BIG NEWS. Martin Soto, one of the orginal organizers of the Delaney Hall hunger strike, whose wife Gabi was an integral part of organizing on the outside against deplorable conditions, IS FREE. He was released just a few moments ago.
Andrew Hume
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Partner, parent, grandparent, former foster parent. Experiential educator. He/him. White. Topics: schools, learning, child welfare, whiteness, abolition, democracy, human rights, poetry, 🎵 ⚾️ 🏀 Protect trans kids.
parents with school age children are not and should not be the only ones who materially support public schools. property taxes of many people without children are appropriately directed to public schools. each of us should be pouring into these schools in our own ways (giving of our time etc...)
Watching the response to the NHJ article, I’m struck by how, when an unequal system becomes a problem for each family to manage, we focus on how they navigated it, scoring the private choice instead of demanding that the public system remedy the inequality.
Julie DiCaro@juliedicaro.bsky.social · 3w agoI’ve seen the criticism of NHJ, but had she sent her child to a largely white school right off the bat, she’d have been called a hypocrite who didn’t live her public values. There was no winning here, and that sucks. We have to do better for everyone’s children, no matter where they live.
Read what @nhannahjones.bsky.social wrote. Putting her choices on trial is a waste of everyone's time. Instead, this essay should have us all talking about why racism still so powerfully shapes the education our children receive—and what we’re going to do about it.
In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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“There is no absolution here. Not for me. Not for you. Not for any of us.” — Nikole Hannah-Jones www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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But the truth is that society is a construction project and it is not self-executing. Having a shared project to work on collectively is essential. We are living through a time where a number of people aren't bought into the shared project. So here we are.
Last week, New Jersey became the latest state to enact a shield law to protect trans and reproductive rights. @valorievandieman.bsky.social brings you the story here!
Inserting Logic Into an Illogical Framework: Advocates Discuss the Purpose of Shield Laws - Assigned Media
New Jersey becomes the latest state striving to protect trans and reproductive health from political attacks.
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I love Power Hour, an inclusive fitness class. "We're excited to see if we can help make gyms more welcoming to all. Anything we can do to make gyms more knowledgeable and supportive is great." Kara Hume www.unc.edu/posts/2026/0...
UNC-Queen’s partnership promotes inclusive fitness | UNC-Chapel Hill
Carolina education professor Kara Hume worked with Queen’s University Belfast researchers to co-design more accessible gyms.
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BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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The ads I see most often across platforms right now involve 30 wealthy monopolists arguing that baseball players should be paid less because the league they run and should promote isn’t fair to owners who pocket their revenue rather than invest. I’d sure love to support a players league someday.
here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 3mo agoyou know, when someone says something like "these are the things that need to be done to avert disaster" and your response is "you think democrats will do that?!?" all you're telling me is that you think politics is a spectator sport
Trans rights are human rights. Love to my trans friends and family.
In one move, the Suns unraveled the goodwill they built back up last year, contradicted their talk about "high character," and alienated a segment of the fanbase. For @sunsafterdark.bsky.social, I wrote about the non-basketball side of trading for Miles Bridges:
Whatever culture and goodwill the Suns built back up, the Miles Bridges trade just demolished it | Suns After Dark: A Phoenix Suns Pod Site
The Phoenix Suns have wanted Miles Bridges for years. In a trade agreement reported Sunday by ESPN's Chams Sharania, they finally got him. A
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Adding: this is one reason conservatives work so hard to stigmatize "virtue signaling." Virtue signaling is actually incredibly important! It lets other people know that they are not alone in their values. It works against pluralistic ignorance. That's why they want you to feel abashed & stay quiet.
I’ve been a Phoenix Suns fan for 40+ years, but I’m very not interested in supporting a team with Miles Bridges on it. Even when he’s gone from the team it’s hard to imagine wanting to cheer for a team owned & operated by folks who traded for Miles Bridges.
