A Republican said he changed his views about Arab Americans after spending 72 hours meeting with residents and visiting three mosques. “You have all been lied to with the propaganda that’s going on about Dearborn, Michigan,“ he said.

This Transgender Awareness Week, we celebrate the resilience, courage, and beauty of the trans community. Your lives matter, your stories matter, and your right to thrive and exist authentically is non-negotiable. We stand with you today and every day🏳️‍⚧️

Farmers’ Almanac Ceases Publication https://theonion.com/farmers-almanac-ceases-publication/

Indian nationalist leader, politician, & statesman, Jawaharlal Nehru, was born #onthisday, 1889. A humanist & secularist, Nehru’s vision for India was marked by a commitment to secularism, democracy, & social justice. Here he is on the cover of 'The Humanist' (now @newhumanist.bsky.social), 1964.

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

24 October 1945: Sartre gives a lecture on existentialism in Brussels and one Iris Murdoch is in the audience. From her notes, this was clearly a version of the now rather famous lecture he was to give in Paris five days later.

"Teenage Wasteland" is maybe the best two-word phrase in rock history and frickin Pete Townshend had to name the song "Baba O'Riley"

Youth turnout, 2021 to 2025 (and 2025 as pct of 2021): NJ Gov 20% to 29% (+145%) VA Gov 27% to 34% (+126%) NYC Mayor 11.1% to 41.3% (+372%) Sources: CIRCLE circle.tufts.edu/latest-resea... and DDHQ

#BREAKING U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis in Chicago is entering a preliminary injunction governing the use of force against protesters and journalists.

and this democracy is yours too

Bing bong

💔 fare thee well, deej. 💔

As masked federal agents target street vendors on Canal Street, THE CITY watched one street vendor being detained. As the operation carried on, agents were confronted with a spontaneous crowd of protesters. MORE HERE: www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/i...

Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation https://theonion.com/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-that-will-put-her-en-1819572981/

Shouts out to Max Scherzer, doing it for all the guys over 40 who experience neck, shoulder and back pain because of the violent repetitive movement of their bodies, whether that's Pitching to Major League Hitters or Shifting Slightly in Bed

There's a new museum and tuition-free art college in San Francisco opening in the spring, called Art+Water. The first exhibit will span 10,000 sq ft and be entitled "The World Of Boots Riley". Sets, costumes, monsters, puppets, miniatures, stop-motion, photos, drawings, notebooks, plans, etc

The AHA has sent a letter to the Rutgers University president & chancellor expressing deep concern about recent threats made against history professor Mark Bray. “The threats & calls for his firing have no place in an intellectual community governed by mutual respect & constructive criticism.” 🗃️

ICE is using your tax dollars to target children. A child in my district was deported days before the start of the school year. We are demanding answers on why K-12 students are being arrested and whether the Department of Education is fulfilling their obligations to students in custody.

… on rancor when he claimed the United States faced “a war from within.” Cities led by “radical left Democrats,” he said, are unsafe places. “We’re going to straighten them out one by one,” he said. “And this is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room. That’s a war, too.”

Hamtramck resident Lynn Blasey couldn’t believe her eyes during a visit to Detroit’s Belle Isle on Sunday.

walking around a city that is deeply unaccustomed to the idea that people would voluntarily do such a thing is a fascinating experience

Smart: The Atlantic plans to offer every public high school in the U.S. free digital access to its journalism. www.axios.com/newsletters/...

"Melvyn Bragg, host of the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time since its very first episode back in 1998, has greeted me in the same delightfully brusque manner hundreds and hundreds of times." defector.com/thank-you-me...

Philosopher Alain Locke was born on this day in 1885 in Philadelphia. #botd Locke is credited with spurring on the Harlem Renaissance with his book “The New Negro,” which ignited a cultural movement. He was the first African American recipient of the Rhodes scholarship. 1/3

Today in history, 1974: President Gerald Ford pardons his predecessor Richard Nixon for any crimes the former president may have committed while in office. Intended to help the nation heal, Ford’s decision only further angered the American people.

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The final installment features historian Walter Greason on the state of the field of Graphic History. 🗃️

Jean Arp, Two Heads, 1927 #artbots #moma https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134744

An absolute barnburner by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social! www.thenation.com/article/soci...

AHA member David Blight (Yale Univ.) was interviewed on CNN about the sweeping review of the Smithsonian ordered by President Trump. “They want to try to roll back about 60–70 years of historical scholarship. . . . They call it ‘wokeness.’ We call it good history.” 🗃️

To my 10th grade English teacher, who said, “Make the conclusion count.”

Detroit rocks

‘Terrorism’: the word acquired the magical power of stopping all discussion, indeed all thought, instantaneously.’ Jackson Lears on the ‘war on terror’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

embarrassing

ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC' FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it? WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?

listening to music and yelling "i win" at the end of every song

elizabeth warren constantly trolling cnbc with her appearances gives me life. its a hostile booking i endorse.

Henry Taylor, Too Sweet, 2016 #artbots #moma https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137801

Joan Miró, "Hirondelle Amour", Barcelona, late fall 1933-winter 1934 #artbots #moma https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135821

New York Is Planning a Train Line to Connect Its Transit Deserts. We Walked All 14 Miles of It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/o...

The Americans with Disabilities Act is turning 35 on Saturday. Earlier this year at @motherjones.com, I spoke with its primary author, Tony Coelho, about the law. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The MLB Players' Association has urged non-U.S. born members, which include some @tigers.bsky.social, to carry documentation to avoid confusion over immigration. bit.ly/4lSTpot

Just learned that in 1944, the @uaw.org fought book banning in Detroit, when the city banned the novel Strange Fruit for portraying an interracial romance. The UAW and the Detroit Public Library teamed up to overturn the ban. From their 1944 convention proceedings at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

We must remember that the Stonewall Riots were led by a diverse group of leaders, especially Trans Women of Color. The exclusion of the Trans flag at the Stonewall Monument in NY10 is a hateful effort to erase Trans people. I will not accept this and will continue to fight for equality for all.

As a longtime supporter of Participatory Budgeting, I’m proud to have allocated nearly $6.5M to fund dozens of projects in #TheGreat28. Through our collective work, we’ve successfully secured improvements to local institutions that support our scholars and families.

"being deprived of the right not to be deported to a country likely to torture or kill you plainly counts" as a "grievous loss" notes, and I'm sorry but I really have to stress this, THE DISSENTING OPINION

At a time of fleeting memes and cultural platforms operated by multibillion-dollar companies, an old mode of creativity and community-building gets a second life.