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300,000 Black women have left the labor force in 3 months. It’s not a coincidence. For decades, the public sector has been a lifeline for Black women shut out of economic opportunity. It’s no surprise that Trump's federal downsizing targeted them first, explains gender economist Kat...

“This isn’t a coincidence. It’s the result of federal policy choices — most immediately, sweeping job cuts across public-sector agencies where Black women have long held the strongest foothold in middle-class employment.”

Is your family member or client at Alligator Alcatraz? We obtained a list The Trump and DeSantis administrations have refused to release a roster of detainees, none of whom seem to appear in ICE’s online database.

"The Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times has obtained a list of more than 700 people who have been detained or appear to be scheduled to be sent to the Florida-run immigration detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz."

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

TIMES WRITER VISITS REICH PRISON CAMP; Taken Through Entire Place at Dachau in Bavaria Except Possibly Disciplinary Cells. 2,000 INMATES GLOOMY Incautious Word Has Landed Many There -- Machine Guns an...

Sharing this for no special reason: In July 1933, a New York Times reporter toured Dachau and saw the entire camp "except possibly the disciplinary cells." According to the reporter, "it was an almost idyllic picture of a rest camp," though the inmates were "gloomy" (h/t @monospace.com)

writing abstracts is both my favorite type of writing (short, more structuring than substantiating, title play) and worst (new idea, can I actually follow through?, sometimes the word count is limiting).

Chicago Facebook Marketplace (and I'm sure most major cities) is just a treasure trove and I wish I had unlimited funds and space for all the beautiful pieces on there.

Karen Read not guilty verdict a bit of good news. Lemme go down a Tik Tok rabbit hole. I know the true crime girlies are hype.

With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.

This is everywhere.

Every academic institution I know is held together by some exhausted woman in her early 40's who waits until the old white male professors have finished their vague rants and says, "alright, so concretely can I propose the following next steps..."

She makes half their salary.

Isaac Asimov on, "If God is Dead, Everything is Permitted?"

his DJ worked it out but Wiz shoulda had me singing the chorus on Mezmorized.

Need a BCC option for texts so I can group text without group texting.

This is why we need to name their policies as color evasive. Color evasion is how white supremacy hoards power- by evading conversations, practices, and policies about racism while practicing re-segregation.

New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line The state, which has long ranked worst in the US for child wellbeing, became the first and only in the country to offer free childcare to a majority of families

New Mexico made childcare free for most families, lifting 120,000 people out of poverty and cutting poverty among providers nearly in half.

Funded by oil/gas revenue, it’s a generational investment in kids, parents, and the economy. buff.ly/mKg3Ywj

#pedsky #edusky 🛟

a woman is standing in a bedroom with the words `` today drained me '' written above her . ALT: a woman is standing in a bedroom with the words `` today drained me '' written above her .

As a Black femme it can be exhausting being the smartest person in the room. We are always the smartest in the room and are forced at times to be in conversation with people unwilling to learn and disrupt their harmful ways of thinking.

University of Houston confirms math assistant professor had visa revoked A University of Houston assistant professor is among the foreign scholars whose visas were revoked in recent weeks, officials at the institution confirmed.

"I will no longer be able to continue teaching."

Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately.

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Little something about me, I LOVE visually stunning images. Especially of Black people. I knew I was in for a treat when they announced Black Dandyism as the theme for this year’s Met Gala.

What Vogue and GQ have done with their May Met Gala collaboration issues made my whole morning!! 🧵

All right I got fed up and had to write this.

And I’m sure after reading it carefully, Trump will stop saying this

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Not you subskeeting that tik tok lol but I know baby.

I think its time for an escort system. If you are a student who is active on Palestine and who is not a citizen, or if your friend is, you need to walk with them so that if this happens someone is there to advocate and witness at least.

This is vicious.

Good joke re. Baby faced folks! I noticed the smooth skin ln. looking youthful and shit.

UPDATE: Mahmoud Khalil is being held by ICE in the Jena/LaSalle Detention Facility in Louisiana, per ICE detainee tracker

Khalil was detained Saturday night from his New York apartment building

This is how I feel about contemporary use of the term aesthetic. Like describe more please! What is the aesthetic?

Many Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below:

Bro I wanted to BE Harriet the Spy! All those tomato sandwiches I hated but ate anyway. Wanting Rosie O’Donnell to be my babysitter. KEEPING A JOURNAL FULL OF OTHER PEOPLE’S SECRETS. She should’ve gotten more time!

we’ve been in the middle of making some big life decisions and i kept saying i was waiting for a sign - welp, our landlords are selling the house we’ve been living in for the past three years so there it is.

please make printing news articles easier — always cutting off the edge or sides!