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HBCUs and the Uneven Legacy of Academic Freedom Eddie R. Cole explores the complicated history around protecting scholars at historically Black colleges and universities and the risks of political interference in accreditation.

My latest column is an interview with renowned historian of higher ed, Eddie Cole. Come for learning about HBCUs and stay for his thoughts on why accreditation is the biggest issue we're not talking enough about in higher ed.

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Almost two years in and I’m just so very happy to be in this body without breasts! I did not expect to feel like this. It’s so interesting!

This will be deadly. If you actually care about kids you understand this.

Woman Diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disease at 2-Months-Old Wakes Up with No Pain for the First Time in Her Life After New Treatment Tatyana Thompson, who was diagnosed with sickle cell disease when she was 2 months old, was successfully cured of the disease after she participated in Johns Hopkins research on sickle cell treatment.

Tatyana Thompson said when she became pregnant with her son, her pain from sickle cell intensified. She was repeatedly in the hospital with a sharp pain, which she compared to being cut by a knife.

After experimental treatment requiring bone marrow from her brother, she is pain-free.
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Baltimore’s queer hidden histories galvanize a new generation As the Trump administration and conservative legislatures around the country attack rights secured for LGBTQIA+ people, Baltimore historians say sharing the stories of queer ancestors has never been m...

Historians, scholars and artists are working to unearth, record, preserve and share Maryland’s LGBTQ+ history— work they say is all the more urgent as the Trump administration and conservative legislatures try to roll back the rights of queer people www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

we need more places where he can exist in public without being expected to buy anything, not fewer

@librariesftp.bsky.social is currently running our 3rd cohort for people who want to run for or seek appointment to their library boards. In just the past few years, we've seen interest ebb and flow in terms of these positions. Leftists should be focused on library governance. Seriously.

I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party.

We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.

SHE GOT GAME WEEKEND!!!

Join us at 5:30pm ET for a discussion of Organize Your Library! Building the Collective Power of Library Workers ! This event is part of the @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social School of Information Studies Research in Praxis discussion series.

Register and hop in the zoom!

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Hating women, more American than the sport of hockey.

Always the women athletes doing the right thing, always always.

Just disgusting. But I guess hating women is indeed the American Way.

SCANDAL

‘Heated Rivalry’ fandom exposes LGBTQIA+ divide in Baltimore For some, love of “Heated Rivalry” has exposed the loss of a once-vibrant gay nightlife in Charm City and splintered its LGBTQIA+ community.

Made the paper! www.thebanner.com/culture/film...

Another memorable ruling out of West Virginia, where Judge Goodwin — a Clinton appointee — excoriates the treatment of ICE detainees.

"This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law."
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Gesundheit.

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Tax cuts for giant corporations and the super rich.

Paid for by cuts to the social safety net for everyone else.

Trickle-up economics.

Definitively impossible to think of any other solution.

Collective Bargaining Rights for Faculty For far too long, faculty at Maryland's public universities have been left behind when it comes to collective bargaining rights. Almost every other public and state employee in the state of Maryland h...

Higher ed faculty in Maryland should have the right to organize their workplaces! If you agree, please send a letter to our state legislators in support of our bill to extend bargaining rights to adjunct and NTT faculty! actionnetwork.org/letters/coll...

A temperature of around minus 10 degrees did little to slow Minnesotans around the Twin Cities on Friday, with businesses closing, workers and students staying home, and demonstrators demanding that federal immigration agents depart. nyti.ms/3Zu4tiB

On a similar journey

Dude. I watched the first half. Obscene.

He goes on to describe one of his officers being stopped when she was off-duty solely because she's non-white, harassed by ICE goons who slapped her phone out of her hand as she tried to record, only to be let go when she finally revealed she was a cop.

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A Little Snow on the Sidewalk Behind the Waverly YMCA I have so been enjoying being back on my bike this year, especially since we’ve had some unseasonably warm weather. And that unseasonably warm weather has come to an end, for now, so the ques…

In which I ride my bike to the Y even though it's cold outside. whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2026/01/20/a...

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The Counter at Baltimore Bicycle Works on Falls Road One of my bike rides this week took me down to Baltimore Bicycle Works, our local worker-owned coop bike shop, to make an appointment for a tune up and some new bar tape. I went with my friend R., …

In which I take my bike to BBW to schedule a tune up and reminisce about my first ride in the city, on a three speed, up Fulton Avenue and over on North, in the heat of a July afternoon. I'm glad I pick my own routes now. That was a lot of cars. whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2026/01/17/t...