Dr. Quinn

As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.

the garden variety racism that this incredible athlete is used to dealing with...

Your periodic reminder that the estimated cost to end hunger in the U.S. is $25 billion.

Cover of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Volume 36, Number 1 (May 2025). The background is solid yellow with a horizontal beige band across the middle containing the journal title "differences" in lowercase serif letters. Below the band, the issue’s featured dossier is titled "Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality," with contributing authors listed: Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Matthew Helm, Iván A. Ramos, Jennifer C. Nash, Samantha Pinto, Lee Edelman, David Marriott, and Selamawit D. Terrefe.

The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash. The article was published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1).

Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF

Jews for Food Aid for Gaza Jewish people support food aid for families in Gaza and an immediate end to the Israeli government’s food aid blockade. #JewsForFoodAidForPeopleInGaza

Feeding starving children should be something we can all agree on.
3 simple steps:
1 Sign the Petition
2 Call your member of Congress 202 224 3121
3 Give to worldcentralkitchen.org
(Repeat 2 & 3 frequently)
www.foodaidforgaza.org?fbclid=IwY2x...

JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked the cancelation of $175 million in National Endowment for the Humanities grants, mass terminated by DOGE in April. She says the effort was transparent viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment.

It’s been 16 years since Congress raised the minimum wage. Meanwhile, folks are out here trying to survive on $7.25 an hour. In this economy?!

I’m standing with my Labor Caucus colleagues to #RaiseTheWage, because $7.25 ain’t cutting it.

NYC's largest union—the mighty @dc37nyc.bsky.social—stood with us in the primary when few thought victory was possible. Now they're all in for the general election.

Together, we'll deliver a city where the people who keep it running can afford it too.

From last week's endorsement:

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Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends.

But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month.

See you soon, NYC.

Texas is a majority-minority state—they know it. That’s why they’re scrambling to redraw the maps and mute our voices. But I believe in the people of Texas; our voices aren’t going anywhere, no matter how they draw the lines.

US Senate Republicans advance bill stripping funds from NPR, PBS, foreign aid • Kentucky Lantern U.S. Senate on Tuesday moves step closer to canceling $9 billion in previously approved funding for foreign aid programs and public broadcasting.

Kentucky's Mitch McConnell was one of three Senate Republicans to vote against starting debate on bill stripping funds from NPR, PBS, foreign aid.

VP JD Vance had to break tie.

@jennifershutt.bsky.social
kentuckylantern.com/2025/07/15/r...

Imagine leading FEMA and not believing in emergency management. You’d think, as a former governor, she’d know what was going on.

But I guess this is what you get when the president’s cabinet is full of unqualified conspiracy theorists.

The American people deserve better.

Apply for a Radcliffe Fellowship!
Applications in humanities, social sciences, & creative arts are due Sept 11, 2025
Applications in science, engineering, & math due Sept 30, 2025
www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/radcliffe-fe...
(I hear they'd especially welcome projects related to climate change)
#HPS ⚒️

Israeli strike kills at least 10 children queueing for medical treatment in Gaza Children among at least 15 killed in attack that NGO says was ‘blatant violation of international humanitarian law’

STOP KILLING STARVING, INJURED PEOPLE QUEUING FOR MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND FOOD. This is not complicated. #endthegenocideNOW

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

[alt text: two women, one dressed in black and a second dressed in leapard print, hold a crying child in a red and blue t-shirt]

Some will say that writing poetry isn’t anything to do with resistance- but history tells us poets are the first ones, killed, expelled, kidnapped or prosecuted. #Poets, keep writing. #Poetry #LatinxLetters

Job Opportunity!

City University of New York - Hunter College - Assistant or Associate Professor (full-time, tenure-track/tenured) position in Indigenous History of the Americas

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We shouldn't need a Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, but here we are. Still underpaid. Still undervalued.

66 cents on the dollar means we lose thousands every year, for doing the same job.

Over a lifetime? That’s hundreds of thousands gone.

Pay Black women. Period.

Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It. Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.

Republican abortion bans are making it more deadly to be pregnant in America.

Routine care is being denied, and women are being forced to nearly bleed to death before they can get help. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Today in James Baldwin already said it: “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

We The People ✊
LA, CA

LL COOL J drops out of Wawa Welcome America concert because of union strike LL COOL J said that he is not going to perform at Wawa Welcome America on July 4th in light of the AFSCME District Council 33 strike in Philadelphia.

LL Cool J said that he will not perform at Wawa Welcome America in Philadelphia on July 4th because of union strike

“There is absolutely no way I can perform across a picket line”

The news about IU is horrible. Of course, we could predict that African American, American Studies and Folklore (a revered and long-standing program there) would be eliminated, but public health?

An empty lifeboat is afloat out in the ocean. Bubbles rise up to the boat and pass through it as they turn into stars rising into the sky. “THE ARTS MAY WELL BECOME OUR ONLY LIFEBOAT.”

We need the arts now more than ever. #supportthearts #supportrealartists #saynotoai #weneedthearts #illustration #kidlitart #picturebookillustration #scbwi #mixedmedia #whimsy

Happy Juneteenth, beautiful people! Love y’all!

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so…

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.

“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.

Jasmine Crockett is running to be Ranking Member on Oversight — and ready for the fight.

She’s sharp, qualified, and speaking directly to this moment.

Watch her make the case — and check out her take on the seniority issue. It might surprise you.
@repjasmine.bsky.social