Important read - should have been immediately obvious in both Nicole Good and Alex Pretti public executions. Substantiating detail for the concerns is good. More to come. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

A poignant and powerful reminder on this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Been hearing quite the opposite of late from so many black opinion leaders and quite a few white people who think this is 2020. We need backtalk. Jabout every antiracist white person knows that Nazism in Germany descended from and innovated on Jim Crow, Social Darwinism, and racial eugenics

It’s not clear we will have a civil war, but it may be that the white wing wins with nothing approaching even a single military battle, much less a civil war.

FBI Director announced the suspect was in custody, then less than two hours later said the suspect had been released. In the meantime, AFAIKl they ended the lockdown of the campus and that may have allowed the shooter to escape. We don't know the motive. It HAS prompted calls for mass slaughter.

Cut through the noise. This us the nest explainer on the history of racial eugenics in the context of the SS American Aragon ad I’ve seen. Worth your time. www.threads.com/@dawnieneufe...

I am a lifelong Democrat largely because it's been the only effective means electorally to support equality for all. he gutless and irrational silence of the Democratic leadership in the face of American Eagle's normalizing racial eugenic messaging in business is beyond disappointing.

I hope people understand that multiple declarations of national emergencies are coming in the next few months. Those will almost certainly be used to justify suspending habeas corpus and possibly martial law.

Law firms” decision to do pro bono reminds me of the restaurant scene in Goodfelllas. First, they were going to do in controversial work. Now, it’s coal industry or trade shakedowns. Later, maybe it will be renditioning immigrants and citizens alike. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...

We need to rethink the who will pick the crops truism. In the context of AI-driven autocracy, many will be downward mobile. Who will pick the crops? Maybe you … most likely people who have only recently made it into the middle class and are vulnerable to downward mobility.

The tally tells a story of who really won the debate. We all knew Vance was going to lie, but wow. www.cbsnews.com/news/fact-ch...

And of course they let Vance break the rules and cut Walz off when he replies.

Why oh why are they calling him Mr. President???

My brilliant wife would like to know - when is the Tias, Aunties, Grandmas, and Post-Menopausal Women for Harris call going to happen? ;)

Battle Cry of Freedom - I imagine Matthew Sabatella and the Rambling String Band might get a few cents from the thousands of plays they're getting after this song was played at the Harris-Walz rally in Wisconsin. Worth a listen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGKn...

Quite disappointing to see the Vatican participating in the campaign of falsehoods about the opening ceremonies at the Olympics. I'm not at all surprised, but it's still bad.

The Grey Lady at it again, saying the problem with Trump's racist remarks is he claim that "she is not one of us." The true meaning is not just to say she's not one of us - it's anti-Black racism. Adam even analogizes this to Obama's 2008 criticism of Romney as an out of touch billionaire.

Based on his statements about MVP Kamala Harris today, Trump would probably have to say Eartha Kitt was not Black. He is a very weird man, thinking he gets to define that.

The latest weirdness from the JD Vance archive: he worries about “sociopathic tendencies” and says if you go on Twitter, “almost all of the most psychotic and deranged people don’t have kids at home.” He’s not just talking childless people; he’s talking about people who don’t have kids at home.

Disbelief is holding back White Dudes for Harris ... I admit I was unsure if it was a false flag, given personal experience and the fact it's being promoted primarily on right wing news sites. The Daily Kos thing helped. Speakers confirming independently would help. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

It's really weird to see Vance defend his insults of childless people by claiming Democrats are anti-family, given that Vance and Trump supporters have shown us they absolutely hate our family simply because my wife is Black and I'm white and our daughters are biracial.

With fear for our democracy, I am canceling my subscriptions.

This is exactly right. About 40 percent of the country thinks they have been blocked by a low single digit percentage of Black people. The math ain’t mathin.

@histoftech.bsky.social Hi - so sorry I missed your deadline on new conference date - have sent reply. Boz

Some are shocked this could happen in any business. Given trends, I'm completely unsurprised. Companies don't and probably can't screen for politics, so they will have employees who do these things. They often don't have policy or process in place to prevent them. www.cnn.com/2024/05/29/b...

