Teaching kids social-emotional skills is working!
“Studies suggest youths are more empathetic and less narcissistic than in the past, as well as more open-minded and inclusive. Drug use is down, youth violence has dropped and teen pregnancies have declined.”
hope you feel better very soon!
That's home. That's us.
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.
Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.
Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
If you’re thinking about how sexual violence, social movements, and accountability today, read this brilliant Sara Ahmed essay on the difference between consequences and punishment.
I recommend this essay to people grappling with accountability proceedings more than any other.
Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"
Dolores Huerta holds up a sign that says, “HUELGA.” It has a small UFW symbol on the right top corner.
Holding Dolores Huerta in my heart today and always for what she did for my people and what she endured along the way.
As Line 5 moves forward, four tribes are trying to stop it. They claim the pipeline could contaminate the Great Lakes. Their case is now in front of the Michigan Supreme Court.
Recently finished “We Survived the Night” by Julian Brave Noisecat and appreciate the way the author braids the Coyote narrative, personal experience, and regional history
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
Solidarity
I love Ahmed’s work- so hermeneutically powerful
Snowed in this weekend? Bored with nothing to do? Print some red cards! They list your rights if ICE comes to your home, and provide a way to invoke your those rights. They can be printed in a range of languages to distribute to community
www.ilrc.org/redcards?fbc...
The best thing about being a geek is that there’s always a bigger geek than you. For example, you might be wondering if anyone has ever used LaTeX to make an 8-page mini-zine, and would they share their template with me, and the answer is of course yes #geeksarethebest
Once again, the mainstream media (The WSJ this time) is making lives harder for disabled people, instead of being furious over how disabled people's legitimate every day needs are neglected. Also, ambulatory wheelchair users are very common! TY Rachel T.
www.facebook.com/tikva82/post... #disability
I’m convinced
Glad to see these plans to expunge child prostitution convictions in the UK. Hope to see more efforts to prevent child sexual exploitation and provide meaningful forms of redress
www.gov.uk/government/n...
What's happening with SNAP is incredibly uncertain and I'm hearing from comrades all over who are struggling, confused, and getting mixed messages about their bennies. I wrote about how SNAP affects families with medically complex children who use SNAP/WIC at @civileats.com!
What’s the worst thing about the US health insurance system and why is it everything
Yes! To be fair, it is basically witchcraft
Yes, I want my tax dollars going to feed and house people. Those are some of the best uses of my tax dollars, in fact.
“My once-firm stride, the stride of a university instructor who hurried between lecture halls, had turned into a limp. My shoes were worn and coated with much dust, my clothes tattered and stained, and my face—once animated by ideas and humor—had grown pale and gaunt.” mondoweiss.net/2025/10/im-h...
I guess all phishing is designed to capitalise on some sort of crisis, or the fear of one, but I feel there’s something particularly vile about phishing that purports to be from the Department of Homeland Security
Uk academics and teachers - just take this in. And huge respect to everyone who has worked to sustain education in the emergency and provide access and lecturing through this devastation.
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Tying people’s insurance to their job and it’s not even free has got to be one of the biggest scams America ever concocted.
Yesterday was the 70 year anniversary of 14 year old Emmett Till's death.
I don't think people realize how recent that actually is. That was within my dad's lifetime. Within the current president's lifetime.
It's not ancient past.
🧵Ahmed Kamal Junina is a linguistics professor. He writes about trying to teach in Gaza while starving.
"To generate knowledge in the context of hunger is to think through pain. To teach students who have not eaten and still tell them their voices matter."
tinyurl.com/toohungrytot...
