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Actually, this picture was taken in April 2004. commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?... The left photo by Trump added the algae and the right photo added the blue. Nothing this president posts is true.

Deed theft stories are honestly the stories that give me nightmares. We put so much emphasis in this country on home ownership as the path to wealth generation, and suddenly it all gets stolen out literally from under you. And of course the victims are most often older people of color.

“Natural full hair that rises like trees” Now THAT is a compliment. Yep 🔥

BREAKING: Trump has apparently fired the National Science Board (NSB).

Resharing for #WorldPenguinDay 🐧

anyone here use a cargo ebike? if so what do you have, and do you like it, and what do you like to use for like carrying groceries or whatever on errands?

Today, I urge everyone to find and financially support an independent news outlet — one that will not be attending a spectacle dinner tonight to schmooze with the Trump administration while they berate the press.

I suppose the question is who owns the course materials, including lectures? Because the language my university requires me to put in my syllabus states that I, the instructor, own the IP rights to my class materials and lectures and this seems to be a gross violation of that

It's Independent Bookstore Day! Hooray! Among many other things going on, the Prison Book Program matching donation program starts today! A generous donor will MATCH the dollar amount of all purchases off our Prison Program Wish List from now until May 2nd

The most impressive thing about the US military for decades has been the logistics sorcery that feeds and equips tens of thousands of troops in hundreds of far flung places. A year under Hegseth and aircraft carriers are running out of food. Incredible stuff. Truly peak performance.

For 21 years we have given 50 Head Start kids a personalized bookcase and a starter set of books their parents can read to them. Bookcases 1001 through 1050 are in good hands. Tiny curious hands.

I need this replicated more than supported. This is a collaboration between the library, Kiwanis, and donors. We do a fundraiser to pay for the bookcases.

I like this better than using AI to tell your kids a story

I'll say it again, one of the worst things this rampant push to cram "generative AI" into everything has done is make people suspect bright kids of cheating when they're just nerdy or bookish or neurodivergent, sanding down their unique edges to fit into people's lowered, homogenized expectations.

"That record, including Florida’s own secession documents, is unambiguous about why the state left the Union in January 1861 and what cause those soldiers were fighting to defend..."

This word combination makes me feel like I'm on drugs

At a Spanish convent, nuns fight to preserve rare giant rabbit species share.google/ouDorq4qnHMC...

I incredibly hate having to do this, but AL decided Donna owed them $46k (she does not) & our bank froze all of her accounts, & also all of our joint accounts. On a Friday. She's about to start bouncing checks unless I pay everything but my savings is also locked. If you can help:

A Chicago woman who was the victim of a botched police raid is now poised to join the city’s police oversight board:

The library I spoke at last night didn't have a podium, so instead they gave me a classic library book-cart (like the one pictured) to use for my laptop stand. I might insist on this every time now. 🥹

Spring glow. #CopperBeech 🌳☀️🍃

This article tracks the rise of what @profkori.bsky.social has identified as "know-your-place-aggression." This is the predictable result of Rufo, Trump and Miller's attacks on Black achievement I n higher education, indeed Koritha anticipated all of this years ago. 🤬

Let me tell you something…. The New Yorkers believe in two things Bacon egg and cheese And plastic surgery

One reason we have so many accounts of Reconstruction-era violence is that Redeemers kept denying it, prompting Congress to launch massive investigations and hearings.

more and more each day

I think everyone should be a mentor to someone about something. It’s good for you and us.

I interviewed @chanda.blacksky.app about her new book, The Edge of Space-Time. We discussed cosmic wonder, the mythology of genius, Deep Space Nine, and thinking beyond false narratives and manufactured inevitabilities. If your brain is stuck in the churn of bad news, you'll want to check this out.

i'll never get over how inane this is. This is like demanding Boeing create a jumbo jet biplane named after you. Or a new class of typewriter. There's a reason no one uses battleships anymore. Navy jets go a lot further than shells shot out of cannons. We have these things called aircraft carriers.

The first photo here is fake. A still from the same moment shows that Trump's head wasn't drooping like that. Also, he'd just adjusted his tie, which is why the guy two to the left of RFK is looking at him. Actual still at right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ctx...

The problem is not that older faculty are sticking around - it’s that they are not being replaced. The argument of this piece is quite pernicious as it substitutes a class war btw workers and a neoliberal administration w an age war btw different ranks of workers

descend upon them: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings... you are a gremlin in the comments now go be a paladin in the public comments

last night 2 guys on a motorbike snapped my phone off my hand and run off, looked at it then came back and threw it back at me... never been so thankful for owning an old dumb phone

Photographer captured faces of the American South during Jim Crow abcnews.com/Lifestyle/ph...

There should be a Sandlot movie about this gang of multi-racial kids running through the streets of Pasadena, with one of them ending up in Japanese internment camp (while the neighborhood took care of his family home), and one of them ending up being Jackie Robinson.

"His family also indicated he had a Glock handgun and had expressed interest in harming Black people, a law enforcement official told CNN." bsky.app/profile/meli...

Wax jack owned by the Dennis Family https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2014.273.1

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Incredibly proud and humbled to receive the Hillman Prize for my work on global migration. www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-priz...

This left-wing political correctness on campus has gotten out of (breaks into tears)

Data centers have contaminated ground water in Oregon. They've released smog into the air in Memphis. And they've contributed to electricity bill spikes — all while receiving millions of dollars in tax breaks. Is it any wonder why a nationwide backlash against AI data centers is brewing?

It’s time to pay up, Donald — $1,700 per family.

#tdih 1951 Barbara Johns (16) led her classmates in walkout to protest conditions of her school in Prince Edward City, Virginia. White admin. closed county schools. More + book “Tar Paper School” ⬇️ 🧵 Portrait (a poster) by Americans Who Tell the Truth www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ba...

"The indictment is a grotesque attempt to recast white people as real victims of racism. In the DOJ’s telling, advocates who spent decades dismantling the Klan are its secret benefactors, 'enriching' themselves by secretly creating racism — something in such short supply it can only be generated."

Sometimes this administration takes a break from trying to change the outcome of the Civil War and just tries to undo the Civil Rights Movement

Do Black Americans like utopian sci-fi? Hell yeah. Can Black Americans write utopian sci-fi set in America? Yes. Can they sell it after a full decade of racist outrage 'gater grifters telling the Direct Market that our presence as characters is what is destroying that utopia? Not so sure.

I've been posting everywhere about Sloth World Orlando as I see it as my duty to inform people these sloths (taken from the wild) are dying behind the scenes. Poor sloths. Please keep sharing any articles or information you find and please speak out for these amazing creatures. #EarthDay

We're thrilled to announce that award-winning author, broadcaster and academic Gary Younge will Chair the upcoming British Academy Book Prize 2027. A former judge and Hon FBA, he returns to guide a distinguished panel celebrating the very best non-fiction shaping how we understand today's world.

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📢Calling all aspiring authors: our New Visions Award is open for submissions! Lee & Low Books is looking for unpublished authors of color or Native/Indigenous writers hoping to break into the publishing industry with their middle grade, young adult, or graphic novel manuscript.