Reading shanty arson stories today. The shanty at the University of Texas where I was a grad student was burned 20+ times. I have stories about who I think did that at least once, but I’ll hold them for now. Same thing happened all over. Here’s Dartmouth. www.nytimes.com/1986/02/12/u...

Our daughter, who is biracial, is a freshman at UT. There are so many welcoming people there, but I fully endorse your message about DEI firings. These seem to me to be prompted by the state legislature and SB 17. Whether it's an over-correction or the law itself, I don't have enough details to say.

Musk relentlessly elevates the idea of a migrant invasion and regularly boosts the notion that migrants as a class should be conflated with violent criminals. He has turned X into a place where "white genocide" propaganda is absolutely flourishing. 6/6 newrepublic.com/article/1800...

The irony of Republicans arguing against eliminating viewpoints from the public discourse ... I mean, what are the Stop Woke laws and all the other laws in Texas and Florida, if not exactly that?

Important essay from Nikole Hannah-Jones on the color-blindness trap. Surprised I haven't seen it shared on Blue Sky. I'm hoping others will share widely. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/m...

With Blue Sky open now, we ought to adopt some practices that helped Twitter and other platforms scale. One is Follow Fridays, we’re mostly bigger accounts recommend smaller accounts of interest to follow. Hoping to get some help scaling. My topic is systemic racism and sexism in relation to tech.

Biden’s argument about saving democracy and averting fascism isn’t intended for people who agree with him on policy. It’s intended for people on both his political left and his political, right who don’t like his policies, but would accept those policies as the price of averting fascism.

I will not be silent about speech codes telling me I can't talk about white genociders who tried to block our daughters from speaking at the local school board. These same horrible arguments were made for years. If we had caved, NO kids who weren't white would be able to speak in our school district

The decision of the Twitter board to force Musk to follow through on his bid is one is the most epic fails in corporate social responsibility. Obvious from the start horrible things would happen. Yet another reason the “good of the shareholders” should never be the sole consideration.

This is doubtless true, but it needs amplifying that the same threats have been made against Black people, racially mixed families, and LGBTQ people exercising their rights to speech, assembly, association, and petition for years. Also a threat to democracy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Yes. I knew this about the cross burning by Charles Murray. One of my earliest memories was of death threats against our family by Klan and John Birchers in Michigan because my father, a teacher, had helped lead integration of teaching there. Murray very much NOT from a Norman Rockwell family.

The misguided David Leonhardt: good writing, but if misses the solution to underrepresented students who “would have done well” but didn’t take the test: advise them to opt for the test. It isn’t to mandate it for all, since that pushes down an even larger number. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/b...

Amazing thread. As for me, I think the annual retrospectives of accomplishments we've seen in recent weeks could benefit from some statement on who or what one has amplified. As for me, I've long amplified scholars, practitioners, and PoVs many considered out of bounds / unsayable.

So it has always been. Look decade by decade at debates on equality going back 200 years or more. Black voices won those debates time and again, and their work, insights, and PoVs erased, twisted, or forgotten.

Since academe was created, erasure of Black scholars and activists has been a default of almost every field since those fields existed. That’s partly because those fields so often were founded with anti-Black racism as a central principle.

Yes, this matters. Turning AI to the purpose of a better world requires deep understanding of Black voices of all genders who have tried to solve the hardest problems in the world - systemic racism, systemic sexism, colonialism, and related -isms. Can’t be done otherwise. Amplify those who try.

Some may have noticed that there is a relatively large amount of *women* from HF who speak in media. As scientists & nerds, we are ofc sharing our experiences and thoughts before+after. It's been a unique opportunity to examine the following research question: 2/

We need an X-it to encourage and help AI practitioners to move off Twitter / X. It's become a cesspool of anti-Black racism and anti-semitism and AI should have nothing to do with it.