Thank you on this labor day!!
EngLit at Hampshire College, mag ed in DC, history at Duke, then book ed in NYC and DC. Currently Resident Historian at National Education Association. Woke as an entitled white boy is able to be. I’m here for your writing, so show me what you got.
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Thank you on this labor day!!
—Joseph Millar, “Labor Day”
Every resident of Maine showed up for the guy running to unseat Susan Collins
On #LaborDay, I stand with every worker demanding fair pay, safe conditions, and respect on the job. The fight for dignity is far from over. (2/2)
Blocks and blocks of Chicagoans marching against Trump’s fascism.
Alternatively: a nice checklist of things our govt wants to do away with!
He was a dick about it. Said the little kid was “too slow.” He really did.
Google: No Left Turns In Jersey, Eddie from Ohio
Where were you the last time you made a left turn?
You had me at Union…
US Rep. Khanna introduces US Sen. Bernie Sanders at the AFLCIO Labor Breakfast. On Labor Day, leaders stand with unions!
The National Guardners
Tough family to be a member of, ego wise…
Yes I know just how terrible he is and how reluctantly he must have done this, please do not bother pointing it out
Yea, but they don’t care.
Yeah but her emails…
Enjoy your Labor Day weekend....🌞💙
Who’s his pastor? Just asking questions…
They weren’t sitting around, they were crusading. The French versions of the Arthurian saga were what English soldiers carried with them in their weskits.
September 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth...
Amidst all the bad news, this is great: Libraries across the country host cookbook clubs, offer classes in demo kitchens, loan spices + kitchen equipment, include food pantries, host farmer's markets, offer English language learning through cooking, host nutrition literacy programs, etc.
“Let’s begin by saying that we are living through a very dangerous time.” So opens “A Talk to Teachers,” which James Baldwin delivered to a group of educators in October, 1963.
I’m absolutely begging reporters to stop suggesting that Lisa Cook stated that she would use both properties as a principal residence on her mortgage APPLICATIONS Mortgage APPLICATIONS and mortgage AGREEMENTS are not the same thing We have no idea what she represented on the APPLICATIONS
Just followed, TY! Her words yesterday were everything.
It’s time to take serious action at the State Capitol to address gun violence.
I just looked at some of the B&N reviews. Troglodytes who won’t watch, well, every British crime drama ever made. 😄 it’s a fun read indeed. Cheers!
I read that years ago! Well worth it!!
And re-read Jemmy and Alexander, who had this shit scoped out 250 years ago.
Trump and the GOP are hellbent on killing our kids. Whether it’s no gun control or defunding pediatric brain cancer research/trials. Our kids deserve better than Trump and his feckless Republicans.
Here's an old, unmasked photo of 7880. He's worked for the Chicago ICE field office since at least 2018 (when these photos were posted). If you believe you know his name, please reach out.
National Nurses United, the largest union of nurses in the U.S.
Translation: subservience to white folk. Different cadence, same pitch.
He shits his pants now.
One thing about never-Trump Republicans, during Trump II particularly: They understand that the world they knew is dead. They have no investment in either reviving the former GOP (because they understand it's impossible) or maintaining the pre-2016 Democratic Party (because it's not their party).
Wearing black pants. Anyone? Anyone?
"The American Slavery 2.0 project is a brilliant conceit precisely because it dovetails so many MAGA governing principles into a single, big and beautiful policy." — @schaller67.bsky.social
Funny not funny......
“.. The Oval Office photos don’t resolve those questions. They raise them. And until the press decides to treat Trump’s health the way it treated Biden’s, makeup and memos will remain the White House’s first—and last—line of defense.” @passantino.bsky.social www.status.news/p/trump-heal...
If Heather reposts this, then so must we all.
Do more!!
Lost her virginity on her mother’s grave, kept her husband’s calcified heart on her. Goths wish they could.
POETS everywhere!!! Fear fire foes!!!
Black pants? Hmmm…
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Black pants? Hmmmmm…
If you had told me 10 years ago our federal government would be arguing that erasing trans people out of existence and imposing heteronormative gender ideals was a civil right I would have thought you were crazy. apple.news/AFkTPCQkwT2i...
I didn’t know that about Bennet. More please…
Trump’s movement, just like his health, is deteriorating. MAGA is furious that he's been lying to them, covering up a huge pedophilia scandal. That's why the GOP is scrambling trying to cheat and pass every agenda while Trump is flailing, because they know their time is running out.
SAVE THE DATE: We are excited to co-host #Harper200 Sept. 19-21. We invite you to attend in person! The weekend festivities include a dance performance, scholarly panels, poetry readings, receptions, and more. Most events are free. Learn more & register at: coloredconventions.org/harper-200-s...
