Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of racism gets at why it's not something that can be ignored: "the state-sanctioned and/or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death". --- THE PREMATURE DEATH part is not something that can be "ignored"

it’s amazing in this moment for anyone in public education to say “you know what kids don’t really need to learn? how to speak for themselves and how to piece together their own arguments about what’s real and true in the face of a lot of bullshit”

This is the @nytimes.com once again whitewashing violence & genocide. He didn’t end “illegal crossings” — wtf even is that — he ended asylum. He didn’t broker a ceasefire; it’s genocide by another name. It’s wild how rotten the storied institutions of this country are showing themselves to be.

Every few years you hear about US troops killed in Africa and for a minute we pay attention to the US military presence there, our bases, alliances, the way US interventions add to instability, and then we in the US forget, only to be told that it’s good that Trump is dropping bombs for peace.

educators know both the labor of education (our working conditions) & the labor of learning (the process we work to facilitate) better than any AI booster. We know what is being sold to us & why. We have been on the ed tech merry-go-round before

Immigration *restriction* – by making black market connected coyotes more appealing – is the national security threat

Institutions obviously matter, but if we don’t collectively reject the ideas that immigration is a national security threat new institutions will eventually perform the same functions.

read this to hate him more

Regular degular neighbors and coworkers throwing themselves directly at the fash and teaching their people to do the same. Not the most radical or the most Democrat, not the youngest or smartest or loudest, just people who give a shit discovering they were the ones they were waiting for.

I think the problem with Trump threatening another country to demand it give up its territory to him is that that is never ok.

unsarcastically: I give credit to Michael Walzer for explicitly saying, in essence, "btw I didn't read any of this and am just gonna vibe it out" in the intro to his racial capitalism article rather than the pretend reading done by most in this genre

In 2008 ICE arrested almost 18% of the population of Postville Iowa. Children reported nightmares about being disappeared after attending school after the raid, their classrooms missing up to three quarters of the students because their parents had either been arrested or feared arrest

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

The definitive proof that ICE was always a fascistic institution is that Trump didn't needed to reform It. No mass firing, no change in training, no mass hiring. He simply said "go, my attack dogs, find brown people". And they went, because they were always fascists.

Anger is essential but so too is knowing who to be mad at and why.

Hegemony works by making relatively uncommon positions feel like common sense and online take having often means a lot of people do this FOR THEIR ENEMIES.

We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.

frankly if the insufferable inhabitants of Hawkins Indiana simply had class consciousness none of this demon shit would be happening in the first place. and no I won’t elaborate on this

If enough legal scholars and judges take a legal position then it is a serious one.

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

Y’all, aren’t going to believe this, but Trump’s administration lies a lot. So, taking their word on anything, especially on military action, is rather foolish.

I got to build and race some Hot Wheels cars today which was fun.

Some people you defeat, not convince.

“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” - Ray Goforth

“Righteous violence vented on some brutish lower caste has always been the key to entry into the fraternity of Western nations”. Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win by Clara Zetkin

an easy way to understand this is that people make clothes cool and not the other way around. so our judgement of what looks "good" is often shaped by the cultural capital of various social groups. punks, skaters, hip hop heads, etc look stylish simply bc they are cool. thus money is not a barrier.

It did not "go viral". It was intentionally filmed and disseminated using a network of coordinated bots, amplified by an algorithm designed to spread this kind of content quickly. This was a harassment campaign, intended to silence everyone. Call it what it is.

I'm looking to speak with anyone who's ever been on the admin side of the Solidarity Tech suite of organizing software. DM me!

Hands off Nigeria.

Some people you defeat, not convince.

“If I were you.” -a person who is indeed not me and someone I did not ask.

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This has nothing to do with faith or observance btw. It’s just about establishing an official hierarchy of citizenship where they are on top. bsky.app/profile/mark...

#tdih 1521: enslaved Africans on a Santo Domingo sugar plantation owned by Christopher Columbus's son attempted to free themselves and take over the land. This was the earliest recorded slave uprising in the Americas. ⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/en...

I think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story

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Our current system is shedding medical professionals and hospitals. It is so wild watching rich dilettantes demonstrate they literally have no clue of the details of the system they are defending.

they don’t tell you when you buy a christmas tree at the christmas tree farm that you could take it home, decorate it, and then be relaxing in your living room seven nights later when A BAT suddenly flies out and starts CRASHING AROUND YOUR HOUSE

What happened to a regular cat up against impossible odds with nothing other than determination, creativity & maybe a flamethrower? We need to go back to that. We need action movies about a person that doesn’t know martial arts. But what that person has is a family to home to. And daddy issues.

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

Idc how I otherwise feel about a movie or show — if the needle drops Dirty Work, I’m locked in

This is a business and it has to be shut down. You aren’t going to end this through prosecutions.

when I was in high school a kid who was caught smoking ganja told our principal that all the kids were doing it so he should to, guy was a pioneer ahead of his time

Cruz teaches the gang Spanish using telenovela.

Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.

The guy who loudly led the effort and made the choice to deny aid to people all across the Global South is posting about white genocide on his public site everyday.