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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

parents with school age children are not and should not be the only ones who materially support public schools. property taxes of many people without children are appropriately directed to public schools. each of us should be pouring into these schools in our own ways (giving of our time etc...)

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Watching the response to the NHJ article, I’m struck by how, when an unequal system becomes a problem for each family to manage, we focus on how they navigated it, scoring the private choice instead of demanding that the public system remedy the inequality.

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Jamil Smith @jamilsmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Read what @nhannahjones.bsky.social wrote. Putting her choices on trial is a waste of everyone's time. Instead, this essay should have us all talking about why racism still so powerfully shapes the education our children receive—and what we’re going to do about it.

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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

But the truth is that society is a construction project and it is not self-executing. Having a shared project to work on collectively is essential. We are living through a time where a number of people aren't bought into the shared project. So here we are.

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Andrew Hume @andrewhume.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I love Power Hour, an inclusive fitness class. "We're excited to see if we can help make gyms more welcoming to all. Anything we can do to make gyms more knowledgeable and supportive is great." Kara Hume www.unc.edu/posts/2026/0...

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UNC-Queen’s partnership promotes inclusive fitness | UNC-Chapel Hill

Carolina education professor Kara Hume worked with Queen’s University Belfast researchers to co-design more accessible gyms.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah

An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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Andrew Hume @andrewhume.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The ads I see most often across platforms right now involve 30 wealthy monopolists arguing that baseball players should be paid less because the league they run and should promote isn’t fair to owners who pocket their revenue rather than invest. I’d sure love to support a players league someday.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026

here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.

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Andrew Hume @andrewhume.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Trans rights are human rights. Love to my trans friends and family.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 29/06/2026

Trans kids should be able to exist freely, fully, and joyfully.

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Gerald Bourguet @geraldbourguet.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

In one move, the Suns unraveled the goodwill they built back up last year, contradicted their talk about "high character," and alienated a segment of the fanbase. For @sunsafterdark.bsky.social, I wrote about the non-basketball side of trading for Miles Bridges:

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Whatever culture and goodwill the Suns built back up, the Miles Bridges trade just demolished it | Suns After Dark: A Phoenix Suns Pod Site

The Phoenix Suns have wanted Miles Bridges for years. In a trade agreement reported Sunday by ESPN's Chams Sharania, they finally got him. A

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/06/2026

Adding: this is one reason conservatives work so hard to stigmatize "virtue signaling." Virtue signaling is actually incredibly important! It lets other people know that they are not alone in their values. It works against pluralistic ignorance. That's why they want you to feel abashed & stay quiet.

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Andrew Hume @andrewhume.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I’ve been a Phoenix Suns fan for 40+ years, but I’m very not interested in supporting a team with Miles Bridges on it. Even when he’s gone from the team it’s hard to imagine wanting to cheer for a team owned & operated by folks who traded for Miles Bridges.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 24/06/2026

The city where strangers embrace in the street, where people line up to vote to feed and house and educate the most vulnerable in their midst, where more people choose to live than any other place in the country, the place enjoying the safest era in its history — this is the *real* America.

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Andrew Hume @andrewhume.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I love you, NYC.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

DSA has pulled together a list of resources and ways you can help folks inside and on the ground at Delaney Hall, including people who were arrested last night. north.dsanj.org/delaney/

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DELANEY – North New Jersey Democratic Socialists of America

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

NEW — I wrote about my visit to Delaney Hall, the ICE facility in Newark, NJ where detainees are on a hunger and labor strike in protest of rotten food, unpaid work, and unjust detainment, and where protesters outside have spent the last week drawing ICE's ire while keeping strikers' demands alive.

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Starved, smashed and bloodied: The violence at ICE’s Delaney Hall

Brutality towards detainees and protesters continues to unfold in Newark, NJ. The Handbasket was on-site to report.

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Congresswoman Analilia Mejia @repanalilia.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The reports coming out of Delaney Hall right now are sickening. No one should be subjected to the inhumane treatment and conditions we are hearing and seeing from inside that facility. ICE has become a rogue agency that must be reined in.

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Andrew Hume @andrewhume.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

At Delaney Hall, an ICE facility 8 miles from my front door, my neighbors are reportedly being beaten & gassed, and are on strike. ICE won't allow the NJ Department of Health to inspect, and have denied access to elected officials including the Governor, Mayor, a Senator and US reps.

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Deirdre @dlpr.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

🚨🚨 ICE Agents pepper-sprayed NJ Senator Andy Kim outside Delaney Hall. “What we saw here is unfortunately just what we see all over the country,” Kim told NJ.com www.nj.com/news/2026/05...

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ICE agents pepper spray protesters, N.J. senator in clash outside Delaney Hall in Newark

“It’s sad, it’s a sad day," says pepper-sprayed senator.

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Andrew Hume @andrewhume.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

"We often can't know what our work will make possible. The good we do matters. We can tuck our chins, unlock our limbs, aim our bodies & forge deeper, broader, more determined connections. Sometimes those connections hold us up." @mskellymhayes.bsky.social organizingmythoughts.org/declining-in...

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Pessimism Is Not Prophecy: On Declining Invitations to Surrender

“Public opinion is not a self-enforcing political mechanism; it’s a mood. If we want public disapproval to become public action, we need to extend worthwhile invitations.”

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Andrew Hume @andrewhume.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Trustees at UNC quietly impeded tenure for Kiran Asher, an incoming professor in the Women and Gender Studies department, after she had been approved by faculty and the Provost. www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...

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UNC-Chapel Hill Trustees Reject Hiring of Tenured Women’s Studies Professor

The rare move comes a year after the Board of Trustees delayed dozens of votes to confer tenure, sparking outcry from faculty.

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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 07/05/2026

As Mayor Zohran Mamdani scrambles to plug a multi-billion dollar budget gap, his administration is looking more closely at the money NYC spends on private school tuition for students with disabilities. Via ChalkbeatNY www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/07/r...

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Staggering Racial Gap in NYC Private School Tuition Payments for Special Ed

Nearly 71% of students who won tuition payments last school year were white, a population that makes up 12.5% of students with disabilities.

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Andrew Hume @andrewhume.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

"The requirement that women have their sex invasively monitored legitimizes the fantasy that men are trying to pass as women to win women's sports & validates interrogation against women whose bodies/lives aren't gender-conforming." @moiradonegan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The Olympics’ trans policy polices womanhood | Moira Donegan

Sports bans have humiliated trans women and girls across America. Now, the Olympics joins in

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Andrew Hume @andrewhume.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I was asked to wake y'all up and tell you I just saw Bruce Springsteen and the heart-stoppin’, pain-stompin’, pants-droppin’, earth-shockin’, hard-rockin’, booty-shakin’, earth-quakin’, love-makin’, history-makin’, ICE-outin’, soul-shakin’, legendary E Street Band.

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Andrew Hume @andrewhume.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Pretty cool to vote for a US rep I like and admire today. Go, Analilia Mejia!

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

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Andrew Hume @andrewhume.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Loved celebrating Democracy Now with Patti Smith, Angela Davis, Michael Stipe, Bruce Springsteen, Alynda Segarra et al. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M384...

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Democracy Now! 30th Anniversary Special Event

YouTube video by Democracy Now!

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

We don’t have universal healthcare for the same reason that white southerners poured cement into their community swimming pools rather than let their black neighbors swim in them. Racism is ruining ALL of our lives.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

fyi the Columbia student newspaper has far more details on the ICE raid on a Columbia residence hall (including the likely name of the student in question) than any of the journalists y'all are reposting who aren't on campus. 🙂 support student journalism!

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DHS agents detain Columbia student after entering University-owned residence, Shipman reports

<i>This is a developing story. Check back for updates. </i>

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

After months of relentless rapid response in Minneapolis, members of Defend the 612 had a moment to breathe and reflect on the lessons they’ve learned, the grief they carry, and the citywide fellowship they hope will endure. The crisis is not over, and I’m grateful they made time to speak with me.

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“We Belong to Each Other Now”: Lessons from Minneapolis

“This extreme closeness, togetherness and intimacy — you cannot infiltrate your way into a space where you'll understand that," says May, a rapid responder in Minneapolis.

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Andrew Hume @andrewhume.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

This reimagining of child welfare feels very exciting to me. I’m a fan of both of these candidates, who have been leaders in advocating for a just system that prioritizes safe, healthy kids, families and communities. www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politic...

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Mamdani shortlist for ACS commissioner includes self-proclaimed agency 'abolitionist'

A look at two finalists on the Mamdani administration’s shortlist to lead the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) suggests the agency — charged with protecting children from abuse and neglect...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

We are a nation in which thousands of Black people were "legally" kidnapped with the assistance of the federal government & sent back into slavery. We are also a nation in which thousands of white & Black people organized in their local communities to try to stop those kidnappings. "We" are both.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.

Woman on the right was using her walker to advance into the tear gas

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Andrew Hume @andrewhume.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

It was great to be at the 38th annual Manhattan Country School Martin Luther King Day March today. A school isn't a place, it's people.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I wish you, and me, and all of us, strength & solidarity & joy in the new year as we find our way together: which we have done this year already, and will arise tomorrow to do again. /thread

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Andrew Hume @andrewhume.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

“I am thankful for Steph Curry’s art practice. I am even more thankful for friends who can be moved by the sensual, serious work of witnessing the worst shot taken in the history of basketball.” — Kiese Laymon www.thebeliever.net/the-worst-sh...

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The Worst Shot Ever Taken - Believer Magazine

I was sixteen when my mother gifted me a painting by Ernie Barnes. I’d seen one Barnes painting at that point on the cover of Marvin Gaye’s 1976 album, I Want You, on the brown carpeted floor of my Au...

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The truth is that there are many good people in good institutions regretfully making the choice to sacrifice trans people because they fear for their own survival and their institution's survival... ...and it is incumbent on us to show them that their choice is not without consequence.

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