They rapelled down from Blackhawk helicopters in this raid. I promise you this raid was done for a cinematic 4K promo video that will be released shortly. This stuff doesn’t just happen. It’s almost always for digital content.

As president of @aaup.org I stand with Governor Newsom. Every single democratic governor should follow suit

the show, is apparently directing this episode, so he's walking around in 21st-century clothes and hairstyle, but talking in Leonard's voice, which is particularly striking. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/clips/grantchester-s10-a-day-on-set-with-rishi-nair/# [2/2]

"I map the innovative ways black thinkers and artists have created possibilities for black being and belonging, and I argue that the intimate, especially the sexual, is central to how these figures imagined and theorized black being and belonging."

I mean, he's invited to the camp for the weekend too🤷🏾😜

It's all about Varley, but....

Just in time for horror season, my story 'You Will Survive This Night' (1st pub in Nightfire's audio anthology COME JOIN US BY THE FIRE s2) is reprinted in the latest issue of @tasavvurnama.bsky.social. A woman navigates a winter house party in the poshest part of Kolkata & finds it deeply cursed:

Chicago, Illinois, 2025: "They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van." "They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other." "I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'" abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

I spoke w/ over 2 dozen birth mothers for this story. Though I could only include a fraction of their stories here, all they shared about their experiences since placement, their love & their grief, & their hopes for their children helped inform this piece & deepen my understanding of open adoption.

Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said the funding was for projects in 16 states, all of which voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris.

In other words, these were extrajudicial killings that he's now creating a shifting, justifying narrative for. Surprise, surprise....

TL;dr: They don't want to "fix" healthcare *or* health care insurance. Or rather they want to *fix* as in *nix* it. They want you to fend for yourselves, so long as hospital corporations, pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, private equity firms, etc. get whatever they want.

Yes it's double-consciousness

Shut it down. Shut it all fucking down. Trump has the losing hand here & he knows it, so he's trying to blame his shitty shutdown on the dolls, hoping spineless dems will sacrifice them on the altar of civility. Fuck anyone who crosses to help him. Fuck them and primary them and hassle them to Hell

It really can not be emphasized enough that "exaggerating the danger of the left" is a key, central tactic of aspiring fascists. Look back at every country that slid into authoritarianism & you'll find a campaign like this preceding it. Every time. It's part of the script.

"FEMA officials arrived to go door-to-door to help residents apply for federal funds. But then they stopped as the administration canceled the door-to-door program. FEMA closed disaster-recovery facilities where residents could apply for financial assistance last week." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

“Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.” Whew, this was good.

SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

🧵Coal in the US was mostly dying because of cheap natural gas beginning in the 2000s. Then cheap renewables began to clobber it in the 2010s. It is a filthy power source and horrible emitter of greenhouse gases. There is zero economic justification for this & it will amount to corporate welfare.

"Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected billionaire A $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina is a gift for a hedge fund manager with personal and professional ties to the Treasury Secretary" @juddlegum.bsky.social for @popular.info

For BCS, very much this. We're seeing a lot more gen AI and especially part AI/part human 'hybrid' subs this summer, we've gotten better at spotting them, and we're noting who has sent them.

Mifepristone has a bunch of other applications, too, including being one of the medications used to treat Cushing's syndrome, a condition where the body produces too much cortisol (the stress hormone).

Here’s a free version. It’s well worth reading. Klein has an outsized opinion of himself if he thinks that he needed to write nonsense whitewashing Kirk’s legacy in order to sit in grief with people who mourned his loss. It’s absurd. Coates makes Klein look feckless and uninformed.

thegrio.com/2025/09/26/p... “People have the right to free themselves from oppression by whatever means they deem possible.” RIP Assata Shakur

Goodnight, friends. "Love yourself, but not too much that you cannot love everything and everyone else. Love everywhere. Love in the absence of love." - from "Beatitude" by John Keene I love you.

RIP Maxine Clair, author of the unforgettable *Rattlebone* & other works (October Suite, Coping with Gravity, etc.).

I was saddened to hear today of the death of the writer Maxine Clair. Her novel in stories “Rattlebone” is one that deserves to be brought out of the shadows and into the spotlight . thesewaneereview.com/articles/man...

“…like landlocked whales of grief” —E.G. Cunningham, from Field Notes #SmallPoemSunday @riverriverbooks.bsky.social @egcunningham.bsky.social

"The rainy / night, like Debussy." is a perfect break in a perfect line, to me Éireann Lorsung, from Pattern-book

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"Many Black pastors in the largest African American Christian denominations linked the veneration of Kirk...to the history of weaponizing faith to justify colonialism, enslavement and bigotry."

“You also now must fear one another. Under the new normal, a single student can record a class discussion, fail to protect your identity, and post it online in violation of the safeguards provided by Student Rule 24 and FERPA, dragging you & your classmates into a national scandal without consent.”

This is of course the exact reason for the Forced Mourning of Charlie Kirk, to fabricate a bipartisan endorsement of this bigotry and hatred www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

Teach history. On May 13, 1985, over 500 Philly police fired over 10,000 rounds into dozens of Black homes. Then, cops bombed the larger block—using explosives including C4 explosives provided by FBI. Only 2 survived—one of whom was later jailed for 7 yrs on bs charges. No police were charged.

Please consider signing this petition to ensure mifepristone, a FDA-approved, safe, effective abortion treatment, is available to all who need it: sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...

I just became a member of Stelton Distro to support a small Black queer owned Jersey City bookstore/creative space: if you're interested, please consider becoming a member. Become a member at: withfriends.co/stelton_dist...

With higher utility bills, a house that produces more energy than it uses may be appealing. In southern California, one such house has existed for more than a decade. NPR's Jeff Brady visited the "Green Idea House" in Hermosa Beach, California.

Has anyone else encountered a similar situation: so this fall in my undergrad class I gave an in-class writing assignment & asked the students to put away all phones/laptops etc. Then they began writing by hand. About 10 minutes into the writing exercise I noticed a student looking at her phone ==>

“This was never about protecting children. It’s about controlling the narrative of our history”

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

this is utterly obscene as well as preposterous

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. —Lucille Clifton

Let’s talk about the vast numbers potential voters would be more activated by genuine principled commitment to public goods and human rights as opposed to reactionary centrist pandering to bigotry!

This is a straightforward argument for fascism. "The lefties are decadent and won't change unless the state pressures the institutions against them."

🚨BREAKING: Missourians fighting the gerrymandered congressional map passed last week by Republican state lawmakers are laying the groundwork for a ballot referendum that could give voters the power to block the map from going into effect. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

These are the Trump Administration’s demands on UCLA, in addition to a 1.2 billion dollar fine, as reported by the LA Times today. I must note again that the Trump Administration’s attempt to use title vi to enforce conservative agenda items is flagrantly illegal.

I understand why no one believes the police right now www.fox13memphis.com/education/de...

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

The Trump administration has reportedly ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks, including the historic photograph “The Scourged Back” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

“The Violence Prevention Project at Hamline University found the overwhelming majority of mass shootings with four+ people wounded in public were carried out by men. Just 2% in last decade were carried out by women and less than 1% were by transgender people” www.theviolenceproject.org/key-findings/