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It's launch day for our brand new 19th issue, Mother/Land, in which 19 contributors share their words, songs, films, paintings, sculptures, flavors, and fashions, all around themes of motherhood, daughterhood, landscape, mindscape, spirit, and more. 💛 cordella.org

The CR passed in the House will provide a blank check for Trump and Musk to continue their savage war against working families, the elderly, children, the sick and the poor in order to lay the groundwork for massive tax breaks for billionaires.

This is a bill I cannot support.

Dangerous Children’s Picture Books That Could Be Lurking in Your Home Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Some people are wising up and removing this bawdy board book from impressionable kindergarten classrooms. The title alone ...

The Giving Tree: A story of handouts. Flat-out socialism. Not to mention the climate-thumper extremism of giving the tree feelings. “Oh no, a tree is sad. It turns into a pathetic little stump. Whatever will we do?” Ridiculous.

Good morning everyone. It will always be Denali.

Have a peaceful day.

Morning from Kyiv.
I had a slow #warcoffee
and read the news (nothing good is there).

Today is International Women’s Day.
I am sending my solidarity hugs to every woman who sees this message.
We can do more than we think.

The painting: 🇺🇦 Seraphym Charkin, Amazon Woman, 2019

Six years ago, I joined my colleagues to remember Bloody Sunday—a violent turning point in the fight for justice and equality. That march ignited a movement that would forever alter the course of history.

📷 Jonathan Capehart

The massive income and wealth inequality that exists in America today is literally a matter of life and death.

People in wealthy counties live SEVEN years longer than people in poorer communities. That’s unacceptable.

EVERYONE has the right to a long, happy and productive life.

This International Women’s Day, Ploughshares turns its full attention to women who are challenging the prevailing view that threats, force, and war are necessary for conflict resolution.

Join us on Zoom on Saturday, March 8 at 10 am PT / 12 pm CT / 1 pm ET

bit.ly/Ploughshares...

Goldman, Garbarino, Gillibrand, Schumer, Nadler, Kean Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Fix World Trade Center Health Program Funding Shortfall Washington, DC – Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10), Congressman Andrew Garbarino (NY-02), Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Congressman Jerry Nadler (NY-12)...

Without Congressional action, the World Trade Center Health Program will begin denying care for 9/11 survivors & first responders.

Unacceptable.

I joined NY colleagues in introducing a bill to secure permanent funding for WTCHP, so those impacted get the help they deserve.

I’m a Typo, and in This Age of AI, I’m the Real Hero Well, look who just spotted me and isn’t happy about it. You’ve got the same look as you did when that server told you to enjoy your tortellini, an...

"It turns out that people would rather read a thoughtful essay with an error in it than one of ChatGPT’s grammatically flawless articles about delving into a thought-provoking tapestry of synergy."

Let’s Bring Back Traditional Values (No, Not Those Ones) Now that we’ve elected a president who promises to make America great again, it’s time to bring back our traditional American values, including: ...

- Apple pie
- Cold beer on a Friday night
- Measles

The 16,000 Artworks the Nazis Censored and Labeled “Degenerate Art”: The Complete Historic Inventory Is Now Online The Nazis may not have known art, but they knew what they liked, and much more so what they didn't. We've previously featured here on Open Culture the “Degenerate Art Exhibition” of 1937, put on by Hi...

The 16,000 Artworks the Nazis Censored and Labeled “Degenerate Art”: The Complete Historic Inventory Is Now Online

Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.

The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

It's time for some GOOD news!

Beth and Paul Garon's "WOMAN WITH GUITAR: Memphis Minnie's Blues," published by City Lights in 2014, will be celebrated as a new Blues Hall of Fame Inductee on May 7, 2025!
bit.ly/3CP0xBh

Trump's agenda threatens our lands, sovereignty, and sacred treaties. We must stay alert and united against his attempts to erase our identity and sell out our future to corporate interests. Our ancestors fought hard for our rights - we won't let them be taken away!
www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Re-upping this. We need experts in media literacy & stewards of the freedom to read now more than ever.

WATCH Senator Andy Kim call out Trump and Musk

10 states fund prisons using stolen Indigenous lands State trust lands generate millions of dollars for carceral facilities and programs every year, largely from extractive industries like oil and gas drilling

10 states use funds from STOLEN Indigenous lands to fund prisons. A stark reminder of the ongoing legacy of colonialism and land theft. Stand with Native communities to demand justice and reparations! #LandBack
ictnews.org/news/10-stat...

In "The Edge of Water," A Prophecy Unravels a Nigerian Family’s Pursuit of the American Dream - Electric Literature Olufunke Grace Bankole discusses fictionalizing Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in her debut novel

Olfunke Grace Bankole on writing a multigenerational, multi-perspective novel that resists traditional immigrant narratives (interview by @riggstah.bsky.social)

End Appears Near for U.S. Aid Agency, Democratic Lawmakers Say A sense of crisis among aid groups was growing as U.S.A.I.D.’s website went dark.

The website for the U.S. Agency for International Development went dark Saturday afternoon as lawmakers and aid workers braced for the possibility that the agency might be shut down.

Trump Administration Revokes Protections for Venezuelans in the U.S. The decision to revoke Temporary Protected Status signals that President Trump will continue to dismantle a program that aims to protect migrants from potentially dangerous countries.

Breaking News: The Trump administration revoked Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 Venezuelans in the U.S., leaving them vulnerable to potential deportation.

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too.

Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.

Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

I asked RFK Jr. a simple question:

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...

“In the Name of the Bee,” a Poem by Pádraig O’ Tuama “In the Name of the Bee” I asked the grasses if they believed but they said believe is a poor verb. I asked the sun but it had eclipsed. I asked the tree, and it said stand. I asked the fieldmouse,…

“I asked the grasses if they believed / but they said believe is a poor verb. / I asked the sun but it had eclipsed.” Read “In the Name of the Bee,” a poem by Pádraig O’ Tuama from the collection Kitchen Hymns.