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🌸📚NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK!
April 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
🌸📚NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK!
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“Failing to act now will establish a dangerous precedent of capitulation. If universities do not stand together now, they will stand alone—and one by one, they will fall.
The path forward requires considerable courage—shared courage. Leadership must stand together to ensure our institutions endure.”
The path forward requires considerable courage—shared courage. Leadership must stand together to ensure our institutions endure.”
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March 20, 2025
Dear Presidents, Chancellors, and Boards of Trustees of the 60 Universities that received a March 10th warning letter from the U.S. Department of Education:
You are on the frontlines ...
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April 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
“Failing to act now will establish a dangerous precedent of capitulation. If universities do not stand together now, they will stand alone—and one by one, they will fall.
The path forward requires considerable courage—shared courage. Leadership must stand together to ensure our institutions endure.”
The path forward requires considerable courage—shared courage. Leadership must stand together to ensure our institutions endure.”
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“Tubman’s photograph is now gone. In its place are images of Postal Service stamps that highlight “Black/White cooperation” in the secret network and that feature Tubman among abolitionists of both races.”
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Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad
Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow
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April 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
“Tubman’s photograph is now gone. In its place are images of Postal Service stamps that highlight “Black/White cooperation” in the secret network and that feature Tubman among abolitionists of both races.”
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"Why can’t [elected Democrats] reject [...] the entire “illegal immigrant” framing of the nativist right? And if not now – when a far-right administration is grabbing innocent people off the streets and sending them to be tortured in a foreign gulag – then when?"
“In 2012, in Arizona v United States, the highest court in the land ruled that “as a general rule, it is not a crime for a removable alien to remain in the United States”.
Got that? Not. A. Crime.”
From my new Guardian op-ed:
Got that? Not. A. Crime.”
From my new Guardian op-ed:
There is no such thing as an ‘illegal immigrant’ | Mehdi Hasan
It is a factually inaccurate and totally, utterly wrong to say that undocumented people are ‘illegal’ and are ‘criminals’
www.theguardian.com
April 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
"Why can’t [elected Democrats] reject [...] the entire “illegal immigrant” framing of the nativist right? And if not now – when a far-right administration is grabbing innocent people off the streets and sending them to be tortured in a foreign gulag – then when?"
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A lot of people like to dismiss racism as insubstantial to material realities but we’re watching a nation burn trillions of dollars in wealth to entrench a racial system of domination.
April 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
A lot of people like to dismiss racism as insubstantial to material realities but we’re watching a nation burn trillions of dollars in wealth to entrench a racial system of domination.
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The United States was built on stolen land by stolen people and if we are going to tell stories about how the US became the power house that it has been, start there and continue through to global resource colonialism
Liberal hagiography is actually a gateway to Trumpist revisionism. Stop it.
Liberal hagiography is actually a gateway to Trumpist revisionism. Stop it.
March 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The United States was built on stolen land by stolen people and if we are going to tell stories about how the US became the power house that it has been, start there and continue through to global resource colonialism
Liberal hagiography is actually a gateway to Trumpist revisionism. Stop it.
Liberal hagiography is actually a gateway to Trumpist revisionism. Stop it.
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If you want to enjoy the cherry blossoms in DC but avoid the MAGA hat tourists, try visiting the MLK and FDR memorials. Here's a thread of some of the quotes chiseled in stone at those memorials.
March 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
If you want to enjoy the cherry blossoms in DC but avoid the MAGA hat tourists, try visiting the MLK and FDR memorials. Here's a thread of some of the quotes chiseled in stone at those memorials.
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Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?
March 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?
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being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
March 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
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If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media.
But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.
But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.
March 21, 2025 at 4:11 AM
If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media.
But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.
But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.
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🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
March 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Senseless pain is about to be afflicted to D.C., a place that has no congressional representation. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...
How Congress Could Force $1.1 Billion in Cuts on Washington, D.C.
District leaders say that a proposed cut to the city budget, part of a plan to avert a federal government shutdown, is unfair. The city raises most of its own money but cannot control how it is spent.
www.nytimes.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Senseless pain is about to be afflicted to D.C., a place that has no congressional representation. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...
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👏🏾 READ 👏🏾 A 👏🏾 BOOK! 👏🏾
March 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
👏🏾 READ 👏🏾 A 👏🏾 BOOK! 👏🏾
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Nature magazine calls on us all to speak up. "...but researchers at other organizations, such as universities, scientific societies, businesses, labour unions and campaign groups have more freedom, and must exercise it by showing support for affected colleagues."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
www.nature.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Nature magazine calls on us all to speak up. "...but researchers at other organizations, such as universities, scientific societies, businesses, labour unions and campaign groups have more freedom, and must exercise it by showing support for affected colleagues."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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One of the employees fired from NASA told me how much their career meant to them: "Prior to everything happening today, NASA has been an incredible place to work — to dream big, to innovate, to do things that I never thought I could have done.”
