robyn
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Maybe I’m late to the party but all these centrist pundits & politicians are watching what’s happening and saying we need to be a teensy bit more accommodating to the far right does two things: displays their affinity for this garbage and….1/
October 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Maybe I’m late to the party but all these centrist pundits & politicians are watching what’s happening and saying we need to be a teensy bit more accommodating to the far right does two things: displays their affinity for this garbage and….1/
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My column from Monday. The best argument against abolishing the U.S. Department of Education? Alabama. Federal funding is one of the few things pushing against a state education system designed to deny Black children proper schooling, a system that creates large racial disparities in achievement.
Don't cheer, Gov. Ivey: Killing the Department of Education will hurt Alabama students • Alabama Reflector
Gov. Kay Ivey is a sure-footed politician. She’s walked the narrow and dangerous path of Alabama politics all the way to summit. It requires focus, dedication and balancing performative apathy and win...
alabamareflector.com
March 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
My column from Monday. The best argument against abolishing the U.S. Department of Education? Alabama. Federal funding is one of the few things pushing against a state education system designed to deny Black children proper schooling, a system that creates large racial disparities in achievement.
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Editor Commentary: The fear of being kicked out of their homes is why many LGBTQ+ teens stay in the closet. 20% of LGBTQ people who've experienced homelessness were under 18. They are double the risk as non-LGBTQ peers. Ohio's new outing law is heartless.
Ohio's new outing law will force more LGBTQ+ youth into homelessness • Ohio Capital Journal
If more Ohio teens are forced out of the closet to families that reject them, more Ohio teens will be forced into homelessness as a result of the new law passed by Republican lawmakers and signed by…
buff.ly
January 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Editor Commentary: The fear of being kicked out of their homes is why many LGBTQ+ teens stay in the closet. 20% of LGBTQ people who've experienced homelessness were under 18. They are double the risk as non-LGBTQ peers. Ohio's new outing law is heartless.
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This narrative that the Democrats ignored the working class is really aggravating. Be specific. You’re talking about the white working class because the Black working class understood the stakes of this election just fine.
November 10, 2024 at 6:40 PM
This narrative that the Democrats ignored the working class is really aggravating. Be specific. You’re talking about the white working class because the Black working class understood the stakes of this election just fine.
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“If we say nothing about Israel’s brazen slaughter of Palestinians, even as it is livestreamed into the most private recesses of our personal lives, we are complicit in it. Something in our moral selves will be altered forever.”
Arundhati Roy: Stop This Slaughter in Palestine
For the sake of the living and in the name of the dead.
hammerandhope.org
June 22, 2024 at 8:37 PM
“If we say nothing about Israel’s brazen slaughter of Palestinians, even as it is livestreamed into the most private recesses of our personal lives, we are complicit in it. Something in our moral selves will be altered forever.”
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Thinking about how grateful I was, a year ago, to be sitting at a table with Irin Carmon when Dobbs came down. Grateful today to be reading her reporting on what the intervening year has been like for the doctors who want so badly to be offering care their patients need:
What’s an Ex–Abortion Doctor in Alabama to Do?
Fight for better pregnancies and births for those who have no choice.
nymag.com
June 23, 2023 at 4:15 PM
Thinking about how grateful I was, a year ago, to be sitting at a table with Irin Carmon when Dobbs came down. Grateful today to be reading her reporting on what the intervening year has been like for the doctors who want so badly to be offering care their patients need: