still no snow in denver

Excited to share that I’ve signed a contract to publish my third academic monograph with @dukepress.bsky.social! 🥳🥳🥳

Sept. 10, 1895: South Carolina Constitutional Convention Convened The South Carolina Constitutional Convention convened to disenfranchise Black voters.

"Since Reconstruction times 53,000 Negroes have been killed in the South, & not more than three white men have been convicted & hung for these crimes." -- Robert Smalls, SC Constitutional Convention, #tdih 1895

#TeachReconstruction #Reparations 🧵Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sc...

Graphic featuring black text on a sheet of grid notebook paper, framed with images of school-related items like notebooks, calculator, pencils, art supplies, a globe, backpack, and more. The text reads: "As back-to-school season begins across the U.S. this month — a time that should be full of excitement and anticipation for the year of learning ahead — many young people, families, and educators are instead facing heightened uncertainty and fear. As many of us brace for ICE raids and other federal incursions and attacks, we wanted to share a few school-related resources to help inform, prepare, and empower folks with strategies, information, and plans to protect students, staff, and educators. Find all info/links at: bit.ly/ICNews51"

As back-to-school season begins across the U.S. and many of our communities brace for ICE raids and other attacks, we wanted to share a few school-related resources to help inform, prepare, and empower folks with strategies and information to protect students, staff and educators. bit.ly/ICNews51

Movement media is a key tool to fight fascism.
In the @truthout.org Center for Grassroots Journalism newsletter, see the latest from @wagingnonviolence.org @hammerandhope.bsky.social @convergencemag.com @kcdefender.bsky.social @deceleration.news & more! ❤️
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yes because this is about Black people and controlling Black & brown people.

Chicago sees fewest summer murders since 1965, even as Trump cites high crime The Chicago Police Department’s criminal homicide tally for June, July and August is the lowest in 60 years. And overall violent crime remains near its lowest point in more than four decades.

The deployment, and threats of the National Guard, come as a @wbez.org analysis has found that a three-month summer span saw the fewest murders in 60 years in Chicago while overall violent crime remained near its lowest point in at least four decades — from @chipmitchell1.bsky.social

We keep us safe: Trainings, workshops and resources for Chicagoans ahead of Trump’s feds deployment • The TRiiBE Organizers are hosting trainings, workshops and providing mass text services

NEW - Resources to prepare for federal deployments in Chicago. Featured here: @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @meganpiont.bsky.social

#Flock #surveillance #alpr

Agents detain student at gunpoint near school; safe zones to be expanded around LAUSD campuses Amid immigration enforcement, city and school officials will set up "safe zones" monitored by LAPD and community volunteers to protect undocumented families when school resumes at LAUSD.

Los Angeles school district police, staff and volunteers will form protective perimeters around at least 100 schools to help ensure safe passage of children — an announcement that came on a day that immigration agents drew their guns on a student with disabilities. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Soul Stripping Against AI, again.

"AI wins not when it becomes more human, but when humans become more like AI: disengaged and devoid of original thought." @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

Alex de Waal has worked on humanitarian causes across the globe for over 40 years.

“There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”

More than 100 NGOs warn Israel’s forced ‘mass starvation’ stalks all Gaza Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza says 111 people have now died from famine and malnutrition in recent weeks.

No words left for this engineered horror.

"More than 100 aid groups have called on governments to take urgent action as Israel's forced 'mass starvation' of Palestinians engulfs Gaza. The groups warned that deepening starvation of the population was spreading across the besieged enclave."

They knew the whole time! And I knew too but at least I told everybody!

After officials did nothing with the information from the first bestseller, which contains the Trump/Epstein rape documents, I wrote a new book about the methods they use to manage evidence. One is feigning shock to avoid accountability. They're doing it again now.

www.sarahkendziorbooks.com

I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany.

But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.

Cannonball with Wesley Morris Society & Culture Podcast · Updated Weekly · Conversations about the culture that moves us – the good, the bad and whatever’s in between. Every week, critic Wesley Morris talks with writers and artist...

Apparently I have no real friends because no one told me Wesley Morris has a new podcast 💜 you’re welcome 💜 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

NPR and PBS Are More Than “Tiny Desk” and “Daniel Tiger” They Are Critical to Public Safety WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, today released a Snapshot Report that highlights data on publi...

NPR and PBS Are More Than “Tiny Desk” and “Daniel Tiger.” Funding cuts would leave nearly 13 million Americans without access to their public broadcasters, threatening their ability to receive lifesaving alerts and emergency information.
www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/6/npr-a...

Went to Montana last week…

Jobs, block clubs, investment: How Chicagoans are interrupting violence at its roots - Chicago Reader Gun violence is highest in Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods, where organizers say tackling poverty is the only way to create lasting change.

Jobs, block clubs, investment: How Chicagoans are interrupting violence at its roots chicagoreader.com/news/feature... - this is a good piece and I really hope that the Reader will be able to continue its work. Please donate to them if you live in Chicago

The News Cycle Is No Excuse for Ignoring Gaza Don’t let the attention economy distract you from recognizing the catastrophe in Gaza.

My latest. urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...

Guns or Fireworks America is not its government and normal does not mean right.

"As concentration camps become more common, they will offend fewer people — and they will be called normal."

That line haunts me because too many things that would have offended everyone just a few years ago are now part of the daily news & ignored.

Check out this one by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

He left Venezuela for the US, dreaming of a career in cosmetics. He was deported to a Salvadoran prison | CNN A year ago, Andry José Hernández Romero left Venezuela to seek a better future in the United States.

So is this guy just stuck in a foreign gulag ... forever?
www.cnn.com/2025/05/28/a...

The Trump administration is withholding $230 million in education funding from Pa. schools The cuts have left school districts in the Philadelphia area in limbo after they already approved budgets relying on that funding.

🤬”The Trump administration is withholding $230 million in education funding from Pa. schools: The cuts have left school districts in the Philadelphia area in limbo after they already approved budgets relying on that funding.”🤬

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If you think you might want to run or seek appointment to your local library board, we have a 2026 cohort for you. You can sign up now to be alerted when applications open this fall - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Do not call the concentration camp by it’s cutsie name. Don’t help build the cultural capital. Call it what it really is. Do not cede that conceptual ground.

Human trafficking remains a national crisis. From agricultural fields to nail salons.

Slavery has been rebranded. It is now public safety laws, budgetary policies, and corporate profits.

Trump is telling you they want slavery back, the industry that shape created this country.

Democratic lawmakers denied entry to Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention site Ahead of the attempted site visit, the Democratic lawmakers said, "As lawmakers, we have both the legal right and moral responsibility to inspect this site."

Democratic lawmakers were illegally denied entry to Alligator Auschwitz in Florida.

The Trump regime is using ICE—its domestic terrorist organization—to kidnap and imprison people in concentration camps that do not have any oversight.

What is this regime trying to hide from the American people?

The Go-go’s release their debut LP “Beauty and the Beat” today in 1981 — to this day, the only #1 Billboard album by an all-female band who wrote their own material & played their own instruments.

“I remember saying, 'Wow, if we sell 150,000 copies,” said Belinda Carlisle, “that would be so cool.’”

The hilarious and talented comic River Butcher is performing 4 sets at Denver Comedy Underground this weekend! Don’t miss out ppl www.eventbrite.com/e/river-butc...?