It is DEEPLY important to get non-millionaires, non-tech-industry-hacks, and non-Wall-Street people onto Boards of Trustees of Colleges and Universities. I've seen @syed.nyc in action in the Working Families Party and hope you'll vote for him if you're a Wesleyan grad.
We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.
“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.
(Published Dec. 2024)
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You know you reminded me I had my eye on this event coming up—it’s a benefit for the East Bay Meditation Center so it’ll be Buddhist-inflected, I don’t know if that’s necessarily your jam, but just in case!
Movement folks—or prob anyone trying to find a way through these dumpster fire times—might be interested in this pay-what-you-can event on Sat 4/25.
“…will explore how we take action that is rooted in love, stay in relationship amid rupture, and engage conflict without reproducing harm.”
things like "it's not feminist to comment on a woman's actions" or "women using AI is women's empowerment" kind of things. like does it feel like feminist discourse is too co-opted to actually address women's rights at the moment?
I am writing something for @theflytrapmedia.com about how current "feminist" discourse feels like an optical illusion (like people use it rhetorically but don't really understand the history and roots of the movement). are you a feminist and do you have thoughts? I'm thinking about +
Lol too real. It came as a terrible shock to me when I started teaching in grad school, the discovery that undergrads were basically the same age as high schoolers
Whew solidarity, have been there and it takes a real toll. I’ve been poking around the lit on conflict in movement spaces lately because I’m so desperate to find ways to make it any bit easier
I wrote for Slate about how a new group of cookbooks and food writers are trying to remind us of the actual joy of cooking. slate.com/life/2026/04...
An opportune time to remind yall media and journalism scholars that there isn’t much scholarship out there on The Onion and I would love a pitch for a monograph or edited collection on the subject…
Sometimes dictating it helps? Or writing it on your phone. Into a note or an email you send yourself.
Oh my gosh—feeling my age because I remember reading about this at the time!!
A zoomed in picture of a wooden sign painted orange with the black outline of a butterfly and the date “16-OCT-2025”, the signed is screwed onto a wooden utility pole.
A zoomed in picture of a wooden sign painted orange with the black outline of a butterfly and the date “26-OCT-2025”, the signed is screwed onto a wooden utility pole.
These have gone up all over our area. A heartbreaking memorial to those people stolen from our community.
At our event at the library today, I passed out information about the fact that the Mayor's preliminary budget cuts our public library budget. Only 2 people were aware of this. Everyone was appalled. We need to increase public education about this fact. Folks promised to contact their council member
Analilia Mejia is winning NJ-11 by nearly 20 points, about 12 points better than Kamala Harris did. This is the type of red-to-blue suburban district where Dems typically nominate center-left mods. A paradigm shift if a Bernie-AOC progressive can dominate vs a Republican here.
Understood you were talking about T&D; Long figures centrally in the book so I thought might be worthwhile if interested in her role. But I understand developing criticism of someone you’d known a long time. LTRS def raised Qs for me about which costrugglers I’d trust to describe movement efforts.
I’m running for Congress for the same reason I wrote this oped: the billionaires won’t save us — they’re the ones stealing our money!
Let’s reclaim what’s ours.
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Three short stacks of the same book with blue binding, one rests in front with the cover facing forward, the title is “Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis” edited by Kelly Hayes. The illustrated cover is a deep blue night sky with constellations, in the foreground a person with long hair and their back to facing us wades in a pond filled with lily pads and surrounded by tall trees and flowers.
BOOK MAIL!
Our bulk order of “Read This When Things Fall Apart” from @firestorm.coop arrived just in time for our first tabling event of the spring!
We’ll have these at @peacepark.bsky.social this Sunday 4/19 @ Gazebo Park from 9am-1pm & next Saturday 4/25 @ St Stephen’s from 2-8pm!
Come say hi!
Very excited to share today's conversation with @mollycrabapple.bsky.social about her latest book Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund
Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...
@oneworldbooks.bsky.social @milkweededitions.bsky.social
Definitely check out @taskandpurpose.com 's interview with the photographer of this great shot and what the experience was like.
taskandpurpose.com/news/august-...
If you haven’t read it yet, Schulman’s Let The Record Show is a pretty great antidote to the genius white guy narrative. It’s long but totally absorbing, like sitting in a bar with movement veterans telling war stories.
Tell the truth and get fired.
NASA astronaut Christina Koch sits in an U.S. Navy MH-60S Seahawk attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 on the flight deck of the San Antonio Class amphibious transport dock USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) after returning from space on Apr. 10, 2026.
This picture of Astronaut Christina Koch after the Artemis landing is frankly incredible and beautiful.
Just in case you don’t believe me. This is a thing I’m always upset about when it comes to public scholarship, which is a topic I care so deeply about. www.patreon.com/posts/900009...
Great question, would def love to hear about this.
Have you attended an event to celebrate anti-ICE/pro-community work? I & I bet others would ❤️ to hear what worked/didn't.What's the balance of celebration/processing/reflection? Interested in all sorts of gatherings, but the one I have in mind will welcome many not-previously-super-politicized ppl.
Day 23 of posting daily videos to fundraise for displaced ppl in Lebanon. In which garden with Chow. Donate here: www.gofundme.com/f/help-ali-e...
Wow this is pretty brazen. Includes one person who says she never signed yet is listed three times, supposedly all on the same day with different signatures lmao
Good for him but I am tired of learning about all the ways a 41-year-old candidate for U.S. Senate supposedly has a lot more growing and learning to do. Maybe do that before the Senate? And maybe try out a lower office before then?
Or maybe we just watch him blossom into another Sinema/Fetterman.
