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"more than half of the properties where the owners’ names were made public are owned by Black families, even though Black people comprise less than 20% of Altadena’s population."

Great long-form article, not only on the Eaton fire, but Katrina, and the long history of injustice in housing in the US

It’s already impossible to get specialist appointments within 3-4 months of needing one. It’s going to become impossible for anyone with conditions needing specialized care to live here. And they know these docs depend on Medicare and Medicaid payments, not just PPOs.

This.

The chaos at the GSD right now is unimaginable

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article) The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research.

NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%

Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%

Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.

#GiftLink ⚛️🔭

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Yall! 😂

So much trauma and harm for the right take on human rights to be reached. 😞

So ashamed of my alma mater.

Barnard suspends WKCR and Spectator reporters who covered Butler Library protest Barnard and Columbia issued interim suspensions Thursday afternoon to four student journalists who covered a Wednesday pro-Palestinian protest in Butler Library, citing “information received” from Pub...

Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library.

Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams.

Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist

www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...

Pope Leo XIV's grandparents were 7th Ward Creoles The newly elected pontiff, born in Chicago, has ancestral ties to the city’s historic Seventh Ward, according to genealogists at The Historic New Orleans Collection.

I didn’t give a wit about new pope coverage, but the first American pope being a man with Black ancestry born in Chicago by way of New Orleans by way of Haiti. Names his self after the pope who condemned slavery? In the Trump era? Oh, baebae, I am HERE for it.

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America’s heritage is in a state of crisis. Along w/ DOGE-ing NPS, IMLS & the NEH, Trump is withholding already appropriated 2025 historic preservation funds & for 2026 wants to outright eliminate all fed funding for tribal, state, local & rural preservation & saving treasures of American history. 😡

This is so fantastic and well deserved! Congrats!!!

Kate does it again.

The historian in me appreciates that future discussions of these matters will get the facts at full throttle not in neutral gear

I get this ain’t that other platform and there’s lots of intellectuals on here but where’s the chatter about the NFL draft drama. Too juicy for weekend NPR 😂

Oh Brian. 8 months is generous. I’m sure there’s a 3D printer out there spitting out statues in less than a week!

on a more serious note: I think they imagine a manufactured product not an artistic production

Mamdani Aims at Cuomo, Beginning Ad War in N.Y.C. Mayor’s Race (Gift Article) Zohran Mamdani, who won attention for a series of online campaign videos, is the first candidate to air a broadcast ad in the Democratic primary race.

Thanks to the thousands of New Yorkers who donated and made our campaign the fastest to reach the matching funds cap, we are now the first to go up on TV in this primary.

Two months until election day. We can win.

I see these posts and think about high school and undergrad history classes. How is any teenager / young adult supposed to tell this “primary source” is real or not. Everything he says is so unbelievable, truth is stranger than fiction, for real.

Just got the NEH press release for statue proposals the ~National Garden of American Heroes~ and the list of acceptable heroes is really so bizarre www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

They are segregationist and this will be open season for discrimination.

“the Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies to the extent they contemplate disparate-impact liability”

A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U A Call for Constructive Engagement

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Many different colleges & universities on this list. BUT. Notable exceptions include HBCUs (Howard, Spelman, Morehouse, public ones). It doesn’t take a PhD to know why: so much more at risk + too little to fall back on. Let’s not use these lists as litmus/loyalty tests

Geographies of Black Genius To tell stories of Black heritage — to honor Black aliveness — we need a new geography that encompasses the spatial, literary, filmic, and economic histories of African American invention.

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I’d only add that this—the glass transitions, and roof line changes—is exactly what the U.S. SOI (Secretary of the Interior) standards say new additions to historic brick gables buildings should look like. These historic standards applied to new construction is classic Dwell shtick for new money

Nothing quite says NERD like me full belly laughing at audiobook narrators capturing the shade that scholars be throwing towards “less persuasive” arguments. LOL 😂

Not enough scholarship in audio format IMHO

FEMA Isn’t Ready for Disaster Season, Workers Say Instability, cuts, and a looming sense of dread have FEMA employees unsure the agency is ready for hurricanes, fires, and floods. “We are being set up for a really, really bad situation," says one.

“If you can mitigate, you won’t spend as much money constantly responding … [they] just want to gut us so we are only responding to things after they are terrible.”

Right. “My bad” is a bully’s only “smart” move against someone who can outsmart them. Lie until you get caught in it

This USDOT wants to take over control of Penn Station from MTA?!? Hahahahaha.

Yard sandbox with toys with a clear blue sky

Following up my birthday with 2 days of mommy day care…God has a funny way of making you slow down, laugh, and spend time away from a computer.

This beautiful weather is everything & all I asked for

Indeed

Not former potus saying Harvard has set a precedent for other universities and I have to hold myself back from mentioning Wesleyan, Georgetown law, Rutgers faculty senate, etc. What we're not gonna do is erase the Jesuits! Sigh, let me reread Elite Capture.