In 2023, I created an annual day of awareness for abused homeschooled kids. It was called Day of the Homeschooled Child. It doesn’t exist anymore, even if the org where I created it, @responsiblehs.bsky.social, says otherwise. Here's what happened, and what's next: jessduit.com/2026/04/30/d...

Today’s SCOTUS ruling is a betrayal of our basic democratic values as a country—turning back the clock on hard-won civil rights victories. This isn’t just about Louisiana; this will have nationwide impacts on Congressional districting and voter representation for generations.

If the Voting Rights Act is rightly seen by many of us as the real beginning of American democracy, then it is fitting that a Court hell-bent on undoing democratic rule, including granting the president king-like powers, would seek to dismantle it.

Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

I recall when a friend of mine back during the BLM movement told me that if people reject the cause then the logical conclusion is that No Lives Matter & I thought I understood what he meant philosophically but living through the explosion of global suffering since I see now that he meant materially

Ashlee Van Schyndel is a a PhD candidate from the University of Illinois Chicago who is conducting a survey on workplace leave use following a miscarriage in full-time workers in the US. If you are willing to take it, the link is below uic.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

IT'S OFFICIAL: The House has passed our extension of TPS for Haiti. This win wouldn't be possible without the strength & organizing of our movement to defend our Haitian neighbors. To those in the #MA7 & beyond, this is for you. The Senate must pick this up without delay.

Samah needs our help. She has four kids. She’s a single mom. She just messaged “I’m so embarrassed but when you post is the only time anyone donates and I’m desperate.” She’s not on social media, no way to make a living. Help if you can. Will pin.

Our latest article: Framing Gaza: Medical Journals and the Destruction of Healthcare We find that, through various tropes, violence against Palestinians, including health workers, is obscured, overlooked, or even justified in the medical literature. Read here: academic.oup.com/ccc/article/...

Jamaica doing the right thing and boycotting this summers World Cup in the USA. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🇯🇲

Jackson is the only liberal justice who understands the moment and what it calls for. which we already knew because if Sotomayor understood it she would've retired under Biden

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

"Black women ...comprise 6 percent of the overall U.S. labor force and 12 percent of the federal labor force. But of the almost 300,000 federal jobs slashed in 2025, Black women were a stunning 33 percent of those cuts."

Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...

"After being held in isolation for about five days. Rodríguez was forced to strip naked in a shower while an officer "poured some kind of chemical liquid on her head, which seemed to be something used to clean floors and burned her eyes,” the filing read."

WATCH: Fourteen-year-old Ariana spent more than 45 days at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. In January, we asked detainees whether their children would be willing to write letters or draw pictures about their experiences. Listen to Ariana tell her story: 📽️ @joannashan.bsky.social

Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...

Bahrain says an Iranian strike damaged a desalination plant overnight, following the US/Israeli attack on Iran’s desalination plant on Qeshm Island. If water infrastructure is now considered a target it’s going to be disastrous for the people living there. 1/2

Today in 1936, Representative Barbara Jordan is born in Houston.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

so much of our present misery is just a giant, prolonged backlash to integration

@markey.senate.gov shared my story, so I figure it’s high time I come back to Blue Sky for some of my news #ice #dhs #immigration #asylum

A six-day campaign immunized more than 174,000 children against measles in Sudan. ❤️ w.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/you-c...

For Liam.

Race as a construct is so powerful that only now are many people saying ‘they are killing us’. They have been killing us. We have all been us the whole time.

There's no ICE accountability without ending qualified immunity. They're murdering people. There won't be justice for the lives they've stolen, but there must be accountability. My bill with @markey.senate.gov would ensure families can sue the agents murdering their loved ones.

Did you know that the stem cell registry doesn’t discriminate against LGBTQ+ donors ? Thanks to anyone that joins. Love, a queer stem cell recipient 🩷 :) #lgbtq #queer #cancersucks www.nmdp.org/get-involved...

The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article. Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Many Americans are terrible neighbors to each other, and that is why MN is striking everyone as extraordinary activism... when they are telling us that it is not. They're good neighbors! It's no wonder that "being a shitty neighbor" is the hallmark of our domestic politics and our foreign policy.

It’s bad enough how many losses there have been in federal jobs, but the private sector should be ashamed of itself for being complicit in this process. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/b...

Hey, people are permanently losing their eyesight at some of these protests and have been for some time. These people, the ones that have put their bodies on the line, are among the people who would benefit from your usage of alt-text when posting protest related imagery.

donald trump has received the nobel peace prize in the way that michael scott declared bankruptcy

BREAKING — Samantha Stamps, a former resident of the South Shore apartment complex raided by ICE, has been reported missing. She was last seen walking to get on the Pink Line at Central Park, according to the Chicago Police Department. More info here: www.chicagopolice.org/news/missing...

A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

some people can have good intentions, be decent humans and solid representatives in normal times, and still simply not be built for moments like these. and those people should be nowhere near power right now sorry

Use the impeachment of Noem as groundwork for abolishing ICE AND DHS. Do public education. Use media, etc...

“Accepting this story of AI’s inevitability — or that of any technology — is a grave mistake for educators. Not only does it cede tremendous power to tech companies that are unaccountable to teachers, students, or school communities…” 1/2 kappanonline.org/teach-like-a...

ICE’s occupation in Memphis, the largest Black-majority city in the country, has reshaped daily life, keeping kids out of school and parents from work, turning grocery shopping into a mission that risks one’s family being torn apart.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!

A 73-year-old woman died early Friday morning after she was struck by a truck while walking on Westheimer Road, which was recently cited as one of the most dangerous stretches of pavement for pedestrians in the United States. 

“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”