40 million Americans, including children, seniors and people with disabilities, will lose funds used to buy groceries. No admin has ever allowed SNAP benefits to expire during a shutdown. Not only does the law require it but it’s the right thing to do. abcnews.go.com/Politics/sta...

🏳️‍⚧️ Our friends in LA just carried out a kit building day for HRT harm reduction supplies 🏳️‍⚧️ As some of you may know, we did not initially have California in mind as one of the recipient states of the HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits. However...

This is not something I want to do, but as someone who was food insecure for a long time, here are some ways to get the most out of what you can get. -if you have dietary restrictions or food aversions, spend some time thinking about what foods are safe. It sounds obvious, but—

People with some cancers live longer after a COVID vaccine. mRNA vaccines seem to boost the effectiveness of an immune therapy for skin and lung cancer ― in an unexpected way www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Some good news for a change. www.genderjustice.us/minnesota-su...

More than 420 state bills attacking key public health protections have been introduced in 2025. Around 30 bills in 12 states have already been enacted or adopted. Please call your state's elected officials!

It’s not radical to believe that people shouldn’t have to sell plasma to make ends meet.

Here’s what I said to our teenager and some other young folks who were around at the match: there’s a difference between a demonstration and a protest, and you need both because people are at different places in their engagement with a movement, and there are different kinds of power.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

I’ve been thinking a lot about how the ascendant & vile xenophobia over the past decade first in the US and now Canada has stopped me from feeling that these places are home. No matter how hard I worked or how long I lived there. And that’s the goal of racists and xenophobes, isn’t it?

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

Sending love to everyone who has discovered that their core values do not actually align with those of their loved ones. You deserve better.

the weirdest thing in the world to me is that the NYT thinks I want to watch videos of its reporters talking when I could just read their articles

Today in slogans to embroider on cushions:

I've never met a good person who went out of their way to belittle waiters

Indiana University told the Indiana Daily Student, their newspaper, to stop bringing news in the paper. When the newspaper rightfully pushed back, the school completely cut their print edition. Y'all, this is BAD. www.instagram.com/p/DP1pQBxEdz2/

Another example of 'get in where you can get in' and everyone can do something of use... blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/16/a...

There are 600,000 other Iowans just like me, who can't live without Medicaid. That's 1 in 5 Iowans. - Jonna Higgins-Freese

Since we cannot rely on AI to provide an expected pain score based on an app, just re-sharing this pain scale for those of us who continue to need a way to articulate how pain impacts our quality of life, as validated by this research (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...) in case it may be helpful.

When students, faculty, and our communities are united to fight for our universities, for the common good, and for our democracy, nothing can stop us! WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN! @aft @higheredlabor.bsky.social #DefendHigherEd

Brown University declines to sign onto Trump administration 'compact' reut.rs/3LdN6yw

BREAKING: AFSCME and AFGE granted a block on illegal mass firings. Workers win.

Disability is one of the only minority groups you can join at any time. Everyone thinks they will be the exception. It won’t happen to them. They will “try harder” and overcome. They think we’re failing. It is not a moral failing and very few people will be the exception.

While executives sit on billions in reserves, Kaiser caregivers in the @ahcu.bsky.social, including @ofnhp.bsky.social members, are standing up for safe staffing, fair pay, and the quality care every patient deserves. nbc16.com/news/local/k... #OneVoiceOneFightOneFuture

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Vanderbilt AAUP press release about the Vanderbilt Faculty Senate voting overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution opposing the President's proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education as an unconstitutional & illegal infringement on rights & freedoms. vanderbiltaaup.org/2025/10/09/v...

Students from Cheyfitz’s course speak out against his suspension and explain what happened in the classroom leading up to it. www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

It would be really nice if @cswe.bsky.social & @naswsocialworkers.bsky.social took a vocal stand on why social workers students need these courses to be both effective and ethical practitioners with the marginalized populations they will work with.

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

Among countless banned & challenged books is "Fry Bread" by Kevin Noble Maillard. In support of the #TeachTruth campaign & to raise awareness about the dangers of censorship, every Lush store has a display about the ban. #LetFreedomReadDay #BannedBooksWeek socialjusticebooks.org/banned-books...

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

There can be no social justice without disability justice. You want to fight fascism? Engage the disability community. Practice inclusivity. Wear a mask. Make protests and resistance accessible. Don’t treat us expendable, less than or “better off dead”. Don’t leave us behind.

Ireland has approved plans to permanently implement a basic income program that will support up to 2,200 artists. A cost-benefit analysis found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 back. Officials from other countries are now expressing interest in the program.

“What Cheer” may have been a famous play leading to the town’s name, but only Southern Iowans will pronounce it correctly as “Watch-Ear.”

Bookshop has free shipping now! So imma recommend some books for you! A thread. 1/x 🧵 First of all, this came out yesterday literally by the wonderful @kaitlincurtice.bsky.social

Gender Identity Clinic's Waiting Lists from Shortest To Longest

It’s been a long time since I was a social worker in the UK, but this sentence floored me: “While we sometimes don’t think about the role of identity as professionals, it's important to stay curious to deliver anti-racist practices.” In the US, this is an ethical obligation, not a suggestion.

🚨 ALERT: Police Scotland is developing plans to use live facial recognition technology Facial recognition tech: 🕵️ is mass surveillance ❌ is NOT compatible with Scotland’s human rights obligations ⚠️ disproportionately impacts racialised communities We need to oppose this: amn.st/6008AqWA0

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes: - Without the patients' consent to participate in research - Affecting minors - 1700 of them - Taking highly sensitive information from said journals This is a HUGE breach.

The first Law Dork oral argument report of the new Supreme Court term is a doozy: Chiles v. Salazar, over Colorado’s conversion therapy ban.

Every time the "trans people are 1% of the U.S. population" thing comes up, I feel compelled to point out that the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum says that Jewish people made up about 0.75% of the population of Germany in 1933.

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state. Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide. Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

SARS-CoV-2 isn’t just a respiratory virus. Its neurological and immunological consequences are real, measurable, and ongoing. It targets the brain, impairs cognition, erodes empathy, and subtly reshapes populations. Ignoring it doesn’t make it harmless, it makes the world more dangerous.

**NEW** Today, the ACLU of South Carolina filed a lawsuit on behalf of public school students and school librarians. They're challenging the constitutionality of the state's book banning law and a memo outlining the state's content censorship policy. bookriot.com/aclu-sc-laws...

Conversion therapy remains legal when done by religious clergy but this would allow licensed therapists to engage in the abusive practice. Once they legalize it, the next step is to normalize it and then mandate it. The end goal is the eradication of LGBTQ identity to fulfill their eugenicist goals.