In the News. @metronyu.bsky.social Executive Director @bailabomba.bsky.social was recently interviewed for an article in @treadres.bsky.social. Dr. Doucet shared her thoughts on how “#mayoralcontrol of #NYCSchools” would work under Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. Read here: bit.ly/47MpBWp

It’s July 4. Time to fire this cracker.

Trump’s “victories” are actually small and pathetic. This is an excellent summary.

So I guess if you’re a Trump supporter who gets treatable cancer but loses Medicaid, you can rest in peace knowing you died while owning the libs

🧪 Tip: You have the right to contest a grant termination, even though NSF says you don't. 🧵 On Friday, NSF terminated 402 grants (per Musk's DOGE). The notification letters had one of the most egregious violations of fed regulations I've seen so far in these cases: "not subject to appeal"

Gun registry? No. Autism registry? Yes? Fuck ALL the way off.

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"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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Humbled, thrilled, and proud to announce that I have been promoted to Full Professor!!! 😭 It’s a dream come true and I am still pinching myself. To God be the glory!! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

The children being born today don't have 4 years to gamble on a dangerous administration that is literally threatening their health and wellbeing.

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This is a petition to save public schools - please sign: publicschoolstrong.controlshift.app/petitions/pu...

I love how every season of Love is Blind, the contestants act like they have never seen the show before. What do you mean you’re upset the guy you like is talking to someone else?! 👀🙄

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

If you've watched Hegseths Senate hearings, it's obvious he is shallow, inarguably unqualified, and completely subservient to Trump and will do whatever Trump tells him to do whether lawful or not. Thanks in particular to Senator Hirono for establishing just how craven and dishonest Hegseth is.

Jumping in with both feet!! 🙌🏽🌚

If you're an unagented writer or author/illustrator of picture books, I hope you'll enter the 2025 #PBParty contest. It has helped make so many agent and editor matches in the past...and we can't wait to see the magical matches that will happen this year. mindyalyseweiss.com/2025-pbparty...

Which one of y'all is this?

Jimmy Carter

RIP Jimmy Carter.

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Kamala Harris got both a higher percentage of the vote and lost by a smaller margin than House Democrats did. And she did that running against the most popular politician for Republicans since Reagan. And these empirical facts are not at all the narrative that political reporters are pushing.

One of my favorite Nikki Giovanni poems. Nikki-Rosa. Rest in light and love.

This interview with Nikki Giovanni from earlier this year should be required reading. oxfordamerican.org/web-only/nik...

“.. we’re developing into a plutocracy .. We’ve got an enormous number of enormously rich people that have convinced themselves that they’re rich because they’re smart and constructive. And they don’t like government, and they don’t like to pay taxes." - Paul Volcker, gone five years ago today.

It’s your turn, NYC!! See you TODAY at NOON at the Barnes & Noble in Union Square!!!

Hey Chicago!! I’ll be doing 2 bookstore visits tomorrow to read my new picture book, Love is Still Winning/El Amor Siempre Triunfa ( Lil’ Libros). At 11:00am I will be at Los Amigos Books, 2207 N Western Avenue, Unit C2, and at 2:30pm find me at Call & Response Books, 1390 E Hyde Park Blvd. ❤️

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Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense comes with a big red flag…from his momma!

If you don’t think this is exactly what we’re up against, then you haven’t been paying attention.

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Imma need some of you to think about thriving out of spite. I had big plans for 2025 and I’m definitely not gonna pre-derail them for likes of Elin and Tromp. I’m getting more involved. Loving harder. Writing hornier. Having more fun. I’m gonna be so kind to my neighbors, bitch.

I refuse to join bluesky. I don't want to become part of a panko chamber.

Trump can't eliminate the ED without the votes of 60 Senators. He doesn't have that. But he can nominate a clown as Secretary.

The most condescending take is truly “voters didn’t know Trump was that racist.” They either liked it, a lot, or didn’t find it all that objectionable. A reality we have to deal with.

Gotta say, I'm kinda with this guy.

“Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the two Georgia poll workers defamed by Rudolph W. Giuliani after the 2020 election, received his watch collection, a ring and his vintage Mercedes-Benz on Friday.”

this rules

New in PN: "Black women have long had to navigate being twice as good to get half the amount of credit. Kamala Harris’s presidential run was evidence of this." -- @itsafronomics.bsky.social

WTF is going on here at Blue Sky? People are civil to each other. People having intelligent discussions. People are spelling things correctly. I haven’t seen any racism or sexism. I’m confused.

A lot of the positions people like RFK jr. take (anti-vax, anti-pasteurization etc.) get described as “controversial.” They’re not. There is no controversy. This is long-settled science. The correct term is “stupid.”

Wow Bluesky Starter Packs are GENIUS!! I just found so many of my peeps!! Fellow Black academics, education scholars, kidlit authors, etc 😍

Quit the bad place tonight after 15 years!! Heyyyy y’all!!!

people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙

Quit the bad place tonight after 15 years!! Heyyyy y’all!!!