Not sharing that photo of the young sis on the train. Would prefer that white folks who are sharing it would say what they are concretely doing to uproot white supremacy...

What could you create/make by next summer to lessen suffering in some part of your world? Let that question be your guide and hold yourself to making something of whatever size and impact by that time. Hold yourself to the commitment. No one else needs to know but you will.

On this holiday, remember that 250 years ago in 1776 women in America “enjoyed a substantially broader right to terminate a pregnancy than in most States today.” That was what Justice Blackmun wrote in Roe v Wade in 1973, and for the past four years it has become true once again.

On this 250th morning since this nation's Founding, I woke up thinking about a famous poem by our Jamaican-American ancestor, Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay, "America." (Used to have my students memorize this at the turn of the millennium.) www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44691/...

This is a story about a man, famous and much admired in American history, who published something pertaining to women in 18th century America. He was Benjamin Franklin, and the topic was abortion. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

"Benjamin Franklin, the US Postal Service’s first leader, included an abortion recipe in The American Instructor, his 1748 reprint of a popular British textbook that offered guidance on basic tasks and subjects, including arithmetic and writing."

The claims in Dobbs that “The Court finds that the right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and tradi- tion” is rather easily countered by the publication by Ben Franklin of a guide to pregnancy termination at home. www.npr.org/2022/05/18/1...

Ben Franklin Put an Abortion Recipe in His Math Textbook To colonial Americans, termination was as normal as the ABCs and 123s. slate.com/news-and-pol... #AbortionIsHealthcare #KeepAbortionSafeAndLegal #VoteBlueAndGetOthers2JoinU

What do baseball, apple pie, and abortion have in common? They are all American traditions. Then why is one of them banned in 20 states across the US? The primary answer is to control people's bodies to maintain power. (1/2) bit.ly/4vEcKyR @thenation.com @byreginamahone.bsky.social

When the Constitution was adopted, no state had any law to ban or regulate abortion. Women terminated pregnancies, and it wasn't controversial. B. Franklin even published the recipe for an abortifacient.

"[Abortion] was so common and acceptable that the venerated Benjamin Franklin intentionally added information on how to perform an at-home abortion to a reference book ... The nation's first abortion ban was not enacted until 1821, nearly a half-century after the U.S. declared independence."

The reframed how I understood the "master's tools" quote by Lorde. Ruthie reminds us to pay attention to the apostrophe.

Very grateful to Lauren Rankin for this essential history and for mentioning my work on Benjamin Franklin reprinting an herbal abortion recipe here. Side note, you can buy that very recipe at Colonial Williamsburg, which has John Tennant’s Poor Planter’s Physician on sale in the print shop.

I will remember and probably use this analogy from Justice Jackson’s concurring opinion on birthright citizenship for a long time

According to hundreds of pages of emails released in May in response to a public records request, the amendment [rezoning 170 acres of land] came directly from one of Anduril’s registered lobbyists, Levi Gross. New from Taylor Barnes and Inkstick Media. matternews.org/community/de...

Justice Jackson’s opinion in the birthright citizenship case is absolutely stellar.

Wonder how the Netflix “Little House on the Prairie” is going to handle that time Pa does blackface

This x1000. Why are Black Americans like Benjamin Banneker never considered to be “men of their time”? @jamellebouie.net today

to mark the 250th i wrote about the ways that black americans did vital work to invest the declaration of independence with the universalism and egalitarianism that we now see as its core promise. (gift link)

Abortion care has never been guaranteed in America, not even under Roe v. Wade, despite being essential to a functioning democracy and gender equality. https://bit.ly/4eDih2U

Having these three luminaries blurb my book is an honor beyond words. New World Calculation would not exist if not for their fascinating scholarship.

This collection of Massachusetts anti-slavery and anti-segregation petitions is a little tricky to navigate, but you can search for keywords like "taxes" or "militia" or "schools," or by name (try Prince Hall, John Cuffe, Belinda Sutton): dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/an...

Yes, when I used to teach this period, it is one of the most inspiring assignments I gave students. The petitions, the oratory: there, right from the beginning, against every odd!

currently reading a whole bunch of petitions and editorials from black americans of the revolutionary era and it is so striking (and frankly inspiring) to see how the ink wasn't even dry on the declaration before black americans were demanding that the patriots live up to their stated ideals

Excited to see that my @slate.com article on Franklin's reprinting of a (very accurate! and explicit! for the time) herbal home abortion recipe appears in @byreginamahone.bsky.social 's article in @thenation.com. Her co-authored book Liberating Abortion is absolutely essential reading

I absolutely love this one.

