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· Feb 5
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 🏳️⚧️
Is it any surprise that opposition to @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social’s BEYOND LIMITS event was led by the Texas Tech chapter of Turning Point USA as well as pro-life activists? @penamerica.bsky.social
Texas Tech Gives Into Political Pressure to Cancel a Talk
Political pressure forces Texas Tech to cancel lecture by late-term abortion doctor to be given to medical students
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February 13, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Is it any surprise that opposition to @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social’s BEYOND LIMITS event was led by the Texas Tech chapter of Turning Point USA as well as pro-life activists? @penamerica.bsky.social
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Roses are red
but that's implicit
fight back against fascism
or else you're complicit
but that's implicit
fight back against fascism
or else you're complicit
February 13, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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NO NEW YORK is also Adele Bertei’s “celebrat[ion of] the women who defined no wave music, among them Contortions bandmate Pat Place and punk pioneer Patti Smith.” Let’s rock out when it comes out on March 31! @publisherswkly.bsky.social
No New York: A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene by Adele Bertei
Musician Bertei (Universal Mother) recounts in this exhilarating memoir her role in the rise of “no-wave” music, a countercultur...
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February 13, 2026 at 7:26 PM
NO NEW YORK is also Adele Bertei’s “celebrat[ion of] the women who defined no wave music, among them Contortions bandmate Pat Place and punk pioneer Patti Smith.” Let’s rock out when it comes out on March 31! @publisherswkly.bsky.social
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Any conversation about Black content creators will always go over how white content creators copy their viral dances and memes and get the payout while the Black content creators don’t. @blaqueword.bsky.social traces this history, too.
Steven Underwood on his Book "Forever for the Culture" - WUWW 1.27.26
Steven Underwood is the author of "Forever for the Culture: Notes from the New Digital Black Arts Renaissance". He joined Solomon Jones to discuss more about the book and where people can find it. S
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February 13, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Any conversation about Black content creators will always go over how white content creators copy their viral dances and memes and get the payout while the Black content creators don’t. @blaqueword.bsky.social traces this history, too.
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There are so many fucked up things with the current administration that it's hard to focus on one but this recent move is basically a death sentence for the planet. I've been involved with more boots on the ground actions over the years than I can count and this really bums me out.
EPA reverses long-standing climate change finding, stripping its own ability to regulate emissions
The agency announced it is repealing its 2009 conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the Earth and endanger human health and well-being.
www.nbcnews.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:06 AM
There are so many fucked up things with the current administration that it's hard to focus on one but this recent move is basically a death sentence for the planet. I've been involved with more boots on the ground actions over the years than I can count and this really bums me out.
Getting all heartful on 💖COVER REVEAL Friday💖 with G’Ra Asim!
Part cultural criticism, part roguish adventure, 99 PROBLEMS FINDING THE 1 tackles chronic lovelessness and modern romance in the post-covid era.
Watch this space in August! 👀
Cover design: Carol Chu
Part cultural criticism, part roguish adventure, 99 PROBLEMS FINDING THE 1 tackles chronic lovelessness and modern romance in the post-covid era.
Watch this space in August! 👀
Cover design: Carol Chu
February 13, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Getting all heartful on 💖COVER REVEAL Friday💖 with G’Ra Asim!
Part cultural criticism, part roguish adventure, 99 PROBLEMS FINDING THE 1 tackles chronic lovelessness and modern romance in the post-covid era.
Watch this space in August! 👀
Cover design: Carol Chu
Part cultural criticism, part roguish adventure, 99 PROBLEMS FINDING THE 1 tackles chronic lovelessness and modern romance in the post-covid era.
Watch this space in August! 👀
Cover design: Carol Chu
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So proud of this @thenation.com edge of sports podcast. For folk who think they ahave a base of knowledge about Paul Robeson & Jackie Robinson, because Howard Bryant and I dive into the deep end of the pool. Have a listen please if you find yourself with the time.
www.thenation.com/podcast/soci...
www.thenation.com/podcast/soci...
