📜 New Minnesota laws take effect Jan. 1 — learn more: www.house.mn.gov/hinfo/leginf... And read summaries of all new laws passed during the 2025 #mnleg session here: www.house.mn.gov/NewLaws/sear...

"‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock Intl Criminal Court judge out of daily life. Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards or access everyday services (Uber, Alexa, Ticketmaster...) in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary." www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

I used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.

OPINION: "And for all the talk about saving the American people money by gutting this agency, I can tell you that the federal government cutting AmeriCorps is the equivalent of me deciding to save money by not spending $10," Kevin Edwards writes. buff.ly/N5M6RLH

Corruption has a cost. It pulls the government’s attention away from those who need it most.   That’s why we must fight against it in all forms, at all levels.

Make a Bond movie academic OctoAdmin Assess and Let Die Tenure is Forever

Ujamaa To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together. #CooperativeEconomics

#throwback #BlackSky DEEP COVER with Historians at the Movies #HATM

Reminder: Tonight #HATM will watch Deep Cover at 7:00 central. I am really excited about this one because it’s been about 6 weeks since I was last able to join. Everyone is welcome. Hope to see you there!

Forty minutes in and I haven’t mentioned the great Jeff Goldblum yet, Oy!! 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️😅 Goldblum is one of my favorite actors and he’s one of those actors, like Christopher Walken, who have a niche style and presentation that cannot be duplicated. I love him in Independence Day as does my Mom, lol!! 😄 #HATM

That brings us to tonight’s #HATM questions: 1) what are your favorite cop movies? 2) and what’s on the menu at your home tonight?

And welcome to the final Historians At The Movies of 2025. Tonight we are watching one of the best films you’ve never seen. Join us for DEEP COVER on Prime Video at 8pm eastern. #HATM 1/

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

Japanese photographer Miyoko Ihara documented the bond between her grandmother, Misao and her beloved cat Fukumaru in a series of many images #WomensArt

Chilly wintry night out there, so settle in for some phenomenal #ScholarSunday reading, listening, & learning. & please share all this great work as widely as possible, thanks! @lollardfish.bsky.social 🗃️

I've seen solar panels go up on former crop fields in central Minnesota, with sheep grazing underneath them. Didn't know they could still grow full crops under them.

This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.

“You didn’t get a high paying job right after graduation because you got a Humanities degree instead of learning to code” Same people: “too bad, so sad, AI can do your job and no one cares about cultivating future leadership in the field.” Same people: www.yahoo.com/news/article...

A history we must remember as techbros try to move us back to "company town" dynamics

Someone wrote about Palestine and the global prison-industrial complex last year. #graysage

Essential reading. #BlackSky

A year unlike any other. #BlackSky

With thousands of teachers using Zinn Ed Project lessons, we hear powerful stories about the impact these lessons have in the classroom. ⬇️ are just a few from this year. Please donate so we can continue to offer all our lessons & classes for free in 2026. www.zinnedproject.org/news/impact-...

“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.” — Paul Farmer #ResistTyranny Alexander, L. (1949). Medical science under dictatorship. New England Journal of Medicine, 241(2), 39-47.

“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike — and yet it is the most precious thing we have.” - Albert Einstein #OneCandle www.facebook.com/100044466188...

"There are no children - there are people." - Janusz Korczak

EXCLUSIVE: the Working Families Party is putting out a recruitment call for people opposed to data centers in their communities to run for local office the recruitment effort comes just 2 days after Bernie Sanders called for a moratorium on data center construction

finished inks! still need to add a couple important elements (text, guitar strings) plus splash of color but almost done #sinners

Don't need to imagine, Sinatra had something to say about multicultural liberal democracies 🧵

KOS, BlackStar

Monumental work. Artifacts from the São José have become a centerpiece of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (N.M.A.A.H.C.). The Clotilda inspired a Netflix documentary and a new museum in Africatown, Alabama, and similar hopes are riding on the Camargo…

“Social media platforms with infinite scrolling, auto-play and algorithmic feeds will be required to display warning labels about their potential harm to young users’ mental health under a new law, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Friday.”

“Not to become one of the gods or heroes, but to transform into a tree, to grow for centuries, to harm no one.” —Czesław Miłosz, “Longing” “Nie żeby zaraz być jednym z bogów czy herosów. Zmienić się w drzewo, rosnąć wieki, nie krzywdzić nikogo.” —Czesław Miłosz, “Tęsknota”

The secrets of the body clock: how to tune into your natural rhythms – and have a better day

🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The lecturer in question is our colleague in children’s literature studies. She is a brilliant scholar and from all accounts a gifted teacher. This ruling is infuriating… at the end of the day, it is our students’ education that will suffer.

YES to this. And always a site of both contestation and power.

We have made it a priority to maximize the use of our opioid settlement funds. Today, we are proud to announce nearly $50 million for housing, treatment, and maternal health support for those battling addiction and in recovery. www.nj.gov/governor/new...

Umoja. Who stands with you for the coming year?

Amazing how little changed during the era of peak woke, yet we still got the woke panic.

This Christmas, I have just one wish for you: Take a moment to really see the older people in your life. Let them know they’re loved, valued, and never invisible. Share a smile with an elder you don’t know. Offer a warm holiday greeting. Small gestures carry enormous power. Love,
 Lynda 🎄✨

Merry Christmas. If you are struggling, may the day land gently. open.substack.com/pub/conniesc...

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” ~Ebenezer Scrooge, “A Christmas Carol,” by Charles Dickens. However you celebrate or even if you don’t, have a joyous and wonderful Christmas Day. Image: Peanuts, Inc.

‘It’s the wildest place I have walked’: new national park will join up Chile’s 2,800km wildlife corridor

“Over the last 48 hours, the faux-free speech warrior, faux-queer rights advocate, and arguably faux-journalist “editor-in-chief” of CBS News decided to drop the mask; she opted to go full fash, as the kids say.” - @petertwinklage.bsky.social for Zeteo’s First Draft:

Trump's anti-corporate DEI campaign faces high legal hurdles reut.rs/44HFXO3

Looking for some Christmasy podcasts or articles this festive week? Look no more: my gift to you all is a thread of all sorts of reads and listens from or featuring yours truly so you can drop some knowledge at the dinner table this Thursday! First up, Unsung History with @feministkelly.bsky.social

There will be more dropping throughout this festive week, so please do check back in the thread if you just can't get enough or go to our website for even more good stuff from both me and @americanstudier.bsky.social!