Your insurance being tied to your job is some bull.

Blind obedience does not prepare children for freedom. It teaches compliance, not critical thought. The freedom we want for children starts with what we give them now: safety, security, and space to think. Liberation begins long before adulthood.

if you’re reading this, you’re hot and i hope you have a good day

I went to an open mic night with a friend and I feel inspired to start writing again.

This is why the USA is not Sweden. It’s always the racism.

“Do you have a middle name?”

“Post a pic from the year you graduated high school!”

These are not “getting to know you” topics, they are personally identifying details.

Bc it is never ever accompanied by talk of safe water, clean air, safe birthing, living wages, free childcare, or any of the proven things that would support increased birth.

won't you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other hand; come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed.

Missed a week with my 8th graders due to the storm, so one last Black History Month poem as a bridge into Women's History Month.

This one is by Lucille Clifton, which has a line I think about often:

"come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed."

“Something to Cry About” —a podcast about regulating your emotions

The Putting Your Foot In It podcast —we share old school recipes and tips on how to make your food absolutely delicious

“Who Made The Potato Salad?” —a podcast about interracial dating and marriage and biracial child rearing

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

Bolsonaro in prison, Yeon sentenced to prison, Andrew arrested on his birthday...and America still holding on to a 34 count felon as President.

Guys the interview I thought was Friday was actually today. I did not prepare and if I don't make it to the next round at least I know why.

Cambodia reports first H5N1 human case this year Cambodia has reported 36 human H5 infections since 2023.

Cambodia reports first H5N1 human case this year

Cambodia has reported 36 human H5 infections since 2023.

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.

Still image from the Super Bowl halftime show of Bad Bunny looking serious, talking directly to the camera, pointing at us.

“If I’m here at Super Bowl LX, it’s because I never stopped believing in myself. You should never stop believing in yourself either. It’s worth more than you think.” —Bad Bunny

The Librarians | Book Policies Documentary | Independent Lens The Librarians follows librarians and citizens responding to restrictions on library content across the United States.

The Librarians premiers on Independent Lens on Feb 9!

@heykellyjensen.bsky.social has advice about how to support your local libraries: bookriot.com/how-to-suppo... + bookriot.com/gifting-with...)

I saw this on TV at the gym this morning and rolled my eyes cause I knew he was on stage doing some bullshit.

lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

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Minnesotans on Bde Maka Ska, a lake in Minneapolis. Photo credit WCCO-TV

I'm not on Threads but they got absolutely ratioed based on the amount of comments. Really hoping they collected her there cause what the hell. What a terrible collection of thoughts posted for all to see.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

We need one band, one sound on public health messaging right now.

It’s not that COVID is causing autism

Autism is genetic. People are born with this neurotype.

It’s that Covid is causing dysautonomia aka messing with your autonomic nervous system, which is making autistic sensory challenges worse & emotional regulation harder for *everyone*

Folks in #publichealth what are we doing to raise morale? I worked in consulting (evaluation) and lost my job in Nov '25 due to this administration's priorities. I'm trying to get back on my feet and I'm not sure how to start. Gonna apply for a fellowship but it feels like my career goals are shot.

over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)