Two things were crystal clear tonight: Bad Bunny loves Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico loves Bad Bunny. The care. The inclusion. The production. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

This Bad Bunny concert is absolutely phenomenal. I only wish my Spanish was better to fully understand. But IDC IDC, I'm locked all the way in.

Black women in tech balancing the schadenfreude around how we are pushed out and harmed and told it was about how we didn’t “make it” With the abject terror at how this is just racism and persecution of people based on the whims of the people everyone chose over you Yep I see you

It is very hard for me not to cut and paste passages from my book into posts at this point. I have been told by my editor not to give away the goods. That said. The difference in scale of outrage between Attiah’s firing and Kimmel’s suspension proves a whole point about canaries and coal mines.

I indeed know one of these couples. Stop confiding to AI.

Ras Baraka and LaMonica McIver started something important

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"

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Today I learned my dermatologist is an HBCU alum, as we started discussing homecoming season. Love that for us.

Forgot this number was stored in my contacts until I searched for another contact. The Peptoc hotline (707-873-7862) is a bunch of recordings of kindergarteners giving you pep talks. Spent my 15 minute ride home listening to these kids on repeat. Needed that. Website for more info.

Look, there's a reason invention, culture, and everything else accelerated when we ditched the temporal prison of the spoken word for skimmable, scannable text and this video is a good demonstration of that.

I feel like I'm living in a headline written by The Onion.

Do y'all remember when we were all at home and that whole NCAA bracket of tv theme songs was a thing? What a glorious time. Also, all things this OP.

Not lost on me that when copious research demonstrated course evals were problematic, especially for the least represented faculty in the academy (who are usually not "giving" grades), it was blown off. But sure... www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

FYI, today is National Voter Registration Day.

In honor of Trammell Tillman's well-deserved Emmy win, I will never get over whoever put Millchick's "defiant jazz" dance scene to "Not Like Us." @sorayanadiamcdonald.com, I cannot thank you enough for alerting me to this joy sparker. youtu.be/Q4NWrJSZrz4?...

I’m gonna be crass and say, preorder *my* book! Kiese Laymon calls it “the most politically audacious book I’ve read in decades” and Moiya McTier calls it “deft weave of quantum physics and cultural wisdom” 😻 #BookSky www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

I'm utterly exhausted, and it's only week 4.

Acceptance speech was 🤌🏾. Black mothers 👏🏾💗

I’m so happy for Tramell Tillman. Also, what a category of contenders. Severance and The White Lotus will be battling all night.

Come for the snark about over-priced dining and/or the derby fun ... stay for @alexhanna.bsky.social 's wisdom about how to handle & deflate the 'AI' bubble www.esckey.co/ridicule-as-...

Turning to Coco right as she remembers. 😭💜

They’re truly trying to paint charlotte, nc - once the banking capital of the whole south and still as corporate conservative as it gets — as a dangerous blue urban hellscape.

Thinking about and holding space for all the faculty, staff, and students at HBCUs today. Please be alert, cautious, and safe, y'all.

Midweek Beyond the Gates reflection. Comedy prevailed, cause how do Chelsea and anyone of the street have the ability to walk right up to her at a police precinct in one of the RICHEST parts of PG County!?!? Even Mayberry had a cell waiting for Otis whenever he felt so inclined.

*deep breaths* But hey it’s just a magical thing that folks continually decide abuse of Black women is okay and even a member of her staff ignored when we tried to point out this dynamic online in PUBLIC on Twitter ( the person who helped laugh it off helps run Blue Sky now)

This excerpt from 107 Days is familiar to so many Black women. "And when the stories were unfair or inaccurate, the president’s inner circle seemed fine with it. Indeed, it seemed as if they decided I should be knocked down a little bit more."

Thinking of BODY WORK by Melissa Febos again: "Freud believed he had solved the mystery of hysteria. [...] Instead of enjoying his anticipated professional triumph, Freud retracted his findings within a year of publishing them. He had neglected to consider the grave social implications

What a great story and act. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/p...

It is really cool to see our work being feature on the cover of the newest issue of @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social ! The design is great and captures the complexity of the system! I hope you enjoy the article!

She does it again!! CONGRATS @channyskye.bsky.social !! So excited for you! We shall celebrate next week!!

seeing the photo of the letter in full … god it's all so revolting and squirm-inducing

Since we're apparently making everything about race again, happy *SEVENTY-FIRST* birthday, Ruby Bridges.

Lawrence O'Donnell refuses to let up.

Just learned about this op-ed via Maddow. Grandparents for Vaccine officially launched yesterday. "Many of today's parents, having never witnessed the devastating effects of polio or whooping cough, are being lulled into a dangerous complacency. But we grandparents remember." Thank you.

I discovered The Gatekeepers Pod(all things Beyond the Gates) yesterday. I've only listened to the last two episodes, and I've found my people!! This is the deep dive I NEEDED, and I cannot WAIT until they discuss today's episode, cause the way I continue to find this equal parts comedy and soap.

I didn’t know about this, and if I didn’t know about this, then you probably didn’t either. This should be my entire feed and it’s not and that’s a problem  This sit in has now been going on over 48 hours and I am just hearing about it now 1/

Melo, Maya, and Sue carried this Basketball Hall of Fame class with top-tier speeches. Melo: having the audacity to see what others can't see for you. Maya: the importance of community. Sue: the importance of belonging. Phenomenal.

"I couldn't have found my place if I didn't find my people."- Sue Bird giving a word tonight. #BasketballHallOfFame

"Remember, statistics don't measure heart."-Melo #BasketballHallOfFame

They'll never make me hate you AI. NEVER! This is an Allen Iverson post. #NBAHallOfFame

For 21 years I’ve only ever seen great stuff come out of this group.

This will be interesting. "The agreement is reminiscent of the early 2000s, when courts ruled that file-sharing services like Napster and Grokster infringed on rights holders by allowing copyrighted songs, movies and other material to be shared free on the internet."

Today seems like a great time to remind you that the WWII Museum in New Orleans has an amazing 30-40 minute 4D, detailed experience of the war and impact that is narrated by Tom Hanks. Extremely powerful, and Hanks literally reminds the audience at the end why this should never happen again.

Remember that whole "the tech industry needs more masculinity thing?"

This race has EVERYTHING....

Could just be me, but I'm trying to wrap my head around this concept of "performative men," especially given the ways this counters a lot of men who are performing masculinity. This language seems like it's going to muddy the waters in weird and unintended ways. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/s...

It was a great exhibit and we were fortunate to be there when the curator was giving a talk

I'm so tired watchin this match!

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