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Our official statement in response to the wave of anti-trans legislation.
To our trans and nonbinary communities: We see you, we love you, and we side with you.
#TransLivesMatter #TransIsBeautiful 🏳️⚧️
To our trans and nonbinary communities: We see you, we love you, and we side with you.
#TransLivesMatter #TransIsBeautiful 🏳️⚧️
That’s not how an interfaith marriage works, Mr. Vice President. @susankatzmiller.bsky.social
JD Vance hopes his Hindu wife converts to Christianity, sparking debate on interfaith marriage
Vice President JD Vance’s recent comments about hoping his Hindu wife converts to Christianity have sparked discussions about interfaith marriages.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
That’s not how an interfaith marriage works, Mr. Vice President. @susankatzmiller.bsky.social
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Happy University Press Week! Join us in celebrating how authors, university press publishing professionals & so many others #TeamUP to advance knowledge. Explore this @bookshop.org collection of university press books to find your next thought-provoking read: https://bit.ly/4nhTQcc. #ReadUP
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Happy University Press Week! Join us in celebrating how authors, university press publishing professionals & so many others #TeamUP to advance knowledge. Explore this @bookshop.org collection of university press books to find your next thought-provoking read: https://bit.ly/4nhTQcc. #ReadUP
The strategy behind cyberattacks is persuasion. Scammers impersonate information technology or human resources staff, invent emergencies and pressure people into surrendering access. @heidsky.bsky.social warns us that AI supercharges those tricks. buff.ly/DAYi886
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The strategy behind cyberattacks is persuasion. Scammers impersonate information technology or human resources staff, invent emergencies and pressure people into surrendering access. @heidsky.bsky.social warns us that AI supercharges those tricks. buff.ly/DAYi886
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Aged like roadkill in RFK’s trunk.
November 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Aged like roadkill in RFK’s trunk.
When it comes to those we’ve chosen to be in connection with, disregarding the impact of our boundaries on others is irresponsible at best, and harmful at worst.
The Danger of Weaponizing Our Personal Boundaries
"Disregarding the impact of our boundaries on others is irresponsible at best, and harmful at worst," argues Margeaux Feldman.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
When it comes to those we’ve chosen to be in connection with, disregarding the impact of our boundaries on others is irresponsible at best, and harmful at worst.
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
With A PROTEST HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, Gloria J. Browne-Marshall wants to expand what protest means, show its long history, and empower others to be involved, because protest is very American. @eddrickshow.bsky.social
A Protest History of the United States: Why It Matters Now | Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
Join me for an enlightening conversation with award-winning writer, playwright, and esteemed civil rights attorney Gloria J. Browne-Marshall. She discusses her vital new book, A Protest History of…
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November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
With A PROTEST HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, Gloria J. Browne-Marshall wants to expand what protest means, show its long history, and empower others to be involved, because protest is very American. @eddrickshow.bsky.social
Taking the (few) wins when and where we can on this timeline
The challenge to the court's 2015 ruling came from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex licenses after the court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which recognized a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. n.pr/47yOyEH
Supreme Court declines to revisit gay marriage decision
The challenge to the court's 2015 ruling came from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex licenses after the court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which recognized a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Taking the (few) wins when and where we can on this timeline
Pam Roy first discovered Viktor Frankl’s MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING when her daughters were in middle school. His book gave her a framework for what she was living, about responsibility. #MeaningfulMonday
470 SelfWork: How to Find Meaning In The Moment with Author Pam Roy - Dr. Margaret Rutherford
One of the most difficult things we all face is how to find meaning in the moments or experiences of our lives that cause suffering.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Pam Roy first discovered Viktor Frankl’s MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING when her daughters were in middle school. His book gave her a framework for what she was living, about responsibility. #MeaningfulMonday
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President Trump is pursuing a policy of climate-change acceleration. His actions are fueling global warming—and may leave places in the United States uninhabitable by mid-century, Vann R. Newkirk II writes.
What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century
Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
President Trump is pursuing a policy of climate-change acceleration. His actions are fueling global warming—and may leave places in the United States uninhabitable by mid-century, Vann R. Newkirk II writes.
