Emese Ilyès

This man, who came to the US at 9 months old, transformed his time in prison (WHILE INNOCENT) into service, teaching others and earning a master’s degree. Now, he faces deportation to a country he doesn’t know, away from his family. This is BRUTAL. 2/2

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

The brutality is the point. Subu Vedam was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 YEARS for a murder he didn’t commit. Finally exonerated, he walked out of prison, only to be ABDUCTED by ICE over a decades-old deportation order.1/2 tinyurl.com/hhu82mjd

Jane Fonda: Trump needs an education on climate | CNN Actress Jane Fonda and activist Mela Chiponda join Christiane Amanpour to discuss launching the Jane Fonda Gender and Climate Justice Fund.

Women in the Global South, hit hardest by climate chaos, also hold the solutions. Their new Gender & Climate Justice Fund amplifies that power! @janefonda.com : www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/t... @janefonda.com #ClimateJustice #WomenInClimate we need to celebrate examples of meaningful solidarity!

Guide to being an explorer. ✨By Keri Smith.

Pedagogies of Quiet Resistance: Collective Care in the Age of Anticipatory Obedience
- Dr Emese Ilyes @emeseilyes.bsky.social

The Onion NYT ad. The headline of the editorial says “CONGRESS, NOW MORE THAN EVER OUR NATION NEEDS YOUR COWARDICE”

EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.

My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...

JUST NOW: Bernie tells the crowd about Trump attacking Iran, the crowd erupts into “NO MORE WAR!” chants

Bernie calls the attack “grossly unconstitutional”

Just days ago the US was in “negotiations” with Iran and now Trump just bombed them. With the flick of BiBi’s little finger, Trump is manipulated despicably.

I'm gutted and furious that the Iranian people will be injured, harmed and killed as a result of this absolutely depraved act of violence. What a complete travesty on every single level.

Masked federal agents have just forcibly detained NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander as he was trying to assist someone at immigration court.

Been thinking a lot about how Trump projects his distorted relationship to humanity onto all of us. He is wrong. We do not revel in watching others hurt. Humanity is built on collective care instead of selfish destruction. We can’t let him convince us otherwise. www.commondreams.org/opinion/la-p...

NYC Public Library Action Network Send a letter to all the mayoral candidates demanding increased funding for our public libraries! NYC Public Library People’s Assembly happened on Saturday, May 17th from 1:30pm-5:30pm at Greenpoint…

Anywho if you're in NYC and you were motivated to be in the streets yesterday and you now want to devote your energies to winning well-funded public libraries in this city, you are welcome to join NYC Public Library Action Network: nycplan.org - we'll be celebrating our 1 year anniversary on 7/13.

Who is watching the debates tonight?! Rank: Zohran Mamdani, Brad Lander, Adrienne Adams, Zellnor Myrie. Early voting starts Saturday. #nycvotes #zohranmamdani #dontrankcuomo

Doesn’t have to say that the Earth has turned scarlet through fierce belief, after centuries of heartbreak and laughter – he perches on the blue bowl of the sky, and laughs.” - joy harjo

“… that fool crow, picking through trash near the corral, understands the center of the world as greasy strips of fat. Just ask him.

This call to join together in a rebellion of love, persistence and commitment.
Excerpt from Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s As We Have Always Done
#resistance

My latest piece in @commondreams: https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/graduate-message-trump-higher-ed
#highereducation #defendeducation #academicfreedom #democracy

When universities withhold diplomas from valedictorians speaking truth to power and billionaires dismantle public services, our students pay the price. Education isn’t a commodity, it’s a right. We need to defend it.

Anyone up for a listening party of Bruce Springsteen albums while we eat Ben and Jerry’s this weekend?

Whose nonexistence is necessary to the self-conception of this place, and how uncontrollable is the rage whenever that nonexistence is violated?
- Omar El Akkad

Education Department stops $1 billion in funding for school mental health Congress created the grants in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The goal was to help schools hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers.

Congress created the grants in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The goal was to help schools hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers.

Two stickers are dropped upon the sidewalk

The base of a cherry tree with a concrete wall behind the tree the top of the wall is painted dark, green and pink blossoms are densely covering the ground, especially the area by the concrete wall and the tree

Up close of Iris, the sun is shining through the pedals, allowing us to see the veins

Tiny Mulberry leaves illuminated by the sun above

Tiny drops of magic sprinkled into this gently Spring week

Pritzker: It’s time for us to be done with optimism about their motives. Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research… Autistic kids and adults who are loving contributors to our society don’t deserve to be stigmatized by a weird nepo baby who once stashed a dead bear in his car. Our military service members don’t deserve to be told by a washed-up Fox TV commentator, who drank too much before being appointed Secretary of Defense, that they can’t serve their country simply because they are Black, gay, or a woman.

Dear god let this man cook.

I keep feeling echoes in my body between what we are seeing now and what I have experienced as a little girl under authoritarianism. This article is of little lessons of survival I’m carrying and I wanted to share them with you . https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/survive-trump-s-authoritarianism

“Scholarship cannot flourish in an atmosphere of suspicion and distrust. Teachers and students must always remain free to inquire, to study and to evaluate, to gain new maturity and understanding; otherwise our civilization will stagnate and die.” Justice Earl Warren

How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts Nature analyses which fields of science and US states are being hit hardest by grant terminations.

NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts.

About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone.

See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:

This 👏🏼is 👏🏼how 👏🏼you👏🏼do👏🏼it!

Something to reflect on before tax day

A few thoughts about today's protests:

1) The April 5 Hands Off day of action clearly ranks as one of the very largest mobilizations in U.S. history, by two different measures:
-- total national turnout (~ 3 million)
-- number of local protests (~ 1400)

people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.