Rachel Simmonsen

Definitely stinky downtown this afternoon!

The Supreme Court bans affirmative action in university admissions but is okay with racial profiling on American streets. That pretty much sums up white supremacy--heads I win, tails you lose, all legal.

Amy Sherald’s ‘American Sublime’ lands at the BMA after Smithsonian fallout Amy Sherald’s “American Sublime” needed a new home after the artist pulled the exhibit from the National Portrait Gallery. Enter the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Can't wait to see this!

George Bellows, Shore House, 1911

extremely interesting to sub "WOKE" with "truth" as you read.

Also, the Blacksonian IS celebratory of American success; that's how Parliament Funkadelic's Mothership rests under the same roof as Emmett Till's casket and child size manacles.

There's plenty of joy and future gazing. It's just Black.

Fresh off the risograph! Grab some free posters and let ICE know they aren’t welcome here (or anywhere)

I think that's my former cello teacher on the left!

Why doesn’t Baltimore County have any public pools? Blame segregation. There are no public pools in Baltimore County. Nearly 70 years after the Supreme Court's Brown decision overturning the "separate but equal" principle, some attribute this to the legacy of segregation...

This story shocked people. We go about our business and don't realize that our pools, our neighborhoods, our schools are mostly white. We tell ourselves we are open-minded. Maybe we are. But maybe not enough to see we benefit from a system built on racism.

www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

Kyle Goon: John Harbaugh should have thought twice before visiting Trump White House The Harbaugh Coaching Academy focuses on caring for those you lead. Why visit the most divisive president in modern history, then?

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Poll shows how U.S. views of immigration have changed since Trump took office Since taking office, Trump has called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to do all in its power to deliver “the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.”

According to new Gallup polling, about 8 in 10 Americans, 79%, say immigration is “a good thing” for the country today, an increase from 64% a year ago. Only about 2 in 10 U.S. adults say immigration is a bad thing right now, down from 32% last year.

What voters think nativism will mean: stop giving benefits to others, so you can focus resources on citizens

What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others

Useful 🧵 on the bankruptcy of the "universal injunctions" case Friday. Very far from "calling balls and strikes as we see them." I would like to elaborate. /1

I encourage everyone to actually read the dissent. The description of what this government is doing should shock anyone with a conscience. It is unfathomably cruel, indeed sadistic. And yes, *this* is being enabled by the highest court in the nation.

Love this! Way to go!!

#NoKings Baltimore

Trump’s Un-American Parade What looks like an excess of strength may really be a deficit of liberty.

Essential “No Kings Day” reading from my PhD advisor T.H. Breen.

George Washington specifically rejected a military parade like the one Trump is having tomorrow. What seems to a king like a sign of strength should be seen by citizens as a loss of liberty.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Ready for No Kings Day

Spotted at our favorite bookstore, @snugbooksbmore.bsky.social

Wassily Kandinsky, Small worlds, 1922

THREAD 🧵

Internal State Department records show that months of warnings have become a reality: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign humanitarian aid has brought about death, violence and unrest. 1/

Yes! My biggest driving peeve!

I just hope she comes back soon and moves baby so we can be in the backyard without disturbing baby or keeping mom from coming back.

Day two: still here. Where's Mama?

City living: a baby deer in the garden.

It Should Not Be Controversial to Plead for Gaza’s Children Israel’s limits on aid have put the region at “critical risk of famine.” Help is within reach. But it’s not enough—and it’s arriving too slowly.

It should not be controversial to say that the starvation of Gaza’s children is wrong, @julieebeck.bsky.social argues:

🧵 This is a perfect example of how disordered discourse reshapes democratic politics, not by policy failure, but by the performative targeting of identity. Let’s unpack what’s happening.