The Collision Between Paul Robeson and Jackie Robinson
Howard Bryant joins Edge of Sports to talk about his new book, Kings and Pawns
www.thenation.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:38 PM
So proud of this @thenation.com edge of sports podcast. For folk who think they ahave a base of knowledge about Paul Robeson & Jackie Robinson, because Howard Bryant and I dive into the deep end of the pool. Have a listen please if you find yourself with the time.
www.thenation.com/podcast/soci...
www.thenation.com/podcast/soci...
At the time when Alix Dick and her siblings applied for asylum in the US, it looked like their case was all set. Except that Mexico was not recognized as a war zone. @anterobot.bsky.social @embodiedwunc.bsky.social
Embodied
After more than a decade living in the U.S. without permanent legal status, Alix Dick calculated the cost of her survival: $1.9 million. That figure includes everything from wage theft and…
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February 13, 2026 at 3:27 PM
At the time when Alix Dick and her siblings applied for asylum in the US, it looked like their case was all set. Except that Mexico was not recognized as a war zone. @anterobot.bsky.social @embodiedwunc.bsky.social
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Excited to add Virtuous Con: Black History Month to my list of events this February 21-22, 2026! Join other amazing artists and me as we celebrate BIPOC creators in speculative fiction across the mediums of books, comics, film, visual arts, and more.
February 12, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Excited to add Virtuous Con: Black History Month to my list of events this February 21-22, 2026! Join other amazing artists and me as we celebrate BIPOC creators in speculative fiction across the mediums of books, comics, film, visual arts, and more.
Dr. Monica L. Wang’s THE COLLECTIVE CURE comes out next Tuesday!
Join her at the @museumofscience.bsky.social for her conversation with Indira Lakshmanan about it on February 26 at 7PM! Tickets are free with registration. 🎟️
Join her at the @museumofscience.bsky.social for her conversation with Indira Lakshmanan about it on February 26 at 7PM! Tickets are free with registration. 🎟️
The Collective Cure: Upstream Solutions for Better Public Health
Join public health leader Dr. Monica Wang for an inspiring look at how communities—not clinics—hold the key to a healthier future, as she launches her powerful new book The Collective Cure (Beacon…
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February 13, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Dr. Monica L. Wang’s THE COLLECTIVE CURE comes out next Tuesday!
Join her at the @museumofscience.bsky.social for her conversation with Indira Lakshmanan about it on February 26 at 7PM! Tickets are free with registration. 🎟️
Join her at the @museumofscience.bsky.social for her conversation with Indira Lakshmanan about it on February 26 at 7PM! Tickets are free with registration. 🎟️
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“They’ve come for our books, our existence, and even pulled down our flag two days ago,” Kelley Robinson of the Human Rights Campaign said. “Two days is too long for the flag to be down, so we came out, and we put it back up ourselves.”
https://mrf.lu/3Hxm
https://mrf.lu/3Hxm
February 13, 2026 at 1:09 AM
“They’ve come for our books, our existence, and even pulled down our flag two days ago,” Kelley Robinson of the Human Rights Campaign said. “Two days is too long for the flag to be down, so we came out, and we put it back up ourselves.”
https://mrf.lu/3Hxm
https://mrf.lu/3Hxm
Purity teachings fueled shame, control, and repression for an entire generation. Sara Moslener’s interviews with women in the After Purity Project provide a window into the world of white evangelicalism they lived in. @hesnotwrong.bsky.social
Sarah Moslener: How Purity Culture and Christian Nationalism Shaped American Culture
Podcast Episode · He’s Not Wrong · 12/07/2025 · 1h 20m
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February 12, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Purity teachings fueled shame, control, and repression for an entire generation. Sara Moslener’s interviews with women in the After Purity Project provide a window into the world of white evangelicalism they lived in. @hesnotwrong.bsky.social
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Must read for today (though I might be biased 😊): Liz and Sam Theoharis writing on the young organizers survival corps that the @kairoscenter.org has pulled together: www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Meet the Young Organizers Survival Corps
Young organizers from around the country gathered at Haley Farm to study past social movements and train in the tactics of nonviolent resistance and grassroots organizing.
www.thenation.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Must read for today (though I might be biased 😊): Liz and Sam Theoharis writing on the young organizers survival corps that the @kairoscenter.org has pulled together: www.thenation.com/article/acti...
