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As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous.

Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.

Did you know that when a redwood dies and falls in the forest it can take over 500 years for the log to rot? For perspective, that is twice as long as the United States has been a country. There are rotting logs on forest floors that are older than our government.

EPA terminates $7B solar program, cutting $500M in tribal energy funding The Environmental Protection Agency announced it will end the Solar for All program, eliminating more than $500 million in funding for tribal clean energy projects across the country.

EPA ended a program that supports solar energy programs in marginalized communities. $500 million in funding earmarked for tribal projects was eliminated.

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Resources — Boston Immigration Justice Accompaniment Network (BIJAN)

These folks have some resources. I’m so sorry your friend is dealing with that www.beyondbondboston.org/resources#po...

How to make salabat | Poetry Database | Split This Rock

What I actually want / to say all the time is Grief is the full-time job.

For #NationalPoetryMonth Split This Rock is sharing poems from The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database. Today's poem: "How to make salabat" by Kay Ulanday Barrett: bit.ly/40DG7Tc
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#Poetry

Headshot of Becca Blackwell.

Headshot of Mike Doyle.

Headshot of Michelle Beck.

Headshot of Kay Ulanday Barrett.

Happy Pride from Selected Shorts! On this week's Pride-themed episode, Becca Blackwell, Mike Doyle, Michelle Beck, and @brownroundboi.bsky.social read works by @ivancoyote.bsky.social, Michael Cunningham, @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social, and Kay Ulanday Barrett. bit.ly/44btBxH

Hey loves, a friend in my network needs an immigration lawyer ASAP in the BOSTON AREA! Does anyone have any leads— could be paid or probono.

CW: ICE round up & possible detention.

Please lmk if you have any leads. Thanks so much ✊🏽🥄

Long Island man is first in New York history to be cured of sickle cell anemia A patient on Long Island is the first in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia, doctors say.

Looks like we've got a cure for sickle cell. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

some of you haven't fill out a tome of endless forms, waited hours to perform humanity, prove your worth, decency of healthcare, only to be shot down by an indifferent stranger. Then having to appeal multiple times to prove your worth for meds you need in order to survive...

And it shows. #Medicaid

Poster for a panel at the 2025 AWP conference in L.A. called Filipino Writers on Diasporic Subjectivity and Postcolonial Prosodies. Headshots of four Filipino writers against a dark green background. From left to right: Kay Ulanday Barrett, Oliver de la Paz, Kimberly Garza, and Alleliah Nuguid. The panel will be at the L.A. Convention Center, level 2, room 407, on Thursday, March 27th, at 10:35 AM, and moderated by Paula Mendoza.

Thrilled to be moderating this amazing panel at AWP this year. If you'll be there, I invite you to join us! #AWP2025 #AWPLA #Filipinowriters #Filipinxwriters

some of you haven't fill out a tome of endless forms, waited hours to perform humanity, prove your worth, decency of healthcare, only to be shot down by an indifferent stranger. Then having to appeal multiple times to prove your worth for meds you need in order to survive...

And it shows. #Medicaid

"Writing from the Groin" video essay by Sandra Alland (BSL with AD and CC) YouTube video by BOPTheatre

My video essay Writing From the Groin: How Non-disabled CisHet Monied White People Lock Themselves into Mediocrity. English narration with BSL, captions & audio description. Videos from brill disabled oracles including @alexhaagaard.bsky.social, @miamingus.bsky.social, @brownroundboi.bsky.social.

The thing about nazis is that every iteration of them will be dumber and more evil than the last, because thats what you have to be to see the last version of them and go "oh yeah thats so cool"

Lake County library leaders expect to see more challenged books A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, according to the American Library Association. Challenges lead to censorship.

Right-wing censors are now "quiet banning" books that they can't removed legally.

Librarians in Chicago have been finding books dealing with race, LGBTQ+ issues or Islam hidden under shelves, in trash cans or otherwise "disappeared."

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/22/l...

Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position.

You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.

They want us to be afraid. They want us to hesitate. They want us to fear their next move.

Fuck that shit.

We are just getting started fighting.

Four tiny splitgill mushrooms grow from the underside of an upturned stick found in a snowy forest. Three mushrooms form a crowded group and their gills radiate across their caps like tiny bursting fireworks All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

Caught a guy peeing on my cybertruck. You're wasting your time idiot, it was already covered in piss from all the other people who did that today

The Christian Nationalist Plot to Disenfranchise Women Voters The SAVE Act, which purports to fend off the phantasmal threat of voter fraud, would throw millions of women off the voting rolls.

Disenfranchising women is a key project of Christian nationalism.

Just 4 MORE DAYS to submit your full-length prose manuscripts in all genres! These collections may be short stories, novellas, essays, memoir, or a mixture thereof.
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Trump has canceled Biden's ethics rules. Critics call it the opposite of 'drain the swamp' Donald Trump took office eight years ago pledging to “drain the swamp” of the dominance of Washington influence peddlers.

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees.

Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law

Time to do things that make him react to you.
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trump left the superbowl because he was offended kendrick slandered pedophiles

Looks like there were some more overt parts that weren’t onscreen:

This is boring as hell. We need Kendrick to call Trump a pedophile.

Weird how all the people upset by the Kendrick performance are almost all incredibly unsettling guys with a myriad of accusations against them anywayyyyys guess they don’t like rap or something

THE SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW IS UNION MADE!

Shout out to Kendrick Lamar, and all the performers and behind the scenes workers that made this go off without a hitch!