Folks bypass things like the fact that NYPD activated drones and 30 cop cars for a demonstration of 1000 people in freezing weather today. The levels of surveillance and potential repression are taken as regular order in this country.

yeah that's fair

A grip of my ancestors came here with nothing. Not even their own bodies. Not even their own tongue. And got us to a point where I am clickity-clacking on a computer relatively safe and comfortable. For now, anyway. And all I owe them for all of that is to never go back.

"They can't win." It's not about winning. It's about not losing your freedom. You can't enslave anybody if everybody is dead. Including you.

I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather. “No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!” “No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”

Let me repeat. Not feckless. Collaborators.

And i'm ashamed to be an American, where at least i know i'm dammed

The United States needs you to believe we're not an imperial power. Even the imperialists want you to believe our imperialism is the result of outside influences. Because if you believe that, you won't recognize that having the world's largest carceral state is meant to suppress your dissent.

forget the long arc of history bending towards justice, I need the rube goldberg machine of inexorable consequence to endgame the kind of profoundly ironic yet blackly hilarious karmic downfall that would’ve had ancient greek theatergoers hollering at the chorus

“Sometimes you don’t survive whole. You only survive in part. But the *grandeur* of life is that attempt. It’s not about the solution. It’s about being as fearless as one can and behaving as beautifully as one can under completely impossible circumstances.”

"A woman dressed as a pink Power Ranger hacked a dating site for far-right extremists. She deleted the entire site, but first she made users fall in love with AI bots she ran, thus obtaining information about them. Over 8,000 far-right profiles have now been mapped."

you cannot blockade a country and bomb its capital cities and capture its leader without being at war with it, is the thing

the announcement of a blockade of venezuela consitutes a continued escalation of war. no doubt internet enslopification via reactionary social media algorithms and ai will be used to manufacture consent. no doubt that israel's genocide of palestinians will have technologies deployed on venezuelans

the united states can just go ahead and bomb any country and regime change them in broad daylight to become another neocolony without even the pretense of even covert operations or plausible deniability this time. not new at all but this is particularly brazen

I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...

"my most daring Idea is to refuse. I mean. The proposal for a post-human future is one where there will be human beings who will just be treated inhumanely. We're not going to stop making humans they are just saying: 'we are not going to treat you as humans' And I refuse.

Ima need another plantation to burn to the ground in the near future.

it's been said before but measles resets your immune system. it's like aids-level bad for you except touching people actually does spread this shit. there is no treatment or cure, you must ride it out and possibly die.

This year’s slate is a reminder that Black women are not confined to one lane; they are shaping the industry from every angle, telling stories that are daring, emotionally resonant, and culturally expansive.

"My child was born in the war, no shelter, no safety. We sleep outdoors, and my child knows no play or laughter. We need your support to live with dignity. Donate now and share our story 💔🙏🏻" gofund.me/d14cbe76

Another one from much warmer times, recording 'What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow' in North Carolina. A welcome reminder that spring will always come again. I hope you’re staying bundled up out there and enjoying time with loved ones. Video: Alexei Mejouev

TIL: Before Hans Asperger or Leo Kanner, a Jewish-Ukrainian psychiatrist named Grunya Sukhareva defined autism in 1925. Both men did not cite her work. She also had documented how it affected women and girls, where the men did not. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunya_...

"The question for the Luddites was never simply whether to accept or reject a new machine, but rather who controlled it, how it was deployed, and whose interests it served. . .

A necessary read! Thank you for writing 🖤

I've got my VGen store setup now - feel free to reach out through here for queries, as well as to check out some of my past work and available services! vgen.co/EldritchSmite #VGenComm

If you live in a system where your options are fast or slow genocide, you are engaging in necropolitics, not democracy.

