This escalated fast, in a good way.
Dance Against DOGE turns 1 on March 14! 🎉
For 52 weeks, our community has shown up again and again. This celebration is for the people who make it happen.
🧁 Georgetown cupcakes
🎭 Wear your most outlandish outfit
Let’s celebrate together! 💃
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Construction halted for 14 days. “Maryland argued that federal agencies were required under the National Environmental Policy Act to complete either an Environmental Impact Statement or an Environmental Assessment before breaking ground, and that officials did neither.”
When Nadia Reed refused to work while incarcerated in Colorado, she was punished.
She was put in solitary, not allowed to talk to her family, handcuffed, shackled, & moved to a more punitive part of the prison where she was sexually assaulted.
A judge ruled Colorado has to change its policies.
ICYMI — we dug through 20 years of records to trace a Maryland farm to a modern day concentration camp.
Folks in Maine and Alaska: please call Collins and Murkowski to oppose the confirmation of Casey Means for Surgeon General. They are apparently still on the fence and MAHA is pushing them hard to vote in favor.
Next month, I’ll be touring Germany and France with @duniabest.bsky.social, @ladyhatchet.bsky.social & @raphaeldrumz.bsky.social. Come check us out.
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#music #liveMusic #reggae #ska #punk #soul #Germany #France
NEW: Title X clinics around the country that provide contraception, cancer screening etc. to more than 2mil low income people could see their federal funding cut off in a few weeks. HHS was supposed to give clinics guidance months ago about reapplying for funding, but it's been "radio silence."
Making village entries from 'All That Remains' openly accessible is a continuation of Professor Khalidi's life's work: ensuring that the names, histories, and memories of Palestinian villages are never lost, and that the truth of the Nakba remains available to all.
Explore at: palquest.org/places
My podcast interview with Michael Stauch for New Books Network. We talked much about the craft--how my training as a historian drove my approach to writing this book, how I used my source base, my incorporation of memoir, etc. Very fun conversation!
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Y’know, there was a time when people kept their humiliation kink at home
When you call misogyny misogyny, you're allying with the victims of it and maybe rendering the misogynists uncomfortable, and you're also telling the truth. Whose comfort matters? Matters more than truth? The Times and a lot of the mainstream has been telling us conservative white men come first.
I try to be upfront with myself about how political repression works (expanding like a gas to fill the container we put it in) because I want us to see how easily someone can choose to go along with others' abhorrent choices
"This policy change is illegal," said Ginger Quintero-McCall, a public interest lawyer who represents @freedom.press.
"It would not surprise me at all to learn that the administration reassigned employees who objected to this illegal policy of secrecy."
In part bc people really, really want to imagine themselves giving that st crispin’s day-esque speech?
Speaking of misogyny, it's like climate people are the woman who just need to be more beautiful, sexy, charming, irresistible, flawless, understanding so the man will behave himself. No pressure on the man to stop the bad behavior.
Maryland AG Anthony Brown asked a court to pause the build-out of a Western Maryland warehouse into an immigration detention center while his lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security plays out in court.
The latest from @brendawintrode.bsky.social:
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Devastating reporting. Like RFK Jr., Kristi Noem, and Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth is reshaping his department to indiscriminately kill tons and tons of children.
A major throughline of the Trump administration.
Help DOZENS of students in Gaza City access fundamental rights: education & internet.
Spark brings electricity, & internet to a whole community: so students can connect to classes, & freelancers can work remote jobs—to feed their families.
Keep it open: linktr.ee/sparkworkspace
Strongly encourage all academics, novelists, reporters, bloggers, whatever to just email this account and state that you want to opt out of this idiocy.
Overload them with emails and make them regret they ever tried this shit.
expertoptout@superhuman.com
This is cruel and unusual punishment.
Neighbors check it out!
An opinion that makes you a fringe radical in this country is that the life of a person who is not an American citizen is not an abstraction, and is worth just as much as that of an American citizen
It's quite an annoying skill.
Aaron? What am I looking at?
Preliminary Injunction granted in the Portland, Oregon-based lawsuit against the Fed's brutal response to non-violent protests at the ICE facility.
Yes it should not be an “investment” because they only way it appreciates in a way you gain against others is if you lock others out
