Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Dept of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cuts. projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

Reading local news 🤝 Plugging into local organizing 51st.news/dc-civic-eng...

It's always the people taking consistent action who feel they aren't doing "enough." Let that shit go. You are doing more than 85% of others. I am personally at more than capacity. What we need is for others to do their part(s) too.

Pick one or two lanes and keep at it. You are one person and cannot do everything or take 10 actions a day.

This’s a long one. TLDR: What needs to be done requires us to get more comfortable w/contradictions & complexity, but doing the right thing, loving your neighbor through your actions, taking collective action to build & sustain our power, & reveal & make evil uncomfortable, is pretty damn simple.

Last year we sold 5x more advent calendars than we have this August. Advent calendars are the biggest thing that keep the lights on at Skype a Scientist so this makes me a bit nervous! These calendars are bright and cute and are full of really fun information about eels! Get one here: EelFacts.net

AT 5PM-7:30PM there is a big speakout planned in DC against Trump's federal occupation at 14th and U St NW. ****The flyers say 6pm but due to the fascist madness engulfing us, that would have put those under 18 at risk over the imposed federal curfew.*** Please RT cuz your city is next.

BREAKING: More than 30 human rights organizations sent a letter to university administrators nationwide urging them to dismantle harmful surveillance + protect free speech on campus.

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Abdul. Abdul was a lawyer. His wife Leena has been diagnosed with breast cancer and can’t get proper treatment in Gaza. He is helping his family of 12 which includes many children Amir 9, Samar 6, Ivana 2, Sahar 10, Nour 8, Joud 11, Ghazal 8.

I find that when you're focused on one or two ACTIONS, you find yourself consuming less ambient news. Instead you are focused on news about the one or two actions you are taking. It's a good way to manage news overwhelm.

I'm excited to put on my archivist hat to offer a workshop in October about how to create a personal archive. The session is at capacity but you can be added to the waiting list if interested. It's in person on Oct 4: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/communiversi...

Love this creative action! Send a rubber ducky to your House representative calling on them to IMPEACH THE QUACK and remove RFK Jr as HHS Secretary. 🦆

1 week until I'm back, and I still have 4 essential/most needed items on my class wishlist. $98 USD would clear these 4 items! If you are able to help, I'd be so appreciative. 📚✨I’m a 9–12 English/Social Teacher 👩‍🏫 6th year 🛒 shorturl.at/BJNTX #clearthelist #clearthelist2025 #clearthelists

Many platforms are actively intentionally suppressing and censoring how incredible we are in community. We are in rooms, with breaths, on ships, in streets, in private chat groups, around neighborhoods, and in hearts. 
Be with each other, beloveds. 
Now more than ever.

Here's my weekly must-reads list, a frontline dispatch from a D.C. organizer, and my final thoughts for the week. One thing I took away from my exchange with Shannon Clark, a mutual aid organizer in D.C., is that "having great networks already in place" has been crucial. Let's all take note.

I’m excited to announce that I’m hitting the road with @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social next month to celebrate our new book THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT! Come on out and join us! Pre-order your copy here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

"The state of the country is dismal. The decline of the United States into a more open form of authoritarianism continues...But cracks in the right-wing offensive are also starting to emerge." the newest issue of @hammerandhope.bsky.social is out now hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students. 1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

Thinning out now. DC police the only ones left, and they're packing up too. Locals mobilized quickly out here, with handwritten signs warning drivers to avoid this block, lined up ready to protest what's happening. People shouting down from apartments too. "You should be fucking ashamed!"

Interesting moment when it was just DC police out here and no more feds. Some folks acknowledged DC police has been taken over by Trump via his abuse of the Home Rule Act. One woman shouted, "We know you're one of us, you don't have to be complicit!"

The next 45 days are going to be a time when everybody in DC needs to know our rights and how to assert them. Here are five important things for everyone to know while DC is under occupation 🧵

Here is the chart showing the growth of reported protest over time, 2025 vs. 2017, referenced in the piece below.

Hadn’t heard from Maryam in so long but then did, happy to see she and her family are still alive. Please help if you can. gofund.me/3623de98

A small group of us is planning a craft fair fundraiser for Gaza on September 7. Some of you have already generously reached out to offer a craft to us to sell at the fundraiser. We now have a form with details for anyone who wants to contribute a craft: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... - thank you.

