I feel like if we could just magically see where all the money was going… from whom, to whom, for what in exchange, this moment of faux-populist techno-fascist anti-science MAHA experimentation would come to a screeching halt.

As a former StoryCorps facilitator, this is fucking disgusting. End the project already, Dave. You created a good model: you encouraged people to sit and do oral history for 20 yrs. Turning StoryCorps into a surveillance capitalism nightmare is not worth the money to keep the project going.

This 4/20, we're thinking of the horrific impact that the U.S.'s war on drugs had on vulnerable communities. Today, drug offenses still account for the incarceration of over 360,000 people, and drug convictions remain a defining feature of the federal prison system.

Couch snuggles with a big stack of picture books made the April snow shower feel okay today 🥰

Vaccines are humanity’s greatest scientific achievement.

some things about becoming a parent are radicalizing in ways I expected - e.g being reminded viscerally how screwed we'd all be if childcare and other care work disappeared. but other things are radicalizing in ways I didn't - like experiencing constant spontaneous solidarity in ways big and small

Sweet W just needed to bring her leaf from the park into her bed tonight. I wish everyone could have a little bit of toddler joy in their lives 🥰

Child: I know your name. Mamdani. Obama: What’s his first name? Child: Mayor.

The thing about “viewpoint diversity” is it’s an affront to legitimate scholarship. What counts as knowledge should have to earn that status - but right-wingers want cheat codes so their shoddy “research” will get as much hearing as serious peer-reviewed work.

Emotional watching Hungarians celebrate in the streets 🙏🏻💛 Well done!

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

Magyar’s speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: “He’s basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired.”

#tdih 1787, Richard Allen and Absalom Jones founded the Free African Society in Philadelphia, a multi-denomination mutual aid org for freed people. Provided core services (education, health, jobs, burial) denied to Black people by U.S. & local gov't. Read ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fr...

We're terrible neighbors right now, and it hurts to keep caring. Care anyway. You are needed.

BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges. /w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social

73 of our students spent the day competing at Vermont History Day. Things might be hard, hard… but today? Today was good 💛

The #Artemis II livestream continues to be the best thing on the internet. 😍 The return-to-Earth live coverage begins at 6:30pm Eastern (in about 90 minutes) with splashdown in the Pacific scheduled for 8:07pm Eastern. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

“There was no authority that we could call on for help, no police, who would help us in that instance. We could only count on the support of our neighbors,” - Jerez Andrade www.vtcng.com/otherpapersb...

Appropriate since snakes do not have arms.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Friends in DC area: Friday (April 10), in person at Howard U Law School is the @the14thcenter.bsky.social 2026 Symposium hosted by founding director Sherrilyn Ifill. Panels on birthright citizenship, voting rights, art, education, & more. Learn more and RSVP: 14thamendmentctr.org/news/second-...

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

"Is this a dagger which I see before me..." Sometimes you realize mid-lesson you need a prop dagger to make a point when teaching Macbeth + then you realize that it needs blood + then you realize you are a teacher in April 🤷‍♂️

Israel bombing a synagogue in Tehran is the kind of symbolism that would feel too heavy-handed in a work of fiction. But yeah. That tracks in this ridiculous timeline. May God bring comfort and safety to the Tehran Jewish community.

Before playing Kamancheh, he says: 'Hello, I'm Mohammad-Reza Afarideh, the director of the ed. institute that has now been destroyed. I wanted the last sound coming from my institute not to be of missiles and war; (I want the) final sound to be of the instrument that I played in it. Thank you'.

What if the United States had a Congress?

Oh, this is good. Idaho passed a bill banning local cities from flying the Pride flag. So the cities decided to wrap the poles themselves in pride colors. This is amazing.

Donald Trump must be removed from office for threatening war crimes and genocide. Speaker Johnson: bring the House back into session. Invoking the 25th Amendment and impeachment must be on the table, but Congress should also move on a War Powers resolution to stop Trump.

Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.

New data shows 85% of Americans believe trans people should have the same rights and protections as everyone else. It is clear that the vast majority of Americans support trans rights, yet politicians continue scapegoating this population instead of focusing on the real issues. buff.ly/17U1WGw

Adding my voice to the calls to stop normalizing this. As this becomes “normal” the “both sides” narrative is further able to take hold. Therefore imagining, somehow, that outright bigotry and violence is a “side” deserving of consideration.

Facing the reality that brutality and cruelty also have tradeoffs and are not a secret weapon that facilitates an easy victory, they are furious at being embarrassed by their lessers and seeing their theory of the world publicly discredited (not that they would ever acknowledge that)

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

On the 58th anniversary of Dr. King's assassination, it's time to reckon with the media's troubling role in the civil rights struggle. (I pitched this to @nytimes.com who found it "fascinating..[but] the news is making deeper & certainly more historical pieces very hard." But they're the news.) A 🧵

Every April 3rd i listen to this speech. It was his last night on this side of the Earth. 58 years ago today, Martin Luther King Jr gave one of his most impactful speeches. And his very last. How fitting it's Good Friday

It’s not just Ms. Rachel. The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention. Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

In contrast, our job as educators is to equip students with the skills to recognize, critique, and actively oppose the propaganda of militarism, colonialism, and white supremacy. Here are resources on the U.S. war against the people of Iran. www.zinnedproject.org/news/exposin...

THIS administration is now granted access to lists of Jewish students & faculty. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I just…………….

Colton Riley, the ICE officer who made up a story to unjustly kidnap three of our neighbors, is the same ICE officer who put hands on me & tried to claim I had no right to be there. Where is the accountability for his lies & the terror he put our community through? vtdigger.org/2026/03/30/i...

We are now 32 days into Trump’s illegal war and we have paid at least $25 billion for it. Here’s a look at what we could have done with those taxpayer dollars. Trump needs to bring this reckless war of choice to an end now & return focus to lowering costs and increasing opportunities here at home.

We keep us safe. www.npr.org/2026/03/19/n...

Two young boys were locked up inside ICE's notorious detention center in Texas. Then Ms. Rachel shared their stories.

This is Daisy. She helped her human make the bed today. Through moral support. 13/10 (IG: daisyneverhelps)

Before a crew of us reinvent the wheel, does anyone know of a direct action personal risk assessment tool specific to school workers? 💛

No Kings and anti-ICE protests tell the same story: the people are appropriately pissed. NEW: More than 50 *US citizen* children lose a parent to ICE *every day* Disclaimer: It’s even worse for non-citizen children www.propublica.org/article/trum... youtu.be/qfSj9Srg0F0

Sandra Wong, the great granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, is preparing to march at the #NoKings Rally in San Francisco. Today is the 128th Anniversary of the SCOTUS decision affirming birthright citizenship.

Oh I kinda love this 😂 I'm now imagining a protest sign that's like "THE ONLY KINGS I RECOGNIZE" with photos of, like, Carole King BB King Martin Luther King Regina King