Jay Martin

When one people, impelled to declare all are equal with certain rights, life, liberty and happiness, we hold these truths! Secure these rights! Government from consent and organizing, it is our right!

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." -Frederick Douglass America is turning 250 and @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social, @50501movement.bsky.social & All of Us will be in D.C. on 06/27 building towards the #Next250. 🇺🇸 Join us and RSVP here: next250.us/rsvp

June 15, 1776: Delaware is the latest colony to effectively declare itself an independent state. The Assembly decide it’s necessary to establish a new, nonroyal government and orders that all officials continue their roles in the name of the colony, rather than the crown. 1/2

For Flag Day

For Flag Day

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The Friends of the Library in Merced, California, are having an auction. They will ship. www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

When Trump listed how many days other wars had lasted, and how his war had lasted only 32 days, it felt strange. I realized I was having déjà vu. Remember at the beginning of covid, when Trump said the number of cases would soon go down to zero? Or said it would be over by Easter?

Today is the 128th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship in U.S. v. Wong Ark Kim.

“Such persons“ as are “born in this country.” Not “to lawful permanent residents, as defined by a statutory regime that didn’t yet exist, pursuant to limitations invented by the Trump Administration and defended by two or three law profs in 2025.”

The first edition of the newly reborn Easterner student newspaper is LIVE!

A new analysis suggests at least half of arrests in San Francisco during the first ten months of President Trump’s administration occurred after private routine immigration appointments. Here is a look inside those appointments. missionlocal.org/2026/03/sf-i...

Future generations won’t believe these trees existed. They will read about 1,500-year-old cedars and 2,000-year-old redwoods and think we made them up—like dragons or griffins. But right now, we have the chance to make sure the story ends differently. Don’t let the last ancients become myths.

No Kings. Find your event for this Saturday, March 28th. www.nokings.org #NoKings

Trump is consuming the war in Iran at a level of abstraction that makes it impossible for him to understand the stakes. youtube.com/shorts/0XiCi... My latest in the month-long experiment in daily takes: Challeging perfectionism one messy short video at a time!

Kat Abughazaleh to @anamariecox.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com about what's next for her:

This thread by @peterdicampo.bsky.social is worth your time 🧵

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico jury finds Meta's platforms are harmful to children's mental health and imposes $375 million penalty.

A song for No Kings! youtube.com/shorts/5VCSD...

#AccidentalOrigami

The industrial policy that helped spawn the world's biggest semiconductor manufacturer traces directly back to the New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority asteriskmag.com/issues/13/th...

I like leaders who are not authoritarian thugs. I believe in FREE and FAIR elections. Pass it on.

#LunarEclipse FAQ: Q: Is it safe to look at? A: Absolutely! Unlike a solar eclipse, there's no UNsafe time to look at a lunar eclipse. Q: Do I need a telescope? A: Nope! Best view is with naked eye. Just look up! Q: Does the eclipse portend terror & doom? A: Not at all! The news has that covered.

This is fantastic! Robert Reich: How California Can Neuter “Citizens United” and Improve Democracy for Us All open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

#TBRuary: Long Covid, Short Story is available as a free download from the artist, dimitrea.com/resources/

Long Covid, Short Story is recent to my #TBR shelf, from a book fair in December. E. O. Wilson's book I've had much longer. He had one eye, so he counts towards today's #TBRuary.

The Grapes of Wrath. Always meant to read it. Going to read it. #TBDuary

From #AHAPerspectives in 2018: Zita Cristina Nunes described how Dorothy Porter successfully built @howard.edu's Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, one of the world’s leading repositories for Black history and culture, and the legacy of her work for contemporary scholars. 🗃️

"Maybe have going to happen" is how, if I remember, Ursula Le Guin described her history of a future local culture, Always Coming Home. It's been so long on my #TBR list I can't find my copy. Maybe I gave it to someone. I guess that puts it on my to-be-purchased list too. Thanks a lot, #TBRuary.

This is like something out of a horror movie, my god

Time travel books always hook me, and these short stories are really good. They go about as far back as possible, pre-dinosaur, to the age of the trilobites. You can probably tell I've read the first volume but not the second, so it's my #TBRuary book today, Silurian Tales by Steven Utley.

The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

Thanks to #TBRuary, tonight I flipped through this anthology by high school students. This weekend I'll finally read some of the 72 short essays in it. I've meant to for years.

Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved. DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.