Yesterday Mayor Mamdani released his executive budget for FY27, and NYC PLAN is disappointed to see that it falls $97million short of his promise to fund our libraries at 0.5% of the city expense budget. Our libraries deserve stable and increased funding, and we’re ready to continue this fight!

This Mother's Day, at least 125,000 mothers will be separated from their minor children because of mass incarceration. Today reminds us again that people behind bars are not nameless “offenders,” but beloved family members and friends whose presence—and absence—matters. #MothersDay

All you have to do to understand the actual purpose of prisons in this country is to look at the aftermath of Jan 6. I will leave it there.

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

Looking up Blind alleys, going down rabbit holes, experiencing archive fever … all the figures for research tell you that the direct route is the wrong route. I once planned a book about this called “False Starts” to show how inefficiency, irrelevance, & indirection are (lost) keys to new thinking

I keep hearing that "The Body Keeps The Score" has helped to destigmatize trauma but it consistently describes rape victims in stigmatizing terms: - "Obese and aggressive" - "Lacking in self-protection" - "Frozen and uptight"

Anne Hathaway, you will ALWAYS be that girl. 💙💛

I really can't tell you how much better it feels to choose your lane and to go hard there. Focus on one or two things and get some traction there. Keep inviting people to join in. Most will not and some will. Keep going.

And never ask people who spend months working on things, if something will also happen the next year. Ask: "I really appreciated this year's event, HOW CAN I HELP MAKE NEXT YEAR POSSIBLE?"

One of my favorite stories. This is a good book that I read about it: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

I've read a lot of disturbing articles about how AI fucks with people's minds, and Jesus fucking Christ, this is one of the worst cases I've seen. The people profiting from this are our enemies and must be plainly understood as such.

DC statehood yesterday

this is where I am.

Two newly released databases documenting the lives of more than 150,000 enslaved people in Cuba and Brazil are now available to researchers, offering an unprecedented empirical foundation for studying slavery in the Americas www.gc.cuny.edu/news/new-sla... @claclsgc.bsky.social

"When Badin died, he left behind diaries, a vast book collection, private letters and an autobiography offering a window into his life in 18th- and 19th-century Stockholm." New Black Europe exhibition at the Swedish National Museum #earlymodern 🗃️

Dr Amy Acton/ David Pepper are an incredibly interesting ticket in the Ohio gubernatorial race. @amyactonoh.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social

It's pub day for GOD BLESS THE PILL: he Surprising History of Contraception and Sexuality in American Religion by @samirakmehta.bsky.social 🎉 🙌 uncpress.org/978146969343...

@usafacts.org Ohio has the highest rate of library circulation per person. Our libraries are the best part about living here. We have traditionally led the nation in state funding, and it shows: we love them, support them, & use them. Cbus metro library never lost a levy. But DeWine cut the budget.

Choice selected THE DRIVER'S STORY as one of five Outstanding Academic Titles in History, Geography & Area Studies. www.choice360.org/choice-pick/...

I'm moonscrolling

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

“When the violence of one’s oppressor feels inevitable, when people don’t know how to stop what’s happening, the risk of moral surrender is real. Will we allow our sense of empathy to become dull and fade?”

Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic

IDF bombing Lebanon today harder than before the ceasefire.

anyway vance and his ilk sees the presence of any black (and most brown) people in elite or coveted spaces as on its face evidence of “anti white discrimination”

Excellent news for the field www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Big No Kings crowd in Columbus!

A film about Mary Oliver is forthcoming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJMd...

New Standing Room Only! Today's excerpt: Daylight savings exposes the deeper political dysfunctions that are making everyone batty. Subscribe today! salon.com/newsletter Music by Big Joanie.

Smart phones really are worse, and the reaction to landlines when they were new shows it. “Your great-great-grandparents were probably pretty happy with the phone. If your feelings about your smartphone are more mixed, don’t let anyone tell you you’re panicking.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/o...

so many people have headed calls to move off Google to places like proton. Actual useful advice is that you try to keep as much sensitive info offline as possible.

The two things Black Philly wanted me to know when I moved there in 2012 (as in, multiple people told me!): 1) Washington owned slaves and he brought them here. Go and see the chains on Independence Mall. 2) They bombed Black people while we had a Black mayor in office. Me, a Detroiter: *Damn.*

The same way you don't want people bombing you and your loved ones is the same exact thing that other people feel where they live.

At this point, the methods are pretty consistent. Propaganda ("birth control is bad for you blah blah"). Informal coercion via bribes and threats. Formal coercion via regulation (limits on who can access). Using the law and courts.

@governorwalz.mn.gov what are you doing? Folks in MN are days away from rent being due but 10s of thousands of people are being impacted by ICE and the Federal government. You need to push to pass a rent moratorium until ICE IS OUT of MN. Please move on this fast.

The study found that children enrolled in Parton’s Imagination Library “were 5 times more likely to be interested in reading, 11 times more likely to be interested in books, and 15 times more likely to join in during shared reading, compared to children who aren't enrolled.”

Here's Harriet Jacobs writing in her memoir about NYC: “What a disgrace to a city calling itself free, that inhabitants, guiltless of offense, and seeking to perform their duties conscientiously, should be condemned to live in such incessant fear, and have nowhere to turn for protection.”

A group of pediatricians wrote an op-ed detailing the traumatic, lasting effects kids in detention centers will endure: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Academic freedom is not an abstract concept

I saw this today. It looks like the citizens of Surprise, AZ are taking this seriously and trying to stop this concentration camp from being fully implemented. bsky.app/profile/azrw...

Here is Tim Wise and I on the hidden history of murdered white civil rights figures. For more on this, register for our virtual lecture on Feb.10th, at 6:00 pm! buy.stripe.com/28EfZi7VN6RA...

Apt connection to W. Wilson screening “Birth of a Nation.” Lynchings increased on average four fold in counties where that film was shown at the time.

listen, we are going to do BEAUTY and we're going to do it TOGETHER and we are NOT leaving anyone behind and it's going to take real work and we are going to get tired but the end (there is no end) will be more life and more beauty and more of everyone and we are going to do it

I'm so glad we are learning there are kid jails. Now you can learn more about the kids inside. Some of us have gone in and interviewed kids in prison. I wrote about incarcerated disabled girls of color. Read & Learn. Then decide #NoKidsInPrison & take action 1/ www.routledge.com/The-Pedagogy...

You can see more of these folks' (Singing Resistance Twin Cities) work on Instagram: www.instagram.com/singingresis...

Art matters, artists matter, protest matters