Shanté Paradigm

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.

If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

Exactly. Let em have at it.

ALA's Banned Books Week graphic. Oct. 5-11, 2025. Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights. ALA.org/BBooks

This #BannedBooksWeek, we stand proudly with @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social and @indexoncensorship.org as they sound the alarm on growing efforts to censor books and curtail the #FreedomToRead.

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Oct. 7, 1963 | Alabama Troopers Attack Black People Registering to Vote in Selma Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 1963, hundreds of Black Selma residents attempting to register to vote faced state and local officials using violence and intimidation tactics to deny them that right.

RSVP here: nyu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Republicans keep proving that free speech isn’t free for everyone. That’s why I introduced the Free Speech Act of 2025 — to stop the FCC from being used as a political weapon and to protect the First Amendment.

Civilians on the front line in Sudan’s ‘forgotten’ war, UN warns Report says ethnic violence has risen as the civil war passed two-year anniversary in the first half of 2025.

Report says ethnic violence has risen as the civil war passed two-year anniversary in the first half of 2025.

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

Military shuts down streets in bid to quell Nepal unrest Nepali army orders people in Kathmandu to stay home amid mass unrest gripping capital.

Nepali army orders people in Kathmandu to stay home amid mass unrest gripping capital.

EFF Statement on ICE Use of Paragon Solutions Malware This statement can be attributed to EFF Senior Staff Technologist Cooper QuintinIt was recently reported by Jack Poulson on Substack that ICE has reactivated its 2 million dollar contract with Paragon...

ICE reactivated its contract with spyware manufacturer Paragon Solutions. You can read more about it here, but what does that mean for using encrypted chat apps like Signal? 🧵(1/8)

From Libraries to Schools: Why Organizations Should Install Privacy ​​In an era of pervasive online surveillance, organizations have an important role to play in protecting their communities’ privacy. Schools, libraries, and other organizations can make private

Install Privacy Badger organization-wide to protect your community from online surveillance and malvertising. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

You might wonder where these comparison signatures came from. They weren’t made up, they were obtained by The New York Times years ago from the official New York City archives of Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Ed Koch. The Times reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig retrieved them while researching.

“Some Christians are so cruel because they are following a Jesus that looks more like an empire … Cruelty ensures the status quo.”

The hobosexual crisis continues!

Lots of people asking why isn't my state issuing COVID vaccine executive orders?

In most states you can already get vaccines without prescriptions, including: AL, AK, AR, CA, CT, DE, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NE, ND, NH, NJ, OH, OK, OR, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VT, WA, WI, WY

You can trust the jobs report, Labor Department workers urge public A strongly-worded statement from Bureau of Labor Statistics workers comes a month after President Trump attacked the integrity of the jobs numbers they release monthly.

A strongly-worded statement from Bureau of Labor Statistics workers comes a month after President Trump attacked the integrity of the jobs numbers they release monthly.

Experts call on US Health Secretary RFK Jr to resign over misinformation Health experts said Kennedy’s ‘repeated efforts to undermine science and public health’ left Americans ‘less safe’.

Health experts said Kennedy’s ‘repeated efforts to undermine science and public health’ left Americans ‘less safe’.

A word from my colleagues across the Potomac at GMU:

"...Singling out a Black leader in this way is not only unprecedented but also deeply troubling, echoing a long and shameful history of weaponizing law and bureaucracy to undermine the legitimacy of leaders of color." #SaveHigherEd #AcademicSky

Whistleblower says Trump officials copied millions of Social Security numbers A whistleblower complaint says that the personal data of over 300 million Americans was copied to a private cloud account to allow access by members of the Department of Government Efficiency team.

A whistleblower complaint says that the personal data of over 300 million Americans was copied to a private cloud account to allow access by members of the Department of Government Efficiency team.

Best of luck, friend!

With COVID vaccine access likely to become restricted soon, now would be good time to get back in the habit of wearing a mask more frequently again if you haven’t been doing so lately.

Y’all started already?!!???

COVID surges nationwide with highest rates in Southwest as students return to school — Los Angeles Times COVID-19 rates in the Southwestern United States reached 12.5% — the highest in the nation. It comes as California students return to the classroom after RFK Jr. nixed the CDC's recommendation that th...

COVID-19 rates in the Southwestern United States reached 12.5% — the highest in the nation. It comes as California students return to the classroom after RFK Jr. nixed the CDC’s recommendation that they receive booster shots. apple.news/AYgqw6NIxSxW...

Sudan’s Famine Enters Dangerous New Phase Here’s what to know as critical farmlands get dragged into the country’s devastating civil war.

True famine grips Sudan.

“With the world’s attention focused on crises elsewhere, Sudan’s war-induced famine is growing in what used to be productive farmlands.”

Darfur has suffered two true genocides in the last 20 years.

Why doesn’t Sudan matter?

www.wsj.com/world/africa...

I see almost no content about #Sudan or #Congo from folks I follow here. So realize I need to expand my algo in BlueSky.

My work is on here, so I guess I’m joining the class action suit!

Someone finally wrote the data-center/electricity inflation story.

@nytimes.com #CPI
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

Heavy rains and flooding kill at least 34 people in and near Beijing Heavy rains and flooding killed 30 people in Beijing, bringing the death toll from the storms in the region to at least 34. More than 80,000 people have been relocated in Beijing.

Heavy rains and flooding killed 30 people in Beijing, bringing the death toll from the storms in the region to at least 34. More than 80,000 people have been relocated in Beijing.

Conservative Org. Requests Materials for 70 Chapel Hill Courses The Oversight Project, founded by the Heritage Foundation, is using an open records request to search for terms like “DEI” and “gender identity.” Faculty say it encroaches on academic freedom.

If you're teaching at a public university*, there is a pretty good chance that you will be affected by an open records request in the near future, with the data being thrown into AI to process.

*Private nonprofit colleges are also publicly governed, as shown by recent actions.