Dr. Mary T. Bassett is one of the bravest people I have met in my lifetime - her moral compass and commitment to justice are unmatched. Shame, shame, shame on Harvard. Her ouster is shocking yet unsurprising and on brand for the University. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Please make this go viral. It’s mind boggling and cruel….

New from me: There's a lot of misinformation around the reasons I was fired from WaPo. Here's the official termination letter I got sent by Washington Post. Read and judge for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

The Women’s Refugee Commission Detention Pregnancy Tracker: A Critical Tool for Documenting the Treatment of Pregnant Women in Immigration Detention 🚨 Have you seen a pregnant woman in ICE custody? Submit a report today. -- Please share widely! austinkocher.substack.com/p/the-womens...

Four years after Medicaid was expanded in Missouri: what do we know? 1. Enrollment has met expectations 2. Uninsured dropped significantly 3. Financially not a burden to state budget 4. Reduced out of pocket costs to recipients 5. Improved financing for hospitals 6. Some implementation challenges

Washington D.C.! Next week on Sept. 18th, I will be in conversation with recently-released Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social! Tickets are free and open to all! www.busboysandpoets.com/events/th-ev...

Meanwhile, the entire far right is trying to incite pogroms calling all trans people violent terrorists.

A powerful essay by @karenattiah.bsky.social about the widespread repression in our country--Black people, Muslims, Arabs, anti-Zioinist Jews, trans people and many others are being fired or terrorized into silence.

I hired Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2017, and worked with him closely until he was murdered by the Saudi regime in Istanbul -- simply for expressing himself. I put my safety on the line for years to push publicly for justice and accountability in his murder. www.npr.org/2018/10/18/6...

On this day in 1963, a white man detonated a bomb under the steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, with 400 congregants inside. Four Black children were killed in the blast.

"Democracy Dies in Darkness" is an oligarch's promise.

I really do think Ezra Klein needs to be held to account for why he gets to keep his columnist job, as a white man, for saying CK was "practicing politics the right way" while Karen Attiah, a Black woman, loses her columnist job for quoting what CK said about Black women. Someone, plz ask him.

A colleague recommended paying attention to and reading Attiah. I did, I do. Passing along the recommendation. As she writes: "Institutions may cancel me, but my pen and my teaching will not be silenced. If anything, my voice will be sharper now." Relentless forward momentum.

I do not mean to diminish the memory of any of the almost 3000 individuals who were killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks with this post. That said, we should be aware that the number of Americans killed by guns annually amounts to roughly FIFTEEN 9/11s www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

I’m wondering why this hasn’t become a class and all hands on deck issue I’m not actually wondering I’m just growing more disgusted by the minute

Bellingcat’s Auto Archiver is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down. Publicly launched in 2022, it has preserved over 150,000 web pages and social media posts to date. github.com/bellingcat/a...

I made an event timeline to try to make sense of all the federal overreach at @georgemasonu.bsky.social and whoo boy. When you lay it out like this, the executive over reach comes into focus. open.substack.com/pub/misofact...

7 Hotlines You Can Still Call After Trump Shuts Down 988's LGBTQ+ Youth Services

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

“Historically, the most terrible things—war, genocide, and slavery—have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” —Howard Zinn

PHILADELPHIA #NOKINGS

I've been thinking through comparative levels of action on behalf of others (philanthropy VS. mutual aid VS. solidarity) for a new piece. I keep returning to how we conceive of risk and who's risk it is. This new essay by internationalust feminist Mona Elthaway gets close to my own thoughts.

Nailed it! Philanthropy - are you paying attention? We need you to be bold!

Done! Thanks for sharing this

What will it look like?

@donmoyn.bsky.social is right. Want to hear more from actual researchers who have are experts on this evidence? Check out @irpwisc.bsky.social virtual seminar coming up later this month: www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/wor... @chloeneast.bsky.social @centeronbudget.bsky.social

Yes, thank you! @alt-epa-workers? EJ data map? It's gone missing!

Did anyone archive the Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool? It seems to have gone missing.

Yk iom

The corporate broadcasters will never let this happen. PBS stations, if allowed to actually sell media time, would rip billions from media budgets they freast on. I know. Advertisers know where the people with money are. Watching PBS. www.philanthropy.com/article/five...

Funders really need to do better. Here another excellent post by Vu Le with a clear to do list for philanthropy. "I don’t ever again want to hear any funders whine about how progressive activists don’t propose solutions. Funders just don’t want to fund them..." nonprofitaf.com/2025/04/fund...

Good start...let's see

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

Great conversations happening today at American University thanks to @drernestocast.bsky.social and CLALS / Immigration Lab. Student presentations starting. That’s the great @toddzwillich.bsky.social Not pictured but great remarks earlier: @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social @kathleenbush.bsky.social

@bschmidt.bsky.social shows posted changes on NEH website are visible via the site map timestamps. Thx and @megsmith.bsky.social too! link: bsky.app/profile/bsch...

Let’s dig deeper. #Philanthropy cannot fill the gap. Not even close. Important things will get sacrificed, but who will decide and how? #nonprofitsky

Exactly.

As a veteran with PTSD and survivor of suicide, I understand that the casualties of Trump and Musk’s DOGE firings and war on federal employee unions won’t just include “jobs” or “numbers.” It’s going to cost lives. youtu.be/RZyooJROntg

This, sadly.

This is quite good.

David Callahan, editor of @insidephilanthropy.com, spent the past two months interviewing philanthrosphere leaders to understand its role in our present crisis. "How We Got Here: Six Reasons Liberal Philanthropy Is Losing the Battle for America’s Future" www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/how-we-...

Philanthropy at the margins....smh

Update on cancelled grants: HHS TAGGs just published a much more expansive list of cancelled grants earlier today.👇 An earlier version of this list was mostly accurate. We'll update our trackers to reflect this info shortly.

Dear US colleges and universities: if the moral argument isn’t enough (it should be), the domestic college-age population is rapidly declining. You need foreign students more than ever, so it might be worth protecting the ones you have.

I work in philanthropy. And I’ve been using the phrase “moving at the speed of philanthropy” a lot lately. And not in a good way.

The latest research report based on @umpsid.bsky.social data by the Indiana University School of Philanthropy highlights key generational differences in giving between Millennial and Gen Z donors. buff.ly/maWtgYd