I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out

I’m not autistic, just a parent to an autistic kid w/ fairly significant support needs, but I personally find it very frustrating to see so many people fixated on preventing, reducing, or “curing” autism and neurodiversity instead of talking about inclusion + getting folks whatever support they need

The fact that so many US citizens have no idea Bad Bunny is also a US citizen (and don't believe he can be a US citizen) tells you that when they say "citizen," they really just mean white.

I’m reading this by @mark-bray.bsky.social

“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Solidarity with @mark-bray.bsky.social, a fantastic, thoughtful, and generous scholar whose work about antifa is so important in this moment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Solidarity!

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism. 🧵

NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED! Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold. Please click below, sign, & share. #DefendHigherEd

I don't even know what to say about @aaron.bsky.team announcing that actually they feed all images posted on Bsky into an AI that just a year ago they told everyone they had banned from using Bsky images

I'm excited to be back in the world talking to readers about my book BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US with the Dayton Metro Library on Nov 6 at 6pm ET. This event aligns with Shirley Chisholm becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress in Nov 1968. dayton.bibliocommons.com/events/67f81... #booksky

IRS has 100,000 employees, a budget of 20B and collects 5T in taxes per year. SS Admin employees about 60K, has a budget of 15B, revenues of 1.5T, and dispersed about 1.5T. So far: Staff and SSA location cuts; largest breach of personal data; mislead shareholders re profits. What could wrong?

People have no idea how hard it is for Black women to always have to break glass ceilings, set new records, and "be the change." It literally weathers us, kills us from the inside out.

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

Reminder to boycott @cbsnews.com and Paramount Plus. Bari Weiss is a transphobic anti-Black Islamophobic racist who has repeatedly accused Palestinians of faking genocide, said Islam is at war with the west, platformed and spread lies that trans people are a social contagion,

now that the news is official: some thoughts on Bari Weiss taking over at CBS News, and what it means that the Free Press—a publication that never apologizes or corrects itself when its "reporting" is ripped to shreds—is touted as a needed dose of "trust and integrity" slate.com/technology/2...

Our job as mentors is to identify our students' strengths and areas that can be developed. My PhD student (psych), Sydney Tran, has deep substantive interests, but also enviable methodological range. Her first, first-author publication is tagged below. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

A friend just sent me a picture of my book BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US in the front section of the newest Black-woman owned lesbian bookstore in Brooklyn called Gladys Books! These pics always bring me so much joy 💜 #booksky #Blacksky

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

Jared Kushner is going to the Middle East to negotiate a deal on behalf of the U.S. government days after Kushner announced a $55 billion deal between his private equity fund and the Saudi government One of the most brazen conflicts in history.

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“If the immigration enforcement apparatus of the United States were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world.“ - @sarahlazare.bsky.social & Lindsay Koshgarian, @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

Italian journalist abducted from the flotilla describes how Israeli prison guards unleashed dogs into cells, poured bleach on mattresses, and overcrowded cells such that it was impossible to lie down. x.com/paolomossett...

I want us to talk more about Black History and why so many Black ppl are unsurprised right now. #AddtoBlackSky #BlackSky

Disassociation ain’t hittin' like it used to.

We told y'all.

My next book is about the ways Black Americans navigate policing in the United States. It shows how different our experiences are concerning race, gender, sexual orientation, and class. I started writing it 7 years ago. I had no idea how relevant it would become.

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman. Amplify amplify amplify please.

This all makes more sense when you realize a lot of folks just don't care about what happens to people who don't look, love, or live like them.

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her. Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

The wild part about this moment is a lot of folks think this is new. Meanwhile, Black and Brown folks, queer and trans folks, disabled and migrant folks, we have always seen our families ripped apart, our comrades tortured and disappeared, our children killed, and our basic human rights denied.

The landscape of this country would be entirely different if the Reconstruction Era electoral wins secured by newly freed Black folks had never been stifled by lynchings and pogroms. The violence now, after decades of wins for queer, trans, Black, Brown, disabled, and migrant folks, same energy.

Last night, after a fun dinner with my family, my kids were talking in the backseat: 11yo: "I don't want to be a part of any of the groups Trump is targeting right now." 14yo: "You know that's everyone except white people, right?" This is how our children are metabolizing this moment.

I can't imagine being a safe white person in the US right now quietly watching everyone get arrested, abducted, disappeared, and killed. We should never have to explain what white supremacy is after this moment.

ICE killed a dad who had just dropped off his kids at day care. Waiting for the All Lives Matter folks to rally behind his family...

I want to reiterate: Black Americans have ALWAYS experienced the governmentlessness and unconstitutional actions we are witnessing now. This is why so many of us flew warning flags when Trump ran the first time. We recognize authoritarianism better than anyone else in this country.

“Lacy was charged with negligent homicide, felony hit-and-run and reckless operation of a vehicle. He committed suicide on April 12 of this year, one day before a grand jury hearing in his case.” Nearly a football field away from the accident.

This was always the plan. Terror. Utter terror.

Attn Black people, stop scrolling. This is not a drill: Chicago

History repeats.

Reasons to Teach High School English when the World is on Fire Black girls in advanced academics who write literary analyses about “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Queer kids who call the English Department The Fruit Factory. Allowables and Legacies by Nikki Giovanni.

My favorite armchair comment is Americans don‘t understand authoritarianism, because so many of you don’t count Black people as Americans. Learn the history or shut up.

After a few days witnessing the Bad Bunny Super Bowl thing I guess my questions are: Is this just how it is now? Are white people just going to cry about every single thing that ever happens from now on until forever now? Like on top of the kidnappings are they just going to keep fucking whining?

Now we have the Trump Administration's "nice university ya' got there, shame if anything should happen to it" campaign centered around a mafia-style protection racket they call "The Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." Did we help make it happen? 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...