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can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

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Speaking from experience as a teacher: talk over him, pull out electronic devices and start making “content” mid-speech, share takis and get taki dust everywhere but especially on your fingers then try to shake his hand, groan constantly at everything that sounds like work. You will break him.

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Demand Congress rally behind the Dream and Promise Act — a crucial step to stopping Trump's anti-immigrant crusades and giving a pathway to citizenship to millions in our community! • Join me in signing United We Dream's petition today actionnetwork.org/petitions/de...

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Already a time capsule, but back in January a bunch of us working at the intersection of the humanities and AI/ML came together to sketch out eight provocations from the humanities for genAI research. Here's a 🧵 1/ arxiv.org/abs/2502.19190

submitted 13 hours ago • 5 comments

Popping in for a couple of minutes to share that people are in motion everywhere. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

submitted 12 hours ago • 6 comments

Will you join me for this? mobilize.us/s/V3lM3z/a

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The DOJ has scrubbed a report detailing public mass shootings in the US from 1966–2019—and the histories of 172 mass shooters—from its site. Attempting to erase gun violence doesn’t erase reality.

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I also think the Trump regime’s embrace of pro-rape figures like Tate should be considered a continuation of their anti-abortion politics—different in style, but not in substance. Both seek to commandeer women’s bodies by force in order to compel them into a gendered role, be it mommy or sex object.

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 11 days ago • 860 comments

“There’s too much going on. It’s overwhelming.” If that sounds familiar, this piece is for you. Jay Kuo breaks up Donald's latest power plays into three categories: bad, worse, and worst. It may sound heavy, but understanding them makes it easier to stay informed without feeling buried.

submitted 11 days ago • 76 comments

A fun Black History Month footnote to this is that the motif of the anthropomorphic legislative bill—known to most of us from Schoolhouse Rock—has roots in the Black press of the 1930s, as in these two editorial cartoons by Bill Chase & Romare Bearden, both highlighting anti-lynching legislation

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FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson requests public comment about content moderation practices because he wants declare social media "censorship" an unfair/deceptive trade practice--which the First Amendment doesn't allow. Here's the comment form. Do your thing, Internet: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FT...

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors. I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.

submitted 12 days ago • 463 comments

Trump: I AM A KING! NYT: Trump displays a "fondness for regal themes"

submitted 12 days ago • 392 comments

The midterm elections are in 622 days. Democracy doesn’t run on vibes. Do something that matters. ☎️ Call your representative and urge them to protect your IRS data from Elon. https://5calls.org/issue/musk-doge-irs-data-privacy/

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

submitted 12 days ago • 137 comments

fantasizing about a world where an opposition congress responds to trump’s attempts to usurp legislative power by defunding the entire white house staff

submitted 12 days ago • 249 comments

41% of new ICE detainees have no criminal record, according to new data obtained by @nbcnews.com, despite President Trump's promises to target the “worst first” in arrests and deportations.

submitted 12 days ago • 37 comments

The DH in Libraries SIG is hosting an interest meeting for library students to learn more about how ACH can support them and for us to hear from them about what they need. Please share, especially if you know some library students interested in DH! sdsu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

One of my faves, my friend & comrade Monica Trinidad has new art that can be freely downloaded. justseeds.org/graphic/be-l...

submitted 14 days ago • 20 comments

This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op

submitted 14 days ago • 96 comments

Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

submitted 14 days ago • 762 comments

Feb 20 - How to Build an ICE Watch Program actionnetwork.org/events/how-t...

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TOMORROW - actionnetwork.org/events/mass-...

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 14 days ago • 2399 comments

@gayforcongress.bsky.social My friends and I would love to support your campaign with postcards through PostcardsToVoters.org Please consider adding your campaign. It is free! postcardstovoters.org/campaigns/

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@joshweil.bsky.social My friends and I would love to support your campaign with postcards through PostcardsToVoters.org Please consider adding your campaign! postcardstovoters.org/campaigns/

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lol Mark Cuban out here propagandizing what people claimed about learning to program 15 to 20 years ago-- the end result of which is literally a guy named Big blBalls rifling through your IRS records and dismantling databases because it was written in a computer languages he's never heard of

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

It is feeling like tomorrow is going to be the first really big protest day. medium.com/@thesynthesi...

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

one of the reasons i wrote this piece is to get away from the gauzy mythology of the civil rights movement "spontaneous mass resistance" "rosa parks was just tired". no. the movement remains a masterclass in the tactics--and the strategy--of resistance.

submitted 16 days ago • 19 comments

Time to evict AirBnB from your life, if you have't already.

submitted 16 days ago • 209 comments

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

submitted 15 days ago • 2239 comments

I wonder if Cory Booker’s social media training for elected Dems included to just keep blithely posting as your terrified constituents beg you to do something

submitted 31 days ago • 101 comments

i want to see members of congress do some genuine civil disobedience. i want to see them bring the senate noms process to a screeching halt. i want to see them perform as opposition so fox (& its viewers) can't ignore the destruction trump/musk are causing. action. leadership. doing their job.

submitted 31 days ago • 28 comments

TikTok is back but like, in the way your long lost son appears on your doorstep after a mysterious disappearance & he looks & sounds the same but he’s harboring a dark secret and ok lemme turn off Lifetime

submitted 43 days ago • 311 comments

Via @maketheroadny.bsky.social: If ICE shows up, know your rights. “ICE does not have the right to enter your home without a valid warrant signed by a judge.” maketheroadny.org/we-protect-us/

submitted 45 days ago • 30 comments

For friends in the LA area or anywhere that there have been fires that burn homes, this article by discusses research after the Marshall fires in Boulder county and what to do to mitigate your risk of breathing in the toxic air during and after suburban wildfires theconversation.com/wildfire-smo...

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

@governor.ca.gov just launched a new site to ensure the public has access to fact-based data around the Southern California wildfires. Get the facts: californiafirefacts.com

submitted 51 days ago • 172 comments

I had a lot of people asking me so I wrote an explainer: Here's how you can help the incarcerated firefighter battling the blazes in Southern California this week: www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 51 days ago • 28 comments

Earlier this year, Mayor Eric Adams rejected efforts to expand New York’s voucher program for homeless families—despite a record 1 in 8 public school students experiencing homelessness—because it was “too expensive." www.nytimes.com/2024/10/31/n...

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Amnesty International this week confirmed what many others have already said: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. But the report goes to many lengths to prove one critical element in the case against Israel: that the genocide is fully intentional. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/israels-genocide…

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

It’s that time! The CFP for the ASA DH Caucus Digital Shorts panel is live! More details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/kim-br... #2024ASA #DHASA

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If you liked @dhandlib.bsky.social's special issue on Making Research Tactile, perhaps you'd also like to submit a proposal for the upcoming issue, Crafting Encounters with Humanities Data? Deadline is Sept 15. Full CFP can be found at dhandlib.org/2024/05/29/d...

submitted 276 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone who lived through the “everything will be MOOCs in 5 years, you should completely overhaul everything about how you teach” era is nodding knowingly.

submitted 304 days ago • 8 comments

I am so excited to be part of this @dhandlib.bsky.social special issue on Making Research Tactile: Critical Making and Data Physicalization in Digital Humanities dhandlib.org/2024/04/29/m... The downloadable zine is such a cool touch!

submitted 304 days ago • 0 comments

3,653 days (ten years) ago, the Flint water crisis started. All this time has passed, and the people still don't have water they feel safe enough to drink. My latest for theGrio.

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When you super fucked up

submitted 311 days ago • 17 comments