“Everywhere one turns or cares to look, the signs of a collapsing world are evident.” —Cedric Robinson

Chickens come home to roost.

THIS! It seems to me that what counts as “political violence” is already shaped by a white supremacist thought pattern.

My question is, always: what is the difference between political violence and (allegedly) other kinds of violence? Do we count the systematic elimination of people’s healthcare as political violence? What about the mass hate mail and harassment that is directed toward those of us on the left…

No one is in danger from undocumented immigrants. EVERYONE is endangered by the fascist Right in this country and that means the GOP.

We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again

assassins dress like cops bc that’s who’s allowed to murder people in broad daylight

Karen Bass is another instantiation of what Saidiya Hartman once called “Crow Jane.”

The young Black people who fought cops in the streets were ALSO part of the Black Freedom Movement which some people call the "Civil Rights" Movement.

This is what I mean.

The way local and national news outlets are covering the protests in LA is kinda disgusting. “Protests turned violent” is a really fucked up way of saying that police and the military are inciting violence.

"Less lethal" and "decarbonised oil" both giving off the same stink on my timeline

So-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

So… I published an article on the relationship between political theology and Black studies focusing on the problem of evil. Check it out if you have the time! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EGKZV...

Jonathan Freedland trying to deceive ppl by making it a duel hatred. Before October 7 Palestinians were relegated as to how much water they could have, how many calories, they were routinely shot, arrested, beaten up and had their homes stolen. Before October 7 they were being persecuted…

"These attitudes correlate with a sharp increase in ethno-nationalist ideology in the past 20 years."

I’m sure I’m typing into the void. But what’s needed at the moment is strategic, tactical, and disciplined resistance. We cannot put our heads in the sand and hope things will get better. They won’t. This president must be stopped. And we have to do it collectively.

When I was in the 8th grade, I made it to the national spelling bee. I got out on the word “penitentiary.” It seems I’ve been an abolitionist since I was a pre teen lol

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, now more than ever, we need to honour & remember those that came before us who we’ve lost to anti-trans hatred & violence. Here’s a list of people just from the US this year alone, though likely incomplete. Their losses will not be in vain! Hate will not win!

our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.

somehow ”trump is god emperor and if he wills it it will occur” is a belief that is shared across the political spectrum

One of the things I think about quite a bit is that professors *can’t* get sick. We do, but it’s striking to me how missing class—at least for me—feels like it will have repercussions.

“Liberalism provides [people] with a vocabulary that can cover a multitude of sins…” —Talal Asad

I’m thinking about deathscapes. Hugo Ka Canham reminds us that death can be in the air and the land, in the water and in the flesh. I think about this a lot now—for we live in a host of deathscapes. Some are riotous, and we lean into the power of that riotousness. Others, like the US, are not.

I guess I should say also: the idea of “going back in time” is not so much an announcement that things are somehow “better” now. It is only an acknowledgement that what has long been disguised by liberal niceties and “civility” is now showing itself clearly. We’re in a mask off moment.

"It's a big club and you ain't in it" — George Carlin

Not gonna lie: I really appreciate block lists. I don’t want this place to become the dumpster fire that is the other site. (It’s also odd that the horribles are trying to come over here, too—although I suppose they’ve been coming over here already.)

I’m thinking about Emmett Till. Thinking about his mother. Struggling with the banality of evil. And fighting this overwhelming sense that things really are going to go back in time.

CONGRATS!

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

And so it begins (again). I don’t think I can be on that other thing too much longer. I’ll stay here, where idiots are running the show. Hopefully I’ll find some community here.

Grateful to have been part of this project.

It is, and has always been, striking to me who gets labeled “terrorist” and who doesn’t.

So last year, the political theology network hosted a conversation on Charles Mills’s the Racial Contract, and I moderated. Take a look when you get a chance! youtu.be/8YeYCHt43w0

Look at the paperback copies of Phenomenology of Black Spirit! Those spray-painted edges look amazing.

I must say thank you to @keguro.bsky.social for bringing Hugo and I together. You are a gift, K’eguro.

Today, I remember my mother.

Gonna be talking about #blacklifematter with Beatrice Marovich and Lucia Hulsether next week. If you’re in Philly, come through.

Sojourner Truth was a complicated woman. Jayna Brown, Sarah Cervenak, and others get at this. But I want to explore it more.

So excited to be in conversation with Hugo ka Canham in a couple of weeks. Here’s the link if you’re interested in attending! Riotous Deathscapes, Hugo ka Canham online book talk www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/riotous-de...

Im thinking about writing a paper entitled “A Sociality Without Contract: Notes on (the Failure) of Justice.” What do you all think?