The evil that men do lives after them
Two of the people I live most in the world are immunocompromised. This article enrages me. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...
A friend just shared some great advice for these times: “You can’t do all the good the world needs, but the world needs all the good you can do.”
This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received.
Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙
Holding my beloved DC Jewish community in my heart this morning.
Here’s a great list of newly-banned words that we should all be using proudly and publicly, every single day.
America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.
I’ve been asking my elders about what it was like to have measles. Before the MMR vaccine almost every kid got it. Their memories are vivid decades later: darkened rooms, house calls from doctors, searing pain, fear.
When I am daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief, I find that poetry helps. Today feels like a good day for Adrienne Rich. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51092/...
This new resource is included in our hub for federal workers to understand what they can do to protect themselves. Share and bookmark: https://protectdemocracy.org/work/what-federal-workers-can-do-to-protect-themselves/
Mass deportations could lead to higher food prices and construction costs. Immigrants without legal status make up about 50% of US farmworkers, many with specialized skills crucial to agriculture. Political science professors weigh in #immigration #ICE #farmworkers https://buff.ly/3QnuJ9P
Whoever runs the William Shakespeare account is absolutely killing it
Noting that the US is currently experiencing the worst flu epidemic in over a decade. Also noting that two of the people I love most in this world are immune suppressed.
From perspective of historian of US civil society, what seems novel abt current moment isn't govt targeted attacks on certain nonprofits ("Defund the Left") or efforts to slash fed funding to NPs on fiscal grounds. It's presumption of suspicion toward NPs as class.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Agree and NCN has been an underrated champion for nonprofits and their workers for so long. Everyone who cares about our sector should be donating to them right now.
In honor of BlackHistoryMonth I'm creating a buy list of the quintessential African American Literature Canon.
These are the books that we would save from a burning library #booksky #blackbooksky
I'll make the list public when we get at least 50 responses.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
1) This is an excellent example of why we need a functioning federal government and a high-quality, well-compensated civil service.
2) Yikes, I’m from San Carlos.
Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including:
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- MLK Day
- Juneteenth
Here is one: A friend heard of a family that is now afraid to take the bus to the grocery store. So she brought them a carload of groceries.
Other suggestions please?
Patience, good sir, do not assist the storm.
“In a place where there is no human, strive to be human.” —Pirkei Avot 2:5
In that vein, please share CONCRETE ways to stand up for immigrants and LGBTQ+ people right now. Looking for all serious suggestions.
I personally identify with this creature.
Absolutely overjoyed at this news. Congrats Bess and Victoria! www.fordfoundation.org/news-and-sto...
Looking for somewhere to volunteer this MLK weekend? Repair the World is organizing service projects in cities across the country. Many welcome families with kids. Register today: werepair.org/get-involved...
Excited to read the latest #blueprint from @p2173!
And just because I believe in equal time
