Dasia Taylor,now 22, developed a surgical suture that changes color in response to pH changes associated with wound infections. #Invention #Innovation #MedicalBreakthroughs
Dr. Lorgia García Peña
@laprofelgp.bsky.social
Afro Latina. Professor at Princeton. Author of Community as Rebellion. Radically imagining a world where Haiti and Palestine are free, Black lives are centered, women and queer folx are safe and schools teach for freedom. www.lorgiagarciapena.com
Spain Installs Floating Barrier in Ceuta After Influx of Migrants www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/w...
Spain Installs Floating Barrier in Ceuta After Influx of Migrants
Most of those who came to the territory, a Spanish exclave in Africa, have returned across the border to Morocco. At least 67 people died trying to enter, the authorities said.
nytimes.com
The guy that they want you to be terrified of (Mamdani) is making sure kids in NYC are fed all summer and people have access to cheaper groceries, all while they take food away from kids getting SNAP. Just sayin, feeding kids should make you the good guy.
A U.S. Citizen Deleted His Phone’s Data. Now He Faces a Felony Charge. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...
A U.S. Citizen Deleted His Phone’s Data. Now He Faces a Felony Charge.
Federal prosecutors charged a man returning to the United States with obstruction because he gave them a passcode that erased his smartphone during a customs search.
nytimes.com
If you talk like a nazi, make hand gestures as a nazi, well then.
God@thegodshow.com · last wk.For a guy who claims he’s not a Nazi, Elon Musk sure does say a lot of Nazi stuff.
"New York City is—and always will be—a city for all immigrants. It is important that New Yorkers, including undocumented immigrants, know their rights. This comic presents a series of vignettes that illustrate the rights & protections available to all New Yorkers." www.weteachnyc.org/media2016/fi...
weteachnyc.org
I don’t know who needs to hear this. But the children are ours. All the children. We are all responsible for protecting and caring for them.
Hundreds of community members gathered on Thursday evening for a public viewing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the 52-year-old Mexican man shot and killed by an ICE agent on July 7. His sons stood by their father’s casket for hours greeting mourners who wore blue, Salgado Araujo’s favorite color.
Family Holds Public Viewing for ICE Shooting Victim Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
Salgado Araujo’s brother, who witnessed the shooting, has requested to leave an ICE jail to pay his last respects.
buff.ly
I understand why he is refusing the raise AND I think he should have a raise. pix11.com/news/local-n...
Mayor Mamdani will refuse 18% pay raise passed by NYC council
NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) — Mayor Zohran Mamdani just got a pay raise, but he’s refusing to take it. On Thursday, the City Council voted to approve a pay raise for themselves, the mayor, pu…
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I don’t know who needs to hear this. But the children are ours. All the children. We are all responsible for protecting and caring for them.
The Dominican ultra right asking once again for my books to be boycotted and my nationality revoked for writing about antiHaitian violence. Do they have nothing better to do? #endglobalantiblackness
There are organizations that could offer many $150,000 fellowships that could support independent researchers to continue their work and get healthcare and they mostly do this on the Right.
Check out another forum that I am in. It was a pleasure!
Dominique Reill@dominiquereill.bsky.social · last mo.We did it! Sonja Dolinsek, Tiffany Florvil, Anita Kurimay, Jill Massino, Alisha Rankin, Michał Wilczewski, + I just submitted the final revisions to our CEHS presidential forum: "Gender History: A Necessary Key to Understanding Central Europe," soon out with "Central European History."
For 15 years, over 90 psychiatric hospitals across the country have violated a law giving patients access to emergency care, with or without insurance. Almost all the facilities faced the same lack of consequences, a ProPublica investigation found. (Published Sept. 2025)
Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences.
Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up.
propublica.org
6 years ago today Fox News helpfully distilled some of the demands of the Movement for Black Lives... Curious that they could figure out the demands but that white dude bros on the so called Left say that it's unclear... LOL
Inside a women’s prison, a domestic violence victim began collecting others’ stories of abuse. 156 women answered her call. Together, they became “survivor sisters” — and helped shape a new law offering them a path toward freedom. But would it work? Listen to the full episode:
Convicted of Killing Their Abusers, These Women Got Another Chance at Freedom
A new law gave people sentenced for the murders of their abusive partners a rare pathway to freedom. That wasn’t the end of the story.
propub.li
My review of Magda Boutros's The Police, Activists, and Knowledge in @ersjournal.com @stanfordpress.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4Z3XA...
The police, activists, and knowledge: the struggle against racialized policing in France
Published in Ethnic and Racial Studies (Ahead of Print, 2026)
tandfonline.com
Happy Father’s Day to all the single mamas out there. I see you.
Happy Father’s Day to all the single mamas out there. I see you.
"Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn, NY, to a Puerto Rican mother and a Haitian father. He grew up speaking Spanish, English, and French in a family that valued creativity. His father put on nightly musical performances for the family and his mother frequently took the family to museums."
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) was a Puerto Rican/Haitian American artist known for his neo-expressionist paintings and graffiti art.
nmaahc.si.edu
Citizen.Coping@propcazhpm.bsky.social · 2y agoAt @ 6:41, Basquiat says "I never went to an art school. I failed the art courses that I did take in school... I learned about art by looking at it, by going to museums.." And he read voraciously. A lot of the iconography, the vocabulary of symbols that he used, are from "Flash of The Spirit".👑🎨
This weekend was less than 50% of last year's turnout.
Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 2mo agoHey, friends in NYC! Early voting in the D primaries has begun! Find a polling site and view your sample ballot here: vote.nyc/page/find-yo... And read on for some suggestions of folks I'd highly recommending voting for!
Guy at door: we’re selling some shit you don’t need but imma scare into buying Me: No thank you. We’re good. Guy again: Is your husband home cuz maybe you don’t understand… Me: 🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬. Does that show my understanding of the matter? #happypride to all the happy wives (no husband) out there.
I'm facilitating a walking tour about Black Women in Greenwich Village on July 5th. It's a fundraiser and people who have been on the tour in the past have told me they enjoyed it. blackwomengreenwich2026.eventbrite.com - there are a few slots remaining.
Black Women in Greenwich Village: A Walking Tour
Learn about some Black women who contributed to Greenwich Village
blackwomengreenwich2026.eventbrite.com
Don’t know who needs to hear this but if you’re the primary caregiver for someone ill or disabled, please know burnout is very real and it can make you feel crazy and joyless. Find little moments through the day to recharge. You need and deserve it. ❤️
Don’t know who needs to hear this but if you’re the primary caregiver for someone ill or disabled, please know burnout is very real and it can make you feel crazy and joyless. Find little moments through the day to recharge. You need and deserve it. ❤️