Democrats are taking money from Oracle, Open AI, Palantir and Meta. Do you think those candidates will make your lives better or worse? Do you think they're fighting for you or the broligarchy? Primary season is now. We have one opportunity. www.commondreams.org/news/cheri-b...

"Dance is revolution. As dance sociologist Katrina Hazzard-Donald points out, every major uprising of the enslaved took place after a dance. So is it any wonder that the last poem in Lorde's last book is about the electric slide? The polyrhythmic skill of moving together." - Alexis Pauline Gumbs

For the first time, five Black surgical residents are leading the way at Johns Hopkins Hospital thegrio.com/2026/02/17/f...

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

A complicated man, no one escapes the emotional ravages of this culture. And I'm so very glad this clip exists. If you can make time today to do a version of this in front of a mirror or with another person, I'd recommend it; I'm going to.We're never to old to be reminded of our inherent personhood.

It costs $130 + a $35 facility fee to obtain a passport and an extra $30 for a passport card. In California, fees for certified copies of vital records are between $18 and $31 each. How is the SAVE Act not a poll tax?

"Expressions of goodness are never trivial or incidental in my writing. In fact, I want them to have life-changing properties and to illuminate decisively the moral questions embedded in the narrative. It is important to me that none of these be handled as comedy or irony."

A group of pediatricians wrote an op-ed detailing the traumatic, lasting effects kids in detention centers will endure: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Does your university use ChatGPT Edu? Please send me a DM if you do. I have identified a potential data breach affecting students' data that has not yet been fixed and I'm trying to compile further examples from other universities. Reposts appreciated!

Hi! I love you. You're doing great. I know it's hard. I'm glad you're here. Don't go anywhere. The world only has and only ever will have the one you, so honestly you're adding a lot just by sticking around. Nobody has your exact wavelength so without you the color of this place is diminished.

A good thread on what happens when you use an LLM. I see this same pattern with my students. They spend all their time futzing with the prompt to get a slightly different but still not totally correct answer and no time on the actual learning.

But I'm reminded of the whole "if your vote didn't matter, they wouldn't be trying so hard to stop you from placing it". If they didn't think duping people were critical to their goals, they wouldn't have spent billions and billions on the infrastructure to do it.

Happy Black History Month! It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, back braces, knee braces, wrist braces, compression socks, cute bags & more! Store: Bibipins.com

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo: A liberal arts education will release you from prison and help you exact revenge on your enemies

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Cephalopods mate in a variety of ways. Most octopus keep their distance, wary that their partner might eat them. Other cephalopods mate face to face and look like they are kissing. Some squids engage in quick "drive-by mating", while nautiluses can mate for up to 30 hours at a time.

We are a nation in which thousands of Black people were "legally" kidnapped with the assistance of the federal government & sent back into slavery. We are also a nation in which thousands of white & Black people organized in their local communities to try to stop those kidnappings. "We" are both.

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If you're having a bad day, take a moment to check out this luscious scenery.

I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.

Love is resistance. This #ValentinesDay, we stand with immigrant Californians. Nearly half of all CA children are part of immigrant families, & almost all are U.S. citizens. Immigrant parents bring a wealth of cultural & linguistic diversity to our state. #ToImmigrantsWithLove #IStandWithImmigrants

In 1933, composer Florence Price made history when the Chicago Symphony Orchestra debuted her music at the Chicago World’s Fair. In 2009, stacks of her manuscripts and personal documents. Now Price’s compositions have been performed and arranged by prestigious orchestras worldwide. #Classical

If this many people are already pissed about him, this far out then we need an alternative And it's it gotta be an alternative that we can support and boost so when the time for nominations comes, that candidate is ready to hit the ground running Bc if we leave it to the DNC, they'll give us gavin

Do not give them your money for real. Those screenshots are from Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarovs... Credit to @jillybobww.bsky.social for clueing me in to all this mess.

lmao so uh a student just came up to me and told me that a classmate asked their professor about the talk I gave the other day and the prof said 'it seems like she's trying to be a scholar and an activist but you can't do both' (the student who relayed this to me had a similar 'lmao uhhh' reaction)

In this era of growing social & political tension, can young Black Americans trust their white friends to show up? I spoke with three people about how (or if) they’re maintaining friendships across racial lines and what care they still want to receive. wordinblack.com/2026/02/can-...

Can't believe I had to look at LinkedIn to find out the GOAT @timnitgebru.bsky.social has a new interview on Computer Says Maybe

hydrangea meditation #soulsov

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Before Nirvana, before Pearl Jam. There was Tina Bell, and her band BamBam. Tina Bell, is The Godmother of grunge, a mantle rightly earned! She played a pivotal role in shaping the genre during a time when it was predominantly white male-dominated.

I cannot stress enough how much these kinds of notes mean to teachers. Or anyone, really. If someone has made a positive impact on your life, reach out and let them know. It'll make their week.

Going to make a thread of every reason to NEVER vote for Newsom. Let's start with:

You know what? Let me give y'all a fucking example. Calling something "racist" or "white supremacist" will literally be interpreted by white people (broadly construed) as adjacent to an ad-hominem attack because of how we've culturally organized our understanding of racism and white supremacy.

Watch Charles Burnett’s KILLER OF SHEEP (1977) in our Celebrate Black History collection! Alongside the film watch special features from our edition of the film. Including an appreciation by Barry Jenkins, interviews with Burnett & actor Henry Gayle Sanders, a documentary by Robert Townsend & more

Anyway, I used “refusal” intentionally. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

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As an established writer, I'm not really worried by AI, because AI can't do what I do. It can only pretend. And I've cultivated the kind of audience that can spot the difference. BUT... that word "established" is load bearing. The opportunity to LEARN to do what I do is what AI is taking away.

NEW: This was the last essay I was supposed to publish at the Washington Post. But they fired me. I'm publishing it anyway-- about my family's connection to a sword the British looted from Ghana in 1874. If youve ever wondered why I love swords, here's why. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

RIP to the great Teresa de Lauretis. I loved her work, including a little-known piece on the film Born In Flames, which I got to interact with in this piece blindfieldjournal.com/2019/08/14/h...

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"

I spent a long time trying to figure out what to do with my Harry Potter books, because just dumping them in a little free library felt wrong. So I mailed them to this artist who was turning them into portraits of murdered trans women www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/11/a...

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.

Fact-checking the Bad Bunny halftime show

“We are chastised in moments of democratic advance for wanting too much, for trying to do too many things too fast. It’s usually more the case that we didn’t go far enough to secure these democratic changes.“ @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social

The Ford worker who heckled Trump during a visit to the company's plant still has his job and "has no discipline on his record," a union official said

It has never been more important in most of our lifetimes than now to make art that deeply offends and concerns fascists.

"one of Boseman’s plays, Deep Azure, is being revived for a 9-week run at Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in London. ...The play tells the story of the aftermath of the death of an unarmed Black man, Deep, who is murdered by a police officer." inspired by his friend Prince Jones (murdered sept 2000)