Heartbreaking story about the children who are truly hurt by laws and attitudes condemning trans people in sports. I hope she can find a home and a way to run: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

I think I have achieved middle-aged person nirvana - I had a teenager randomly approach me and tell me I was very cool. My husband said I should have said, "My children disagree" but I just thanked her.

I have loved the Smithsonian museums since I first visited them when I was 10. I hate reading exhibits now and wondering if they will be gone soon because they mention certain subjects that the administration wants to eliminate any mention of.

"Andrea" sent us this video for McFarland CA where she is harvesting Mandarin oranges. "It is very tough work going up the ladder all day and moving the ladder in place, but this work feeds my family. We get paid $60 for each 900lb bin." #WeFeedYou

Kid: <talking about video games> Me: Honey, I need to go get ready. Kid: <keeps talking about video games> Me: I really need to go. Kid: <keeps talking about video games> Me: <leaves room> Kid: <keeps talking about video games>

Beautiful article chronicling an amazing way of healing the land and people together: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...

Love this philosophy. It’s similar to mine - just organic but purposeful conversations combined with money they can choose where to put it. For our kids, it’s part of their weekly allowance. My older son has put it towards the rabbit rescue he volunteers for in the past few years.

It is deeply fulfilling as an author to go to your local library's website and see that someone has your book checked out.

The qualified immunity pleadings and ultimate denial of Bivens claims are going to be rage-inducing and I am 100% here for it. This story should be on every news outlet from now until the case is over and it's not because it's a month old and this is the first I'm hearing of it.

Celebrating wins is so important for boosting people’s perceptions that progress is possible. That makes it more likely that they will engage. Hurray for progress on the Chesapeake Bay: www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

Apple tech people: Is there a way to access music that I own and have burned off of CDs on my iPhone without paying for Apple Match? I’ve looked and can’t find recent info.

We *all* depend on each other. Destroy one part of the web and it all falls apart: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Cop30 didn't deliver all we hoped for; there were some wins, including recognition of Indigenous territories as a climate solution. It also underscored that climate leadership comes from the people, and we must keep the pressure on our governments to leave fossil fuels in the past!

" If you know someone who has been detained and released by ICE, our REBUILD Program provides FREE therapy to help them regain stability and support." www.darknessrisingproject.org/help-me-find...

Alice Wong fought tirelessly against institutionalizing disabled people. She understood that we deserve autonomy over our care. That healthcare is a basic human right and people should receive the support they need to remain in their homes & communities. Fight for universal healthcare now!

BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide. Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.

Brand new data: Republicans blamed for the shutdown (+12) and for health care premiums going up (+28!!). These are stunning numbers. Republicans aren't immune from the pressure this creates. Time to press our advantage. Stand for what we believe in.

A lot of people talk about how the NYC subway “feels dangerous” but please allow me to present the Dinosaur Bodega that was installed in my local stop

If you think something doesn't matter, you don't respond to it. He responded. The people have the upper hand.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

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folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

i feel like i need to share this oldie but a goodie today

People treat it like there’s some kind of competition for who’s been victimized the most and not a collaboration to make sure we’re all victimized as little as possible

When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.

If you work in the Office of Special Education for the Department of Education and have been RIF'ed or if you work in a school that has been notified about it, please message me. My Signal is emgarcia.85. I'll protect your identity.

“The struggle isn’t going anywhere. But we must be fortified in joy, in laughs, even the weary and ironic ones.” Love this from @thebaltimorebanner.com www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

Not an educator, but if you personally want to get back into reading books, here's what helped me (thread)

This was definitely one of the "Oh God, that story is now burned into my brain" ones. Bradbury is the master of those. And yikes….

Attention students: Apply for Fall 2025 U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science paid SULI and CCI internship programs by May 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM ET. Gain paid research experience and work with us on #ParticleAccelerators. @Berkeley Lab @U.S. DOE LaserNetUS atap.lbl.gov/news/suli-in...

Saying that Tylenol causes autism is about as accurate as saying ice cream causes polio - and yes, people did believe that before the polio vaccine was introduced. They are both conflating correlation and causation.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Being intentional in how we address people’s intersecting needs can be a source of joy, as these Black sign-language interpreters in Baltimore clearly are: www.thebanner.com/culture/blac...

SR: It makes me furious because it takes us back 20 years to where we were after the Wakefield announcement. That's the kind of narrative we were getting then. And whether or not you can hold a job—my son, he might never hold a job—but he is still a worthy human being who deserves rights. 10/

We need to tell a better story than the opposition, together! Absolutely agree with @dannychivers.bsky.social, whose work and my working with him as an activist has influenced so much of my own thinking: newint.org/climate/2025...

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

This is how you do mutual aid in a way that also changes systems (in terms of changing attitudes /stigma and normalizing offering products for free): www.thebanner.com/community/pu...

“earth that is all at once a grave a resting place a bed of new beginnings avalanche of splendor” Appalachian Elegy, bell hooks www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148751...

We're going to be in movement for the rest of our lives, there's a world to win & so much between us and freedom. How do we make struggle sustainable? So ask yourself, what is the best use of my skills and resources. Limit yourself to that work, because you can't be everywhere.

We keep us - and our ecosystems - safe. If bigger institutions and systems won’t do it for us, we have to find ways to heal ourselves and the spaces we live and play in - including the soil. www.latimes.com/environment/...

We're recruiting NYC residents who are willing to set up a meeting to speak with their City Council member by the end of January 2026 to get them on record about supporting a 0.5% allocation of the operational budget for public libraries. If interested, sign up here & we'll be in touch.

People often say they don't know how to start and the reality is that you just start. You can figure things out and people will help you to do so if you reach out to them.

Everyone is affected - but some people are far more affected than others: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Environmental action has to be both meaningful and at least somewhat enjoyable for people to participate. This is a delightful example of that: www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...

If the Netherlands can be known for its iconic windmills, why can’t other places embrace the aesthetic of their wind turbines? What if we see them as adding to the landscape rather than detracting from it? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

I feel like the fact that so many people have so many negative experiences with Monopoly as a board game really proves the point of the original creator, Lizzie Magie, which was the negative effects of unchecked capitalism.

For some good news (because God knows we need it), ecological restoration can actually work! Bringing the wolves back is helping restore the entire ecosystem: www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

The most important finding of our new study is: so far, scientists have traced back at least 30,000 excess deaths per year TODAY due to the impact of climate change on heat and other disasters, malaria and dengue, and wildfire-related air pollution - a global economic loss of up to $350B USD.

Do you care about climate change? The Endangerment Finding on climate change from the EPA is the foundation for much the agency’s ability to regulate GHGs. Comment now to keep the admin from removing the funding and slow down the gears of fossil fuels! act.350.org/sign/sept-25...