Bedtime Boost: Internet is still out (about to hit the 46 hour mark), and I'm still sitting at 0/$1600 needed by April 30 so I can pay my rent. Thanks so much for all the shares today! #MutualAidRequest
NEW: Three rulings in the past week show the scope and breadth of efforts to fight anti-trans attacks.
A Montana Supreme Court decision protecting birth certificates, a ruling on Trump's anti-trans prison policies, and final judgment vacating RFK Jr.'s anti-trans "declaration."
Law Dork:
Police don’t keep us safe. That’s not what they do. That’s not what they’re for.
The El Gamal family will be released! Today, a federal judge ordered the end of their imprisonment at the Dilley trailer prison. They had been suffering at Dilley for nearly a year—the mother was rushed to the hospital last week and the five-year old daughter had been denied dental care.
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A share of merch sales will go to the Sandy Hook families, which will be the first time they get any money since they filed this lawsuit eight years ago.
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These fuckers are desperate to prevent us from voting…because we will vote them out.
None of this is about election integrity or fairness.
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I would love it if those of you who do not have library cards will apply for one at your local branch during #NationalLibraryWeek. Then let me know about it. 😇
I see a brilliantly engineered setup!
Listen.
refusing to cite work of indie journalists is a choice and NYT made it. taken together with @nytimes.com blocking archive access today's a great day to cancel.
🧢 @whodat35.bsky.social
"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging
Here are a few reliable sources about Black femicide and violence. I use these works in my Black Feminism course:
- INTIMATE JUSTICE, Shatema Threadcraft
- AMERICA, GODDAM, Treva Lindsey
- ARRESTED JUSTICE, Beth Richie
As Breaker first reported, CBS News has invited both Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller to be guests at their tables at the White House Correspondents' dinner just days after Ellison's cocktail soiree.
You might or or might not (but I’m guessing might not) be surprised to learn that CBS News invited Stephen Miller to be their guest at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Hegseth, too.
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Thank you.
#TalkAboutHumanities
We need scholars across the humanities, because these are the fields where we study what it is to be human, to inhabit different identities, and to connect with each other, to be human together.
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We could have continued to benefit from the presence of this brilliant, kind, delightful woman. But your racist ass neighbor & uncle & college buddies would rather burn this place to the ground than have to share it as *equals*.
She deserves to be safe and celebrated. It could have been here.
Yousof Azizi, Iranian researcher, journalist, commentator and PhD candidate at @virginiatech.bsky.social with valid legal status, has been illegally detained by ICE. He was taken from in front of his home, has been denied access to a lawyer, and may be transferred to a detention center in Louisiana:
@yale.edu released a report on why the public (allegedly) doesn't trust higher education. The @nytimes.com covered it uncritically. So... I'm "pleased" to unveil my next debunking: an interactive annotated doc that points out factual, logical, and rhetorical errors. Enjoy! #AcademicSky
A tweet from Representative Thomas Massie that reads: I just viewed 2 Top Secret FISA docs. 1) FISA Court opinion that raises serious concerns about FBI implementation of FISA 702. 2) letter by Senator Wyden describing a secret government interpretation of FISA law. The Constitution requires I vote No on FISA 702 reauthorization.
I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about.
Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.
“Anglicans, support the Pope!” 🤣
(Yes it’s also good and yes the situation is disturbing but the history nerd in me is absolutely cackling at this latest absurdity in our strange new constellation of alliances.)
Feels important to uplift Rep Pressley's leadership. She puts in a lot of work on issues that others often don't see as a priority. I've appreciated her anti-criminalization work over the years. She's a worker.
Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.
Thanks for making the absolute best designs out there!
Yes, please.
I secured some funding last year to revive the Stevie Wilson DIY Young Artists Residency. I’m excited to announce that applications are open today until May 11 for young artists (ages 16-24) directly impacted by criminalization, policing, or punishment.
“Someone has to be happy. Why not Caligula’s wife?”
(“Happy” is doing a lot of work, here. Yikes.)