Septima P. Snark
@drsubini.blacksky.app
DisCrit-Critical Educator-Black Asian Feminist exploring intersections, searching for Justice-Yogini-Tweets=mine. She/Her Author-Pedagogy of Pathologization 🍉
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Septima P. Snark
@drsubini.blacksky.app
· Nov 15
Re-learning from Auntie Audre and working to focus my rage with precision.
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We are living through a lot right now—collectively and personally.
In a time shaped by uncertainty, violence, and grief, it’s okay to feel worn down *and* still reach for moments that help you breathe.
Joy doesn’t betray our grief.
Grief doesn’t cancel our joy.
In a time shaped by uncertainty, violence, and grief, it’s okay to feel worn down *and* still reach for moments that help you breathe.
Joy doesn’t betray our grief.
Grief doesn’t cancel our joy.
February 18, 2026 at 9:48 PM
We are living through a lot right now—collectively and personally.
In a time shaped by uncertainty, violence, and grief, it’s okay to feel worn down *and* still reach for moments that help you breathe.
Joy doesn’t betray our grief.
Grief doesn’t cancel our joy.
In a time shaped by uncertainty, violence, and grief, it’s okay to feel worn down *and* still reach for moments that help you breathe.
Joy doesn’t betray our grief.
Grief doesn’t cancel our joy.
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Another mass AI surveillance law being pushed under the guise of "protecting kids." The fact that Dems continue to push this moral panic garbage to enact mass surveillance & censorship is abhorrent. We need to kill these laws that harm kids and destroy privacy! spectator.com/article/ther...
Everywhere I go, parents tell me their concerns about the impact social media is having on their kids.
I’m proposing the Children’s Social Media Safety Act — a commonsense measure to reduce the harmful effects on kids, improve their safety and privacy online, and prevent scams.
I’m proposing the Children’s Social Media Safety Act — a commonsense measure to reduce the harmful effects on kids, improve their safety and privacy online, and prevent scams.
February 19, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Another mass AI surveillance law being pushed under the guise of "protecting kids." The fact that Dems continue to push this moral panic garbage to enact mass surveillance & censorship is abhorrent. We need to kill these laws that harm kids and destroy privacy! spectator.com/article/ther...
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Now we just need colleges and universities to explain why they complied in advance and to put the programs back and make them better. I know, I know, we will be waiting a long time for them to have some integrity. Thanks tho ACLU!
February 18, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Now we just need colleges and universities to explain why they complied in advance and to put the programs back and make them better. I know, I know, we will be waiting a long time for them to have some integrity. Thanks tho ACLU!
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Removal has a budget.
Title IV-E foster care funds are uncapped.
Prevention funds are capped.
If separation is easier to fund than rent support, what outcome do you think we get?
Follow the money.
#adopteesky
Title IV-E foster care funds are uncapped.
Prevention funds are capped.
If separation is easier to fund than rent support, what outcome do you think we get?
Follow the money.
#adopteesky
February 18, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Removal has a budget.
Title IV-E foster care funds are uncapped.
Prevention funds are capped.
If separation is easier to fund than rent support, what outcome do you think we get?
Follow the money.
#adopteesky
Title IV-E foster care funds are uncapped.
Prevention funds are capped.
If separation is easier to fund than rent support, what outcome do you think we get?
Follow the money.
#adopteesky
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Libraries are among the few public institutions that represent the kind of world we want to live in. They must be fought for.
February 18, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Libraries are among the few public institutions that represent the kind of world we want to live in. They must be fought for.
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This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
Someone doused Renee Good’s Minneapolis memorial and a nearby pile of wood with gasoline and started a fire at about 9 p.m. Tuesday.
Renee Good memorial site in south Minneapolis doused in gasoline
Damage was minimal but police are investigating.
bit.ly
February 18, 2026 at 5:19 PM
This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
Now we just need colleges and universities to explain why they complied in advance and to put the programs back and make them better. I know, I know, we will be waiting a long time for them to have some integrity. Thanks tho ACLU!
February 18, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Now we just need colleges and universities to explain why they complied in advance and to put the programs back and make them better. I know, I know, we will be waiting a long time for them to have some integrity. Thanks tho ACLU!
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I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!
February 18, 2026 at 1:07 PM
I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!
Keep putting pressure on! Shame they from selling property for concentration camps!
The third one this past week, (Oklahoma City, and Kansas City) where property owners backed out of the sale - anticipating community backlash.
February 17, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Keep putting pressure on! Shame they from selling property for concentration camps!
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The third one this past week, (Oklahoma City, and Kansas City) where property owners backed out of the sale - anticipating community backlash.
February 16, 2026 at 6:10 PM
The third one this past week, (Oklahoma City, and Kansas City) where property owners backed out of the sale - anticipating community backlash.
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Corrections Officers and ICE goons have started patrolling the Dilley, Texas ICE Concentration Camp, confiscating children’s drawings, letters, and arts and crafts materials to prevent further leaks of the abhorrent conditions in the camp (February 17, 2026).
February 17, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Corrections Officers and ICE goons have started patrolling the Dilley, Texas ICE Concentration Camp, confiscating children’s drawings, letters, and arts and crafts materials to prevent further leaks of the abhorrent conditions in the camp (February 17, 2026).
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Mohsen Mahdawi will stay in the United States!!!!!!!!!!!
February 17, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Mohsen Mahdawi will stay in the United States!!!!!!!!!!!
