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The Epstein documents released weeks ago are full of university administrators, professors, and trustees. With students demanding transparency and accountability from their schools, academia faces a nationwide reckoning over how it courts and indulges deep-pocketed benefactors.

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Demand the Release of Leqaa Kordia — Stop Political Detention. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

'We Are Green and Trembling' by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, tr. by Robin Myers A sumptuous and surreal historical reimagining of one of South America’s best-known trans men, Antonio de Erauso. longlisted for the International Booker Prize 📖 sample to peek inside www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

Letting these people do all their “wink wink nudge nudge” racism has brought us to this point and continuing to insist on a color-blind framing, a framing which doesn’t allow you to call out obvious bad faith bullshit is going to determine how far it goes.

“Blue City Crime” is their effort to replicate the “Black crime” sections of other sites with a patina of plausible deniability, and it’ll really be up to y’all if that works...

Yes.

I've been thinking about this a lot and you know how racism in the South is stereotyped as being "don't get too uppity" and in the North it's "don't get too close" it low key feels like in the UK it's both (and yes I know the US stereotypes don't hold)

When you realize that Warner Brothers said "Delete that shit" and the BBC chose to keep it...baby this is why I'm not debating nothing about modern racism. Full grown adults made a lot of choices

The classic PBS children’s show Reading Rainbow is officially back, with the series securing a 24-episode pickup.

Michael B Jordan ‘repulsed’ by Baftas racial slur while his parents were left in tears

PSA - Reminding folks that the DoubleTree by Hilton (Raleigh-Durham Airport) will be a gathering place of Sons of Confederate Veteran losers from Feb. 27-28. The hotel employees are likely required to cater to these white supremacists, so calls/complaints should be targeted at corporate/mgmt.

Meridian Tesla Hitler, David Pettinger, wore brownface and spoke to laughing and grinning Idaho representatives in the Idaho statehouse yesterday.

Randomly getting pics of the kids throughout the day>>>>>>

Sure it’s “not misogynistic to hate men” & “men are oppressors not oppressed” or whatever but you’re still acting exactly like everyone who ever told Little Me, explicitly or implicitly, that I was never going to be worth treating with respect because I was a “girl”. And I am an individual human.

I have some thoughts about how deeply shitty it is to willfully replicate the misogynistic trauma trans men grew up with being perceived as girls and told that we’re inferior for our gender, by continuing to tell us that we’re inferior for our gender for being men, too.

Nobody: Me, someone with no Haitian ancestry:

I keep seeing this, so I'm just gonna say that while I disagree with the default presentation of trans characters being "gender ambiguous" or "bigender presentation" at large, I also disagree with the idea that every trans presentation needs to fit cisnornative standards. Trans people do both.

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The problem is that he thinks this is going to solve the problem. "Let's play it cool." It should work! But, that's not what NYPD wants, so that's not what police will accept. Instead, this will be used to position him — somehow — as against both kids in a pre-planned snowball fight AND the NYPD.

He did so without the ridiculous "criminal" "attacking cops" posture of Tisch, and he tried to play cute at the end, but he still did it.

I regret to inform you that he took the bait.

Why do they act like they have a vendetta against us? Why are the Karens the way they are with ppl who have done nothing to them? THEY start all this by not leaving ppl alone.

No for real, we are simply not supposed to still be able to experience joy given what they've done and continue to do to us. Despite their best efforts they can't control that.

If they could steal our souls they would.

Maybe ppl think we aren't supposed to have even one little ounce of self-esteem, so they find it baffling when they see it lol.

*cough*

Y'all, too, need to free yourselves from the shackles of white supremacy. Maybe you can actually just relax and enjoy life instead of being on this constant, completely futile pursuit of extinguishing Black celebration.

All that concern trolling about Blacksky and seeming angst about us just being happy in our own space.

Again...this is also a BIG reason they hate social media. Look what we got on here and did? 😆

Sewickley is an extremely affluent and extremely white town. ICE had to have been specifically targeting Bruno Guedes da Silva, thought it's unclear why since he has a valid work authorization, SSN, and license. They took him away from his wife and his daughter with cancer anyway.

ICE abducted a father of a six-year-old who is undergoing cancer treatment in a suburb outside Pittsburgh on Sunday and took him to a detention center in West Virginia. The cruelty is boundless.

The narcissism has them believing they're greater than God, physics, etc. it's why they were so bold to go running into clouds of COVID or why they're drinking raw milk, skipping vaccines and burning down the planet. You can't bargain w/people who have no sense of self preservation.

The connection built in authenticity and seeing each other as human, while they build hierarchies and live in alienation. The socially induced narcissism of white supremacy means they're never happy, because everything is built on domination. It's wild how much atrocity they commit in this chase

*waves my copy of Yurugu about*

Withholding resources is designed to create unlivable conditions, to create unliving people. Genocide is a policy carried out by the hands of many, tolerated by many more. bsky.app/profile/harm...

Genocidal white supremacy us tacitly supported in words and policy, and now we live in an era of open ethnic cleansing. Genocide can be stopped if enough people refuse to go along. bsky.app/profile/stev...

You know what I think about a lot, actually...? Related to this...? Is that that anger comes from, in part, their jealousy that despite their best efforts, they weren't able to suppress our ability to create language and communication between each other, even without knowing the same words.

"How dare you be happy when I'm not?" is a thing. The level of antiblackness in a person will turn up their hate at Black joy, even at the smallest of things.

Another reason why transphobia does nothing for cis women. Stop perpetuating it!

(I feel like people are taking jealousy to mean of appearance, and I need to stress that, yes, that's some of it, but also, about us seemingly defying the rules and the odds and still being seen as desirable... )

We already have the tools We just need the heart and the courage

We have to be ready to create a newer, better world as this one accelerates toward its own destruction

TFW men treat themselves like shit and thus don't know (allegedly) how else to treat anyone

"if we didn't treat you like shit it would be transphobic" "you're a man now nobody cares about your feelings" "you're a man now just take it it's what you deserve"

This part too

The hell of being a trans man is that people are like "you're a man now you deserve to be treated like shit"

This part.

This: "Sentiment laundering describes the process by which a racist incident gets filtered through ambiguity, euphemism, and mitigation until the emotional and moral weight of what happened is softened into something that requires our understanding, our grace, our patience." - @kui.bsky.social

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