Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups has been “charged in an illegal poker operation tied to the Mafia,” sources told ABC News

Shams Charania reporting Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups was also arrested by the FBI for alleged illegal gambling

if i send you this video im going through it 😭

the amount of grace and deference given to certain folk in this country is astounding. all while i continue to struggle with imposter syndrome and feeling worthy enough in my own little dusty corner of the world.

This is true, and also: Charity (like food banks) is not mutual aid. Mutual aid helps people survive *and* builds power to challenge capitalism. Both save lives in the short term, but only mutual aid addresses the underlying causes.

oh dear

so wait. trump is about to pay himself $230 million through the DOJ, and that ballroom he said he is paying for outta pocket costs $250 million …

are there any Black women historians/art historians/movement specialists who have seen the new Kara Walker installation and want to write about it for @religiondispatches.org? I can pay you!! (I'm obsessed with this piece but am obvs not the right author for this) viaartfund.org/grants/kara-...

“What A.I. can’t do is feel the shape of silence after someone says something so honest we forget we’re here to learn.[…] That’s the job of teaching.” therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...

welcome to hell, north carolina. - signed a gerrymandered ohioan.

when you’re fighting for your life financially and get invited to london and benin in 2026

finally! and folks can donate directly to the the filmmaker.

as soon as i logged on threads i saw the drama. like damn, i haven’t been in that app since 1976 and there’s already a diaspora war over there

oh dear. those trees will have their revenge. i’d steer clear of that ballroom on vibes alone.

It makes sense to start this demolition during the government shutdown because the National Capital Planning Commission is shutdown. There’s no way they’d approve this. You know. If they’d been asked. Which they weren’t. #lawlessness

Student loans

Just over one year after launching my own walking tour company, my work now has a feature profile in THE NATION: “I don’t want New York to be seen as just a collection of monuments and structures. I want it to be understood as a collective of stories and people.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

is the reason for a limited release bc of licensing? i wonder..

historians, correct me if i’m wrong but from my understanding past projects from previous presidents involved restoration and renovation. demolition of this magnitude is…much different. (and if that’s the case, who’s in charge of approving demolition?) www.world-architects.com/en/architect...

“JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs..“ the roaring 2020s

halligan believing a disappearing message means a comment is off the record is like that one king of the hill episode when hank tries to explain to luanne that she still has a trailer even tho she adamantly denies it because the trailer tipped over it’s still there! lol youtu.be/FpZvRAIdRJ0?...

got one this morning in my uni inbox saying my paypal invoice is due for an apple iphone 16 pro max. they’re just putting random ass things together at this point. i forwarded it straight to the IT department.

This appears to be on the marketplace (plan selected by the individual not employer sponsored). Employer plans are also going up significantly, and the costs will have to be passed on to employees or otherwise covered somehow. From the bonus pool for small companies or raised rates...

i’m not smart when it comes to parsing out how insurance plans work. is this what we pay out of pocket and/or is this what our employer takes out of our check monthly if we’re under an organizational insurance plan? i’m so confused and CONCERNED.

Early retirement withdrawals for hardship have tripled since 2020, as disasters strike and insurance fails — leaving workers on their own in old age.

yep. same. my first doc from 2015 (available for free online) shows impact of katrina on black communities over 10 yrs, highlighting kellen’s story. tangential is the BP oil spill, which disproportionally impacted black shrimp farmers—compounding the problem. taralconley.org/home

SNAP benefits are going to be paused on November 1. If you are able, now is a good time to give to food banks, food pantries, or local mutual aid groups.

yeah, my students are just gonna have to wait for these grades. another day, another technical issue with tech

shout out to professors this morning triaging an analogue lesson plan due to canvas being down. a *very* special shout out to online instructors.

took this photo yesterday before he posted that shit meme. literally a foreshadow 😩

If you think something doesn't matter, you don't respond to it. He responded. The people have the upper hand.

that he and the fed accounts are over on the other sites shitposting king memes is a tell

The regime tried to scare people and failed. That's good.

from what I can tell following the discourse and based on what i observed today in my own community—and based on years of documenting protests, these daytime #NoKings™️ rallies are useful sites to interrogate the role of community building in mass movements

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

i think a lot of people needed today, if anything, to be in community with one another

I'll leave you from Portland with one last video of the @unpresidentedbrass.bsky.social, the unofficial house band of #NoKings

white folks in the ohio suburbs showed up and showed out. as they should. 📸 by me #NoKings #Cleveland

Cleveland #nokings this is what democracy looks like!

No Kings - Cleveland, OH

oh no!

The No Kings crowd here in Cleveland is so large, they had to shut down the street.

NO KINGS CLEVELAND

Thousands here in Cleveland forced a street shut down. Then the No Kings crowd marched to public Square. Wow!

everyone on bluesky blocking those fed accounts lmaoo

andreessen doesn’t know what education, let alone thinking means. my students *will* know now how to operate a camera and edit a film because that’s how they learn to think and problem-solve in the physical world. mediamaking isn’t supposed to be a perfunctory time-saving process. it’s a craft.

And yet EVERYONE knows and squirms when stuff sounds wrong, we are so keenly attuned to music in ways we struggle to express. It’s amazing

fantastic thread on how music is contextual and that may be the key to undermining these machine learning tools for mimicking music and composition.

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