Best believe I will always always always come back around to food security. People gotta eat every day. Here are some resources, ideas, and calls to action for feeding the 12 parishes of Northeast Louisiana.

This is the story about why I'm about to not have social work certification one way or the other in September. Stressful things happen and I'm a proud hater. They'll take the 3 letters, but it's not like they gone take my three degrees or things I have learned. The state doesn't own my knowledge.

So I was on Bandcamp, and I saw this article about music in the DR Congo. And I was like "YES, please!" There are a bunch of songs in the original article, so your ears get treated to a mix of flavors that are innovative, weird, messy, carefully crafted, and Congolese.

DR Congo has been put through hell at the hands of greedy men in its history. From Leopold II of Belgium to Mobutu to the Kabila duo to today, it has been a, genocidal mess. The people have suffered so these men and people in other countries could get rich and people all over the world (including us) could exploit their resources.

Ezra Klein wrote a NYT piece about the divide in the American Jewish diaspora over Palestine. The Israeli Occupation is still starving Palestinians in Gaza while there are people and experienced organizations ready to bring food by land and sea and distribute to the whole of Gaza.

Kellie Carter Jackson is in conversation with the reader, telling both personal and public narratives in a way that illustrates her knowledge of the subject from life and study. I get the sense that she wants us to understand how we (Black people) got here - the many large and small acts of revolution, protection, force, flight, and joy through which our ancestors asserted their right to exist and made our existence possible. She outright states she wants us "to grapple with the causes and consequences of [violence], and to think outside the binary of violence and nonviolence."

One of the striking things about this book, other than the case itself, is that it talks about and is evidence of poor and working people organizing against the abuse that is the state and power structures. In the background writing, they talk about how sharecroppers and workers were taking radical action against economic and racial oppression. It talks about positive relationships between Black people and leftist organizations and ideas. It is a body of artwork - even just the 1935 graphics without the modern foreword - that is more rooted and bolder than what many artists today would dare create and publicize.

Now was as good a time as any to read some explicitly antifascist comics. Plus, I wanted to see what made Moore disown the movie.

Dobbs v Jackson left bodily autonomy up to the states, and the effects will be many and not good for millions of vulnerable people. So I'm gonna guess what you're thinking about doing.

Louisiana showed up and smacked down all four of Jeff Landry's harmful amendments. And I posted through the results rolling in and made a color-coded map.

In whisper campaigns and puzzling career reversals, pro-Palestinian actors say that they're being punished for speaking out.

Israel has killed 55 Palestinians after one month of its ongoing “Iron Wall” offensive in the West Bank. Killings, mass displacement, and uncertainty are the new normal.