“The government has responded by arguing that the president's power to oversee the executive branch under Article II of the U.S. Constitution essentially overrides that core civil rights law, Nemer's attorney said.” They are gonna ask SCOTUS to gut what’s left of the Civil Rights Act

Special election today TN 7 congressional district!!!!! www.cnn.com/2025/12/02/p...

Here's a list featuring @margaret.bsky.social and me: lithub.com/100-notable-... We're small! We're notable!

So exhausting..

I need to raise at least $500 to get our phones turned back on, to keep internet, and get scrips. Phones are priority. I need D to be findable and reachable. Venmo: @NYPoliticalMom Cash App: $NYPoliticalMom Thank you! 🙏🏻🙏🏻

H.R.5665 ACE Veterans Act SPONSOR: @underwood.house.gov № CO-SPONSORS: 0 STATUS: Introduced LATEST ACTION: House floor - 2025-09-30 Referred to the House Committee on ... #Democrats Details at congress.gov

Join our Weekly #AdvocacyArena Chat Every Monday at 12p CST /1p EST 🐳 Pod: News & Current Events Stirring up #GoodTrouble you don’t want to miss spoutible.com/pod/692cf4e6...

The move to MA has been great for all kinds of reasons. That it was for my partner’s job, not mine, is on the list. It also led to my 2nd job, so I didn’t know how nice starting at an institution as a full professor would be. This feature is well done! A gift! www.bu.edu/cas/arts-sci...

Never too old to learn about Shirley Graham Du Bois' "astonishingly prolific career as novelist, playwright, theatrical producer, opera composer, and biographer." www.aaihs.org/shirley-grah...

We've tracked the US military build-up in the Caribbean. Here's what it could do stories.theconversation.com/tracking-the...

To liberals who understand the stakes but feel at sea when it comes to solutions: The Reconstruction Papers will provide solutions. It will lay out a vision to rebuild for our era rather than repairing relics of the past. Let go of your grief for a flawed liberal past, embrace the liberal future.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!! We knocked 13,000 doors yesterday and learned that hasn’t happened since Harold Ford Jr.’s 2006 Senate campaign! We’ve got 48 hours left to get out the vote and MAKE HISTORY. Sign up to volunteer via the link in our BIO!

We Knew all this back in the 90s. People read, at Best the headline & 1st paragraph. At worst, all they read is the headline. Most of the time, reporters don't write headlines, editors do. Headlines have always been about gaining attention. But, I agree that should be a hard rule...

Start your week with a new episode of Safeguarding Sound Science! Mat Kaplan sits down with Mohamed Noor and Ben Harrison to explore the real science behind Star Trek. Get ready for evolution, genetics, alien life, and lots of laughs! https://ncse.ngo/safeguarding-sound-science

Me in one image.

To make common cause with this Administration is to support an affirmatively white supremacist vision of this country. Period. Every corporation. Every Republican. Every influencer. Every Governor. Every evangelical leader. Every voter. Yes. Every voter.

Nobody outside this country is wondering, like the pundit class does, what was wrong with Kamala Harris. Everybody outside this country is wondering what’s wrong with US.

I’m so thankful for the chance to compile & share #ScholarSunday threads of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books. So let’s end the holiday weekend with my 252nd! Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Potential broad-spectrum antiviral. Shows efficacy against some of the worst shit. Utterly amazing news.

A #SŌLSËËD Joint 🌻 #PoetryCommunity “A prompt, a pulse, a purpose of the soul —to water a seed. Join #December #HolidaySeason #Monthly #Prompter Use word or theme to post: #poetry #art #photography #writing Tag: #Prompt + #Solseed

Direct link to grab the discount here - select "SciFi Soulmate": www.patreon.com/138950/join Did I mention there's also beautiful illustrations throughout the book? 🧪

Special discount until December 7! 🧪 Grab yourself or a friend a signed/personalized copy of OUT THERE: THE SCIENCE BEHIND SCI-FI FILM & TV with a foreword from astronaut Mae Jemison... ...and support a indie filmmaker (me!) at the same time. 20% off with code SCIENCE: patreon.com/arielwaldman

Sheryll Cashin, the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Civil Rights and Social Justice at Georgetown and former clerk for Thurgood Marshall joins #LeftOfBlack to discuss her book 'White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding & Segregation in the Age of Inequality' www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDsJ...

💼 Proud to have welcomed 35,000 new businesses to Maryland in our first term alone and advanced over $1 billion in procurement awards to certified small businesses.

"Inside the Philly traveling museum where Black collectors finally take the spotlight" "Museums routinely curate exhibitions centering collectors’ works but this traveling art museum is a unicorn. Its 'walls' are solely dedicated to the collections of Black collectors."

One of my favorite prints from one of my favorite collage artists. www.leroycampbelloriginals.com/product-page... (Alt text: Collage of people standing in line to vote, with newspaper clippings addressing right to vote)

‘BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions’ Review: An Artist’s Mind-Expanding Collage In this dazzling essay movie, the director Kahlil Joseph draws on an array of sources—news clips, old movies, family albums, an encyclopedia of "Africana"—to create a thrilling whole www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/m...

They boycotted 381 days. #BlackSky

It’s not about a failure of imagination, fortitude, or leadership among the Democrats. The dude’s already been impeached twice. It’s about math. That’s it. Just numbers.

Ok, I was going to do a full read-through and then write something up and thread it here but I find this absolutely fascinating... (PS - if you don't have access to this I can email it to you)

🧵 Lissen…It’s Black Friday and we’re shopping small. I’m going to add to this thread throughout the day but these are just a few places to get you started. Flavor! Flavor! Flavor! tastytin.com/collections/...

Books! Books! Books! www.octaviasbookshelf.com

This looks great!

This is a blog post that contains a curated playlist of movies, documentaries and television programmes for teaching "law, race and decolonisation" that I curated for BoB. The resources are grouped thematically, and also the post also includes further reading. folukeafrica.com/law-race-and...

Again, there is no plan for running our universities without federal funding, or foreign students, at scale. But the public has no idea about this because no. one. is. telling. them. this. They expect their kids are still going to be able to do all the things at college in the next 4 years, & well:

2/. On the same subject, but in written form: publicseminar.org/2020/05/unis...

I’m so happy that you are !!!! Several resources. First one is on university created public money. The first 8 or 10 minutes is a bit disorganized, but it gets very good: bsky.app/profile/kati...

The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources: 1. Federal grants 2. Private gifts/endowments 3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students) 4. State $ For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.

NEW: My Udemy course 'Propaganda & Disinformation for Beginners' has helped students in 26 countries worldwide strengthen their armour against disinformation since it launched 2 years ago. Techniques Cambridge Analytica used to secretly profile millions have become a vastly profitable industry.. /1

"results show that spatial isolation is highest among advantaged ethnoracial and income groups, a finding that aligns with recent research and provides a challenge to the longstanding assumption that social isolation is most pronounced in areas of concentrated disadvantage." Ooo can't wait to read!

May I ask for 50 reposts? New York Magazine is a big deal! Thank you Bluesky!

Michael W. Twitty's cookbook celebrates the South’s complicated heritage : NPR share.google/oxz299PgIBA7...

I helped! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Happy Thanksgiving all!

Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher which is headquartered in Springfield, just released an updated Collegiate edition with 5,000 new entries.

Artists & Art lovers! Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky! Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24

How delightful! Jill Lepore wrote about seed catalogs in @newyorker.com two years ago: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries! They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out! archive.org/details/usda... 🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration