ChatGPT, tell me what else the US could have done with $25 billion to invest in people instead of death and destruction.

Many things could be done to improve the world and the repeal of Citizen’s United is one of them.

‘Scientification,’ a new jargon term to wrestle with. On the one hand — the appeal to authority can purloin matters from the public sphere. On the other, it’s not as if scientific truth claims are spurious …

The Madonna revival of 2026 and what it portends.

My first tweet on twitter, if memory serves, asked whether the platform could be used for communicative reason, à la Habermas.

Could BlueSky be a place? Could it be non-addictive social media?

Palestinians voted on Saturday in the first elections held in part of Gaza in more than two decades, while tens of thousands of Palestinians cast ballots in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. https://to.pbs.org/3OKJ3fh

Ask a silly question…

The ghost note bene.

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A student presentation today shocked me: there are anti-trans laws or bills is 49 states. And Puerto Rico. That is more states than have an income tax.

Luminous evening with Jonathan Howard and M NourbeSe Phillip on “The Blueness of Blackness.”

“War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking into the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.” - George Orwell

Hope for humankind

An image that will go down in infamy.

Now that the US president has issued a genocidal threat to a sovereign nation amidst an undeclared illegal war, why not dive into this rich archive of anti-fascist writing, courtesy of the Yale Review? yalereview.org/fall-of-free...

I do not regret to inform you that we're gonna win

America is re-segregating right before my eyes. More and more places I go, I’m the only black person. This wasn’t always the case.

Just learned the post-New York story of Libby Howes at an event to launch Marc Robinson’s book about 1976: a year in the emergence of the American theatrical avant-garde.

Art as “second responder” — excellent editorial in the Chicago Tribune. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/23/o...

It’s been ages since I’ve felt impelled to live tweet an event, but the vibe at Omar Offendum takeover at BAM fisher is too good not to share with the universe.

The Wall Street Journal just found a gay neocon to deplore the word “queer”? What is this, 1993?

Someone from the Democratic Party just sent me a text saying they need $1 million by midnight lol what world are we living in and why is this happening to me?

On this BREAKFAST CLUB detention day anniversary, I want you to know I am still mad about this makeover after decades :) John Hughes, what did you have against cool goth girls?!

The Oscars weren’t on my radar until I heard the live hosts promise not to censor any live political speech from the stage, naming Gaza, Iran, and elsewhere. Now I’m all 👂

I emerge, out of nowhere, to tell all my (currently 0) followers that I HAVE PUBLISHED A BOOK! It's beautiful, it's amazing, and I love it! It's called Abnormal Peripheries and it's about performance in the former Czechoslovakia that emerged under political pressures. GO READ IT and share this post

This is everything

The AI arms race is akin to the Lord of Rings: everyone is trying to find “one ring to rule them all.”

Sen. Warren: The Trump administration can’t explain why we entered this war or what the goals are. One thing is clear: while there’s no money for the 15 million Americans who lost their health care, there’s $1 billion a day to spend on bombing Iran.

On a beautiful Spring day like this in New York, I only want to be doing one thing: Marching for Peace!

🌐 A little bit louder now🎵

I’m really struggling to imagine Congress without Rep Jasmine Crockett next year. We need more fighters, not fewer.

Re read Ordinary Notes on a flight to prepare for teaching it this week. What a gift from @hystericalblkns.bsky.social

Kennedy: Goddamn fool. Charge him with murder. www.cnn.com/2026/02/27/h...

I assume they got the raver vote

I’ve only met a few of the Epstein survivors but the ones I’ve talked to are amazingly strong. The thing that they’ve said to me, the thing that I’ve not seen reported though I’m sure someone has reported it somewhere is that they face a ton of harassment from people online.

Teaching James Baldwin always teaches me. It is humbling in the best sense.

Just to save everyone time, look up the difference between “rule of law” and “rule by law” and all the egregious acts of this government will be clarified.

I’ve been thinking: should “AI” really be used as a countable noun?

I finally watched Pillion, and I am ready for the discourse

LOL to all the pundits declaring that NOW it’s really fascism.

He was doing what many have been saying white men should be doing. He went outside to observe, he documented, he put his body on the line to protect another person and for this he was murdered by the gatekeepers of the fascist regime.

“Don’t you know, they’re talking ‘bout a revolution…” — Tracy Chapman

Trump keeps receiving the honors from others!

People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day. I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.

“Apres moi, le deluge.” Nothing else makes sense to explain the decrepit, diminished, disgraced Drumpf.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.