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Several countries in Africa are continuing to face challenging outbreaks of #mpox. Sierra Leone, Malawi, Ethiopia, DRC and others. the virus continues its steady march relatively unchecked. Access to vaccines remains a challenge. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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After 175 yrs, Harvard is releasing the images of Renty & Delia — Tamara Lanier’s enslaved ancestors. Their dignity will be honored at the Int’l African American Museum in Charleston (SC). This is a powerful step toward truth & reclaiming Black humanity! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...

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can we please not memory hole this

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When Nottoway Plantation burned to the ground last week, artist Damien Davis felt something strange but familiar: relief — a kind of exhale he didn’t know he was holding.

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Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

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🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨 Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham. It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda. We’ve launched an open letter. SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

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Under the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule barring medical debt from appearing on credit reports. Now, the agency is siding with the credit industry groups suing to have the rule vacated.

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Since a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd in 2020, the number of people killed by the police each year has continued to rise — and Black Americans are still killed in disproportionate numbers. Our data reporter explains his findings. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...

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Closed: The Tuscaloosa County Health Department - the only other space in the county for free healthcare. Open: Us. www.tuscaloosanews.com/story/news/2...

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“This will destroy the university as we know it. Harvard is situated in the US physically, but its students & faculty hail from around the world; that is fundamental to the work & mission of the institution. You can't take that away & have an institution left." — Kirsten Weld, President Harvard AAUP

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🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL🚨 🌪️23 LIVES WERE LOST OVERNIGHT AS TORNADOS HIT KY. KY has one of several regions in the US without 24/7 National Weather Service coverage, due to DOGE cuts. W/out overnight monitoring, ppl don't receive weather warnings. THIS is how science cuts cost lives. shorturl.at/JgTjU

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"Through layoffs and retirements, the Weather Service has lost nearly 600 people from a work force that until recently was as strong as 4,000. The reductions cut across two vital functions of the agency: the work of collecting the data used to make forecasts (and the people that warn us)"

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=dREf...

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Plantation sites that deal seriously with slavery, like Monticello and Whitney, are one thing. Sites of romanticizing and denial are another.

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The law professors who are arguing against birthright citizenship in the US are reinventing a common law decision from 1677 about allegiance and aliens that was pivotal for creating a common law of slavery in England’s empire. — a logic recreated in Dred Scot. — rejected by 14th amendment.

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"A list of organizations that staffers are authorized to refer callers to has been stripped of specialized mental health hotlines for gay and transgender people;" 1/2

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Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"

submitted 17 days ago • 1591 comments

Dr. Badar Khan Suri officially freed from ICE detention.

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I always tell my students about my first semester of grad school. Everyone (myself included) was desperate to prove how smart we were—except one student. He’d just raise his hand and say, “I don’t know what that word means. Can you explain it?” That kind of honesty was so powerful. 1/2

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Former federal judge lays out the case against Trump. Either Trump is removed from office soon or we lose the republic and our freedom.

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Hey, fellow Massachusettans: if you haven't called Gov. Healey (and your local reps) yet, take 5 min and do so today. Alleged ICE is violently taking people off the streets in our state, without warrants. That makes ALL of us less safe. Numbers and script below 👇

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"The legislation makes it a felony for a volunteer to collect more than 25 signatures for a campaign from people outside their family without getting approval from the state,..."

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Powerful letter. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The way Rumeysa Öztürk holds her heart as she testifies for her own freedom at a bail hearing in federal court is truly heart-rending. She cannot be freed soon enough.

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Per @washingtonpost.com: 'President Donald Trump on Thursday fired Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress — the first woman and first African American to hold the position. She was informed of the decision in a terse, two-sentence email'. #DrCarlaHayden #LibraryofCongress.

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Just a few days after Columbia announces the Pulitzers, the university goes and suspends its own student journalists.

submitted 22 days ago • 93 comments

Plus probably clear the way to disappear some archival documents, make Americans even more illiterate, and injure a brilliant black woman because she is brilliant, black and a woman.

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I agree with Hakeem Jeffries: “Donald Trump’s unjust decision to fire Dr. Hayden in an email sent by a random political hack is a disgrace and the latest in his ongoing effort to ban books, whitewash American history and turn back the clock” apnews.com/article/dona...

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"...what makes me angry is a society that has so few values, such an attenuated sense of human worth and flourishing, that it jumps to sell off the brains and potential of its young people for — what?"

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Ximena Arias-Cristobal, who has lived in Georgia since she was 4yo, was taken to the Stewart Detention Center wearing chains around her wrists + ankles. Arias-Cristobal is a graduate of Dalton High School & cross country athlete who has been paying out-of-state tuition at Dalton State College.

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

Eveyone & their brother is using ChatGPT to avoid doing the reading/homework & we’re all going to suffer bc of it.

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1. 55 years ago today, U.S. soldiers with the Ohio National Guard shot and killed 4 students at Kent State University - Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Lee Scheuer, and William Schroeder - and wounded 9 others, during a protest against the war in Southeast Asia. Take a moment tonight to...

submitted 26 days ago • 36 comments

Since we can’t rely on the HHS, CDC, or FDA to say it, I will: MAKE SURE YOU ARE VACCINATED AGAINST MEASLES. GET YOUR MMR. The measles surge in the southwest is now the SINGLE LARGEST OUTBREAK since 2000 and the United States is now at the tipping point for the return of ENDEMIC measles.

submitted 36 days ago • 140 comments

Help us reach 10K followers on Bluesky. We provide free people's history lessons, Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes, Teaching for Black Lives study groups, book giveaways, this day in people's history posts, & we organize to defend the right to teach truthfully. www.zinnedproject.org

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For those who have had #NEH funding awarded, then rescinded, what are you putting on your CV (if anything)? I'd like to include it, because it would have been great, but this is awkward at the very least... #academia #academicsky

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"The history inside the museum still reverberates through our country." Take a moment to read article ⬇️ by Clint Smith about why we need NMAAHC. And if you've not seen the special exhibit, "In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World" -- go before June 8: nmaahc.si.edu/explore/exhi...

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I knew the U.S. higher education system was a massive draw for foreigners, but I did not know the U.S. sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it did natural gas and coal combined. Great piece by @crampell.bsky.social

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