Oooof. Can't imagine living through that kind of betrayal only to be seeing it repeat itself. Thanks for reminding us of this very recent history, though.

When my family was trying to get visas to visit China in 1978, the phone was clicking up a storm. I got on the other line just to hear it. And then the operators voice interrupted and said “I’m sorry I’ve been informed I can’t let you go ish this phone call.” Then the phone was dead for 2 days.

You know, the opportunity to revisit — as adults — those people, places, & circumstances that make us who we are is a gift. But sometimes a really, REALLY sobering one. I hope that you can look on it with fresh & compassionate eyes, and without its being too draining on your spirit.🌸

Girl! I’m on tour with this book and I am discovering that my childhood was not at all normal.

Yep. But I just remembered he left his wife for a white woman. 😬

Watching now, also on today's Bad Faith Podcast there was a Mr. Haywood and Haymarket Books shout out

“That will sure be a lesson to me.” He grumbled.

Wondering which of my Signal contacts are cops. I assume 10 percent of activists around me at all times are cops. As a Cointelpro survivor, this is triggering AF. I remember asking my dad what happened to my babysitter and he said “It turns out he was an FBI agent.”

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

My illustrator told me he was hot. First, I didn’t even know he was attracted to men. And then I saw the picture he was referring to and even I agreed. And I am not attracted to men.

Yes he was handsome. But give some credit to the meticulous attention his wife Anna Murray Douglass paid to his care, his home, & the presentation of his garments. It was Anna, a free woman who he met in Baltimore, who out of her meager savings gave FD the money for his train ride to escape.

#BHM Day 14: Warmed Earth Embrace 🧶 This is a new colorway & perfect to talk abt today as it's rooted in tenderness, freedom, & quiet intimacy. The colorway draws inspiration from Miguel Ângelo Lupi's 1879 painting depicting a formerly enslaved Black couple seated closely together. #yarnsky 1/6

I agree. And read Blackhawk’s Rediscovery of America. Whenever I teach the Cherokee Cases people are blown away. We are in that wake as well.

6/ Before the 14th Amendment, even white Americans lacked the full freedoms enshrined in the Bill of Rights. But the political organization of the emancipated was met with white violence. The crisis drove Congress to intervene, changing the Constitution for all. Incorporation Doctrine. Look it up.

4/ …19th-century reformers accepted Indigenous people but not *peoples.* “Make them citizens; extinguish tribes” was the cry of Theodore Roosevelt even after he worked and fought alongside Natives he respected. Anything not born of Europe, they held, was savagery, to be extinguished. Rubio agrees—or

🧵 Historian Ned Blackhawk writes that encounter, not discovery, defines the American origin story. Rubin’s shocking blood-and-soil praise song of conquest ignores that truth. He harks back to the doctrine of discovery to pronounce the Americas terra nullius before European arrival—“empty,” he said.

America may have always been like this for far too many people but this administration is bringing it home, directly and in person, to a ton of folks who have never seen it before that this is their response is extremely encouraging

Krazie Kristi now says the "right" people should vote on Election Day

Prevention may have wider spillovers than we thought: Eric Topol explores the evidence that older adults who received a shingles vaccine had a roughly 20% lower risk of developing dementia in later years buff.ly/iuMmX9U #ShareGoodNewsToo

I took notes. OMG. But I stand by Lauryn. It’s everyone pick on the Black woman for knowing her worth. I waited 2.5 hours for her to perform live. It was worth it.

Hey @blackskyweb.xyz I need the Mothership. Yesterday.

Just post a skeet saying that you want to join @ blacksky; that’s it!

I haven’t read this but I know this man and his work. I helped coordinate 350.org’s divest from fossil fuels tour when it was in Salt Lake. He personally and his work generally has taught me a lot. When I read this I will ask: what will stop us at 2 degrees?

Omg you guys didn’t have to get me anything for a Valentine’s Day! but that’s so sweet, I love it 🥰

Sharing this with anyone here who needs it because it is 2/14 youtu.be/KS8FIjD09Zo?...

Help needed right now in San Jose: to stop a kidnapping:

Your 'doom quote' for today: "In the end, political realism bested scientific realism, and the world settled on the two-degree target." www.thriftbooks.com/w/oil-and-ho...

Right outside my window there was the largest series of explosions. My first thought was ICE IS BACK But it is 🧧 Chinese New Year! I love my Blasian community.

We organize. We inspire. We build. Together. #TwinCities

Happy Birthday to Frederick Douglass who didn’t know his birthday because he was born into slavery so he chose February 14 as his birthday.

(plants 🧪 flag) I claim these skies, FOR SCIENCE 🌱 🔬 👩‍💻 🐜 🫘 🧬 #ScienceSky #NewSkies bsky.app/starter-pack...

A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU

FEMA has been around a lot longer than DHS, I think. There was not department of “homeland security” until after 9/11. As soon as that word “homeland” came out I was like oh, no because words mean things

Four people have been indicted on federal charges stemming from clashes with federal officers in Minneapolis.

Inshallah

May they never reopen.

BREAKING: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shuts down due to lack of funding

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Myself and @sesmith.lol and others were interviewed for the Lancet’s obituary of our friend Alice. <3

This world also has no military industrial complex or prisons, and “a.i.” surveillance is only used to root out invasive species.

Anyone else read that depressing AF book The Water Knife? We are rapidly approaching his vision: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Now she can talk about genocide and Gaza. I remember her shushing her own constituents in a movie theater like a mean girl. I stopped listening after that: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

FFS www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I had not even heard about any of these movies: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

Mrs. Magzanian. I learned about the Armenian holocaust from her. We spent a lot of time together. In her office. When she wasn’t doing a drug search of my locker. What a way to learn about a historical atrocity.

Becky: Back of class, probably stoned “You mean as opposed to fake numbers? Are their fake numbers? Aren’t they all fake? Wait—are they the REALIST THINGS—“

I kept getting kicked out of math class as a teen: Setting, Interior, Brooklyn Friends School. Dr. Hall is in 9th grade Algebra class. (She was known as Becky then). Enter teacher: an over confident young cis-het man. Teacher: “Today, class, we will learn about real numbers.”

“I refused to be punished for being able to think multiple thoughts at the same time! I think in chunks. Get over it!”