“Socially, I find that Black people engage the world with a political mind.” — @blaqueword.bsky.social
This is especially true when it comes to the art Black people create in digital spaces. #BlackHistoryMonth
This is especially true when it comes to the art Black people create in digital spaces. #BlackHistoryMonth
The Rise and Fall of the Internet As a Politicized Space for Black Art
I was six years old when I logged on for the first time. It was 2001, fresh after the Twin Towers fell on 9/11. There were plenty of pop-ups comparing President George W. Bush’s IQ with just about …
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February 12, 2026 at 7:26 PM
“Socially, I find that Black people engage the world with a political mind.” — @blaqueword.bsky.social
This is especially true when it comes to the art Black people create in digital spaces. #BlackHistoryMonth
This is especially true when it comes to the art Black people create in digital spaces. #BlackHistoryMonth
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Further evidence of the lack of promise and failure of casinos in Tunica, Mississippi: the now-closed Casino Way Court shopping center. And I would add that Sam's Town in Tunica is now closed as well.
February 12, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Further evidence of the lack of promise and failure of casinos in Tunica, Mississippi: the now-closed Casino Way Court shopping center. And I would add that Sam's Town in Tunica is now closed as well.
To this day, there are no uniform state laws around who can actually see a death record of citizens who die in police custody and who can’t. @terencekeel.bsky.social
Uncovering Coroners’ Complicity in Police-Custody Killings
https://dn710108.ca.archive.org/0/items/2026-02-03-RUWS/2026_02_03_Terence_Keel.mp3
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February 12, 2026 at 6:21 PM
To this day, there are no uniform state laws around who can actually see a death record of citizens who die in police custody and who can’t. @terencekeel.bsky.social
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#tdih 1990, Nelson Mandela released from prison after 27 years.
The U.S. government classified Mandela a terrorist.
While Mandela was in jail, U.S. corporate investment in apartheid South Africa grew, & Ronald Reagan had policy of “constructive engagement.” 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ma...
The U.S. government classified Mandela a terrorist.
While Mandela was in jail, U.S. corporate investment in apartheid South Africa grew, & Ronald Reagan had policy of “constructive engagement.” 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ma...
Feb. 11, 1990: Mandela Released from Prison
Nelson Mandela was released from prison in South Africa after 27 years.
www.zinnedproject.org
February 11, 2026 at 4:37 PM
#tdih 1990, Nelson Mandela released from prison after 27 years.
The U.S. government classified Mandela a terrorist.
While Mandela was in jail, U.S. corporate investment in apartheid South Africa grew, & Ronald Reagan had policy of “constructive engagement.” 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ma...
The U.S. government classified Mandela a terrorist.
While Mandela was in jail, U.S. corporate investment in apartheid South Africa grew, & Ronald Reagan had policy of “constructive engagement.” 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ma...
Pitched as a way out of poverty, casinos and gambling were introduced as a commercial force that would save the Delta economy. But the advent of casino gambling has not completely lived up to its promise. @wralpheubanks.bsky.social
Casino Lights
W. Ralph Eubanks on the promise—and failure—of casino gambling to lift Tunica, Mississippi, out of poverty
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February 12, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Pitched as a way out of poverty, casinos and gambling were introduced as a commercial force that would save the Delta economy. But the advent of casino gambling has not completely lived up to its promise. @wralpheubanks.bsky.social
David Bowie clocked it. His face says it all
February 12, 2026 at 4:27 PM
David Bowie clocked it. His face says it all
The personal stories of immigrant restaurant workers in Chef Marc Meyer’s VOICES FROM THE KITCHEN are “inspiring, jaw-dropping, and really quite reflective.”