Thank you for over 960 notebooks, folders, crayons, pencils, scissors & more! We have just a few items left on the #Back2School list, but need to ship them to Cook County Jail by 5pm in order for supplies to arrive in time for Thursday's visits with parents and kids www.target.com/gift-registr...

🚨🚨🚨 RALLY ALERT🚨🚨🚨 Join us tomorrow at noon at Federal Plaza to support AFGE Local 704 members fighting back after Trump's unlawful and authoritarian move to cancel the contract of thousands of EPA workers. This administration is escalating its union-busting. Now is the time to get loud!

hey if you're in Albuquerque and need to get gay married real quick because of the upcoming SCOTUS case, i am ordained. send me note through the contact form at nora.jewelry and we can meet up and get you married in a park or something

if you have the means, please consider donating to the minnesota indian women's resource center, they have been doing a significant and heavy lift for helping the unhoused, and they are facing severe funding challenges now under trump - www.miwrc.org

There are currently credible rumors that Trump plans to deploy federal law enforcement agents in DC tomorrow or this weekend. Here are some ways we can all stay safe and stay strong if that happens 🧵

My latest: I wrote about my journey to put on 20 pounds of muscle as a woman. And how my life changed because of strength training/bodybuilding.

Samaa is getting very close to her due date

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

Love that when outlets like the Atlantic or the NYT finally get around to writing a long piece on Sudan, they never, ever, ever, EVER, get a Sudanese person to write it. Despite Sudanese ppl pitching them 1000x over the last few years. And oh, let’s play ‘How to Write About Sudan’ bingo…

“While there’s never any guarantee that law enforcement officers will follow the law…” is the absolute most important lesson for anyone trying to make it through this current era.

"Asked to generate intervention plans for struggling students, AI teacher assistants recommended more-punitive measures for hypothetical students with Black-coded names and more supportive approaches for students the platforms perceived as white" www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/06/a...

Stanford University’s student-run newspaper sued two senior Trump administration officials Wednesday, challenging Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ability to revoke student visas and deem an individual deportable based on the content of their speech.

Baltimore-based nonprofit Black Women Build is helping women purchase homes by connecting them to funding, resources, DIY skills and community.

I'm exhausted and so scared. I don't want to stay here anymore. Is anyone listening? Please get me out of here. I can no longer buy milk for my family. Migo wants milk. 50$only😭 @mommunism.bsky.social gofund.me/cbb32bf8

I used to do this. JDI is inviting folks to write holiday cards to incarcerated people. It's simple: you sign up and they send you cards to write: justdetention.org/woh/ - perfect for people who are homebound.

"PCRF has opened the Khilet Al-Mai Urgent Care Clinic, delivering critical medical services to more than 40,000 residents in one of the most isolated areas of the southern West Bank. In Masafer Yatta, ambulances can take up to an hour to reach the nearest hospital." - from an email yesterday

You can use this tool to find out just how much funding your local district (or any district in the country) will be losing in the new federal budget: "DES MOINES INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT will lose $8,175,391 in federal funding." public.tableau.com/app/profile/... #EduSky #EdChat

help save this child’s life!! this campaign has been going for a while now, and a 400 dollar request is so easy to fulfill if this is shared

👉🏿👉🏿Four days left to help me achieve my GFM goal of $4565👈🏿👈🏿 so I can go from being hoteled to housed! Last donation to my GFM? 2 days ago. Pls help as you can, Bsky fam!! gofund.me/2103bbbc #UrgentNeed #blackmutualaid #mutualaid #blueskyhelps #mutualaidcommunity #HelpFolksLive2025 #helpsky 💸💞

A Common Sense Media study found that prominent teacher assistants that use AI generated recommendations that appeared to be rooted in racial stereotypes based on students’ names. About a third of teachers report using AI weekly, according to a recent survey.

Chicago Abortion Fund received a $2 million grant from Cook County as the area remains a beacon for abortion care in the Midwest. The grant aims to lower barriers to abortion access and provide wraparound childcare, transportation and lodging.