hey y'all, so my job (a non-profit) is building a library--of rare, unique, & banned books--which will be housed in anacostia (SE!!) we're hosting a film screening & panel discussion/fundraiser on MLK weekend, 1/18/26 come support a great cause! www.eventbrite.com/e/unbanned-f...

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

YES! We don't want this!!! // The data center rebellion is here, and it’s reshaping the political landscape As the buildout of AI infrastructure alarms communities, it is fast emerging as a potent electoral issue across the political divide. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I spent weeks watching hundreds of videos from Jan 6th to place them in time and space as part of a collaboration with Richard Engel, and I can categorically say this version of events is bullshit.

Love this on so many levels.

If you're still prepping for history classes on African American history, I definitely recommend the Blacksonian's Searchable Museum. Great resources.

This looks like 1,000 videos I've seen from authoritarian states

Are you worried things can’t get stupider? I assure you they can and will

In a statement, the American College of Nurse-Midwives called her death a “profound failure of the systems meant to protect birthing people.” “That a Black midwife and maternal health expert died after giving birth in the United States is both heartbreaking and unacceptable.”

“But apologize ... apologize is extraordinary. It suggests that white conservatives have apparently been apologizing. This blows me away, because I honestly don't remember American conservatives apologizing very much, if ever. In fact, apology seems to be antithetical to the conservative project.”

Today I wrote about our white supremacist political movement's perverse insistence that "we don't have to apologize for being white anymore." Conservatives have been apologizing, apparently. Did you know? I had no idea. So I asked, and here's what I found. www.the-reframe.com/apologies-fo...

This is so well said. "I'd like you to notice how the idea of apology—which is the suggestion of blame—appears to be the greatest offense imaginable to those who depend on abuse for identity."

The questions begin with WILL regime change be successful not how is it legal or ethical to orchestrate a coup and who are we to decide when leadership most go and who are we to believe we have rights to a sovereign nation’s resources.

So many in media are ill-equipped to interview officials about what’s happening because they begin with the presumption of legitimacy and don’t know enough about history or U.S. foreign policy to foment intelligent pushback and hold officials accountable.

Personalized software is bad actually. It's anti-social, not pro-social. Software that allows you to search your own notes: good. If it allows you to define VC, for you, means 'vetted and cool', good. If it filters/alters the web, search results, or capabilities based on your data it's a manacle...

On this day in 1923, a mob of over 200 white men attacked the Black community in Rosewood, Florida. The white mob killed over 30 Black men, women, and children and burned the town to the ground.

“Recordings captured by the Vocci rings are saved to the cloud, so you may not want to wear the ring when you're discussing sensitive content.” 🤷🏿‍♂️

Really very last, my final post for TSK was my most personal, about how STEM obsessions and tail chasing has proved an ouroboros for research and knowledge. ☹️ // scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...

This is easy when you have no core beliefs beyond attaining power and kicking the other side in the teeth

The media acting as if it is a neutral observer on increasing consolidation of power for the oligarchy shows how dishonest media people are.

For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

This post by JA Westenberg is so good. And it's forcing me to look again at my own site, PressThink. "The Case for Blogging in the Ruins." www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for... "Most blogs are abandoned after three posts," she writes. The ones that persist have these things in common:

I’m wondering how he gone run Venezuela … when he can’t run America

I hope historians discussing 19th-century U.S. history this term are including William Walker and the filibuster campaigns in Nicaragua in their lectures, if they aren’t already.

Cabinet card of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozely https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2010.49.2

Rebecca Ingber, a former senior State Department lawyer, said that she did not see a legal means for the United States to “run” Venezuela. “This sounds like an illegal occupation under international law, and there is no authority for the president to do it under domestic law.”

The average child sexual predator looks like the average, church-going husband or father—the very person many faith communities think is safest and most worthy of significant power over others.

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me. - Henry Rollins #Truth

On this day in 1901, CLR James is born in Trinidad. James was an important anti-colonial activist, socialist historian, theorist, journalist and cricket aficionado. anticolonialhistory.com/event/148/

“There’s already a belief within the [right wing] online faction that a thing has happened, and what is happening now is they are backfilling the belief with justification. This isn’t evidence to conclusion — it’s belief to justification.”

OPINION: "As a professor of urban planning, I know this isn’t just a hypothetical scenario. It’s the impossible choice millions of Americans face every day as the U.S. housing crisis collides with climate change. And we’re not handling it well," Ivis Garcia writes.

“Over the past decade, while the United States ramped up fossil fuel exports, China has focused on dominating renewables. Today, Chinese companies make so many of the world’s solar panels, electric vehicles and batteries that they are slashing prices and scrambling to find buyers.” Gift link:

'Best Medicine' has more whimsy but it's less real than 'Doc Martin'

#tdih 1965 Hundreds of people travelled by bus from Mississippi to DC to support the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) Congressional Challenge to the seating of the all white Mississippi delegation in 89th Congress. Read ⬇️#TeachOutsideTextbook 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/mf...

None of us knows exactly what's going to happen next. Too much is being decided by chaotic buffoons. Even if you accurately map what major players would do to best serve their own interests, that's not a reliable map. Uncertainty is difficult and also a real condition.

The ignorance of folks who are flailing in their efforts to make sense of this moment does not make them the enemy, and verbally slapping them around won't make you feel better for very long. They are poor stand-ins for your actual enemies.

The ethical and legal damage will be with us forever but it’s the raging incompetence that will strike first, within the next few days.

NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.

Pretty cool www.bbc.com/news/article...

"Personal Geopolitics"

As a veteran, I co-sign this. War is awful and turns everyone into monsters and victims. War forces us to make terrible choices regarding survival. It makes us killers and the dead, broken survivors fleeing horrible memories. Only in fantasy can war be fun.

This is very good, for reasons that may strike many as irritating but I think are important. The admin is going to invoke a string of executive branch interpretations of law. It's useful to know what those are. This post describes w/out endorsing them or suggesting they make everything legal.

Insightful thread.....

If we were given the time to grieve properly, what might we decide to change? — @sarahljaffe.bsky.social

“U r allowed to be #disabled only if you serve as a cautionary tale..god forbid u look happy, stylish, or in control of yr own life. Because then the crowd has to face the truth: #disability doesn’t mean half- #human. & they hate that.”: buff.ly/BxLJ5U1 by mylivinghell #ChronicIllness #awareness

New euphemism for "bottomless corruption and naked abuses of power" just dropped