Reproductive rights groups have resumed helping Alabamians seeking out-of-state abortions after a ruling earlier this year from a federal judge. via @alabamareflector.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/repr...

Some future thinking by an historian. In the Berlin neighborhood of Schöneberg, artists #RenataStih and #FriederSchnock erected an 80-sign memorial in 1993, to remind everyone who lives here how the Nazis, step by terrible step, took citizenship rights away from Jews between 1933-1943. (1/21)

Black History *is* freedom history. A lifetime of gratitude for the way @sncclegacy.bsky.social makes this visible on the daily www.aaihs.org/black-histor...

Guarantee every child in the nation a high quality education. Bob Moses' vision carrying us forward. Thank you #NowileRooks time.com/7302570/trum...

The Supreme Court's bias toward corporate interests is persistent, pervasive, and exhaustively documented. But it is still extraordinary to hear a sitting justice bluntly call it out and castigate her colleagues for consistently twisting the rules in favor of big business. slate.com/news-and-pol...

"Many newspapers have given . . . impression that I have only two alternatives in this stand — either I go to jail or go to the Army. There is another alternative, & that alternative is justice." -- Muhammad Ali Convicted #tdih 1967 for refusing draft. Read ⬇️ zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/-m...

Today is the last day at the NEH for me and many of my amazingly dedicated colleagues. We did our best to represent & serve the American people. To champion humanities research, teaching, public engagement, cultural heritage, infrastructure, and innovation.

this is good

250 Edgewater (Chicago) residents and allies protected kids and parents participating in drag story hour this morning at @chicagopubliclibrary’s Edgewater Library.

#tdih 2018 "We unified behind our shared vision of saving the Ogallala Aquifer, the Niobrara, Ni Shude & all the Silent Ones. . . Mekasi Camp-Horinek brought the Ponca sacred corn to a ceremony 5 years ago. These ‘seeds of resistance’ were planted on the proposed route of KXL to create a barrier." ⬇️

For the #TeachTruth Day of Action, every Lush (bath soaps) store in U.S. installed a display about banned books, featuring "Fry Bread" & a link to learn more at ZEP. If you see the display, snap & share a photo for us. (They also created the display at SXSW: www.zinnedproject.org/news/zep-sxs...)

💥 BREAKING: ICE tries to raid Home Depot located at 6400 Alondra Blvd. Paramount, CA Protesters are able to successfully stop them. 6/7/2025 @12 pm #ice #raids #losangeles

My big takeaway from the first season of “In the Dark” is that the job of sheriff being an elected position is a huge national problem few seem aware of. And here’s another reason that’s the case.

We know #EMTALA saves lives. Yet Trump administration is rescinding guidance on hospitals’ obligation to provide emergency abortion care, jeopardizing patient health with potentially dire consequences.

Pundits like DavidBrooks + ThomasFriedman argued 4 decades that freedom movements are disruptive, unnecessary, + dangerous. Brooks recanted April 17-- now they, + many others, realize we can't rely on courts or representatives alone. We need movements + organized every day people.

Since we're celebrating the great Patti today, I must share one of my fave performances of hers which was with Cindy Lauper: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-Na...

In 2015, a Seattle police officer pepper-sprayed me. I sued and used the settlement money to help build something better: “The Black Education Matters Student Activist Award.” $1,000 for students fighting racism. Nominations are open #BlackEducationMatters open.substack.com/pub/jessehag...

In my worst nightmares the teenagers at DOGE take over the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and, yup, here we are.

All the moms, grandmas and teens who now can’t get cervical cancer screening, basic reproductive care, contraception or reproductive autonomy. If these cuts came w/a mandated same # of men forced to get vasectomies + refused access to prostate screenings, everyone would be equally impacted

Harvard correctly understands that it’s in a fight for its life and there is no appeasement that will save it. I wish a lot more institutions understood this.

“This thin-skinned tyrant is determined to strip the White House of actual reporters & threaten media companies if they dare to question him. It’s an appalling sign every reporter in the Oval Office didn’t speak up or get up and leave in support of NBC’s Alexander.” open.substack.com/pub/america/...

