Started, going: this tree looks a LOT like Africa and the Arabian Peninsula

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep 1. HIV/AIDS 2. US prisons & policing 3. The Golden Girls

Took the most beautiful train ride out to Pretoria, to spend the day with folks doing HIV, mpox & LGBTQ health work. The regional Gautrain (a public transit gem) was filled with classes of ridiculously cute school kids going on end of term field trips (they begin summer recess soon).

The Committee to Protect Journalists says a set of Israeli strikes on two newspaper offices was the second-deadliest attack on the press ever recorded by the organization.

The alliance between South Africa and Palestine is beautiful and everywhere

This is getting interesting. If Israel attacks the Italian ship, NATO must invoke Article V and defend Italy against its aggressor, Israel www.dw.com/en/italy-sen...

Was going to the Constitutional Hill prison complex (where Ghandi & Mandela were both imprisoned) when I stumbled upon my first SA protest. They were calling for reparations for apartheid & have an outdoor occupation nearby… it didn’t even take me 24 hours to get my first invite to an encampment!

Back online, and greetings from Johannesburg, South Africa. I’ll be living here for awhile and reporting across Africa for the rest of 20205 about how U.S. health policy is affecting HIV/AIDS & LGBTQ health.

A horrific bombing and shelling, and now tanks reported in the centre of Gaza. The ground invasion of Gaza city appears to have started. Thousands fleeing for their lives

That feeling you’ve lived life well bc you have more than one friend reading The Hollywood Reporter for filth

mmm i love a reminder that i did the right thing by quitting that job ☺️

I don’t miss the United States. Everyone who work in ideas there is in danger and should be making an exit plan.

Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.

Statement from @postguild.bsky.social on the firing of Karen Attiah:

Also, Charlie Kirk very specifically DID use things George Floyd said and did against him. He also called him a scumbag and denied that he was killed by the officer, blaming it instead on an overdose with zero evidence. But we know they don't really believe their arguments.

Bubbling up is a rightwing question: "How would the left have felt if everything George Floyd said on social media was used against him?" M-kay. 1. George Floyd was a private citizen killed, via homicide, by the state 2. Charlie Kirk was a public figure worth $12 mil with a VERY public record

So many people are asking how they can support me.. The best way .. is to support @resistanceschool.bsky.social! I’ll be teaching Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 next month. Sign up for lectures by me and guest speakers! www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

My righting problematic fave is the daily tabloid cover of the NY Post. If someone told me Errol Morris had been making a secret documentary about the editorial meetings for the NYP covers and got the greenlights and laughter and rejects, but you had pay $1,000 to see it, I’d pay

POLITICS HAS NO PLACE AT NFL GAMES!!!!

I was there for one of those and it just shows again how “keep politics and sports separate” is actually code for “keep progressive politics and sports separate”

I teach math. There's no use case for gAI in my field; "vibe math" isn't a thing. Come to think of it, there's no use case for gAI in any field I can think of.

I really do think Ezra Klein needs to be held to account for why he gets to keep his columnist job, as a white man, for saying CK was "practicing politics the right way" while Karen Attiah, a Black woman, loses her columnist job for quoting what CK said about Black women. Someone, plz ask him.

Let’s change the narrative. Let’s talk about the shooting on the same day as Kirk’s. Desmond Holly did exactly as Kirk recommended and was a child watching executions and beheadings online, made comments about shootings, and used sites promoting White Supremacy. www.adl.org/resources/ar...

Hakeem Jeffries: Average New Yorkers ask me, “Kathy Whochul???”

"Bill Kristol quotes George Washington's condemnation of 18th century antisemitism to defend transgender people from scapegoating following the assassination of Charlie Kirk" is an actual sentence

Does someone want to tell the families of these dead Palestinian children that the United States opposes political violence? www.discourseblog.com/p/these-dead...

An opinion writer, at that

I am perhaps most proud of starting Washington Post's Global Opinions section. As its founding editor, I helped build a journalistic home for diverse writers from around the world, many of them censored for their views in their countries. www.washingtonpost.com/pr/wp/2016/0...

