Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

Ho-lee Shit. This is phenomenally good news. Department of Education rolls back— for now— its attempts to destroy Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility initiatives. Keep an eye on them, of course, and watch for the hidden knife, always, but for now: Fantastic news.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Making this a sign to point to for future reference 👇🏿

No one is talking about the speciesist bias in the Winter Olympics

It’s a good thing Apple is really dedicated to privacy, otherwise I’d say this is troubling 🙄

“…the company is expected to build upon its Google Gemini-powered Siri upgrade with an AirTag-sized AI pendant that people can either wear as a necklace or a pin. This device would ‘essentially serve as an always-on camera’ for the iPhone and has a microphone for prompting Siri…”

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades. It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

My thoughts on how critical fully funded public libraries are to any Left political project in the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

My guess is that the goal here is not only to punish the children for turning more people against ICE/DHS, but also to make news outlets think twice about reporting on kids' suffering at the hands of ICE/DHS, out of concern that doing so might lead to retaliation against the kids.

The Wall Street Journal. www.wsj.com/finance/bill...

Fascinating chart with one outlier: Warren Buffett. At the low end, giving 0.06% of one's wealth is equivalent to: Net worth -> Lifetime Giving 50K->$30 100K->$60 500K->$300 $1M->$600 Most folks give far more by % in a *single year*. www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...

Sometimes I read articles with the same energy I have at poetry readings. AI could never elicit the same excitement I feel from reading or hearing great writing.

👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 @adamserwer.bsky.social

Someone tell Hillary that this is her husband’s legacy too

and i wrote this a decade ago about jackson as the model response to trump-style politics www.slate.com/articles/new...

Accounts with basic glyphs or symbols for their avis have the wildest and moronic takes in replies to some of the smartest folks, and I just… smh.

The first presidential campaign I remember in detail was that of the Rev. Jesse Jackson. It had a monumental effect on my worldview and politics. I don’t valorize politicians, but I respect leaders. RIP #JesseJackson

Jesse and Martin. 🕊️🖤✊🏾

I called Jackson again about a year later, in July 2020, on the day John Lewis died. He talked about Lewis's moral clarity, what patriotism really means, and about the rebirth of democracy in the 60s. "Our modern democracy was born in front of that bridge." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

“Jackson is arrested in 1993 after blocking 5th Avenue as part of a group protesting against the Clinton administration’s policy of maintaining a detention camp for Haitian political refugees who were HIV positive” Remember this history as we remember this man.

The same coverup pattern that happened w the killing of Renee Good is happening again with Alex Pretti. They're doing this bc of their "standard" investigation - you know, the one where they "find" things to backup their "theories" they put out immediately after they murdered him.

Jesse v Marvin

thinking about the conversation I had with Jesse Jackson in 2019: "The truth of slavery—that Africans subsidized America’s wealth—that truth will not go away. It’s buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

My book comes out in about a month! I've got a mini-tour lined up this spring to promote it: March 11, New York, NY March 19, Berkeley, CA March 27, Tuscaloosa AL April 23, Davis, CA May 27-28, London UK Stay tuned for details! Now booking for fall too, if you're interested.

Did y'all know that NYC was such a slave city that Mayor Fernando Wood proposed that NYC secede from the Union? www.untappedcities.com/on-this-day-... How many New Yorkers do we think know this today?

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

Few things are more professionally frustrating than having an untalented manager insisting on themselves and their right to heavily edit your work. The only thing you can do is hope they get distracted or plan to leave.

I. AM. SOMEBODY. ✊🏽 Rest in Power, Reverend Jesse Jackson. youtu.be/NTVwT3j_zqY?...

Stephen Colbert has brilliantly played the political censorship by both the FCC and effectively his own employer - CBS . Told he couldn’t air an interview with Democrat James Talarico on broadcast - he went ahead and did it anyway on YouTube

The interview with Talarico has been posted to YouTube: youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A

There’s a thing he thinks he can own by smearing his name on it, but that is just a husk, and this is its beating heart.

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

I often think about the fact that if the FBI et al had not killed Fred Hampton, he would be 78 today. Younger than Jesse Jackson was. Must have felt strange to outlive many of your contemporaries by decades.

There’s no President Barack Obama without Jesse Jackson. It just doesn’t happen.

Epstein’s project was narcissistic AND ideological and the ideology was “get rid of women’s and gender studies” and it basically organized for the environment where it became normal for a centrist publication to attack women’s and gender studies funders in the way The Atlantic is attacking Mellon

This bit about the Mellon Foundation happening at the same time as the Epstein files is a coincidence but they are connected in that they are both about how under capitalism intellectual work is dependent on the largesse of robber baron tax shells and when one does something useful, they’re policed

I’m honored that The New Yorker has published a feature on my book by @samknightwrites.bsky.social examining the monarchy’s historical entanglement with slavery — and how patterns of exploitation and institutional silence echo into the present. Read here: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

The New York Times gave this raid the NYT treatment the day before the lawsuit was filed — www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u... — but here was the local report from @pfannyyy.bsky.social from the day after the raid. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/10/20/a...

Police departments across the US are quietly leveraging school district security cameras to assist Donald Trump’s mass immigration enforcement campaign, an investigation by @the74.bsky.social reveals.

Love a puff piece about giving luxury surveillance devices as articles of devotion. "The Raschkas also bucked tradition in their selection of wedding rings... they went with Oura rings, the sensor-laden, health-tracking devices that have surged in popularity" www.theinformation.com/articles/sic...

What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

MUST READ: The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪 Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.

And we’re got big news! Next year’s artist in residence is none other than @roxanegay.bsky.social!!!! Imagine getting to study writing with her AND me!!! At the same time!! APPLY!!!

Educational institutions paying millions of dollars for tech that is *known* to tell students to end their lives is inexcusable. Tell them that they can’t deploy the software until it is updated to incite the students towards violence against the administrators, not themselves.

There is no way this is a coincidence. I worked with David at @npr.org, and NotebookLM sounds *precisely* like him, including his conversational cadence.