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JUST NOW — Ben from Ben & Jerry’s interrupts the RFK JR. hearing: “Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza and paying for it by kicking kids off Medicaid! They need to let food in to starving kids in Gaza!”

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While investigating Nike’s claims about sustainability, I started collecting paystubs from its suppliers. It’s been almost 27 years since Phil Knight acknowledged that Nike products had become synonymous with “slave wages.” I wanted to know what people in Asia earned producing Nike apparel. (thread)

It is! I'm donating a character name in my WIP: Are you Amber Lloyd? is a fun and escapist upmarket suspense novel about an identity thief whose past catches up to her, the woman whose identity she stole, and the unsuspecting cop investigating the murder of Amber Lloyd. But which one?

Roses are red, violets are blue, it's raining acid at the end of the world, and I'd love to share my umbrella with you. ☔️

Be my creepy Valentine tomorrow with Jean Chen Ho at
@barnesandnoble.com Americana? ♥️

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:

-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.

-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
🧵⬇️

Fourteen hours before the crash. 👇

I've been feeling hopeless, but since I starting using @5calls.org to make calls to my governor, senators & representatives to oppose some of the *waves hands vaguely* THIS going on, I feel a little better. Posting on social media isn't enough. Give is a try!

“NOTE TO ALL NAZIS FASCISTS AND KLANSMEN” You delight, So it would seem, At making mince- meat of my dream. If you keep on, Before you’re through, I’ll make mince- meat Out of you.

Langston Hughes

Black history month starts today and this administration would like us to forget it,

Bluesky is the place! I’ll be celebrating all the loved ones, showing up with joy and creativity, compassion and connection as resistance!

Displaced Black Families GoFundMe Directory

I don't have any reach at all on social media but if you happen to see this, can you please repost? It's a displaced Black family gofundme directory for people impacted by the California wildfires. If you can't donate, please share; any little bit helps. Thank you!

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Google donates $1 million to Trump’s inaugural committee Like other Silicon Valley behemoths, search and advertising giant has worked to make nice with the president-elect ahead of his second term.

Google will also live-stream the swearing-in ceremony on YouTube and include a direct link on its homepage.

Karan Bhatia, Google’s global head of government affairs, said in a statement Thursday that the company is “pleased” to support Trump’s inauguration.

Trump and republicans (of course) blame democrats, but any place on earth would be a tinderbox under these conditions.

No one is immune.

A Prayer for Rain In the Time of Fire — Alexis Pauline Gumbs Four years ago Aisha sent me a message on Instagram while the continent burned around her. She told me she was reading M Archive and witnessing the end of the world while politicians refused to respo...

In January 2020 when wildfires were raging in Australia we gathered to write.
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If you are in a safe enough space to write or read there is a free workshop, donation opportunity and group poem inside.💜

Day 1, Winter 2025, Mini 1000 Let's fucking go.

What's up nerds, it's day 1 of the #mini1000

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🔥 TWAS THE STRIKE BEFORE CHRISTMAS! 🔥✊

Starbucks baristas are going on five days of escalating ULP strikes in response to the company backtracking on our promised path forward, starting tomorrow in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Seattle... and soon, from coast-to-coast. 🧵

Become a Sustainer of Haymarket House - Haymarket House Join us in building a vibrant, sustainable, independent home for culture, politics, and community by becoming a Haymarket House sustainer.

Haymarket House has been such a crucial movement space for us here in Chicago! Consider becoming a sustainer to support this incredible space!

www.haymarkethouse.org/sustain/

an illustration. Three stalks of wheat flow around a hand scythe which circles them. A decorative border is made from roses and flourishes. A text box reads, The worker must have bread but she must have roses too.

The worker must have bread
but they must have roses too

solidarity with striking workers everywhere
especially the ones who fight the cops

We know we're just barely scratching the surface with our Starter Pack of Antioch MFA Current Students & Alumni, because we have over 1200 alums! Please share and comment and we'll add you! Hoping to find our people & make this the first Student/Alum Starter Pack of many 🤗https://go.bsky.app/2urN99N

Growing up in L.A. in the 80s/90s was hella traumatic. Violence, racism and misogynoir. Some of us ain’t make it. But there was also so much richness and beauty. Creativity and love. Kendrick Lamar reps the best of it, while embracing the roughness and loyalty needed to survive. Impeccable vision.

FICTION: Toni Ann Johnson's Podcast Episode · The Offing Podcast · 11/19/2024 · 16m

THE OFFING has a new podcast and I’m so happy to be one of the show’s first guests! Thank you to Dr. Ashaki Jackson for the opportunity to read from my story “The Way We Fell Out of Touch” from the collection Light Skin Gone to Waste.

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Congrats @toniannj.bsky.social !!!

Makes me sad re-reading this amazing letter from ex-Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox sent to high school seniors in 1994 after they asked him “What should Americans learn from Watergate?” 20 years later in ‘94.

His answer is remarkable—unfortunately things didn’t work out so well in 2024.

A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments. Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

another woman is dead because doctors refused to give her standard medical care AFTER SHE ALREADY MISCARRIED. abortion bans are killing women even if they don’t need one. porsha ngumezi should be alive.

@chetn.bsky.social welcome, hermano!

Love In The Library — Friends of Minidoka Signed by author Maggie Tokuda-Hall. This beautiful children’s book tells the story of how Tokuda-Hall’s grandparents found love at Minidoka Concentration Camp. Illustrated by Yas Imamura. Hardcover.

It's the true story of how my grandparents met in a JA incarceration camp in Idaho called Minidoka.

It's about the cruelty of racist policies and the resilience of the people those policies target.

But the need to talk to our youngest about these things persists.

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Well, let’s see how this things works.

Exhibit by @rokwon.bsky.social

It’s like the worst Ground Hog’s Day but with too many people acting like it is new somehow.

As Private Prison Stocks Soar, Activists Fight Trump’s Deportation Plans Incoming President Trump’s vow to deport millions of undocumented immigrants when he starts his term has sent private prison stocks soaring. Immigrant rights advocates, including our guest, the execut...

"We actually have experience of an era when we had mass deportations... Under the Obama administration, this is what we saw: some 400,000 people deported from the interior of the country..."

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