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“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
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Fetterman voted Nay. www.senate.gov/legislative/...

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to fight for, I simply accept the possibility that I may not
live to see it. I have grown weary of telling myself lies

that I might one day begin to believe. We are not all left
standing after the war has ended. Some of us have
become ghosts by the time the dust has settled.

does not bend in a direction that will comfort us.
Sometimes it bends in ways we don’t expect & there are
people who fall off in the process. Please, dear reader,

do not say I am hopeless, I believe there is a better future

I have grown accustomed to a lifetime of aphorisms
meant to assuage my fears, pithy sayings meant to

convey that everything ends up fine in the end. There is no
solace in rearranging language to make a different word
tell the same lie. Sometimes the moral arc of the universe

all I hear is the wind slapping against the gravestones
of those who did not make it, those who did not
survive to see the confetti fall from the sky, those who

did not live to watch the parade roll down the street.

Thanks to Dean Spade for including this poem in a recent newsletter. It spoke to me today. 1/5

When people say “we have made it through worse before”
— Clint Smith

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Baltimore is seeing the city’s fewest homicides in 50 years. Here’s why. Multiple people have taken credit for the historic drop that mirrors a national decrease in violent crimes. Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott says it’s due to a community-based approach to gun violence.

#Baltimore Mayor #BrandonScott invested in 42 summer youth camps, 29 literacy programs, extended the rec center hours to 11 p.m, planned block parties, opened the pools for safe fun, & opened several schools up for summer classes. Crime is down 62%. 🔥🔥 www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

I responded by informing them that the email contained lies and propaganda and stopped short of telling them how I really felt :-)

Oh, we do remember.

One of the towns Trup is bombing, Isfahan, is home to most of Iran's Jews.

Congress is probably rolling over in its grave right now.

ICE agents detain people coming out from hearings at immigration court who have upcoming scheduled hearings.

ICE agents unilaterally grabs them and drags them away.

When people abiding by the law get arrested, and the government openly defies the law, it’s fascism.

I don't know about you...but I'm disturbed by the amount of hell NOT being raised by leadership about masked individuals jumping out of unmarked vans, refusing to identify themselves...and just shoving people into a Goddamn vehicle and whisking them away.

The term ‘lone gunman’ ignores the structures that enable violence A scholar of extremism writes that the use of the term often obscures deeper societal issues such as rising political violence and is dangerously simplistic.

The term ‘lone gunman’ ignores the structures that enable violence buff.ly/rSMp4W5

What they said.

Exactly.

After Getting The Ruling It Wanted, New York Times Publishes 6 Anti-Trans Articles The paper has lost all claim to objectivity on transgender people.

1. After the Skrmetti decision, the New York Times has published 6 articles dancing on the graves of trans youth and spreading disinformation on care.

It was cited 7 times in the ruling.

Read my latest on what will be a black stain on the NYT for a generation.

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They've got enough money to throw us into another war, but not enough money to fund the suicide prevention hotline. Very "pro-life." Very "pro-family." So "GREAT."

The Supreme Court Just Threw Trans Kids Under The Bus—Here's What Their Ruling Means SCOTUS lands devastating blow against trans youth and their families

The Supreme Court has sided with cruelty. Again. This time, it’s trans kids who pay the price. In this powerful piece, lawyer and democracy expert @importantmeagan.bsky.social pulls back the curtain on the new ruling upholding the TN ban on gender-affirming care, and sounds the alarm on what's next.

How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost

NYT 19 Jun 25 -- NYTimes once again invents a story about trans people & then covers it as news: "How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost" There are 3m trans ppl in US & none bet on five white evangelical jurists to protect our rights. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

People need to realize that the New York Times is going to pivot to "self-ID" now, essentially to build up the next fight, a total end of all legal recognition for transgender people.

A handful of states have already started passing these laws, and it is absolutely what they are going for next.

The NYT decided to kick trans people in the teeth the day after Skrmetti. They wrote a hit piece blaming trans people for their own oppression and attacked the people who have fought hardest to stop this effort to eradicate us.

They turned to Brianna Wu to further their narrative.

Unbelievably (except not) bad article in NYT. So much wrong with it....

Today's #AAR newsletter includes a #Juneteenth reading list from @readingreligion.bsky.social; an intro to "The Black Religious Liberty Curriculum" from Columbia Law School's Law, Rights, and Religion Project; the latest advance JAAR article; and more. Read and subscribe! mailchi.mp/aarweb/publi...

‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status

You can't make this shit up! "Doctors at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals nationwide could refuse to treat unmarried veterans and Democrats under new hospital guidelines imposed following an executive order by Donald Trump." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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