People are comparing this photo to the 60s when most of you were actually alive in the 2020s when young Black people have essentially had to confront white cops in this same way.

It exists! I interviewed backup dancers, producers, the costume designer, the song’s producers who granted the rights, and so many more who were involved: web.archive.org/web/20240227...

Yup. Your job as regular person is not to parse whether particular policies are 'realistic' or 'possible.' You are supposed to actually demand what you need to live a dignified life.

The pageant told the story of this past winter. The characters in the center house are frightened immigrants; volunteers bring them groceries. A volunteer comes in a car to take the child to school.

HONK! is a festival of activist street bands that started in my city, Somerville MA! Folks in my step-dad's street band dreamed it up and for years, he and my mom would have musicians sleeping on all the couches that weekend. Here's a fun history: www.wbur.org/news/2014/10...

"A more just world may never come as compensation for our efforts, but the commitment to fight for it is itself the substance of a life oriented towards liberation."

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I think it makes so much sense that as the world seems to turn shittier with each passing day, we simultaneously see the rise of horror literature and cozy literature. It’s just two kinds of people, finding their ways to deal with all the mess.

I am inspired by many of my colleagues fighting the good fight here in Texas, but wrote this for the rest of y'all: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

The discourse about men being emotionally conscripted into doing search-and-rescue for women who would otherwise be eaten by bears (I guess) has me thinking about this riveting story from a little over 10 years ago. www.outdoors.org/resources/am...

BREAKING: I saw a pileated woodpecker today! It was so huge! Its head was so red!

truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind

PabloReports: Who do you think Trump should fire next? AOC: Is he out of women? Trump only seems to have the capability to fire female secretaries. If you’re a man in the Trump administration, it seems that they reward misconduct.

I may as well reshare it myself 😇

My birthday is this week! (I'm turning 53.) And to celebrate, I'd like to do another fundraiser so how about I give away another pre-release copy of OBSTETRIX?

This is why the Mandalorian was a failure and Pedro Pascal never became a star.

Conflicting commands filled my feed but I didn’t pay attention.

This is incredibly important news for our 45,000 Haitian neighbors with TPS who call Massachusetts home. I am grateful for @ayannapressley.bsky.social’s leadership.

I asked my partner if maybe I should get some good champagne now? In case I’m at work when It Happens and then it’s sold out? He said “Just walk down the street and someone will give you a glass.”

IT'S OFFICIAL: The House has passed our extension of TPS for Haiti. This win wouldn't be possible without the strength & organizing of our movement to defend our Haitian neighbors. To those in the #MA7 & beyond, this is for you. The Senate must pick this up without delay.

I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far - POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church?? POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there

I know that not everyone will immediately understand the context of that song, so if you have never watched the movies, here is a 5 minute clip to unpack THE LAYERS HERE www.youtube.com/watch?v=xixy...

I still remember watching this for the first time!! honestly Orban’s party is lucky they were defeated at the ballot box.

In 2014 a grad school professor asked me why The Youth no longer read political fiction. I said, "They are reading THE HUNGER GAMES!" and he shook his head like that didn't count. I just wonder if he's watching ppl dance to "The Hanging Tree" after overthrowing a near-dictatorship

listening to the recap of how the extraction went and it just truly feels like no group of four people in the history of science have ever had better vibes

the realest part of The Metamorphosis is how on top of everything he is still expected to show up at the office somehow

My friend took a picture of my dog Moose last night. In the picture, Moose honestly looks like an elderly seal. That's what I have to offer right now.

My seder started with the Artemis launch and ended with many of us saying to a departing guest, “You haven’t watched Derry Girls? You would love Derry Girls! You should watch Derry Girls!” And if that’s not the most on-brand bookends I don’t know what is

tv - regular-ass glorious tv - is about taking in the full onslaught of everything that changes every single week and figuring out how to make the best thing possible. we want a big controlled plan because it is our fantasy of being a person. but tv is the truth of being a person.

What ys the favourite space missioun of a pyrate? Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrtemis

Shortly before the seder. We had to delay 15 minutes so we could all watch the launch!

Last night we had to delay the seder so we could all watch the launch and holy shit, what a way to begin.

I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.

Happy TDOV! (We are also here to fight for trans adults.)

It is weird for me, a feminist daughter of a stridently secular Jew, to be so into the leadership of the Catholic Church right now, and yet here we are

Next up: the Very Hungry Caterpillar would like to eat The Rich.

WAR DON'T SEX CRIMES HIDE CRIMES

When I did a big renovation including interior painting, everyone on the crew wanted to talk to me about my colors. “Thank you for not using gray!”

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

I picked out new glasses frames today and the guy at the store made this amazingly gentle move from "those are great, let me just take some measurements, how are you doing" to "the world is overwhelmingly bad so I'm getting very involved at the local level, helping my neighbors, that's my view now"

New bit I've perfected if anyone brings up a problem: I don't really follow politics but it was never like this before Trump. "But the Democrats and the funding and--" Yeah like I said I don't really follow that. There was always politics but before Trump it was never like this. That's all I know

I should be grading but instead it's time for the annual ritual of Redesigning The Haggadah Four Times And Driving To Staples To Get Test Prints. I think I'm there though!!

Earlier this week, I had the honor of breaking fast at Rikers Island with New Yorkers in custody. It was a night that will stay with me for quite some time.   In a system too often defined by what it takes, I was reminded of what it means to give—mercy, dignity, and humanity. Eid Mubarak, New York.

It's absolutely critical to keep applying public pressure to any business or organization that provides even the smallest amount of support or assistance to ICE.

Genuinely did a double take to confirm this wasn’t the Star Market on Broadway (demolished this year after sitting vacant for… Two decades?)

I love how much this man is a teacher.

SO MANY good dogs!! So many! So good!

Gonna hold on to this croissant metaphor for the rest of my creative life

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