#gut_feeling #artificial_intelligence #intuition bigthink.com/the-long-gam...

Like many, feeling shock and disgust as I pay taxes for a government that won’t even observe the constitution. And that seems to be strip mining our data to sell to Russia.

Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...

Feeling like a big dumbass working on my taxes right now. Who am I sending this money to

The rapidity with which major media outlets are just rolling over for this administration and making a grab for authoritarian approval and cash is absolutely craven and disgusting. Treating journalism as an extractive, for-profit enterprise is an insult to the profession, and to society.

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Joann, a destination for generations of lovers of crafts projects for 80 years, is going out of business and shuttering all its stores

Welp.

Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.” Lots of information and resources in this one. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Monday, February 10, 2025 American Medical Association Might want to listen Update on dairy cattle in Nevada youtu.be/ruBXo3r_pXQ?...

My latest. As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality. I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI. Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

What a superstar list this year!

We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

“I think sometimes genre is a code word to keep us in our place as artists, and I just want to encourage people to do what they’re passionate about” - Beyoncé after winning Best Country Album for “Cowboy Carter”

I refuse to let the next 4 years ruin the time I have here. I will have joy. I will laugh. I will rest. I will dance. I will sing. I will spend time with folks I love. I will find ways I can help my community. I will find the beauty. I will hold on to peace. I will live. I will have joy.

This one is meant to be your Black owned Amazon. #DIVEST www.julo.shop/pantry

Soooo Benin says it's offering citizenship to descendents of the transatlantic slave trade and I'm not here to dig into how that will work but I am here to say that I actually went to Benin in 2016 and would you like to see pictures?

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

All this pausing and dismantling and pure CHAOS—and we just supposed to be working through all of this. If they pausing funds and cancelling initiatives, start pausing these bills. Start pausing this rent. Start pausing these grocery prices. Everything needs a pause!

Up on jennmjacksonphd.substack.com, I have a new piece reflecting on my first year as a first-time Black woman author. I discuss publishing with a Big Five Publisher (Penguin/Random House) and how to navigate a book tour.

The W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School is hosting a free hybrid seminar on Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. Du Bois: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Archivists, historians, scribes: your time is now. Yours is among the most urgent work needed.

If you’re a federal govt employee targeted for leave or termination on the basis of your DEI work, please file an EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) complaint & retain legal counsel. I’m a former NIH PI. Happy to refer you to a law firm that has successfully sued the govt many times! Pls repost 🙏❤️

Heads up! The @aclu.org Immigrant Rights Project has an EXCELLENT online resource available in multiple languages to walk immigrants or advocates through various scenarios of encounters with immigration officials or police. It includes contact #s for local ACLU offices. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

I keep saying this: This is as chaotic as it was the last time around. We have to stay informed, but we have to react differently. They want us frazzled and unable to function. We can’t afford to come undone.

Shoooot. I'm not stopping at this year. 💯

We’re meant to calmly accept the absurd idea that any white man is innately qualified for any job or position, no matter what his education, resume or proven capabilities and any non-white man or woman inherently stole their way into employment via #DEI. This of course is pure, undiluted fascism.

I love us, for real.

Check out my latest, I decided to make this available to everyone because it's too important for people not to hear. 9 mins if you can spare harrydunn.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

I want everyone to understand that rescission of 1965 antidiscrimination orders is literally resegregation and for reporters in the room to press them accordingly also the gall of revoking the *Equal Employment Opportunity* directive. man affirmatively said 'I want unequal employment opportunities'

I repeat, if you have been notified that you are being terminated from a federal agency, reach out to us at the www.centerforemploymentjustice.com

🫡 Nancy Leftenant-Colon, first Black woman to serve in US Army Nurse Corps, dies at 104 #BlackSky #VeteranSky www.stripes.com/veterans/202...

He pardoned EVERY SINGLE PERSON... I won't hold my breath for people to be outraged.

Reading list for what’s to come: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/562246...

My MLK day piece is up. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is not a prop or a mascot. Please don't trot out memes and quotes today featuring his words when you haven't embodied those teachings or engaged with them intentionally on any of the other 364 days of each year.

A 'potential' housing crisis? Babe, we are already there.

I stopped watching football in 2016, but peek in on the home team during the playoffs from time to time. Ravens…😩💜🖤💜🖤

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Tressie McMillan Cottom on the TikTok ban (gift article link) "The TikTok Economy Is All Americans Have Left" www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

For my latest author feature for Chapter 16, I had the absolute pleasure of profiling THE Alice Faye Duncan. Read + share. chapter16.org/the-way-forw...

Not me on here searching for #elmo and #cookiemonster 🤣

Love that many of us are returning to paper, pens, notebooks, journals, and stationery in light of these incoming tech overlords... if it's not online, it can't be fed into the machine! I'm planning to send friends care packages with all this stuff I'm talking about on my channel. And nice cards!

In response to the ongoing L.A. wildfires, WNDB is now accepting Emergency Grant applications from marginalized writers, creatives, and publishing professionals who have been financially impacted by the fires. To apply, follow the link below ⬇️ 🚨 bit.ly/WNDB-emergency

URGENT: Here’s a list of campaigns to support Black families displaced by the LA fires. Bit.ly/rebuildAD h/t: @ykreborn.bsky.social

“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”

In 1850, the California government banned the controlled burning that Indigenous people had been doing for centuries. The practice controlled the forest density, scaled down undergrowth, and promoted fire-resistant species. It reduced the severity, mileage, and overall number of forest fires. 1/5

🙏🏾 for the safety of the people of LA.