They’ve kidnapped all the actual landscape professionals.
I felt that way about Charles Dobson. Why must I know anything at all about him?
Or raped
“…and everyone is saying that no one has ever done death better than you.”
They are the Dead Kids Party. Have been since Sandy Hook.
It’ll be 2 coins methinks…
Librarians and middle school teachers will be the salvation of us all. Really.
It’s been ages since I lived in Manhattan, but I absolutely understand his vibe. 👍
This is true. I have never seen a major American politician with more contempt for American tradition and history - and Americans themselves - than Donald Trump. The fact that Vance can even say this about Mamdani can probably be attributed to simple racism.
They are the Dead Kids Party…
"Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American..taught in schools, in seminaries & colleges...written in Primers, spelling books & Almanacs...preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, enforced in courts of justice...become the political religion of the nation." --Lincoln
None of them are Christians. All of them are christo-fascists. All. Of. Them.
The Afghan women's football/soccer team, who relocated to the UK to escape the Taliban's removal of female rights, including exclusion from all public life #WomensArt #AfghanWomen
What’re the monster’s pronouns?
This is the fifth consecutive year that approval of organized labor has been this high, showing that working families see the power of unions in creating safe workplaces with fair pay and a voice on the job! @Gallup.com news.gallup.com/poll/694472/...
I was proud to be there with educators and college staff and so many others demanding justice. www.diverseeducation.com/demographics...
Our leaders in Washington could learn a thing or two from some of the best elementary school students here in Illinois.
Turns out when you treat teachers well, invest in students, and focus on improving schools, you get real results. Illinois now ranks third in the nation for our education system for a reason.
Not all those who wander are lost J.R.R. Tolkien
open.substack.com/pub/thomhart... THIS!!
#trump #children blood on his hands
This!! Workers and their unions fighting for what Workers Deserve . www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
It’s everywhere. Block judiciously and often. 👍
He kinda looks like Bull Connor, don’tchathink?
This is why NYC ostracized him time back way back. Tacky crap don’t make it on the upper East Side…
“Lingering tensions from the Civil War”? Seriously? 🙄
Tim Walz: "Think of how easy it would be to be a damn Republican. 'Oh, what should I wear today? This stupid frickin' red hat. What should I say today? I don't know, just make sure it's cruel. Who do we listen to? That guy -- the felon in the White House.'"
To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
Trees and storytelling. 👍
Once 4 billion chestnut trees spanned most of the Eastern US, before a blight destroyed them. Restoration efforts began in 1985, with story-telling as a key component. It's the most far reaching example of trees in public history in a new essay collection: 1/x barnraisingmedia.com/the-trees-at...
Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Imagine thinking scientists, historians, scholars, economists, and journalists devoted their lives to deceiving you — but a reality-TV star, proven in court to be a lying felon, is your beacon of truth and honesty.”
“I was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that island… and I was not the only girl on that island… Ghislaine must die in prison, because I’ve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.” Listen to the survivors.
Wonder how we got into this mess? It’s stories like these that normalize authoritarianism with “fun” takes on Trump taking on “dream” roles. Major media fail. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Because the ghost of Roy Cohn haunts us all…
The History Museums We Need Right Now 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
The maddest someone has ever gotten at me was when I talked about the child sized manacles Jefferson had at Monticello for 9 year old children. They could not cope with the idea that a child the same age as their child had been enslaved. And it made them angry that I made them know facts
RIP Terence Stamp If you’ve never seen THE LIMEY, correct that immediately
The traitorous Trump capitulates to Putin, then threatens Americans with our own military troops. This is not a real president.
politicalwire.com/2025/08/16/w...
Time…science…truth. What’s the big deal? Quitchyabitchin…
We’re happy for you to not be here if it’ll make you feel better. Need cab fare?
Sink the Bismarck was required 6th grade reading. Not the best boat to hold up as a symbol of strength, actually.
They really do wish they were powerful enough to take over entire blue cities, replace duly elected officials, and do whatever the hell they want. They are not.
We still know a lot about grass…
I can’t overstate how dangerous this is. ‘White House reviewing Smithsonian exhibits to make sure they align with Trump’s vision’ Translation: Donald Trump and his administration are continuing their assault on Black history, and on any history that doesn’t center and glorify the white man…
Fascists Come For the Culture: Trump Takeover of the Kennedy Center Honors Trump and MAGA are incapable of creating a relevant & meaningful culture, so they must rig the system, appropriate our institutions, & cheat because they can't compete with the rest of us. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
I had to go get coffee this morning cause I was out. The horror…
Masked strangers with guns in my hometown isn’t fascism? And that’s not “patrolling.” That’s swaggering.
Who’s his pastor?