done watching basketball …

Ahh, yes, that familiar feeling …

my chest …

My blood pressure …

One nitpick: I don’t know if Coogi was poppin’ like that in ‘92

OMG SINNERS …

They don’t want race used taught, or studied in higher Ed, or K12, AND are upset that a Smithsonian museum claims that race is a social construct and not a biological trait 🤔

So universities cannot take race into account, but then … 🤔

Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.

A judge said Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia graduate whose arrest by ICE sparked outrage, couldn't be deported without a court order.

Now hold on just a minute:

They are doing so much destruction down there, across the board …

My kind of carrying on …

Did not know this was Angie Stone … foundational hip hop … RIP: open.spotify.com/track/1Q0oJ2...

LFG!!! 😍

Chicago native Eve L. Ewing’s new book, ‘Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism,’ drops today. Check out our interview with her. thetriibe.com/2025/02/eve-...

Arrested for selling books … Owners of East Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop arrested and their store ransacked … “Police said they had seized eight books and needed time to investigate further, including reading the books.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Come join us 👇🏾 registration link: bit.ly/3PJkjkx

Everyone posts this speech on MLK day … as they should (pt 1/3)

"G.M. monitored and sold people’s precise geolocation data and driver behavior information, sometimes as often as every three seconds,” Lina M. Khan, chair of the F.T.C. “With this action, the F.T.C. is safeguarding Americans’ privacy and protecting people from unchecked surveillance.”

Starred review for Eve L. Ewing’s new book 😍 www.publishersweekly.com/9780593243701

Does anyone know what the best source is for US presidential voting results by race and gender?

People are demanding that Israel release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the Kamal Adwan Hospital director who's become the voice for Gaza's health sector.

Update RE ASSA/AEA Anna conference: The hotel workers and owners have reached agreements. aaronsojourner.org/hotel-worker... h/t: @aaronsojourner.org

This line: Alice’s agent … asked Alice, “Have we arrived at the basement yet?” Alice said no and joked that there was, in fact, a “sub-basement.” (content warning: child abuse/SA) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Hold the phone … Rudolph is Donner’s kid? I somehow missed that …

Not gonna hold you … Rah Digga: still got it, Treach: still got it …

“Someday at Christmas men won't be boys Playing with bombs like kids play with toys One warm December our hearts will see A world where men are free” - Stevie Wonder

Nikki Giovanni wrote a poem for all of y’all called “When I Die” …

COINTELPRO was nonpartisan? … 🤔 … maybe bipartisan …

The technical term for this move is “some BS” … the only tax program that scored higher in reviews from users was the pre-populated tax return pilot in California … also targeted by massive for-profit tax preparer lobbying …

If you haven’t seen it, Rada Studio made a nice documentary with Nikki Giovanni, it can be streamed on HBOMAX: radastudio.org/going-to-mars/ RIP

"I don't think I'm allowed to kill something because I am frightened." —Nikki Giovanni 💔 #poem #poems #poetry

Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.

51 lectures over 9 weeks 😩

Legal commentary on today’s Supreme Court hearing 👇🏾

On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI

Guys, this website is still down …

For once, my procrastination in booking my conference travel has served a valuable purpose … this blog post has info for those who wish to avoid crossing picket lines at the AEA/ASSA conference

Got AEA & ASSA emails this morning abt hotel workers striking in SF? Want to figure out what it means & what your options are? See this analysis @shirkandsteal.bsky.social @jennifercohen.bsky.social & me, & our call to support 3 small ASSA policy changes #EconSky aaronsojourner.org/hotel-worker...

I'm at the National Assembly building. The army is here. And I just saw two soldiers in fatigues getting pushed around by belligerent ajusshis. and they looked legit scared.

Overleaf being down is kind of a national security threat …

If I’m POTUS, I’m Magic Johnson with the pardons …

The interesting question, to me, RE presidential pardons is that it kinda calls into question the legitimacy of incarceration … how could incarceration be just & it be ok for the president to pardon? And if you are ok with some pardons, why not others? Can the president pardon all federal inmates?

Letter of rec prompts: “Please rank this applicant relative to all sentient beings to ever roam this planet …” 🔘 Top 0.0 percent (potentially omniscient) 🔘 Top 0.001 percent (better than Einstein) 🔘 Top 5 percent (outstanding)

Wait, just learned from Bomani’s show that Woody Johnson’s (Jets owner) full name is … Robert Wood Johnson IV 😮

Doesn’t take much and would probably mean a lot to the families …

This guy on the Top Dog Law commercials … my goodness 😂