Never feel sorry for being vulnerable enough with someone to show emotion. If they teased or took advantage of that and pretended to be a safe space, that says a HELL of a lot about THEM. NOT YOU.

Since when do hoteps, excuse me he said "Israelite," read Sirach (with paleo-Hebrew substitution for the Name)?

For those whose stations still won't show it, where else can we watch tomorrow night's Kimmel? Particularly in real time.

I take my medical advice from my doctor because she never told me to inject Clorox.

The label of a drug is close to a sacrosanct document. It represents the trust between the government and the user of the drug that the drug is safe and effective and that all risks and benefits are accurately outlined. Changing it to suit a political agenda is imo an earthshaking matter

Presented my current work Dirty. Sexy. Bible. to my faculty colleagues in our first faculty forum of the year. It was a wonderful discussion. #CriticalBible

I'll add to this that black women do or are expected to do much of this work and our demeaned for it. Even when performing patriarchal womanhood, black women are forever outside of the virtuous category of appropriate womanhood, let alone ladyhood.

The title "King of Kings, God of Gods", found throughout 2nd Temple Jewish, Christian, and Rabbinic literature, has its origins in ancient Near Eastern literature such as Enuma Elish. ... #intertextuality #bible #literature https://intertextual.bible/t/4887

the best kind of actions like this to take are the ones that scare management no one should ever yell at the people on the phone at the Disney+ help desk, but man, if you can make a Suit™️ worry for their job you’re getting someplace

As the conference participants are checking out, I find myself in a hotel full of Tate McRae fans. I have received quite the education. I have never seen so much leopard print in one place in all my life.

The Black Press's coverage of World War II momentmag.com/black-press-...

Last week, Israel targeted and massacred 34 newspaper reporters in Yemen. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, it was the second deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded.

So what we're learning is that a Black woman is in danger of getting fired if she uses the words "white men" in a less than complimentary fashion.

ICYMI: My dispatch from Phoenix about extreme heat's toll on unhoused people. People are passing out from dehydration, getting third-degree burns from the sidewalk, being hospitalized for heat-related illness and more. One woman was in an accident and the ground burned her foot down to the bone.

This is the echo of the “our George Floyd” thing last week where everyone missed the admission that they see George Floyd as a T-shirt slogan and not proof of an inherently violent governance that predisposes death for out groups.

But hey while everybody giggles … Let’s not forget that the ACTUAL BLANKET VIOLENT THREATS didn’t go to their white quippy debate partners It went to Black colleges and schools And nobody stood with them

God one of the biggest parts of the problem is that we’ve now had a week of discussion about the lack of empathy from the “far right” But almost none about the lack of empathy of everyone else that enabled it And god forbid when we came close the newly incensed just got right back to racism

Denver. Brushstrokes in the sky.

At the Broadview ICE "processing facility" outside Chicago. Earlier today, federal agents unleashed chemical weapons on protesters, elected officials, a local congressional candidate, and a local mayor. Defiant anti deportation activists remain. Another protest is planned for 7pm.

At the end of this clip, you can see what appears to be a clearly collared pastor/priest/minister getting hit with pepper balls as he attempts to flee.

Like attracts like. Crickets from his folk.

I want to see a boycott of ABC.

Hello Denver. We outchere!

Broken clock.

Oh. So when you trained them on the notes of medical doctors they repeated the same biases. Odd that.

BREAKING: At least 36 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across the besieged enclave since dawn, including 19 people in Gaza City, medical sources told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/qv3q3f

He’s at a mosque today and not still in jail, in large part because ordinary people didn’t let up. Just remember that bsky.app/profile/swin...

We are inna full on gestapo state. State sanctioned thugs in the street and the ideological take over of higher ed and the press/media. Individual right to protest and critique under threat of economic and legal sanction.

Ok silly question: as written, the 1st amendment doesn't mention a *right* to free speech (only to peaceably assemble) and only constrains the legislative branch. Is there some historical process by which freedom of speech was explicitly named a right and the constraint extended to the executive?

Good. Let them lead the opposition.

What was a soft policy now becoming a hard policy.

Today in #BriteBible I introduced Accordance, software support for biblical languages for folk without them. We looked at how NRSV erased "son of man" from the HB/OT making it look like it was unique to Jesus and, "the young woman is pregnant" which is not "a virgin shall conceive." #CriticalBible

The larger university that just eradicated DEI programs is hosting a memorial service this afternoon. We, though co/located, are very separate. We publicly asserted that DEI are some of our core values. And we are closing our campus this afternoon and going home.

Don’t tell people not to joke about serious shit. It’s a coping mechanism for some of us. It’s how we aren’t constantly screaming.

Yes, it does matter.

A reminder, your local station is not your local station. Local TV is owned by conglomerates, usu conservative conglomerates which is why they read preapproved scripts that are uniform across states and others push certain products and services and they could bully Jimmy Kimmel off of the air.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and those who have canonized him. archive.ph/2025.09.16-2...

Given how expensive and valuable "the kids" are, why is there no alarm that sounds when someone turns off their trackers? #AlienEarth (been bugging me since last week)

It’s telling that of the two people with immediate power to take the actions that Miller/Vance/etc are demanding, one misstated the relevant law (Bondi) and the other acknowledged that the First Amendment prevents fulfilling those demands (Carr)

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

It's wild being a Black person because you never know when any of the non-black people that you know will give you a surprise racism.

anyone: [quotes charlie kirk’s exact own words and nothing more] their boss: that’s hateful and you’re fired

White supremacists weaponizing right on right violence against black folk is to be expected. As is the weaponizing of grief at the marginalized folk already under siege.

I was talking about this with my uncle the other day. I thought Einstein was reclusive for the last few decades of his career and life. He wasn't. He was denouncing racism by teaching & speaking at Black collages and organisations. White people need to know that for his work to be understood

They are calling for their "civil rights icon" to be remembered for what he stood for. If you can stomach it, post it. Tell it. Tell the whole truth. And shame the devil.

I will keep saying this the MAGA movement's only political philosophy is violence. It isn't consistent well thought out policy solutions. The media didn't even cover the Republican party nationally had no platform. Their governing philosophy now is power and hating the other.

This. I watch international media for news and US media so I know what the spin is.