The term "civil discourse" has become a red flag for me. As MLK said, it identifies a person who is more devoted to order than to justice. "Civil discourse" is connected directly to the "right to comfort" that we've identified as a defining trait of Whiteness.

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If you get frustrated when people are angry with you, you should consider that running a social media company may not be the right career for you.

Wow.

This has frequently been my experience as well.

The tears I just cried. Jane Fonda, 87, has relaunched The Committee for the First Amendment, the organization of Hollywood stars and filmmakers that her father, Henry Fonda, helped found in September 1947. May Jane's 550-person endeavor outlive Henry's. www.committeeforthefirstamendment.com

I've been giving Chris Hayes a hard time since way back in the Twitter days. He has actually spent a lot of effort acknowledging and reporting the racism in American systems. But every so often, he can't help but fall back into the white guy "I'm actually shocked how bad it was" trope.

I endorse this message generally. But it was actually prompted by a frustrating interaction I had earlier. As I'm processing things, I think the real reason I got annoyed is this person said because I have a large following, they need to "correct" my "lies". GTFOH.

There is a class of left-leaning person who has fully bought into the idea that claiming intellectual superiority while being condescending and insulting is the right way to influence people politically. Nothing makes them more angry than when you gently suggest there's a reason nobody likes them.

Tonight, @staceyabrams.com, the Walter Chair in Race & Black Politics at Howard University, & @profmbj.bsky.social told an audience we’re now under an authoritarian regime. They both outlined ways to combat it. Abrams recently launched 10stepscampign.org, which has tips on actions to take.

They're trying to find out if they have any leverage to bully and control the military like they've been doing with everybody else. I'd say it's not going all that well so far.

Being anti-science is absolutely rooted in racism.

I really think our reactionary age is downstream of the three heads of the Scam Economy, Wellness, Social Media, and Gambling/Crypto

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

So exhausting..

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

white supremacists and capitalists got so mad at one 18 month stretch of increased labor power that they've agreed to reverse the most complex economy in human history to an agrarian state

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

From the article: Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output." www.404media.co/email/641a21...

Did Trump’s DOJ shut down this bribery investigation? Was it Attorney General Bondi or FBI Director Patel? The act was caught on camera. The administration must turn over the tapes to Congress. Every decision made by Homan must be scrutinized for possible corruption.

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

You won't believe how many people who say they wanna fight think they can do it without money. The opps have tricked a lot of y'all into thinking money is evil, so you won't use it as a tool to seize power away from them. And it's working.

"If successful, it would enable federal prosecutors to seek charges against and seize the assets of organizations and individuals who fund or coordinate riots that result in violence." So then the regime sends provocateurs to turn your protest violent. www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...

I didn’t deserve this.

I think it's good for people to be able to turn off replies when they're saying something controversial or vulnerable and they know it might bring harassment. But I'm not sure that extends to people who wanna talk shit but don't want the smoke that comes with it. Say it wit ya chest.

Everything feels like an attack when you've never been attacked

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

How does this all square with all their years of insisting on the importance of free speech? That's very simple, they were lying

Welp!

Genocide is not just the mass killing of people. It has a legal definition. Here’s a brief video I made a while back to explain genocide vs ethnic cleansing under international law:

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

For some reason the people who are comfortable wishing violence on in people they don't like think this post is about them. It's actually about the "thoughts and prayers" people. You can tell because that's the post I quoted.

I really wish more people learned to embrace "I don't fuck with them like that". It allows us to inhabit a space where we are not wishing violence on someone, we're not glad they met with tragedy. But we also don't have to pretend they are in your thoughts and prayers.

Williams was a photographer for Jet magazine. He took the photo himself. The OG selfie. Iconic. Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956

The Washington Post has fired its last full-time Black opinion columnist, who says it was because they didn’t like what she posted after Charlie Kirk’s shooting. trib.al/5ayiHPo

Kicking off an #IndieSkyWG category on the forum. We've got atprotocol .social running on Railway, anyone that wants to learn & document PDS hosting and documentation come on by and lets learn together.

*white people, for once please mind your fucking business* "Blacksky Nigga" is a great nickname for me and this is a perfect analogy. Thank you to this person. We even have bouncers at the party happy to throw people out! As we have demonstrated.

I just created this app in about an hour, and I want to talk a little bit about the experience. It's very simple, it allows you to record short audio messages and then play them back. Everything is handled locally in your web browser, nothing comes to me. nextjs-playground-psi-teal.vercel.app

Had this conversation 3 days ago. And Ezra Klein is right on time to prove my point.

Sociopaths and psychopaths and narcissists always demand empathy they are incapable of giving others and the ppl who enable them go along with it for proximity to power

Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.

Feel how you feel and let your feelings pass through Feelings are not final

Why? Because humans need love. I've seen what a lack of enough love does to people. I'm still learning about what lack of the right kind of love did to me. If we wanna be okay, we have to help each other be okay. And finding people to give love to is a big part of that.

Happy birthday to Ruby Bridges, who is the reason I was even able to pursue proper, fair higher education. What she had to endure as the first Black child to integrate schools was unimaginable. I will forever be grateful. ♥️

it’s really fucked up how it’s basically a crime to be homeless

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How to tell jokes about race without being racist: a 101 class.