"she’s a symbol for female sovereignty" hyperallergic.com/1013292/dee-... #bodyautonomy #reproductivecare #freedom

It appears that John Roberts’ confidence that we had solved racism in the US and the Voting Rights Act was no longer needed was … premature. And (obv) cynical and insincere. And appalling. Shelby, I hope, will stick to him the way Dred Scott sticks to Taney.

This is true. Also true: why are Republicans waging war on poor children? How can it be ok to let kids go hungry or remain sick, so a rich dude gets richer.

Library of Congress staff just showed what resistance looks like. After Trump abruptly fired Dr. Carla Hayden, the respected Librarian of Congress, he tried to install Todd Blanche, his former personal lawyer and current Deputy Attorney General, as acting librarian. Staff weren’t having it.

Today ACLS, AHA, and MLA filed a lawsuit in federal district court seeking to reverse the recent actions to devastate the National Endowment for the Humanities, including the elimination of grant programs, staff, and entire divisions and programs. bit.ly/4lWubq5

Of note: 1 in 3 people in the area have hookworm, a parasitic disease carried by feces that is associated with major health risks, including cognitive impairment in children.

Attention mainstream journalists: Quacks on other subjects do not magically turn into experts when discussing gender-affirming care.

"I taught my students slavery was wrong. Then MAGA came after me." -- @wickenkamp.bsky.social, who became target of right wing politician after signing our #TeachTruth pledge. Read his powerful article ⬇️. Join us June 7: www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-t... barnraisingmedia.com/iowa-rural-s...

With arms outstretched, donning cherry-red jumpsuits against the earthy ground of the Bluebonnet Detention Facility courtyard in Anson, Texas, 34 detained men spelled out a cry for help.

“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.” Read, share, respond. Call your representatives. The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake. www.science.org/content/arti...

Alternate frame: how the U.S. created the Internet, advanced digital technologies, and developed medical innovations that have increased the quality of life and health of the entire world.

Victory! Court order suspending yesterday's attempted reduction in force of about 90% of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

The good news: ABC covered the #HandsOff protests in their full glory The bad news: Not that ABC

SNCC vet Judy Richardson, 81, last week answered a student who asked how Freedom Movement people found the courage to resist armed racists in the South. "Bullies," she looked the young man straight in the eye. "Their oxygen is our fear. Cut off the source." sncclegacyproject.org/sncc-grassro...

'Not just anger and not just hope, but anger and hope'

Every interview I’ve done with international media has included the question: “Why are there no mass protests?” - with the assumption being that Americans are either all on board or just too lazy. Really important to push back hard against such notions. The failure is on the institutional level.

Trump administration eviscerates maternal and child health programs Source: The Guardian search.app/nhGaC Shared via the Google App

“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a Japanese American National Museum leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’” 🔥

Historian Quintard Taylor: Black History Will Not Be Erased www.blackpast.org/african-amer... "Propaganda, regardless of its goal, never eclipses actual, factual history. We know the previous efforts at erasure have failed... Ideology, regardless of its intent, can never erase the truth."

Today is the anniversary of Dr King's "Mountaintop" speech, the night before his assassination. it's worth a listen. "We’ve got some difficult days ahead,” MLK told an overflowing crowd in Memphis, Tennessee, on 3 April 1968, where the city’s sanitation workers were striking.

Two really terrific podcast episodes that make clear how the DOGE purge of the federal government and specious attacks on federal employees are part of an effort to erase civil rights by scapegoating and erasing their enforcement mechanisms from the federal government 1) Code Switch ...

Zines "preserve stories that are often left out of the historical record... It’s especially impt now, when the word “transgender” is being removed from the written history... 'We’re seeing our history erased in real time,'... but [with resurgent zine culture], new history is being written all the ⏰"

Sen. Cory Booker has the floor.

Being an historian right now feels like this thehill.com/opinion/educ.... What counts as knowing? Who gets to say? Is our would-be king and his courtiers really the new arbiter of what counts as scientific truth and historical knowledge?

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

This is dope. www.youtube.com/live/YC2N4cw...

This segment from @maryannefranks.bsky.social is an incredibly tight argument that captures the breadth of the Trump assault on free speech perfectly and in less than a minute. Spread it far and wide.