Rachel Jones

And this is why we need science AND the arts

It's increasingly clear that the US needs to ratify UNCLOS and become party to the Convention on the Law of the Sea for not just economic and diplomatic reasons, but as an urgent national security issue.

We cannot be a rogue nation on the high seas.

This is what that D-list grifter Karlyn Borysenko is up to. Targeting professors and librarians with hate for money.

More looting.

Imagine how much contempt you must have—for the rule of law, for human life, for your fellow citizens—to respond in this way

Milledgeville?

Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the jubilee!
Hurrah! Hurrah! The flag that makes you free!
So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea
While we were marching through Georgia

Has anyone read any mea culpa's from the people who insisted that using the term WHITE SUPREMACY was not "productive" when addressing this regime? There is ZERO way to ever the U.S. without actually addressing RACISM and WHITE SUPREMACY. These are facts.

Everything about the bombings of boats in the Caribbean Sea has been illegal under both US and international law

Everything

U.S. Book Challenges Update: November 2025 Edition Libraries and schools across the country are experiencing unprecedented levels of attempts to ban or remove books from their shelves. I Love Libraries will continue to raise awareness by highlighting…

tennessee just kept 140+ books banned until at least next year. beloved. catch-22. on pause because lawmakers panic at paper. students are literally the collateral damage.

how is this still happening?

no, but we do have some of her recipes. my grandmother was taciturn, did not reveal much!

she could fish, garden, hunt and then cook all of it perfectly.

my grandma was an amazing cook. worked in resort kitchens in florida as a kid.

New York City reduces Black and Brown opioid overdose deaths for the first time since 2018 For the first time in six years, Black and Brown opioid overdose deaths decreased citywide in 2024, according to health department data.

amsterdamnews.com/news/2025/11...

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posting the classics

she ran it all through a grinder at the end, so it had a nice texture

my grandma made the best Brunswich stew, to be eaten with slices of white bread

I spend far too much time resetting forgotten passwords.

When Is It Time to Flee? Trans people and their families are facing hard questions and choices as threats to their safety and rights proliferate.

For at least a year, I've been returning to the question, how would you know when it's time to leave the US? For this piece, I asked trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer Americans who, with their families and partners, have recently fled the country, about how they made this decision and how they left.

geese are terrifying

LIBRARIES MAKE BOOKS ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE, she shouts, apparently inaudibly

WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST?

ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?

Anti-Blackness Is at the Heart of Trump’s Toxic Politics

Legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw says anti-Blackness is an essential tool in Trump’s authoritarian playbook.

Thank you, @perrybaconjr.bsky.social!

Transcript: newrepublic.com/article/2036...

Full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ihF...

right?

Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.

They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.

More updates TK.

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NATIONAL CALL: Learn to Replicate the "Scrape ICE Out of Home Depot" Action · National Day Laborer Organizing Network Join a national call to debrief this past weekend’s viral ICE Scraper action, strengthen our nonviolent strategy, and coordinate safe, visible actions nationwide. Learn how communities are organizing ...

NATIONAL CALL: Learn to Replicate the "Scrape ICE Out of Home Depot" Action - www.mobilize.us/ndlon/event/... - tomorrow 11/25 at 5pm/PT 8pm ET

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

What if Dems ran on sacrificing James Carville's human rights?

“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.