Important piece from @saigrundy.bsky.social on the attacks on the Smithsonian, particularly the National Museum of African American History & Culture, & the histories they show in efforts to erase the horrors of settler colonialism & slavery, & promote the ‘lost cause’ narrative of white supremacy.

This week on The Authoritarian Playbook, we examine the Trump Administration's attacks on museums and cultural institutions. How are these policies affecting Black and Indigenous communities and the preservation of history? Esteemed guests: @drpenieljoseph.bsky.social and @saigrundy.bsky.social

Conservative Justices Actually Consider Race, Except in Correcting Inequality. Analysis by @saigrundy.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

my latest from @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

every architect who has taken a look at these trump “renderings” of the ballroom etc has said the same thing: there is no architectural truth to these. interiors depict windows that interiors omit, there is no way the scale of these renderings is true to any design….

Thank you to @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social for sending this to me from the archives this week

charlotte’s web is an allegory for male mediocrity. whole crowd showed up to marvel at wilbur was as unremarkable a pig as they come and not one of them was like “UHHH THAT SPIDER IS FULLY LITERATE”

Even if you know this history, the writing and analysis is brilliant. Recommend. America’s contract to protect white woman has always been tenuous | Saida Grundy www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... @saigrundy.bsky.social

this is a micro-history course everyone could benefit from - well framed by @saigrundy.bsky.social - bell hooks would love it

"Jackson’s strategic legacy was that no vote is captive to a party that has not earned it," writes @saigrundy.bsky.social, "and that marginalized and overlooked voters are best heard when coalitions...challenge the party where their electoral margins for victory are the most vulnerable."

Black History Month was never ‘given’ to Black people, thus, it can never be taken from us by @saigrundy.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Sociologists for Palestine is on Bluesky! You know this means business. Follow & amplify! Let's go!

Happy to finally see this one in print! In this article with @jasonhackworth.bsky.social in #JournalofBlaclStudies, we focus on the role of rhetoric in promoting the propaganda of conservative economics (timely!). Check it out… doi.org/10.1177/0021...

question for the melanated peoples and spicy whites: do you know your cousins’ other side cousins? and what do you call them? i’m just learning today i’m the only black person who aint grow up with cousins squared.

i want to do a couch to 5k… but for swimming. like where are the swim clubs and swimathons? NO i don’t want a triathalon, and i still don’t understand why white people do those voluntarily. it just reminds me of andy dufresne escaping shawshank every time.

unseasoned white vocalists singing donny hathaway’s “this christmas” is a hate crime. yall stick to rockin around the christmas tree and holly jolly christmas and whatever tf 1 and the 3 yall clap on.

spotify premium has one of the best catalogues of audiobooks i’ve seen since libby— included w/ subscription. i’m keeping a running list. clearly one of their interns just finished a black studies survey course www.facebook.com/share/p/hUsT...

FAUXTISTIC. GODDAMNIT IVE DONE IT!

we really need a clever portmanteau to capture the number of terrible people whose ableist ideologies scapegoat disabilities as their get out of jail free card to be shitty. i’m assigning myself this task, will workshop ideas here later

if this shit ain’t got a desktop version you finna miss out on my finest work.