Nick Kristof travels to Uganda and shows that the Trump DOGE cuts to foreign assistance and humanitarian aid are killing kids who are dying unnecessarily from hunger and disease b/c Elon needed a tax cut. Many stories of suffering of little children. GIFT LINK. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

How Southern judges put a trans civil rights lawyer under criminal investigation for doing his job, with @chrisgeidner.bsky.social

My @cato.org colleague Alex Nowrasteh has great post on politically motivated violence in US, its (generally low) incidence, and who does it (9/11 dominates stats; otherwise right-wing violence much more common than left-wing & other since 1975): www.alexnowrasteh.com/p/politicall...

This is Wally. He's distraught because he had a fun time playing at grandma's house and has to go home. Tries not to play favorites, but grandma is definitely his. 13/10

Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June’s long days, and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew. -Adam Zagajewski Resharing a favorite. [trans. Clare Cavanagh, published in TheNewYorker’s Sept 2001 special issue] #everynightapoem

New nationwide Child Care Gap analysis tool gives information about local child care supply and child population, from U Nebraska, the Bipartisan Policy Center, & Child Care Aware. childcaregap.org

Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.

In pictures and videos, 2 of the experts whose testimony helped shut down "Alligator Alcatraz" walk us through their beloved Big Cypress National Park. It's a fascinating look at a dynamic ecosystem: wapo.st/3JCCpoG (gift). 🌎

A Honduran Christian nonprofit goes beyond offering aid or micro-loans — it tackles the structural barriers that keep people from thriving. religionnews.com/2025/08/27/c...

Wise and somehow reassuring words from @andreapitzer.bsky.social:

one very real, concrete way to help feed Gaza right now is through donating to World Central Kitchen

This seems like a good time to share a little about my experiences on the DC grand jury and maybe convince some of you that the grand jury is a tool that we may be able to use right to now to help some of our neighbors.

22 August 1941 | Hungarian Jewish girl Beáta Donner was born. In May 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

This.

The tapes were recorded in the living room of Guthrie’s Brooklyn apartment between 1951 and 1952, on a portable tape recorder... @caroleine.bsky.social writes that the Guthrie family hopes to inspire the next generation of protest songwriters. inthesetimes.com/article/new-...

Sen. Hagerty on his legal rationale for not counting undocumented immigrants in the census: "There's a constitutional interpretation I think that has been misapplied that goes back to slavery days and what portion of a person is going to be counted."

Jesus. Pam Bondi just purported to replace the DC police chief and revoke guidance from earlier today that instructed police to continue to comply with DC’s sanctuary laws — laws duly passed by our city council, elected by our voters. Even more radical than we’d feared.

This is literally going to be the funniest show on television, possibly in decades. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Give the newsletter a share or repost this skeet if you want to support radical scifi, as well as independent journalism on the forces destroying human communities and killing the environments we depend on!

Thank you @npquarterly.bsky.social for highlighting The Hidden Heart of Reentry Report! Read the full article here: nonprofitquarterly.org/new-report-l... Check out the report here: bit.ly/HiddenHeartReentry cc: @nationalbailout.bsky.social @nbwji.bsky.social #Reentry #FreeBlackMamas

OK so I wrote up the whole conversion therapy/gender bit for those who are curious

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

"Agents stormed our restaurants in a show of force that went beyond anything reasonable or humane. They raided the heart of our business, tore through our spaces, and left behind a trail of fear, confusion, destruction. Our kitchens were flipped. Our walk-ins emptied. Food trashed. Doors broken."

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

Know your neighbors.

Not mine, but an amazing second year teacher asking for support for her classroom of future leaders in rural Eastern North Carolina. www.amazon.com/registries/g...

Are there any Black educators that have a classroom wishlist? If so, please drop it in the comments! Please help share, donate, do whatever you can! #blackedusky #edusky #blacksky

If you find yourself struggling this fall these helplines, warmlines, and hotlines do not call the police: Wildflower Alliance Peer Support Line: 888-407-4515 Blackline: 800-604-5841 Trans Lifeline: 877-565-8860 StrongHearts Native Helpline: 844-762-8483 LGBT National Hotline: 888-843-4564

It's the first of August, and a lot of trans and otherwise marginalized folks are getting ready to attend or work at schools, universities, and colleges that may feel a lot less safe than they did this time last year. Remember there is strength in community, and remember that you are not alone 💛

Finally just fixed my settings so I can't post a picture without alt text after repeatedly learning the hard way.

This season on the podcast, we'll be digging deep with three different experiments to learn how we can better show up in moments of communal and structural crisis. On this 1st episode, we welcome back organizers from REP (Relationships Evolving Possibilities) in Minneapolis. Tune in:

Just came from a press conference decrying the continued detainment of Mohamed Naser. Although a judge granted bail pending trial, ICE invoked a little-used rule to keep him. A good portion of the crowd were neighbors holding the sign "I ❤️ Mo."

Tomorrow is, once again, Bandcamp Friday. We will be raising funds for the World Central Kitchen's efforts in Gaza and will have a limited edition shirt, ONLY available on our Bandcamp page. All profit from all sales in our Bandcamp store tomorrow will be donated to the WCK.

It’s amazing how, in the 4 years since I first drew this, it went from stupidly obvious satire to totally normal talking points.

I’m not terribly comfortable with small talk, but I always find it odd when self-described introverts misunderstand it as informational rather than phatic: it says, “Our relationship is okay, and I am opening up a line of communication with you if you need to say something more.”

Texas seems to be contributing more than its share to quality literature these days.

The price of 1 lb of ground beef is now higher than the federal minimum hourly wage…

“He stole her.” Trump saw it as a property transfer. Like a real estate deal. The late Virginia Giuffre was a teenager at the time, about 17 years-old. And Epstein began sexually abusing and trafficking her.

the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic

85% of young men support Zohran Mamdani. 79% of young women support Zohran Mamdani. 67% of Jewish people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani. 65% of Black people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani. Would you have guessed *any* of that with how the media has covered all this?

The following is a complete and exhaustive list of every legitimate concern about trans people: 1. 2. 3. That's it.

The rescission package will eliminate funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), This will have irreversable impact on American Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages that rely on tribal media every day. Tribal stations are uniquely vulnerable. 2/22

Glory be.

OPINION: Hate is one of the easiest commodities to peddle, and one doesn’t have to be Muslim, Democratic or even a progressive or socialist to be worried. religionnews.com/2025/07/09/m...

Trump’s cuts are hitting Black women especially hard. Haphazard firings are already having dire consequences for communities across the country. We cannot allow this to continue.

We’re getting books and thinkpieces and how 2020–21 COVID public health policies “went too far,” and zero books or thinkpieces about how COVID has specifically radicalized Republicans against the idea of communicable disease www.fox19.com/2025/07/23/s...