Love this Louise Glück 💙 'On the other side, there could be anything'

Three Democrats (Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis) joined the Republicans to pass Marjorie Taylor Greene's federal ban on gender affirming care through the House of Representatives. It is repugnant that the federal government won't give people health care, but it will TAKE IT AWAY from trans people.

Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.

Oh this is so fucked up I don’t think I can say the words out loud that should be said

hey new york, who’s gonna primary gillen?

Providence Police just released this video of the person of interest in the mass shooting at Brown University today. Call police at 401-652-5767 if you recognize him. Live updates here: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/13/m...

notice how this happens at almost every high profile school shooting now.

"Rachel Friedberg, a Brown economics professor, said the mass shooting happened in a review session for the final exam of her Principles of Economics course. She said she learned what happened from a teaching assistant who led the session. Friedberg herself was not present."

Guardian’s former Gaza reporter acclaimed at British Journalism Awards

There is a network of court watchers who support immigrants at the ICE courts in Manhattan. They have learned the movements and "personas" of the masked agents. One told me: "Some of them are very sadistic." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...

I really loved this interview of @kristenarnett.bsky.social & @kaylakumari.bsky.social for my newsletter about designing your own at-home writing residency. <3 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/how-to-cre...

Abolish ICE.

By Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social "The UK says it won't even bother when the next pandemic hits. The lesson most countries have drawn from covid is that letting the old and weak die is better for capitalism. The pandemic was a waymarker on our journey to a harsher, crueller world"

COVID vs Flu (New York data) New York State Health Commissioner reports: 🔹Nearly 3,000 COVID deaths in 2024 🔹Roughly 700 flu deaths (2024) That’s about 3× more COVID deaths than flu. Source: x.com/PrognosticCh...

UK: NHS nurse May Parsons, who gave the world’s first COVID shot 5 years ago, is urging people not to forget how life saving vaccines are. With uptake for COVID and flu falling and the UK facing a severe flu season, she warns too many regret declining vaccines when it’s too late. archive.md/DUM3H

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

“The battle between technology and tradition” fuck this disingenuous bullshit it’s the battle between CREATION and THEFT

I spoke with Any Lucía López Belloza, the Babson College student who was on her way to surprise her family for Thanksgiving when ICE deported her. "My 5-year-old sister still believes that I might go home for Christmas," she tells me. www.thecut.com/article/any-...

imagine investing in public media and ensuring that media literacy (and spotting unreliable narrators) was integral in primary school education

I can't bear this, man. I can't bear it. What have we done

Hello there, Beautiful.

I can't stress enough that you should take every opportunity that comes your way to support your local public libraries. Many of them are currently struggling and are being DEFUNDED. Local action matters on this front. Don't sit back until those libraries are gone before taking ACTION.

Unconscionable. I donated. You should too.

Have you heard the good news? Black Zine Fair is coming back to NYC on May 9, 2026—and we need your help to have a successful event. gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f... We’re raising $20,000 to keep the fair free and accessible. If you can, please give $5, $15, $50, or more.

This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"

The long game of getting a craft book out of the wonderful @elizmccrack.bsky.social ends in a celebration.

this is quite the detail

Yes. Thank you!

Evil.

Well, well, well.

Three signed and personalized copies of A Living Remedy are up for grabs at the 2026 Brew & Forge Book Fair! Should arrive in time for holiday gifting ❤️🎁 www.brewandforge.com/bookfair/p/a... This year’s book fair proceeds will go to the Arab Resource and Organizing Center: www.araborganizing.org

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Looking for a way to help this holiday season? The fabulous Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (FRIDAY BLACK; CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS) and Proyecto Faro are raising money for families in Spring Valley & Rockland County, NY, who've been targeted by recent ICE raids. Learn more and if you're able, donate here:

This story is nuts. "ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."

i’ve been holding this meme since february and still feel it every day. more today.

unclear to me why i haven't seen a single elected calling for impeachment today 🤷

Tomorrow is (for real this time) the LAST day to apply for 2026 Book In A Year programs. All 2026 programs are online. So get your application in before midnight 11/21, and make 2026 the year you write your book! buff.ly/aQJV0vO #writersofbluesky

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.” Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

“If you’re quiet now, you would’ve been quiet in 1940.”

One reason I still talk about personal responsibility is because of stories like this. One person’s decision not to vaccinate became 5,000 cases of measles. The purpose is not shame. It’s to remind you that you can make a difference. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

What do these corporations all have in common? -Lockheed Martin -Palantir -Microsoft -Amazon -Comcast -Google -Apple -Meta -HP -Nvidia -T-Mobile They all have lucrative government contracts — and they're all donors to Trump's ballroom.

"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged." www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

Powerful 💪 These kids organized a walkout today, standing up against ICE. Raleigh Durham

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Seeing these statements on the actual CDC site is gutting, absolutely gutting. That asterisk is a scream.

1000% disqualifying.

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

when we talk about efforts to "erase DEI" can we be more precise and say "efforts to re-segregate workplaces and schools"

I love the @metmuseum.org. It enriches the lives of NY’ers and visitors from across the world. That’s made possible by the people who make the Met run — the curators, educators and museum workers seeking to join @uaw.org Congrats to Met Museum workers on filing for this historic union election!