Tomorrow marks the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. It also marks the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court first upholding the Voting Rights Act.
We have gotten so, so far away from a Court that cares about democracy.
New from me at @brennancenter.org:
The approximate cause of death for Anne Frank was the Nazis. The specific cause of death was the outbreak of Typhus at Bergen-Belsen camp, which overtook her (and others) from chronic malnutrition and medical abuse. These conditions are not, in character, unlike our system of immigration camps today
"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.
As Trump ramps up his warmongering with Iran, his own son-in-law Jared Kushner โ who is leading negotiations with Iran โ stands to profit from lucrative contracts with its regional rivals.
The Trump family's insatiable greed endangers us all.
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
Black and white photo of Porter seated at a desk in front of a row of bookshelves and a card catalog. She is a Black woman with shoulder length wavy hair. She is wearing a dark dress with white accents, and is reading a book which is open on her desk.
Dorothy Porter was a librarian at Howard University where she took a small collection of donated materials by and about Black Americans and curated it for 40 years into the 180,000 item Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. #BlackHistoryMonth
www.historians.org/perspectives...
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Right, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized.
And the vast majority of the worldโs records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.
My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens.
- Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide
-There's worms & mold in food
-300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows
www.propublica.org/article/life...
Being back in California has been interesting. Before leaving, I was sad to be going. Now that I'm back, I feel very lost? Not sure which way is the right way or even if I have professional or personal goals.
Taco over the plate of tacos.
One big taco with guacamole
View from Angeles Flight Railway
Some amazing blue corn tacos and small explorations of Grand Central Market and Angels Flight Railway a few days ago.
Read the Art Newspaper's piece about the growth of the Legacy Sites in Montgomery, Alabama.
Noodles and Kimchi
Cafe counter with blue. Heart decorations.
Just a little coffee run and picnic last weekend.
CNN in Minneapolis: We are seeing thousands and thousands of people, we've been standing on the corner here for the past ten minutes. This this crowd has not let up. It's just continuous.
Shun Medoruma is one of the most important contemporary Ryukyuan writers, especially since his 1997 Akutagawa win. His novel In the Woods of Memory was the first full-length work from Okinawa translated into English. Today, he spends more time as an environmental and peace activist than as a writer.
From the 2024 inaugural issue of the journal "Language in Japan." Michinori Shimoji (roots from Miyako) writes a guest paper, addressing the issue of whether the "first person" inclusive is really a first person category by examining Ryukyuan languages.
www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/lij/1...
Apparently there is another video of ICE murdering someone and so I will remind you, again, that you do not have to watch it in order to confirm the thing everyone already knows: ICE is a lawless group of thugs who are killing people who stand up for basic American rights.
ICE is sending these kids to the concentration camp in Dilley, Texas, where they're preparing to have so many children that they're opening a new school there. They're actively hiring teachers now. I reported on it last month. We have to get people out of there.
My new piece is up!
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Today let me draw your attention to another concerning passage in the IMLS NOFO.
They want projects that "explore innovative alternatives to traditional credentialing and librarian education [and] explore cutting edge tools and fresh topics in the content and provision of continuing education."
What books do you consider to be Pacific Islander classics? Books pictured: Island of Shattered Dreams by Chantal Spitz (Mฤโohi) The Crocodile by Vincent Eri (Papua New Guinea) Waimea Summer by John Dominis Holt (Kanaka Maoli) The Wreck/Lโรpave by Dรฉwรฉ Gorodรฉ (Kanak) The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera (Mฤori) Pouliuli by Albert Wendt (Samoan) Shark Dialogues by Kiana Davenport (Kanaka Maoli) Cousins by Patricia Grace (Mฤori)
What books do you consider to be Pacific Islander classics?
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From Okinawa to Singapore to NYC: Talk with Aya Rodriguez-Izumi, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, and Fang-Tze Hsu. JANUARY 14, 2026 at 5PM PST.
www.aaa-a.org/programs/fro...
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Happy Birthday!
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Better late than never!
Here's me 2026 nengajo!
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2 vertical 8.5 x 11 inch prints side by side on a green cut mat. the print on the left features a manta ray cut out against a blue background with green rocks framing the lower half of the piece. the print on the right features a taro patch in the rain.
first art of the year!!
This is so sweet!
Cecil Williams was a photographer from Orangeburg, South Carolina whose many photos recorded the Jim Crow south during the civil rights movement.
