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The one thing I really appreciate about Steven Colbert is how he isn’t afraid to talk about his faith as a Catholic. And how that faith informs his politics. (And I say this as an agnostic)

Banger

Yeah, I feel like a sneeze away from flipping out on people, quite regularly

Imma be so real with you, it's so hot that I will just be wearing jorts to the function for the foreseeable. Thank you.

DARLING HOLD MY HAND!!!

So-called neurotypical people have no idea how much masking we autists have to do just to simply exist around y’all. Truly. You’re welcome, actually.

So I look in your direction, but you pay me know attention

VPM has been on a roll lately, especially when it comes to building up its news operation, filling in holes created by the hollowing out of newspapers in Virginia. The $ cuts are bad news for everyone, including those who think it's good news.

Wrote a bio for a thing and had to do a quick summary of the public stuff I've done in the past 5 years. What do I gotta do to hold this information in my head on days I feel like a failure bro?

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.

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My girlfriend always tells me i need to run for office but i know that i would have to lie to everyones face when my social media posts are dug up.

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We are almost at 12k we can definitely get there tonight! #comicbooks #fantasy Check out Midnight Mystics: An Anthology of Fantasy Comics By Black W by Burning Phoenix Press on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/844...

Do young people even have bops these days!??!

Acquired some classical French literature

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They HATE when I serenade them 😇

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By far, one of my favorite Los Angeles things 🍊🥭🍍

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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!

There are timely dissertations, and then there is @chadrhym.bsky.social’s in-process work on race and objectivity in the media. (Also, he’s on the market).

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)

A portrait of America's oppressed & downtrodden victims of DEI.

I just know as soon as I leave the house, my package is gonna show up. Never fails.

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🐾 Are you a saber-toothed cat person, or do you prefer to chill with giant sloths? Pick Your Summer and learn all about these polar opposite Ice Age mammals during your next trip to the #TarPits: go.nhm.org/tpsummer

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Are we connecting Colbert to the firing at CBS to the mass firings of Black folks at MSNBC or is that just quiet ?

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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

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HE’S GOT MORE VIEWERS THAN FUCKING FALLON

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1. The funny thing about me is that I’m a historian of medicine and I hate the sight of blood. 2. Wear a helmet when you mountain bike, friends. 3. Luckily, because he wore one, spouse only needs stitches.

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.

Sounds like the most humane army in the world is shooting Palestinians for sport.

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Please share and give if you can. Mohammed and Rizan didn't eat yesterday chuffed.org/project/1382...

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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.

unintentional benefit of pointing rudyfraser.com to my profile on the new Blacksky app is that the new Blacksky logo is showing in Clearsky. 🤙🏾

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There were two million Palestinians in Gaza before Israel's genocide started, unless they're suggesting that they already exterminated a million human beings

Thank you Congresswoman @sarajacobs.house.gov! I'm glad they didn't block you from going in - but 100% they are not making any of us safer, & they are wrecking our communities.

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..

After Bolsonaro was forced to wear an ankle monitor, one of his allies appeals to the armed forces to stand by, while nostalgically and proudly invoking the 1964 coup.

*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!”

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i *know* what it means and why but haute-tamise is sending me

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When Israel launched its assault against Palestinians in Gaza, violence in the occupied West Bank skyrocketed, another front in its war of annihilation.

Oh yeah, Coldplay is definitely a top-10 band, for me. Easily.

Oh yeah, Coldplay is definitely a top-1” band, for me. Easily.

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Israeli settlers have been targeting villages on the eastern slopes of Ramallah for months, with the latest attacks turning deadly. Villagers say it's all part of Israel's plans to drive Palestinians out of the area and pave the way for annexation.

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Energy exports play a central role in Israel's campaign to normalize relations with its neighbors and avoid accountability for its ongoing genocide of Palestinians. An energy embargo on Israel should go hand-in-hand with calls for an arms embargo.

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This is why i keep flooding yall feed with people from Gaza, Aziz loves the kids!

It’s you . I just mentioned you

James Gunn’s new Superman movie, which draws an analogy between Israel and the villainous country of Boravia, demonstrates how Israel's idealized image in American culture has been shattered by the widespread acknowledgment of Palestinian oppression.

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.

I spend most of my time with my toddler and I sometimes forget that there are adults out there that I can also talk to

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...

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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.

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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

Hey there, Pawpaw! Been missing you, lately! Why didn’t you troll my account yesterday? You’ve been absent. Family issues? Grandkids visiting? Lemme know.

> communities like Blacksky and Northsky are not a suitable destination for most people either Maybe other people should get in community with each other, idk. Then we can be intercommunalists. Might also solve the "loneliness epidemic". Two birds, one stone.

Swallowed in the Sea ✨

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It is indeed easy for Trump, Orbán, Le Pen, or any number of fascist politicians to be both antisemitic and to be fighting antisemitism at the same time, because such is the nature of the “war on antisemitism.”

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.

I can't go to any country that charges me $250 to get in. So I bet a whole lot of other people can't go to a country that charges that much. Not that this isn't the point.

Today, the chimera of “Jewish safety” justifies the fight for Western preservation as seen in Israel and the West’s genocide of the Palestinians, and attendant counterinsurgency.

“The Jewish question” concerned the Jews’ function for European civilization, not as a people, but as a symbol through which to understand and configure itself.

Claims of weaponization, with their vague invocations of “real” and “false” forms, obscure antisemitism’s function as always already in service of the supremacism of Europe, the West, and whiteness.

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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…"

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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.

It should be clear to everyone not invested in the mythologies of Zionism that the Western crackdown on something being named “antisemitism” not only has nothing to do with antiracism, but is a wholly racist endeavor.

A $250 fee just to enter the country & get beat up by ICE at the airport? Yeah that was cool when people wanted to come here. Really enjoyed the diverse friends we made before the empire crumbled. Nowhere to see & nowhere to be here.

I’ll be so happy when my edits are done for my book. This has been years of effort and yall have been so supportive. So has Hachette honestly. I just cant believe my book was bought auction. To have a bidding war over it left me in disbelief

A Korean-style beer this evening - with a frozen head! 🍺❄️