Marilee Brooks-Gillies

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

This ongoing observation of atmospheric CO2 concentrations, started in 1950 and continuous ever since, is one of the best things the US government has ever done.

Trump, Elon, and DOGE are shutting it down.

"No Other Land," the Palestinian-Israeli made film showing the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers, just won the Oscar for Best Documentary.

It can't get a distributor in the US.

Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.

Senate confirms McMahon to lead Education Department as Trump pushes to shut it down The Senate has voted to confirm former wrestling executive Linda McMahon as the nation’s education chief, a role that places her atop a department President Donald Trump has vowed to dismantle.

45 senators—and millions of parents and educators—said no to Linda McMahon's extreme anti-student agenda.

And we will keep saying no to her for as long as she tries to harm students and educators.

Netanyahu’s extremist government has halted ALL humanitarian aid into Gaza.

Starving children is a war crime.

UN leaders said: "International humanitarian law is clear: we must be allowed access to deliver vital lifesaving aid. We need to get aid in and the hostages out.”

Embracing traditional U.S. #imperialism would upend the rules that have kept the globe relatively stable since World War II. A foreign policy expert fears a return to the old approach would unleash fear, chaos – and, as a worst case, nuclear war. 🗃️ #polisky #empire https://buff.ly/41bC95f

"Books are meat and medicine
and flame and flight and flower
steel, stitch, cloud and clout,
and drumbeats on the air."
~ Gwendolyn Brooks 📚📚

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackSky

State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks

💰 Corruption Update 💰

While millions are losing medications provided by USAID, farmers are losing their land because of USDA cuts, and thousands of researchers are struggling to pay rent, Elon Musk has awarded himself $400m to sell the Army the dumbest truck every built.

This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up *took* $80 million from an NYC bank account!

Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.

The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

This is so very very sad and wrong!

Happy:
Black history
Black present
Black future
Black love
Black joy
Black health
Black healing
Black people
Black community
Black family
Black kids
Black culture
Black creativity
Black ingenuity
Black legacy
Black innovation
Black liberation
Black resistance
Black existence
...month🖤

Yep! And I never got to see the letters from the external reviewers selected by my chair. I got tenure, so they were likely excellent letters. I would have loved to read them.

At my last institution, I had to gather a bunch of external letters of support, and my chair solicited official reviewers (I gave him names of folks to consider asking).