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Great story about a small victory—the preservation of a Rosenwald School near me. My only qualm is that it never says directly why a northern philanthropy funded Black schools in the South. It wasn't merely segregation. It's white supremacy—white people refusing to build adequate Black schools.
In the archives, I've been watching my blacklistee writers PISSED TF OFF because their guild did not have their back. Good to see WGA East & West joining together now to STAND UP for democracy & for the right of their members to speak their mind, regardless of offending the party in power!
while we’re on the topic! That one-click author of mine who had a whole HP reference in her book? emailed me back and basically she lives under a rock and she’s actually pulled the book until she can rewrite the whole section (set at HP world so not insubstantial to change)
Had dental surgery on Wed. and have been out of it for a few days. Trying to get back to wrapping up my essay on Carolyn Lougee's pioneering French history computer game from the 1908s. It deserves to be read even if I'm moving onto a new project! #AmRevising
Goodnight from Bryony Trigg, painting nail polish sigils on timetables as rain drums Shrohide’s only bus shelter. Goodnight from Celia Foxhall, not entirely satisfied with her husband’s claims that the odd voices on the baby monitor come from a neighbour’s radio. Goodnight from Hookland.
Asked about Americans killed by Israel, a Senator said she supports Israel. Then Israeli settlers killed another American. Then the Trump admin said it confronted Netanyahu about it. Then it supported Netanyahu at his trial the very next day. Then Israel bombed the only Catholic church in Gaza.
Ii happen to live a couple blocks from CBS headquarters in Los Angeles. If White America actually wanted to save their nation, you people would be protesting, ultimately taking over and shutting down CBS to ✨demand✨ The Late Show and Stephen Colbert be reinstated. But nah..
*Satan shuffling index cards at their late night talkshow desk to the delight of an audience of demonic minions* “Get a load of this guy, not only did he eat twice as many burgers as bananas, but he ate even more burgers than the Supersize Me Guy, whose soul eternally suffers right over there!”
It's typical for multiple officers to be sent for a mental health call. I've had five officers come to restrain me, I'm five feet tall & don't weigh much. I want people to get how real cop violence on mental health calls is. Dontae Melton Jr. is just one story & one name.
Resurfacing this op-ed since neither DODGE nor AI Hype seem to be on the decline. @asmelashteka.bsky.social and I discuss one of the many reasons the idea of replacing US federal workers with so-called generative AI systems should terrify us. 🧵 www.scientificamerican.com/article/repl...
This really is the end of public media as we know it. NPR and PBS will persist in big cities, donations will actually go up for producers like WGBH or WNET. The concept of equal access to information will no longer be the focus of the network. The rural infrastructure will erode and be sold off.
Last night, Congress voted on a proposal to strike $500 million in weapons aid to Israel. The vote came after Israeli forces bombed Palestinian kids trying to get water & struck the only Catholic church in Gaza; and after Israeli settlers killed an American. These 6 members voted for it:
God I know you ain’t done with me yet because .. I don’t have the sympathy. Can’t this is what happens when someone only wants to hear “good” things And the Bible of white supremacy and money acts like the bubble they accuse others of And they are willing to kill Memphis to do it
Watch other countries strike back with visa barriers for Americans. They don't want us trouncing all over the world if they're not welcome here. And Trump keeps acting like being in his America is the prize people want to jump through hoops for. This falling down dictatorship is not the prize!
🚀 Ever since the Big Bang, everything in the universe has been in constant motion—including constellations in the night sky. Join Curator Jackie Faherty as she discusses how the motion of the stars around us, and even our position in the Milky Way galaxy, will change! ⬇️ amnh.link/4nWbbJj
🚀 Ever since the Big Bang, everything in the universe has been in constant motion—including constellations in the night sky. Join Curator Jackie Faherty as she discusses how the motion of the stars around us, and even our position in the Milky Way galaxy, will change! ⬇️ amnh.link/4nWbbJj
Present politics of antisemitism trades in obfuscation to prosecute the Zionist case that opposition to its century-long campaign of settler colonialism and genocide is commensurate with what is proposed as an irrational hatred for Jews, uninterrupted over three millennia.
The fight against antisemitism, inextricable from the fight against racism and white, Western, Christian supremacy, will also fail without this renewal. When white supremacists and genocidaires claim to stand for Jewish safety, we should know that this change is urgent.
I know I haven't been as active on The Fire These Times or Hauntologies. Unfortunately, finances aren't the best these days so I'm spending more time looking for other sources of income. I'm hoping this isn't a permanent problem, but who knows. Appreciate everyone's support!
Today, the terms that are used to dominate those who stand against genocide are “antisemitism” and “Jewish safety.” These terms have been disaggregated from antiracism and wielded by those in power to bolster the oppression of the Palestinian people and to punish those who stand with them.
As anti-Zionists are faced with repression and punishment, including detention and deportation, across the West, and as the region is faced with perhaps its deadliest threat to date, it is incumbent upon us to refuse “to accept the terms, the language, the conceptualizations of the society…"
Dr. Kay is hosted by Blacksky servers (as am I) but you still see their post. Decentralization! I'm writing this post from the new Blacksky app, but you still see the post. Decentralization! Decentralization without fragmentation is thee innovation of AT Protocol. Not either/or. It's both/and.