in a cult." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/i-dont-car...

It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”

I've worked in education for more than a decade, lived in Detroit for 15 years, and been "extremely online" for 20+ years but getting my not-naturally-gifted but deeply passionate 11 year old onto a summer baseball team may finally push me over the edge to lose my faith in humanity

I have a really tough time with football, Abbott illustrates why. The only reason this bullshit deflection works is that this mindset is ingrained in football culture: There’s no reason to publicly reflect and admit wrong. Championship teams just “man up” and win! Thanks, toxic masculinity

SAME. Made me crack a half smile for the first time today

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.

$173 million from Michigan

My million dollar scheme: dance party for peri- people. This band playing 5 year old pop songs is CRUSHING is with the 40+ set

Seems like Trump’s most powerful advisor being a white nationalist should inspire greater alarm than the possible mayor of new york being pro palestinian rights

This is absolute garbage. The College Park facility is where research happens and I can’t imagine anyone seeking it out for a “non-legitimate business need.” Removing access means gatekeeping which —as historians know— is classic fascism.

at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

This is everywhere. Every academic institution I know is held together by some exhausted woman in her early 40's who waits until the old white male professors have finished their vague rants and says, "alright, so concretely can I propose the following next steps..." She makes half their salary.

Finding some hope in my parents and a bunch of their fellow retirees showing up in an extremely red part of northern Michigan to fight for democracy.

President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery.

If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487

"Ending a $5 million research study when it is 80% complete does not save $1 million, it wastes $4 million." Exactly this.

Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

I don't know if the addlebrained authoritarian going to war with the ketamine-fueled fugue state zillionaire is going to end without bystanders harmed. But shit is hard and this is funny so I'm willing to take a beat to enjoy it.

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Me at my anual performance review tomorrow morning:

If not COVID, why COVID shaped?

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Louder for the “#boymoms “ in the back

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I would watch the merde out of this

I’d been looking forward to a drawn out conclave but this is great consolidation for not getting that

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. - Margaret Atwood

Y’all. There’s a party for retiring federal employees happening on this old town patio and it’s just really really lovely 😭😭😭 and it’s making me miss this dumb place a lot