Decades, you say? It's almost like this didn't just start in 2025 and is symptomatic of a larger systemic problem that's been fostered by everyone in power, regardless of party affiliation 🤔

So, are we putting an asterisk on the name of MLB’s first Black manager?

I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them

“There are no choices in US politics. Just forced actions and manufactured consent.”

Time to drop some evergreen against denial.

White people have to live in a constant present because if they learned history it would not be good for them 👻

State violence right here in the good ole USA

'...But other polling suggests that, like most Americans, [black Americans] simply have little confidence or interest in national politics — and that they potentially wanted even more than Sanders or Clinton were prepared to offer'.

Oftentimes Jack is gone.

“the entire corner of … Beacon Street and … Union Street was used by multiple police agencies to begin staging …. more than 20 vehicles were parked on the streets, including 3 unmarked vans, an MPD Special Weapons and Tactics bearcat, and more than 10 … Sheriff’s Department vehicles”

“The senator added the deportees were reportedly flown across the world in shackles and left in an active conflict zone, arguing that this raised serious human rights and international law questions for the State.” www.thejournal.ie/shannon-airp...

I voted against genocide. Stop explaining my motives to me.

The liberal version of "America First" is when they selfishly argue that everyone should have voted for Kamala Harris, despite her material support for genocide, because the lives of people in the US need to be prioritized over stopping the war crimes we're committing around the world.

“US Marshals, acting on behalf of the DOJ in Memphis, TN, kicked a dog during an arrest, leaving it with a broken rib.”

Does everyone know that Bard is known for programs that let kids go to college after 10th grade? 15 years old.

Pitchers and catchers start reporting to Spring Training next week, so it is worth noting that US Major League Baseball did not hire its first Black manager until 1975 (Frank Robinson, Baltimore Orioles). There are currently only 2 Black MLB managers.

“If they [Democrats] will continue to proscribe us, if they will continue to cultivate prejudice against us; if they will continue to decry the Negro and crush him under foot, then you cannot expect the Negro to rise while the Democrats are trampling upon him and his rights” — Joseph H. Rainey

The incremental Nashville Plan: “To further soften the impact of these gradual changes, a liberal transfer policy would be introduced, allowing students whose race was in the minority in their newly assigned schools to opt for a majority-status alternative—that is, choose to remain in segregation.”

“[Primaries] are structured in a way that reduces turnout. Black Americans also report that they have little faith in the primary process — a majority (53 percent) think that ‘the outcome of the primary would have been very different if the [Democratic National Committee] had been more even-handed’”

“Peaceful” and “protest” are oxymorons. “We would go to Washington and demand to be heard, and we would stay until America responded. If this meant forcible repression of our movement, we would confront it, for we have done this before …. If it meant jail, we accepted it willingly” — MLK, Jr.

“Seeger, Carawan, and Frank Hamilton copyrighted the song to protect it from becoming a commercialized pop song. All royalties go to the nonprofit We Shall Overcome Fund, which provides grants to assist African American musicians in the South.” #BlackHistoryMonth

The rare occasion you see legislators vote to *lower* the minimum wage. Obscene. www.1011now.com/2026/02/05/n...

Based

“the entire corner of … Beacon Street and … Union Street was used by multiple police agencies to begin staging …. more than 20 vehicles were parked on the streets, including 3 unmarked vans, an MPD Special Weapons and Tactics bearcat, and more than 10 … Sheriff’s Department vehicles”

“We are faced with a very serious and profound crisis with no easy exit in sight …. You don’t have to dig that deeply … to understand that this bludgeoning of nondocumented workers is an attack on the entire US working class …. It is a precursor of a … full-throated fascism” — Professor Gerald Horne

From Howard Fast’s 1944 novel, Freedom Road, wherein POTUS Grant gets a direct appeal to keep federal troops in the South to constrain the Klan menace.

