Jane Goodall’s book ‘In the Shadow of Man’ transformed me at a crucial moment in my spiritual journey. She introduced me to a more beautiful creation than anything evangelicalism had given me, and so many reasons to live fully here now. Bless her eternally.

jane goodall made me believe i could just go up and hug any wild animal

PS: Mohammad Bhar was a 24 Palestinian man with down syndrome and autism who was mauled by an Israeli military dog and left to bleed to death on 3 July 2024. The IDF forced his family to leave the house, telling them that they'll treat him. The family found his decomposing body a week later.

Global Sumud Flotilla is live as Israel threatens to stop them from breaking the starvation siege of Gaza. A reminder that they are not entering Israeli waters, but Palestinian waters. Israel intends to violate international law once again. www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...

Bomb threat investigated at Alabama HBCU; others reported at schools around nation

After his presser with Trump, Netanyahu posts a video in Hebrew telling Israelis the IDF won’t really leave Gaza, and if theres no deal (to put Trump in charge of ‘developing’ Gaza) they’ll continue the onslaught (an + starvation campaign with Trump’s support (and 🇺🇸 bombs/money)

Honestly, even the most pragmatic centrists amongst you, be fucking honest now - what do you think a love letter between Trump Homeland Security folks and Minneapolis Police Chief O'Hara portends? Remember, be fucking honest (at least with yourself).

The goal of evangelical child training is to gradually and comprehensively condition children to immediately and happily obey adults’ commands. This is called “first-time obedience.”

I’m becoming more and more concerned that people at high levels of public discussion cannot identify the difference between a genuinely viral conversation vs a bunch of bots making noise.

“‘She had tears streaming down her face, and she told me one of the ICE agents pulled out his cell phone, laughing, and took a selfie,’ May said” Evil pricks

"Bleak" hardly captures it. Hell: Kaleb Horton offered more insight and perspective about the fading of the 20th century when he eulogized Toys 'R Us *in a Facebook post* than this TikTok lets slip about our sallow present, through glitches such as 'Old Noby' and "remember when we had fish tank?"

7. The silence over a male shooter decked out in Trump gear and camo, paired with the media frenzy that erupts when a shooter is falsely linked to trans people, is a pattern. For years, the right has refused to reckon with the consequences of its own policies on guns, violence, and mental health.

JD Vance invoking "blood libel" is dangerous and wrong. He is using a term with a specific, horrific history tied to centuries of antisemitic violence. Weaponizing it for political attacks undermines the fight against actual antisemitism.

Coates says Black Americans have stories about relatives who were lynched or had to flee and that a life free of political violence is not in reach in his time Klein: "Sometimes I think that having a historical scope that wide can make the present too deterministic." They lynched a kid last week.

Assata taught me that “Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.” May her spirit fly free!🤲🏾

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

“Because we love our neighbors, we shall not be moved”

Lots of pepper balls fired at press.

Protesters were attacked with pepper balls and tear gas again.

This is actually so perfectly reflective of The Problem. The people making the scene are mad at everyone else for making a scene about the scene they’re making. And they’re doing it with that look. Walking talking breathing irony. It’d be funny if it wasn’t so fckng abominable.

At the Broadview ICE facility, an ICE agent tried to run dozens of protesters over with an SUV as we walked on a public crosswalk. He kept driving for about a full football field until ICE barraged us with pepper balls.

Don't need to hear one more 'Bluesky is an echo chamber' post ever again. Meta is scraping parents IG 'back to school photos' of their daughters in schoolgirl uniforms and using them in ads to entice men to sign up for Threads. It's all pedos and perverts running the country. All of em.

The word “autism” was first used to describe behavioral differences in children in 1911 but autism has been documented using available records going back to the 1700s (definitively) and further. Acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) was discovered in 1878 and first sold in the United States in 1950.

The article, despite quoting police, neglects to mention what seems like an important detail about who operates that gun range

The most recent hunger survey found that about 18 million U.S. households were food insecure.

Do not put your name on a website to register for a rally in this political climate. What the fuck's wrong with y'all. Are there any people of color that work at this org who might knock some sense into your peach colored heads.

