Swizz Beats/Alicia Keys GIANTS exhibit (saw it in Minneapolis).

My daughter's final project for her BFA from Parsons.

Have you considered that white supremacy and nihilism are the same?

Buckle up for the next election cycle(s). AI-Blackface combined with the history of #yourslipisshowing. No bueno.

How it started. How it's going.

happy birthday, mothership... 50 yrs old today, december 15th.

A leading Black media org is abandoning its workers—& its values, write members of the PushBlack Workers United in an op-ed. The org built to champion Black liberation & collective care laid off six union workers, exposing a staggering hypocrisy between its external mission & internal cruelty.

If you're wondering what the through-line is here it's eugenics www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...

Guardian of the Land reframes Bigfoot as a relative, a teacher, and a caretaker of the land. Grounded in oral histories, lived experience, and climate reality, the film asks us to reflect on our relationship to the earth and to ourselves. redpopnews.com/searching-fo... #redpopnews #bigfoot

what the bloody hell?!

I come from a city where every year, a new crop of transplants get on facebook and lose their shit because there are coyotes and they think that is WRONG. So yeah, this got me in the first half lmao

*me, driving past a purple-painted version in Minneapolis yesterday:* "Pretending you're a Prince fan makes you an even bigger douchebag."

Bringing back a classic.

A Glimpse at the Legendary Dr. Mahmoud El-Kati As the Trump administration attempts to erase Black history and silence educators, this documentary brings to life the importance of understanding the past, preserving Black history, and creating human rights for all. unicornriot.ninja/2025/a-glimp...

“give multi-year general operating dollars (MYGOD), fund faster, give more, remove barriers they impose on nonprofits —do what conservative funders have been doing for decades for their grantees. Get over these paternalistic, condescending philosophies and assumptions and act like true partners.”

I think the Pelosis have enjoyed more than enough insider trading, thank you.

New: The current “AI race” media frenzy, whether framed as productivity revolution, Chinese competition, or AGI salvation, is either largely myth-making or missing the most crucial point. So let me challenge that frenzy with a different story. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/protagon...

apropos of nothing, here’s a photo of a young chuck schumer attending trump lawyer & confidante (& joe mccarthy associate) roy cohn’s birthday party at studio 54, in 1979

Fun fact: my mom went to high school with Ms. Oates.

I often think about how the government hounded Aaron Swartz to death for scraping Jstor, yet all these AI companies scraped almost literally all of human knowledge (and continue to do so even when they're told to stop) and have had no criminal consequences.

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 219 of The Continent Protests, an internet blackout, and deadly force marked Tanzania’s Election Day. Once online again, 37 readers shared what they witnessed. Read their stories: bit.ly/219_TC

In books: From her roots in southern Louisiana to her years pounding the pavement in Harlem as an organizer for the Communist Party to her reignition of the modern reparations movement, Audley “Queen Mother” Moore’s story offers potent lessons for today’s organizers.

This right here.

Just catching up to this. My Sunday has a new purpose.

Preach.

Having flashbacks of visiting the gift shop at the MLK Center in Atlanta (1986) and purchasing a center-branded ashtray.

your timely reminder that AGI is neither clearly defined/described nor amenable to scientific or engineering principles... it remains an ideology that is rooted in white supremacy, racism and eugenics

This is outrageous. It should also be understood in the context that everyday rich private donors also funnel tens of millions of dollars into US police departments through Police Foundations to fund projects that they are personally invested in--mostly high tech surveillance.

If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago

I find it interesting that we know the monetary value of museum artefacts when they are stolen but not when indigenous communities want their stuff back.

White people pretend they can't pronounce MAM-DA-NI but have no problem pronouncing Krzyzewski. Suspect AF.

Help me share to 100 (big number!) You know you want to 😀 #RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth youtu.be/G71MZynajjQ?...

Al misses land maps. Doesn't know what a tribal business council does. It's not broken. It was never trained to see us. The system works fine. It just works without us. That's not a surprise, it's the blueprint. And it's already running in the background. substack.com/@mrw1zard/no...

It may no longer be Indigenous Peoples' Day but this is when and where your support truly matters. We have several Native communities devastated by flooding, families have literally lost everything. Link to community fundraiser for people impacted by this storm: alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

Annual reminder that Taylor Sheridan ain't shit featuring @johnniejae.bsky.social

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

‘Lorde offered a politics that dealt in the realities of survival as well as the necessity of defiance: she refused to give ground to white feminists or to a Black nationalism that assumed women’s subservience.’ @keeanga.bsky.social on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The judge: it is hereby ordered that you are in fact, not like us

Louder for those in the back.

The people behind @thecontinent.org have launched a new paper focused on South Africa called @thefridaypaper.bsky.social and the cover story is about gold and Johannesburg's new gold mine. You can read it for free here: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

"POSTING MEMES ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD WHILE THE WORLD ENDS 2025", 21.9"x34.5, charcoal & graphite on paper

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

So Trump is defunding the police.

"And Klein just. Didn’t. Get. It. His argument was, 'But we have to win.' And I’m like, 'Who the fuck is we, Ezra?' Because I’m not now and will never be on the side that negotiates away basic human rights. Even if that means I’m in a party of one." michaelianblack.substack.com/p/we-are-not...

Which brave press pass haver is going to send Pete Hegseth into a debilitating identity crisis by reminding him that he is a secretary?