It’s been 30+ years since a federal law began requiring museums, universities & agencies to begin returning human remains and funerary objects to Native American tribes. Here are some institutions still holding thousands: 🧵👇

The LAPD murdered Keenan Anderson. A beloved high school English teacher and father who FLAGGED THEM DOWN FOR HELP after a car accident. He was a threat to no one. He needed help and it cost him his life. The LAPD must be held accountable for this at all costs. #KeenanAnderson

Keenan Anderson—a 31-year-old high school teacher & father—stopped LA police for help after an accident. They instead cuffed him, pinned him, & tased him repeatedly as he begged them to stop. Keenan died of cardiac arrest from excessive tasing. His crime—asking police for help.

⏰ new Teen Vogue ⏰ beyond excited to share my interview NYC Tw*tterati Andrea Ritchie also @dreanyc123.bsky.social about No More Police The New Press “You're not an island, and you have got to be in a place where you understand that other people's lives matter as much as yours.” teenvogue.com/story/mariame-…

I don’t know y’all, a private citizen executed a 13 year old Black boy for allegedly breaking into a car here in DC and a DC-based Black school teacher was tased to death by LAPD while visiting CA. Right now it’s hard to go into MLK weekend feeling anything but grief.

Really sad, devastating news. A water pipe burst on Friday and ruined a LOT of books at Third World Press, the country's oldest Black-owned publishing company. They've launched a flood fund to get back on their feet. Please consider donating. gofundme.com/f/flood-fund-f…

To everyone complaining abt College Board's AP AfAm Studies catering to Florida, here to tell you, this is not a 1st for them. They've done this time and again, w/APUSH in 2014-15, with AP World a couple of yrs later. #CollegeBoard is abt making bank, not cutting-edge education.

you have to scroll down A LOT on *some* of the top US news sites to find a story about how the white nationalist who killed 23 people and injured dozens more in el paso in an attempt to "stop" the "hispanic invasion" pleaded guilty today to 90 counts of federal hate crimes

On February 3, a horrifying railroad accident took place. A Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. You might've seen images of the flames, but you probably haven't heard that unions were trying to prevent this exact accident. 🧵

Today in State Housing Laws Getting The Goods: the first Builder's Remedy project in the Bay Area is a 20-unit apartment complex in Los Altos Hills, which currently only allows mansions, and is one of the top 10 wealthiest towns in the entire country mercurynews.com/2023/02/13/hom…

Caltrans crews are clearing snow from lanes and responding to multiple downed trees on Highway 17 this morning in the Santa Cruz Mountains. No estimated time for reopening. #hwy17 #SantaCruzMountains

I love when nature makes paintings... #AroundStockton Emily Brandt Mark Grossi

The staff of the Texas Observer have set up a GoFundMe to ask for help after the board voted to shutter the magazine. Please give if you can’t and share even if you can’t. gofundme.com/f/laid-off-tex…

This is one of the most alarming trends in US politics: the Right is just removing political opponents from office, and it's happening quite a lot with reform DAs or other people trying to scale back criminalization

Welp—Remember how CDC claimed there was no “outbreak” at their CDC conference 3 weeks ago? ➡️Now we learn 181 cases of #COVID19 arose of 1800+ CDC staffers/guests…. So basically 1 in 10 folks at a single CDC conference caught COVID. Yet Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH Walensky dismantles

An Iowa student invented a infection-detecting suture. Now she's a CEO. fantastic young woman and product of public school! Iowa City West High! thank you public schools! desmoinesregister.com/in-depth/news/…

I don’t think we talk enough about the long term political implications of the Black exodus out of NYC. When a large swath of deep blue voters continually leave Northeast for blue dots in red states, their political influence is diluted. I talk about that w/ Margaret Kimberley.

He put this as succinctly — and irrefutably — as one can put it. Shouldn’t be courageous to say it when becoming the first Black anything in an organization, and yet it is courageous. Colorblindness is nothing but willful blindness.

“Don’t take a look, inside that book. It’s Banned Book Rainbow.” tiktok.com/t/ZT8vGH9NX/