Sen. Andy Kim: "It's a choice. Delaney Hall is run by GEO Group. GEO Group is getting a nearly $1 billion contract to run Delaney Hall. They tell me there is one full-time doctor for 800 detainees. They could have more doctors if they wanted to, but that's cutting into their profits."

“New Jersey state troopers meant to protect Newark protesters from ICE are violently shredding the First Amendment instead.” — Inquirer columnist Will Bunch.

Such an important and generous act by the family. Hope the NHL and Gary Bettman will be forced to pay attention.

1) Someone really needs to push back on this idea of 1st Amendment zones. I haven't taught polisci 101 in 20 years, but last time I checked the entire US was a 1st Amendment zone. 2) What's the point of having 1st Amendment zones if you're just going to have police rampage through them?

Did the “outside agitators” bring horses, Governor Sherrill?

Member of @authorsabb.bsky.social @jerroldconnors.bsky.social came through in the best way and assembled this for us all! Know thine shitty bills!

If only you had a choice as to which angle you covered in this race. Alas, the Republican brought up "manhood" so you have no choice but to focus on that. Your hands are tied. You're just stenographers after all. Critics should go find some reporters if they want independence.

Just a reminder that immigrants inside Delaney Hall are on their ninth day of a hunger and labor strike in protest of inhumane conditions and this was Governor Sherrill’s response last night:

“Gothamist witnessed multiple University Hospital ambulances arrive, each transporting people who’d been carried out of the center on stretchers.”

Beginning in 1934, the Reich Minister for Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, never denied the existence of concentration camps, instead he defended them as necessary to defend the blood and honor of the German people from murderers, rapists, pedophiles and drug dealers.

I cannot say this loudly enough: we need everyone to know what is happening at Delaney Hall. 300 detainees inside are on Day 7 of a hunger and labor strike as of today. ICE is beating, gassing, tasing and assaulting protestors outside every night, and it is getting worse.

Delaney Hall protests continue as tensions with ICE escalate

Powerful research by Paul T. Jaeger & important reading for #librarians The Immortality of Hatred and Revenge: The Interconnections of Censorship, Disinformation, and Cultural Erasure in the Book Bans Targeting Marginalized Populations. #bookbans #censorship www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

🚨URGENT need for more people to join the protesters outside Delaney Hall as ICE escalates their violence, per people on the ground. show up if you can.🚨

More details coming soon about my New Jersey case, but for now I’m enjoying time with my daughter as we leave for our epic Mother/Daughter UK Adventure!!!!

In case you have forgotten who Andy Kim is, he’s the rep who came into the Capitol building after Trump’s J6 goons had trashed it, got down in his hands and knees, and cleaned it up. And ICE have gassed him. They have peppersprayed the true patriot who thinks American ideals are worth defending.

@jerseyvindicator.bsky.social —and my friend Steve Janoski—have been leading the way on stories from Delaney Hall. Follow them, donate to their newsroom if you can. They are doing the important work for NJ.

Breaking news - @kim.senate.gov and his state director were pepper sprayed at Delaney Hall during the protest this afternoon. They are both okay except for burning throats.

A masked man in an armored vehicle, dressed as if he is in the middle of a war zone, training a weapon on unarmed protestors. This is simply incompatible with democratic expression.

“‘What we saw here is unfortunately just what we see all over the country,’ Kim told @nj.com on Monday.” “It’s sad, it’s a sad day.” Senator @kim.senate.gov was among the crowd of protesters when federal immigration agents fired pepper balls. www.nj.com/news/2026/05...

Again, straight from Delaney Hall in Newark NJ: ICE just tear gassed Senator Andy Kim.

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

The Trump administration on Friday narrowed the definition of an “assistance animal” allowed to live with disabled tenants in housing, a move that could lead to thousands of animals and their owners being evicted.

New studies reveal more pregnancy-associated deaths & a decline in miscarriage treatment in abortion ban states, “adding extra trauma” says Kaitlyn Kash, whose own care was compromised. "This is not how health care should work. This is not how human rights should work,” says @robinmarty.com.