“In October 2011, Jeffrey Epstein met with the creator of the anonymous message board 4chan. His conversation with Christopher ‘moot’ Poole took place just days before the fateful relaunch of 4chan’s influential far-right imageboard, /pol/ (shorthand for ‘Politically Incorrect’)”

How can I take @hrw.org seriously after this? “Frelick also wrote: ‘I also question the strategic value of HRW advocating in 2025 for Palestinian refugees and their descendants to reclaim homes in present-day Israel that were lost in 1948.’”

“Longoria then drove ‘through the only open pathway down the street [towards safety] …. We were instead met with gunfire. After we had passed the men, one of the four men attempted to murder us after we passed by. He fired and made contact with the passenger side of our car multiple times’”

“Sena’s lawyers say the dismissal was due to her filing an ethics complaint against the school for racial discrimination for comments they made around a decision not to give her student a financial award that would have alleviated her debt, citing a speech the student made at a law school symposium”

An elegant elaboration of “back to brunch”

Having to explain Realpolitik to triangulating hardheads is also exhausting. Politics is not a simple math equation.

But I will say (especially white) liberals cannot fathom what we have seen and endured. They don't get it. They never will.

Putting aside the fact that the arts tend to presuppose generational knowledges and sustainable apprenticeships (no less questions of class)

Do people with permanent positions in academia get that the only way the rest of us continue to exist is if we can at least secure *temporary* funding to do things like eat and pay rent? It is not entirely clear to me that get this. (Or this is a class issue.)

Technology that doesn't work is a desired feature to the surveillance state, not a bug. When everyone is a "maybe" match, then probably cause can be manufactured to justify whatever it is one wanted to do in the first place. www.wired.com/story/cbp-ic...

My latest at @thebarbedwire.com ... I spent weeks interviewing current and former students, faculty, nonprofits and others about the way queer campus life has suffered over the past 2 years and how, in some cases, community members have stepped up to help.

“What [the black residents] of Hamburg remembered most were the words they heard over and over from the white men as they shot and killed …. “we’ll carry South Carolina; about the time we kill four or five hundred more, we will scare the rest” — Stephen Budiansky, The Bloody Shirt #BlackHistoryMonth

Conservatives have wanted to eliminate universal public education since since the first public schools were launched in the South during Reconstruction

“the [US] Reconstruction experience … is unique. While African Americans were the only freed slaves to be granted political rights so soon after emancipation, those rights were limited for a people without capital or job prospects. Land would have served as the primary source for reparations”

“Certain African American cultural contributions to the region were slowly erased, or at least obscured, as part of the effort to depict Appalachia as a ‘racially pure ethnic reservoir in the mountains’” #BlackHistoryMonth

Henry Hugh Proctor — Tennessee native, Fisk University grad, Social Gospel pastor, comrade of W.E.B. Du Bois and Washington Gladden — built one of the strongest US churches in Atlanta, and organized a biracial committee in the wake of the 1906 Atlanta riots #BlackHistoryMonth

“‘the Israeli diamond industry contributes about $1 billion annually to the Israeli military and security industries … every time somebody buys a diamond that was exported from Israel, some of that money ends up in the Israeli military’”

#Bluesky mods still silencing advocates for #FreePalestine.

“The San Francisco’s teachers union will call for a strike date of Monday, Feb. 9 …. The district’s 6,400 educators were informed of the union decision via an email earlier this morning, and United Educators of San Francisco is set to … announce the strike date at an 8:45 a.m. press conference”

A government that hates this child and his family, so much that they want to kidnap and deport them, has no right to exist. Time to overthrow these monsters. And to get rid of the institutions that enabled their depravity. ICE, DHS, cops, borders, capitalism—all that shit has to go.

We murdered two more people in a boat today

Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #abolishice #iceout #palantir #paloalto

why we can’t have anything nice “The influx of tourists to the town of Fujiyoshida has led to chronic traffic congestion and litter, while some residents say they've experienced tourists trespassing or defecating in private gardens.”