"MacArthur Awards $10 Million to Strengthen the Humanities" www.macfound.org/press/press-...

"Fees are a paywall on opportunity, and paywalls do not measure merit. They measure means. When a field built on ideals of access and expression charges for the act of showing up, the rhetoric of equity collapses into the economics of endurance."

The world order as we’ve known for the last century is disappearing. And in its place, a new order shaped by the private interests of individual men and their fiercest allies, not the interests, private or public, fair or foul, good or bad, of a nation.

I want to highlight the Black voter number here because I’ve lived through decades of efforts to engineer and/or assert an antagonistic relationship, when, for the most part, Black people are more supportive of immigration than others.

If adults are missing work due to long COVID, don’t we think children are missing school from it too?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Yes, Ds should offer a resolute unified front - Congress, Govs, Mayors - against the European tariffs, the threats to the Western alliance, and Trump's plan to seize Greenland. Every person in America should know where we stand on this. Today. It's the right thing to do and good politics too. 3/

In October, we sent four trans journalists to five different No Kings rallies to report on trans representation at No Kings. One of our reporters was in attendance when senator @edmarkey.bsky.social addressed the crowd wrapped in a trans pride flag. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Jawdropping reporting here from @juddlegum.bsky.social......

Came in from winter break on this snowy 18F morning to discover someone opened the windows while we were gone. Lord knows how many days or weeks.

NYC: this Sunday is your chance to come hear me and bestie Jarrett talk about the new book! Hope to see you there. Events for January 2026 – BGSQD share.google/jJdRuuDadixH...

I went ahead and published this tonight, because it feels urgent.

thinking back to how Ta-Nehisi Coates anticipated this moment in 2017

The real upside-down world....

I think about this exchange a lot and figure others might find it interesting too. Happy MLK Day.

The autobiography concludes its section on this conversation interestingly: "I [Harry Belafonte] felt as if our moorings were unhinging. "Damn, Martin! If that's what you think, what would you have us do?" I asked. He gave me a look. "I guess we're just going to have to become firemen.""

The sentence right before the "burning house" quote: We fought hard and long, and I have never doubted that we would prevail in this struggle. Already our rewards have begun to reveal themselves. Desegregation ... the Voting Rights Act..."

the famous quote is from the end of his reply to Young. from the middle: "...we live in a failed system. Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level."

Young replies: ""Well, I don't know, Martin. It's not the entire system. It's only part of it, and I think we can fix that." King's reply begins: "I don't need to hear from you, Andy," he said. "I've heard enough from you. You're a capitalist, and I'm not."

King elaborated: I feel their rage. I feel their pain. I feel their frustration. It's the system that's the problem, and it's choking the breath out of our lives." this is what starts the conflict.

King had just arrived from Newark, where he'd had a contentious meeting with Amiri Baraka and comrades - he had tried to talk them out of pursuing a more militant, uprising based strategy there. King was frustrated: "...I wholly embrace everything they feel! It's just the tactics we can't agree on."

the last member of the group: Andrew Young, eventual mayor of Atlanta. According to Harry Belafonte (who gives this account of the conversation in his autobiography), the quote about the burning house was the outcome of a conflictual back and forth between Young and King.

Dr. King was speaking to an inner circle of activists at Harry Belafonte's NYC apartment, right after a party that had served as an informal communications strategy around the Poor People's Campaign. also in attendance: Julie Robinson Belafonte, Bernard Lee, Stan Levison, and one more in particular

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."  Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

Remembering Wilson Pickett today on the 20th anniversary of his passing (January 19, 2006) album.ink/WPickettRIP

once again the real divide in the Dem party is fight/don’t fight and it is extremely encouraging to see one of the more centrist standard bearers firmly on Team Fight

damn what is wrong with me, i am having the hardest time concentrating on work, i lament as i compulsively refresh live feeds of unspeakable horrors

im so sorry.. that anchor is fighting for his liiiifeeeee

Without Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, Black residents in West Tennessee worry about the future of local democracy: “In my heart of hearts, I would know that there is a certain degree to which my vote wouldn’t matter.”

We’re so proud of the way community showed up to protect our neighbors today. Just as a federal judge ruled last night, we know that observing and showing up for each other is not a crime. We need everyone to keep patrolling in the streets as we fight against the hate coming at us.

the answer to who tf in this fascist circus wanted greenland from the jump

he went from a federal prisoner to a federal agent in less than a year!

So it’s not about defense. www.forbes.com/sites/martin...

Just a reminder if you're an author & are wondering about the varying lawsuits against AI companies that might have used your work without your permission: chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/09/20/u...

Cet article Littérature pirate est apparu en premier sur En attendant Nadeau." [3/3]

"Les livres de Viet Thanh Nguyen et de John Keene questionnent les identités aujourd'hui. Inventifs, ils ouvrent un espace au mineur et s'imposent comme des lectures urgentes et nécessaires pour mieux penser le monde contemporain. [2/3]

From seemingly AI-generated videos to the recirculation of old footage, TikTok, Instagram, and X did little to stop the onslaught of misleading posts in the wake of the US invasion of Venezuela. www.wired.com/story/disinf...

How it's going.

In Venezuela, Trump finally gets to "take the oil" youtu.be/mvoSumadChU?...

The Trump admin has fused the war on terror with the war on drugs to create a framework for justifying its own acts everywhere from Chicago to Caracas. Remember the helicopter raid on a Chicago apartment building? A key rationale was to go after the Venezuelan TdA.* Same with Caracas raid.

It’s hard to believe a president would time an illegal military attack to distract the public’s attention, but today is the statutory deadline for DOJ to release its report on the Epstein file production. Maybe it is just a coincidence.

remember we did this in Iraq and ISIS was like, gee thanks and everyone learned nothing and Alex Garland made a film showing how these decisions very much fucked over US service members and got them killed and their limbs blown off

Littérature pirate https://www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2026/01/01/ngyuen-keen/ [1/3]

Love Kanopy!

🚨In a new piece that I co-authored with @michaeldgreen.com for @bmj.com, we argue that Trump's war on DEI in medical education will damage the health of Americans We present research evidence showing that a diverse medical workforce improves population health outcomes www.bmj.com/content/391/...

A perennial to start the new year (w/ one addition - avoid AI if you can)!

To end 2025 it looks like @criterionchannl.bsky.social closed out its various FrantzFanon-related films as of last night (several are on @kanopy.com), but to start 2026 it added Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich's acclaimed *The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire,* which I'm looking forward to.

I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were: MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles) Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna) MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls) MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)

anteater conglomerate CEO explaining to other antieater conglomerate CEOs at the anteater conglomerate foundation about how my anteater conglomerate protects young ants by sticking our elongated snouts into their hills and wiggling our sticky tongues around magnanimously

Now Available for preorder - The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West by A.J.A. Woods The definitive history of the "Cultural Marxism" conspiracy theory

Some quality TV to start 2026 (though I watched it on CSPAN).