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Labor activist Chris Smalls has been released from an Israeli prison, a spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition said
Activist Chris Smalls released from Israeli custody
The labor activist was reportedly singled out and beaten by Israeli forces while trying to reach Gaza with supplies.
www.whatimreading.net
July 31, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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September 30!
June 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre
A photo of Viola Ford Fletcher with her hands clasped
May 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
tracedepass.bsky.social
Memorial Day Monday, May 26th at 4pm, I'll be hosting + reading at the Guggenheim alongside Imani Waweru & Ehima Ora for Rashid Johnson's Guggenheim Exhibit: A Poem for Deep Thinkers.
4pm Sharp on Memorial Day "An afternoon of poems @Guggenheim" Including black & white photos of Imani Waweru, Ehime Ora, & Trace DePass (with pink highlights in their photos)
May 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Arts organizations across the country saw their NEA grants pulled with little explanation, while a proposed federal budget sought to eliminate the arts funding agency altogether. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
National Endowment for the Arts rescinds grants, dazing publishers and theaters
Arts organizations across the country saw their grants pulled with little explanation, while a proposed federal budget sought to eliminate the arts funding agency altogether.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Trump Proposes Elimination of NEA and NEH www.americantheatre.org/2025/05/02/t...
Trump Proposes Elimination of NEA and NEH
The administration’s 2026 budget comes at a time when the future of NEA staff and grant programs remains in doubt.
www.americantheatre.org
May 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
NEW YORK (AP) — Rite-Aid files for bankruptcy protection for the second time in two years.
May 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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iamkdjiah.bsky.social
My piece is featured in Okay Donkey's March newsletter.
"The Emmy Goes to the Seagull Flying off with a Hot Wing in front of the Chicken Spot?" Is honestly one of my favorite pieces.

Catch me performing this and more pieces this summer near your picnic benches.
okaydonkeymag.com/2023/01/27/t...
March 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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May 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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That’s terror you’re feeling.
ericcolumbus.bsky.social Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · May 6
🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants.

Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.
THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION WASHINGTON, DC 20202 May 5, 2025 Dr. Alan Garber Office of the President Harvard University Massachusetts Hall Cambridge, MA 02138 Dr. Garber, The Federal Government has a sacred responsibility to be a wise and important steward of American taxpayer dollars. Harvard University, despite amassing a largely tax-free $53.2 billion dollar endowment (larger than the GDP of 100 countries), receives billions of dollars of taxpayer largess each year. Receiving such taxpayer funds is a privilege, not a right. Yet instead of using these funds to advance the education of its students, Harvard is engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law. Where do many of these "students" come from, who are they, how do they get into Harvard, or even into our country—and why is there so much HATE? These are questions that must be answered, among many more, but the biggest question of all is, why will Harvard not give straightforward answers to the American public? Harvard University has made a mockery of this country's higher education system. It has invited foreign students, who engage in violent behavior and show contempt for the United States of America, to its campus. In every way, Harvard has failed to abide by its legal obligations, its ethical and fiduciary duties, its transparency responsibilities, and any semblance of academic rigor. It had scrapped standardized testing requirements and a normalized grading system. This year Harvard was forced to adopt an embarrassing "remedial math" program for undergraduates. Why is it, we ask, that Harvard has to teach simple and basic mathematics, when it is supposedly so hard to get into this "acclaimed university"? Who is getting in under such a low standard when others, with fabulous grades and a great understanding of the highest levels of mathematics, are being rejected? Harvard has even been embroiled in humiliating plagiarism scandals, exposed clearly and plainly in the media, with respect to your then… running the institution in a totally chaotic way. Harvard alumnus and highly successful hedge fund manager Bill Ackman noted that, under her leadership, Harvard has become "a political advocacy organization for one party." Ackman has called for the resignation of Pritzker, concluding that the "[t)he mismanagement here is Penny Pritzker" and noting that any serious corporation would have removed her after a litany of recent failings and the fact that, incredibly, "Harvard is not in a good financial position." According to Ackman, one of the world's foremost finance experts, Harvard's so-called S53 billion endowment is "massively overstated as far as what it's really worth," and Harvard has irresponsibly taken out $8 billion in debt. If this is true, it is concerning evidence of Harvard's disastrous mismanagement, indicating an urgent need for massive reform-not continued taxpayer investment. If Harvard prefers not to change, then Harvard should have no problem using its overflowing endowment to fund its bloated bureaucracy. At its best, a university should fulfill the highest ideals of our Nation, and enlighten the thousands of hopeful students who walk through its magnificent gates. But Harvard has betrayed this ideal. Perhaps most alarmingly, Harvard has failed to abide by the United States Supreme Court's ruling demanding that it end its racial preferencing, and continues to engage in ugly racism in its undergraduate and graduate schools, and even within the Harvard Law Review itself. Our universities should be bastions of merit that reward and celebrate excellence and achievement. They should not be incubators of discrimination that encourage resentment and instill grievance and racism into our wonderful young Americans. The above concerns are only a fraction of the long list of Harvard's consistent violations of its own legal duties. Given these and other concerning allegations, this letter is to inform you that Harvard should no longer seek GRANTS from the fede… Federal Agencies. The Administration's priorities have not changed and today's letter marks the end of new grants for the University. These requests will advance the best interests of Harvard University, so it can reclaim its status as a respected educational institution for the future leaders of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter! Sincerely, Linda E. McMahon Secretary of Education
May 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Please watch, share, do what she suggests… it is indeed v v urgent
May 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Civil rights groups, labor organizations and politicians praised Alexis Herman as a "trailblazer" who fought for the rights of women, Black people and American workers over the course of decades.
Alexis Herman, the first Black secretary of labor in U.S. history, dies at age 77
Civil rights groups, labor organizations and politicians praised Alexis Herman as a "trailblazer" who fought for the rights of women, Black people and American workers over the course of decades.
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April 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Tony Koji Wallin-Sato’s poetry asks what it means to be free and reckons with the legacy of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
‘We All Talk to Spirits When We Are Identified as Numbers’
Tony Koji Wallin-Sato’s poetry asks what it means to be free and reckons with the legacy of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
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April 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
James Harrison, whose blood contained a rare antibody that helped him save more than 2 million babies through decades of blood donations, has died
Prolific blood donor who saved 2.4 million babies dies at 88
James Harrison of Australia, whose blood had a rare antibody, donated 1,173 times over six decades, potentially saving millions of lives. He said he hoped someone would break his record.
www.nbcnews.com
March 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Today is the publication day for Essex Hemphill's *Love Is a Dangerous Word: Selected Poems," out from @NewDirections, which Robert Reid-Pharr & I coedited!

