This is a wonderful critique of a recent decree to silence indigenous languages in educational settings in Nigeria, or as the author so aptly puts it, "On the Silencing of our Tongues." I wish the Lagos Review was here to add to the BLK Sky conversation.

a big runoff last night, in New Orleans: Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet. So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

I've listened to several podcasts and read several articles on why people are souring on capitalism and they all don't mention Occupy which is weird to me because of nothing else they mainstreamed a lot of the language we use today. And it was a genuinely big deal at the time.

It's still wild to me how much we've memory holed Occupy Wallstreet.

For me it's the Standing Rock protests. Noooooooo one brings that up, they so desperate not to

The Christian right for decades has fear-mongered that federal agents (under Dem presidents) would "criminalize" Christianity and literally prevent them from worshipping. Now that Trump's stormtroopers are doing it ... crickets

From the EXCELLENT voodoo revenge Blaxploitation film Sugar Hill, my absolute FAVE

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Also Pete sounds like this because he worked for McKinsey. He’s bad now and has always been bad and nobody should like him the end

This is your reminder that Pete was mayor when two historic Black firsts took their positions (fire chief, police chief) and both had resigned under pressure from racists before the end of his tenure. Pete did nothing to protect them. He’s been shit for a very long time!

Fun (terrifying) fact: Moose are so gigantic, they don’t have any predators…except for orcas. In winter/scare months, moose will dive for vegetation and orcas will eat them! www.forbes.com/sites/scottt...

They’ve never let me down!

“USA out of the Caribbean! And Long live Free Palestine” Seen in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico

The league, under scrutiny from Congress, is seeking new information based on the federal charges brought last month by the Department of Justice. www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...

BREAKING NEWS: The NBA has asked multiple teams, including the Los Angeles Lakers, to hand over documents and other property as part of its investigation into illegal sports gambling, six league sources told The Athletic.

you don’t get to indulge in whataboutism as an excuse to not do anything. stop insisting COVID-aware folk want you to shut down the world. we’re asking you to open it up—for everyone. so be a big boy/girl: wear a mask, and it you want to help disabled people, take a cue from the late alice wong:

Report: occupiers poison water supply Comments: okay but it's not like it was 'genocidal' poison

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Mai. Mai was a teacher before this and her husband Muhammad ran a grocery store. They lost their house and the tent they are staying in was flooded this week and they need to restore it. They have 3 daughters Jouri, 8, Amira, 6 and Sila, 6.

I am one again in the shop. You know what that means! Another ep of Music & Musings: Starting off! Mike James Kirkland -Hang on in There. The breakdown sounds weirdly apt to current events. Any who: open.spotify.com/track/1d4SSv...

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling Stone. As a result, the majority of VIBE employees were laid off. If you have the means to give, this team could use the support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures

This should not be a radical concept

Fuck your upward social mobility if it means I gotta participate in hazing or humiliation rituals just to have a living wage.

Colonizers having a unhealthy relationship to death becomes my problem when I'm told I'm supposed to participate in death cult practices at every turn for the sake of having social acceptance. Fuck your acceptance.

But again this is another reason I've delved into disrupting my relationship to death. I've been shown what society has forced me to believe and I intend to dismantle every expectation and unfortunate circumstance I'm told to "just get over".

If we truly want to talk about creating safety for all that means ppl really need to have radical honesty about their relationship to colonial aesthetics/ relationships/ consumption of death.

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Rich ppl aren't redistributing enough wealth to mutual aid.

I got hit with a "What up Unc?" in the wild and in stunning unlce fashion I replied "Aight now" Damn it they got me

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So that's something to consider in combatting the psychology of colonizers. There are consistent patterns of their affinity for machiavellianism, humiliation and reward tier hierarchies.

Like entertainment many humiliation rituals intermittently reinforced hazing dynamics, reinforcement of interpersonal aggression reframed as "humor" ECT.

Recently I was talking about how dunking booths (revealed as racist) were also a type of mini game that used humiliation as a form of reward and conviviality.

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You been hit by a smooth hymnal

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Stop and imagine Ghazal is your daughter. Would you accept your daughter living in an unsafe place, without proper healthcare, education, or even basic necessities? Give Ghazal a safe path, a path where she can find what every child in this world dreams of We need food,blankets,other necessities

It is the most thinly disguised dog whistle and journalists trip over themselves reporting on it, or doing yet another profile on the eugenics couple with bad eyesight

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Tremane Wood was found unresponsive in his cell and hospitalized last night, hours after Oklahoma planned to kill him He says he feels fine now and isn't sure what happened; doctors attributed the medical event to “dehydration and stress” ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trema...

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can you spare $20 to help my niece get her prescriptions? she's been out of meds for a week and is in debilitating pain