Kendra Salois

"This far-reaching economic impact (of #NEA and #NEH) stabilizes and revitalizes communities, from rural towns to urban centers, and strengthens small and large businesses, fostering thriving local economies." - Jennifer Dorning, Pres. of the Dept. for Professional Employees, @aflcio.org

Press Release | The Academy’s 2025 Ross Media Award Winners Announced | American Academy of Diplomacy In a statement issued on October 6, 2025, the American Academy of Diplomacy announced that the winners of the 2025 Ross Media Award for Reporting and Commentary on the Practice of American Diplomacy a...

Many congratulations to @npr.org’s Anas Baba on this wonderful, hugely deserved recognition of his “steadfast and factual coverage of the war in Gaza [that] is making a singular contribution to public understanding of the conflict at great personal risk.”

www.academyofdiplomacy.org/news/press-r...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

you could give an infinite number of reactionaries an infinite number of typewriters over an infinite timeline and they would never invent a sesame street

What will arguments in Louisiana's voting district Supreme Court case look like? A breakdown. In most Voting Rights Acts cases, minority voters are suing their state leaders, not on their side. But for awhile, a cadre of Black voters and Louisiana officials were both defending the state's current Congressional map in the Callais case before the U.S. Supreme Court. But they are unusual bedfellows no more.

The Supreme Court is poised to hear a case next week that could unravel the Voting Rights Act, and NoLa dot com reports on how Louisiana officials are helping lead the charge.

This is so valuable! Not just bc traditional reports are nowhere near this detailed, but bc hearing what a judge finds credible and not is illuminating (and reassuring in this case)

FlyingPurplePizzaEater Sometimes people use "respect" to mean "treating someone like a person" and sometimes they use "respect" to mean "treating someone like an authority" and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say "if you won't respect me, I won't respect you" and they mean "if you won't treat me like an authority I won't treat you like a person" and they think they're being fair but they aren't, and it's not okay. Reply by do-as-youre-told This is so well put I am stunned

The double standard is designed to be invisible to those who benefit from it.

Students talked about this today… the amount these coaches are paid when they’re fired

Music publishers fend off Anthropic's bid to dismiss some AI copyright claims Artificial intelligence company Anthropic lost a bid on Monday to dismiss parts of a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by music publishers over Anthropic's alleged misuse of their song lyrics in its AI training.

Music publishers fend off Anthropic's bid to dismiss some AI copyright claims reut.rs/46EaZrv

Cover of the book Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World, edited by Christina Sharpe

A slide with a quote from Christina Sharpe's intro to Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World: "gathering, speaking, dreaming, and writing are each powerful actions in the face of structural violence, genocide, and repression"

This term our migration students are writing manifestos for migratory futures, so we're reading Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World for inspiration

Organizing this with some friends! Come through!

Already have multiple instances in the first hour of this being posted.

I think the censorship of banned books week itself is an underreported story.

If the immigration enforcement apparatus of the United States were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world. This puts it higher than the national militaries of Poland, Italy, Australia, Canada, Turkey and Spain — and just below Israel.

US immigration enforcement is now the 13th most well-funded military in the world, ahead of Canada and, incredibly, just behind Israel.

inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.

Not just keystone-cops obvious, also willfully cruel! The innovations abound

This has always been a extremely tiny screeching minority demanding that their bigotry dictate that no one else's children can learn of the existence of LGBTQ people.

Liberals will appease the fascists before allowing you to protect yourself or community from fascist violence.

The mayor is doing the fascists job for them by curtailing our first amendment right to protest

Authoritarian governments sending troops drawn from the ordinary population to repress said population and then *not paying* those troops is definitely a thing that has gone well, historically. A+ dictator performance Donny

Kaepernick-Funded Autopsy Reportedly Finds Trey Reed Didn’t Die by Suicide — Family Attorney Ben Crump Hasn’t Confirmed According to a source who isn't authorized to comment publicly, the autopsy of Trey Reed reveals that his death was not caused by a suicide.

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

Tossed into the neighborhood as feds were departing and other times

Some folks have asked, so you can access my essay here (gratis)
www.academia.edu/144027467/Pe...

If I could publish only in ethical OA outlets, I would, especially as academia.edu crumbles into AI slop mode, but we're at where we're at in higher ed and I think I see a bigger fire over yonder...

ISP gets in formation and a number of them march away from the intersection, toward the parking lot neighboring the ICE facility (it belongs to a business, not ICE's lot).

The crowd starts a rendition of The Imperial March.

If you are just catching up, after CBP shot a woman, angry community members showed up to protest the agents who have been terrorizing their community for weeks.

It ended with more chemical munitions, arrests, and CBP recklessly speeding off through a cloud of tear gas.

ICE officers stopped a family at gunpoint and smashed the car window on top of the newborn baby. “I was screaming that there was a baby,” cried the mother. “But they didn’t care,” and covered the baby with their bodies, fearing that the glass would hurt him.

Protesters have decorated this parking lot fence on Beach with flyers for Silverio Villegas González. Two ICE agents shot and killed him in his car in neighboring Franklin Park three weeks ago. He leaves behind two sons he was caring for.

Our friend, poet and activist @sarahmaintains.bsky.social has been illegally detained by the IDF and is being held in an Israeli jail. There are reports of mistreatment and human rights violations. Please keep pressure on the Irish government and embassy to secure the release of Sarah and others. 🇵🇸🇮🇪

If this is how they treat press and protesters in public, one can imagine what they do to detainees when no one’s watching.

That's not a challenge coin, that's a challenge brooch.

How delightfully nonbinary of they/them.