Essex Hemphill's work speaks both to its time & compellingly to our current moment. Please order a copy!

www.ndbooks.com/author/essex...
March 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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In his inauguration speech Trump announced his fascist anti-immigrant raids and mass deportation attempts.

We are not helpless. Here are 7 action items you can start to take now to help protect our immigrant neighbors: www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...
Trump's Mass Anti-Immigrant Raids to Begin
Here are action items to protect your immigrant neighbors, answers to common FAQs, and insights to debunk anti-immigrant propaganda
www.qasimrashid.com
January 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Hi, I'm Nic, and I'm happy to share that I'm now cancer-free. 

But I recently learned that I'm ineligible for disability pay at my job.

Donations will reimburse expenses and pending medical bills while on leave. 

I'm grateful for any support.

(Link in Bio)
February 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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iamkdjiah.bsky.social
My friend for over a decade recently beat cancer after I cannot express it enough *MONTHS* of self advocacy against medical professionals who refused to conduct the tests to find the cancer in the first place. Consider donating/sharing their recovery
gofund.me/794a2b24
February 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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oniblackstock.bsky.social
Under fascism, no one is safe.

Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc.

Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations.

Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.
February 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.

The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it
Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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We need to pay attention to this now before it’s too late.
January 28, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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@ocasio-cortez.house.gov
January 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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devawo.bsky.social
If you’re a federal employee, you should know this is a lie. Congress hasn’t appropriated these monies and so it’s literally not there to be spent. Also, federal agencies are limited by law to a max $25K payout in the case of restructuring.
laurenmeidasa.bsky.social Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · Jan 28
BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨

President Donald Trump's administration is set to offer every single federal worker the chance to take a "deferred resignation" with a severance package of roughly eight months of pay and benefits.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
Trump administration will offer all 2 million federal workers a buyout to resign
An email is set to go out to federal workers beginning Tuesday.
www.nbcnews.com
January 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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melodyschreiber.com
NEW: The U.S. just stopped giving out HIV medications to 20 million people around the world — even though clinics still have meds on the shelves. My latest for @npr.org:
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Trump's 'stop-work' order for PEPFAR cuts off anti-HIV drugs for patients
As a result of the new administration's actions, health centers funded by PEPFAR, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, are closing their doors and no longer dispersing medication.
www.npr.org
January 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM