Mind you Cuba is literally just some island nation that has never launched a military attack at us. The US has them under a blockade because wealthy americans don't like their economy. That's literally it.

From Puerto Rico, to Cuba, to Venezuela, to Palestine, to every other nation that the U.S. has invaded and oppressed, the greatest moral failure in American life is that the average citizen simply does not care what their government does to brown people around the world.

Daphy Michel’s death is heartbreaking. She should never have been left alone & vulnerable, far from her family & support system after her release from federal custody. Our communtiy is demanding answers. No one should ever be put in this kind of position.

The first victims of war are always disabled people. Thousands of Cuban dialysis patients are going to die because hemodialysis needs electricity. This, too is a genocide

I know, comparatively speaking, my work hasn’t been cited much, but I find it notable that two of my The Chronicle of Higher Education articles have been cited almost as much as my scholarly work. academics: don’t ever let anyone tell you writing for the public doesn’t count.

MUST READ: A bombshell NYT investigation shows that Cesar Chavez sexually abused young girls. Dolores Huerta also discloses for first time that that Chavez raped her. So much more from Manny Fernandez and Sarah Hurtes —> nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/…

New: Dolores Huerta writes lengthy statement following The New York Times investigation into Cesar Chavez. Huerta says she had sexual encounters with Chavez resulting in 2 children. “I have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farm worker movement…”

For decades, First Nations people in British Columbia knew their ancestral homes—villages forcibly emptied in the late 1800s—were great places to forage for traditional foods like hazelnuts, crabapples, cranberries, and hawthorn.⁠ ⁠ A 2021 study revealed that isolated patches

Striking UAW members at NYU just won the highest minimum salaries of any unionized full-time, non-tenure track faculty in the United States. Amazing.

Transgender Day of Visibility is about recognition, respect, and belonging. Pittsburgh is committed to being a city where everyone can show up as their full, authentic self.

The first amendment apparently protects the right to force children into conversion therapy but not the right of a professor in Texas to give a talk off campus about the mass murder of Palestinians

People who say that unions are too extreme don’t realise that the union was the peaceful compromise.

BREAKING: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is being sold to The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, the same nonprofit that owns the Baltimore Banner, sources inside a Post-Gazette meeting tell me. The P-G was set to close May 3 but appears now to be preserved. More details tk

Finding that the Pennsylvania Constitution "guarantees a fundamental right to reproductive autonomy," the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania voted 4-3 on Monday to rule the state's ban on public funding for abortion unconstitutional.

no more funny than analyzing survey data from people you have never had any interaction with and passing it off as objective knowledge while you claim to be an expert on said group

Virginia voters approve redistricting plan that could boost Democrats’ seats in Congress apnews.com/article/virgin…

In America we have a personal development section the size of my living room because there is no systemic analysis in the cult of the individual. Got a problem? It’s probably your Lifestyle Choices.

George Washington looking up from Hell shaking his head smh

This SCOTUS rulings so far •Universities using race criteria to counter historical racism in admissions is unconstitutional, BUT •ICE fascists using race criteria to target people of color is constitutional, BUT •State legislatures using race criteria to counter historical