| Forwarded this newsletter? Subscribe here. | Good morning and happy Sunday! The upcoming eclipse season is said to come with a theme of closure and release, asking us to let go of illusions, outdated attachments and cycles that no longer serve us. It feels apt as I create more space to perform as a magician, so you’ll notice that I’m spending less time writing and hosting events as my upcoming tour approaches. | How are you using this season to release? What are you calling in for the rest of this year, and the new one that’s approaching? Let me know by replying to this email – I’d love to hear! You can use the CHANI app to learn more about what the season means for you. | Also, so many of you have shared what you’re reading and this list is INCREDIBLE. So keep going – tell me what your favorite read of the summer has been, and I’ll share them later this week! | This newsletter is powered by our readers. Here’s how you can support me and my team’s work: | Make a one-time or monthly donation on our website, PayPal or Venmo (@reimaginednews). You can always manage your subscription here. Sponsor an upcoming issue
| In solidarity,
Nicole
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| | Three ways to rally for banned books! | | As my magic career grows, I’ve had to make space, and chose to shut down Banned Books Book Club in response. I know this work continues through incredible organizations and initiatives. Here’s how you can keep fighting for banned books: | Explore socialjusticebooks.org. The team at Teaching for Change has curated over 100 lists of multicultural and social justice books for children, young adults, and educators. A percentage of each book purchased on this site helps to sustain their work. Read > Donate to NDN Girls Book Club. Support this 501 (c)3 literary organization that hosts free community workshops for Native people, especially Native youth & girls. Donate > Join Noname Book Club. With dozens of chapters hosting events around the world and a powerful program sending books to jails and prisons, this book club founded by rapper Noname provides ways to learn and unlearn virtually and IRL. Learn more >
| | |  | Attendees of an event featuring Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University flee for cover after he had been shot. Source: NBC News |
| “The Kind of Event I Was Warning About”: Charlie Kirk and Our Era of Political Violence. As belligerent rhetoric takes over political discourse, experts raise alarms about the risk of further bloodshed. Vanity Fair > | Trump attacks on workers’ rights is an attack on public health. An urgent read on how Trump’s dismantling of worker rights and protections undermines worker health. The Forge > | ‘They are hunting us:’ Child care workers in D.C. go underground amid ICE crackdown. In Washington, D.C., where close to 40 percent of child care workers are immigrants, fear has taken hold amid a crime crackdown that has raised ICE presence. Many are missing work, deepening a staffing shortage in the industry. 19th News > | These 59 companies fought the anti-trans bathroom bill in 2016. In 2025, they’re silent. Companies like TD Bank, American Airlines, and Nike fought North Carolina’s discrimination against transgender people. They aren’t doing the same in Texas. The Intercept > | Israel demolished 50 high-rises in two days. Will my apartment building be next? My bag is packed, but I have nowhere to flee. I live in fear as I watch residential towers fall around me. Truthout > | Trump’s fixation on urban crime ignores worsening rural violence. Public health researchers say the premise behind the president’s federal intervention in D.C. disregards key progress, and sidelines critical suicide prevention efforts. The Trace > | The Real Story Behind “India’s Greta Thunberg”. A young climate activist gets mixed up in Hindu nationalist politics. Lux Magazine > | Facing defunding, Indigenous cultural workers say they cannot be suppressed. The proposed elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities threatens Indigenous libraries and arts programs. Here’s how leaders are responding. Truthout > | Fight night in a Texas prison. “The officers are waiting for me with wolfish grins. I know that something is not right.” Xandan Gulley writes about the inhumanity of “gauntlets” at a Texas women’s prison. Scalawag > | Journalists say U.S. newsrooms treat Palestine with fear and contempt. A monthslong Prism investigation reveals pro-Israel bias at the leadership levels of mainstream U.S. newsrooms, which intensified after Oct. 7, 2023. Prism > | How a $5 billion federal project could sink New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward forever. Decades after Betsy and Katrina, the community faces another threat — a canal proposal promising “progress” that could threaten its survival. Capital B News > | New Mexico will be the first state to make child care free. The program, which will start in November and is expected to save families $12,000 per child annually, is available to all residents regardless of income. |
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