Was checking to see whether the lineup for the Ohio State Fair was better than the “Great American State Fair” (it is), and stumbled on this—all the bands you’re embarrassed to admit you were vaguely into in 1994, in one place!

One of my hopes for this new book is to empower the movement for all those working to teach math in a way that matters to the most pressing issues in students' lives, because it has never been and will never be neutral.

New World Calculation: The Making of Numbers in Colonial America comes out Aug. 25th! I'm excited to share this with you. I wrote about the lessons about sex, race, class, and power Americans have always learned when they learned to work with numbers. Pre-order here: tinyurl.com/newworldcalculation

In August 1781 an enslaved woman named Elizabeth Freeman head to a law office near her home in Sheffield, Massachusetts. She had an urgent question. #Freedom 🎁 Article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

SUP is having a big sale! From today, June 23, through Friday, June 26, we're honoring Sophie Germain—and offering 53% off all in stock print and ebooks sitewide. It's a meaningful number for a meaningful mission. For full details: https://ow.ly/4FRb50ZfZF0 #ReadUP

In the 4 years since Roe v Wade was overturned there have been over 400 pregnancy related prosecutions. Maternal mortality is up 33% nationwide and 50% in some states. We are being criminalized and murdered. That’s the legacy of Dobbs

Today marks four years since the Dobbs decision—a historic injustice and assault on women’s dignity. My solidarity forever with those who need abortions. Find your local abortion fund and donate today: donate.abortionfunds.org/give/323375?...

For the first time in 30 years, child deaths are now rising, in large part due to USAID cuts Lancet modelling shows USAID cuts will cause 14 million deaths including 4.5m children, by 2030. Independent CGDev research backs this up

Two years after Darializa Avila Chevalier took part in the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University, she is now set to represent the district in which the university is located in Congress.

Congratulations to the young multi-racial coalition of New Yorkers who are demanding better.

i think it is great that conservative students functionally work as a volunteer stasi for republican politicians and conservative media

Mary Wollstonecraft Against Modernity is out "Will be required reading for all scholars interested in feminism, the Enlightenment, biography, and human rights, its brilliance comprised in the original way it brings those topics together." —Deidre Lynch, Harvard University https://ow.ly/bcRT50ZfuTs

Pulling out the heavy hitters for this ICML talk in two weeks!

🚨New data: In the 8 months after H.R. 1 enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by 4+ million (-10%) nationwide. In just the 13 states with available data, 800,000+ fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

'A lost interview (1995) with award-winning writer #OctaviaButler and filmmaker @juliedash.bsky.social at her home in Los Angeles for Marc Boothe, Digital Diaspora, and "40 Acres & A Microchip" the first Black cyberspace conference in the UK for digerati of African descent.' vimeo.com/163190768

conservatives do not have a problem with racial or gender preferences or quotas. they just think they rightfully should go to white men, who are inherently meritorious.

This photo is of Betty Simmons, who was more than 100 yrs old when she was interviewed in 1937 in Beaumont, TX. She was married during slave times, and widowed, but was very happy that freedom came when it did because her enslavers were preparing to put her 3-yr old child to work in the fields.

Rep. Beatty stuck around there overnight until the last court decision was rendered (~11 pm). Then into the night as workers erected scaffolding and a tarp over the bldg. She stayed until they finished taking the name off just after 4 am. She went back in the early a.m. to do more TV interviews. 🫡

Joyce Beatty is why the name came off the Kennedy Center. Her focus and tenacity... It should escape no one that she's also a Black woman.

The compromise position is abortion on demand, free of charge.

MY LATEST: Raiding the OOC months before the midterm elections may not be as sensational as indicting a former FBI director for posting a picture of seashells, but it is every bit as great a threat to the rule of law. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

Literally my job to translate specialized knowledge for a general audience

The news shouldn’t be for sale? Billionaires are the new kings, more powerful than states, able to destroy freedom of the press with their money. (Twitter, WaPo, CBS, CNN).

the ruling regime knows they are losing in ohio, so this is how they are lashing out. you can learn more about what happened and why it matters at handsoffohio.org