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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 19 hours ago • 192 comments

Someday, @cmags27.bsky.social. Someday.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Speak up, Love 💙

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

W.E.B. Du Bois on the white takeover of southern public schools after Reconstruction. Not a coincidence that the chapter, "Back Towards Slavery," follows his analysis of the eventual dedegration of the public school system. Attacks on education are vital to (re)instituting authoritarian rule.

submitted 17 hours ago • 27 comments

Not sure if any UCLA grad students follow me but CSW'a Black Feminism Initiative's Grad Fellowship applications are open til 2/28. I was honored to have 1 of the fellowships named after me a few years ago alongside my friend and comrade Alisa Bierria. Apply! opportunitydesk.org/2025/02/15/c...

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

it's the humanity of his writing that does it for me, especially when he's writing about animals

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Sharing this article about @edyong209.bsky.social in the NY Times "Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World" Ed Yong in my opinion is the best science journalist of our times - and there are many great ones www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

so when do the football and basketball players (and coaches / alumni) start pressuring their colleges and universities to stand up to this administration

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Kamala Harris speaks at the NAACP as the recipient of the Chairman’s Award

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

I was set to launch my book at the Carter Library next month. This week, we were told all events now need approval from the National Archives. The next day, my event was forced to relocate. A book about the working homeless. A book about civil rights. Apparently these topics are now off limits.

submitted 19 hours ago • 37 comments

Depending on people to be brave is not a good strategy.

submitted 13 hours ago • 8 comments

This may be @adamserwer.bsky.social's most incisive work since "The Cruelty Is the Point." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 13 hours ago • 5 comments

Internalize that the United States as we understood it on January 19, 2025 is gone. We are in the midst of rewriting the rules and reconstructing society right now and must adjust accordingly. There is no going back, so we must imagine and think forward

submitted 15 hours ago • 20 comments

It’s also a core feature of life for many many people, especially the poor, the houseless, lgbtq+ people, etc. we want to make it seem exceptional, but it’s not.

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

they gave me permission to announce this publicly, so here’s my big news: Oregon Arts Watch, an independent news and criticism site I’ve been a fan of since a team of the state’s leading arts journalists launched it 15 years ago, liked this story so much they’re hiring me to keep covering it

submitted 14 hours ago • 34 comments

Guys, harness your inner six year old telling the nearest adult all the things you know about dinosaurs.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

I don’t mean to be rude about this, but since Musk isn’t the DOGE administrator, under what authority is he ordering this? If this is an order from Trump, where is it written up and why isn’t it implemented via Cabinet secretaries?

submitted 15 hours ago • 10 comments

Bunch people accused me of misinformation saying they’re targeting the disease not the people with the disease. I’d like to ask: you think autism and ADHD and neurodivergence is a disease? And why exactly (and how exactly) do you think it’s ok to reduce the number of people with these conditions?

submitted 16 hours ago • 32 comments

NEW: The importance of being litigious. Lawsuits matter — even when they might not "win." This afternoon, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/the-import...

submitted 17 hours ago • 16 comments

This will increase in maternal and child mortality and morbidity — people dying or coming dangerously close to dying. There’s no question. Remember: The CDC is based in Georgia, which has one of the worst maternal mortality rates — ESPECIALLY for Black women, who are 2-3 times more likely to die.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Fun fact: something like 47% of preventable birth related deaths happen AFTER the immediate postpartum period. Access to solid follow-up care saves lives.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

We need to dust off these songs that we were raised on for such a time as this. A Civil Rights Era classic... www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdKE...

submitted 20 hours ago • 8 comments

PRAMS is the source of data for basically every effort to limit infant mortality and all the health dangers mothers face before and after birth. So a pretty big deal the Elon and Co decided to cancel the program.

submitted 16 hours ago • 65 comments

regret to inform everyone this is a real guy who could be pope

submitted 17 hours ago • 491 comments

Now threatening Chris with the Emma Thompson et al. Much Ado and the Helena Bonham-Carter/Ben Kingsley Twelfth Night — he REALLY needs to see both. (And so do I. Again.)

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

The Boss of our house is back to order @cmags27.bsky.social and me around.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

it's my birthday weekend and usually when i go out i ask people online to buy me shots but this year i feel like orgs doing good work for trans people could use the money, so if you're a friend or just like my posts, please consider sending ur local mutual aid fund money for me 🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 16 hours ago • 7 comments

Not the primary culprit, but it’s also supremely & mortifyingly embarrassing for administrators of the Carter library to agree to cancel events like this. What’ll happen if they don’t? They test bluff? a presidential library is shut down by the White House, which has its own political opportunity?

submitted 16 hours ago • 17 comments

Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling work to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. “We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed.” https://propub.li/4370xr2

submitted 16 hours ago • 49 comments

I went to the rescheduled Valentine’s Day open house for the Women’s Prison Book Project where folks are writing cards to send, and they have lovely art on the front and people write on the back, so I wrote/cited this quote.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

This shit is so fucking insufferable. We can walk and chew gum at the same time. And yes actually we should call out Nazi symbolism performed on a national stage, whether or not they think they're being cute about it

submitted 16 hours ago • 10 comments

Fuck. Normally we’d hear back sometime in March, I think? Since many applicants factor it into grad school decisions & those are due in mid-April.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment