It’s Hamza’s bday today! Please consider sending him and his family some funds: bit.ly/help4hamza

ICYMI: "The Passing of a Little More Than a Year," flash fiction by @elliswkim.bsky.social:

The blood of Anas al-Sharif and other slain journalists is on the hands of Western media figures who have justified Israel’s crimes while ignoring, or excusing, the killing and intimidation of Palestinian journalists.

"She threw the ball and her dog fetched it. This much they did for each other.

The two of them were not a gang, but they weren't nothing."

"The Passing of a Little More Than a Year" by @elliswkim.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝

but hearing it directly out of the mouths sticks with you the most

"I remember especially this sunny warm day hanging on the fence and looking out and … everybody’s free,” Maya Nagata Aikawa told KCSM-TV. “We could see all the people and their freedom. Home was so close, you see?”

Alt text. This is pretty awful, but probably what has to be done to preserve the service at all.

IMLS still has a chance- please make sure to show support.

If you find what the NYT continues to publish abhorrent please, PLEASE stop paying them to play Wordle, sudoku & crosswords. The NYT makes a massive chunk of their income from that $4 games & crosswords app. The ONLY substantial power we have when it’s not Election Day is the power of our wallets

Some rare good news:

In May, DJ Bracken shared an essay on @huffpost.com Personal about his quest to help vanquish student lunch debt

He was shocked when HuffPost readers donated over $20,000 to his org and many asked him for tips on how to start erasing lunch debt in their own communities

❤️

“Both the Senate and House reconciliation bills provide $45 billion for building new immigration detention centers, including family detention facilities.”

"The overwhelming majority of the funding for ICE detention would go to private companies contracted to build and run detention facilities.”

Hold on

Left's strong night, updated:

—Mamdani finishes well ahead.
—All 10 challenged NYC Progressive Caucus members win, or way up. Jumaane Williams, too.
—Left may add councilors (AOC- or WFP-backed newcomers up)
—WFP-endorsed candidates win primaries for Syracuse & Buffalo mayor.

I still don't get why Cuomos nursing home deaths - and the cover up- aren't bigger deals

Gavin Newsom vetoed a data broker privacy bill that our legislature passed last year that would have allowed Californians to opt out of all data brokers with a single click.

🧵 THREAD: Introducing COYOTE Media Collective
11 Bay Area journalists are launching a worker-owned newsroom because we're tired of corporate control sapping all the joy out of journalism.
Independent Bay Area journalism—with a BITE 🐺 1/4
givebutter.com/coyotemedia

A disquieting story about a woman who runs into a missing person from her childhood at a bar.

Hi! I'm now offering one-hour writing coaching sessions over Zoom! I've done this with a few people who've taken my classes, and it's been great! Need advice, support, tips, prompts? Hit me up for some writing therapy. Message for more details and pricing. 😘 Info about me below:

I’ll be that killjoy. We are not going to get along if you’re quipping about “asking chat”

Yall we are matching the next £420 for Mai. Please help. She is not eating.

chuffed.org/project/help...

lucky number $88K!! :D #ConnectingGaza

I have a leetle story in this issue of @phoebejournal.bsky.social, and please read the winning short story by Jumaana Abdu, “Two Burials.” It’s incredible.
TGIF, everyone. 💚
phoebejournal.com/54-2/

Incredible - this is what he does with his one life

For everyone saying this doesn't matter because ICE doesn't follow the law:

1. They want you to think knowing your rights makes no difference when we know for a fact it does. How do we know that? Because Homan himself said people knowing their rights cost then hundreds of arrests in Chicago.

1/2 Just-dismissed Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, has a PhD from U Chicago, is in numerous scholarly societies, has wide acclaim. She is also first African-American to lead LoC.

The dismissal note did not say "Dear Dr. Hayden" or "Dear Madame Librarian" or even "Dear Carla."

Wanna reduce crime?

Open more libraries.

"we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults."

link.springer.com/article/10.1...