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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period." ERIN REED FEB 25, 2026 88 5 21 Share Kansas Sate Capitol // farzinvousoughian

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses.

Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked.

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Jesse Jackson’s - Wattstax Music Festival Opening Speech (1972) YouTube video by Nightloop

I. AM. SOMEBODY. ✊🏽

Rest in Power, Reverend Jesse Jackson.

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If you'd like to read "Phantom View," it's up for free right here: reactormag.com/phantom-view...

The Public Scholar Workshop - How to Get Started, How to Get Better

My nerds: I'm BEYOND thrilled that my org, @qside.bsky.social, is cosponsoring this active learning event. "The Public Scholar Workshop - How to Get Started, How to Get Better." Sign up, spread the news, amplify your work. (Also... share!)

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

🚨 New research: FIRST EVER county-level study of racial disparities at the arrest-to-court transition in CA. In county after county, arrests of Black & Hispanic individuals reach court at far lower rates than those of white ones. People burdened with records for cases never worth filing. #LawSky

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

Around the world, politicians and businessmen are resigning from their positions because of the Epstein Files.

Except in the United States.

Here: Zero shame, zero consequences.

We need resignations, investigations, impeachments, and punishments now. Should have been years ago.

Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’

"Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’"
"Scrutiny of university classrooms is being formalized, with new laws requiring professors to post syllabuses and tip lines for students to complain."
Gift link 🎁
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"Things now are better than might have been expected... if the measure of success is the extent to which funding was restored, then perhaps the quiet approach has been validated."

Dr. Thorp may be celebrating too soon.

A graph showing that the US has the highest incarceration rate among founding NATO countries. Source: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2024.html

While the U.S. goes for gold & aims to be the best at the Olympics, it's already #1 among independent democracies when it comes to mass incarceration – and that’s nothing to celebrate.

So much for the “land of the free.”

Important paper. Schools are high-risk environments for respiratory disease transmission MAINLY because classrooms are underventilated. This problem has a workable solution - it just needs political will. Air quality is as important as water quality for public health. MT @martinmckee.bsky.social

Logo of the American Mathematical Society featuring blue text and a dotted arc in blue, orange, and gray.

The National Science Foundation has indicated that, as of February 4, 2026, they are not yet prepared to announce their fellowship recipients. While the NSF stated that results might be released in the coming weeks, this delay places both job-seekers and hiring institutions in a difficult position.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Can comfirm from MN, as can anyone who lives here, that not a THING has changed except little Bovino isnt peacocking around the streets anymore. And there hasn’t been a third high-profile murder of a white person yet.

But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...

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Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution January 30 of Every Year "Stand up for what is right!" www.korematsuinstitute.org

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand that CBP be banned from squaring the circle, trisecting angles with straightedge and compass.

Rice students expose ICE raids with new interactive map It's a nationwide digital spotlight on ICE arrests and detention centers.

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Accessible course materials question: I want to use some websites as resources for my class. We all know websites can and do often change, so how can I archive accessible copies to use?

Every few years someone tries to declare that particle physics is dead because it’s different from what it used to be and right now that feels a lot like people saying the academy is dying and has lower standards because it’s diversified

They seem like different phenomena but they are connected 🧵

I've been representing protesters pro bono since Trump 1.0. In that time, I've represented protesters against the Muslim ban, ICE, trans bans, DEI bans, genocide in Occupied Palestine, police brutality, and more.

Want to know why more people don't protest? Here's why.

There are more than 66,000 people watching this training right now

This is terrible! I’m so sorry to hear this, BK

The Congresswoman Criminalized for Visiting ICE Detainees LaMonica McIver went to tour an immigration jail in her district. Now she faces seventeen years in prison.

The Congresswoman Criminalized for Visiting ICE Detainees

LaMonica McIver went to tour an immigration jail in her New Jersey district. Now she faces seventeen years in prison.
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President Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act into law on August 14, 1935, with Perkins among those witnessing the signing (third from right) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Signing_Of_The_Social_Security_Act.jpg

1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement:

She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵

There is a Grokipedia article about me (and I assume anyone else who has a Wikipedia page about them) and well that was quite an interesting read (over 5,000 words).

Let's fact check it, shall we...

Deadly Minneapolis Encounter Is the 9th ICE Shooting Since September

This is the ninth shooting by ICE since September (I did not know that). All of them were into vehicles.

2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?

Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.

Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!