Well, well, what’s signed, is signed; and what’s to be, will be; and then again, perhaps it won’t be, after all.

"Imagine thinking you can truly defeat a people so internally and generationally fortified. Never."

New Substack: I wrote about a surprise Corvette, a Jesmyn Ward novel, and the spirit of my dad-- authorkqueen.substack.com/p/on-the-ver...

Upcoming opportunity to work with our INFINITE CONSTELLATIONS anthology co-editor @khadijahqueen.com ! ( Do you have your copy of INFINITE CONSTELLATIONS? fc2.org/anthologies/... )

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Autism formally recognised: 1943 Tylenol invented: 1955

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n+1 comes out swinging www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

We are horrified and saddened by the death of our colleague Hussein Alnajjar who died yesterday in #Gaza. His death was due to shrapnel injuries caused by an Israeli airstrike near his tent five days earlier.

Overall, this rapid media consolidation during this political and economic moment scares me easily as much as the administrations political theater other the military.

He must be fired or impeached. Plain and simple.

Let’s buy some books!

Ngl, it's a bit disconcerting going about one's day when sitting legislators are calling for your entire community to be incarcerated and forcibly destroyed www.erininthemorning.com/p/two-republ...

Shop Loyalty to support 💙 bookshop.org/shop/loyalty

Imagine in 2025, after all the times Black women warned literally everyone about everything that’s happening right now, announcing that Black women commentators are just very paranoid When we have been right???????? This whole time????? About pretty much everything????????????!

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In the Tumbleweed, I discuss a mascot's retirement, what it teaches us about how to love, and book news starring @rlmaizes.bsky.social, @ninamcconigley.bsky.social, @khadijahqueen.com, @scottsemegran.com, @unmpress.bsky.social, @caralopezlee.bsky.social & @karenpalmer.bsky.social! bit.ly/42gAIDZ

I taught a version of this class over the summer, and it went so well I decided to offer it again. If you’re stuck with a book project, or just want fresh strategies and support, this is the class for you!

Joy Reid. Karen Attiah. Gene Robinson. Jonathan Capehart. There are lots of others. Circumstances differ. But really sad to see new organizations not keeping super-talented Black staffers. The news industry spent decades talking about diversity, improved some from 2014-2020 and is now going back.

The type of speech most punished in this society is that which consists of telling the truth about how the powerful have harmed you

the shooter was just a cis dude but even if he was the most trans person to ever trans it wouldnt justify rounding up all the trans people for crimes they didnt commit, really wish people in positions of power would be saying this

This man has been kidnapped by ICE on the pretext that his theft of two speakers in *1989* requires deportation

"The U.S. Department of Education has pulled funding for programs in eight states aimed at supporting students who have both hearing and vision loss ... 'How low can you go?' said Maurice Belote, co-chair of the National DeafBlind Coalition. 'How can you do this to children?'"

Aging can be lonely. Public libraries understand these needs and offer live and virtual activities to engage seniors and help make connections with others.

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Flood the zone with beauty and light.

our beset boat was like a ship mobbed by ice-isles in a tempest

I know Rothko's art is marketed transcendent and spiritual, but I've always felt his colour fields are rage (barely) assuaged by methodical touch. That he painted these to trap rich 'bastards' as they stuffed their faces makes me love the paintings even more.

I know Rothko NEVER 'marketed' his works as transcendent and spiritual, btw. It is how museums have gotten people to engage with his work because 1. he did not explain his work (rightfully) 2. his choice of abstraction was deeply embedded in antifascism, which doesn't read well on a museum label.

The Virginia Department of Health has issued a standing order so that people can get the COVID vaccine without a prescription. You can print out the order here: www.vdh.virginia.gov/content/uplo...

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany. “These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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THE DREAM KEEPER Bring me all of your dreams, You dreamers. Bring me all of your Heart melodies That I may wrap them In a blue cloud-cloth Away from the too rough fingers Of the world. --Langston Hughes, from The Weary Blues

This is the headline of a horrific eternity—inurement is immoral

have been also learning lately that data centers primarily draw water from public drinking water systems with huge implications for access, infrastructure quality, cost of buildout, and water rates for residential customers who already usually subsidize industrial use, in addition to capex

ICYMI— fantastic review of the memoir, thank you Terri! 🙏🏾🩵💙

We can spread information. We can archive it! I think that's a good initiative. We don't even need to be organized yet. If there's a website you want saved try to get it saved with Internet archive. It's also possible to save webpages locally.

If I were the democratic leadership, or their donors, I would be setting up shadow everything. Shadow congress. Shadow CDC. The overwhelming message being: here is where you come for facts. Here is what science really says. Here is what polling really says. Why aren’t they doing this?

Passing by my old house, and my old neighborhood, made me feel euphoric today despite the state of the world. I’ve felt so unexpectedly at home. But now that it’s evening and quiet, I’m missing my father so much. He loved L.A. It is far from perfect but now I love it anew. Tomorrow: the beach 🩵🌴☀️

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POΞTRY HAPPΞNING: Happy 73rd birthday to Jamaica-born, British-based dub poet and activist Linton Kwesi Johnson, also known as LKJ (August 24, 1952) ❝I don't know how to change the world. But I do know that the only thing that has ever changed this world is people.❞

Wild that so many on that chapeau rouge side are so afraid of every g d thing (subways, free healthcare and education, rainbow sidewalks, high speed trains, Blk folk minding our own biz) when they’re the ones bullying us all with their unnecessary BS Their fear is expensive in life and resources

I’m still alive. The earth is still alive. Language is still alive. If you can’t find any beauty where you are, you can still make it. Took 20 years to get this story out. I hope you’ll read it 💙🩵 www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/khadi...

Haymarket Books for Fighting Fascism

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We don’t even have to read it to know that it’s mayonnaise 🙃

One of the most rewarding things I do is serve on panels for awards. It is so heartening to see people devoting their time, love, and energy on creativity. Never let the reality that these weirdos are bombarding us with stop you from making what you are meant to make. 🩵💙💜

"We’re all in favor of a gold standard for science. But it’s misleading, & even a little insulting, to say that somehow NIH didn’t already support that. Everything that NIH stands for is rigor in sci...There’s some implication here that NIH has been systematically sloppy. I reject that conclusion."🛟

Why do we have to listen to a guy who the DOJ said sexually harassed 13 women pretend like he’s scared of what will happen to his daughter on the subway. What will happen to people’s daughters if their careers & livelihoods require that they are proximal to him?