My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is a native speaker of Louisiana Creole named "Ben Guiné". "Guiné" is an old way of referring to West Africa particularly near the coast. African derived surnames are/were found among Louisiana Afro-Creoles like "Guiné", "Senegal", "Mina", "Poulard", "Nago", "Congo"etc.

I find it really insane when people try to pit minorities in the US against immigrants when its the exact same violence coming for both.

I ran into an advocate who told me that the 9 men detained from Canal Street last month struggled to find legal representation. Historically, Black immigrants experience disproportionately *more* removals than any other group. Anti-Black racism fuels US immigration in *every* way.

often imagine how Anatole Broyard would feel seeing Pope Leo's ascendance.. and transparency . ( or even Jean Toomer and so many of Louisiana creole diaspora who ended up passing or becoming invisible... during and after Jim Crow)

"Pope Leo XIV, descended from Creole people of color from New Orleans." A story with deep roots in the history of the Mississippi Valley and its correlation with Sp colonisation, the age of revolutions & agroecological revolution at the end of 18th c. in Louisiana www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/u...

Apparently the Cardinals watched Conclave and Sinners before they voted.

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

"Creoles, also known as 'Creole people of color,' have a history almost as old as Louisiana. While the word Creole can refer to people of European descent who were born in the Americas, it commonly describes mixed-race people of color." (4/n)

"The discovery means that Leo XIV, as the pope will be known, is not only breaking ground as the first U.S.-born pontiff. He also comes from a family that reflects the many threads that make up the complicated and rich fabric of the American story." (2/n)

"The pope’s maternal grandparents, both of whom are described as Black or mulatto in various historical records, lived in the city’s Seventh Ward, an area that is traditionally Catholic and a melting pot of people with African, Caribbean and European roots." (1/n) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...

Pope Leo's ancestry isn't that unusual in Louisiana where a majority of Black Ams~either descendants of slaves or gens de couleur libres~were a part of the exodus during the Haitian Rev or French/Spanish colonial territories. Anyone from this state of Black Am diaspora most likely share this history

In honor of Pope Leo, more about the incredible background of the Creoles of Louisiana. Lori Gordon who made the creole ancestor quilt and told the story was a beloved artist and friend on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. si-siris.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-...

Pope Leo XIV, the Church's fourth pope of African descent, was born in Chicago to Louisiana Creoles—at the same hospital where America's first openly Black Catholic priest died in 1897. (#SpoilerAlert: The connections don't stop there.)

And she died without ever receiving justice. It’s a tragedy and a stain on the country.

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

Our hearts should go out to the two National Guard members who were shot today. Our National Guard isn't supposed to be deployed to pick up trash on the road. This wouldn't have happened without Trump's vindictive political games. This tragic nonsense is disturbing.

Racism is wrong. And just like all other forms of bigotry pathetic. The mark of deeply stupid people. But... I can't help but laugh at Kash Patel, Dinesh D'Souza, Vivek Ramaswamy and Usha Vance finding out that MAGA racists will never accept them.

kash patel/ kashyap pramod patel.. most likely leading this investigation .. into an afghan national "terrorist cell"... the irony in this...

I'm horrified and praying for the two National Guard members shot in Washington, DC, and their loved ones. No family should endure the trauma of gun violence, especially so close to Thanksgiving.

Oh this is gonna get wild.. isn't it

Chamberlain's Nembrotha (Nembrotha chamberlaini) having a good look around... or at least, it would be, if it had eyes! #MarineLife #Nudivember #Invertebrates 🌿

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Fortunately for Vanity Fair/Conde Nast, the holiday weekend is upon us. Great time to take out the trash.

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the night of the hunter,1955 director: charles laughton starring: robert mitchum, shelley winters and lillian gish.

the m.o. of this admin and the slimy... fash ... POC (usually non-Indigenous/non-Black Am-descendants of slaves) who bootlick and grovel for it~ are predictable.

