This is a good and important thread. I have been around a LOT of veterans who know these fascist fucks are evil. I meet them every goddamn weekend when I’m doing immigrant outreach. Have the humility to know what you don’t know.

I swear to fucking god every single day they do something that shocks me anew.

I mean, pulling together a speech this carefully phrased when you’re put on the spot? What’s that saying about needing to be twice as good…?

This is really fucking offensive.

Calling your reps and senators can feel really nerve racking at first. We actually did an episode about this on How to Save a planet which I cannot fucking find but an easy solution is to do it with a friend. The more you do it the less stressful it gets.

if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal

I am going to do some weeding today because I need to get out of my head and away from the news so that I can keep doing the work to support my immigrant friends and neighbors and my neurodivergent and trans students. Even having coffee on the sofa feels like a sin today

He's a monster assembling his own axis of evil who want to kill babies in their quest for wars of real estate. He needs to be impeached the second you can do it.

I always assume this means “mail room”

We genuinely need a revival of virtue in the United States. In my view, that’s almost as critical a project as any other structural reform project necessary in the wake of trumpism. We should become a society that actually values human life such that we would feel shame about this.

This is great, I really look forward to my insurance company using this to decide if they’ll pay for treatment.

This is one of the big reasons why I teach where I do (private high school). I would never be able to work someplace that expected me to follow a scripted curriculum.

Today I took a swig from the water bottle that lives on my desk, which is in a shed that also contains the washer and dryer, and there was something… solid in the water. It felt kinda fuzzy. I kept teaching until I had a chance to subtly remove it. It was a spider.

Yea! And I’m also aware of the side effects of not having reliable birth control, which include things like preeclampsia, placenta previa, gestational diabetes…

Omg so fun

I’m also reminded of the way LAPD would pick people up, and then drop them off in rival hoods.

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“I will kill your friends and family to remind you of my love!” Literally.

This is very good reporting that sheds light on just how small the extremely pro-Trump online right really is. The online right is totally astroturfed. The White House's own staffers are running meme accounts to make them look more popular than they are. www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

One would think that this would merit an emergency convening of all Blue state governors, Attorneys generals and Congressional representatives. It's a declaration of war on one state which means they'll do it to others too.

people die without DME oxygen & tubing suctioning caths to keep airways clear urinary caths to let people pee trach supplies to breathe and maintain that airway g-tubing to nourish bodies infusion pumps feeding pumps here is a list of many more things people need in order to live!

NEW FROM ME: The deportation plane stuck in the blizzard took off this morning after 31 hours, but not before exposing a much bigger problem with exceedingly long delays on ICE flights. With exclusive interviews and photos taken by local ICE flight watchers. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/ice-deportat...

The fact that there’s a secret network of doulas going around Minneapolis to help with home births for parents afraid of ICE should be front-page news. These children, born in secrecy, are American citizens.

Clarence Thomas is celebrating Black History Month his way: by becoming the first black judge to rule that they don’t have to deliver the mail to you if you’re Black

Just a reminder that every high-profile shooting by an ICE/CBP agent this past year was done by a long-time veteran who went through more extensive training, with many refresher courses over the years, and at least a couple were instructors themselves.

This is a nightmarish but important story.

February 23 is W.E.B. Du Bois's birthday. Here's a photo of Du Bois, on his 95th birthday, cutting the cake with Shirley Graham Du Bois, President Kwame Nkrumah and Madame Nkrumah. From the W. E. B. Du Bois Papers, UMassAmherst.

Blackberries. Zero point buying them from the store or at 98% of restaurants. But off the vine in August? Dear god.

I want us to understand this in the context of these same people killed affirmative action using Chinese-American plaintiffs because they said helping Black people was discriminatory against Asian Americans and anti-merit. Once again: it was never about that. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I’ve been meaning to start knitting again…

“If there is a tsunami, it’s not technological as much as ideological, as the values of Silicon Valley -- techno-libertarianism, accelerationism -- are hard at work in undermining democratic institutions, including school.” Audrey Watters, edtech GOAT

Omg I thought this had to be a joke. He really said this.

I have an instant pot and still make rice on the stove. Not quite sure how to do it in instant pot, but I do know how on the stove.

Yikes. So much for archive dot whatever.

> Renowned Gullah artist Corey Alston of Mount Pleasant spent one year creating the masterpiece he calls “Big Percy.” The basket measures 11 feet round, stands 5 feet tall and weighs 80 pounds. Header image: large bald Black man next to tall, sculptural basket with many looping ribbonlike elements.

Huh so the tariffs are unconstitutional. Too bad they’ve been fucking economies and people’s pocketbooks up for like a year oh well

Why is grading so agonizing

BlueSky users who do not buy my book about shark conservation could be left behind, says shark conservation book author Dr. David Shiffman www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Reposting to read later

Stares directly into the camera

Puts a smile on my face :-)

You don’t know what self control is until you teach a kid to drive. 😬😬😬

Been trying to think about what to say about Jesse Jackson passing all day. I remember the Rainbow Coalition: what a breath of fresh air his campaign was in the awful Reagan years. We all knew there was no way but he did it anyway. RIP to a man who was sorely and sadly undervalued, to our sorrow.

TIL who to thank for solving my lifelong anxiety about driving directions. Thank you, Dr. West, for giving me a tool that fixed a huge impediment to my daily life.

I can’t help thinking there’s so much money changing hands wrt ICE detention that there aren’t even enough investigative reporters to track www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Let’s. Just. Open. The borders.

It me

the Black Panthers were right