PRO TIP: If you want the Nobel Peace Prize, you might not wanna kidnap fathers, zip-tie kids, shoot priests, rip moms from carpool lines, and terrorize entire otherwise peaceful cities. 🖕 Oh yeah, and release the Epstein files.

Hey, Chicagoland friends, Mary @marykothman.bsky.social has a string quartet that is playing a concert in Chicago on 10/21. It's part of the Ear Taxi Accent concert series. Featuring music of Price, Caroline Shaw, Augusta Read Thomas, and Elizabeth Start. www.eartaxifestival.com/full-schedul...

The Republican Party has done a 180. Used to be “we want the federal government out of our lives”. Now? They are putting the federal government in our universities, corporate board room, libraries, museums, and local police departments., just to name a few.

They have downgraded her sex offender status to move her to a minimum security facility. The next logical step is a commutation or a pardon. If you have any information on that, my Signal is in my bio. I'll keep you anonymous as always. Please share widely 🙏 www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

Worth reading. Scott Pelley’s Commencement speech at Wake Forest commencement.news.wfu.edu/2020s/c2025/...

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

The renaming, removing and replacing of Confederate symbols across the U.S. was never about erasing history – it's about being true to history. The Confederacy has no place in our communities – nor our U.S. military. Track symbols in your area 📲 #WhoseHeritage: www.splcenter.org/re...#WhoseHeritage:

Congress just passed a harmful funding bill that cuts billions from essential programs—hitting low-income families, people with disabilities, and seniors the hardest.

A Statement from Columbia Journalism School Faculty Defending Press Freedom | Columbia Journalism School journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-fac...

I’m struck by how close we’re getting to finally curing some of the world’s worst diseases—sickle cell, Alzheimers, pancreatic cancer, etc.—at the same time that the world’s worst people are destroying medical research and care around the world.

‘Guess what? You don’t matter’: what Trump’s war on DEI means for every American who’s not a straight white man

“Diversity is better for the bottom line,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson said. “In a global economy, those who reject the multicultural nature of consumerism and business will be left in the past they are living in.” #DEI apnews.com/article/blac...

These are the good guys supporting DEI. Reward them with your business. Costco Meijer Kroger Giant Grocery Ben & Jerry’s Ulta, Macy’s Old Navy Nordstrom’s TJ Maxx GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…) Dollar Tree Walgreens Wegmans

I didn’t vote for this. None of us did.