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· Feb 5
Our official statement in response to the wave of anti-trans legislation.
To our trans and nonbinary communities: We see you, we love you, and we side with you.
#TransLivesMatter #TransIsBeautiful 🏳️⚧️
To our trans and nonbinary communities: We see you, we love you, and we side with you.
#TransLivesMatter #TransIsBeautiful 🏳️⚧️
Happy #PublicationDay to Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina!✊🏼
POLITICAL GIRL, her intimate, firsthand account of grassroots dissent, bravery, art, and spectacle in Putin’s Russia, is “irreverent, urgent, and illuminating.” — @publisherswkly.bsky.social
POLITICAL GIRL, her intimate, firsthand account of grassroots dissent, bravery, art, and spectacle in Putin’s Russia, is “irreverent, urgent, and illuminating.” — @publisherswkly.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Happy #PublicationDay to Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina!✊🏼
POLITICAL GIRL, her intimate, firsthand account of grassroots dissent, bravery, art, and spectacle in Putin’s Russia, is “irreverent, urgent, and illuminating.” — @publisherswkly.bsky.social
POLITICAL GIRL, her intimate, firsthand account of grassroots dissent, bravery, art, and spectacle in Putin’s Russia, is “irreverent, urgent, and illuminating.” — @publisherswkly.bsky.social
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If simply being born in the US is not enough to guarantee citizenship, then what is? Where do we draw the line?
Well, if you’re Trump, then it’s the color line.
Well, if you’re Trump, then it’s the color line.
We Must Protect Birthright Citizenship From Trump’s Xenophobic, Eugenic Ideology
If the Supreme Court rules in his favor, it could pave the way for any president (or wannabe-monarch) to redefine citizenship at their discretion.
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December 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
If simply being born in the US is not enough to guarantee citizenship, then what is? Where do we draw the line?
Well, if you’re Trump, then it’s the color line.
Well, if you’re Trump, then it’s the color line.
Massive thanks to @ala-booklist.bsky.social for recognizing the importance of Alix Dick and @anterobot.bsky.social’s THE COST OF BEING UNDOCUMENTED. 🙏🏼 With the US’s anti-immigrant sentiment rearing its ugly head again, this is a book for our times.
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Massive thanks to @ala-booklist.bsky.social for recognizing the importance of Alix Dick and @anterobot.bsky.social’s THE COST OF BEING UNDOCUMENTED. 🙏🏼 With the US’s anti-immigrant sentiment rearing its ugly head again, this is a book for our times.
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Abortion pills CANNOT BE STOPPED.
Yeah, TX's new law HB7 just went into effect. But there are 20 different options for getting pills if you're in TX.
Maybe (maybe!) one or three of them might (might!) be affected by HB7. But the vast majority won't.
Jonathan Mitchell's sadness notwithstanding.
Yeah, TX's new law HB7 just went into effect. But there are 20 different options for getting pills if you're in TX.
Maybe (maybe!) one or three of them might (might!) be affected by HB7. But the vast majority won't.
Jonathan Mitchell's sadness notwithstanding.
Abortion Pill Providers in Texas | Plan C Guide
Abortion pills are available by mail in Texas. Compare providers by price, delivery time, and financial aid in this updated guide from Plan C.
www.plancpills.org
December 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Abortion pills CANNOT BE STOPPED.
Yeah, TX's new law HB7 just went into effect. But there are 20 different options for getting pills if you're in TX.
Maybe (maybe!) one or three of them might (might!) be affected by HB7. But the vast majority won't.
Jonathan Mitchell's sadness notwithstanding.
Yeah, TX's new law HB7 just went into effect. But there are 20 different options for getting pills if you're in TX.
Maybe (maybe!) one or three of them might (might!) be affected by HB7. But the vast majority won't.
Jonathan Mitchell's sadness notwithstanding.
What do you do when what brings you joy and also takes up your time and resources doesn’t give you the time and resources to keep doing it in exchange? This is one of the struggles of pursuing a creative life. @sgriest.bsky.social
The latest on Border Patrol operations in Charlotte. Plus, the sacrifices people make to put art above everything.
The latest on Border Patrol operations in NC, Asheville celebrates the 100th anniversary of early folk and country music recordings, and author Stephanie Elizondo Griest shares her new book Art Above…
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December 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
What do you do when what brings you joy and also takes up your time and resources doesn’t give you the time and resources to keep doing it in exchange? This is one of the struggles of pursuing a creative life. @sgriest.bsky.social
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It's been such a rewarding book tour so far sharing "The Coroner's Silence" (@beaconpress.bsky.social) and meeting readers in their own communities. Thanks to Troy Upperman for beautifully capturing highlights of our launch event at Reparations Club in LA. #newbook #nonfiction #truecrimebooks
December 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
It's been such a rewarding book tour so far sharing "The Coroner's Silence" (@beaconpress.bsky.social) and meeting readers in their own communities. Thanks to Troy Upperman for beautifully capturing highlights of our launch event at Reparations Club in LA. #newbook #nonfiction #truecrimebooks
Silicon Valley’s tech bros are like bouncers. Thiel, Apple, Google et al. snort up our data, rig information flows (algorithms, anyone?) then lobby to block regulation. @heidsky.bsky.social urges us to use immediate digital self-defense.
