It's just as simple as that. Even now, calling it "Universal Healthcare" or "Medicare for All" means that Black and Brown people would also get it, and they can't have THAT, even if they want it themselves.

“A lot of times people ask, Why don't we have free healthcare? Why is this like this?' And I'm like, somebody just didn't want Black people to have access to those services. And in trying to make things harder for Black folks, you also were collateral damage.” — @itsafronomics.blacksky.app

Did you hear the news?

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So excited to have the Barbara Smith Papers at the Schlesinger!

Mmmmm. Well.

Trump to Harvard: 2 billion $ NYT: Harvard to pay 2B$ Harvard: no Trump: 1B Harvard: no NYT: Negotiations intensify Trump: 200 million NYT: Harvard-Trump reach deal Harvard: no Trump: 0$ Harvard: ok NYT: Harvard not paying! Trump loses. Trump: How about 1B$ Harvard: no NYT: Negotiations resume!

I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

What about the apartment make it luxury????

I dont know why the divine assigned 87 year old Joyce Carol Oates to stay on Elon's ass... But Stay on his ass Joyce!!!!!!!!!!!

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I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

The collapse of the trad wife and blue collar wife who works from home model should be interesting for republicans. This isn’t Avon money anymore. A lot of of the female economy has kept middle class households afloat. But we will see 🤷🏾‍♀️

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

I’ve been known to get out of taxis and Ubers that have that tv screen on the seat, blaring dumb gambling ads at you. How dare you?? And I absolutely choose gas stations based on if they have TVs playing on the pump. Me:

I hate it. It took me about a year before I fully merged with my great grandma’s spirit and. Started unplugging the damn thing at night.

We'll see whether I can stick it out to the end, but I'm remote attending the CHC meeting on 17 Story St. Devs propose to relocate & preserve the historic Harriet Jacobs House on the same site, and demolish a 3-story building, to build a hotel and 50 apartments. Harvard Sq Conservation District.

Preferring nonfiction, I rarely read fiction - let alone historical fiction. But...I really, really enjoyed Last Night at the Telegraph Club, a historical novel geared toward young adult readers. Set in 1950s San Francisco, it centers a Chinese American teenage girl discovering her queerness. #books

Absolutely. Also we did something called “Mousercise” (the Disney kid-friendly Jazzercise) in elementary school. I joined band as soon as I could so I didn’t have to go to P.E., which was unhelpful anyway.

May I also recommend your friendly neighborhood librarian or archivist. *And be nice to them. We’re having A Time right now.

Historian friends: tell me about your favorite research & writing tools. As a bonus, would love to know where you learned how to use them & if you'd be interested in sharing your knowledge w/ others.

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Spent some time with Corita yesterday—

And I know the right answer is status. You’re buying them to improve your status when people who will come to your house. What I’m confused about is if you don’t read them the people who come into your house don’t read either. who are you impressing?

Indiana Jones will be played by a rotating cast of three adjuncts who answer to two different associate deans

Just went to the #NationalArchives website, and the announcement shared below has been removed. It seems the question of whether historical research is a "legitimate business need" is moot, at least for now... www.archives.gov/college-park #Archives #NARA #ArchivesAreForEveryone #speccolls 🗃️📜

8:30 conference sessions - 2 Patrice - 0 #rbms25

Reminder that ACRL and RBMS are both on Bluesky. @ala-acrl.bsky.social and @rbmsinfo.bsky.social. #rbms25 #rbms2025 📜📚

venn diagram of people who get mad about the phrase ‘pregnant people’ and people who get mad at the Welsh and Scottish for not calling themselves British instead is a circle

OH MY GOD when did Chicago Manual of Style stop requiring publisher location in citations??? I just yelled "WHAT??!" out loud in my living room and my wife was very let down by what elicited that reaction.

#NoKings but drag kings

The news isn’t being clear about this but to people hearing about these Minnesota shootings: Melissa Hortman is the Dem leader in the Minnesota House and was Speaker of the House 2019-2025. She’s probably the most influential state-level Democrat barring the governor.

I’m gonna have a cute little iced coffee in a jar tomorrow morning 😌

The craziest thing about this fight between Trump and Elon Musk is that Republicans are trying to take away health care from 16 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

I wouldnt let a man come NEAR me without a full STD panel anyway but ESPECIALLY under this administration which is eliminating ALL community STD testing funding and education

AI chatbots are stoking spiritual mania and supernatural fantasies, with consequences for real-life relationships, @milesklee.bsky.social reports. In AI, people “have an always-on, human-level conversational partner with whom to co-experience their delusions.” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

We’ve been planning this and waiting to announce for a minute! Excited to be officially joining the community as a co-director!

Q&A from a talk I gave last week. Q: "What do you think is the biggest threat in cybersecurity right now? Is it post-quantum computing? Is it AI?" A: Fascism. It's fascism.

This seems like kind of a big story and it's frustrating that we're still getting "it's time for liberals to consider the lab leak" think pieces. The two best pieces of "evidence" come directly from the Trump Administration and have completely fallen apart under scrutiny!

was recently told by a scholar of some note that it was out of bounds to compare trump's purge of black people from the federal government to wilson's efforts to resegregate the federal bureaucracy

Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre

You know those letters that serial killers paste from newspaper clippings? Same energy. The lexicon of fascism is so wild.

I sure hope Queen Latifah is at that Met thing dandying about. We shan’t tolerate lesbian dandy erasure.

We hadn’t won World War II by May 8th. I know because my family and I were still in an internment camp in Tule Lake, California.

Yeah this is an old fem tech argument. It was recently misapplied in a piece about AI and emotions. We don’t think of tech as human to humanize the tech. We are supposed to think about tech as humanoid, with possible rights or ethical needs, BECAUSE PEOPLE WILL TREAT HUMANS (WOMEN/FEMMES) LIKE TECH