It's largely been lost in the chaos of the last month, but Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is trying to doxx the John Does who sued her for (allegedly) allowing them to be raped by grown men when they were kids and (allegedly) covering it up @brandonthurston.bsky.social has a write-up:

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? YOU RUIN THE PUBLICATION, DRIVE OFF ALL THE SUBSCRIBERS, DO HIS DIRTY WORK, AND ONLY *THEN* LEAVE?????

Monday!

"Ahmed’s @saranahmed.bsky.social conceptualising of knowledge, or more accurately, knowingness indicates that @ its core are 2 aspects: agency and authority Whilst the subaltern often has the agency to speak, or be recognised, they lack or are denied the authority to be seen or heard (Spivak 1988)"

Thinking of that account on here yesterday that said it was wrong and anti-poor to criticize this industry and told everyone to ‘read Fanon and Du Bois’ to get on ‘their level of analysis’

Hard to overstate the extent to which Leon Botstein’s personal scorn for feminist anti-rape politics permeated Bard College’s culture while I was there. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

Two White Butterflies - 1889 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14703

Of course we all know from his browsing and liking habits on Twitter who and what Elon Musk finds attractive

Here’s a slightly clearer version with AltText—and the link to the original: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

There’s a phenomenon that parent coaches and therapists call “soiling the nest”. That’s when kids are coming of age, about to leave for college or independent living, and they start acting a fool at home. It’s a way of emotionally separating. I’m here to tell you that adults soil the nest, too.

Please take the time to read this superb @jamellebouie.net column. It establishes a baseline of truth for anyone who wants to think, talk, and write honestly about Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

A beloved workers' rights organizer in Minnesota, known for *successfully* fighting against wage theft and labor trafficking, has been detained by federal immigration agents and is now locked up in New Mexico. His family is calling for his urgent release. inthesetimes.com/article/work...

This man has already asked them to define “is” you can’t scare him with congressional oversight. The level of rot that makes bill appear like the good guy

"I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power." Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...

Ugh

Jesus Christ.

Viele Accounts können oder wollen Trumps Bilder von den Obamas als Affen nicht benennen oder kritisieren, ohne dabei das Bild zu verbreiten. Erstaunlich. Liegt doch eigentlich nah: aus der Kritik am rassistischen Bild die Konsequenz zu ziehen, es nicht zu verbreiten.

Danke René. Ich habe mich auch gefragt, warum das Bild unbedingt geteilt werden muss, um es zu kritisieren. Vielleicht können die Teilenden einfach nicht nachempfinden, was das Bild bei Menschen macht, die aus eigener Erfahrung wissen, wie es sich anfühlt, gemobbt und entmenschlicht zu werden?

I'm increasingly logging off and indulging in focusing on writing and research as *craft* rather than being enraged by these people.

I’m glad he took it down, but it will not be forgotten. www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/p...

It's TIM SCOTT

While living in the US feels untenable to many, it is the nation's history of resistance that serves as a reminder that change can happen. F*** ICE, the Orange Menace, and all his goons. Tschüß!

1/2 However you define “meme,” you’re responsible for what you post. Particularly when you’re the President. That image is racist trash—using a LONG-standing racist link of Black people with apes. You post it? You’re accountable for it.

During Black History Month, the orange menace continues to show us who he is. Many of us saw this, but we were called hyperbolic, while his racism was showing the entire time. With his recent biogted post about the Obamas, the national media is still unable to call a racist a racist.

In a world filled with racists like the orange menace, I hope we get more Zohran Mamdanis in offices across the nation.

Mamdani announces a new executive order protecting New Yorkers from "abusive immigration enforcement," including requiring ICE to have a judicial warrant to enter NYC property

Every American to the left of Susan Collins is somewhat responsible for the murder of Charlie Kirk, but it’s unclear if the President is responsible for the video he posted.

Book launch in Bloomsbury for The Cambridge Urban History of Europe, 27 March, 6:15 pm. #Skystorians

Delighted to announce our seminar - 'Race and the Early Modern' - now has a full schedule of events. We'll be convening monthly to discuss research on race, racemaking, and racialisation across #earlymodern studies. @kingsartshums.bsky.social @folger.edu kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

"Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air." ~ Gwendolyn Brooks🌸🌸🌸 #BlackHistoryMonth Day 6 ❤️🖤💚

Appreciate that folks lift up the Panthers. Black groups pre-dating the Panthers were also doing community patrols. See one example here: nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaah... Joshua Clark Davis's Police Against the Movement offers some other examples too.

AMEN. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

The most fascinating thing I learned about her years ago is that her brother was Alphaeus Hunton Jr. and their politics were diametrically opposed. Her grandson Stephen Carter is a well known law professor at Yale and wrote about book about his grandmother that I read.

No Tenure for Oklahoma. Instead, faculty will be on "renewable contracts “tied to teaching effectiveness, student completion, job placement, and economic alignment.” #academicsky

And they're still doing it with this video. bsky.app/profile/owil...

Learned about the depressing trend of describing books as TL;DR (Too Long, Didn't Read) at a conference last weekend. Instead, I propose LR;WI (Long Read and Worth It). What are some long books that you read recently and enjoyed? I'll start: 🗃️ www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Meanwhile a violent far-right student at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), one of the largest in the country, has been allowed to get away with absolutely abusive and vile behaviour for several years with next to no reaction from the university archive.is/2026.02.06-1...

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

That “economic anxiety” is really getting out of hand. Shout out to the very serious academics and pundits who spent years denying that racism is the primary motivating factor of Trumpism (if they admitted it matter at all). This is the predictable result of “anti-wokeness” and “concerns” over DEI.

The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...

Reparations have become a mainstream part of American political debate. One of the movement’s early architects, however, has largely disappeared from popular history. In our Essay of the Week, Robin D. G. Kelley recovers the vision of “Queen Mother” Moore. yalereview.org/article/robi...

UPDATE: The Park Service returned the brochures to the home, hours after this report. Park Service officials told Mississippi Today that the reason they removed the brochures was because they were “outdated” mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/v...

As Coates said, if Obama could be president, the only consolation for them was to decide that *anyone* could be president. It must have made them sick every day for 8 years

Wenn solche Typen sagen mit Epstein kollaborieren ist normal weil „So sind die meisten hetero Männer eben“ sollte man sie beim Wort nehmen. Und an der gesellschaftlichen Macht arbeiten die daraus Konsequenzen gegen diese Männer ziehen kann

For the FES, I wrote a short brief about how mainstream party strategies have fueled far-right success. They move toward more anti-immigration positions to win voters back. This does not work, but shifts public opinion to the right. Parties then react to shifts in public opinion. A vicious cycle.