An audience member asked me about leftist pronatalism.

Some members of my doctoral cohort are super “wait until course evaluation time” & it GIVES ME THE ICK. We’re all professional educators; you can’t send an email / set up a conference to explain why things aren’t working for you? BE AN ADULT. And yes, they are.

Happy ‘Sinners’ Day! One year ago, Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners,’ released in theaters.

Burrowing Owl on the ground making sure visitors read the sign!!! #birdoftheday birds on the ground photo by David Chernoff

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Oh good, you're awake. Welcome to America, the year is 2026 and we're setting oil on fire until gas gets cheaper

Ramadan has officially ended. Eid Mubarak! Hoping that we take the lessons of Ramadan into the year and that we offer more compassion to each other and commit to lessening suffering how we can.

I just made myself sad - I was thinking it'd be nice for Eid to do something new & make a little signal boost post for Muslim artists and writers and developers and creators, and then I hesitated because I know there's a real risk and threat in making a nice easy-to-collate list of Muslim creators.

LIVE: Eid prayer at the Grand Mosque in Mecca Worshippers gather at the Grand Mosque in Mecca for the Eid prayer that marks the end of Ramadan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_43...

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

"She’s still there, waiting for safety. Waiting for softness. Waiting for someone to finally say, “It’s okay. You don’t have to hold this anymore.”" medium.com/@maerssonall...

I also recommend turning off automatic updates.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Asking because the use of "occupation" seems odd to me when there are clear examples of U.S. occupation worldwide. There are clear threats of U.S. occupation right now.

Genuine curiosity.. is it occupation if its our own federal government and ICE agents who are part of the same communities they are oppressing? Or is this the Jim Crow era policies people voted for?

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely. That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.

My Mexican neighbors sometimes play music well into the early morning hours. My academic colleague commented that I should call the police on them. I said, I'm an abolishinst. Thier response, "couldn't be me" and this is how mental health providers can uphold oppression.

I'm shocked by the business as usual vibes conferences and overall higher education is continuing.

Pinning your hopes on police orgs breaking with ICE is not sound thinking. sherrilyn.substack.com/p/whether-it...

DOJ is still violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Hannity has a Fox reporter in Minneapolis talk to a random protester walking through the city who goes on to spit bars for 2 minutes

👏👏👏👏👏👏

Hearing people say the "left" lacks institutional power gives me the ick. They want us to believe they are different while they all give us the same solutions that keeps us stuck in hell.

I'll take mornings page. Anything over people telling us all their thoughts. It's okay to keep some things to yourself

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said. That is called murder when they do that. Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

Everything about today feels like 2020 again... Everyone is sick, and the police/ICE are killing people. The only difference is that people have stopped calling things "unprecedented" because we've already seen this play.

it is understandable to be doomscrolling right now, but maybe try and do something else in 10 minutes? sometimes a timer helps or putting your phone in another room. You still deserve time to rest and recover.

On Substack, someone said the next world war will be the world against the United States. I've been thinking about that all day.

People will say this was one bad agent... yet history reminds us that there is a list of all the people who came before. All the times we could have had a revolution, and instead turned away.

I keep thinking about how this was blocks away from where the video captured George Floyd's final moments. Six years later, it seems we haven't learned anything.

Looking back, everyone will one day realize that all that woke stuff was right. Unfortunately, being right won’t erase the suffering.

A clear reminder that nothing protects you. Not your identity, not your citizenship, not free speech, and currently not the constitution. At any moment, time, day, or night, this could always be you. To think otherwise could cost you more than your freedom.

Watching people with POWER lower their standards, throw out their ethical standards, and rewrite historical events when video evidence exists while standing on a pedestal to tell everyday citizens that they are the change we need is CRAZY WORK. Not reporting the facts is a continuous choice.

Yes, and for me, this feels deeper than institutional power or bad actors. I'm seeing "leaders" using slogans to gain votes and traction while actively voting against change in the name of keeping their seats.

Defund the police Abolish ICE Black lives matter Silence = death No means no I don't think the left has a problem with communicating our goals and ideas. They are direct and unambiguous to anyone *operating in good faith*

A bar.....

WTF is happening.....

Being responsible and accountable on social media can also mean not sharing videos or graphic content on your platform. Not everyone needs to see video evidence to believe this is possible. I haven't watched a video since Eric Garner, I only needed to see one to know what is possible.

Make it viral.

If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it," Zora Neale Hurston

"Hope is not a course of action." 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Paul Rieckhoff dropping lines tonight

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

This is Herschel. She spent 15 minutes at the gym before deciding to switch her New Year's resolution to self acceptance. 12/10 (IG: cfsbk)

This looks like 1,000 videos I've seen from authoritarian states