Baby elephant time. Happy weekend! [ALT: a video filmed from a car that shows an older elephant crossing a dirt road in front of the vehicle, green grass and trees in the background. The older elephant is followed by a baby elephant that is a little wobbly on its feet and is still learning to walk.]

‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.

You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was. You made a difference—so much of a difference. Rest always in peace, and always in power.

Sixty-five years ago today, four first-graders desegregated New Orleans's public schools: Ruby Bridges at William Frantz Elementary School, and Leona Tate, Tessie Provost, and Gail Etienne at McDonogh 19 Elementary School. They faced violent mobs and threats to their lives. They were 6 years old. 🗃

Any idea what the "fearless" pursuers "of truth" from the "University [sic!] of Austin" have to say about this?

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike. Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year. Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.

Behold the weighing of a baby emperor penguin.

Dude had an effing gmail address and all these people felt comfortable communicating with him like this... No consequences were ever to be expected, huh.

In the midst of closure news, "Faculty and academic press advocates are pushing back against Bucknell University’s unilateral decision to close" @bucknellupress.bsky.social. @aupresses.bsky.social truly is a #TeamUP effort, and each press supports scholars and scholarship in important ways.

Who among us cannot still smell the mustard and the onions?! Good morning. ☀️

My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.

Seventeen years ago (...I am shooketh...), @volcanologist.bsky.social was one of my lovely housemates and taught me a lot of amazing stuff about pyroclastic density currents. Let her teach you amazing volcano stuff, too:

🇺🇸 For my US friends - the lovely people at @foxlanebooks.bsky.social will ship to the USA! You just need to contact them for a shipping quote. Link in Bio! 🌋

On a random note: hotel prices = madness, absolute madness right now. Ever since the pandemic, really.

#BREAKING: Over no public dissents, #SCOTUS denies Kim Davis's petition asking the justices to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges (which recognized federal constitutional protections for same-sex marriage): www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Goodbye, Bay.

Of course they are.

Good morning. #OAHCommittee #SanFrancisco 🗃️

Very glad I got the chance to visit Oakland’s brilliant Black Panther Party museum yesterday. 🗃️ #EduSky

Hello, San Francisco 🤗

Leaving people on the floor to die is probably not the first instinct you’re looking for in a federal Health Secretary, but what do I know.

Seriously.

So, basically every US airport except for regional ones. Yay (she said from a plane she just boarded to SFO). 🫠 apnews.com/article/faa-...

That man earns a wage with this.

#Mood #ElectionResults

Concrete jungle where dreams are made of

OK, Pennsylvania. OK, Virginia. Come on, New Jersey, NYC, and the Twin Cities 🙂!

Happy Native American Heritage Month! To celebrate, I recommend two recent books by @uwapress.uw.edu : Caitlin Keliiaa’s Resfusing Settler Domesticity and Olivia Chilcote’s Unrecognized in California Take a look at the blog link here & check out these books! uwpressblog.com/2025/11/04/f...

Good luck and thank you to everyone who’s voting for strengthening democracy (and fewer sexual predators in office) today 🙂!

Finally got a chance to catch up with Abbott Elementary, and their Halloween episodes are always elite 😅!

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

This week in our philosophies of history class we'll focus on Postcolonial History & Subaltern Studies. We'll discuss Said, Guha, Prakash, and (a little) Spivak. I look forward to students' thoughts on subalternity, voices and voicelessness, and historically "provincializing" (the idea of) Europe. 🗃️

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Wait, what?

Forty-six years ago today, KKK members and Neo-Nazis murdered five activists in the Greensboro Massacre in North Carolina. 🗃️ guides.lib.unc.edu/greensboro-1...

Vote with your feet, too.

Some links to support people in Jamaica (from someone in JA). please boost 1. www.foodforthepoorja.org 2. theafj.org 3. (if you want to give to the govt) supportjamaica.gov.jm?fbclid=PAdGR...

Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around. Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.

Baby elephant time - happy Sunday, y’all!

On this day in 1920, a white mob in Ocoee, Florida, lynched as many as 30 Black Americans and razed the Black community because a Black man attempted to vote.

Pet peeve: please stop calling people “diverse.” People themselves are not “diverse.” That’s a fundamental and really worrisome misunderstanding of diversity and politics (and humanity, really).

“No one has a Nazi tattoo for 20 years without knowing what it is.”

I swear, I can’t believe that I ever traveled on a plane *without* a mask. Yikes 😅

Has November 1st always come right after October 31st? Seems kind of abrupt.

“‘I haven’t seen violence like this since Rwanda. The velocity and ferocity of the RSF killing civilians since Sunday is unlike anything I’ve seen in 26 years of doing this work.’” #Darfur #Sudan yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/10...

Good morning, Atlanta.

Dear skyline - I'll be in Atlanta for a short work visit soon. Any lunch/dinner recommendations would be highly appreciated - thank you!