Land of the free, greatest country on earth...and the slogan is "Dissent will not be tolerated!"

SO sorry about the treatment your specialists and engineers received at the hands of our secret police goon squad. That's normally something we reserve for a different race of people who we like even less, hope you understand. Please come back

generally we're going to see how few of her "colleagues" (i mean her peers outside the post) even comment

The @newrepublic.com actually does very useful and helpful REPORTING. How about @propublica.org? Excellent. The @51st.news is doing excellent actual reporting. So is @thetriibe.com in Chicago. There are so many other places to get actual useful news.

I really do think Ezra Klein needs to be held to account for why he gets to keep his columnist job, as a white man, for saying CK was "practicing politics the right way" while Karen Attiah, a Black woman, loses her columnist job for quoting what CK said about Black women. Someone, plz ask him.

NEVER SPEAK ILL OF THE DEAD*! (*If they're white and were worth $12 million when they died) Only speak ill of the dead if they're Palestinian child, a Hispanic killed by ICE, or a Black teen killed by police.

All the people being fired for telling the truth about Charlie Kirk—many of them women—in the aftermath of his death demonstrates that his legacy was never one about universal free speech. It was only ever about about straight, white, conservative Christian men spouting bigotry without consequence.

This is a misguided frame: this is not about Trump. It’s an American sickness. Karen has been the loudest critic of Gaza on any national desk, and, as such, they’ve been gunning for her for some time. This is not a Trump problem. This is an American, imperial, bipartisan white supremacist problem.

I won't go into the inane details of how we got there, but I got into a heated argument with a friend until we realized that one of us thought the word "her" was referring to Karen Attiah, while the other of us thought "her" was referring to Bari Weiss.

Karen Attiah is an alumni of Northwestern University's School of Communications. I wonder if that school's Black dean, E. Patrick Johnson, or if the Black dean of the Medill School of Journalism, Charles Whitaker, will condemn her firing as the last Black WaPo columnist...

Journalism used to feel exciting and radical. Now it’s owned by billionaires, at the mercy of tech bros, chasing dying ad revenue or plain disappearing.

What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.

The Washington Post’s decision to fire a Black opinion journalist for accurately quoting Charlie Kirke’s racism is a fitting tribute to “free speech” as Kirke and his hagiographers practiced it: whites only, flattering to the powerful, and in furtherance of a fascist agenda.

It started with Gaza under Biden. We warned you. We warned you by sacrificing with our lives and careers. You either stood up for people, en masse, who lost their job protesting genocide, or you agreed live in a society where lives could be ended for being against genocide. Now it’s anything goes.

White journalists, here's what needs to happen: 1. 100 of y'all need to write an open letter demanding Karen be rehired 2. Every white WaPo & NYT columnist needs to sign it 3. White freelancers need to pledge not for WaPo there until there are Black writers 4. The WaPo union threatens a strike

And @perrybaconjr.bsky.social. It really says something. Different circumstances, but mostly left-ish folks. And with Karen, it's a Black woman being fired for quoting how a white supremacist said Black women's brains are incompetent. (I can imagine they haven't liked her writing on Gaza, either.)

the washington post opinion section be like

There were like eight Black writers at national pubs and journalism schools and like seven of us have been fired for taking stands against genocide abroad and racism at home lolsob

Another reporter fired JUST FOR ACCURATELY REPORTING WHAT CHARLIE KIRK SAID. They want that guy elevated to sainthood not because of what he did but DESPITE it. This shit is as fixed as wrestling.

have been back on here for two minutes and the first posts I see document half a dozen people losing their jobs for actually doing free speech, hi

There are so few Black professors and journalists at R1 universities and national publications. Nearly all of us who have spoken out about American imperialism have been removed from our jobs. THIS is the legacy of the Biden-Trump red scare years: conform to military aggression, or else.

I love @karenattiah.bsky.social’s work and am in awe of her. She has been one of the only writers in the US to use her platform as a national columnist to speak about matters of truth and justice as a columnist should—from Covid to Gaza to the racism of Charlie Kirk. All power to our leading light!