Ep 352 - Nothing to Hide with Heidi Boghosian - Macro N Cheese
Attorney and author Heidi Boghosian joins Steve to discuss the surveillance-security state as a tool of class discipline and repression. Tech giants, corporate media, and both political parties…
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December 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Silicon Valley’s tech bros are like bouncers. Thiel, Apple, Google et al. snort up our data, rig information flows (algorithms, anyone?) then lobby to block regulation. @heidsky.bsky.social urges us to use immediate digital self-defense.
Joining a labor union is protest. Voting unqualified elected officials out of office is a form of protest. The most effective protests have an element of disruption to draw attention to the change that needs to happen.
The Ins and Outs of Protesting Effectively
Podcast Episode · We the Unhoused · 11/18/2025 · 1h 4m
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December 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Joining a labor union is protest. Voting unqualified elected officials out of office is a form of protest. The most effective protests have an element of disruption to draw attention to the change that needs to happen.
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Donald Trump said he’ll “be involved in” deciding if Netflix can buy Warner Bros.
Is that an open invite for CEOs to curry favor with Trump in exchange for merger approvals?
It should be an independent decision by the Department of Justice based on the law and facts.
Is that an open invite for CEOs to curry favor with Trump in exchange for merger approvals?
It should be an independent decision by the Department of Justice based on the law and facts.
Q: Should Netflix be allowed to buy Warner Brothers?
TRUMP: That's a question. They have a very big market share. I'll be involved in that decision
TRUMP: That's a question. They have a very big market share. I'll be involved in that decision
December 8, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Donald Trump said he’ll “be involved in” deciding if Netflix can buy Warner Bros.
Is that an open invite for CEOs to curry favor with Trump in exchange for merger approvals?
It should be an independent decision by the Department of Justice based on the law and facts.
Is that an open invite for CEOs to curry favor with Trump in exchange for merger approvals?
It should be an independent decision by the Department of Justice based on the law and facts.
Going as far back as 1875, the US’s country-specific immigration bans were the norm, not the exception. Now Trump’s admin is reviving nationality-based discrimination. @amandafrost.bsky.social #BirthrightCitizenship
Opinion | We Rejected This Practice 60 Years Ago. We Must Do So Again Today.
Once nativism escalates, it’s hard to stop.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Going as far back as 1875, the US’s country-specific immigration bans were the norm, not the exception. Now Trump’s admin is reviving nationality-based discrimination. @amandafrost.bsky.social #BirthrightCitizenship
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Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis
The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required tremendous sacrifice without certainty it would work
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
According to @terencekeel.bsky.social, one of the missing parts of criminal justice reform is paying attention to medical examiners and coroners who cover up deaths caused by police violence.
Terence Keel - 11.26.25 Wake Up With WURD w/ Solomon Jones
Terence Keel joins the show. He is Professor of Human Biology & Society UCLA. He’s the author of the new book,
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December 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
According to @terencekeel.bsky.social, one of the missing parts of criminal justice reform is paying attention to medical examiners and coroners who cover up deaths caused by police violence.
Psst! If you want to give the gifts of resistance this holiday to your loved ones, @bookshop.org can suggest some our books as stocking stuffers. 😉🎁📚
This Season Give The Gift of Resistance
Checkout out this list on Bookshop
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December 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Psst! If you want to give the gifts of resistance this holiday to your loved ones, @bookshop.org can suggest some our books as stocking stuffers. 😉🎁📚
Nora Neus’s oral history about that day, 24 HOURS AT THE CAPITOL, comes out later this month. The eyewitness accounts are more maddening than you can believe. ➡️ www.beacon.org/24-Hours-at-...
December 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Nora Neus’s oral history about that day, 24 HOURS AT THE CAPITOL, comes out later this month. The eyewitness accounts are more maddening than you can believe. ➡️ www.beacon.org/24-Hours-at-...
If you’re looking for a book that does a good job of encouraging readers to re-examine texts like the Declaration of Independence alongside the musings of contemporary pop culture figures and activists, Kyle Mays’s AN AFRO-INDIGENOUS HISTORY OF THE US is it!
Roots That Speak: 6 Books That Highlight Black And Native Stories | Essence
Explore six books that highlight Black and Native histories—offering deeper insight into Afro-Indigenous experiences.
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December 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
If you’re looking for a book that does a good job of encouraging readers to re-examine texts like the Declaration of Independence alongside the musings of contemporary pop culture figures and activists, Kyle Mays’s AN AFRO-INDIGENOUS HISTORY OF THE US is it!
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December 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
We have an age of consent in the US because we decided, as a society, that it’s unreasonable to expect people that young to participate in a relationship of equals with an adult.
