Columbia's Mohsen Mahdawi, fresh out of U.S. detention, walks the graduation stage https://gothamist.com/news/columbias-mohsen-mahdawi-fresh-out-of-us-detention-walks-the-graduation-stage

At the top of the year, I took a ten-day survivalism course to try and wrangle with my feelings about the apocalypse and our end times. It's here, for free, if you have the time www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/m...

Protest outside the NYC ICE office now demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil #FreeMahmoudKhalil

My hometown of Waterloo, Iowa canceled its African American Read-In after Trump’s anti-diversity directives. So i got together some writer friends and I’m holding it instead.

i feel like i've read this exact story 350 times in the last decade www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/t...

Please come to the Brooklyn Heights branch of the @bklynlibrary.bsky.social on Tuesday Feb 4 at 6pm for a conversation with @jennydeluxe.bsky.social about Love in a F*cked Up World. Wear a mask!

I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

Happy Black History Month! Here is my favorite story about a Black American you may not know about: Robert Smalls. He commandeered a confederate ship and sailed himself, his family, and the other enslaved crew and their families to freedom. THROUGH waters controlled by the Confederacy.

Thrilled that @jennydeluxe.bsky.social reviewed @meredithdclark.bsky.social ‘s book on Black Twitter for the NYT- perfect marriage of reviewer and topic (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/b...

Maus author Art Spiegelman’s next comic will be about Gaza, in collaboration with Joe Sacco. He thinks he will struggle to find a publisher in the United States. “I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”

it almost feels too easy to think they don't get it; much scarier to consider what it means if they do

it really is something to go and look back at some of the 1/6 statements from people who've gone straight back to bending the knee

to be fair (to myself), i didn't write that headline, nor would i have. and it wasn't the final headline that i saw before it went to print. i think that's shaping a lot of the reactions to be piece - which, makes sense!

Brilliant! @jennydeluxe.bsky.social #BlueSky

Quite possibly the best piece I’ve read about life after The Bird App and the rise of this app by @jennydeluxe.bsky.social who beckons us with @ruha9.bsky.social’s words to reevaluate our relationships with the Internet. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/m...

"I had to make myself seen." -- may the legendary Lorraine O'Grady rest in power. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Those gofundmes some of you are complaining about are the only thing keeping Palestinians in Gaza alive. There are many governments who could intervene & say "if regular people can get money to Palestinians to buy food, so can we" but nobody has said that. Everything happening in Gaza is intentional

Nikki Giovanni staunchly supported trans folks, especially trans youth. Her encouragement is a balm. “I think the transgender kids are the bravest kids right now that we see; they're as brave as my generation was in breaking down segregation.”

I’m curious how much federal funding he thinks the ACLU receives (it’s none).

Let today’s Capitol Hill bathroom sit-in spark an era of radical defiance. Trans folks refuse to bow to hate and bigotry. We demand dignity and respect. We will fight like our ancestors. We are building with our elders and peers. And trans youth will inherit a better world. 📸: Alexa Wilkinson

Early this morning, an autonomous group of New Yorkers reclaimed an F train car, replacing ads with signage reading “A MAN WAS LYNCHED HERE” and Jordan Neely’s name, as a jury deliberates over whether to convict Daniel Penny, Neely’s killer, with his death last May.

my brain is totally glitching on what to post here. even though its technically same same, its also not not, you know what i mean?