There’s a special kind of grief many of us are feeling tonight. Because it didn’t have to be like this.

I'm sorry, but I just think it's very telling when we differentiate between ICE's killing of American citizens versus undocumented immigrants. And I'm seeing that a lot right now.

Human brains feed off of negativity. Negative thoughts are easily digested and play in a loop in your mind all of the time. The reality, however, is that there is also A LOT OF GOOD happening every single minute. You have to do more work to pay attention to the good but it's worth it.

At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

ICE killed a member of our community today. ICE showed up at my kid’s daycare today. ICE is bragging about the number of families they’ve torn apart in a matter of days, and promising that their campaign of terror isn’t done.

On only hours notice, hundreds of New Yorkers are gathering in Foley Square to protest the murder of Renee Nicole Good

Renee Nicole Good

from someone who was in school for the beginning of the "war on terror," please. please please please. talk to teenagers in your life about not joining the us military. about not letting themselves be groomed by recruiters in schools. they're going to want soldiers, and they always start young.

ICE has shot and killed a community observer in Minneapolis. Sending all of my love to the people of Minneapolis and the folks defending their neighbors there. This is heinous, and I am so sorry. To everyone else: REMEMBER ICE LIES ABOUT EVERYTHING. THIS IS DOCUMENTED.

I implore you to hit up CVS and get your flu shot. Please don’t game it with whatever else you heard. It’s real serious and we don’t gave any public health allies in the government now.

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

In our newest review, @callmevrana.bsky.social reads Eunsong Kim’s *The Politics of Collecting*: “Kim emphasizes that these exception(s) prove(s) the rule—the ongoing, pervasive rule of settler colonialism, anti-Blackness, and racial capitalism in the art world.” asapjournal.com/review/disma...

Excited that this review I wrote of Eunsong Kim's extraordinary book The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property is now live on ASAP/Reviews! asapjournal.com/review/disma...

On X, a senior U.S. Justice Department official is promoting a post that praises colonization as “one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world.”👇

A servant of this paradise, not a God In front of a screen, naked, lonely, asking— No more a God than the crown of vultures Frightened by a hiss that was a tire deflating? Why would you trade Paradise for an argument About Paradise? - Roger Reeves, "The Head of the Cottonmouth"

"What must be made manifest, confronted, spoken in these catastrophic times includes the rejection of that which is manufactured as consent and the offering in its place of another set of understandings and imaginings of the given world and the made world." Dr. Christina Sharpe

Celebrating Cornelius Eady now and always. www.wbir.com/article/news...

Saving this screenshot from Threads as a new reaction image

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

Boy, do I keep thinking in the wake of the egregious Venezuela attack about certain key points in @ericaedwards.bsky.social's book The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire...

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

he's just gonna keep doing illegal shit as long as everyone keeps letting him

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Well, it was either all this or another black person in a Star Wars movie

We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.

Can't help but feel like this is one of the reasons why the Constitution says If a dude in office does an insurrection, don't let that motherfucker hold office again Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints

The languages are of imperialism—“extraction” and “capture”. Cruel grammars and acts. People have died and earth has been plundered. This must end

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

Oh cool so we’re repeating Iraq 2003 and Chile 1973 and Iran 1953 and and and and and and

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

The quick turn to “experts” on Latin America and the Caribbean… shows how the apparatus of Area Studies was developed in the Cold War for just this: conquest, war studies. Caribbean studies, at its best when anchored in Black studies and indigeneity, is the opposite, a decolonizing project.

Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/

Comical, @wsj.com.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

New: Cop City RICO Cases Dismissed Years After 61 Activists Charged as Criminal Conspiracy Racketeering charges against dozens indicted as co-conspirators in the Stop Cop City movement were dismissed yesterday marking a legal victory for the movement unicornriot.ninja/2025/cop-cit...

In 2025, I was less productive with research than ideally hoped - yet SO worth it because that resulted from dealing with pregnancy and preparation for our new arrival! The world is bleak, but I head into 2026 grateful and determined to contribute to making a juster world for Nikki to grow up in.

So exciting to see my grad school colleague and amazing poet Geffrey Davis taking on this role! Can't wait for January's selections: poets.org/january-2026...

Cornelius Eady, a National Book Award finalist, will read an original poem at Zohran Mamdani’s swearing-in as mayor of New York City on Thursday. Read an excerpt from “Proof,” the poem he wrote for the ceremony. trib.al/i0Uhwxr

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/n... Intriguing - & as soon as I saw the excerpted lines, I thought of Elizabeth Alexander's inaugural poem (only for her to be referenced in next paragraph). My research into / fascination with "occasional poems" (by Black poets on American political stages) continues...

Historian here so we are now back to convict lease labor, which historians call slavery by another name and worse than slavery.

Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.

"The great honesty and authenticity of both editors and contributors should help put close reading where it belongs: in the center of the humanities."

This is truly disgusting.

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

Yes. Highly recommend this book; it has haunted me for months since reading.

i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides

We had congressional hearings when parents just suspected heavy metal was leading some kids to suicide.

The cops shot and killed an activist during STOP COP CITY and then the state criminalized the protesters for indicting over 60 people on RICO charges... THAT IS STILL HAPPENING NOW. Those charges have not been dismissed. The first trials are underway.