Sandy Brumbaum

My Governor just told TFG to fuck all the way off and I’m dying laughing! 🤣🤣☠️☠️🙌🙌

Mariame Kaba: I don't want to grow callous. This idea has been a constant thought in my mind over the past few years. Moral disengagement is something I guard against. I want to be alive to the joys and the pain of the world. As such, I train my eyes, ears and spirit to what's good in the world. I think often about Will Durant's words: "Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting, and doing things historians usually record-while, on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry, whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happens on the banks."

Just reread this to remind myself to “train my eyes, ears, and spirit to what’s good in the world.” open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

The Education Of Diane Ravitch Diane Ravitch is one of the biggest turncoats in education policy history, and American education is better for it.

The Education Of Diane Ravitch www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...

Love your t shirt!

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert A Message From The Frog Resistance

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We have the timidity of countless corporate and university GCs to thank for the fact DEI is treated as though it were illegal.

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Day 11: The longer you spend thinking about falling asleep, the more difficult it will be to do it. If you find yourself tossing and turning in bed, it’s better to get up and distract yourself for a while rather than stress about how many hours of sleep you’ll manage to get.
#sleep #insomnia #rest

Jack Ciattarelli, Republican nominee for Governor of New Jersey, apparently doesn’t think it’s worth answering the question of how important Black and Hispanic voters are to his campaign.

Pritzker is handing Dems a script & a playbook to pushback on the authoritarianism. STILL, so many Dems are too cowardly (see, Schumer, Jeffries) or incompetent (see, Schumer, Jeffries) to use it.

It's maddening to have to beg these electeds whose salaries we are paying to actually fight for us.

Worth watching this brief clip.

-Note the reporter who asked about Memphis.

-Note that every other reporter should have picked up the baton and kept asking that same question. Missed opportunity to do their professional, collegial, and civic duty. Please try it next time.

Sep. 20, 1664 | Maryland Passes Colonies’ First Law Opposing Interracial Marriage Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 1664, the Maryland legislature passed the first colonial law intended to prevent interracial marriage. It would take over 300 years for such “anti-miscegenation” laws to be banned across the U.S.

My friend and colleague Wesley Morris and I had a very sobering conversation about America since the 1619 Project published and how it feels to be falling back under the veil that W.E.B. Du Bois so mournfully wrote about. I hope you’ll listen to this episode of Cannonball @nytimes.com

Al Jazeera reporters face hunger in Gaza Our reporters in Gaza are struggling to find food because of Israel’s blockade on vital aid.

“I am breaking just like Gaza is breaking right now.”

Happy birthday, Nawal! Good luck w the marathon 💪🏽

I guess I just want to say that Trump has captured every single institution. You can track variation in, say, court decisions or changing positions on tariffs but even conceding those things accepts that his whims run institutions’ priorities. Not a single one of them really stood.

Yes. Saying "well, Harvard is fighting" while Columbia and Penn cave, while UVa and Indiana U. use Trump as cover for kneecapping faculty and student freedoms is evidence that Prof. Cottom is correct, not that the institutions have stood. It's a matter of degree now. And it's only been 6 months.

How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying A growing body of research attempts to put a number on energy use and AI—even as the companies behind the most popular models keep their carbon emissions a secret.

AI this, AI that, what about how much energy AI actually uses?

“It blows my mind that you can buy a car and know how many miles per gallon it consumes, yet we use all these AI tools every day and we have absolutely no efficiency metrics, emissions factors, nothing." From the experts:

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

Not good.

“'This sends a dangerous message to scholars globally: that academic publishing contracts are conditional, revocable, and subject to external political calculations.'”

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What does it say about our country that this isn't even one of the top-5 biggest stories right now?

460,000 people would lose health coverage and become uninsured under the Republican health agenda.

16 million people would lose health coverage and become uninsured under the Republican health agenda, including 460,000 people in Illinois.

Policymakers should protect people’s health care, not cut it.

49,000 people in Idaho would lose health coverage and become uninsured under the Republican health agenda.

16 million people would lose health coverage and become uninsured under the Republican health agenda, including 49,000 people in Idaho.

Policymakers should protect people’s health care, not cut it.

57,000 people in Hawaii would lose health coverage and become uninsured under the Republican health agenda.

16 million people would lose health coverage and become uninsured under the Republican health agenda, including 57,000 people in Hawaii.

Policymakers should protect people’s health care, not cut it.

For when Black people say "immigration is not our fight", show them this.

The federal government is telling you they cannot afford to house you, feed you, educate you or heal you — but that they do have enough resources and scale to criminalize, assault, deport and incarcerate your neighbors simply going to work or taking their kids to graduation.

Supreme Court allows DOGE to access Social Security data The dispute concerns efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency, largely led by Elon Musk, to access sensitive data, including Social Security numbers.

A scary decision for millions of working people. This ruling will enable President Trump and DOGE to steal Americans’ private and personal data. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...