The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Oh my god #KeepEyesOnSudan

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New evidence shows combining cash and support boosts livelihoods and stability. Investing in people pays off. 💸🌏 theconversation.com/can-south-af... #Politics

Reports the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are digging mass graves in Elfasher, the city in Sudan’s western Darfur region that has seen mass killings & displacement since RSF took over last month... RSF “have begun to dig mass graves and to collect bodies throughout the city” @aljazeera.com

"Why don't people support welfare programs?" Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness. White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky

This is also true in the US (only worse). People like to assume that it's because Black babies are less healthy, but risk remains consistently higher when adjusted for income and other risk factors. Having a Black medical provider cuts the increased risk in half.

Babies born to black mothers 81% more likely to die in neonatal care, NHS study shows

Ask any of your favorite Black women writers from a decade ago why their bylines stopped appearing, and you’ll likely hear the same response: There is no place for us in media. In TV. In publishing or academia. For the majority of us, there’s no place but gone.

“It’s not just that everyone wants to go to the hospital and then there’s no hospital. You bomb the hospital…people are less likely to want to go to a hospital. People are less likely to want to be health workers. It becomes a dangerous profession so less people do it…that has a generational impact”

This should be the biggest news story in the world right now

So Nigel Farage, who spent a huge chunk of his speech today attacking plans to raise even the slightest of taxes on the wealthy, thinks one of the biggest problems facing the UK is that young people on the minimum wage are being paid too much bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around. Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.

Meanwhile, in Chicago, hundreds waited in line at food pantries after SNAP benefits were halted. "I work a full-time job," said 26-year-old Jazmine Blair. "But I still can't afford basic stuff and it's kind of sad. I'm surviving. I'm not living."

For journalists covering what is happening in Darfur, please center Darfurian analysts/perspectives at this time. I can provide some contacts in the DMs.

The collective wealth of the top 10 US billionaires soared by $698bn in the past year… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social is a clear and horrifying explanation of the atrocities underway in El Fasher. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🚨 The Tanzanian government is attempting to cover up the grave human rights abuses it has committed in a desperate bid to stay in power. 🚨 Join us **today** at 5PM UK time/8PM Tanzania time for a space of solidarity and resistance. Set a reminder now: x.com/i/spaces/1RD...

The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.

Which is why the Sudanese diaspora's efforts to continuously spotlight the atrocities are life-saving and heroic #KeepEyesOnSudan

@sevslv.bsky.social & I spoke to Middle East Eye about the potential/challenges for the #ICC to take action against individuals in UAE for atrocities in Darfur, Sudan. It’s complicated! #intLaw www.middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-c...

This war's brutality includes damage to cultural heritage:""I have a message to all the world. Because we thought that cultural heritage is belonging to the certain geographical area, yes, this is true, but... we know archaeology or cultural heritage is — belong to the all mankind"" #KeepEyesOnSudan

"The sand in and around the city of approximately 400,000 is so caked with blood that you can see evidence of the RSF’s war crimes via satellite imagery, according to Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL)." Zeteo's Peter Rothpletz in today's First Draft morning newsletter, on Sudan:

Emergency UNSC meeting condemns mass killings by the RSF in Sudan, but doesn’t take action against the UAE, the RSF’s main backer. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

@tomfletcherun.bsky.social:""But what is different today, we are seeing a different global reaction. One of resignation... So this is also a crisis of apathy." Apathy to similar crimes elsewhere contributed to this situation. It's why tolerating these crimes is dangerous beyond any one conflict.

I think Nia DaCosta's HEDDA is fantastic. It's a show of style and force that features the best performance of Tessa Thompson's career. Here's the conversation I did with DaCosta for @ebertvoices.bsky.social.

Sharing for awareness: For those able and willing to help, the Embassy of Jamaica in DC is coordinating disaster relief in the U.S. They have asked folks to reach out to them at [email protected] to coordinate support. The government has info on donations supportjamaica.gov.jm

The stuff on Grokpedia relating to immigration is terrible. Lots of serious errors, lots of fake facts, lots of citations to a single biased source, lots of nakedly biased writing... it's just as bad as you'd expect.

🤩Super excited that Le Monde have published a summary of our piece for @JoDemocracy on the "Myth of Democratic Resillience", with a stronger focus on the implications for Latin America 🤩 This version is for Spanish speakers out there ... www.eldiplo.org/notas-web/el...

#Sudan: We are deeply concerned about the situation in El Fasher. As fighting intensifies, thousands are trapped with no safe way out. The Rapid Support Forces have announced that they have taken control of the city.

“More than 150,000 people have died across the country and about 12 million have fled their homes, creating one of the worst humanitarian crises.” This is a genocide in Sudan.

“My findings were beyond reasonable doubt that this was an intentional killing of Shireen Abu Akleh.” Retired Army Colonel Steve Gabavics tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social that the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, was intentional according to his findings. Watch the episode: zeteo.com/p/breaking-a...

Gobsmacked by Amy Sherald's talent. The paintings are remarkable. But her words, her intention with her art...celebrate her.

BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name

A Writer Takes Us Inside The First Prison Film Festival

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

While most international eyes are rightly focused on the Gaza Strip, the steady increase in settler and state violence in the West Bank is a dangerous trend towards ethnic cleansing.

Transitions Magazine is coming out with an issue entirely dedicated to Sudan soon with essays, memoir, and short fiction by Rogaia Abusharaf, Jamal Mahjoub, Fatin Abbas, Ahmed Abdel Al, Wagas Elsadig, Suzi Mirghani, and David Mikhail.

🏛️🎓What happens when former members of congress become lobbyists? Hear UCR professor @dadakim.bsky.social describe a recently published study on revolving-door lobbying among US universities: youtube.com/shorts/K9wYy... #polisky

In this month’s #GlobalSocialChallenges focus, we spotlight Elizabeth Rasekoala, who shares insights from her latest research, 'Race and Sociocultural Inclusion in Science Communication'. https://ow.ly/S7ye50XgirW

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

Nia DaCosta brings a “combination of fidelity and freedom, of interpretation and imagination,” to “Hedda,” her adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play, @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social writes.

From my favourite Lucille Clifton poem: "come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed." folukeafrica.com/wont-you-cel...

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers Horrendous! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

In my brief critical reflection for @politicsgenderj.bsky.social I argue for moving beyond rhetoric to meaningfully engage with LGBTQ communities in WPS efforts, and what this means in terms of practical steps for creating space for queer perspectives in peacebuilding. bit.ly/4onUXYZhttp:...