Next up on the physical reads. Excited to get into this. Another anticipated read for the year. #booksky #blackbooksky

I am critical public health and policy scholar. I exist, study, research, and work at all the crossroads of intersectionality. I learn, unlearn, and relearn. That is what a scholar does. (1/2)

Thrilled to have an advance copy of Black Freedom in my hands! It was a pleasure to tell the stories of emancipation. It will be out June 2nd but available for preorder now!Preorders remind publishers that our history matters, even in this age of repression! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/blair...

I know this is very random and oldhead of me to say... but I don't mind Yahoo News. I sometimes read them.

I first met Eric Dane through Charmed. He was Jason Dean. And always will be Jason Dean to me. 😭

Of all the things we are doing in MN, this one is just beyond. Imagine being released from hell alone in the cold. And a total stranger has waited all night with a blanket just to be ready to hug you and carry you home. Every job we do is crucial, but this one is what restores humanity and dignity.

1905 words for a super late night writing sprints (i started at like 12:45 🫣 with breaks). Another chapter done. I like chapter this one more than I like the previous chapter. Lol. Not too shabby! I'm satisfied. Good night!

Didn't get to read tonight but I'm late night writing so I consider that a win for today.

A sewage spill along the Potomac River, and the struggle to contain it, have become a political flashpoint in D.C. https://to.pbs.org/4rkihsl

Ho-lee Shit. This is phenomenally good news. Department of Education rolls back— for now— its attempts to destroy Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility initiatives. Keep an eye on them, of course, and watch for the hidden knife, always, but for now: Fantastic news.

Why is YouTube under AWS!?!

📰 Youtube and YouTube TV are down – here's everything we know about the outage Yes, Youtube is actually down for many right now

Me waiting on youtube to come back up while also being nervous because in YouTube is a huge digital and visual archive for modern history and we can't afford for it to mess up or disappear

Is Bluesky messing up for anyone? Just me?

Just writing and reading today. The way my womb is set up today, we slowly working as the body permits.

I’ve watched a very smart child try to encode what chaptgpt thinks is “human” so that her class assignments don’t get flagged for plagiarism. I’ve heard expert professionals admit to self-editing so they don’t “sound” like an llm. This is the kind of cultural flattening that accelerates fascism.

The Tyler Perry video by @fdsignifier.bsky.social has dropped. We're being fed this good Monday!

BORING

I finally took the "Read Your Color" quiz and I'm Purple. Followed closely by blue and read. So I'm not super purple but is my main vibe. I'm not too mad at it.

And when I tell people we never recovered from the pandemic, they look at me crazy. Now it will be harder because yall let a fool steal the election and we have even less jobs (mind you the jobs he took were some of the most stable jobs within the US).

I don’t shame men or adults in general that struggles with reading.. that can be fix tho.. no shame in learning

Something New is sooo good! I watch it everytime it comes on TV. I should honestly probably own it.

Started reading Burn Down Master's House by Clay Cane And yeah... Some heavy moments but you were taken care of as the reader. I've only read Henri & Luke's story so far so I'll keep people updated with my thoughts. #booksky #blackbooksky

Threads for me feels like Twitter when it comes to interacting with the book world (I'm mostly on the outside looking). That means I can't really post my thoughts/reactions on a book in real time. I can see all the drama though. I can't articulate the distinction I'm feeling or what I'm observing.

They're losing against the checks and balances that were set up and so they're going to continue to incite violence and fear and try to oppress voting. These are actions of weak people.

“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:

I want everyone to know that every country has been working on cures and treatment for most things. But the US sadly has had a government that has always underfunded public health and medical research. Even when Obama tried to fund us more but was blocked. So... yeah.

Threads: You guys all the other countries are coming out with cures since the US has pulled away from WHO! Our conspiracy theories were correct! BlueSky: Let's talk about how Project 2025's aim to continue muzzling of NIH which has helped fund work around the world I'll stick over here.

Everyone reading this is a pandemic survivor. Billions of us are still alive thanks to advances in medical research that are being rolled back by MAGA and MAHA. 50 million people died in the last global pandemic. This time, it was about one-seventh of that. Still too many & we're going backwards.

Habeas corpus actions are the ancient common law writ used to create a legal action to sue for freedom. They were crucial in the early-nineteenth-century efforts to challenge slavery. This graph showing “habeas cases” suddenly leaping in 2025 — is terrifying. dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/

Today, Defend Public Health filed our second amicus brief in the lawsuit against RFK Jr. and his HHS for their harmful changes to vaccine recommendations. Shout out to our fearless legal leaders @weparmet.bsky.social, @doritreiss.bsky.social, and the DPH members who helped with the brief.

We had a ball! See yall Friday! We'll be diving into Vegas & Cali next! #booksky #blackbooksky

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

“Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Yale universities recently found that 60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recalls, according to a research letter published in the JAMA Health Forum in August.”

everyday i send up prayers to move me into THRIVING instead of just surviving i need better. i deserve more. lord knows i've paid & struggled enough

My success (initially) is based on neither sadly. As a former gifted Black child , who is also late diagnosed with autism and adhd…. My success is based off what I had to do for survival

Today is the 58th anniversary of the Orangeburg Massacre. An event where the South Carolina national guard opened fire on a large group of high school & college students at an HBCU that injured at least 28 and killed three. One person was punished, an innocent student named Cleveland Sellers

"History is often taught as a series of dramatic moments: a march, a speech, a bill signed into law. What gets erased are the decades of organizing that made those moments possible." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This game is.... eh. This season has been weird period.

Watching the Green Day performance. They looked and sounded good!

Damn! I missed Benito Bowl! I'll catch the replay

Superbowl done already started?!

So Green Day is opening the Superbowl and not part of the halftime show? Is this correct?

Yes x 1000. I told my editors that all of the LLM drama came for romance (thanks to the Amazon marketplace) over a decade ago. Every iteration after that has been the same cycle over and over again. Can’t get serious people to treat it seriously, however, because it’s about women’s economic activity

As an alum this hurts my spirit. However... the spiteful part of me is like use all the other words from history to describe us and events. We're smart enough to find out a way around it until that fool gets out of office. That, too, is a form of protest

All of us this evening.

I think i did too much yesterday because I'm so groggy today.

HELL yea

Thank you, Victor. I spent a few weeks on this. As usual, it’s always a negotiation with length. So a few other bon mots: 1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...