I love the Branch Brook Park skate rink so much.

I really hope this was also Buscemi's card

"fear of an educated proletariat+ resistance to secular, integrated public schooling have been the central motive for defunding public education... public education, the closest thing to a lasting success amid the broader failure of Reconstruction, is in danger." www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

All beaches should be public goods. And I'll add bc Florida... no one should be driving a car onto them 🙃

ICE shoved a senior citizen to the ground who was filming them in New Jersey this weekend. Abolish it is the bare minimum.

Whatever they cannot control or grift they will destroy

It is inaccurate to the point of dishonest to use the phrase "self deport" to describe people detained in horrendous conditions agreeing to be removed from the country

Will be interesting to see who lionizes the five times convicted for inciting racial hatred Bardot. But hey, she loved animals. www.lemonde.fr/en/obituarie...

Get cops out of schools

"The Black Antifascist Tradition" from @haymarketbooks.org places the long history of radical Black struggle against white supremacy firmly in a discourse of anti-fascism before much of North American radical leftists had even started to consider fascism www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2223-t...

Experts say Trump’s narrative of a “holy war” in Nigeria threatens to inflame religious tensions and incite violence.

This woman has been in ice jail for 10 months for absolutely no reason. It also shows how an arrest at a protest caused massive consequences - essentially creating a flag on her at her next immigration check in- even though charges were dropped

Find me a piece of ed tech from the past thirty years that's genuinely more about student learning than it is about extracting more labor from fewer teachers. Can't be done!

So how's that race to be the next #Florida governor going, Jimbo?

The Power of the Badge Sheriffs and Inequality in the United States A sobering exploration of the near unchecked power of sheriffs in the United States. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Honestly? Living in Alabama. When you live between Selma and Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, it is fairly impossible to fall into the "this is the worst it has ever been and it can't get better" pit. It was way worse for people here, in living memory, and they didn't shrug & give up. So I can't either.

we’ve been over this we just did this in Massachusetts they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving

jesus was palestinian

Speaks to something deeply wrong with capitalism that Lampert was allowed to annihilate the value of this company to less than nothing while still walking away with hundreds of millions in profits for himself from the saga.

Jarrett Cordes aka DJ Minutemix. (b.July 17th, 1971). One half of the American sibling duo, PM Dawn. P.M. Dawn was an American hip hop act, formed in 1988 by the brothers Attrell Cordes (known as Prince Be the Nocturnal) and Jarrett Cordes (known as DJ Minutemix) in Jersey City, New Jersey.

The price to replace the airport monorail come at the cost of extending PATH to the airport www.nj.com/news/2025/12...

I don’t know how this is being left out of like half of the reportage, but Nicki Minaj is clearly trying to kiss Trump‘s ass enough to let her child-raping brother off with a pardon. She hasn’t just like, gone insane or anything. www.bbc.com/news/newsbea...

a big reason I liked this site at the start was that we all tacitly agreed not to spread shit

In Freezing Cold and Long Lines, Families Wait to See Detained Migrants at Delaney Hall www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/22/d...

I mean- to all the folks getting so excited about hockey right now, this is the biggest reason I stopped watching. My favorite player of all time, who I loved because he was a big strapping fighter that could score, died from CTE.

The right to a fair trial for both plaintiff and defendant does not exist if courthouses are unsafe spaces. www.wbur.org/news/2025/12...

“What this administration is forcing us to recognize is that we’ve only got each other,” Favela said. “I think it’s these small acts of kindness that remind us, this is what the holidays are for, and this is what community does.”

Something I learned this year after so many years of taping and pinning up community info

Republicans push transphobic bigotry about "men using women's bathrooms" all the time but apparently actually have no problem with male ICE agents barging into women's bathrooms. Funny how that works. newrepublic.com/post/204732/...

ICE's deportation agenda is not possible without state & local collaboration. Learn more from our latest briefing 👇 www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/12...

What's the difference between states like Florida, where ICE arrests are sky-high, and states like Illinois with much lower rates of arrests? It's all about police & jails. Arrest rates out of homes, workplaces, etc are similar – but reining in sheriffs makes all the difference.

A quiet Baltimore suburb was shaken Wednesday morning after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot an undocumented driver trying to evade arrest. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...

No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.

"You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch, You’re a grifter in a tie. You peddle “Schools of Hope” nonsense, while you let the public die. Mr. Grinch!"

What could go wrong?

“ The daughter of a well known conservative operative , whose paper did not answer the topic at hand and had a carefully planned media campaign , had a trans instructor fired for grading a paper according to the agreed upon rubric”

This renewed push for sex-segregated education is a counterrevolutionary project aimed at undoing constitutional equality and reinstating a rigid vision of sex roles under the guise of civic renewal. trib.al/0twd8oz

The kids' accents on this Peppermint Kandy Kids record are incredible. youtu.be/2F5Cg8HFfjc

ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people … with a smaller facility holding up to 1,500 people in Woodbury. wapo.st/4axtwZ4

I have colleagues who are using ai to grade student work BECAUSE THEIR WORKLOAD IS UNMANAGEABLE, not because ai is capable of grading anything. Reduce class sizes, give teachers appropriate time for planning and grading, and there is no legitimate use case for ai in schools.

Advocates in New Jersey say lawmakers should codify into state law a directive that restricts local collaboration with ICE. “We need to do whatever we can in New Jersey to protect our people,” says the director of the ACLU in the state.

This is the essence of crypto -- a total scam. Yet our government continues to promote this grift. A great story by @jessebunch.bsky.social share.inquirer.com/rE94Vo

concentration camps.

Taxes are part of how we take care of each other in a community. Be mad when the richest aren't paying more. Be mad when govt budgets aren't moral. But unless the state no longer exists then taxes are how we fund public services. "Any taxes are bad" rhetoric is just lazy and selfish.

I find it moving that David Lynch loved IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE so much he couldn't talk about it without crying. His sincere belief in the redemptive possibilities contained in that film and what it said about people seems to me like a key element of understanding his own work.

the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.

2025 Recap: America is racist.