Ba ba ba, baby steps🎶 Olivia Dean continues to tickle my brain🤣

"The Partnership to End HIV, STDs, and Hepatitis is concerned by reports that 22 CDC webpages have been deleted, many of which focus on LGBTQ+ health, HIV and [STI] prevention, and access to care."

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray. The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there. wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

"[M]embers of the CGT's Madrid Metal Workers' Union are following the example and call of the Genoa dockworkers." "[A]s of October 5, all workers in the metal sector in Madrid are entitled to support the aforementioned strike." #Spain #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

When I tell people the most truly self serving thing you can do is want a just and equitable society. Audre Lorde said it best, “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” For this and everything.

And on treatment of Afro-Germans in more recent history, May Ayim (RIP) said in documentary that street harassment actually increased after German reunification. She said that even though she was born in Germany and spoke perfect German, she always felt she and similar others would be outsiders.

“In some cases, we’re seeing fees that we don’t think should be charged at all, like pest control fees,” says Kuehnhoff. ​“Landlords have a duty to provide a pest-free environment already, so they shouldn’t be adding that to the rent.”

The footage of Robert Brooks’ killing shocked the public. We identified 46 allegations that corrections officers assaulted prisoners in medical wings of New York prisons since 2010; Brooks and two other prisoners died, while many others were left with severe injuries.

"[G]uards abuse people in the infirmary because it's tucked away and has areas with no cameras. Beatings in the infirmary of one New York prison were so common, prisoners called the medical wing 'the torture chambers.' At another ... the infirmary was called 'the slaughterhouse.'"

"[T]here were zip ties and blood stains ... next to baby shoes."

I want to once again encourage everyone who can to take advantage of opportunities to gather with others in person. It's more important than ever. It was wonderful to be with folks today at Communiversity. We'll be back at it next Saturday. Join in if interested.

2 additional slots just opened up. Come walk with us tomorrow. The day is supposed to be beautiful weather wise.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

Deeply concerned about my comrades, friends and loved ones in Chicago. Praying for everyone's safety. I'm running on fumes so shutting it down for the night on here.

A recent study shows that the presence of high levels of structural inequity in a society causes changes to children's brains, both children from families w/ lower incomes as well as those from wealthy families. Take home: structural inequity harms everyone (with the most vulnerable most impacted).

"Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down their doors overnight, pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked, residents and witnesses said." www.wbez.org/immigration/...

I could not love this article any more. YES the NBA makes more-- but players get a higher PERCENTAGE of revenue.

Here's the assignment folks. Write op-eds for your local papers and campus newspapers too. Just. Say. No. This is a classic authoritarian move and risks the future of higher education and science and innovation in the US. Speak out today. No time to lose. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

“They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down. We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military." The worst of what we feared when Trump’s spending bill gave ICE a blank check is happening.

Launched in Sept 2015, #ETEDashboardNY was the first tool of its kind in NY to track progress toward Ending the HIV Epidemic. ✨ This month we celebrate 10 years of data-driven action, community empowerment & progress. 💡♥️ read more: bit.ly/ETE10YEARS @nysdoh.bsky.social @nychealthy.bsky.social

The ETE Dashboard, one of the first in the U.S. to track progress toward ending the HIV epidemic, is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a new interactive timeline of key milestones. Explore it here: bit.ly/etetimeline #ETE10 #HIVData @nysdoh.bsky.social @nychealthy.bsky.social

RFK Jr. still hasn’t signed off on the ACIP recommendations for COVID19 vaccines. It’s been almost 2 weeks. The impact of his continued maliciousness is that these shots still aren’t available to families for their kids through the Vaccines for Children program, which about half of US kids use.

Long covid & kids - details below: 🔹️"Children and teenagers are twice as likely to develop long Covid after a second coronavirus infection as after an initial infection, a large new study has found. The research provides evidence that Covid reinfections can... 1/6 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/h...

Spotify is also running ICE ads for anyone wanting to cancel something else.

As the mayor’s race enters its final weeks, the campaign is sending some of its 75,000 volunteers into neighborhoods won by Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary. www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/30/m...

#tdih 1964 Free Speech Movement was launched at UC–Berkeley, with roots in Black Freedom Struggle in South. Goal was to fight racism, sexism, poverty, & war. Media, univ. leaders, & politicians used Red Scare to attack 1st Amendment rights. Sound familiar? ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fr...

Overnight, Trump and Republicans in Congress shut down the federal government. They shut it down because they’re determined to strip healthcare from millions of Americans, to enrich the billionaires they serve, to continue the assault on our rights. We must fight back.

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

DC’s cuts mean higher bills, fewer hospitals, and more medical debt for New Yorker. NY doesn't have to play along. The New York Health Act not only protects us from these federal cuts—it guarantees healthcare for every NYer. It’s time to fight back and pass the New York Health Act.

The way Olivia Dean’s voice always soothes my nervous system, literally any song she sings🫀

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

New Yorkers, check this out! Great free public event on Harlem’s history. @altnehgov.altgov.info #nyc #harlem CTLEs for teachers, too! @zinnedproject.bsky.social @hsglobalhistory.bsky.social harlemasanincubator.org

New resource: "..[T]he Congressional District Health Dashboard is the first tool to provide comprehensive, validated data on health and its drivers at the congressional district level across all 50 states and Washington, D.C." www.sgim.org/resource/con...

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

Erasing history.

This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

The two things the curator wanted to show: “One is just how unexpectedly visible and accepted and integrated into daily life LGBTQ people were in Harlem in the 1920s and ’30s — and also how central a role they played in the cultural outpouring that we now know as the Harlem Renaissance."

'The Gay Harlem Renaissance,' a new art exhibition opening this fall in New York City, invites visitors to explore a lesser-known but vital chapter of the Harlem Renaissance: the queer artists, writers, and performers who helped define it. gothamist.com/news/the-gay...

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

ICE officer seen on video pushing woman to ground has returned to duty

OpenAI's new product requires that a copyright owner opt-out if they don't want their work included. The "startup began notifying talent agencies and studios over the past week about the product, which it plans to release in the coming days, and the opt-out process."

Just a reminder that if you preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis through my favorite bookstore, @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social, you will get an extra letter from me tucked into your book. I wrote that letter this week, and I think some of you might find it useful.

Violence surrounding youth-led anti-government protests in the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar over the past several days has left at least 22 people dead, the United Nations’ human rights office said Monday. https://to.pbs.org/46L3pKq

The generational trauma caused by ICE abductions is going to damage far, far more people than we even realize yet.

#tdih 1841, Frederick Douglass and his friend J. Buffum entered a train car reserved for white passengers in Lynn, Mass. Conductor ordered them to leave, they refused. Douglass’ and Buffum’s actions led to similar incidents on Eastern Railroad. 🧵⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fr...

My kiddo came home from school today sad - turns out one of his classmates dad’s has been abducted by ICE, whereabouts unknown. I told him that it’s normal to feel sad abt something so devastating, to let his classmate know that he is there for him, & that many grownups are working to stop this.

Workers are in the Gilroy CA area weeding lettuce. One worker has to walk next to the irrigation pipe. He is careful as it would be easy to slip and injure himself trying to keep up with the other workers. #WeFeedYou