The report characterizes acknowledgment of genocide and land dispossession as "ideological" rather than historical fact. This isn't about museum exhibits. It's about who controls the story of America. And Native people have been left out for too long. nativenewsonline.net/currents/whi...

The Trump administration released a 162-page report on July 4th targeting the Smithsonian's treatment of Native history. This is clear evidence of Trump's attempt to discredit Native narratives and erase our history from the American story.

Lots of youth soccer discourse in the aftermath of the USMNT's World Cup exit. So, I wrote about "pay-to-play" — what it actually is, why it's a problem, why it's different in the U.S. vs. elsewhere, & why the real issue is "pay-to-travel-and-play." Free to read (ironically...) @theathletic.com:

Feeling optimistic about this. It is an unknown but it feels like a good risk with a high ceiling. If we can sign some players to fill our obvious holes on the pitch, and get a few draws or a win out of the first five matches this season, I am confivence Arbeloa will find success.

ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI IS COMING TO CHICAGO 🇵🇱 We have signed global soccer icon and Poland’s all-time leading goal scorer Robert Lewandowski as a Designated Player 🔥 #cf97

A much needed end of the week boost!

Chicago Public Schools eliminated funding for assistant principals at most schools with fewer than 250 students. Many are using discretionary dollars to keep them.

Perhaps most importantly, Eva Giglio loves to read books. She also has experience as a teacher and administrator with Chicago Public Schools.

Artifacts of a Louis Sullivan building, which was demolished in the ’50s, are protecting South Shore’s lakefront. blockclubchi.co/3QWm5TL

Distinguished professor Dylan Rodriguez — @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social — speaks with former political prisoner and Black Panther Mansa Musa about “the horrifying truth” behind the prison industrial complex — and the politics that “dilute the power of radical movements trying to dismantle it”

Feeling good about this, and the clubs European prospects with this kind of leadership…

I have a piece in today's @latimes.com "Howard Zinn spoke to this moment, even decades ago" Please check it out. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

‘Nobody was supposed to know what his name was’: Philando Castile’s legacy grows a decade after his death www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

In new reporting for @prospect.org, our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social details internal documents from Bay Area abundance groups pitch the movement to tech elites as a way to take control of Democratic politics and describe a 9-figure funding stream from billionaires. (1/2) prospect.org/2026/06/12/n...

I’m sorry, but this video of Belgium’s squad mocking Trump in their locker room after demolishing the USMNT is hilarious.

"Another caller, who said she was sleeping in her home, said she heard someone say the n-word twice before she heard two or three gunshots."

Exclusive: Rush for targets led US commanders to ignore warnings before deadly Iran school strike, sources say https://cnn.it/4pcGpwP

“This is not ok. We cannot normalize the National Guard killing American citizens. They shouldn’t be in Memphis at all. The family deserves answers.” Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social reacts to the news 2 National Guard troops shot and killed Tyrin Johnson in MEMPHIS.

You've seen me crash out over the world cup. Listen to me here talk more reasonably about the cup and the role Palestine plays in it

#tdih 2016 Philando Castile was shot to death 💔 by a police officer in a suburb of Saint Paul, Minn., at a traffic stop. Castile was known as “Mr. Phil” to students at the elementary school where he was a nutrition supervisor. #BlackLivesMatter #TeachTruth www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ph...

This is an actual screenshot from the syllabus for this class. Beyond parody

In this edition of Prisons, Prose & Protest, I offer an overview of a good book about the influence of civil rights organizing in Harlem; recommend several articles, podcasts, films, and photo essays; and more… open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

"Many of the records in Chicago have not been digitized and are only available in person." Wow! Devastating!

How could we not also include banning Tik Tok and teenager's social media access? This will absolutely get us the youth vote.

In our latest issue, @nancymaclean.bsky.social meditates on the history of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because MAGA, she writes, is "counting on public amnesia about why these transformative policies were needed in the first place and how they were won." hammerandhope.org/article/civi...

Howard Zinn taught us how to tough it out during the worst of times and why we can never let the bastards steal our hope—which is, of course, why the bastards still fear him. https://bit.ly/4y2cWtB

State officials have asked the National Park Service to put the Dwight Perkins-designed South Chicago school on the National Register of Historic Places.

Our students in central Illinois are limited to one fan in cinderblock housing units with little to no circulation surrounded by evaporating moisture from adjacent corn fields. Local heat indexes this week were in the 100-115 range.

“No country can be great, much less the ‘greatest,’ if it’s afraid of its own people knowing the story of their nation… But no one need rewrite U.S. history to foster a sense of unrelenting disgrace. It’s everywhere, if we have the courage to call it out.“

“Merciless Indian Savages.” These three words set into motion centuries of brutal anti-Native policy from the Indian Removal Act of 1830 to the Dawes Act to the reservation and boarding school systems — every policy carrying the weight of those three words into every new era.

James Earl Jones reading "What to the slave is the 4th of July?" youtu.be/O0baE_CtU08?...

This bicentennial image - kids who’d just rather not - is about how I’m feeling this 4th. Photo by Nancy Rhoda for the Tennessean, in a Nashville school, 1976.

“Never again“ should tell you all you need to know about the “viewpoint” expressed here… not my experience with progressive Minnesota solidarity 🇵🇸 that defends imternational human rights! What a joke!? #MinnesotaNice

You know who believed it was possible to be both a Communist and an American patriot? Karl Marx, who wrote this letter to Abraham Lincoln in January 1865.

This World Cup is unlike any other except perhaps Fascist Italy…

I spend a lot of time imagining my baseball card pose…

Which Chicago White Sox players will receive All-Star honors? Several make a strong case.

"For many, the bells of freedom don’t ring. They clang shut with the sound of prison doors." The 'land of the free' turns 250 today. Incarcerated people reflect on what that means to them 👇

With meteorologists speculating that tornado alley has shifted east, the Editorial Board thought it would be worth taking a look at some things you can do to protect yourself from extreme weather. 🌪️

New federal legislation modifying or eliminating some student loan repayment programs went into effect. Say More hears from an expert on higher education financing and from listeners about how these changes affect student borrowers.

This is amazing!

Historians Theorize Declaration Of Independence Started As ‘Twilight’ Fan Fiction https://theonion.com/historians-theorize-declaration-of-independence-started-as-twilight-fan-fiction/

Brilliant headline

It’s interesting how the right’s take on US History has come to resemble that of the nation’s most radical left critics, only with the valence flipped 180 degrees. “America was founded on prisons and the police,” and that’s what makes America the great land of the free!

I cannot recommend the First America podcast enough youtube.com/shorts/6lEnB...

Just remember

one of the best things written about this World Cup and it’s not even really about the World Cup

My wife likes to make fun of me for enjoying City Nerd while I cook but I love these videos and analysis so much @nerd4cities.bsky.social