T. Lacy

2025 tested us. 2026 will define us.

This year challenged our communities and everyone fighting for civil rights, racial justice, and democracy. Our community still spoke out, filed lawsuits, demanded accountability, and showed up at the polls.

In 2026, we need your continued support. ⬇️

NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse.

The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.

"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"

Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."

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Report: Stagnant Economy Forcing More Americans To Take Jobs As Infrastructure

Report: Stagnant Economy Forcing More Americans To Take Jobs As Infrastructure https://theonion.com/report-stagnant-economy-forcing-more-americans-to-take-1819576811/

Hi all,

I rarely do this, but I'm posting that I'm back on the academic job market.

As a Californian, my partner and I are trying to stay on the West Coast. Any leads for jobs in History, American Studies, Cultural Studies, etc. in the Western U.S. are greatly appreciated!

Sincerely,

Nathan

People often excuse this by saying the money comes from donors and doesn't take away from the university

But do we really believe the counterfactual is that NONE of this $228 million would have gone to the university?

Bulls announce rookie Noa Essengue is done with season-ending surgery

The 12th overall draft pick wasn't contributing much anyway this season, but it was an important development year for him. Now all of that is out the window as he will undergo shoulder surgery.

Same!

USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...

Public man-made death: The dismantling of USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”

That’s 1000+ excess dead children every day. Every day.

hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

The subtext in JD Vance asking for "patience" on the economy: When leaders stop talking about current conditions and jump straight to rosy forecasts, they’re signaling the present isn’t defensible. That’s your cue to scrutinize the numbers, not just the narrative.

PJM is the regional grid serving 67 million customers in 13 states

No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.

big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

In ‘Dilexi Te,’ Pope Leo connects liturgy with the work of justice Pope Leo XIV's first apostolic exhortation is a timely reminder that Christ summons us to care for the poor.

Worship is not genuine if it is divorced from social justice. Leo writes that through the prophets, God denounces “the injustices committed against the weakest, and exhorts Israel to renew its worship from within, because one cannot pray and offer sacrifice while oppressing the weakest and poorest.”

We're at the next stag of the authors' lawsuit against Anthropic.

Check the link below to see which of your books they raided and then click through to file a claim.

Four of mine were in there.

Oh they don’t like the whistles? Hey everyone, they don’t like the whistles. If you use them it makes the armed goons sad.

I think the word you’re looking for is “kept”

An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minnesota, police say

"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

The fact that Summers remained so popular after questioning the intellectual abilities of women is really a pretty harsh indictment of US society as a whole and particularly the elite circles Summers travels in, and Democrats should have kicked him to the curb for that shit.

We have to get rid of these people one by one.

Impeach him now---him and his complicit VP.

“No Separation Between Church and State”: Inside a Texas Church’s Training Academy for Christians Running for Office A Fort Worth church’s candidate training program is the “next stage” of a religion-driven political movement, which has more latitude now that the IRS has allowed religious leaders to endorse candidat...

A Fort Worth church’s candidate training program is the “next stage” of a religion-driven political movement, which has more latitude now that the IRS has allowed religious leaders to endorse candidates from the pulpit, an expert said. w/ @fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org

I much prefer this map to the winner-takes-all one ( I really try my best to avoid describing places as "red" or "blue").

Much more precise and accurate this way.

Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.

Remember when this regime touted “states rights" and now they're fighting to force states to starve their own citizens.

Driving up taxi prices in my city.

Boaty McNotBoatface

Good article. Yes, the "crisis of masculinity" predates factory closings. That problem is definitely not merely about economics and jobs.

The article reminds me of Barbara Ehrenreich's *Hearts of Men*.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...

Not a great showing last night by the Bulls on the road against a class Eastern Conference team.