Pauli Murray was among the first to theorize that the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection under law could be used not only to challenge laws that discriminated based on race, but also on sex.
Their legacy lives on during Women's History Month and every month.
If you don’t understand that facts are inherently discriminatory,
Then I don’t know what to tell you.
Orange County Community Remembrance Coalition marking the 160th anniversary of the ratification of the 13th Amendment
Chapel Hill! This year’s last conversation about THE TROUBLE OF COLOR is a great one, with Sally Greene at FLYLEAF BOOKS. Saturday December 6 at 6pm.
NEW: Justice Ziegler has corrected her misquotation of Moore v. Harper. However, her new summary of the Supreme Court's decision in Moore does not, in my view, accurately reflect the holding. The sentence she quotes doesn't match the "exceedingly limited" paraphrase. www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/D...
Karin.
And Karen, I'm so grateful for the way you articulate your love of putting words together and how you can't live without it. It's how I've felt since college, but could not have put it do well.
Loved this! Listening, I started thinking about @marthasjones.bsky.social long before you mentioned her. Martha, how does it feel to hear your memoir praised in the same breath as Moby Dick!?
As soon as I published this newsletter on SNAP last week, it started to be superseded by events. Now the administration wants states to "undo" efforts to provide the benefits in full. The cruelty is bottomless. mailchi.mp/8140fd5606af...
Ohio National Guard member Sgt. Devon Beck was not amused by this satire. On September 11, 2025, Mr. O’Hara saw Sgt. Beck, along with several other Guard members, walking in uniform in the Logan Circle neighborhood, near the intersection of 14th and R Streets NW. Mr. O’Hara calmly walked behind the Guard members, began playing The Imperial March aloud on his phone, and started recording. In less than two minutes, Sgt. Beck turned around and threatened to call D.C. police officers to “handle” Mr. O’Hara if he persisted. Mr. O’Hara continued recording and playing the music. Sgt. Beck contacted the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). Defendant MPD Officers Brown, Campbell, Reyes-Benigno, and Lopez Martinez came to the scene and, in essence, did what Sgt. Beck had threatened, putting Mr. O’Hara in handcuffs and preventing him from continuing his peaceful protest.
The DC ACLU is suing on behalf of a man who was arrested by a National Guardsman and MPD officers for playing the Imperial March (from Star Wars) as an act of protest. www.acludc.org/app/uploads/...
New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST
We are all the UN escalator.
Decades ago, this grassroots coalition did restore truth and sanity to the history we tell about George Washington.
This is the perfect encapsulation of Trumpism -- because of its obsession with imagery, the White House crew caused a problem but blamed it on other people, leading to MAGA making threats against the United Nations for their own screw up
What a book cover that is! 🗃️
I'm moving to Bonn, Germany in a few weeks! My wife got into a master's program there, and I'll focus on intensive study of the German language for the first year. If you are in the area or know anyone I should meet there, please let me know!
donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
So, I live in Birmingham, Alabama. One of my bosses recently told me he doesn't think all the police dogs and fire hoses really happened because his parents took him downtown when he was small and everyone was nice. He's white and was born in 1963. He's also thoroughly on the right and brainwashed
We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.
Our Autumn 2025 issue has arrived! Highlights include J. Malcolm Garcia’s visit to an Oregon tent encampment; Kristin Idaszak’s look at the link between horseshoe crabs and the human heart; Steve Yarbrough’s profile of writer James Whitehead; and much more!
On this day in 1913, eight Black men at a Texas prison farm suffocated after they were placed in an underground cell as punishment for not picking cotton fast enough.
oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
In recent public remarks about deploying the National Guard to Chicago, Donald Trump said:
“I have the right to do ANYTHING I want to do. I’m the president of the United States.”
Not even a King has that right. Certainly no president. Who knew a non-drinker could be so drunk with power?
In NC it is the Western Piedmont Symphony.
You just saved $26.00 by using your library. You have saved $2,160.24 this past year and $6, 122.52 since you began using the library! Thank You!
Just noticed this on the checkout notification I get from the Chicago Public Library. I think it’s new and I love it!
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
they think they can just erase trans joy and trans freedom. they can't. they can make things a lot harder and more painful. but that joy and that freedom is not theirs to take and it is incumbent on all good people to say so.