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” —Teddy Roosevelt www.americaamerica.news/p/what-does-...

“In retrospect, I either had a principal or coordinator who wanted me to do everything, or those who attempted to place barriers against anything that I tried outside of the basic expectations.” —Stacey Nunn

300 people held without due process inside Delaney Hall ICE Detention in Newark are on a hunger strike. 2 demands: 1) Freedom for the most vulnerable among them, sick, elderly etc. 2) A visit with NJ Governor @mikiesherrill.bsky.social SHARE www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...

this was HR 2616 which also bans books by or about trans and nonbinary people from schools START CALLING YOUR SENATORS NOW CIS FRIENDS TRANS KIDS NEED YOU

Let's make billionaires pay their fair share and find out

We have no idea what children catching Covid repeatedly will do to our society in another decade. We already know it causes neurological and mental health problems and yet it never enters the mental health debate. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

NAACP STATEMENT: “.. The NAACP will not watch the same institutions that depend on Black athletic prowess to fill their stadiums and their bank accounts remain silent while their states strip Black communities of their voice.” @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

A Library of Congress Legacy Adam Coffey went to Washington, DC, to see The Source, a Library of Congress exhibit and research space for kids that was inspired by a letter he wrote at age 8. www.slj.com/story/newsfe...

There's a quote I've seen (I know, I'll try to find the source) -- that is something to the effect of-- "Before men had AI, they stole the ideas and time of women and/or their wives."

Reminder to librarians: I do free virtual visits for any library any time. And since I want to fill up my schedule to celebrate this book, let's add "for any reason." Book club? Trivia Night guest judge? Want me to cuss out your director a bit for not supporting you enough against book banners?

"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to." open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 2/🧵

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

Revealing comment from lead Texas book banner Bonnie Wallace. She says her crusade goes beyond sexual content to attempt to remove from schools “content that can permanently change the way of thinking of a child.” In other words, she’s at war with the whole idea of education.

what really gets me about the Virginia Supreme Court redistricting decision today is that 1.6 million Virginia voters approved this map! you're telling me legislatures can freely impose racist maps on the public, but the public can't choose fair maps for itself? ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

"We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will "talk sense to the American people." But we can hope that fewer people will listen to nonsense." --JFK, speech he never got a chance to deliver in Dallas on 22 November 1963

If you wanted to know why a large swath of the #kidlit community was upset about Mac Barnett's "crud" sound bite, this is what we knew could happen. This was published in the WSJ today in an opinion piece called "Mac Barnett, Come on Down." How long before the book banners start using this quote?

The New Jersey Senate health committee will hear a bill that would protect gender-affirming care after transgender rights supporters have pushed to be heard for two years.

Lynx held a moment of silence for Alex Pretti and Renee Good ahead of the season opener at Target Center:

Was there ever a hand-wringing WaPo piece on “tree, rope, journalist, some assembly required” or any of the other psycho right-wing memes over the years? I doubt it. It’s only a problem when it’s pointed right.

Think about what you were doing on Tuesday around 5pm ET. That’s how long these people have been shackled. Regardless of advanced age, disability, no criminal record or if they agreed to leave voluntarily. They can’t even raise their arms above their shoulders. gillianbrockell.com/what-is-ice-...

Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...

This is one of the best interviews I’ve had the chance to do, with YA author @rebeccabendheim.bsky.social. Not going to lie—it got me a bit choked up. Her debut novel When You’re Brave Enough is phenomenal. franklinstrong.substack.com/p/books-abou...

NEW: Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth The vitamin K shot, a lifesaving injection given to newborns to prevent uncontrollable bleeding of the brain and intestines, has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

🧵 Looks like mostly bad news for book banners 🙂

RESULT out of Texas. The Lake Travis school district in the Austin area become a focal point for book bans (see this story from 2024: www.kut.org/education/20...) Two conservatives school board members who were integral to that push just lost their reelection bids tonight, and are ousted.