Thank you for replying and fixing the issue! 🙏

Why would you use an AI-generated photo.... there have to be plenty of real stock photos of children in a classroom if you can't take your own

LibreOffice has a very similar interface to Word, but it's free & has no AI features!

Just overheard someone use "Leroy Jenkins" as a verb in the year of our lord 2026

Dilly dallying is writing. Fight me Simon and Schuster

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49238/...

This artwork is SOOOOOO gorgeous, I found it in the library digital archives but can't find any other references to it online!
dc.library.northwestern.edu/items/a9aa50...

Now who do I need to hunt down to buy a poster.... 🤔

Has anyone written a thinkpiece yet about how companies are co-opting the little four-pointed 'sparkle' to symbolize AI features? Because I'm mad enough about it to write a thinkpiece

A clear-eyed essay from Eli Cugini about the new nostalgia-bait HP series. As trans allies, we all need to be more annoying to anyone forcing this IP down our throats again.

"A kid’s book... can be a tool used to club a kid back into the closet. Act accordingly."
defector.com/its-time-to-...

A staggering new finding from Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies: since 2001, the money left over each month for lower-income renters—after paying rent and utilities—has fallen 60 percent to a record low of $210.

$210 left over for food, healthcare, childcare, and everything else.

this is excellent

instead of packing for my trip or working on other writing projects, i spent my evening making a presentation on how the recent western obsession with pistachios is a direct result of the California pistachio industry trying to undermine Iran's largest agricultural export. because i'm cool

also sooooooo excited for this, I preordered it from my local book store in january lol!!

Very proud to share that following the publication of this article, many of the extra charges on Jerricia's rental ledger disappeared.

But MHA voucher recipients shouldn't have to go to the media to get problems addressed. That's why I plan to keep covering this issue & searching for solutions.

This awful story is indicative of the consistent problems we have with government services and why "more of the same" isn't what we need in Shelby County. While the MHA isn't under county authority (it's funded by HUD at the federal level), the issues here aren't uncommon.

Section 8 tenants left in limbo by Memphis Housing Authority voucher problems Jerricia Harris sits for a portrait at her home on Mar. 5. Photo by Kevin Wurm / MLK50 / CatchLight Local / Report For America Right before Jerricia

Getting off the waitlist for a Section 8 voucher feels like a lucky break.

But recipients like Jerricia Harris struggle with unexplained charges and poor communication from the Memphis Housing Authority-- in some cases threatening their housing stability.

My latest:
mlk50.com/2026/03/09/s...

move slow and repair things

Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

thank you for putting words to an experience I hadn't considered deeply enough before!

Sound on.

Stand With Minnesota Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

This site lists 50+ local rent funds helping MN families pay their March rent: www.standwithminnesota.com

I think they're doing amazing work. I also think about how all the money raised is going into landlords' pockets.

Can we imagine a system where this isn't the case? Can we make it real?

"Ymelda deliberated her movements like a drunk doing their best sober impression."
What a great story and a well-deserved win!

omg so exciting, please keep us updated on chick totals!!

Maybe one of the lawyers on here can hop in the replies and tell me how a state can just decide that "private citizens and organizations" don't have to follow the Constitution... 🤔

"Private citizens and orgs are not bound by the 14th Amendment or by... Obergefell v. Hodges, and no private citizen or org... is required to recognize a marriage or a purported marriage between individuals of the same sex"

HB 1473 just passed the TN House today
wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInf...

Sun management has once again disparaged our talented -human- reporters and their work, this time by filling more than half a page in today’s paper with AI slop.

'Even in Russia, they don't treat children like this': A family's nightmare in ICE detention A Russian couple and their children sought asylum in the U.S. In a Texas detention center, they say they endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medicine.

This post is really taking off. I know the Thanksgiving detail is grabbing, but I would encourage everyone to also read the full article about this family’s struggle at Dilley.

They’ve been locked up for 130+ days.

I spent hours with them on Zoom this week, and their story deserves to be heard.

Mayor avoids talk of Trump’s task force during ‘State of the City’ speech Memphis Mayor Paul Young delivers his State of the City address at First Baptist Church Broad in Binghampton on Tuesday. Photo by Kevin Wurm / MLK50 /

Mayor Paul Young tried to paint a glowing picture of Memphis Tuesday night. But protestors from MICAH and allied groups weren't having it.

My colleague @kathsburgess.bsky.social and I talked with activists about the true 'state of the city' under the federal task force:
mlk50.com/2026/02/12/m...

In its first two months, the Memphis Safe Task Force arrested thousands of people. Only 6% appear to be white Drug Enforcement Administration and Homeland Security Investigations agents working with the Tennessee State Highway Patrol search a car during a traffic

White people make up around 24% of Memphis' population, but only around 6% of the people arrested by the so-called 'Memphis Safe Task Force' in its first two months.

My colleagues crunched the numbers to show its disproportionate impact on Black & brown Memphians:
mlk50.com/2026/02/10/i...

"Marry early" is so insidious. As if a life partner is some achievement to check off this list.

And you KNOW that spouse (let's be real, wife) is going to be shouldering all the admin, housework, life skills, & tasks this schedule leaves no room for.