Meaghan Mingo

The 2012 GQ profile that describes how deeply the hypersexualization following his iconic ‘Untitled (How Does It Feel)’ video affected him as an artist & human is a must read. An important look at race, gender, labor, entertainment, the body

‪https://www.gq.com/story/dangelo-gq-june-2012-interview‬

‪If you’ve ever eaten or had a drink at my house, you’ve heard D’Angelo. If you have ridden in my car, you’ve heard D’Angelo. ‬

‪RIP to a true legend and one of my favorite artists of all time. 💔‬

The year was 2012. I was living my best life in Philly. D’Angelo was on tour w Mary J Blige, his first in a decade. My friend Carmen & I had a TIME seeing em at Mann Center. A week later, saw him again at Made in America.

I feel so lucky to have seen his gift live. What a loss.

School offers hikes instead of detention. Teachers are seeing results. “People seem really different in a good way at the end,” said Leslie Trundy, a Maine high school counselor and avid hiker.

Maine school offers hikes instead of detention. Teachers are seeing results.

www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

I like to think that the generations to come, like my great-great-great-grandchildren, will discover me in some book or family story. I won’t know the details. But when they do learn about me, they’ll know I spoke and wrote and loved and that I was never afraid. That I always professed that the role of the poet is to give people the language to speak to each other in times of darkness.

Letter from Home: Reyes Ramirez — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

Things that made me cry this morning: this beautiful offering from Houston’s Poet Laureate, Reyes Ramirez, in @bittersouth.bsky.social

“We’re nothing short of miracles, despite what our government says.”

bittersoutherner.com/issue-no12/l...

a woman says " i 'm a bit of a wreck " on a poster for north of north ALT: a woman says " i 'm a bit of a wreck " on a poster for north of north

not me crying in the club (ok, swallowing the lump in my throat in a coffee shop) writing this chapter

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

Margaret Wickens Pearce Foregrounding Indigenous understandings of land and place in maps that visualize Native Peoples’ knowledge, history, and stories.

AND there's another Maine-based awardee! Margaret Wickens Pearce, a Citizen Potawatomi Nation tribal member and cartographer, does painstaking collaborative and archival work to produce maps that foreground Indigenous Peoples’ understanding of land and place.

www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Jeremy Frey Balancing tradition with innovation in technically precise and visually stunning woven artworks.

So thrilled to see the incredible Passamaquoddy basket maker Jeremy Frey get awarded a MacArthur. His art, born of centuries of Wabanaki community, land, and weaving tradition, is beyond stunning.

Maine should be so so proud.

www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

It’s really all we should be talking about today.

A photo of a boy around 8-10 and a girl around 5, him holding a fishing pole in his left hand and his sister’s hand with his right. They are in blue and the ocean, bright blue, stretched out in front of them. The caption says: At the port of Gaza, I saw Mohammed holding his sister Saja's hand as they fished-calmly, as if the world behind them wasn't on fire. A tent of displacement stood behind them, the sea opened wide before them, and the echoes of shelling filled the air. There was a strange peace in the moment, as if childhood itself was resisting the demand to flee. Gaza-where children learn to smile through ruins, to live while death brushes past them. A city of contradictions and quiet defiance.

this undid me today

THOSE OTHERS We lived at the end of an empire. Sometimes we gathered in huge auditoriums and tried to understand. Our shame did not save us, nor our sadness redeem us, as we came to understand how others, far into the future, would look back at us, shaking their heads: we hoped in sorrow; more likely, anger. - Jim Moore

I just hope my family sues @aeromexico.bsky.social when I perish from the blood pressure increase their scamming asses have caused me

only reason I keep an FB account is to keep the pulse of folks back home in Maine

today I’m glad I do so I can call out my high school English teacher for posting incessantly about CK being some incredible living manifestation of the Gospel while completely refusing to reckon with his hate speech

If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at sheryl@weikallaw.com if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents.

In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

This is so fucking infuriating. Annual South Bend Mexican independence celebration and scholarship fundraiser cancelled due to fears of community safety, ICE raids

www.southbendtribune.com/story/news/l...

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

‘Who Am I Without Birth Control?’

Another low key terrifying sign of how deeply anti-choicers + natalists have adapted messaging their misinformation to focus on 'wellness.' Convincing people to stop birth control achieves their end of more pregnant people, just as abortion access shrinks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/s...

Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up.

Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year.

idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...

Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.

Beaten and Choked at a U.N. Mission, Then Arrested by the N.Y.P.D.

Beaten and Choked at a U.N. Mission, Then Arrested by the N.Y.P.D. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/n...

Boy, 11, shot dead after playing doorbell-ringing prank in Houston, police say Boy struck several times as he and friends played ‘ding-dong ditch’ which involves ringing a doorbell and running

11 years old.

This nation's obsession with guns, violence, property, and power continues to result in completely preventable deaths of children. We are a profoundly broken society.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I want to live in a country + a world where kids don’t ever have to be heroes.

Instead we see them forced into this & more every fucking day, whether in the US or Sudan or Palestine or any number of places. Our unending hunger for wealth, power, and control prevents us from ever loving them well.

Lydia Kaiser Lydia, 12, was wounded while protecting her "little buddy" during Annunciation's first Mass of the school year, according to an online fundraising campaign. "Lydia and Harry are 2 heroes in our midst," a posting on the campaign's page read. The posting noted that Lydia was in "very serious condition and has undergone an unimaginable surgery."

Children should never have to shield each other from bullets, share scraps of food despite rumbling bellies, or sacrifice their bodies or hearts or dreams because adults are more committed to terror and violence and power than they ever have been to the health, safety, and care of children.

times like these* i deeply miss living so far away from my best friends + man

* when an AirPod may have gone down a very creepy nasty vent and i can’t possibly explore without moral support

** also applies to sightings or mere suspicion of pretty much any living thing being in my abode

‘I revert back to the pain’: New Orleans educators reflect on Katrina after 20 years One remembered floating corpses. Another recalled kids living without their parents. And getting laid off couldn’t keep a determined math teacher and football coach away from the city’s students.

‘My school still stands’: What Katrina took from New Orleans educators, and what it couldn’t

www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/28/n...

This country hates children. You will never convince me otherwise.