“Black holes are called black for the same reasons dark matter and dark energy are called dark: because they exceed and evade Western astrophysical forms of measurement even as they create the conditions for the whole universe” (Gumbs, p. 121) #SurvivalisAPromise

“Evelynn Hammonds…theorizes ‘black (w)holes’ as a way of understanding the organizing absence of Black women’s sexuality and Black lesbian sexuality in particular in feminist and queer theory” (Gumbs, p. 109). [patiently crafted gut punch from @alexispauline.bsky.social] #SurvivalIsAPromise

Nope!

I called exactly what would happen in Trump's second term, before he'd even won his first term! Because they literally wrote down everything that they planned to do, and all of the people that tried to point this out (mostly Black people) were shouted down by centrists and pundits.

Basically, as long as they can keep one district gerrymandered reliably deep red, the MO GOP can kill popular democracy in their state. A metaphor for the entire country - rigged minority rule. (with some help by some bad antiquated design in the original superstructure)

This decision also plants a flag against SCOTUS' originalism:

“A constitution adapts." And: "Due process is agile… Due process matures with technological developments to protect constitutional rights.”

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State steps in to ensure access to COVID-19 vaccine Public health order counters potential limitations set by the USFDA

New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them.

States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.

An apartment complex. A headline reads: "Did Switzerland Solve The Housing Crisis?"

The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...

‘Hippies are bad people pretending to be good; punks are good people pretending to be bad’ — a saying I recently learned.

YouTube video by Avance Sports PODCAST EPISODE #3:"Representation Matters: Telling Our Own Story" – Featuring Lisa GuerreroPodcast

How do we change the current narrative when it comes to Latinos in America? We must continue to tell our stories of resilience and to share our journeys. Thanks to AVANCE SPORTS PODCAST for featuring me today. Let’s lift up, mentor & support each other. ESPECIALLY NOW. ✊🏽 youtu.be/ElGiP8oDDaY?...

Remember the Tufts University grad student snatched off the street for having written an opinion piece in a campus publication? Her description of what life in an ICE women's prison was like is hard to read. But we can't look away from these horrors.

Free link.

archive.ph/b3UpT

Homer was 12 years old on 9/11 and Marge was 10 years old.

Wheelchair users are finally winning the right to repair State laws are forcing private equity–backed firms—which can make buyers wait months—to allow DIY fixes.

A growing number of states are passing laws that require companies to sell wheelchair parts to wheelchair users so they can fix it themselves or bring it to a mechanic to fix it for them.

My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Revolution Will Be Incremental with Rebecca Solnit Podcast Episode · How to Survive the End of the World · 08/01/2025 · 1h 7m

#launchyourboat podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h... @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social @autumnmeghanbrown.bsky.social

YouTube video by Geek Attitude Amazing Traffic Timelapse School run drop off by car proves tricky

And a time-lapse of a school car line for your daily moment of un-zen

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkal...

On the left: a man in a classroom holding a certificate On the right: a man carrying jugs of water on a dirty road Below it says: He once held a PhD in international law... Now he walks Gaza's ruins carrying empty jugs, searching for a few drops of water.

This is Professor Ghanem Al-Attar.

Source: www.instagram.com/p/DMtOR7VTuo...

The Illusion of a Clear, Direct Path to Freedom with Chinyere Tutashinda and Rico Sisney Podcast Episode · How to Survive the End of the World · 07/25/2025 · 58m

Vital listening right now podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h... @autumnmeghanbrown.bsky.social @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social

Morning

How to see the ‘cosmic web’ here on Earth | Aeon Essays What are the largest shapes in the Universe? The answer might be found in the most unassuming places here on Earth

Absolutely delightful piece on our magnificent cosmic web by my friend and sometime collaborator @markneyrinck.bsky.social, who reminds us that the beauty of cosmos is also always here on earth with us. 🔭🧪 #scicomm

aeon.co/essays/how-t...

Unprecedented continental drying, shrinking freshwater availability, and increasing land contributions to sea level rise Drying continents, extreme drought, and groundwater depletion are shrinking water availability and increasing sea level rise.

🪨 Land is drying, and fast

A new study finds that the world's continents have been losing freshwater since 2002, faster than ever before. Dry areas are drying quicker than wet areas are wetting, shrinking water supplies and raising sea levels.

🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#SciComm 🧪

New Report: Working-Class Social and Economic Attitudes A new study from the Center for Working‑Class Politics and Jacobin reveals where working-class voters stand on key issues and how they differ from wealthier Americans. The message is clear: economic p...

Really phenomenal dataset here on working class voters policy positions.

Maybe most notable is that they have moved to the left on immigration and faster than middle/upper class people have.

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Sharing my latest pub, "News Inside: What Mainstream Journalism Can Learn From the Radical Humanism of Prison Journalism." Particularly proud b/c incarcerated/formerly incarcerated folks can teach us a lot about democracy & media. A pleasure to collaborate w/ @lizhallgren.bsky.social on this:

“Even when it all seems to be falling apart, something deeper down is busy mending…” (Prologue, p. 1)

"War and especially civil strife leave terrible wounds. It is the duty of humanity to heal them. It was therefore soon conceived as neither wise nor patriotic to speak of all the causes of strife and the terrible results to which national differences in the United States had led."

Do Markets Value Fed Independence? An Event Study.

I'm sorry, nine HUNDRED former DOJ lawyers all signed this letter opposing Emil Bove's nomination to be an appellate federal judge?

900?!

I still maintain there was more widespread outrage about the Tik Tok ban than there is about Ice Raids.

“I was thinking about the forest one day

and it came to me…”

Epigraph by Ernestine Hayes

I’ve read the transcript of this faculty / admin Title VI conversation a few times now: it exemplifies so much university admin culture (esp at big corporate uni’s like this one): evasively effecting policy with pitifully little concern for substance. It’s horrible + hilarious at the same time

'Save Our Signs' Wants to Save the Real History of National Parks Before Trump Erases It Trump wants to erase any "negative" content from educational sites at National Parks. A group of data preservationists asks visitors to help them document placards and monuments, before they disappear...

next time you're in a national park, take some photos of the signage and upload it to help these archivists www.404media.co/save-our-sig...