www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley... [gift link]

Marigold Santos uses epiphytes — plants that grow on other plants without harming them — as a framework for the expansive ways diasporas form.

Joanne Bland, one of the youngest people to march on “Bloody Sunday,” has died. She was 72. "By the time I was 11-years-old, I had been arrested at least 13 documented times”

The dangerous anti-LGBTQIA+ bill is back in Ghana, with stronger political support. We stopped it once. Let’s stop it again. Please sign to defend equality: a.allout.org/s/P3wrb/

Read everything Julie K. Brown publishes on Epstein and Maxwell. Because the mainstream press sanitizes their elite sadistic pedophile network

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search. But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections. newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

In March 2024, the University of Utah women’s basketball team, which was staying in Coeur d’Alene during the NCAA tournament, said they’d been subjected to racial harassment so frightening that they fled town.

LAST DAY to send in your proposals! centerforthehumanities.org/what-we-desi... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cunyenglish.bsky.social @complitgccuny.bsky.social

I‘ve mentioned that thanks to the Epstein tranche I learned that one of my PhD advisors, Lee Smolin, continued to have contact with Epstein after 2007, which is not the impression I had It’s weird to say the least for my professional past to become a public story that demands feminist analysis

this is another absolutely brutal read. but a critical one, particularly for academics.

It's that time of year. Jane's Walk is accepting submissions for walking tours for its festival in early May. If you live in NYC, I really encourage you to submit a tour and to participate. It's really fun. www.mas.org/janes-walk-n...

You can sign the petition to release Rodney below! He’s being denied disability accommodations. He’s been placed in solitary confinement. His health is deteriorating. He’s been locked up for a year. It’s beyond cruel and unusual punishment. It’s eugenics. www.change.org/p/demand-the...

This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding. Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.

This month isn't even over yet. Jesus Christ.

"MacArthur Awards $10 Million to Strengthen the Humanities" www.macfound.org/press/press-...

"Fees are a paywall on opportunity, and paywalls do not measure merit. They measure means. When a field built on ideals of access and expression charges for the act of showing up, the rhetoric of equity collapses into the economics of endurance."

The world order as we’ve known for the last century is disappearing. And in its place, a new order shaped by the private interests of individual men and their fiercest allies, not the interests, private or public, fair or foul, good or bad, of a nation.

I want to highlight the Black voter number here because I’ve lived through decades of efforts to engineer and/or assert an antagonistic relationship, when, for the most part, Black people are more supportive of immigration than others.

If adults are missing work due to long COVID, don’t we think children are missing school from it too?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Yes, Ds should offer a resolute unified front - Congress, Govs, Mayors - against the European tariffs, the threats to the Western alliance, and Trump's plan to seize Greenland. Every person in America should know where we stand on this. Today. It's the right thing to do and good politics too. 3/

In October, we sent four trans journalists to five different No Kings rallies to report on trans representation at No Kings. One of our reporters was in attendance when senator @edmarkey.bsky.social addressed the crowd wrapped in a trans pride flag. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Jawdropping reporting here from @juddlegum.bsky.social......

Came in from winter break on this snowy 18F morning to discover someone opened the windows while we were gone. Lord knows how many days or weeks.

NYC: this Sunday is your chance to come hear me and bestie Jarrett talk about the new book! Hope to see you there. Events for January 2026 – BGSQD share.google/jJdRuuDadixH...

I went ahead and published this tonight, because it feels urgent.

thinking back to how Ta-Nehisi Coates anticipated this moment in 2017

The real upside-down world....

I think about this exchange a lot and figure others might find it interesting too. Happy MLK Day.

The autobiography concludes its section on this conversation interestingly: "I [Harry Belafonte] felt as if our moorings were unhinging. "Damn, Martin! If that's what you think, what would you have us do?" I asked. He gave me a look. "I guess we're just going to have to become firemen.""

The sentence right before the "burning house" quote: We fought hard and long, and I have never doubted that we would prevail in this struggle. Already our rewards have begun to reveal themselves. Desegregation ... the Voting Rights Act..."

the famous quote is from the end of his reply to Young. from the middle: "...we live in a failed system. Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level."

Young replies: ""Well, I don't know, Martin. It's not the entire system. It's only part of it, and I think we can fix that." King's reply begins: "I don't need to hear from you, Andy," he said. "I've heard enough from you. You're a capitalist, and I'm not."

King elaborated: I feel their rage. I feel their pain. I feel their frustration. It's the system that's the problem, and it's choking the breath out of our lives." this is what starts the conflict.

King had just arrived from Newark, where he'd had a contentious meeting with Amiri Baraka and comrades - he had tried to talk them out of pursuing a more militant, uprising based strategy there. King was frustrated: "...I wholly embrace everything they feel! It's just the tactics we can't agree on."

the last member of the group: Andrew Young, eventual mayor of Atlanta. According to Harry Belafonte (who gives this account of the conversation in his autobiography), the quote about the burning house was the outcome of a conflictual back and forth between Young and King.

Dr. King was speaking to an inner circle of activists at Harry Belafonte's NYC apartment, right after a party that had served as an informal communications strategy around the Poor People's Campaign. also in attendance: Julie Robinson Belafonte, Bernard Lee, Stan Levison, and one more in particular

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."  Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

Remembering Wilson Pickett today on the 20th anniversary of his passing (January 19, 2006) album.ink/WPickettRIP

once again the real divide in the Dem party is fight/don’t fight and it is extremely encouraging to see one of the more centrist standard bearers firmly on Team Fight

damn what is wrong with me, i am having the hardest time concentrating on work, i lament as i compulsively refresh live feeds of unspeakable horrors

im so sorry.. that anchor is fighting for his liiiifeeeee

Without Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, Black residents in West Tennessee worry about the future of local democracy: “In my heart of hearts, I would know that there is a certain degree to which my vote wouldn’t matter.”

We’re so proud of the way community showed up to protect our neighbors today. Just as a federal judge ruled last night, we know that observing and showing up for each other is not a crime. We need everyone to keep patrolling in the streets as we fight against the hate coming at us.

the answer to who tf in this fascist circus wanted greenland from the jump

he went from a federal prisoner to a federal agent in less than a year!

So it’s not about defense. www.forbes.com/sites/martin...

Just a reminder if you're an author & are wondering about the varying lawsuits against AI companies that might have used your work without your permission: chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/09/20/u...

Cet article Littérature pirate est apparu en premier sur En attendant Nadeau." [3/3]

"Les livres de Viet Thanh Nguyen et de John Keene questionnent les identités aujourd'hui. Inventifs, ils ouvrent un espace au mineur et s'imposent comme des lectures urgentes et nécessaires pour mieux penser le monde contemporain. [2/3]