A sprawling new immigration detention facility is planned for Western Maryland, and Washington County officials say there is nothing they can do to block it. buff.ly/OBV85Qp

Super great ! And! Let’s do better next time !

Or, hear me out, the masked gang has always been “the law.” This is consistent with US history where our police emerged from slave patrols; where our prisons are new plantations.

Abolition is the answer.

obviously.

Here's the latest on Trump's Big, Ugly Bill that would be the biggest transfer of wealth from working people to rich people in history. I'll be at Rules early Wednesday morning.

Thread. Please stay on this case @beyer.house.gov.

Is “deport” even an accurate word in this sentence, given the meaning of the word is “expel (a foreigner) from a country”.Would the word needed perhaps be needed? I wonder what word 💚

It is chilling that Republicans on the Judiciary Committee just voted to allow Trump to illegally detain and deport US citizens.

Don’t tell me that we are exaggerating about authoritarianism.

Opinion | If You’re a Voter Reading This, This Essay Is Not About You (Gift Article) Opt-out voters don’t buy what we’re selling — and even if they did, we’d have a hard time reaching them.

“We are now seeing a generation of 70-year-olds who called for the departure of an 81-year-old fail to understand how anyone under 60 gets information about their world.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...

Laura Ingraham’s Angry Rants at Dem on Fox Reveal MAGA’s Dark Endgame An Arizona Democratic Congresswoman shoved the Fox host’s talking points back in her face Tuesday night. Why can’t more Democrats do that?

Everyone should watch @repyassansari.bsky.social speaking truths about Abrego Garcia to Laura Ingraham last night. She told Fox viewers *five times* that Trump is defying SCOTUS and that his renditions are illegal/authoritarian, which they never hear.

My new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1942...

This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story.

@axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

Stand Up for NOAA Research – The Time to Act is Now The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.

The 2026 budget passback plan calls for eliminating NOAA Research, the scientific backbone that keeps weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective. This would have disastrous consequences.

Read the AMS statement, in partnership w/ @nwas.org: bit.ly/4cz2RtC

If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.

Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners

Tomorrow El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukeke will visit the White House - no doubt to advance plans to imprison incarcerated U.S. citizens in El Salvador.We need to stop this before it happens.

Call both your Senators and your Rep. & tell them NO!
202-224-3121

open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began. The migrant detentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador.We cannot sleepwalk through this.

Black graphic with text “You don't need a permit to protest in response to breaking news and you don't need a permit to march in the streets or along sidewalks, as long as you're not obstructing traffic or access to buildings. When you are lawfully present in any public space, you have the right to photograph anything in plain view, including federal buildings and the police.If you believe your rights have been violated, when you can, write down everything you remember, get contact information for witnesses, and take photographs of any injuries.If you get stopped by the police, ask if you're free to go. If they say yes, calmly walk away.If you get arrested, you have a right to ask why. Otherwise, say you wish to remain silent and ask for a lawyer immediately. Don't sign, say or agree to anything without a lawyer present.If you get stopped by a member of the military or any law enforcement office at a protest, you have the right to remain silent or to tell them that you’ll only answer questions in the presence of an attorney — no matter your citizenship or immigration status.”

If you’re protesting this weekend, know your rights.

In case anyone missed the rationale behind the show :-)

Expertise matters, accessible scholarship matters, and so does building spaces to explore difficult legacies with people who can actually contextualize and engage with them. Public history matters - and so does the issue of *who* is making it.

At SXSW, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber pokes fun at Mark Zuckerberg with Latin phrase T-shirt | TechCrunch When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber walked onstage at SXSW 2025 for her keynote discussion, she wore a large black T-shirt with her hair pulled back into a bun.

While Mark Zuckerberg wore a shirt, “Aut Zuck aut nihil,” a play on the Latin phrase “Aut Caesar aut nihil”: “Either Caesar or nothing," Jay Graber wore a shirt: “Mundus sine caesaribus.” Or, “a world without Caesars.”
techcrunch.com/2025/03/10/a...

Thank you for the work you are doing!

A good way to understand why wealth inequality is a problem is, if some idiot says "no regulations should exist" you just laugh at him, but if that idiot has $400 billion then it's an existential crisis for America.

This #BlackHistoryMonth, we honor the generations of trailblazers who came before us and fought for a society that gives everyone a seat at the table.

Black history is American history, and that should be recognized and celebrated every single month.

Germany protesting

Nearly 250,000 people in Berlin showed up to protest fascism and the Musk backed AfD party.

Music, Sound, and Trauma Music and sound frequently play significant roles in experiences and representations of trauma, and in the last decade music scholars have participated in a series of critical interventions in trauma ...

for those of you who didn't follow me on the other place, the thing i was known for aside from 9LC was my Grammys livetweeting -- so i'm excited to bring the worst night in music over to bluesky! 😂

in the meantime, check out my article about the 2020 Grammys online.ucpress.edu/jams/article...

My challenge to academics this #BlackHistoryMonth: find out what the relationship is between your campus and Black people. When was your campus started? When was the first Black student accepted? Are there programs that still haven't graduated Black students, and if so, why?

Done. Others - please join!

Opinion | Quincy Jones Should Be Featured in Music Education Philip Ewell writes on the legacy of Quincy Jones and how historical segregation has limited his prominence in U.S. music education.

"From Francis Johnson to Quincy Jones, Black music exemplifies the musical greatness the U.S. is capable of producing, for Americans and for the world," Philip Ewell writes.

https://buff.ly/3PkqoUy

Opinion | Quincy Jones Should Be Featured in Music Education Philip Ewell writes on the legacy of Quincy Jones and how historical segregation has limited his prominence in U.S. music education.

Philip Ewell writes on the legacy of Quincy Jones and how segregation has prevented him from being prominent in U.S. music education.

What a sickening headline for genuine animal lovers to have to see. Why would you promote the praise the counting of one bird and then slaughter another in the name of helping the other one? #hypocrisy #veganfortheanimals #vegan

for the folks who keep asking me why I don’t refer to myself as “composer” anymore: it’s a title that locked out too many people (composers) - and still is. same with “American composer”. that one’s even worse. mainstream society, academia and the commercial music industry do this. who else?