The Black and the Green (St. Clair Bourne, 1983) on @criterionchannl.bsky.social was a great followup to Union. It's about Black activists going from America to Belfast to express their solidarity with the Irish revolutionaries during the Troubles. A beautiful portrait of solidarity as a practice.

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa@benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I know some were lukewarm on Union (Brett Story & Stephen Maing, 2024), but IMO it's brilliant. By laser-focusing on Amazon, it manages to be pro-union without indulging in any sentimental nostalgia. So great to see today's unions treated as aesthetically interesting and politically relevant topics.

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 9mo ago

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

65 Years Ago,,, History was made. #RubyBridges

Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.

This guy gets it

Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social · last yr.

What happens if a Democrat becomes president in four years and wants to rebuild the government? How profound will the damage be? I explored the issue, with help from @donmoyn.bsky.social : www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Woke up hoping for a new chapter of a great fanfic but the writer's chronic pain kept her from writing this week. Instead, I saw that we'd pressured Romania into letting us give sanctuary to sex traffickers/far right radicalizers. There is no better encapsulation of 2025.

Folks asking for sources other than NY post, Inside Higher Ed article was published yesterday, link below.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last yr.

A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.

Not the banner you want seeing over this article from … checks notes … 8 days ago

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

The thing about “patriotic education” is that if you have to lie about America to love it then you probably don’t really love it. Ultimately their objection to the flawed universalism expressed in the declaration is the idea that the flaws were bad or that the universalism should be realized.

Donald Trump has revoked EO11246 signed by LBJ in 1965, mandating equal opportunities by federal contractors.

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

Ok so Trump. Great job bringing TikTok back, that's something I'm sure you'll never stop bragging about. Now about how fast you're taking a wrecking ball to the America's structure & threatening people's rights. Also the CDC can't even ever send us advisories about disease anymore? Overkill.

Well this is quite an opener

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 2y ago

THE PLOT www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

TikTok was never going anywhere. The TikTok creator gave millions to Trump and they orchestrated this whole PR stunt just so Trump will be seen as a 'hero' to young people. It was literally the Kidz Bop version of the Reichstag Fire

In all seriousness: the last 2 weeks of TikTok posturing and Zuck grovelling, combined with the X insanity of the last year, should show you that an app with a feed that you don’t control serves *other people’s interests* - not yours.

A lesson from the TikTok Affair should be that bipartisan efforts to preserve U.S. national security are vulnerable to the incoming president getting bought off and switching sides for his own personal and political benefit. Not great!

If law enforcement wants to enter your home, unless you consent, they need a JUDICIAL warrant like a search warrant. And you'll notice cops with search warrants don't ask permission. If ICE needs your permission to enter, they don't have a judicial warrant. They have an administrative warrant.

Ummm… Trump just played a video at his rally that was supposedly showing what the military “used to be” back “in the good old days” when we used to “win wars” vs. the “woke” military of today - by showing clips from… wait for it: APOCALYPSE NOW!! 🤦🏻‍♂️ I have no words.

@aoc.bsky.social e-mail going after TikTok & social platforms collaborating with Trump - with a shout out to @bsky.app

Trump is the icing on a very shitty cake. And we have a lot of work to do to earn the trust of the majority of the world again, if we ever had it in the first place, which is debatable. We can start by having a citizenry that stands up to Trump in tangible ways.

The last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre said the Justice Department’s recent report “falls heartbreakingly short” and are still calling for reparative action

‘This is a call to action’: Tulsa race massacre survivors express frustration with DOJ report

"At 110 years old, we are weary, but we will not rest until justice for Greenwood is secured.”

whatimreading.net

Or that Brendan Carr, Trump's pick to head the FCC, sent Meta a letter right after the election telling Zuck that fact checking was against the First Amendment and Carr was poised to take action if Meta kept fact checking. www.fcc.gov/sites/defaul...

Ricardo Sanchez@ricardodsanchez.bsky.social · 2y ago

Also, I'm surprised Zuckerberg discussed pressure from the Biden team but never mentioned how Trump threatened to throw him in jail. Why wasn’t that brought up in his conversation with Joe Rogan? It seems like a pretty important detail to leave out. www.politico.com/news/2024/08...

"White evangelicalism has never been about morality or even really faith, but identity — specifically Whiteness. By conflating religious and racial identity, white evangelicals have put a moral gloss on a deeply immoral desire for white supremacy." www.salon.com/2025/01/09/h...

Evangelicals loved Jimmy Carter — until his anti-racism turned them against him

The religious right began with white supremacy — which is why their love of Trump was predictable

salon.com

Just a reminder that Facebook/Meta has allowed the most disgusting, racist calumnies about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to stand since its inception. They’re just sharing the hate a bit more widely now.

GLAAD@glaad.bsky.social · 2y ago

Meta has quietly removed major sections of its hate speech policy protecting LGBTQ people, people of color, women, immigrants, and other marginalized groups. Today’s alarming policy changes will allow anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, and cease to protect LGBTQ users from being targeted with such attacks

"In the eyes of autocrats and plutocrats, the future is not a right but a commodity." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) hidinginplainsightbook.com

Well, we're adults (as a children's lit scholar, one would be surprised about the capacity kids have for empathy)... But! We're adults who want to be endlessly entertained. People talk about the literacy rate, but it's not just that. Some of my elders were illiterate & did not have these politics.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2y ago

Jimmy Carter’s fatal mistake was thinking he could talk to the American people like they were actual adults

Been said by many others but the Rick Riordan Presents imprint. It's my number one middle grade rec for parents looking for non-HP books. For kids who want something less intense, I often rec the Christopher Chant and Dalemark books by Diana Wynne Jones.

🏳️‍🌈 Miranda 🦋@anabsentmind.bsky.social · 2y ago

Does anyone have any good book recs for young boys that aren't authored by a certain TERF? My nephew who's 8 likes reading and right now he's into HP but I'm hoping I can get him into literally anything else for obvious reasons.

Alive I watch the news -- wars disasters corruption unprecedented storms I ask the Ancestors: Has it always been this bad? Their answer: We are dead Our troubles passed Now is always the hardest time to be alive. #BlueSkyPoetry #Poem