Weapons of mass love… Assata 🕊️🖤

Do not debate white people about your humanity. It will be a waste of your time and they are not going to change their minds.

Christian Nationalism. White Supremacy. Settler Colonialism.

Only 1 hour til #literacies chat! Come discuss "Censorship and #Literacies."

1. The Superintendent of Public Schools in Oklahoma announces a partnership to establish a Turning Point USA chapter in every Oklahoma high school.

"The "God Bless the USA Bible" ... includes only the Bill of Rights (Amendments 1-10), intentionally leaving out Amendments 11-27, which includes those that abolished slavery, gave women the right to vote, and protected voting rights."

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

The history of the "white gloves" in cartoons. As usual the answer is racism.

Good luck to Illinois' very own Leo Catholic High School tonight at the America's Got Talent finals!

"The federal government should confine its involvement in education policy to that of a statistics-gathering agency that disseminates information to the states." (p. 325) THEN WHY DID I HAVE TO WRITE THIS?!? www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."

You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.

Just added to my Libby holds. So excited!

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

If I say what I wanna say..... Anyway, there's an important chapter in "They Were Her Property" by Stephanie Jones-Rogers about the comfort white women in particular have violently policing the correctness of Black people existing in public. Either in location or presentation.

Wildly irresponsible writing here: “Officials have been reviewing previous research — including an August review by Mount Sinai and Harvard researchers — that suggests a possible link between Tylenol use early on in pregnancy and an increased risk of autism in children.” 🧪 #scicomm

From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why fascist strongmen rely on women at home

just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg

i often share this short video by @imanibarbarin.bsky.social about the Overton Window and why u shouldn't debate with fascists. this is important everyday and especially now with that whole Mehdi Hassan on Jubilee mess.

Deleted mine today after having it for ten years (although I stopped going to it years ago). You can find my stuff here: authory.com/StephanieTol...

I laughed way too hard!

If you're upset about Jimmy Kimmel being "canceled," I'm sure you were just as furious when you heard about Joy Reid and Tiffany Cross or Amber Ruffin or Karen Attiah or Jemele Hill Because Kimmel might still have a job if you were

“I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” James Baldwin

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

And if they are a Black or Brown academic who studies white supremacy, misogynoir, and ableism-we are both furious and exhausted because we told you this would happen all while trying to hold on to the fact that our ancestors went through so much worse and still trying to create joy & community.

Someone asked if there was a place where I kept all my writings. There wasn’t. But now there is!! I’m still thinking about what else I’ll do with it, but it’s a start! authory.com/StephanieTol...

"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?" Unashamed to say this made me cry.

There’s a lot more I want to say, but this is a start. In this piece, I demonstrate how language around death/tragedy operates according to a racial calculus that determines whose pain deserves privacy & whose becomes public consumption. thefulcrum.us/media-techno...

The firing came after State Auditor Shad White, a Republican, tagged the university in a social media post. “To @olemiss, did an Ole Miss employee just repost this insane reaction to Charlie Kirk’s murder? Answer,” White wrote on Thursday morning.

These firings, with zero due process, are violations of widely accepted principles of academic freedom & are completely unacceptable. College & university administrators MUST NOT exploit these shocking events to censor protected speech & concentrate their own power. www.wsmv.com/2025/09/12/t...

To review: an apparent right wing civil war between white Christian nationalist Groypers and white Christian nationalist college campus activists results in the murder of a leader of the latter; and that will now spark a 1930s-style putsch against liberals by the fascists who run the country.

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

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Cause they really really really wanted it to be us. So much so that they’re willing to go ahead and pretend it was.

Dear all writers: If you can't quote what the person you're defending actually said, maybe don't defend what he said?

A popular white man got killed by another white man while speaking on an overwhelming white campus in an overwhelmingly white state and this is the result. Racism doesn’t need a reason, only an excuse.

#Sigh1 Sadly, this was predictable. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/t...

One teen is dead after a student fired on schoolmates at Evergreen High School in Colorado, injuring two before shooting himself

“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”. -Charlie Kirk

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

I call on media to REFUSE the framing pushed by right wing chaos agents like Cernovitch & Rufo on this act of what appears to be political violence. The Democratic former Speaker of the Minnesota House was assasinated along with/her husband. The killers was hunting Dems. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Video from Texas State Rep. Brian Harrison X acct. Student secretly records her convo with the prof. "I'm not entirely sure this is legal to be teaching. ...according to our president, um, there's only two genders. ...I don't want to promote something that is, um, against our president's laws."

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in analysing 563 behaviour policies from the 34 largest multi-academy trusts in England, i show how 'misbehaviour' is associated with a constellation of linguistic features - these are of course not empirically connected, but ideologically connected.