The Phelans ran the only bookstore in Vermillion, South Dakota. But after the state passed a measure preventing transgender young people like their daughter from using girls’ bathrooms, they sold it and moved away.

Another recent win for tenant organizing, right here in Boston: shelterforce.org/2025/07/10/a...

MAMAS will be collecting clothing and school supply donations every Saturday this July at Connexion Church (149 Broadway, Somerville) from 1-4PM to gear up for our Back to School Free Store on August 9th, 10AM-2PM (rain date 8/10)! 👗✏️👖📚 Español/Português/Kreyòl Ayisyen 🧵⬇️

Due to a court order staying the Trump administration's passport policy, trans people can once again receive passports in the correct gender. How long this option will remain available is an open question. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

internalizing american notions of race and ethnic division as timeless truths about the world is a shortcut to smoothing out your brain

GoFundMe has set up a page for the Texan flood victims. Each campaign has been verified by the company's Trust & Safety experts, which means you know your money is going directly to families. Please consider donating if you can. Their stories are heartbreaking. www.gofundme.com/c/act/flood-...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Popping in for a minute to say that it really sucks that the murder bill passed Congress and ALSO to thank every single person who tried to stop the bill from passing. What you did matters. Finally, I wrote a few words: open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu... - I hope they might offer some encouragement.

Democrats cannot defeat authoritarian fascism without an agenda that stands squarely on the side of working people. We need a pro-worker, pro-democracy, anti-establishment movement that will take on oligarchy like never before.

It’s Friday, June 27th, the 22nd straight day of the ICE siege of L.A. Topics: - ICE Raids (targeting street vendors today) - HP arrests ICE imposter - What happened in Huntington Park - FBI Ambushed an activist - Another US Citizen detained by ICE is released - SCOTUS ruling @eltragon.bsky.social

As Pride comes to a close, we check in with 4 of the recipients of TCG's Funds for the Dolls, unrestricted grants to trans women of color in the performing arts: Venus Kii Thomas, N'yomi Stewart, Ayo Jeriah Demps, and Alluorra Rose.

"The rule of law is not a given in this Nation, nor any other. It is a precept of our democracy that will endure only if those brave enough in every branch fight for its survival. Today, the Court abdicates its vital role in that effort." —Justice Sotomayor

He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.

We live in a rogue and dangerous country. Do what you need to do to maintain your internal peace. Hold the core of your spirit. Pray for peace. Commit yourself to justice. And just rest.

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

y'know it's kind of a tell that they think celebrating the end of slavery is DEI

Fascinating piece by my colleagues

-A living wage -Guaranteed healthcare -The right to join a union -The right to vote -The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family -The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence These are the foundations of real freedom.

THIS IS NOT NORMAL Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra captured video of a 16-year-old girl's face being held on the ground by Worcester police officers; she and her mother were detained in an apparent ICE operation #immigration

In an absolutely devastating ruling, the Supreme Court has allowed the transgender military ban to go into effect. This is shocking - the ban explicitly called transgender people dishonorable for being transgender. It is as clear as day soaked in animus. www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...

The latest is out: Convening and Exploring Public Art for Public Good! It was an honor of writing for Howlround & the Future of American Theatre Cohort 💖 Check it out below!

Imagine being lectured by RFK Jr about how to be healthy and then having Mark Zuckerberg tell you how many friends normal people should have

okay this is an emergency assistance thread for anyone who got this National Endowment for the Arts email today some of you can still get your money and I’m going to tell you how article to come later this weekend but here is the Cliffs Notes version:

“Eugenics isn’t just about eradicating the lesser people like myself, like people with disabilities, it’s about attaching disability to marginalized communities in order to slate them for eradication.” Fantastic crash course in eugenics, ableism & anti-blackness from @imanibarbarin.bsky.social

they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...

With spring creeping into the grey NE landscape, I’m nostalgic for the days when I lived in Western Mass with access to nature and a yard where I could play and dance in the rain with friends.

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🗣 calling all artists!!!! ✨️ i'm teaching a virtual workshop 4/26 at 1pm CST: "DOCUMENTING YOUR ARTISTIC PRACTICE" come learn practical techniques for writing about your work, capturing high-quality images, organizing archives, and leveraging it all into gigs app.betterunite.com/ddp-document...

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

Meanwhile at Perseverance Theatre:

People want institutions to stand up www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

they want us poor, sick and desperate

The way they are exploiting this woman’s suffering to try to justify sending a random guy to an El Salvadoran gulag is truly sick

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...

"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong (April 8, 2025)

I just learned that the entire press team at the FDA was fired last week. The *entire* press team. It's difficult to grasp how bizarre this is. To wrap my brain around the idea, I made a list of things the FDA is responsible for, and that reporters now have no one at the agency to ask about... 🧪🛟

After teaching constitutional law for more than a decade, it's sobering to confront the reality of a federal judiciary caving so quickly on protecting core constitutional norms and principles. We are far beyond Youngstown & Korematsu, and now facing a moment of extreme peril and uncertainty.

Reddit is flooded with small businesses owners getting crushed by tariffs — devastated by the thought of raising prices, firing workers, or closing up shop entirely.

I’m not going to tell people how to feel about protests… at least not today. Instead, I’ll recommend Sarah Schulman’s book about ACT UP. It’s not just a history of the organization; she also talks strategy in a very practical way, especially regard coalitions.

Building a mass movement (instead of a subculture) will require a lot of cringe, so get comfortable with it

How Substack steals your audience and your revenue: 16 ways they take from creators journalistspaythemselves.com/p/how-substa... cc @angryblacklady.bsky.social

Everyone should watch this. Then share it with anyone who thinks these tariffs are a good idea and won’t crush small businesses. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DIDAtyB...

Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.