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Tressie McMillan Cottom

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social

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Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears. Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame. “I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Jul 29

I woke up a year ago 100% certain that I had to make a documentary about the Winston Salem chapter of the Black Panther Party. So I did.

We aim to release it early next year. This weekend I’m at Blackstar, looking for inspiration. If you’re in town, DM to meetup.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 8h

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

Oh he got the D9 benediction. Wow.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

Powerful words of truth and solidarity from Council Speaker Adrienne Adams today. We have your back, Tish James.

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Bill McBride @calculatedrisk.bsky.social · 2d

Goldman: “We estimate that seasonally adjusted initial jobless claims increased to about 235k for the week ended October 4th, by combining the Department of Labor (DOL)’s pre-released seasonal factors with this afternoon’s release of state-level claims.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly I want to throw my phone into a large body of water.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 1d

Okay i know there's people here who actually track this stuff, so- it really feels like I'm seeing waaaay more left/liberal conspiracy theories now than during T's first term?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

Fantastic @cmonstah.bsky.social column that never ran in the WaPo.

"Civil War 2.0, which for now is being fought primarily in media channels, raises familiar conflicts over who is allowed to fully occupy American citizenship, and how history is memorialized."

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The column WaPo didn't run

A detail of a 17th century vanitas by Christian Luycks, which I spotted MFAH earlier this year. One of the more fascinating assignments I landed this year...

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Took a break from the Supreme Court's ongoing horrorshow to focus on what really matters: how funny it is for a federal judge to decide, as a matter of law, that Drake lost the Kendrick Lamar beef

Federal Judge Declares Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Too Awesome to Be Defamatory

Apparently, Drake decided that losing in the court of public opinion was not humiliating enough.

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 1d

“Progressives don’t care about the issues facing men today.”

We do. It’s why we’re socialists. Ya dinguses.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Great point from @mjtoma.bsky.social: Millions of us absolutely do see what's happening to the USA.

"We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."

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Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

If the religious leaders get activated at scale, I think it could mean something is happening…

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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 1d

Nearly everything I find out about streamers is against my will, and nearly everything I hear about them makes me despair for the youth

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

Shit man it just hit me: they’re going to be offering AI degrees.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

I would send you a thank-you card for implicating me for this! I hope one day it’s tattooed on his eyelids: AI IS MID

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I’ve been pushing back on and crossing out these clauses for a long time. This is the first time I’ve been charged for it (for non-professional images).

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

On the one hand, I’ve learned never to underestimate how much people value going viral more than they value their lives or relationships. On the other hand, there have to be enough people who don’t want that for there to be a photog market for privacy.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

This is along the lines of what I assumed was happening. That’s why I noticed the upcharge. I’m used to negotiating use and copyright for commercial photos. But a tiered sharing agreement for family-type photos seems like a no-brainer! Kids, etc.

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tempus fuck it @tempusfuckit.bsky.social · 1d

Such an interesting marketing failure. Photogs can easily create a payment structure that involves a slightly higher base price for photos, then propose to pay the subject for the right to share on social media. Ppl priced out can consider saving money by opting in. Shows respect for your customers.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

TIL that photographers charge you more if you request that your photos aren’t used on their social media. Maybe I knew that? Or maybe it’s generally been included? Either way the price of 1980s privacy has definitely gone up

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

No, why was I legit pretired when I saw it 😂

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

www.reuters.com/business/uni...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

Uh huh. This was a different use of copyright before technology made sharing cheap and easy and potentially profitable. Now that privacy is a surcharge. Just like my dinner table had to be moved last night because I didn’t want to be in a photoshoot