ok I’m sorry to my budget but if I see a crazy deal on squishmallows you can’t tell me not to send 100 of them to the K-8 school in Baltimore my cousin teaches at when the holidays are coming up the algorithm knows I am a sucker

The year was 2012. I was living my best life in Philly. D’Angelo was on tour w Mary J Blige, his first in a decade. My friend Carmen & I had a TIME seeing em at Mann Center. A week later, saw him again at Made in America. I feel so lucky to have seen his gift live. What a loss.

Maine school offers hikes instead of detention. Teachers are seeing results. www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

Things that made me cry this morning: this beautiful offering from Houston’s Poet Laureate, Reyes Ramirez, in @bittersouth.bsky.social “We’re nothing short of miracles, despite what our government says.” bittersoutherner.com/issue-no12/l...

not me crying in the club (ok, swallowing the lump in my throat in a coffee shop) writing this chapter

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

So thrilled to see the incredible Passamaquoddy basket maker Jeremy Frey get awarded a MacArthur. His art, born of centuries of Wabanaki community, land, and weaving tradition, is beyond stunning. Maine should be so so proud. www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

It’s really all we should be talking about today.

this undid me today

I just hope my family sues @aeromexico.bsky.social when I perish from the blood pressure increase their scamming asses have caused me

only reason I keep an FB account is to keep the pulse of folks back home in Maine today I’m glad I do so I can call out my high school English teacher for posting incessantly about CK being some incredible living manifestation of the Gospel while completely refusing to reckon with his hate speech

If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at [email protected] if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

This is so fucking infuriating. Annual South Bend Mexican independence celebration and scholarship fundraiser cancelled due to fears of community safety, ICE raids www.southbendtribune.com/story/news/l...

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

Another low key terrifying sign of how deeply anti-choicers + natalists have adapted messaging their misinformation to focus on 'wellness.' Convincing people to stop birth control achieves their end of more pregnant people, just as abortion access shrinks. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/s...

Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...

Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.

Beaten and Choked at a U.N. Mission, Then Arrested by the N.Y.P.D. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/n...

11 years old. This nation's obsession with guns, violence, property, and power continues to result in completely preventable deaths of children. We are a profoundly broken society. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Children should never have to shield each other from bullets, share scraps of food despite rumbling bellies, or sacrifice their bodies or hearts or dreams because adults are more committed to terror and violence and power than they ever have been to the health, safety, and care of children.

times like these* i deeply miss living so far away from my best friends + man * when an AirPod may have gone down a very creepy nasty vent and i can’t possibly explore without moral support ** also applies to sightings or mere suspicion of pretty much any living thing being in my abode

‘My school still stands’: What Katrina took from New Orleans educators, and what it couldn’t www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/28/n...

This country hates children. You will never convince me otherwise.

belated update re: said tees 🖤

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

another hospital bombing another 5 journalists dead www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/w...

A reminder that we are moving away from harm reduction strategies because the goal for so many people is not actually to reduce harm (including injury or death) but instead to disappear people from public view and consideration. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/h...

James Dobson, man who advocated hitting children to "sufficient magnitude to cause the child to cry genuinely," dies at 89 after inspiring thousands of parents to try to beat their children into submission. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

here to remind you 5 years in that getting covid in fact still does suck

Saw video of South Bend PD violently arresting a 14 y/o girl for allegedly causing a disturbance at a McDonalds she had already left. Bystanders filmed the cop pin her to the ground facedown, her head dangling off the curb, begging to call her mom. The police are a threat to Black children.

this nation stays morally bankrupt as fuck

Difficult to capture the level of cruelty and depravity required to go on television and advocate, with your whole chest, shooting and beating Black children. ...and for the record, paddling never left many schools - we're still fighting on that front. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

Happy 4 year anniversary to the time I woke up with a bat in my room on my last night living in Ithaca and had to get rabies shots in 3 different states bc I was driving from NY to Los Angeles. The most fitting ✨fuck you✨ from a place I’d said the same to one too many times, I guess.

Law is central to today’s social crises—from democratic backsliding to immigrant exclusion. This paper shows how cultural sociology offers rigorous explanations of, and insights into how to tackle, law-related crises. Hope it’s useful to law and society scholars and others osf.io/preprints/so...

best part of #ASA2025 is being back with your people + the energy that brings. so happy to reunite with these two, meet new folks, and share some new work.

Shoutout to friends who come to your sessions (fr fr)… especially when said session is your first time presenting on school corporal punishment and you catch a lil frog in your throat talking about Antwon sobbing but it’s okay bc their asses are apparently in the audience all teary eyed too 😭

Heading to #ASA2025! Let me know if you are too ✨ And if you care about children and youth perspectives come to our session on Sunday at 2pm! I’ll be sharing work on Black children’s experiences of corporal punishment at school in the rural US South.

was it one of the worst proposals I’ve sent into a conference? yes. was it submitted at 1 am? also yes. would I choose days of boogie boarding, bookstore & ice cream runs, arcade nights, & the unadulterated joy of 6 kids making the jumbotron 5x at a minor league game, every time? 10000x yes.

No one is condemning some men for being lonely. People are saying that loneliness is not an excuse for reactionary and harmful politics.

does anyone struggle with tense in ethnographic writing?? because the way my ass time travels on the page is really getting on my last nerve

just ordered my niece and nephew the most ridiculous nike tee (and matching sweatsuits, obvi) and I cannot wait for the way they’re gonna giggle at this

i hope folks bring all this 'hateration in this dancerie' energy when they see folks in person at the next conference as they do on the page

I simply cannot imagine why Americans aren’t proud to be part of a nation relentlessly committed to violence, humiliation, degradation, exploitation, and cruelty against its own people and those around the world. While being mediocre as hell! The audacity. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

i mean yes the US had a whole extreme backlash against mild efforts to redress centuries of racism - mind you that caused ✨hurt feelings✨but little material effect on those long holding power - but the lack of self awareness in those reproducing this in their own spheres is ….

people come up with all kinds of fanciful math to justify billionaires' wealth but imo present political moment demonstrates conclusively that we need to tax billionaires at whatever rate will keep them focused on their own fucking business rather than our Medicaid and pediatric cancer research

“They’re roasting in there. They’re suffocating. And there’s no reason for it.” 75% of Florida's state prisons do not have air conditioning – and Gov. Ron DeSantis just shot down the chance to alleviate these cruel, inhumane conditions for some.