#Black and #Brown #maternal #health was not necessarily at the forefront of the election season, but some strides have been made at the city level to address it. The hope is that progress will continue under the new administration with Mayor-elect #Mamdani.

FDA delays left recalled ByHeart baby formula on store shelves, food safety expert tells Healthbeat. Nearly a week was lost clearing bureaucratic hurdles before all state and local food safety officials were told where formula was being sold. www.healthbeat.org/2025/11/22/b... #IDsky #Medsky

“Making incarcerated people pay for communication has a regressive effect on their well-being, on their improvement in prison, and after they are released,” says Wanda Betram, a spokesperson for the Prison Policy Initiative.

Love it when I have a conversation with an interviewee that gets my brain firing in a million directions like someone set off a bag of pop rocks in there and I have to fundamentally rethink something I thought I understood. Best part of longform research is actual time to have those convos.

More than 30,000 Students demand protection from ICE. With each passing day students continue to push back, protest, and resist ICE’s terrorism of these students’ community! This is what happens when the youth activates. Whole regimes have fallen before the power of the youth!

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I mentioned yesterday how my birding skills were somewhat lacking, so in real guess territory here; taken last weekend, I think its a Carolina Wren, but its definitely #Singing so fitting for #Birdoftheday 🐦🦉 #Photography #Birds #FlyDay #EastCoastKin #Wildlife

The all-white make-up of this Tennessee county board is by design. In 2021, the county drew a map with no majority-Black district, even after the board’s own counsel warned this would illegally dilute the power of Black voters.

Working people have been left behind in New York. In the wealthiest city in the world, one in five can't afford $2.90 for the train or bus. As I told Trump today— it’s time to put those people right back at the heart of our politics.

It's a hopeful sign that ICE keeps racking up Ls in these trumped-up cases against protesters and activists

Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Public records requests by @propertyofthepeople.org reveal FBI had access to at least one immigration court watch Signal group—it’s not clear how. But from what we know about how Signal works, it could be the FBI obtained access to a group member’s phone. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

Are you kidding me??! 🎶 Illustrated by Rhiannon Giddens?! "Color Me Country", edited by Kelly McCartney & Rissi Palmer pays tribute to country artists like Linda Martell with 20 mini-bios paired with playful portraits alt-text: Giddens; book cover showing illustrations of black women musicians

My hometown absolutely floored me this past week. FLOORED. For safety reasons, I haven’t said much about it. But I’m so damn proud of my family and friends. So proud.

“The review found that Harvard in 2005 admitted Mr. Epstein as a visiting fellow in the psychology department and readmitted him the following year. And the review concluded “it is likely” that Mr. Epstein visited Harvard more than 40 times after his release from jail, between 2010 and 2018.” BRO.

In the aftermath of several mass overdose events in Penn North, Baltimore partnered with the Maryland Transit Administration and the Maryland Peer Advisory Council to place naloxone in all of the city’s metro stations. baltimorebeat.com/baltimore-in...

These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws. Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired. They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

"The two-hour session was led by Anna Duncan, a Durham organizer with the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and Manju Rajendran of Ready the Ground, a North Carolina group that trains volunteers in social justice movements."

“Many of us are really scared, but we’re still showing up.” Nov. 16 was “the day the most immigrants were arrested in a single day” in North Carolina's history. As immigration raids are expected to escalate, locals are mobilizing to protect their neighbors @tinavasquez.bsky.social reports.

Practice letting people know that you appreciate them. It costs nothing.

The conciergification of U.S. society is further eroding basic appreciation. This has bled into all aspects of life.

OPINION: "Our young people still enlist hoping for opportunity: job training, education and a way out. But too often, they are met with trauma, discrimination and broken promises," Horace Small writes.

“So far in 2025, nine former and current NFL players under the age of 48 have died. Of those nine deaths, seven were the result of suicide, actions that signaled deep mental duress, or undisclosed reasons … Yet you’d barely know it.”

"Since October 2024, the Dominican authorities have deported over 300,000 Haitians." "The migration protocol in public hospitals [..] puts up obstacles for Haitians trying to get health services and institutionalizes discriminatory treatment." #DominicanRepublic #Haiti #Deportation #Healthcare

I've been saying for months that the institutions bending to the loser tyrant's will have been complicit rather than cowardly. People keep saying 'why not both?' and I need to say that this misreads the situation which is that many of these institutions ARE CORRUPT, lol.

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Colombia will no longer approve new oil or large-scale mining projects in its Amazon biome, which covers 42% of the nation’s territory. Acting Environment Minister Irene Vélez Torres said the entire Colombian Amazon will be made a reserve for renewable natural resources.

The feds are escalating in Los Angeles. We've seen record high kidnappings and our communities are under attack. The media focus on LA has died down so electeds don't feel the need to even feign opposition. People are out here fighting. We need all of us. Join the struggle. Defend your neighbors.

"In some of Washington's largest counties, the gaps are startling." "In Pierce County, Native American youths charged with a misdemeanor who had a prior offense are 50% less likely to be [sent to diversion programs] than white youths." #Washington #USA #Incarceration

Powerful op-ed from Btselem on accountability in Gaza: "Accountability is essential – not for revenge, but because there’s no reckoning without responsibility. Genocide must not be normalized. And a system that carries it out must not go unchallenged." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A loud reminder that in about two decades or less, 1 in 4 people in the world will be of African descent.

18 Nov 2025 -- After adding language that appeared to imply that correct-gender trans passports might be invalidated, the State Dep't. re-updates its website to clarify that “all passports” held by trans ppl will remain valid until their expiration date. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Hold onto your butts. The nuclear reactor startup pilot program is marching along.

Love this feature on lunch ladies, an underappreciated bedrock of K-12 education.

St. Francis Friends of the Poor is looking for volunteers to serve on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day from 10:30am to 1:30pm at each of their three residences.

i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate

No one knows how many people die in Mississippi's jails, in part, because many of the state’s hundreds of local law enforcement agencies find reporting requirements burdensome, state officials say

Today is the midpoint of Scarleteen’s $40,000 fund drive to cover the health care costs of the staff and volunteers providing advice, tips, and tools for young people worldwide. 128 people have donated over $8,000 to support our work. Join them today! www.classy.org/campaign/scarl...

You mean the company that's currently being struck by its workers and the company that's currently being boycotted because of its terrible DEI policy rollbacks? Why not just call this the Chocolate Mint Racist Scab Frostie?

New attacks near Bethlehem and Hebron underscore intensifying Israeli violence in occupied Palestinian territory.

Wishing you a smooth path into the new week 🌿

Good morning! May your actions today be guided by kindness and empathy, and may you find a way to contribute to a world that lifts everyone up. Let's make some good trouble!

‘I couldn’t speak. I couldn’t breathe’ – This is climate breakdown

The Trump administration took down a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the Department of Justice’s website nearly 300 days ago to comply with an executive order against diversity, equity and inclusion. oklahomawatch.org/2025/11/14/t...

Disaster imperialism in full effect in Jamaica according to family there who tell me there is now a strong US military presence under the guise of aid including military planes, drones and helicopters. Please continue to support grassroots & mutual aid hurricane recovery efforts as you are able.

reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtyJ... m.youtube.com/watch?v=WtyJ... My issue with the enemies-to-lovers trope is that it normalizes abuse and rape culture. The notion of portraying antagonistic behavior as "romantic tension" screams: "they hurt you b/c they like you" or "you know you like/want it!" 🤮