New York mag published an article about how kids running around yelling “6-7!” is stressing grown ups out and I guess, yeah, part of the existential experience of aging is not knowing what the kids are talking about but I find this hilarious and mundane and not worthy of think-pieces lol

Great day to show what you believe in. Speak your truth. Show you are prepared to fight against authoritarian rule. If you’re marching, having a teach-in,organizing, or resting for future battles, do it with the conviction that we will not give in, that we stand on the side of justice.And stay safe.

By turning to legal intervention, universities treat artifacts as intellectual property and miss important opportunities to rectify atrocities related to African Americans. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

MAGA: Million dollar give aways in elections… that sounds good! ALSO MAGA: don’t give water to people standing in long lines in the heat… that’s election fraud. 🤯 Maybe if the water is worth millions, that will be acceptable. 🤷🏾‍♀️ Go vote WISCONSIN!!!!

I'm not going to sugarcoat it. Today was a bad day for our country – and for the Democratic Party. Let's talk about it. open.substack.com/pub/schiffno...

Because these funds come solely from DC taxpayers, this action doesn't bring any cost savings to the federal budget. This is not an act of fiscal responsibility. This is a purely political, punitive action with no impact on the federal budget, but will have a detrimental impact on people's lives.

🚨Last week Helyeh Doutaghi, a scholar in international law, was barred from Yale and put on administrative leave: ‘The decision came three days after a news site powered by artificial intelligence, published a story calling her a member of a terrorist group.’ www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...

Protests erupt after Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil taken by ICE The Columbia University graduate, who helped organize the school’s pro-Palestinian protests, was detained and told that his student visa was being revoked, his attorney said www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Listen this IS in fact how it’s done. Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor responds to Acting U.S. Atty Ed Martin’s threat to refuse to hire Georgetown graduates who have taken “DEI” courses in their curriculum. Treanor is a brilliant lawyer & constitutional scholar. Embarrassing for Martin.

#RoyAyers: Tiny Desk Concert (2018) www.npr.org/2018/03/01/5...

This whole thing is too soon

Some 1,000 NPS employees were fired, and hiring for seasonal positions was delayed. Here's what to know about the impacts already being felt at parks, and what it could mean for the busy season.

There is just no end to this elite capture of the news media and use of it to seed their intellectually vacuous, fundamentally corrupt failing neoliberalist ideology. This shit sickens me. Free markets don’t free anybody but the white boys who have been free forever. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b...

“Senior Penn administrators met with Pennsylvania lawmakers on Tuesday morning to discuss the University’s rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, with multiple elected officials expressing concern about recent changes — and one calling the meeting “bullshit.”” 😬

We saw this with Melissa Harris-Perry’s show. Seems on brand.

Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities “The beginning of democracy requires a transport into a necessary fiction.” lithub.com/judith-butle...

Why Did It Take a Fire for the World to Learn of Altadena’s Black Arts Legacy? As Frieze Los Angeles shines a spotlight on art in the city, one community, long facing institutional apathy, calls for marking its memories in the public mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/a...

WHAT NOW? With Trevor & Christiana: youtu.be/1VRCfuKEGdo?...

Bingo. Say this. Every day. Every hour. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

Democrats should not agree to replenish any funding into the USDA Commodity Credit Corporation until USDA releases ALL previously awarded grants to farmers.

Things only happen if people DO things. Keep fighting. www.theverge.com/news/610765/...

Kash Patel is dangerous, dishonest, and unqualified – I am calling for President Trump to withdraw his nomination to be the Director of the FBI, and if his nomination is brought to the Senate floor, I will vote NO. Here’s why 🧵

There was so much in it. I saw Alvin Ailey’s Revelations in this stunning moment. If you don’t know the significance of Revelations, here you go. pressroom.alvinailey.org/alvin-ailey-...

BREAKING: @lawyerscomm.bsky.social and partners have sued Meta for racially discriminatory advertising practices and for algorithmically sorting for-profit college ads to Black users disproportionately act.lawyerscommittee.org/ercvsmeta/

Heads up folks. We can watch live on C-Span. www.c-span.org/event/house-... Thank you Rep. @jasmineforus.bsky.social.

Happy to reshare this great list, now full up! go.bsky.app/D2cEz4t

Government of South Africa takes Trump to school:

I can't begin to say how honored I feel to be presenting the work of the late genius curator Okwui Enwezor, who did so much to transform how we saw and understood contemporary art. This important volume edited with Atreyee Gupta will be followed in the summer by two volumes of his selected essays.

“In the face of what they say was a vicious anti-union campaign, and at a time of anti-worker right-wing advance nationally, Philadelphia Whole Foods workers successfully voted to form a union.” jacobin.com/2025/02/phil...

This must be read. By every person who cares about the hijacking of this nation. By every Democrat in Congress. @democrats-judiciary.house.gov Thank you @jamellebouie.net. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

Yes.

Oh look. A President, a Governor, a Mayor - all at the crash site at the Chesapeake Bay with first responders. Not swimming. Showing empathy and leadership.

BREAKING WAPO: Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin just announced the dismissal of roughly 30 federal prosecutors who worked on Capitol riot cases in the D.C. office over the past four years. Notifications went out at about 5 p.m. on Friday. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Resegregation: a guide and a map 🗺️ thanks @jmjafrx.bsky.social

Re-segregation is the word. Thanks to @jmjafrx.bsky.social for this helpful language.

About to give these folks all my money and you may want to consider it too...

Kiah was set to join our faculty at Howard Law School in the Fall. She was a dedicated, brilliant civil rights lawyer poised to make a powerful difference in our world. Our hearts are broken & we pray for her family & friends. www.kwch.com/2025/01/30/c...

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...

'When I started fighting for sanitation rights in Alabama, I felt some nostalgia for a time when our government committed to lifting up people who had been beaten down.' Justice for the Rural Poor | Catherine Coleman Flowers www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

I convened a group of scholars around the theme "platform" last year. A goal was to think beyond and across individual platforms to better understand their power. In this smart piece, members of the group write about the vulnerability of gig workers across sectors theconversation.com/unlikely-bed...

Thanks to ⁦‪Scott Tong and NPR’s ⁦‪Here & Now‬⁩ for a chance talk about birthright’s past, present, and future. News was fast breaking yesterday with welcome change out of Seattle by midday! www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

Thanks to Vivian Ho. “The executive order sends a dangerous message, Jones said. “The message is that we continue to harbor questions and skepticism about whether you belong…if you believe yourself to be an American, you are going to have to fight for that.” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

In the Kingian tradition, this characteristically excellent essay from @sifill.bsky.social is introspective and future looking, critical yet hopeful, castigating yet loving, and unequivocal about the aim of justice for all. #MLKDay

Rev. Dr. Maurice O. Wallace on 'King′s Vibrato: Modernism, Blackness, and the Sonic Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG46...