The Black and the Green (St. Clair Bourne, 1983) on @criterionchannl.bsky.social was a great followup to Union. It's about Black activists going from America to Belfast to express their solidarity with the Irish revolutionaries during the Troubles. A beautiful portrait of solidarity as a practice.

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

65 Years Ago,,, History was made. #RubyBridges

Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.

This guy gets it

Woke up hoping for a new chapter of a great fanfic but the writer's chronic pain kept her from writing this week. Instead, I saw that we'd pressured Romania into letting us give sanctuary to sex traffickers/far right radicalizers. There is no better encapsulation of 2025.

Folks asking for sources other than NY post, Inside Higher Ed article was published yesterday, link below.

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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

The thing about “patriotic education” is that if you have to lie about America to love it then you probably don’t really love it. Ultimately their objection to the flawed universalism expressed in the declaration is the idea that the flaws were bad or that the universalism should be realized.

Donald Trump has revoked EO11246 signed by LBJ in 1965, mandating equal opportunities by federal contractors.

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

Ok so Trump. Great job bringing TikTok back, that's something I'm sure you'll never stop bragging about. Now about how fast you're taking a wrecking ball to the America's structure & threatening people's rights. Also the CDC can't even ever send us advisories about disease anymore? Overkill.

Well this is quite an opener

TikTok was never going anywhere. The TikTok creator gave millions to Trump and they orchestrated this whole PR stunt just so Trump will be seen as a 'hero' to young people. It was literally the Kidz Bop version of the Reichstag Fire

In all seriousness: the last 2 weeks of TikTok posturing and Zuck grovelling, combined with the X insanity of the last year, should show you that an app with a feed that you don’t control serves *other people’s interests* - not yours.

A lesson from the TikTok Affair should be that bipartisan efforts to preserve U.S. national security are vulnerable to the incoming president getting bought off and switching sides for his own personal and political benefit. Not great!

If law enforcement wants to enter your home, unless you consent, they need a JUDICIAL warrant like a search warrant. And you'll notice cops with search warrants don't ask permission. If ICE needs your permission to enter, they don't have a judicial warrant. They have an administrative warrant.

Ummm… Trump just played a video at his rally that was supposedly showing what the military “used to be” back “in the good old days” when we used to “win wars” vs. the “woke” military of today - by showing clips from… wait for it: APOCALYPSE NOW!! 🤦🏻‍♂️ I have no words.

@aoc.bsky.social e-mail going after TikTok & social platforms collaborating with Trump - with a shout out to @bsky.app

Trump is the icing on a very shitty cake. And we have a lot of work to do to earn the trust of the majority of the world again, if we ever had it in the first place, which is debatable. We can start by having a citizenry that stands up to Trump in tangible ways.

The last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre said the Justice Department’s recent report “falls heartbreakingly short” and are still calling for reparative action

Or that Brendan Carr, Trump's pick to head the FCC, sent Meta a letter right after the election telling Zuck that fact checking was against the First Amendment and Carr was poised to take action if Meta kept fact checking. www.fcc.gov/sites/defaul...

"White evangelicalism has never been about morality or even really faith, but identity — specifically Whiteness. By conflating religious and racial identity, white evangelicals have put a moral gloss on a deeply immoral desire for white supremacy." www.salon.com/2025/01/09/h...

Just a reminder that Facebook/Meta has allowed the most disgusting, racist calumnies about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to stand since its inception. They’re just sharing the hate a bit more widely now.

"In the eyes of autocrats and plutocrats, the future is not a right but a commodity." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) hidinginplainsightbook.com

Well, we're adults (as a children's lit scholar, one would be surprised about the capacity kids have for empathy)... But! We're adults who want to be endlessly entertained. People talk about the literacy rate, but it's not just that. Some of my elders were illiterate & did not have these politics.

Been said by many others but the Rick Riordan Presents imprint. It's my number one middle grade rec for parents looking for non-HP books. For kids who want something less intense, I often rec the Christopher Chant and Dalemark books by Diana Wynne Jones.

Alive I watch the news -- wars disasters corruption unprecedented storms I ask the Ancestors: Has it always been this bad? Their answer: We are dead Our troubles passed Now is always the hardest time to be alive. #BlueSkyPoetry #Poem

Might be a good time to point out a billionaire couple own and use more water than every home in LA combined

I stitched this old tweet by @ladyofsardines.bsky.social and remind myself of its truth literally every day.

“I didn’t make up the problems,” I pointed out. ‘All I did was look around at the problems we’re neglecting now and give them about 30 years to grow into full-fledged disasters.’" - Octavia Butler (2000) commongood.cc/reader/a-few...

Ursula K. LeGuin: "American science fiction has assumed a permanent hierarchy of superiors and inferiors, with rich, ambitious, aggressive males at the top, then a great gap, and then at the bottom the poor, the uneducated, the faceless masses, and all the women."

The real time erasure of a whole class of people from the digital world means the attempts to exterminate them from reality in the physical world are not far behind. If you are wondering where to start in your journey of anti fascism it’s by protecting trans folks from destruction.

"[It] may be right to view with a certain irony those [who work as] dispassionate analysts standing above the battle. What the historical record strongly suggests is that no one is above the battle, because the battle is all there is" - Quentin Skinner, Visions (2002), I, p. 7

As a Bodin scholar, I'm necessarily a scholar of "Sovereignty" & thus tend to 'see' it everywhere. The way the term/idea exists out there in the world can be absolutely *wild.* Friends, this exists. This is real. I'm actually kinda speechless. But also have SO MUCH to say. 😂 sovereignmale.ca

Been exhausted from holiday retail, but I did take the time to celebrate Anita Bryant's death by FINALLY hanging out Pride flag. Still need to fix the flag pole base, but that's a bigger project.

Indeed...and I'd add the friendly amendment that this has been a *multi-generational* ref working effort on the part of the American right.

Peter Thiel has been going “democracy is bad because women vote against libertarianism” for like a quarter century and people are still doing this “Silicon Valley was forced right” thing

It’s reaching Nazi-level panic. And the left needs to get the story straight. Trans people are being attacked in the same way the right has attacked any new group that petitioned for their rights in America. We defend them because we know that there’s no freedom without the freedom to be yourself.

I feel like i've read thousands of these think pieces and they all just say 'we should be nicer to white men' and 'we need to redefine masculinity to be progressive' and i think the authors are just coming at the problem in an entirely wrongheaded way

#bookchallenge Day 9 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

New Standing Room Only! Today's excerpt: Why the rape accusation against Pete Hegseth matters. Subscribe today! salon.com/newsletter Music by Fever Ray.

The right's opposition to the HPV vaccine was a harbinger of what blossomed fully into a categorical hostility to preventive medicine. Right down to the weird moralizing view that the righteous don't die of these diseases.

Everyone knows the Eve Sedgwick quotation about Christmas. Here we see it in action: a Thanksgiving Day protest against genocide making a clear historical reference to settler colonialism is, through Christmas, looped into the discourse of compulsory cheer (the noncompliant are "grinches")

Confirms a feeling I've always had-'nonpolitical' really means whatever conservatives say it does. White men will continue to insist they're the norm. It's a good reminder for media trying to avoid charges of liberal bias. There's nothing you can do. Existing outside the 'norm' is 'political bias.'

It’s worth noting here that the end of this article confirms something Rogan has publicly lied about: Harris agreed to go on Rogan and he played patty-cake with schedulers to avoid it.

good to see everyone figuring out why we said, teaching stem without the humanities was a massive mistake. Raising a generation of engineer brain sociopaths who see human suffering and anguish as something to be laughed at while they try and engineer ways around public good really isn’t going well.