These are the immigrant stories we need to read! buff.ly/zv0pufD
These are the immigrant stories we need to read! buff.ly/zv0pufD
Book review: 'Voices from the Kitchen' reveals restaurants' necessary link to immigration
Four stars and three weeks.
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February 12, 2026 at 3:27 PM
The personal stories of immigrant restaurant workers in Chef Marc Meyer’s VOICES FROM THE KITCHEN are “inspiring, jaw-dropping, and really quite reflective.”
These are the immigrant stories we need to read! buff.ly/zv0pufD
These are the immigrant stories we need to read! buff.ly/zv0pufD
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Hours after his honorable discharge from the U.S. Army in 1946, Sgt. Isaac Woodard was attacked by SC police while taking a bus home in uniform. The attack blinded him. The NAACP & filmmaker Orson Welles campaigned for the attackers to be punished. #TheMarchContinues
February 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Hours after his honorable discharge from the U.S. Army in 1946, Sgt. Isaac Woodard was attacked by SC police while taking a bus home in uniform. The attack blinded him. The NAACP & filmmaker Orson Welles campaigned for the attackers to be punished. #TheMarchContinues
Save the date! 🗓️
Women & Children First Bookstore is hosting Betsy Rubiner’s chat with Mary Wisniewski about her new book, OUR DIARIES, OURSELVES, on February 24. Come through, diarists of Chicago, and register!
Women & Children First Bookstore is hosting Betsy Rubiner’s chat with Mary Wisniewski about her new book, OUR DIARIES, OURSELVES, on February 24. Come through, diarists of Chicago, and register!
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February 12, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Save the date! 🗓️
Women & Children First Bookstore is hosting Betsy Rubiner’s chat with Mary Wisniewski about her new book, OUR DIARIES, OURSELVES, on February 24. Come through, diarists of Chicago, and register!
Women & Children First Bookstore is hosting Betsy Rubiner’s chat with Mary Wisniewski about her new book, OUR DIARIES, OURSELVES, on February 24. Come through, diarists of Chicago, and register!
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For those of you who were keeping up with the mass market mess, here is a more informative article.
Trade paperbacks cost only 30c more to make and are priced $18-20 now, where mass market paperbacks didn't sell at $12. So... there's your answer. It's about margins.
boingboing.net/2026/02/10/t...
Trade paperbacks cost only 30c more to make and are priced $18-20 now, where mass market paperbacks didn't sell at $12. So... there's your answer. It's about margins.
boingboing.net/2026/02/10/t...
The mass market paperback is vanishing
The mass market paperback — born in 1935, boomed after WWII — is vanishing from airports, drugstores, and groceries.
boingboing.net
February 11, 2026 at 8:35 PM
For those of you who were keeping up with the mass market mess, here is a more informative article.
Trade paperbacks cost only 30c more to make and are priced $18-20 now, where mass market paperbacks didn't sell at $12. So... there's your answer. It's about margins.
boingboing.net/2026/02/10/t...
Trade paperbacks cost only 30c more to make and are priced $18-20 now, where mass market paperbacks didn't sell at $12. So... there's your answer. It's about margins.
boingboing.net/2026/02/10/t...
Renee Good’s shooting for many people was a breaking point because she was a white person killed by law enforcement. White womanhood (and the purity it stands for) has usually been a source of safety and privilege.
Do not forget that Renee Good was queer
Far-right media link shooting victim’s sexuality to her protest of ICE
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February 11, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Renee Good’s shooting for many people was a breaking point because she was a white person killed by law enforcement. White womanhood (and the purity it stands for) has usually been a source of safety and privilege.