🥹 Happy birthday, Gigi Bryant! The world misses you 💜💛

#MambacitaForever

📹: Vanessa Bryant, Proud Mom of Gianna Bryant

We use Trupanion pet insurance. We have for the last 12 years. Yesterday, we submitted a claim for our dog’s medicine, and by this morning, we were already notified the claim had been processed, and the funds were on the way. If only human health insurance was this humane.

Plot Twist! #NBAPlayoffs

If Donald Trump becomes president again, it wouldn't be as bad as it was last time.

It would be much, much worse.

Read about his plans, as he describes them in new TIME interviews, and take them seriously. time.com/6972021/donald…

This essay by Dashka Slater, author of THE 57 BUS and ACCOUNTABLE, is so good.
Nuanced and thoughtful. Please consider taking a few moments to read it.
dashkaslater.substack.com/p/resigned?r=d…

Last week, a PA school board canceled a May anti-bullying speech by Maulik Pancholy, a gay, Indian man, citing his 'lifestyle.' Join us tomorrow at 10aET, when Pancholy returns with the happy ending to this story. #Velshi

If only leaders and law enforcement employed such tactics with Nazis and white supremacists rather than students and peaceful protesters.

My friend Lydia wrote an extraordinary post for The New York Times. I hope you'll consider taking a few moments this weekend to read it.

nytimes.com/2024/04/26/opi…

When it's your turn to bring in a favorite book and you choose this 🏳️‍🌈Phil Bildner🏳️‍🌈 🙌

An update from Maulik Pancholy in response to the Cumberland Valley School District school board’s 5-4 decision to reinstate his author visit to Mountain View Middle School.

A statement from EveryLibrary in response to the Cumberland Valley School District school board's 8-0 decision to cancel Maulik Pancholy’s author visit to Mountain View Middle School because of his 'lifestyle' and 'activism.'
everylibrary.org/pancholystatem…

Friends - the work of the community in support students and educators - EXTRAORDINARY. Cumberland Valley School District in PA - these parents and grandparents, and just friends are standing up to a horrible decision by their BOE everylibrary.org/pancholystatem…

A statement from EveryLibrary in response to the Cumberland Valley School District school board's 8-0 decision to cancel Maulik Pancholy’s author visit to Mountain View Middle School because of his 'lifestyle' and 'activism.'
everylibrary.org/pancholystatem…

So many young people simply are not going to vote for President Biden.
No, they’re not going to vote for the other guy. They’re simply not going to vote. I really don’t think President Biden’s campaign fully understands how big this problem is.

Please take a few moments to watch Maulik Pancholy on Velshi on MSNBC speaking about being disinvited to Mountain Valley Middle School by an 8-0 vote by the school board of the Cumberland Valley School District. Ali Velshi
msnbc.com/ali-velshi/wat…

Please take a few moments to watch Maulik Pancholy on Velshi on MSNBC speaking about being disinvited to Mountain Valley Middle School by an 8-0 vote by the school board of the Cumberland Valley School District. Ali Velshi
msnbc.com/ali-velshi/wat…

“The Best At It” is a semi-autobiographical story of identity and acceptance from a 7th grade perspective, featured on the #Velshi BannedBookClub last July. This week, author Maulik Pancholy was disinvited from an anti-bullying event at a PA school. He joins me 11aET. #Velshi

50 years ago today, my dad took me to my first ever New York Mets game. We sat in the mezzanine at old Shea Stadium. The Mets won 5-2. Jerry Koosman tossed a complete game five-hitter. Wayne Garrett hit a home run. Ya gotta believe! SNY Mets

A letter from the Superintendent and nine other district administrators from the Cumberland Valley School District to the school community in response to the the school board’s 8-0 decision to cancel Maulik Pancholy’s author visit with the students of Mountain View Middle School.