A potential fall of Israel could either be like the end of South Vietnam, the total erasure of a state, or like South Africa, the fall of a particular ideological regime and its replacement by another. Ilan Pappé believes elements of both scenarios will unfold.
Is Israel 'On the Brink?' (w/ Ilan Pappé)
In spite of Israel’s military dominance over its regional foes, is the Zionist entity actually at its most vulnerable point in history? And more importantly — can it sustain the Jewish state project?
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November 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
A potential fall of Israel could either be like the end of South Vietnam, the total erasure of a state, or like South Africa, the fall of a particular ideological regime and its replacement by another. Ilan Pappé believes elements of both scenarios will unfold.
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"I need to make the argument for why protest is still important, why it's still effective—and to make people expand their minds as to the different ways in which we can protest." Watch Gloria J. Browne-Marshall discuss her book on @eddrickshow.bsky.social: bit.ly/482oyS6 @beaconpress.bsky.social
A Protest History of the United States: Why It Matters Now | Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
Join me for an enlightening conversation with award-winning writer, playwright, and esteemed civil rights attorney Gloria J. Browne-Marshall. She discusses her vital new book, A Protest History of the United States. Professor Browne-Marshall, a Constitutional Law and Africana Studies Professor at John Jay College (CUNY) and recipient of the prestigious 2024 Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association, breaks down the historical role of protest in shaping the American identity and legal landscape. Don't miss her insights on law, history, and the power of civic engagement. #eddrickshow #ProtestHistory #GloriaJBrowneMarshall #CivilRights #ConstitutionalLaw #SilverGavelAward #JohnJayCollege #USHistory #CivicEngagement #AfricanaStudies #authorinterviews @theeddrickshow
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November 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"I need to make the argument for why protest is still important, why it's still effective—and to make people expand their minds as to the different ways in which we can protest." Watch Gloria J. Browne-Marshall discuss her book on @eddrickshow.bsky.social: bit.ly/482oyS6 @beaconpress.bsky.social
The process of restricting or banning a chemical is excruciatingly slow and subject to the caprices of politics. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company employees deserved safe working conditions, not worker neglect. #NationalCancerAwarenessDay
Welcome to the Cancer Factory
The United States says it cares about blue-collar workers, but the worker protections in place tell a different story, reports Jim Morris.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The process of restricting or banning a chemical is excruciatingly slow and subject to the caprices of politics. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company employees deserved safe working conditions, not worker neglect. #NationalCancerAwarenessDay
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Ever wonder what happens behind the scenes when the cover art for a book gets designed? @samanthapaigerosen.bsky.social tells @debutiful.bsky.social how the cover art for her upcoming anthology, LIVING, TOGETHER, came together.
See the cover for Living, Together, an essay anthology edited by Samantha Paige Rosen
What is a home? That is what writer and editor Samantha Paige Rosen sought to answer in the essay anthology, Living, Together: Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection. In it, over twenty …
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November 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Ever wonder what happens behind the scenes when the cover art for a book gets designed? @samanthapaigerosen.bsky.social tells @debutiful.bsky.social how the cover art for her upcoming anthology, LIVING, TOGETHER, came together.
If you have ever interviewed or commiserated with other artists and creative people to justify your choices as an artist, you’re not alone! @sgriest.bsky.social did that over the course of 10 years and turned those conversations into a book.
Author Stephanie Elizondo Griest (Art Above Everything): "When Everything Is Impossible, Anything...
Dennis is joined via Zoom by author Stephanie Elizondo Griest to discuss her latest book Art Above Everything: One Woman's Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life, which is so…
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November 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you have ever interviewed or commiserated with other artists and creative people to justify your choices as an artist, you’re not alone! @sgriest.bsky.social did that over the course of 10 years and turned those conversations into a book.
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Every administration since the start of SNAP has ensured funds kept flowing despite a government shutdown — the Trump admin, even if forced by a judge, is trying to weasel their way out.
Because the cruelty IS the point.
TAKE ACTION, Keep America Fed ➡️ www.standupforscience.net/sufs-food-drive
Because the cruelty IS the point.
TAKE ACTION, Keep America Fed ➡️ www.standupforscience.net/sufs-food-drive
Trump administration seeks to halt SNAP food aid payments after a court order
The Trump administration has asked a federal appeals court to block a judge’s order to distribute November’s full SNAP benefits during a U.S. government shutdown. U.S.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Every administration since the start of SNAP has ensured funds kept flowing despite a government shutdown — the Trump admin, even if forced by a judge, is trying to weasel their way out.