Isn't Texas based Sarah Adnan Sawwan of Arab diaspora? Would be amazing if we could deport this MENA plastic surgery addicted DHS tool out of our country... and take South Asian anchor baby Kash Patel among others with her.. Rlly over this

National Guard soldiers didn't sign up to be deployed as local police indefinitely as part of someone else's political stunt. They're not set up to be local police, they never should have been deployed.

please read this and Shanley's blog. i'm so tired of people gloating over the prospect of an imminent tech bubble collapse. this shit is held up not only by profit but also by an ideologically rigorous international fascist movement. they have told us their plans and we should take them seriously.

We need to be serious about what we are facing. If Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and even Marc himself were deposed literally right now, this agenda would continue. It is not an anomaly. It is the inevitable outcome of the venture capital model. It will continue unless intervention is done at that level.

Venture capital has industrialized producing corporations in which it retains significant ownership/control. An industrialized production of corporations, able to produce and run thousands of corporations in a coordinated manner and with incredible effectiveness. Terrifying. That's why we're here.

What is hitting us is not Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, and Elon Musk as individuals. This is a whole fucking transnational cartel that is executing a global coup starting with takeover of the imperial core. It is an asset class in a program of terrorism, war, death, colonial empire and slavery.

Vintage Investment Partners. Israeli VC, one of the leading points of exchange between US VC & Israel's tech industry. They are all IDF Intelligence Corps, Unit 8200, Cyber Defense Center, BHD10, etc. They invest in... VC firms. Including a16z, Battery, Bessemer, General Catalyst, DCVC.

Including many of the firms at the heart of tech fascism. A16z, Founders Fund... + Iconiq, TechStars, Tiger Global, General Atlantic, 500 (PayPal Mafia), Blackstone, Insight Venture Partners, Craft Ventures, 1984 VC, Innovation Endeavors, Blockchain Capital, more www.sanabil.com/en/Our-Portf...

Part of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) is Sanabil Investments, its venture arm. Through Sanabil, Saudi Arabia funds a large number of Silicon Valley VCs...

One of the major things driving the alliance of Saudi Arabia and the US, mediated by venture capital, is a.) Saudi Arabia's diversification from oil... b.) and into tech c.) Saudi Arabia thus funding many US venture capital firms

Just say no to leftists who tell you that Mamdani must play by neoliberal rules of public finance. Don’t accept the enemy’s paradigm.

Interesting to see the Toad-eyed-loon changing his position from he never said stuff, to a qualification on what he said. [Claims he can’t remember, but then claims he only ever said non-abusive stuff?!] Schoolmates say he said ‘Hitler was right’, was antisemitic & mimicked Nazi death camp ovens*

Next it will be naturalized citizens (my husband). Then American-born dual citizens (my kids). No, that's not legal. Neither is this.

War of aggression, mass killing of civilians, and settler colonialism

The fascist right will never drop its anti-Ukraine stance, because they want to see Russian aggression succeed. But can the smaller yet quite vocal anti-anti-Russia left—Chomsky, Quincy Institute, Lula, etc—finally admit that blaming the war on the US and “they won’t even negotiate” were misguided?

Regimes of state repression & violence breed violence every damn time without fail.

Technocrat billionaires nuclear energy projects: 📍Seadrift, Texas X-energy/Amazon: Funding from Cathie Wood (ARK Invest - SpaceX, Palantir, Tesla) Valar Atomics: Funding from Anduril’s Palmer Lucky & Palantir’s CTO Shyam Sankar TerraPower: Bill Gates archive.is/WsB1T via Financial Times

There are less than a 1,000 US based billionaires and the Trump administration works on behalf of a few hundred of them. Trump doesn’t seem to care or notice the people that voted for him are not on board and suffering so he can give them what he wants.

anyone claiming DOGE was a failure or that it was not effective is lying to your face and trying to build an narrative, not being honest. Doge exceeded all expectations for exactly what it was designed to do which is destroy the bureaucratic state and capture trillions of dollars in data.

NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.

for sleazy politicians like Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social and others invested in surveillance tech like Palantir, defending eugenic nazi adjacents like Musk... bailing out Silicon Valley Bank.. invested in crypto.. defending AI as innovation .... this is what you're invested in .

It has been exceptional volcano watching at Kīlauea this evening #HVNP