As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.

the garden variety racism that this incredible athlete is used to dealing with...

Your periodic reminder that the estimated cost to end hunger in the U.S. is $25 billion.

The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash. The article was published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1). Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF

Feeding starving children should be something we can all agree on. 3 simple steps: 1 Sign the Petition 2 Call your member of Congress 202 224 3121 3 Give to worldcentralkitchen.org (Repeat 2 & 3 frequently) www.foodaidforgaza.org?fbclid=IwY2x...

JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked the cancelation of $175 million in National Endowment for the Humanities grants, mass terminated by DOGE in April. She says the effort was transparent viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment.

It’s been 16 years since Congress raised the minimum wage. Meanwhile, folks are out here trying to survive on $7.25 an hour. In this economy?! I’m standing with my Labor Caucus colleagues to #RaiseTheWage, because $7.25 ain’t cutting it.

NYC's largest union—the mighty @dc37nyc.bsky.social—stood with us in the primary when few thought victory was possible. Now they're all in for the general election. Together, we'll deliver a city where the people who keep it running can afford it too. From last week's endorsement:

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Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.

Texas is a majority-minority state—they know it. That’s why they’re scrambling to redraw the maps and mute our voices. But I believe in the people of Texas; our voices aren’t going anywhere, no matter how they draw the lines.

Kentucky's Mitch McConnell was one of three Senate Republicans to vote against starting debate on bill stripping funds from NPR, PBS, foreign aid. VP JD Vance had to break tie. @jennifershutt.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/07/15/r...

Imagine leading FEMA and not believing in emergency management. You’d think, as a former governor, she’d know what was going on. But I guess this is what you get when the president’s cabinet is full of unqualified conspiracy theorists. The American people deserve better.

Apply for a Radcliffe Fellowship! Applications in humanities, social sciences, & creative arts are due Sept 11, 2025 Applications in science, engineering, & math due Sept 30, 2025 www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/radcliffe-fe... (I hear they'd especially welcome projects related to climate change) #HPS ⚒️

Some will say that writing poetry isn’t anything to do with resistance- but history tells us poets are the first ones, killed, expelled, kidnapped or prosecuted. #Poets, keep writing. #Poetry #LatinxLetters

Job Opportunity! City University of New York - Hunter College - Assistant or Associate Professor (full-time, tenure-track/tenured) position in Indigenous History of the Americas networks.h-net.org/jobs/68860/c...

We shouldn't need a Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, but here we are. Still underpaid. Still undervalued. 66 cents on the dollar means we lose thousands every year, for doing the same job. Over a lifetime? That’s hundreds of thousands gone. Pay Black women. Period.

Republican abortion bans are making it more deadly to be pregnant in America. Routine care is being denied, and women are being forced to nearly bleed to death before they can get help. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Today in James Baldwin already said it: “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

We The People ✊ LA, CA

LL Cool J said that he will not perform at Wawa Welcome America in Philadelphia on July 4th because of union strike “There is absolutely no way I can perform across a picket line”

The news about IU is horrible. Of course, we could predict that African American, American Studies and Folklore (a revered and long-standing program there) would be eliminated, but public health?

We need the arts now more than ever. #supportthearts #supportrealartists #saynotoai #weneedthearts #illustration #kidlitart #picturebookillustration #scbwi #mixedmedia #whimsy

Happy Juneteenth, beautiful people! Love y’all!

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.

Jasmine Crockett is running to be Ranking Member on Oversight — and ready for the fight. She’s sharp, qualified, and speaking directly to this moment. Watch her make the case — and check out her take on the seniority issue. It might surprise you. @repjasmine.bsky.social

Lorraine Hansberry and Malcolm X were both born in May 19, in 1930 and 1925 respectively. The world lost them both in 1965, within a month of each other. What an all too brief gift, what a time for the world that 40 year period was.

I will never forget the sound of Minnesota Republican House caucus cheering at the news of undocumented Minnesotans losing access to healthcare. They would do the same if I lost my healthcare. They do not care about our lives. We are nothing to them. Those are the stakes for our communities.

This is bleak reading

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

I'm prepping for "AI and Higher Ed" on Thurs 11 am EST, by listening to talks by @alondra.bsky.social. What clarifying, demystifying brilliance! You can register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/alondra-ne... #Science @futuresed.bsky.social @cuny.edu @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @hastac.bsky.social

The ICJ decision to dismiss the case against the UAE charged with genocide in Sudan will only embolden them to ramp up their support for the RSF including their drone support. These international systems of justice don't work, they merely delay justice. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...

<¡Feliz cumple!> no day goes by without my gratefulness that Marx showed me how to see this wretched capitalist system.

This administration has fired crisis counselors for our veterans and now for kids. This bullshit doesn’t make us great. Any one of these calls could be life or death for a child. This senseless act of cruelty will kill people and they know it.

Arborists are turning vacant land on Detroit’s eastside into a small urban forest of giant sequoias, the world’s largest trees that can live for thousands of years.

The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.

Happy Pub Date to OGONI WOMEN'S ACTIVISM: Ogoni Women’s Activism The Transnational Struggle for Justice against Big Oil and the State by @domale.bsky.social! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... #AfricanStudies #Environment #WomensStudies #Nonfiction #AcademicPublishing #UniversityPress

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The @sdnsolidarity.bsky.social is providing support to various civilian-led groups providing relief and protection support in N. Darfur where hundreds of thousands are fleeing the RSF's genocidal violence. To support pls go to sudansolidarity.com. Pls consider becoming a monthly donor 🙏🏿.