Because the cruelty IS the point.
TAKE ACTION, Keep America Fed ➡️ www.standupforscience.net/sufs-food-drive
Because the cruelty IS the point.
TAKE ACTION, Keep America Fed ➡️ www.standupforscience.net/sufs-food-drive
Just in time for Black History Month next year, @crileysnorton.bsky.social and Darius Bost’s A BLACK QUEER HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES is an “illuminating account.”
Watch this space on January 20, 2026! ✊🏽🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Watch this space on January 20, 2026! ✊🏽🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
A Black Queer History of the United States by C Riley Snorton, Darius Bost
This illuminating account from gender studies scholars Snorton (Black on Both Sides) and Bost (Evidence of Being) showcases cult...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Just in time for Black History Month next year, @crileysnorton.bsky.social and Darius Bost’s A BLACK QUEER HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES is an “illuminating account.”
Watch this space on January 20, 2026! ✊🏽🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Watch this space on January 20, 2026! ✊🏽🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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The Scarlet Pumpernickel
November 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The Scarlet Pumpernickel
During our authoritarian timeline, the focus shouldn’t be on how to change people’s minds. @lewispants.bsky.social says it should be on what conditions make it possible to let go of long held beliefs and ideologies and how to create them. @prismreports.org
The spiritual, political, and liberatory work of unlearning
In a Q&A with Prism, journalist and activist Lewis Raven Wallace discussed his new book “Radical Unlearning,” a guide for breaking free from harmful ideologies
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November 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
During our authoritarian timeline, the focus shouldn’t be on how to change people’s minds. @lewispants.bsky.social says it should be on what conditions make it possible to let go of long held beliefs and ideologies and how to create them. @prismreports.org
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Three bodies. Three symbols of a dying empire. White patriarchy built an entire mythology around strength, control, and domination, but now its high priests are literally falling apart in public.
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The Body of Empire Is Breaking Down
McConnell freezing and falling in the Capitol building. Findlay fainting in the Oval Office. Trump asleep at the Resolute Desk. This is a collective portrait of decline.
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Three bodies. Three symbols of a dying empire. White patriarchy built an entire mythology around strength, control, and domination, but now its high priests are literally falling apart in public.
open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
Persian is Atash Yaghmaian’s first language. But she wrote MY NAME MEANS FIRE in English because English was a buffer, a soft curtain between herself and the memories that threatened to undo her. @literaryhub.bsky.social
A Different Side of the Self: On Finding Freedom By Telling My Story in English
When it came time to write my memoir, My Name Means Fire, I chose to write it in English. There’s irony in that, of course. I wrote in English, but my name, “Atash”—which means “fire” in Persian—is…
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November 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Persian is Atash Yaghmaian’s first language. But she wrote MY NAME MEANS FIRE in English because English was a buffer, a soft curtain between herself and the memories that threatened to undo her. @literaryhub.bsky.social
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
We need others to help reflect our light back—through the lens of love. This love is sturdy and unsentimental. This is the kind of love James Baldwin writes about in NOTHING PERSONAL.
Learning How To Love From James Baldwin
Our public discourse and policy agendas would look very different if we truly believed every human being bears and reflects the image of God.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
We need others to help reflect our light back—through the lens of love. This love is sturdy and unsentimental. This is the kind of love James Baldwin writes about in NOTHING PERSONAL.
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the latest from RD: @drdadabhoy.bsky.social on the Mamdani campaign's success in defeating electoral Islamophobia
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Bad Muslim, Good Mayor — Mamdani Wins Decisive Victory over Islamophobic Election Tactics
The name is Mamdani, M-A-M-D-A-N-I.
You should learn how to say it.
Because he won.
On November 4, 2025, New York City elected Zohran Kwame Mamdani as its first Muslim mayor. Throughout hi...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
the latest from RD: @drdadabhoy.bsky.social on the Mamdani campaign's success in defeating electoral Islamophobia
religiondispatches.org/bad-muslim-g...
religiondispatches.org/bad-muslim-g...