University of Alabama shutters Black, female student magazines

“This isn’t the U.S.” —Ancient European Proverb (especially popular among countries engaged in ethno-religious conflict for centuries)

I see no path forward between what people are saying they want and the Democratic party as currently constituted. No path.

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide

In Sudan, war is being waged on women and children — #AJOpinion by reena ghelani. 🔗: aje.io/z8s64p

"However terrible the war and its consequent famine in Sudan is today, it can still get much worse" From Alex de Waal, who knows Sudan better than anyone www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...

damn mamdani killed dick cheney and he’s not even the mayor yet

hug your war criminals a little tighter today

Gang.

“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.” @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

a life-saving program in North Carolina, found to have “saved $1,000 annually for each of the 13,000 Medicaid recipients enrolled,” is now shutting down—a preview of more devastating Medicaid cuts to come

This government’s legacy will be its complicity in the greatest crime of our time. My piece for @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/labo...

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

Watching Ta-Nehisi Coates’s convo with Ezra Klein. Confirms why neoliberalism is to blame for the the destruction of the Democratic Party. He obfuscates with rhetorical devices and avoids any real, substantive arguments. Zero moral clarity. Please stop taking him seriously. youtu.be/UaeoDlLNnok?...

Rest In Power ✊🏼

I’m so grateful for Greta Thunberg and everyone with her. Just so grateful.

Everyone: American political discourse cannot be any more stupid. Kamala Harris:

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

In the last three years, I’ve lived in nineteen different countries. Here’s what each one does best. Starting with: 1. Best Food 2. Best Thunderstorms 3. Country Where You’re Most Likely To Encounter an Old Woman Standing in the Grass Eating a Strawberry in her Undies and Not Caring If You See

Introducing COYOTE: A worker-owned Bay Area media collective. Our stories will be public for the first two weeks. Read ‘em and subscribe! www.coyotemedia.org

**looks at what’s trending, sees that creepy video** Yeah, now might be a good time for people to read this:

Chicago forever

I see, fighting antisemitism by putting Jewish names on a list and giving it to the government so they can decide punishment.

it’s cool that bluesky is bending over for conservatives and banning people making jokes about charlie kirk’s death. as we all know, once you give in to the right they will leave you alone

My pattern recognition has been kicking me in the face for 2 days. I’m begging people to read more books. It doesn’t even have to be mine. 😭

"Abolish ICE" and "defund the police" are both reasonable and correct on the merits but were absolutely neutered by centrists smearing them as radical activist overreach.

Chicago! Join us for an outdoor picnic to celebrate the release of our new children’s book Prisons Must Fall, written by @prisonculture.bsky.social and Jane Ball and illustrated by @ollycostello.bsky.social! Saturday, May 17th at 10am RSVP to join: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Hi all. Every now and then, someone will publish a piece trying to rehabilitate Junot Díaz with a wide-eyed “look what you did to him” shake of the head, and various literary figures will take up the call. (1/n)

No. We are not living beyond our means. We have simply been denied the means to live.

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social I remember this being a strong overview of how Orbán kicked out CEU in the late 2010s: www.vox.com/world/2018/1...

Such a gorgeous, epic, other-worldly read. Get your hands on this while the getting is hot!

In a span of 24 hours Trump: •Signed EO withdrawing USA from UN Human Rights Council •Declared ethnic cleaning of Gaza & US control •Sent immigrants to a Gitmo concentration camp •Said he’d let El Salvador imprison US Citizens If you still don’t see this fascism for what it is you’re complicit.

Found: A Manuscript That Unlocks a Forgotten Black Composer’s World Almost 125 years after Edmond Dédé’s death, his magnum opus “Morgiane,” perhaps the oldest existing opera by a Black American, is to be staged for the first time. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/a...

The US state department has frozen all applications for passports with “X” sex markers and changes to gender identity on existing passports.

Take a shot every time someone mentions MLK. #Inauguration2025

So many war criminals. So little time.

My maybe controversial view is that genius like David Lynch’s genius is actually very common, and what’s rare is the chance to develop it.

Another 70 people were killed while waiting for the ceasefire deal to be ratified by Israel's cabinet.

"Auckland is not just the place where these things happen to have occurred: this is _a story about Auckland_." We interrupt our summer break to bring you this important piece by Emmy Rakete on Neil Gaiman and the political economy of rape.

What a lovely thread. 🥰🥹

URGENT: Here’s a list of campaigns to support Black families displaced by the LA fires. Bit.ly/rebuildAD h/t: @ykreborn.bsky.social

It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

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I've only read her debut novel THE GIRL IN THE ROAD, a remarkable novel weaving together Indian and east African near-futures, climate change, and more, but @monicabyrne13.bsky.social is a compelling voice in the genre, I think, and you can help support her with a patreon subscription: