Can't say it enough, if you are going to build ANYTHING, you are going to be criticized much more than you will be praised. Do not be deterred. Build what you want to exist. Find your people and seek their counsel. Keep it moving.

Publishers, if you want to make some quick easy money, start printing country fact books and general nonfiction (not narrative or bio) for the high school level again. Release updates every couple years. School libraries will auto-buy that shit. Guaranteed profit.

I signed back into TwitterX for the first time in a while and apparently that's still where DC politics still lives

A friend just shared a whole list of wonderful news resulting from the Heated Rivalry phenomenon and that is the content i need right now

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

As the @51st.news's first full-time reporter, I don't actually disagree with this. We're building something new one brick at a time, but at this point it's simply not a one-for-one replacement for what's being lost at the Post. (Please read and support us, though!)

This sounds familiar... 🤔 But growing a newsroom from the ground up takes time and money — and frankly, we need way more resources than we have now to fill this massive gap. You can help us build the newsroom D.C. deserves: 51st.news/signup

Anyone know how we can reach her?

lol, same

The public library is an essential component of a 21st-century left political project as an example of both what is already available to us and what can be improved upon in the future. The library is a public good, and it is free as a public service. I want more people to make the connections.

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One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

not shown: tons of snow piled up against our neighborhood trees. it can't be good for them.

“This chart examines reforms that expand policing vs reforms that reduce the role of policing and its violence in our lives.” — Critical Resistance This can help in thinking it through. Substitute “ICE” for “police.” criticalresistance.org/resources/re...

Happy Bridgerton day!!

Seems like one of the “lessons” of Covid shutdowns was that parents can do their paid work and take care of kids at the same time and that is a pretty shitty thing we have normalized

Snow drop off at RFK parking lots today

Happy ice day DC

Happy snow day friends

#EyesNotLies “…we’re well-practiced in distinguishing what we see with our eyes from the lies in the narrative.” — Rev. Dr. Oscar Sinclair Watch the full interview: youtu.be/arUy32BcSPg

there's no question that they are happy to kill race traitors.

HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.

“Hundreds of immigrant mothers” in Texas concentration camp uprising

In no order: Love in the Kingdom of Oil by Nawaal El Saadawi (Egypt) Transparent City by Ondjaki (Angola) The Madwoman of Serrano by Dina Salustio (Cape Verde) Straight from the Horse’s Mouth by Meryem Alaoui (Morocco) Gods Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembene (Senegal)

Horrible. US Christian nationalism/supremacy is ramping up and this is yet another example. www.axios.com/local/twin-c...

Check out my interview with Mariam AlSaad on global warming and youth-led climate action in Kuwait. AlSaad founded one of Kuwait's first environmental advocacy organizations in her early twenties.

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Kid in The Mighty Ducks 2 (1994) wearing a kuffiyeh!

This absurd definition of "working class" as white people without a college diploma (which could literally include some billionaires who dropped out of Harvard) shows how left "anti-idpol" failed to guard the most important way that cultural politics could derail class struggle.

we really need @51st.news to do a write-up about the Fort Dupont Ice Skating Rink situation. I'm talking to strangers about it on the X2. People are not happy.

“Romance is…written off as something fluffy and unserious, a weird thing that women like, whereas in fact it’s often deeply serious and hegemonically challenging, which are the real-life weird things that women like…could we, as a holding position, agree that we love it…because it’s good?”

“We were on the streets the nights before and the years before. It’s Pahlavi who is riding on the wave of people’s struggle and wants to hijack it. We came to show that this struggle is not monolithic. Just as it hasn’t been all these years.” feminists4jina.net/archives/1909

In advance of King Day tomorrow, I am resharing a piece about Coretta AND MLK as a reminder that they were a team. open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

For libraries, e-books are dramatically more expensive than print copies. But readers want more digital access — creating a fiscal challenge in systems like D.C.'s. The Council is considering: Could D.C. team up with a bloc of states to negotiate a better deal? @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:

Why DC needs to be like Mississippi: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

Langston Golf Course: the 2nd desegregated course in DC, home of the 1st Black women’s golf club, and an important part of the Kingman Park Historic District. “Trump may take over D.C.’s golf courses. Black golfers are especially worried.” 51st.news/trump-take-o... @maustermuhle.bsky.social

Ongoing and obvious reminder that firing chemical weapons directly at people's heads like this *is* deadly force.

Yesterday, after killing Renee Good, armed federal agents went to a high school and tackled people, handcuffed workers, and teargassed bystanders. Schools are now closed district-wide because ICE and border patrol have created such a dangerous environment

A children's soccer field outside of O Little Town of Bethlehem (like in that song you heard on the radio or sang in church about two weeks ago) is slated to be torn down by Israel. Help save it by signing here: secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

I believe my favorite local bread delivery business, Bread Par Avion, will be a part of Nesso Plaza!

“There's nothing more important than local news presented by locals — especially in a city that doesn't have the same fundamental rights as other cities and states. It's time we hear what's going on from people who are on the ground experiencing it.” – Jacquelyn, Ward 6 51st.news/nine-reasons...

I will still give away a @libro.fm copy of this book (audio) for a donation of $78 USD to complete the goal for a pair of winter pyjamas for Rana’s 15yo sister Halima DM me to make sure I haven’t given it away already @mommunism.bsky.social gofund.me/e9815da29 #SaveRana

Dual language middle school east of the river is needed asap!

My holiday card this year

This was so fun!! Thank you @51st.news

DC rocks!

oh man this is cool. Great idea Deanwood library!!!

It's hard to find the right words for this level of absurdity, but this is how intense anti-Palestinian (and anti-Arab) racism is in the United States, all under the guise of philosemitism but often at the expense of Jewish students. via Palestine Legal instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DSFzYLWCcZ...

I have so much anger toward people who sat with their fancy job titles during genocide then get to build social capital with these revisionist positions

DC folks: Our fabulous state board of ed rep for #Ward8 LaJoy Johnson-Law just launched her monthly newsletter. Sign up here: mailchi.mp/lajoyforward...