I don’t understand how legal obligations do not apply to the president, any executive branch officials, or the Kennedy Center, but the strictest reading applies to performing artists.

Things aren’t expensive because you aren’t working hard enough. They’re expensive because productivity keeps rising, and the 1 percent uses it to grow profits instead of lowering costs or raising wages.

“it is illegal for you not to like me”

I'm not saying that white apologists should be silenced, I'm simply suggesting that we hold them to more rigorous intellectual standards. Make them actually engage with the ideas they don't like with facts, citations and argumentation. clickbait headlines, anecdotes, and vibes is simply lazy

This genre of writers has the critical thinking skills of a 3rd grader & that's bc it's the last time they seriously engaged with ideas of race, identity & power. They don't have the expertise that merits publication. These are scholarly disciplines that media treats like amateur sports

The guy who put a 19 year old named Big Balls in charge of gutting key government services: “experience matters when lives are at stake”

No one is surprised that it takes money to organize events. That money has to come from somewhere and we are counting on individual donors to help us make the Black Zine Fair happen. My deepest desire, however, is not to have to fundraise especially in the final days of the year. But alas...

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People should start treating people who join ICE with the same contempt they would hold for people who join the KKK. Seriously. Just ridicule these people and call them losers openly, publicly, and to their faces.

They’re not sending their best.

Rejoice! It’s the first #Caturday of Christmas.

Friends, if you or someone you know has published awesome work in disability studies (defined *broadly*), please let me know! I'm updating my "Disability: A Democratic Dilemma" course and would love to include some newer work (both academic and otherwise).

“Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner accused other companies like Google and Microsoft of ‘reshaping the address bar into an assistant prompt, turning the joy of exploring into inactive spectatorship.’” Well, Vivaldi. You had my interest; now you have my attention

huh I’m no weapons expert, but I don’t think that’s the way these are supposed to work.

“Students gather on The Lawn at the University of Virginia. The commonwealth’s flagship university only began enrolling women at its main campus in Charlottesville in 1970.” That’s within the lifetime of many people currently in charge of education and government.

There are four rooms at inn; the bedroom, the one with the spider, the one with the hole, and the fabric stash room. They shop every week. There's so many pillows on their bed. Fabric is bleeding into the common space. There are neither pillows or fabric in the spider room. #ofmd #OurFlagMeansDeath

it is the second day of #Kwanzaa, Kujichagulia , which focuses on self determination and for me that also means revolution and reimagining. Here are a few books that you can pick up today and this week. #booksky #blackbooksky

-TikTok labels less than 1.38% of this content as AI-generated -Nearly ⅓ of accounts & ½ of the top 10 showed content sexualizing female bodies, including minors -False news, anti-immigrant narratives & explicit trends were widespread -55% of AI content remains unlabelled; only 10% of creators label

Well I’ve been saying it for years: this kind of state power is never relegated to the people they say they’re going after. The voters gave them a mandate to do exactly what they’re doing But trust me: the same people horrified will want to keep the agency and institutions that support it

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I haven’t wanted to say it but YOLO. Jesse Wells is not John Prine. He isn’t even close.

we’ve been over this we just did this in Massachusetts they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving

Jo Ann Allen Boyce's life was disrupted not only by standard-issue US white supremacy, but also by a particularly virulent strain of American fascism. School integration in Clinton, TN began fairly peaceably, until a neo-Nazi associate of George Lincoln Rockwell named John Kaspar showed up.

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I’m not saying that transitioning will fix everything; It won’t. But I am saying that in many ways it saved my life, and that if you’ve ever even slightly considered it, I think you should do it

They have come to the convention hoping to "break in" and then find themselves -- shocker! -- a "nobody in the book world." Yeah no shit! We all are! I have gently told guys like this a million times that it takes most of us *years* of hard work but they do not believe that could be true for them. +

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Well said (and absolutely terrifying)👇

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If their genius is not recognized after they come to the convention with their manuscript in hand, surely it must be because they are white and male. Couldn't be anything else. They will go and tell people this was their experience at the convention. They were excluded. Tale as old as time.

My column this week. Tommy Tuberville has repeatedly shown contempt for vast swathes of the state he wants to govern. And Alabama voters can’t dismiss his recent threats against Muslims as performative. Making him governor will allow him to harass innocent people over the way they worship God.

Had to go look...

Fact | You can't write something predicated in the utterly ludicrous assumption that white men are being excluded from publishing unless you are racist.

Thread. With a cheerful vengeance. 😏

Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.

Damn don’t know how I missed this but I love it

#OurFlagMeansDeath #ThankYouOFMD #LongLiveOFMD #TaikaTuesday #yardies 💜🦄🏴‍☠️

Rhys Darby, is that you

Many have pointed out just how ludicrous this sentiment is, Miller - a 3rd generation American touting the wonderfulness of two 2nd generation Americans. But I just need childishly to make fun of his use of "infinity" as a counting adjective. He sounds like an 8 year old.

A nontrivial percentage of the American electorate cares more about social hierarchy and dominating outgroups than overall economic wellbeing.

I think this is called a robbery.

The problem is race — the ever-present, defining issue of America. Unless and until people are willing to deal with the truth of what America is and has always been the issue will never be solved.

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Trump is murdering guys in little boats for "suspected" drug running while he's pardoning guys like this and Juan Hernandez, the biggest drug lords on the planet. How much money was Trump paid by these two and the other drug dealers?

Also, Hello Kitty isn't even the best character in the Hello Kitty universe:

This store is much more than a place to buy groceries. I learned… during this journey that this cooperative movement has become a divine place of the restoration of hope, pride and dignity. It has become a place of the resurrection of our capacity to unite for the collective good of our community.