But currently 34 states have laws that permit children to marry with parental consent.
But currently 34 states have laws that permit children to marry with parental consent.
To Those Familiar with Purity Culture, Megyn Kelly's Comments About Epstein and 15-Year-Old Girls isn't Such a Surprise
International media outlets and even an actual teenager slammed attorney and media personality Megyn Kelly for claiming (31:40) that the late Jeffrey Epstein was not an "actual" pedophile because…
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December 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We have an age of consent in the US because we decided, as a society, that it’s unreasonable to expect people that young to participate in a relationship of equals with an adult.
But currently 34 states have laws that permit children to marry with parental consent.
But currently 34 states have laws that permit children to marry with parental consent.
This has chokepoint capitalism written all over it. ➡️ www.beacon.org/Chokepoint-C...
December 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
This has chokepoint capitalism written all over it. ➡️ www.beacon.org/Chokepoint-C...
It’s 💳COVER REVEAL Friday💳 for @reitman.bsky.social!
TRANSACTION DENIED exposes how companies like Visa, PayPal & Bank of America use their power to silence dissenting voices & hurt democracy through the practice of financial censorship.
Watch this space in April 2026! 👀
Cover design: Carol Chu
TRANSACTION DENIED exposes how companies like Visa, PayPal & Bank of America use their power to silence dissenting voices & hurt democracy through the practice of financial censorship.
Watch this space in April 2026! 👀
Cover design: Carol Chu
December 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It’s 💳COVER REVEAL Friday💳 for @reitman.bsky.social!
TRANSACTION DENIED exposes how companies like Visa, PayPal & Bank of America use their power to silence dissenting voices & hurt democracy through the practice of financial censorship.
Watch this space in April 2026! 👀
Cover design: Carol Chu
TRANSACTION DENIED exposes how companies like Visa, PayPal & Bank of America use their power to silence dissenting voices & hurt democracy through the practice of financial censorship.
Watch this space in April 2026! 👀
Cover design: Carol Chu
Talking about sex ed in schools isn’t as new a concept as you’d think. It started in the US at the turn of the 20th century in part because of enormous rates of STIs. Back when STIs were called venereal diseases. @margaretgmyers.bsky.social
Margaret Grace Myers, "The Fight for Sex Ed: The Century-Long Battle Between Truth and Doctrine" (Beacon Press, 2025) - New Books Network
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December 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Talking about sex ed in schools isn’t as new a concept as you’d think. It started in the US at the turn of the 20th century in part because of enormous rates of STIs. Back when STIs were called venereal diseases. @margaretgmyers.bsky.social
Can’t. Wait! 🙌🏼
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of NCTE’s George Orwell Award, NCTE invites you to the first webinar in a special series where you can hear directly from winners of this prestigious award.
This event is free for NCTE members who register here: https://ncte.org/orwell-lander/
This event is free for NCTE members who register here: https://ncte.org/orwell-lander/
December 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Can’t. Wait! 🙌🏼
Ilan Pappé’s ISRAEL ON THE BRINK is as timely as it is hopeful, and we’ll need to learn from it during this fraught timeline. So glad to see it on @wrmea.bsky.social’s roundup!
November-December 2025 New Arrivals
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, November/December 2025, pp. 83, 85 New Arrivals Israel on the Brink: And the Eight Revolutions that Could Lead to...
www.wrmea.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Ilan Pappé’s ISRAEL ON THE BRINK is as timely as it is hopeful, and we’ll need to learn from it during this fraught timeline. So glad to see it on @wrmea.bsky.social’s roundup!
Many in the past have lost their lives to protest. Yet there have been others in the past who’ve protested in a number of other ways away from the streets. There are many routes to demanding change.
Gloria Browne Marshall, Mary Stein, David St Romain
Civil rights attorney, activist, and author Gloria Browne Marshall discusses various political topics and her new book "A Protest History of the United States". Assistant Director for the East Baton…
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December 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Many in the past have lost their lives to protest. Yet there have been others in the past who’ve protested in a number of other ways away from the streets. There are many routes to demanding change.
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This raccoon broke into a liquor store, got drunk & passed out in the bathroom. This tracks with a recent report from scientists who’ve found evidence that raccoons are becoming domestic. I also learned this raccoon’s government name & a little about his struggles. open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
EXCLUSIVE: New Details Emerge About Why That Raccoon Robbed the Virginia Liquor Store
What pushed this furry bandit to break the law.
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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With @rachelbrowne.ca, Harrison Browne wrote LET US PLAY to dismantle the false argument that trans people are a threat to sports. So proud to see @torontolifemag.bsky.social recognize him as a rising star! 🤩
Toronto's 25 Rising Stars of 2025 - Toronto Life
Our annual list of the up-and-comers shaping our city and the world
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December 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
With @rachelbrowne.ca, Harrison Browne wrote LET US PLAY to dismantle the false argument that trans people are a threat to sports. So proud to see @torontolifemag.bsky.social recognize him as a rising star! 🤩