“The United Nations General Assembly has voted to recognise the enslavement of Africans during the transatlantic slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity", a move advocates hope will pave the way for healing and justice.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
A Third of Americans Have Cut Spending or Borrowed Money for Health Care www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/h...
“Members have also had heated discussions about the shooting of two protesters in Minneapolis, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and the ways immigration enforcement has taken place around the US.”
www.wired.com/story/hsi-fo...
“SINCE PRESIDENT DONALD Trump took office in 2025, ICE has more than doubled in size. DHS claims the agency now has 22,000 officers and agents stationed around the country and is still in the process of hiring more.”
www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...
I sat in my room at the Ramada Inn on Lake Shore Drive, watching Woodie King and Ron Milner crossing the parking lot. They were living history for me. Ron died quite a while ago. Now Woodie has left us.
Woodie King Jr., a Driving Force in Black Theater, Dies at 88 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/t...
ICE… as we live through a winter storm that could be historic, the idea of coldness as lack of feeling and coldness as a result of global warming are intertwined. The corporations are taking the idea of being persons quite literally by enabling these atrocities.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
@shayla Jupiter is awesome 😊❤️
Chloe Phillips interviewed me toward the subject of my engagement with Daoism and my most recent book, A Fire in the Hills. Thank you.
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“So that’s why China would like to do our best to steer in this kind of direction towards low-carbon or green transition, but in cooperation with other countries. We don’t want to take the lead alone. We need comprehensive leadership.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Willie Perdomo on heartbreak… my read for today. Amazing…
“I hate theatre,” she said. “OK, by now I have seen some interesting things. But it’s not something to do in my free time.” Her writing god is, in fact, the novelist Stephen King. “If you write a good story, it will work on the stage,” she said.
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...
#birds A pushme-pullyou mourning dove.
New from @kinlinglo.bsky.social: A look at how the ghost town that once symbolized China’s property bust became an ideal place to train self-driving vehicles.
Pikachu (thiccachu) pokemon dragging bag it cash thru Halloween New Yorker mag
How somethings haven't changed from 1999
An excellent overview of the establishment of the U.S. Constitution.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Congratulations Arthur!!! 😊❤️
Arthur Sze Will Be the Next U.S. Poet Laureate www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
A lower-court judge has sided with Harvard in its lawsuit against the Trump Administration, concluding that the Administration “used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities.”
The overview I’ve had for sometime:
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Kay Ryan
photo by Kay Ryan
Academy of American Poets
