The Quiet Tsunami

When Jesse Jackson Came to ‘Sesame Street’: ‘I Am! Somebody!’

“The message of Jackson’s litany is the beginning of education, and the beginning of democracy. It says that you have worth as a person, simply because you are a person. It says that you have a voice. And it says that your voice is most powerful when it joins with other voices.” [gift link]

Trump administration scraps multimillion-dollar solar projects in Puerto Rico as grid crumbles The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is canceling solar projects in Puerto Rico worth millions of dollars as the island struggles with chronic power outages and a crumbling electric grid.

And 2. the Biden admin approved a $400 million grant to Puerto Rico to install solar panels to improve reliability and protect 30,000 low income households from blackouts. Trump cancelled it a couple weeks ago

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Pretty sure one was consulted, definitely was for the album

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"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules

it's so funny that he wedged in a complaint about the new kickoff rule at the end there lmao

“Oh! The Grammy goes to Luther Vandross!” - Cher

Thinking of my Japanese American elders today, their resistance, their bravery in the face of state violence.

“Were you afraid of being arrested?”
Fred Korematsu: “No, I wasn’t because I didn’t feel that I did anything wrong. If anybody did wrong, it was the law.” www.instagram.com/reel/DUJAjhC...

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE

Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.

On this day in 1984, we released a single called The Killing Moon. 🌙🐰

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

THE BEARS HAVE THE MANDATE OF HEAVEN

🤯

I'm Not That Nicole Carpenter I got a corrections request for a story I didn't write, and it pulled me down a journalism rabbit hole.

Last week, I got a corrections request for a story I didn't write, on a publication I don't write for. It sent me down a very strange rabbit hole involving a mysterious content publisher. There's a lot I don't understand, but here's what I know:

aftermath.site/nicole-carpe...

"I'm more than just a rhymer, you still a small-timer
Hopin that the game'll treat that ass a little kinder
Every step tango'd, your beat don't concern me
I'm eating mangoes in Trinidad with attorneys"

may he rest in power and eternal mangoes

this is actually really easy to understand if you were or are living well below the poverty line. at least imo and experience. had the exact same thought as "oh this is $3? that's not so bad, it's basically $2" when gifting games to friends via steam sales this year.

This is how they played The First of Us

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

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Sounds about right, I look like one sometimes.

Drawing of a red-skinned oni girl with horns and pointed ears and a blank tanktop, holding a large kitchen knife as she cooly glances at the viewer, engulfed in stylistic Asian flames. Behind her is a wild-looking teal horse with a mane made of flames. The text says "2026"

happy year of the fire horse (hinoe-uma)! 👹 An old Japanese superstition from the Edo period says women born on this year will be hot-tempered and shorten their husbands' lifespans

Kikomancy- the magical art of using soy sauce to power spells

much of fitness culture in the US was developed by people who literally entered sports and physical education instead of going to therapy and the attitudes around intensity and effort kinda reflect that. the smiling Jazzercise folks were right and your football coach / PE teacher was wrong

Verge headline: The rescued Vietnamese infants of Operation Ballit have grown up by Camille Bromley 2025 YEAR IN REVIEW Illustration depicts a painterly collage of children half-shrouded, flanked by clouds and aircraft

Operation Babylift was an earnest attempt to save children during the fall of Saigon in 1975. Fifty years later, a generation of adoptees wrestle with Vietnam’s legacy of transnational adoption.

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