remember, a college student who gets an F because she wrote "because Jesus says so" in an essay she didn't do any reading for is tyranny but a dean losing her new job because of her beliefs is freedom. what are you not getting about this.

We can finally try to address White Supremacy and patriarchy within the foundation of our culture, or we can all die with boots on our neck. But those are really the only choices at the end of the day

Whole country is running on abuser logic. Teliing a victim of abuse not to do certain things so they don't get hit doesn't actually prevent them from being hit in the future

When I first got exposed to this history and realized these were the same critiques being made of a lot of Black organizing taking place in 2014 everything clicked into place for me re:intersectionality and identity

Listening to @saracentury.bsky.social and @attackerman.bsky.social talk X-Factor #18 & now I'm thinking about the parallels between Xavier suppressing Jean's powers when she is younger & thus her being unprepared for Phoenix as metaphor for currently under-educating kids in a fascist/AI/misinfo era.

It's the Nelly, Hot In Here approach, "I'm just kiddin like Jason.... Unlessyougonedoit"

in general, a lot of doomerism on this website boils down to, "they are going to start treating us like black people, and i believe the marginalization of black people is immutable destiny"

Ahhhhh I gotta lock back in for a bit

What do all of the super wealthy and privileged people hand-wringing over the insurrection act being invoked daily actually think will tangibly change if/when that happens? Are people going to start getting shot in the street? Cause uh...

How did we end up in a society that requires more courage on a day-to-day basis from everyday parents and senior citizens than it does from elected officials and agents of law enforcement? Pathetic

So safe to say that the pivot towards more feckless and less honest rhetoric that went on during the latter half of the campaign in 2024 was at least partially signed off on by Tim huh? This is someone who is scared shitless. And like yeah, it is a scary situation, but you ran for fucking governor

You're right, it's also because it's asymmetrical. If you want to exercise 1A rights by advocating for anti-Black or anti-trans policies you get a police escort onto campus. If you don't think Palestine should be bombed you get the shit beat out of you. Not everyone sees the issue here

This is nothing new. I mean there's a reason MLK wrote that letter from a Birmingham Jail. The state can been criminalizing protest it doesn't like forever.

You're right because Occupy was the point where it became okay to not even engage w/ what (White) protestors or activists were saying in favor of making jokes about them being unemployed. The Bundys & all of their guns are still legitimate in the eyes of the power structure in a way that OWS wasn't.

"Mutant residents in his city are asking local law enforcement to aid in resisting the Sentinels 'on the street', but the officers simply don't have the technology to do so". That's how this sounds to me.

To me this was THE takeaway for anyone who was paying attention in 2020-2021.

Very similiar to the dynamic a century ago when police forces would direct White mobs in the middle of labor disputes into Black neighborhoods to blow off steam aka beat the hell out of Black people

Wild thing is, the Dems then lost the house and senate after record police funding, then lost again after funding an apartheid police state.

We are three weeks from a "Wrestlemania to be held in Iran in 2028, Great Khali expected to headline Hall of Fame class" headline

Either Palestine becomes free, or every place gradually becomes Gaza.

The anti-DEI bullshit has always been simple racism barely even repackaged. Erasing Dr. Kings legacy was always one of the goals. We pretend that the segregationists lost. But any defeat was temporary and they currently control all three branches of government.

There isn't a single ounce of evidence that refutes this claim

Just finished Ultimates #20. I truly believe that @denizcamp.bsky.social is in the middle of the type of run people will be mythologizing a decade from now

The whole country is running on abuser logic right now

That book and "Wages of Whiteness" will wake a lot of people's game up if they engage with them in good faith

Members of Congress should be openly stating right now that military action against Greenland will result in impeachment and removal of the President and the Vice President.

This week's pulls

They also made schools worse. To make you more manipulable. But I don't wanna get into the details on all that right now. Yes it was an effort led by Republicans. Yes it succeeded along the exact dog whistle laden line of thinking you are imagining. Yes it harmed us all.

IDK if people are talking about Kai Cenat's public reading journey, but he's using his power for good. A lot of people can't read. At least not at what we consider adequate levels. And it is not their fault. Society as a whole severely pulled away from literacy advocacy.

this, driving a person to suicide because they had the temerity to want to work in public service, is what russ vought hoped to accomplish

Do you understand why when Dems come into my mentions to defend this party I treat them as sad clowns? How many more of these will it take?

Folks gotta stop thinking about the US as a melting pot and think more of it as a parfait

Yall really need to internalize this, don't ever sign up for a protest

Im eavesdropping but as someone who does have tangible memories of the 90's, I think this distinction between millenials and Gen Z is brilliant

It's okay to log-off or save uninformed takes for the group chat

Preordering today

Whenever someone is talking DC comics I can never remember which Tom author is the one I enjoy for their style and which Tom is the one who used to torture people for the CIA. I often wonder if I am the only person who endures this struggle

Me and the kid will be hitting my LCS in a few hours so time to watch @bjkicks.bsky.social 's latest video

When I explain this to students I say "You know why you can't put minority rights on the ballot? Because they are inherently MINORITY rights. If you let White people vote as to whether slavery would end, there'd be slavery today".

They literally will turn around and dismiss the Black movements as "leaderless" or "lacking theory" while simultaneously having never read any Harris, Robinson, Wilkerson, etc. & the gaps show in their theory, just totally ignoring the roles of power & identity. See: Anytime Bernie talks about race

Reminded of organizers in Portland distributing flyers warning against Black protesters being “swoopers” distracting from the movement amid the Floyd protests, arguing me down about them being undercovers, and all the subsequent reporting showing white people were the main undercover officers there.

Has anyone talked about how the push to debase ourselves at the altar of AI integration has made an already perilous reality regarding accessibility and structural ableism in higher education basically untenable for instructors who sincerely care about inclusive and equitable access?

What would you get a seven year old who is really getting into arr for their birthday?

Who is primarying you? I can't wait to donate from across the country

The de facto position of the Trump administration is that it's occupying forces are allowed to mock and belittle American citizens, and also allowed to kill citizens who mock and belittle them.

What would you get a seven year old who is really getting into arr for their birthday?

The Lakers have been driving me insane but the optimistic slant is they are just a couple of wins away from being in a great spot for a team missing their second best player

I'm sure all of the free speech Charlie K warriors are on this obvious violation of first amendment rights

we should want to make it undeniable that there is no choice but to end ICE, prosecute its officers for lawbreaking, and fundamentally rethink immigration enforcement.

this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)