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NEW: Today, an immigration judge terminated removal proceedings for Mohsen Mahdawi, the Columbia student, Palestinian activist, and U.S. permanent resident whom the Trump administration arrested in April 2025 and attempted to deport under the foreign policy provision.
February 17, 2026 at 9:11 PM
NEW: Today, an immigration judge terminated removal proceedings for Mohsen Mahdawi, the Columbia student, Palestinian activist, and U.S. permanent resident whom the Trump administration arrested in April 2025 and attempted to deport under the foreign policy provision.
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The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.
February 17, 2026 at 8:58 PM
The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.
If there is anything I try to practice, model & teach my students, it's to read generously. We don't have to rush to the critique. That is not to say ignore the places it can be improved-Sarah Lawrence Lightfoot asks, "What is good here?" and I think that should be our leading question
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
February 17, 2026 at 9:03 PM
If there is anything I try to practice, model & teach my students, it's to read generously. We don't have to rush to the critique. That is not to say ignore the places it can be improved-Sarah Lawrence Lightfoot asks, "What is good here?" and I think that should be our leading question
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
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There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.
The same day DHS announced the surge would end in Minnesota, ICE activity increased in small towns
The less densely populated areas outside the Twin Cities make it harder for protesters and observers to organize.
www.theverge.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:26 PM
There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.
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This shit isn’t over. None of the kids can return to school, none of the parents can return to work. Everyone who was in hiding is still in hiding.
February 17, 2026 at 4:23 PM
This shit isn’t over. None of the kids can return to school, none of the parents can return to work. Everyone who was in hiding is still in hiding.
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ICE agents are still out there this morning, photographing schools from unmarked vehicles and then quickly leaving after being confronted. Keep your heads up.
February 17, 2026 at 4:22 PM
ICE agents are still out there this morning, photographing schools from unmarked vehicles and then quickly leaving after being confronted. Keep your heads up.
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cannot stress enough that this message is going to be wholly ineffective
Rep. Steube: "They want ICE agents to have their ID, but they don't want voters who vote in our nation's elections to have ID to show they're actual citizens of our country. The hypocrisy is beyond the pale."
February 17, 2026 at 3:52 PM
cannot stress enough that this message is going to be wholly ineffective
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Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu died #OTD in 1997.
She conducted the Wu experiment (proving parity isn't conserved) for which her male colleagues won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics. Her role wasn't publicly honored until she was awarded the inaugural Wolf Prize in 1978. #WomenInSTEM #MatildaEffect
She conducted the Wu experiment (proving parity isn't conserved) for which her male colleagues won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics. Her role wasn't publicly honored until she was awarded the inaugural Wolf Prize in 1978. #WomenInSTEM #MatildaEffect
February 16, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu died #OTD in 1997.
She conducted the Wu experiment (proving parity isn't conserved) for which her male colleagues won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics. Her role wasn't publicly honored until she was awarded the inaugural Wolf Prize in 1978. #WomenInSTEM #MatildaEffect
She conducted the Wu experiment (proving parity isn't conserved) for which her male colleagues won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics. Her role wasn't publicly honored until she was awarded the inaugural Wolf Prize in 1978. #WomenInSTEM #MatildaEffect
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One of the lessons I hope people take away from Jesse Jackson’s life and the outpouring of remembrances small and large is that progress is made and measured in every act and utterance against oppression and not measured solely in legislative or electoral victories.
February 17, 2026 at 3:22 PM
One of the lessons I hope people take away from Jesse Jackson’s life and the outpouring of remembrances small and large is that progress is made and measured in every act and utterance against oppression and not measured solely in legislative or electoral victories.
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So far it looks like Trump, Noem, and operation metro surge drained Minneapolis alone—not yet counting St. Paul, Bloomington, etc.— $203 million. This was a MAGA Trump assault on an American blue city. Nothing more. Start seeing it.
www.fox9.com/news/operati...
www.fox9.com/news/operati...
Operation Metro Surge cost Minneapolis at least $203 million, city officials say
Minneapolis officials have released an estimated tab on what Operation Metro Surge has cost city residents so far.
www.fox9.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:21 AM
So far it looks like Trump, Noem, and operation metro surge drained Minneapolis alone—not yet counting St. Paul, Bloomington, etc.— $203 million. This was a MAGA Trump assault on an American blue city. Nothing more. Start seeing it.
www.fox9.com/news/operati...
www.fox9.com/news/operati...
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The drunk uncle theory.
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
agree with this (hah) but also think a particular mistake the left made for a long time online, and still makes to an extent, is failing to understand that the person whose mind you may actually change is the one reading the argument you're having, not the one you're arguing with
The secret to engaging in social media debate is knowing you will never win anyone over. The best you can hope for is to have people who already agree with tell you you're awesome. You might great a dopamine thrill from the righteousness of your anger! Fine benefits, all. But you will never win.
February 16, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The drunk uncle theory.
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
Essential 🧵 for everyone who cares for kids, parents and educators especially.
Hey friends.
We need a quick refresher on what discipline actually is. I keep seeing folks ask “how do ppl discipline if they don’t spank their kids”.
First and foremost, spankings is a cruel punishment, it’s not discipline. Let’s start there.
We need a quick refresher on what discipline actually is. I keep seeing folks ask “how do ppl discipline if they don’t spank their kids”.
First and foremost, spankings is a cruel punishment, it’s not discipline. Let’s start there.
February 16, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Essential 🧵 for everyone who cares for kids, parents and educators especially.