The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

*clears throat* it’s not vaccines it’s not Tylenol it’s not circumcisions it’s not bubble butt it’s not circumcisions it’s not Tylenol it’s not vaccines & it’s not a fucking problem Autistic people oppose cure, condemn it as eugenic rhetoric & that should be the end of the conversation the end!

I know 2 things with absolute certainty: 1. I love my wife. 2. I will not know a day of peace until the American empire is brought to its knees bringing on an age of full multipolarity, where the African diaspora can experience true liberation. And that’s why I shouldn’t be selected for jury duty.

‘We own it’: Community-owned grocery store opens in Flint, Mich., marking the end of a longtime food desert

jk simmons is the superior casting choice for yt santa claus. tim allen sweetie i'm sorry you thought that was your gig but jk is eating you up i fear.

finished inks! still need to add a couple important elements (text, guitar strings) plus splash of color but almost done #sinners

Cheryl Harris's 1993 "Whiteness As Property" identifies this sort of personal injury as a new, post-Brown form of whiteness as property that emerged from anti-affirmative action lawsuits in the late 70s and 80s

trans people if you did nothing else this year you made it through 12 months of the federal government having your extermination not low on its list of priorities and you can feel really good about that it’s a big deal

Those who benefit from housekeepers, clerks, waiters, and other members of this invisible workforce may be enjoying a holiday break and time off with family, but the same does not hold true for the workers who make that possible.

the graduation of a cohort of gaza’s new medical professionals in front of the ruins of al shifa hospital. No words, really.

Hopefully this video will help you see how fucking ridiculous you sound when trying to chastise Black people who hurt your weak ass feelings.

Here's what a recent donor had to say about PJP, "I’ve read a few columns and they’re so enlightening and well done." We train incarcerated writers and publish their work. As a nonprofit org, readers help fuel what we do.

wo years ago today, the three of us began Crips for eSims for Gaza. Alice, are you reading this? (We know you are.) Today, we’re launching something special we’ve been working on, and we’re grateful Alice was able to see before her passing: our official logo! #ConnectingGaza

We are in a new age of Christian nationalism — one powered by American militarism, propelled by anti-Muslim revanchism, and turbo-charged by anti-Black racism.

Merry Yaoimas and a happy new Yuri

✨🦋BLUESKY HOT TIPS🦋✨ Hi all lovely new people. Here are some awesome features on Bsky: - everyone working for bluesky sucks - bully them wherever possible - the palestinians in your replies are not scammers

I’m back after a 3 day suspension for sharing a link to publicly available police reports exposing Blood Tribe nazis. They also removed the post. Bluesky evidently prioritizes the protection of literal, active nazis over community safety. Unfortunately for BT, they’re already in the sunlight now :)

Tonight, my heart is full of sadness, but also a lot of gratitude for the Black Panther Party. This isn't just history to me. It's a lineage. So, I'm writing this love letter to the Black comrades who came before me, and most importantly, dared to imagine true LIBERATION in the belly of the beast.

money's tight, family, i feel you on that. but did you know for the devastatingly low price of 2.99, you, too can read poems that "seem to say: we are who we are from and we become what becomes us next" ? well you can! it's the better hands ebook y'all, for your wallet's pleasure 🖤

"They don’t attempt to rebuild a world or define a world, rather they [...] dare an intimate lexicon and imagery wild and energetic enough to bare the overwhelm of the unknown world and our relationship to and relationships within it." — Praise for 'better hands', now available for preorder 🌷

hi! i'm nailah, a nonbinary black dyke who sifts for pearls in matrilineal trauma. i write for the world to come. my debut chapbook better hands releases in 04/25 but preorders open on 02/01 (this saturday!) the first 25 will receive a sheet of stickers designed by yours truly. 🌸

who breaks the cycle? what does breaking it cost? these are questions i wrestle with among other things: angels with buzzcuts and dermal scars, corrective lobotomies, grandmothers in silt lagoons, and persistent, incurable desires in 'better hands', my debut poetry collection🌷 #SapphicSeptember