Jen Dobbs-Oates

Students feel like they can’t enroll in majors like Af-Am Studies and WGSS because they’re getting messages from all sides that they’re not remunerative. And yet they desperately want the knowledge, so classes are full. That seems to be the situation everywhere.

"Today me will live in the moment unless it's unpleasant in which case me will eat a cookie." - Cookie Monster

Motivational quote of the day!
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This is indeed an important victory. The flip side is that so many institutions complied in advance, the directive achieved many of its aims.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

Utah Hogle Zoo photo, giraffe and parents

In good news, a little one was born in Utah🦒

www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...

No Kings includes Draft Kings

‘We have to keep showing up for each other’: In Minnesota, caregiving is a form of resistance School pickups, diaper runs and mutual aid funds are central to how many Minnesotans are challenging the militarization of their state.

I am usually a very behind the scenes person but I stepped outside of my comfort zone because I hope reading this will inspire other people just to step up and do the thing.

You never know what your impact can be.

After Donations, Trump Administration Revoked Rule Requiring More Nursing Home Staff

We seriously need to get every elected official to stand up to this abuse of power by Trump to line his pockets at the expense of decent care of our elders.

If you, like me, are taking care of aging parents & also rely on care services, know there's not enough help

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

Nurses saw themselves in Alex Pretti's death. Now they’re demanding justice. Nurses have advocated for better working conditions for years. Pretti’s death elevated the ongoing challenges for a profession that is increasingly in the crosshairs of immigration enforcement.

In Pretti’s final moments, Jean Stone saw a nurse.
To watch him come to the aid of a woman & reportedly askif she’s OK, “That’s something that a nurse says constantly in the process of a shift."
Now, nurses are protesting, holding vigils, saying his name at picket lines 19thnews.org/2026/01/nurs...

A care resistance

Now THERE'S an idea. I want to read about a care resistance. I want to think about a care resistance. I want to stop doom scrolling and join a care resistance.

Eighteenth century print, not colored, of soldiers on the right shooting toward a crowd, one man already on the ground. A version of Paul Revere's famous "Boston Massacre" print from the collections of the John Carter Brown Library that is offset so you see some images multiple times.

Almost 256 years ago, when British soldiers were occupying a city that was restless in their presence but still firmly part of the empire, a confrontation ended in the shooting death of five people, with 6 more wounded. This offset image of the Boston Massacre is so evocative. 1/

A old advert that has the words What the heck is Electronic Mail? With a man looking very scared by a sparkling trail flying around his desk

The first two hours this morning

I would really like to know more about this

a cartoon character wearing a santa hat and sunglasses is sitting in the snow Alt: Claymation California Raisin wearing a Santa hat and sunglasses

I maintain that the California Raisins Christmas Special is tragically underappreciated.

four white plastic muppet-style busts of dante, moliere, aristotle, and shakespeare, 3d printed in the style of the muppet christmas carol

GUYS

GUYS

MY BROTHER MADE ME THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL BUSTS

A sweep of magenta across a starry night sky

My first time to see the northern lights! They came right to my backyard in Indiana!

Great weather for trick or treating this year. Lots of fun to go out with my 10yo & his friends. Most surprising items?
A packet of Ramen and some maple salmon jerky.

Photo from 3/30/2019. Head and shoulders photo of baseball player Cody Bellinger looking like a stoned guy thinking about something. He’s got close cropped dark hair and a struggle beard that mostly runs along his chin and then a mustache that doesn’t quite connect. He looks like your friend’s older brother’s cute friend who you bought pot from that one time.

“What if the Matrix is real, but like, the robots made the movie to make us think it’s not.”

~Deep Thoughts with Cody Bellinger~

Comedian spots man in cardiac arrest during show, finishes set at hospital “You guys all really just came together in a really cool way,” comedian Drew Lynch told his audience between tears. “You saved that guy’s life.”

This is such a lovely story, it reinforces the idea that most people are good.

I concur. Empty Academia[.]edu of your data.

I’m so tired of never being bored.

The Human Toll The US is undergoing rapid social, economic, and policy change. If you've been impacted, we want to hear your story! To participate, visit: https://tinyurl.com/thehumantoll Study sponsored under University of Wisconsin-Madison IRB Protocol #2025-1096. PI: Dr. Jessica Calarco Participants must be at least 18 years of age and reside in the US [image of a person with their face in their hands]

How have you been impacted by the changes we've seen under the current administration? What would you want to say to those in charge?

I'm launching a new research initiative to collect and share anonymous stories of the human toll. And I'd be very grateful for your help.

tinyurl.com/thehumantoll

German probably has a word for this and not ONLY because German has words for everything, in this case for specific reasons also

this is why I have lost the ability to answer “how are you” we have no word for “everything is fine and simultaneously nothing is fine and the everything that is fine makes the nothing that is fine feel like one of those horror movie creatures that get closer every time you shut your eyes“

This was SO good

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If any of these are your reps, please take 5 min today and call. Scripts and numbers at 5calls.org. Kill this absolute travesty of a bill.