Yet another literary festival where a white person says that: I’m "giving voice to the voiceless.” I corrected with: "The voices are there & are dynamic, they just were not centered. They were omitted or not given resources to flourish..." People shifted in their seats.

bell hooks: "We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.”

My dear friend & poet Jubi Arriola-Headley recently died from prostate cancer. He was a Black queer man who dedicated his life to Black to brown, Queer, Femme, nonbinary Trans writing. Please help his husband Paulo get the support he needs after loss

Assata Shakur:

Assata Shakur joins the ancestors a free woman. She did not die bound by the carceral system and she did not pass away living in a land that never respected or accepted her. Assata taught us that liberation can not be bargained for, it must be taken. Rest Free, Assata.

h/t @Mrmangajojo

In the dead of night, while most Americans were sleeping, the Trump admin ripped 180+ kids out of their beds in foster homes and shelters & loaded them into vans headed for deportation flights to Guatemala. It took lawyers around the country working through the night to stop them

A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, county, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in America. https://t.co/SfHWiQzP6o

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

Dear Gazans requesting eSims: Going forward, please request at @Crisps4eSims, where at least one other volunteer will be managing it. Being one person, it’s hard to manage so many all the time in addition to doing other things for the project! #ConnectingGaza

for esim requests for people in Gaza 🚨 please send a tweet to @Crisps4eSims to make it easier to manage!❤️ thankyou إذا كنت في غزة وتحتاج إلى الشريحة الالكترونية، فاتصل بهذا الحساب @Crisps4eSims ❤️ يمكننا المساعدة #ConnectingGaza #esims4Gaza

In 1969, when Black Americans were prevented from swimming alongside whites, Mr. Rogers decided to invite officer Clemmons to join him and cool his feet in a pool, breaking a well known color barrier. Breaking Color Barriers. A THREAD!

That is a concentration camp. These people are kidnapping civilians off of the street, their places of work, schools, and homes, and taking them to concentration camps in the U.S. and a dictatorial foreign country to perform slave labor This is domestic and international terroism

Students — especially international students who leave behind their families and livelihoods — put so much trust in their universities. The last few weeks has proven that they are effectively useless when it comes to protecting them.

i cannot stress enough how much we shouldnt just be carrying on w the same organizing & movement strategies, campaigns, or demands as usual. a tech billionaire taking over fed government & gutting many of its (insufficient, yes, but needed) functions is a society-changing event.

I keep seeing lists of “good” companies that “stand with DEl” and it’ll be like Costco who’s union busting, Kroger who’s predatory practices include possible facial recognition based price gouging and tech companies involved in multiple genocides, and JP Morgan?????

wearing respirators only at protests is how you favor mask bans. it has to be a daily habit. it's the people's responsibility to show that it's an essential item that we won't abandon when laws protect the police state and that bans won't be effective.

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Over the past two days, the protests in LA have sustained themselves all day into night because they're decentralized. They've exhausted the police and their resources by splitting up and moving around. In turn the people in the streets have kept visibility on the issues longer.

The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive. Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!

Sharing with permission: a Black community member was trying to check on childhood home in Altadena on Thursday was pulled over on New York Dr by cops who ordered them out of the car and cuffed them though they showed their ID that had a nearby Pasadena address.