Gerald Bourguet@geraldbourguet.bsky.social · 4mo agoI wrote about what it would mean for the Suns to trade for Miles Bridges 2 and a half years ago when these rumors first started popping up. My feelings haven’t really changed on the matter:
The city where strangers embrace in the street, where people line up to vote to feed and house and educate the most vulnerable in their midst, where more people choose to live than any other place in the country, the place enjoying the safest era in its history — this is the *real* America.
DSA has pulled together a list of resources and ways you can help folks inside and on the ground at Delaney Hall, including people who were arrested last night. north.dsanj.org/delaney/
DELANEY – North New Jersey Democratic Socialists of America
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NEW — I wrote about my visit to Delaney Hall, the ICE facility in Newark, NJ where detainees are on a hunger and labor strike in protest of rotten food, unpaid work, and unjust detainment, and where protesters outside have spent the last week drawing ICE's ire while keeping strikers' demands alive.
Starved, smashed and bloodied: The violence at ICE’s Delaney Hall
Brutality towards detainees and protesters continues to unfold in Newark, NJ. The Handbasket was on-site to report.
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The reports coming out of Delaney Hall right now are sickening. No one should be subjected to the inhumane treatment and conditions we are hearing and seeing from inside that facility. ICE has become a rogue agency that must be reined in.
At Delaney Hall, an ICE facility 8 miles from my front door, my neighbors are reportedly being beaten & gassed, and are on strike. ICE won't allow the NJ Department of Health to inspect, and have denied access to elected officials including the Governor, Mayor, a Senator and US reps.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 5mo agoJust insane. New Jersey Gov Mikie Sherrill says DHS just denied state health inspectors full access to Delaney Hall. She's calling for it to be shut down.
🚨🚨 ICE Agents pepper-sprayed NJ Senator Andy Kim outside Delaney Hall. “What we saw here is unfortunately just what we see all over the country,” Kim told NJ.com www.nj.com/news/2026/05...
ICE agents pepper spray protesters, N.J. senator in clash outside Delaney Hall in Newark
“It’s sad, it’s a sad day," says pepper-sprayed senator.
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"We often can't know what our work will make possible. The good we do matters. We can tuck our chins, unlock our limbs, aim our bodies & forge deeper, broader, more determined connections. Sometimes those connections hold us up." @mskellymhayes.bsky.social organizingmythoughts.org/declining-in...
Pessimism Is Not Prophecy: On Declining Invitations to Surrender
“Public opinion is not a self-enforcing political mechanism; it’s a mood. If we want public disapproval to become public action, we need to extend worthwhile invitations.”
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Trustees at UNC quietly impeded tenure for Kiran Asher, an incoming professor in the Women and Gender Studies department, after she had been approved by faculty and the Provost. www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...
UNC-Chapel Hill Trustees Reject Hiring of Tenured Women’s Studies Professor
The rare move comes a year after the Board of Trustees delayed dozens of votes to confer tenure, sparking outcry from faculty.
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As Mayor Zohran Mamdani scrambles to plug a multi-billion dollar budget gap, his administration is looking more closely at the money NYC spends on private school tuition for students with disabilities. Via ChalkbeatNY www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/07/r...
Staggering Racial Gap in NYC Private School Tuition Payments for Special Ed
Nearly 71% of students who won tuition payments last school year were white, a population that makes up 12.5% of students with disabilities.
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Kiese Laymon just published a new essay in Vanity Fair. I subscribed just so I can read it because I have what? TASTE.
The Casino, the Court, and Me
This is an American sports story about addiction and attention—one I have only told to casino friends after losing my paycheck and nearly the rest of my life.
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"The requirement that women have their sex invasively monitored legitimizes the fantasy that men are trying to pass as women to win women's sports & validates interrogation against women whose bodies/lives aren't gender-conforming." @moiradonegan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Olympics’ trans policy polices womanhood | Moira Donegan
Sports bans have humiliated trans women and girls across America. Now, the Olympics joins in
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