Teaching data analysis in qualitative methods this quarter and I am so excited!

Ted Chiang: "The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."

ICYMT: Ms. Magazine has a timely article on anti-abortion violence coming out in the print magazine laterthis month. It appears in four parts online: msmagazine.com/2025/09/16/a... msmagazine.com/2025/09/17/g... msmagazine.com/2025/09/18/r... msmagazine.com/2025/09/19/a...

If you get arrested at a protest, and you need to fight a charge, who's your lawyer? A public defender may represent you at arraignment. (Love you, PDs!) Afterward, usually it's an NLG lawyer, working for free. The NLG Chicago needs your support. (ACLU doesn't do crim defense, with exceptions.)

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

My child has a friend over and just turned on Prince and told their friend “he’s the best and I can’t wait to introduce to his music”. My work here is done.

Pro-life democrats are willing to sacrifice Black women’s and Women of Color’s lives. Check thread for a few examples. Trigger warning; Black women dying during pregnancy.

You mean pro-sepsis candidates? Pro-women bleeding out in parking lots candidates? Pro-forcing girls to carry the product of rape and incest candidates? Pro-goverment all up in your cooter candidates? Just the most unserious conciliatory pendejo shit these two are peddling.

Pro-life democrats are willing to sacrifice Black women’s and Women of Color’s lives. Check thread for a few examples. Trigger warning; Black women dying during pregnancy.

And they are all willing to sacrifice some very real marginalized people in order to chase an imaginary voter

genuinely believe that a large number of political, economic and media elites do not realize that nearly half the voting public did not vote for trump

The idea of running anti-abortion Democrats is sickening to me. That means killing women! That is what that means!

Keep the pressure ON!

“Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man, in a move parents described as “outrageous” and “upsetting.” Meta has 100% stopped even *pretending* not to be astoundingly evil. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Wayne Connell, Chief HR officer for @washingtonpost.com, voluntarily put his name on a letter informing a Black woman that men who believe she is genetically inferior are a protected class and that she engaged in misconduct by criticizing men who have historically advocated for lynching Black people

Karen Attiah made critical comments about *men who are white supremacists* and @washingtonpost.com said that they are a protected class Be clear about what they were saying That white supremacists are a protected class

No, we do not. We have to actually stand for something. And communicate it effectively. Then go out and persuade non-voters to vote and to vote for the things we stand for.

That’s me in the video. And a Fox News host just celebrated me being assaulted by ICE. If ICE will do this to a congressional candidate with a big platform, just imagine what they’re doing to the people they’re kidnapping.

I promise you that E. Klein doesn't have a clue as to how to get anyone out of this current fascist predicament. He really doesn't and he is demonstrating it in public for any sentient being being to see. You follow his lead at your peril and everyone else's. Don't be misled.

More exhibits because the B.S. is neverending. Exhibit K: Relentless attacks on CRT and Black professors at universities > universities don't address it > higher ed is now getting bullied out of MILLIONS of dollars and having to shutter curricula > ALL STUDENTS AND FACULTY LOSE

lol when we say listen to Black women, we mean ACTIVELY listen

White supremacy is given so many chances to launder itself into legitimacy through white mediocrity

we should have never normalized filming strangers in public and posting them as content

A lot of people ask me how I stay level headed with everything that’s happening like I didn’t grow up when Bush stole an election, failed to stop 9/11, launched two bullshit wars and Homeland Security, got caught doing straight up torture, and Katrina where Black people were abandoned & then hunted.

My department at CU Boulder is hiring BOTH an Assistant Professor of Journalism AND an Associate/Full Professor of Journalism Studies. I am on the search committee for the Associate job. Happy to answer questions or direct you to the right people. Links in this thread.

one of the common threads you will frequently find among devoted adult readers & writers is that as kids the librarian let them get away with reading whatever the fuck they wanted. so much of the scifi and fantasy I fell in love with as a kid was very much Not For Kids, but it made my brain light up

lol in case folks haven't noticed, every political and economic attack in this country is perfected on minorities FIRST and then scaled. 🤷🏿‍♀️

Black women Black studies scholars DV activists Every appellation of queer Most sociologists My therapist and most of her colleagues Urban studies scholars oh and most importantly CRT. Would also like to have some words

This isn’t the America I know” Black People:

Baldwin told us: "If...one managed to change the curriculum in all the schools so that Negroes learned more about themselves & their real contributions to this culture you would be liberating not only Negroes, you'd be liberating white people who know nothing about their own history"

In light of the increasing prevalence of pepper balls and tear gas at the Broadview site, I just want to reshare this toolkit from Vision Change Win, which includes best practices for treating tear gas and pepper spray exposure. You can also find this info in the appendix of Let This Radicalize You.

Folks will believe what they want to, don't spend your precious time and energy arguing or persuading Be a bitch and keep it hustling my baby

I been the subject of projections, rumors, and assumptions over the years and while ain't shit true, I cared a lot and worried about it for a long time This year has liberated me of these concerns lmao, and it feels so good

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

AP-NORC poll | 9/11-9/15 President Trump approval Disapprove 60% (+7) Approve 39% (-6) (shift since last poll) apnorc.org/projects/pes...

Baldwin told us: "If...one managed to change the curriculum in all the schools so that Negroes learned more about themselves & their real contributions to this culture you would be liberating not only Negroes, you'd be liberating white people who know nothing about their own history"

I believe that a lot of this could be solved if white people would just listen to Black and brown people. Find some community with Black and brown people. And then shut up and listen to them. A lot of you do not have any actual Black and brown friends/comrades/etc and it's painfully obvious.

It’s genuinely fascinating how permanently evergreen MLKs comments about white moderates and centrists remain, decades later, and they didnt even have social media outlets back then to truly confirm and back it up. They are all just very stupidly “like that”

I believe in the wisdom of Rico Richie: If you ain't got no haters, you ain't poppin'.

The thing everyone can do right now is to find your lane if you don't already have one and work that lane diligently and with commitment.

Trying so hard to be consistent in things I know I need to stay rooted: nutrition, h2o, meditation, movement, journal. Honestly, it’s hard because folks keep trying to uproot us all. But I know that means I need to fight harder for my own wellbeing. Hoping each of you is finding ways to root down.

We are living in some supremely absurd times.

Exactly. And let’s be clear that when the right came for mostly Black & Brown women & queer professors, the left & universities didn’t protect us. The right used us as targets before they went to CRT, DEI, universities generally & now broader culture. They let us be harmed & now it’s harming them

People keep "debunking" the claim that Charlie Kirk wanted to stone gay people to death but I'm pretty sure he meant it.

i honestly think the level of energy these guys have about getting people to RSVP to a protest doesn’t make any kind of sense unless you take into account that most of the people saying “don’t RSVP“ are Black women and then you see they’re just dunking on Black women Then the energy makes sense

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

JUST IN: Late last night a federal judge in San Francisco granted TRO to 20 states + DC blocking a Trump administration demand for recipient data from SNAP, the former food stamp program. Judge Maxine Chesney (Clinton). Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

I guess this is a good opportunity to invite people to do the reading. Peep former SNCC organizer Martha Prescod’s name on the cover 👏🏽 #BookSky www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

Y’all sit on this internet absorbing AAVE, erasing linguistic history, and talking over Black women who have legal and historical and organizing expertise you clearly don’t It’s embarrassing and it’s sad you can’t see it because you’d be much more useful to doing any resistance if you could

If you’re gonna be a white dude commentator using AAVE to dunk on a Black woman, you should at least be right and not just a dude who normally speaks standard English but refuses to understand it when a Black woman uses it. An RSVP is not the same as being on a mailing list.