Two separate encampments shot up in the same day..12 ppl injured… No suspect...barely a splash. Such a depressing series of events these last few months.

If you are seeking a space where you can reflect individually & with others on your ongoing activism and organizing, feel free to join me on the last Sunday of every month through December on Zoom from 4 to 6 pm ET. The next drop-in session is on Sunday, September 28. Space is limited.

Homeless encampments exist because we don’t want to house people. Mass shootings happen because we’d rather keep our guns than keep people safe. Literally everything about this was a policy decision.

She's raised $710 so far but needs $2000 to leave, please share, Nour is pregnant and needs to leave asap.

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

8 Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to enable 14-year-olds in DC to be tried as adults: Cuellar Davis (NC) Gillen Golden Lee (NV) Min Perez Vindman Harmful, heinous, counterproductive, and deeply racist clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

This is the most important and enduring lesson I was given and am still learning/practicing in my work toward personal, vocational, and collective liberation: LISTEN TO BLACK WOMEN.

Since we are starting to seeing attacks on homeless encampments and others escalate after the rhetoric has increased. if you are seeing news stories on these kind of attacks in your area, please feel free to link them below. I’m going to use them going forward for a mapping project.

The Trump administration giving the largest grant in the history of the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) to the Tikvah Fund represents an attempt to construct a parallel infrastructure for the academic study of Judaism, explicitly allied with ethnonationalist, Christian nationalist forces.

Let us all be clear that taking all the money away from real work and giving it to the Tikvah Fund is a fucking disaster that will cause worse things to happen and all the Jewish spaces I inhabit understand it and are framing it as such. These are bad times.

to the surprise of no one, the “Anticorruption of Public Morals Act" also bans trans people from the internet in the state. calling trans and queer experiences "pornographic" has been part of the playbook for a long time

Tragic and alarming: From the states collecting data, 68% of U.S. counties and jurisdictions have immunization rates below 95% for the MMR vaccine — the level of herd immunity that is required to stop the spread of measles.

Black women are telling you not to register to attend a protest because we have parents and family and friends and church folks who survived the Civil Rights movement and in some cases didn’t And also because we read and in some cases do historical work But hey if you wanna listen to random dude

Imagine in 2025, after all the times Black women warned literally everyone about everything that’s happening right now, announcing that Black women commentators are just very paranoid When we have been right???????? This whole time????? About pretty much everything????????????!

Everybody gamely says “Vance hosted Kirk’s podcast” instead of “the regime officially turned the major channel into state-controlled media just as it began its violent crackdown on any opposition or dissident messages.”

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

To be even more explicit with where this ends, MO functionally has a 3/5th compromise on the books for political districting now. 1/2 of minorities, by fact of being under 18 and/or not registered to vote, aren’t included in districting. They overturned gerrymandering reform to enact this instead

It’s honestly remarkable seeing the inversion of the jan 6 critique that right wingers used. it couldn’t be a coup because it was cringe, incompetent, and unpopular. the republicans can’t be consolidating state power because it’s cringe, incompetent, and unpopular.

Pls don't respond by telling me what the community should do. I actually live in Chicago, and I am not going to tell people in another neighborhood, or on a specific block, or within a particular family how to respond when someone tries to kidnap their loved ones in plain sight. I just support them.

As I talk about here, we need a lot more moral clarity in our discussions of who's responsible for Trump's escalations. Fascists are always responsible for fascist escalations.

Talk about how this is all being staged to set Chicago up for a military occupation. Talk about how they are planning to attack cultural gatherings, picnics, and parades, knowing that people will cling to their neighbors and family members—and that Trump will use those acts of decency as an excuse.

We all recently had to endure about an hour of Yoram Hazony assuring New York Times subscribers that national conservatism was not a racist or racialist movement, only for the conference goers themselves to go right ahead and blow the movement's cover.

if the Biden Irrelevancy had one clear lesson it's that you can't retake democracy from those who would destroy it and then spend years slow-rolling the arrests of those responsible while failing to explicitly change the rules to keep them from power

A month later, and MPD hadn’t even assigned my case. MPD seems to only involve themselves if there’s a chance for them to engage in ultra violence and it’s never been so blatant.