Words by me. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Words by me. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
NASA begins mass firings of scientists ahead of Trump team’s deadline
Top advisers in the Office of the Chief Scientist are among the first to go amid downsizing effort.
www.nature.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
One of the employees fired from NASA told me how much their career meant to them: "Prior to everything happening today, NASA has been an incredible place to work — to dream big, to innovate, to do things that I never thought I could have done.”
Words by me. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Words by me. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The Trump regime expands its discouraged (BANNED) words across federal agencies. The list is long
Gift article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The Trump regime expands its discouraged (BANNED) words across federal agencies. The list is long
Gift article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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UPDATE — Secretary of State Marco Rubio has now commented on the Trump admin’s detaining & attempted green card revocation of a Columbia Gaza encampment student negotiator:
“We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.”
“We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.”
NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment.
Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too.
His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.
Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too.
His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.
BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Says Advocates
Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.
zeteo.com
March 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
UPDATE — Secretary of State Marco Rubio has now commented on the Trump admin’s detaining & attempted green card revocation of a Columbia Gaza encampment student negotiator:
“We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.”
“We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.”
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This Black History Month I’m thinking about Black-owned bookstores.
Since the very first Black bookstore was opened by an abolitionist in 1834, they’ve been a part of every Black radical movement in the country.
The history is rich. ✊🏾📚 Happy #BHM, y’all!
www.mic.com/impact/black...
Since the very first Black bookstore was opened by an abolitionist in 1834, they’ve been a part of every Black radical movement in the country.
The history is rich. ✊🏾📚 Happy #BHM, y’all!
www.mic.com/impact/black...
Black-owned bookstores have always been at the center of the resistance
When he wasn’t helping some 600 slaves escape through the Underground Railroad, David Ruggles was running a bookstore. In 1828, Ruggles opened a grocery store in New York City and later, as he became ...
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February 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This Black History Month I’m thinking about Black-owned bookstores.
Since the very first Black bookstore was opened by an abolitionist in 1834, they’ve been a part of every Black radical movement in the country.
The history is rich. ✊🏾📚 Happy #BHM, y’all!
www.mic.com/impact/black...
Since the very first Black bookstore was opened by an abolitionist in 1834, they’ve been a part of every Black radical movement in the country.
The history is rich. ✊🏾📚 Happy #BHM, y’all!
www.mic.com/impact/black...
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Normalizing spelling out what people actually mean when they cite DEI rather than letting them hide behind the safe cover of a euphemism that's been sapped of meaning
January 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Normalizing spelling out what people actually mean when they cite DEI rather than letting them hide behind the safe cover of a euphemism that's been sapped of meaning
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NASA employees were sent this email verbatim today from our acting director.
The acting director of the Office of Personnel Management (the feds' H.R. department) is telling federal employees to rat out their DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility) colleagues by emailing "DEIAtruth@opm.gov."
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January 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
NASA employees were sent this email verbatim today from our acting director.
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The lesson the American left should learn from the S. Korean protests is that racism enables American authoritarianism more than anything else.
The psychological wages of whiteness are a real currency white people of a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds are willing to be paid in.
The psychological wages of whiteness are a real currency white people of a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds are willing to be paid in.
So one of the reasons South Korea is a healthier democracy is that it’s a relatively homogeneous country and racism can’t be used as an effective tactic for attacking democracy. The psychological wages of whiteness in the US are a key reason authoritarian attacks on democracy in the US succeed
South Korea is an healthier democracy than some other powerful old democracies.
That actions have consequences, even for the most powerful, is truly the basis. The minimum for a democracy.
That actions have consequences, even for the most powerful, is truly the basis. The minimum for a democracy.
December 15, 2024 at 1:28 AM
The lesson the American left should learn from the S. Korean protests is that racism enables American authoritarianism more than anything else.
The psychological wages of whiteness are a real currency white people of a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds are willing to be paid in.
The psychological wages of whiteness are a real currency white people of a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds are willing to be paid in.
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“Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing — marketing for power.”
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Toni Morrison on Fascism and Censorship
In this reprint of "Peril" and "Racism and Fascism," Toni Morrison warns of the creative depths of fascism's reach.
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November 20, 2024 at 1:15 PM
“Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing — marketing for power.”
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inthesetimes.com/article/toni...
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our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.
November 19, 2024 at 1:25 PM
our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.
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Black Women Writers at Work features conversations with 14 Black writers from across the bounds of literary form. https://buff.ly/3QZssDa
November 17, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Black Women Writers at Work features conversations with 14 Black writers from across the bounds of literary form. https://buff.ly/3QZssDa