One of the most TRUE signs I have ever seen at a march. Write this down and act upon it, friends. #NoKings #Manhattan

In between rallies and pickets and bargaining, we’ve been trying to highlight live Kickstarter projects our workers love on this page! Without access to our tools, we’re doing this manually but we wanted to highlight folks who support us on their projects! kickstarterunited.org/projects-our...

Georgia folks, check your registration! Voter roll purges happen a lot in this state. mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/

so: what do we need you to do? two things. 1.call your D/I senators. find contact info here: reps.fyi what do we need you to say? try the call script below. adapt it; make it your own! there are bailout points written in, in case you get nervous. but please *call.* 🧵

i made a helpful reference

Had the pleasure of seeing this brilliant speaker this evening. Didn’t realize how much I’ve been missing black women’s perspectives in economics, both in terms of the current political moment and in general. Buy (and read) her book!

Rivers is an incredible writer and generous soul. Please consider lending them a hand at this awful time, if you're able.

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

Not surprisingly but still unfortunately, the McNair program is under attack. I was not a beneficiary of the program but have participated in it as a mentor and speaker, and I have seen how it positively impacts the lives of its students. coenet.org/protect-the-...

Thys meetinge koude have been a keytar solo.

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

This Tuesday! Atlanta! I'm going to be at Charis Books in Decatur, GA for their regular Meet Me There spoken word event, along with the wonderful @quarefutures.bsky.social! RSVP and info: www.charisbooksandmore.com/event/meet-m... ATL queers, I'd love to see you there!

It's not a distraction, it's what they're actually doing

Wanna learn more about the Panthers’ work around disability? It wasn’t just the 504 sit-in. I have 2 chapters about them in my book Black Disability Politics which is available for purchase or free open access here from @dukepress.bsky.social: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

And *That's* the kind of shit I mean by "intersectional, multi-front coalition."

I donated to help @nisishawl.bsky.social write the book of their dream, and hope you will donate, as well: gofund.me/63eccfad Signal boosts also good. Thanks!

“The UN-led humanitarian system has not failed, it has been prevented from functioning.” Not just one aid organization. Over 100 saying the same thing together. Gazans are starving.

This is a great resource adoptastation.org?fbclid=PAQ0x...

Deliberately starving people and shooting them when they seek aid is an industrial and systemic approach to mass murder. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

The State of GA is cancelling almost 500,000 voter registrations in the next 40 days. Check your registration. Remind your friends to check their registration!

An American citizen and Los Angeles native, @seiucalifornia @seiuusww President David Huerta was injured and detained when ICE terrorized a working neighborhood. We demand his immediate release!

“The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations…”

Drop EVERYTHING and check your voter registration NOW. Monday, May 19 is the last day to register before the Public Service Commission primary next month.

To recap: Trump isn't bad b/c he has felony convictions RFK Jr. isn't bad b/c he struggled with addiction They are bad b/c they don't care about protecting the humanity of other people I can introduce you to lots of people with felonies or addiction who work every day to HELP PEOPLE

Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.

A federal judge in Vermont ordered the immediate release of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey, on Friday. She was abducted by masked federal immigration officers near her Massachusetts home on March 25 as punishment for an anti-genocide essay www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/u...

HT make Bluesky better than Xwitter--PERMANENTLY. Choose your account's "Settings" (gear icon) from menu; pick "Accessibility" from next choices; check "Require alt text before posting" from next choices. Presto! Instant DEI! Your photo posts can now be read by lowsight/blind people like me FOREVER!

If you voted for Allison Riggs in the 2024 NC election check here to see if your ballot is being challenged. If so, then you have 15 business days from whenever they mail the notices to cure your ballot, but best to check now & cure yours as soon as possible, even if this ruling might get overturned

I found out my registration had been removed once right before the deadline to be registered for the next election at the time. If you live in Georgia (at all, but especially if you updated your voting registration when you updated your driver’s license) check your registration status often

Legal fund for Rümeysa Öztürk: chuffed.org/project/just...

You can watch @booker.senate.gov here as he breaks Strom Thurmond's filibuster record in 14 minutes. www.booker.senate.gov/live

This was indeed easy. Not even 5 minutes.

It's easy to do this. I just did. My first one, too. Here, you can even put this "Medical care for transgender people is essential and should not be banned from ACA plans. This question shouldn't even be asked."

Ugh this is so sad. Maybe not her most powerful, but to me, her most moving poem is this one

Moved from the other place. Unlikely to post much here or anywhere, but I’m reading.