the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

A judge in Vermont has ordered Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk immediately released from ICE detention. Öztürk has been held in a notorious prison in Louisiana. She still faces the threat of deportation, apparently in retaliation for co-authoring a piece for her student newspaper about Gaza.

Judge appears about to order the release of Rümeysa Öztürk!

Me, yesterday: yay, I finished my first year teaching in higher ed. Time to finish up grades so I can take a short break before summer classes My body, this morning: please say hello to a sore throat, headache, and body aches.

happy may day! poster by madeleine jubilee saito

@npr.org for every minute spent talking to a non-autistic person about autistic people's needs, you should be giving at least 2x that amount to actually autistic people— & not just in written stories, but on-air. Apply said rubric to any other group under attack right now for their lived realities.

What a shameful endorsement.

EVERYONE SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT THIS EVERYONE.

When people break the law, and their actions are righteous and appropriate, we should applaud them. When people abide by or enforce the law, and their actions are repugnant, we should condemn them. We should never pretend the law is a moral dividing line.

An autism "registry" culled from private medical records could potentially violate federal privacy laws and runs the risk of abuse. It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.

In my grad union, we organized an access needs article. It included eliminating required medical documentation. The admin rejected our proposals at every turn. Now, RFK, Jr. wants to create a registry of Autistic people. That required documentation makes people less safe.

Hi friends! A good friend asked me to share this awesome new project— a literary magazine by trans kids, for trans kids, with a little help from trans adults. If you have a trans kid in your life, definitely check out Chrysalis Magazine! www.chrysalismagazine.org

Because it's #EarthDay, I'm resharing my open library Against AI and Its Environmental Harms at: pad.riseup.net/p/Against_AI... Educators, as we consider our work and commitments to our students and their futures, how are we teaching about AI's climate impacts? How are we resisting AI hype? #EduSky

Poor reporter interviewing me about financial aid next year got an earful when they asked if I think anything can be done to stop a disaster from happening. Just me ranting "this isn't the asteroid from Armageddon, this is a self-inflicted wound and we could reverse these illegal firings any day."

It's been three months + 1 day since Elon Musk did a Nazi salute, twice, at the inauguration. If you're still focused on pro-Palestine protestors as a threat to American Jews, then you don't really care about us. If you're still saying that cancel culture by the left is a thing, you're full of it.

I am not a big fan of re-boots but hear me out...

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

There are just too many legendary JD Vance memes today to get any serious work done.

At the very least, a Secretary of Defense probably shouldn’t be an incorrigible yapper. Every middle school student only had to learn about “loose lips sink ships” ONCE to be like “it’s time to tighten up!”

Me: Yay! I got a bunch of grading done this weekend. Let's see, what is on the to-do list for tomorrow. Surely, my hard work will make this week a bit less hectic. 😎 :: checks list :: Me: Oh, more grading. A LOT more grading. 🫣

I'm quite comfortable with abolishing deportations and giving every immigrant and refugee a home and food and education and a job and safety, and if you object on the basis that we don't give citizens those things, my answer is simply that we should be giving those things already.

No kings protest in Binghamton NY 🇺🇲 this is what democracy looks like. Love my community in Broome county NY.

A few hundred people in Binghamton came out to today and collectively said no to fascism. Two observations: 1. So many people driving by cheered & honked in solidarity. 2. The crowd skewed older (60+). Legacy media might not cover this, but collective dissent is happening across the country.

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

While many leaders are failing to meet this moment with active resistance and solidarity, many educators are doing the important work to protect immigrant students, families, and community members.

"The agreement includes meaningful raises, smaller class sizes, and more classroom resources, but it also codifies some of the most comprehensive LGBTQ+ protections ever included in a public school labor deal." Check out "bargaining for the common good" www.advocate.com/news/chicago...

and there is more of this for democrats to do! demand to see the other people renditioned to this prison! conduct on camera interviews with people who have lost social security, veterans benefits and medical care because of DOGE, hold rallies against the administration’s lawlessness!

Here's the Bluesky post. This is incredible. Now the goal will be to get him home. And I want to hear what Senator Van Hollen learned from him. What this shows is that Bukele is very much susceptible to pressure. Now we can't forget about the other 237 people sent there on March 15.

I know some folks are like, "I'm autistic and I CAN do those thing" and that's great, but that's actually not why this statement is horrifying. It's horrifying because he's saying anyone who isn't "normal" and isn't "productive" don't have valuable lives, so should they really be alive?

No one deserves detention. No one deserves deportation. No one deserves prison. No one deserves to be separated from their loved ones. No human is illegal. Free them all.

RFK Jr. is a dangerous ghoul. @ericmgarcia.bsky.social’s work has always been important. And, in this particular moment he reminds us that we can resist. We can build a world where autistic lives are valued and supported.

It's now been over a month since Trump sent innocent man Andry Hernández to one of the world's worst prisons because of "Mom" and "Dad" tattoos. Like the others, he is being imprisoned with no contact with the outside world. Don't let him be forgotten.

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I don’t know if Jon Hamm’s new show will be good. But what *do* I know? He can play a very handsome rich man from Westchester who is deeply sad, emotionally detached, and messy across multiple decades.

Many of us have long warned that the real antisemitic threat in the United States is white supremacist nationalism.

Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

This sounds like an exciting new journal. It’s open source too!

yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

People will argue that we should be willing to defy the law in the name of justice while also treating criminalized people as disposable. It's incoherent.

She wrote an op-ed in her college paper. That's the pretext.

10 national unions repping 3 million members demand the release of abducted immigrant workers and call for employers and university admins to refuse to cooperate and elected officials to “find their spines.” This is the way. labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

Solidarity to Simmons faculty who are organizing for a better and more just higher education system. ❤️, a former SEIU 509 grad worker.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

Do not look away from what is happening. New to organizing? Start talking to someone you care about. Ask them what they know about what is happening. Use the conversation as a starting point to plan what you will do *together* to resist this fascist administration.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are disrupting a breakthrough cancer treatment so they can fund tax cuts for billionaires. Tell your friends.

We noticed some hateful flyers in our neighborhood and they were giving a rage headache every time we saw one. So instead of just being mad, we created new ones. Please feel free to use! This one is: Protect Trans Kids in black and white and in color.