Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
@ebonyteach.blacksky.app
Professor and Chair of University of Michigan's Joint Program in English & Education. Author, The Dark Fantastic & more. Made in Detroit. FAMU 🐍. ΔΣΘ ❤️. OES ⭐️. August ♌️. She/her. Forthcoming: Shifter and Dreamer (YA novel). Linktree: Ebonyteach.
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SFFTV 18.3 (a special issue on the Dark Fantastic guest-edited by S.R. Toliver and Autumn A. Griffin) is now live! This is a special one (including SFFTV's first venture into creative praxis).
TOC and articles for subscribers at liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/sfftv/18/3
TOC and articles for subscribers at liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/sfftv/18/3
When @danhf.bsky.social shared with me his idea for a special issue on The Dark Fantastic, I was surprised, honored & (truly) shy about it all.
My dear colleagues @srtoliver.bsky.social & @autumnadia.bsky.social have curated an incredible issue here. Grateful to SR, Autumn, Dan, Gerry & SFFTV! 🖤✨🎬
My dear colleagues @srtoliver.bsky.social & @autumnadia.bsky.social have curated an incredible issue here. Grateful to SR, Autumn, Dan, Gerry & SFFTV! 🖤✨🎬
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Tomorrow marks the first day of the 100 years of Black History Month. I will be Blackity Black Black all month. This is a PSA.
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackSky
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackSky
February 1, 2026 at 2:31 AM
Tomorrow marks the first day of the 100 years of Black History Month. I will be Blackity Black Black all month. This is a PSA.
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackSky
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackSky
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This, if I did my math right, is what the map would look like applying this 31% swing uniformly to the 2024 results
February 1, 2026 at 5:30 AM
This, if I did my math right, is what the map would look like applying this 31% swing uniformly to the 2024 results
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Gawker was sued out of existence by billionaires who didn't want to be investigated by really good journalists who had the perfect rolodexes to get dirt on a pervert cabal and maybe upend their whole new world order. It isn't a scandal sheet you dope.
Gawker is dead because it did not color inside the lines of the Constitution while doing the things that made people want Gawker dead. 🤷♂️ Lots of other scandal sheets are still around because they did that better.
February 1, 2026 at 4:20 AM
Gawker was sued out of existence by billionaires who didn't want to be investigated by really good journalists who had the perfect rolodexes to get dirt on a pervert cabal and maybe upend their whole new world order. It isn't a scandal sheet you dope.
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Texas is in play, Mother fuckers.
February 1, 2026 at 6:17 AM
Texas is in play, Mother fuckers.
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re: that reskeet of the Tarrant County, TX election results…I'm *from* Tarrant County, pre-Portland. I was involved in activism & government in Fort Worth. I can personally attest that a 31-point swing toward a Democrat in Tarrant County TX state senate is absolutely bonkers banana pants.
February 1, 2026 at 5:53 AM
re: that reskeet of the Tarrant County, TX election results…I'm *from* Tarrant County, pre-Portland. I was involved in activism & government in Fort Worth. I can personally attest that a 31-point swing toward a Democrat in Tarrant County TX state senate is absolutely bonkers banana pants.
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Maybe there are stronger electoral messages than “we’ll kidnap your kids”
February 1, 2026 at 5:55 AM
Maybe there are stronger electoral messages than “we’ll kidnap your kids”
Talked to my sister tonight and her daughter's high school in a fairly red Houston suburb walked out Friday against ICE. Something big's happening down there!
February 1, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Talked to my sister tonight and her daughter's high school in a fairly red Houston suburb walked out Friday against ICE. Something big's happening down there!
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Former Texas Lege reporter here. A Dem hasn't held this seat since 1990. Tarrant is the safest of red suburban counties. There is no way the TX and national GOP aren't in panic mode right now.
JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate.
Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards.
With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43.
Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.
Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards.
With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43.
Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.
February 1, 2026 at 5:29 AM
Former Texas Lege reporter here. A Dem hasn't held this seat since 1990. Tarrant is the safest of red suburban counties. There is no way the TX and national GOP aren't in panic mode right now.
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Not gonna shake the image of a little girl, maybe 6, in agony after a full blast of gas
February 1, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Not gonna shake the image of a little girl, maybe 6, in agony after a full blast of gas
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I've been happy this week to see that some people have caught up to the fact that in MN and across the country, the resistance to fascism has actually BUILT ON what came before. The networks created in 2020 and earlier have been reactivated, expanded etc...
February 1, 2026 at 2:12 AM
I've been happy this week to see that some people have caught up to the fact that in MN and across the country, the resistance to fascism has actually BUILT ON what came before. The networks created in 2020 and earlier have been reactivated, expanded etc...
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Democrat Christian Menefee has won a Texas U.S. House seat in a special election, narrowing Republicans’ already-slim majority
Democrat Christian Menefee Wins Election For U.S. House, Narrowing GOP's Slim Majority
The seat representing the heavily Democratic Houston-based district has been vacant for nearly a year.
www.huffpost.com
February 1, 2026 at 4:23 AM
Democrat Christian Menefee has won a Texas U.S. House seat in a special election, narrowing Republicans’ already-slim majority
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30 point swing you say?
February 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
30 point swing you say?
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JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate.
Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards.
With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43.
Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.
Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards.
With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43.
Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.
February 1, 2026 at 5:05 AM
JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate.
Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards.
With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43.
Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.
Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards.
With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43.
Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.
Until 9/11, you could cross into Canada from Detroit with a driver's license. You're supposed to show your birth certificate or passport, but 9 times out of 10, they'd wave you through.
9/11 and the Bush admin's "War on Terror" changed everything. Can't remember the last time I've been to Windsor.
9/11 and the Bush admin's "War on Terror" changed everything. Can't remember the last time I've been to Windsor.
For a very long time you did not need a passport to cross back and forth to Mexico and Canada. I am Gen X and El Paso folks my age remember crossing to drink in Mexico for the night and then coming back home. There are families who continued living in the same place when the border moved.
The people who are saying shit like "well it's either this or the borders are totally open" are doing their best to convince America that we should have completely open borders.
February 1, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Until 9/11, you could cross into Canada from Detroit with a driver's license. You're supposed to show your birth certificate or passport, but 9 times out of 10, they'd wave you through.
9/11 and the Bush admin's "War on Terror" changed everything. Can't remember the last time I've been to Windsor.
9/11 and the Bush admin's "War on Terror" changed everything. Can't remember the last time I've been to Windsor.
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For a very long time you did not need a passport to cross back and forth to Mexico and Canada. I am Gen X and El Paso folks my age remember crossing to drink in Mexico for the night and then coming back home. There are families who continued living in the same place when the border moved.
The people who are saying shit like "well it's either this or the borders are totally open" are doing their best to convince America that we should have completely open borders.
February 1, 2026 at 12:51 AM
For a very long time you did not need a passport to cross back and forth to Mexico and Canada. I am Gen X and El Paso folks my age remember crossing to drink in Mexico for the night and then coming back home. There are families who continued living in the same place when the border moved.
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Audre Lorde, in a 1989 commencement address, said, "Remember this, despair is a tool of your enemies. That rumor, 'You can’t fight City Hall,' is circulated by City Hall. Facing the realities of our lives gives us the motivation for action, it gives us the power to change. You are not powerless."
February 1, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Audre Lorde, in a 1989 commencement address, said, "Remember this, despair is a tool of your enemies. That rumor, 'You can’t fight City Hall,' is circulated by City Hall. Facing the realities of our lives gives us the motivation for action, it gives us the power to change. You are not powerless."
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Do the new people here know that posts are called skeets
February 1, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Do the new people here know that posts are called skeets
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I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
February 1, 2026 at 1:23 AM
I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
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I got tear gassed too. Totally peaceful protest, largely nurses and teachers. Elderly man near me couldn't open his eyes and a woman near me was comforting her baby. Right now I'm still in the OHSU parking garage nearby wondering why nobody seems able to leave... cars not moving at all.
February 1, 2026 at 1:27 AM
I got tear gassed too. Totally peaceful protest, largely nurses and teachers. Elderly man near me couldn't open his eyes and a woman near me was comforting her baby. Right now I'm still in the OHSU parking garage nearby wondering why nobody seems able to leave... cars not moving at all.
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No need to imagine. The country incarcerates children as young as 9 years old daily in youth prisons and jails. Those children are routinely sexually and physically assaulted and also emotionally tortured. They are fed terrible food and given barely any education. This country has done this for yrs.
February 1, 2026 at 2:24 AM
No need to imagine. The country incarcerates children as young as 9 years old daily in youth prisons and jails. Those children are routinely sexually and physically assaulted and also emotionally tortured. They are fed terrible food and given barely any education. This country has done this for yrs.
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Autocratic regimes hate the free press. They hate journalism because they don’t want to be held accountable. These Minnesota journalists are being targeted because journalism has prevented this administration from doing even more insane things in Minnesota. Remember it was video that proved lying …
January 30, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Autocratic regimes hate the free press. They hate journalism because they don’t want to be held accountable. These Minnesota journalists are being targeted because journalism has prevented this administration from doing even more insane things in Minnesota. Remember it was video that proved lying …
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Sunset on a snowy landscape in Minnesota
#Photography
#Photographer
#BlueSkyArtShow
#EastCoastKin
#Winter
#Nature
#Minnesota
#Photography
#Photographer
#BlueSkyArtShow
#EastCoastKin
#Winter
#Nature
#Minnesota
January 29, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Sunset on a snowy landscape in Minnesota
#Photography
#Photographer
#BlueSkyArtShow
#EastCoastKin
#Winter
#Nature
#Minnesota
#Photography
#Photographer
#BlueSkyArtShow
#EastCoastKin
#Winter
#Nature
#Minnesota
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
More than 34,000 Minnesotans signed up to be trained as ICED observers with various activist groups in recent weeks, many of them since Jan. 7, when a federal agent shot and killed Renée Good.
Thousands of new ICE watchers hit the streets after two killings
Minnesotans outraged by the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti have signed up in large numbers to monitor and protest ICE with other activists.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 31, 2026 at 8:56 PM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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I was not prepared for how fucking badass Minnesotans are, and fortunately neither is the regime
(ps show MN some love: www.standwithminnesota.com)
(ps show MN some love: www.standwithminnesota.com)
January 31, 2026 at 11:03 PM
I was not prepared for how fucking badass Minnesotans are, and fortunately neither is the regime
(ps show MN some love: www.standwithminnesota.com)
(ps show MN some love: www.standwithminnesota.com)