I feel like if we could just magically see where all the money was going… from whom, to whom, for what in exchange, this moment of faux-populist techno-fascist anti-science MAHA experimentation would come to a screeching halt.
As a former StoryCorps facilitator, this is fucking disgusting.
End the project already, Dave.
You created a good model: you encouraged people to sit and do oral history for 20 yrs.
Turning StoryCorps into a surveillance capitalism nightmare is not worth the money to keep the project going.
Pie chart showing that 1 in 5 incarcerated people is locked up for a drug offense
This 4/20, we're thinking of the horrific impact that the U.S.'s war on drugs had on vulnerable communities.
Today, drug offenses still account for the incarceration of over 360,000 people, and drug convictions remain a defining feature of the federal prison system.
Couch snuggles with a big stack of picture books made the April snow shower feel okay today 🥰
some things about becoming a parent are radicalizing in ways I expected - e.g being reminded viscerally how screwed we'd all be if childcare and other care work disappeared. but other things are radicalizing in ways I didn't - like experiencing constant spontaneous solidarity in ways big and small
Sweet W just needed to bring her leaf from the park into her bed tonight.
I wish everyone could have a little bit of toddler joy in their lives 🥰
Child: I know your name. Mamdani.
Obama: What’s his first name?
Child: Mayor.
Looooooove!!! 💛
The thing about “viewpoint diversity” is it’s an affront to legitimate scholarship. What counts as knowledge should have to earn that status - but right-wingers want cheat codes so their shoddy “research” will get as much hearing as serious peer-reviewed work.
Emotional watching Hungarians celebrate in the streets 🙏🏻💛
Well done!
Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.
Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.
He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.
The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.
Magyar’s speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: “He’s basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired.”
#tdih 1787, Richard Allen and Absalom Jones founded the Free African Society in Philadelphia, a multi-denomination mutual aid org for freed people.
Provided core services (education, health, jobs, burial) denied to Black people by U.S. & local gov't.
Read ⬇️
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theofficialdawsonmckie Dear America, I'm Canadian, and even from across the border I can tell your gentlest people are doing the heaviest lifting. They are feeding people, protecting people, defending people, comforting people, organizing people, and carrying a country that keeps calling their pain politics. If America has a soul left, it is living inside the people who refuse to stop caring. Your cruelest people may have the microphone right now, but your best people still have the moral weight.
We're terrible neighbors right now, and it hurts to keep caring. Care anyway. You are needed.
BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges.
/w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social
73 of our students spent the day competing at Vermont History Day.
Things might be hard, hard… but today? Today was good 💛
A screenshot of the Artemis livestream with the Integrity module on the left and a half-illuminated Earth getting big on the screen in the center. The black of space is all around.
The #Artemis II livestream continues to be the best thing on the internet. 😍
The return-to-Earth live coverage begins at 6:30pm Eastern (in about 90 minutes) with splashdown in the Pacific scheduled for 8:07pm Eastern.
www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...
“There was no authority that we could call on for help, no police, who would help us in that instance. We could only count on the support of our neighbors,” - Jerez Andrade
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Appropriate since snakes do not have arms.
all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
Freedom Flag #1: On Tuesday Morning, 2001 by Faith Ringgold. colorful rendition of U.S. flag with script text
Friends in DC area: Friday (April 10), in person at Howard U Law School is the @the14thcenter.bsky.social 2026 Symposium hosted by founding director Sherrilyn Ifill.
Panels on birthright citizenship, voting rights, art, education, & more. Learn more and RSVP:
14thamendmentctr.org/news/second-...
Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly:
- Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat)
- Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex)
- Humming (stimulates vagus nerve)
- Exercise (anything helps, outside even better)
- Impeachment and removal
SUPER high-quality dagger prop for the classroom
"Is this a dagger which I see before me..."
Sometimes you realize mid-lesson you need a prop dagger to make a point when teaching Macbeth + then you realize that it needs blood + then you realize you are a teacher in April 🤷♂️
Israel bombing a synagogue in Tehran is the kind of symbolism that would feel too heavy-handed in a work of fiction.
But yeah. That tracks in this ridiculous timeline.
May God bring comfort and safety to the Tehran Jewish community.
Before playing Kamancheh, he says: 'Hello, I'm Mohammad-Reza Afarideh, the director of the ed. institute that has now been destroyed. I wanted the last sound coming from my institute not to be of missiles and war; (I want the) final sound to be of the instrument that I played in it. Thank you'.
What if the United States had a Congress?
A screenshot of a Facebook post by CBS 2 Boise. The post text reads: "A new state law required the City of Boise to take down the Pride flag outside City Hall. Tuesday morning, the City wrapped flag poles in Pride colors and added a new sign to the window on City Hall. CBS2 reached out to the Mayor and Governor’s office for comment." Below the text is a collage of three photos showing these updates: Left: A tall metallic flagpole in a plaza at night, with its lower section wrapped in horizontal stripes matching the colors of the Progress Pride flag (black, brown, light blue, pink, white, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple). Top Right: A closer view of a flagpole base, also wrapped in horizontal Progress Pride flag colors. Bottom Right: A large window on City Hall featuring a graphic with diagonal stripes in the Progress Pride colors alongside the text, "Creating a city for everyone."
Oh, this is good. Idaho passed a bill banning local cities from flying the Pride flag. So the cities decided to wrap the poles themselves in pride colors.
This is amazing.
Donald Trump must be removed from office for threatening war crimes and genocide.
Speaker Johnson: bring the House back into session.
Invoking the 25th Amendment and impeachment must be on the table, but Congress should also move on a War Powers resolution to stop Trump.
Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.
