Diego Millan

I’m so deeply tired of the way people make every national and global atrocity about past and upcoming US elections.

On Parenthood and Genocide A new mother and scholar of forced displacement writes about Israel's mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza.

In Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Congo — mothers are mourning their babies.

Resharing this piece I wrote over two years ago because we’re still watching a genocide happen, watching even more parents mourn.

Women’s day includes these women too.

inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

there’s enough money to fund wars but apparently not enough to fund our educators & education system.

A shame when she pivoted to the duology, though I understand. I just wanted to see what she would have cooked up across a trilogy.

Thank you for the statement and book recs.

Until this country reckons with police and policing, nothing will improve.

textbook projection.

They are trying to raise a tremendous amount of money to keep their neighbors housed.

The terror continues. The need continues. The support must continue.

I also took note of this yesterday. It was austerity messaging and I'm like... no.

Hoping “http” somehow comes up

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

Ramadan Mubarak to all who observe. May the period bring clarity and peace. Last year was one of personal spiritual growth, which began with attending an iftar and later Eid celebration.

“We’re not a perfect people. Yet, we are called to a perfect mission. Our mission to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to house the homeless, to teach the illiterate, to provide jobs for the jobless, and to choose the human race over the nuclear race.”

Jessie Jackson
REST IN PEACE

The cover of Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life features the artist Xaviera Simmons standing in a creek wearing a green and white floral dress. A mountain and trees are in background. Book is on a blue shelf

Just received a pic of my book on shelf at hopscotch reading room in Berlin ❤️

Yikes. You gotta imagine that’s happening in so many online industries.

Time for our weekly reminder that there is only one ed tech investment that is proven to work, and it's hiring more teachers and paying them better.

what makes something "vulnerable to AI" is not the capacity of machines but the credulity of management.

so many elected officials have been waiting to put the dog whistles away and just state the racist xenophobic filth outright.

Wish granted!!!

Fund libraries and specifically librarians.

A research librarian at the LOC just helped me with locating a source that's no longer searchable on their site. Collections move/get renamed, etc. and it helps when an actual person can answer questions.

Anyway, the place where I am coming from whenever I write anything, anywhere is: we can live better than this, but that requires the will to change. The universe is too fucking fabulous for us to only know it through capitalism and white supremacy. That's what my posts and books are always about.

Book cover of ‘I Wonder as I Wander’ by Langston Hughes. A snowy park appears in black and white with an image of someone walking in the distance

Happy birthday Langston Hughes

Oh well

It's impossible to express how it feels to repeatedly live through the exact same cycles over and over and over again. The reformers just consistently fucking everyone over.

Alex Pretti’s dad: “He cared about people deeply & was very upset with what was happening...He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, he knew it was wrong, so he did participate in protests” apnews.com/article/immi...

It's also about convincing you that they impose reality and that they are the final arbiters of truth. Hence the importance of continuing to name reality and truth ourselves, at every single turn, with all that is available to us.

“They want violence” no they very explicitly want compliance and acquiescence and if you don’t give it to them they will fucking murder you

After the massive protests against ICE despite freezing temps of course this would be the response.