A wise Woman once said:

Variety is really proving his point there.

Karla Strand writes in @msmagazine.com of Read This When Things Fall Apart: "Not a guide, this volume is a salve for the wounds we incur when doing the work, and its contents are the love and encouragement we need to continue tending the fires of resistance."

The UAE-backed RSF is "now using state-of-the-art drones and execution squads to dominate the region's Black population." "Rights researchers already are warning that the killings have the potential to surpass the genocide that played out in Rwanda just over 30 years ago."

On U.S. complicity in the unfolding massacres: "The U.S. should halt arms transfers to the UAE, which is supplying the RSF with the weapons used to carry out atrocities in Darfur. Failure to take action could condemn hundreds of thousands more civilians to death at the hands of genocidal forces."

Staggering atrocities in Sudan. Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."

You want to democratize "going to therapy"? Make it "free" as in paid by socialized healthcare. You want to democratize "making art"? Give people money and free time to express themselves.

Thankful I was asked to write some words about the importance of Michael Eugene D’Angelo Archer and the Blackpentecostalness of his sound for @msnbc.com … I hope it resonates with you too. ❤️ Opinion | D'Angelo's Pentecostal sound www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Some folks who preordered are starting to receive their copies of Read This When Things Fall Apart! ❤️ The book is supposed to be published on November 4, but I am so happy some folks are getting it early. It's needed now.

"Trump is normalizing attacks on blue cities because he intends to overpower hubs of ... resistance. He plans to hold onto power — and expand it — by any means necessary, legal constraints and elections be damned."

I’m. So. Tired. I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.

This guy's fans don't want to be soldiers. They want to be posters. They want to troll. They want to harass professors. They are not looking for a more challenging existence.

I want to once again reiterate what I said earlier. The reason the vast majority of Democratic and so-called centrist elites have acquiesced over and over again is that they are COMPLICIT. Because they actually know that direct confrontation is how you defeat fascists and choose not to do it.

“We want the practice of hope to produce otherwise possibility, a break from the known and knowable world (or worlds).” - @ashoncrawley.bsky.social

If you're already tying yourself to someone like Gavin Newsom, then what must you ignore in order to potentially vote for him for any office.

once again, i'll suggest that perhaps the reason the broad public thinks democrats are weak is that when confronted with situations that demands that democrats loudly and proactively stand up for their values, democrats shirk from the fight

Snoop hangs with the homophobes at MAGA now. He's dead to us.

During the 1970s, an arson wave ravaged poor communities across the US. Some lost 80% of their housing. Residents were blamed. In reality, landlords—paid by insurers and enabled by the state—drove this arson-for-profit epidemic. 

I reviewed @benchansfield.bsky.social's revelatory BORN IN FLAMES:

TWO****** years ago. my god. i cannot add. and time is a fiction in my head. this was 2023!

“Guys, we can skip the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment. Trump doesn’t like them.”

The best part of white supremacy is assuming Black folks are just going to stop talking about racial oppressions because they order it. The Smithsonian is important but the lessons didn’t start there. Way to undermine your own institutions though.

THIS.

three years ago, HOMEGOING opened. still blown away that it happened. still grateful.

Clearing encampments and throwing people in jail does NOTHING to actually get Americans off the streets. Homelessness is not a personal failure, it’s a policy failure. Congress must pass my Housing Not Handcuffs Act with @frost.house.gov. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

My latest piece reprinted in @truthout.org. "We must assess who is most imperiled by Trump’s actions and edicts, orient ourselves in opposition to those attacks, and decide how we will oppose them. Then, we must act."

to follow up, i am in week three of the summer intensive and tired don’t begin to convey what i am but i also am learning so much and am loving everything i’m doing! #landscapearchitecture

Gaza's population is facing the "worst-case scenario of famine" and "widespread death" will occur without immediate action, the leading international authority on food crises has warned. Experts said "increasingly stringent blockades" by Israel have "dramatically worsened" the situation.

A program at the University of Oklahoma trains much-needed mental health professionals for rural schools in the state. Now, its federal grant funding is on the chopping block.

watched the whole thing like this…..

fave. still. 🙌🏾❤️

The United States military is the largest carbon emitter in the world. SEVENTY FIVE PERCENT of global military carbon emissions are from the United States. Working class people cooling their apartments with air conditioning is not the problem.

Yes.

literally nothing is stopping any of these homeowners from gaining all the rights they think they don't have like the sidewalk is right there, go live on it if u think it's so fuckin great

This is from April: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2588-p... and if you scroll to the bottom of the page, you'll find many others :)

We need green infrastructure everywhere to soak up rainwater instead of water running down the street. This also has co-benefits for communities. But we will not be able the green infrastructure, or gray infrastructure, our way out of flooding when there’s a huge climate-driven storm.

“UPenn will adopt biology-based definitions for the words 'male' and 'female' pursuant to Title IX and consistent with President Trump's Executive Order” these people don’t know what biology means. literally.

Newsom is literally sending cops from around the state to come brutalize us in LA. He was *literally* throwing poor people’s belongings away with his own hands. Fuck Gavin Newsom.

MAJOR PARTICLE PHYSICS REPORT RELEASE ⚛️🧪 The National Academies particle physics decadal report is out! Read read! (I was a member of the committee that wrote this report but resigned during drafting bc of a conflict of service w/my HEPAP appointment.) nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2883...

the narratives that say, "we are always on the front lines," "we always vote right," "we save the democracy over and over again," "we are always on the right side of history," "we are the most patriotic americans," are reductive and, without context, actually actively harmful.

three of my moods. i don’t have much to say today except i’m 45 and i look good. amen. 🫰🏾🫰🏾🫰🏾 oh, and i’m grateful etcetera etcetera. lol 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙌🏾🤲🏾🙌🏾 happy birthday to me!

Amazing to see THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US on the New York Times' list of the best books of the year (so far)—and in such incredible company.

I hope seeing Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive will convince some of you to stop preemptively declaring people dead. I know it comes from a place of fear, but cynicism and pessimism can demobilize people and lead folks to give up before a fight is lost. Let's not seed that attitude.

We can get him back. We can get them all back. We need to demand that everyone who was shipped to that nightmarish place be brought back alive.

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

People will argue that we should be willing to defy the law in the name of justice while also treating criminalized people as disposable. It's incoherent.

My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side. #humanities #highered #neh slate.com/news-and-pol...