Martha Egnal

In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together "Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.

“The regime wants all of us afraid. It is counting on fear immobilizing us and perhaps even turning us against each other. Instead, what we are currently seeing in Chicago is that solidarity can overcome fear and can give people the courage and tenacity to fight for each other.” --Mariame Kaba

The reluctant hot dog and the tiny unicorn are rooting for you!!

And never mind that we’re going in to winter right now.

New Mexican here! It’s that and that the whole state is very rural, schools are underfunded, teacher shortage and retention issues etc. During COVID our governor made college free for all residents, and just recently made universal child care free, so that should help improve things in the long run

Who knew they all of the Oregon Trail we played in the 80s was foreshadowing…
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Samoa’s prime minister criticises RFK Jr’s vaccine views after deadly measles outbreak In an exclusive interview, Fiame Naomi Mataʻafa tells the Guardian she is surprised at Trump’s pick for health secretary and criticised anti-vaxxers for their part in 2019 measles crisis

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Green chile!!!

Academic Freedom Syllabus Academic freedom is at the core of what academics do, inside and outside the classroom. It is the oxygen necessary for our profession to exist. Yet academic freedom is often misunderstood by faculty a...

🚨Start the semester out right with academic freedom syllabus language, an academic freedom module, & an academic freedom reading list! Suitable for UG & grad classes, faculty workshops!

Thanks to @isaac_kamola, @aaup for these great resources!

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Just heard a similar cover of Killing Me Softly. Agree 💯 that this should be illegal.

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Maybe this image needs to get posted more on Twitter/X…

You’re not allowed to pay for a what!?!?

Wow. This is wild. Is there a word that describes things that are horrifying, dangerous, and also so stupid that they’re almost funny? If this word doesn’t exist we need to create it.

Right. That part.

Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone…

Star Wars Intro Scroll Episode IV It Was All So Stupid Seriously, you would not believe how stupid it was. Every day, unrelentingly, just the dumbest stuff by the absolute worst people. And what made it worse was knowing that we’d brought this on ourselves.

Eagles all day!! 🦅
They declined the White House visit after they won the Super Bowl.

Maps: Where Do Federal Employees Work in America? (Gift Article) Before the Trump administration’s cuts, members of the civilian federal work force were in every state and in thousands of the nation’s cities and small towns.

Trump and his cronies peddle the myth we’re “Washington bureaucrats.”

But 85% of federal workers live outside D.C.

We help vets in Phoenix, inspect meat in Iowa, fight fires in Montana, and run weather models in Oklahoma.

We work for all Americans, every day.
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Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me

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There were 500+ people in my tiny, rural New Mexican town. Left my phone at home (no pics), but one lady had a sign that said “Not a Paid Protester”
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So freaking inspiring!!

Just got to the Mall and saw this sign, which no one is going to top.

#HandsOff2025

Happy Protest (and then basking in all the other protest pictures) Day to all who celebrate!!
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YouTube video by PoliticsGirl 20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow

You have to see this.

PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

This is so heartbreakingly normal.

Hmm… the math ain’t mathing, Muskrat and the DOdGEy pimple boys.

Amen!! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

I’m waiting to see the leaked texts about Trump’s dementia.