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i couldn't believe what the water had told me
that man and plant had used to talk
man, i’d do anything to hear the redwoods talk
that man and plant had used to talk
man, i’d do anything to hear the redwoods talk
November 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
i couldn't believe what the water had told me
that man and plant had used to talk
man, i’d do anything to hear the redwoods talk
that man and plant had used to talk
man, i’d do anything to hear the redwoods talk
“we must make a nondreamer life livable, to pry open eyes to the value of the unseen. we must shake off any doubts we have when we say that we value the life of the “criminal“, that we value the life of those who invisibly survive and thrive in the u.s. in ways that aren’t considered excellence…”
(un)documentation & (dis)identification
where and for whom is the undocumented immigrant?
joeledmartinez.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“we must make a nondreamer life livable, to pry open eyes to the value of the unseen. we must shake off any doubts we have when we say that we value the life of the “criminal“, that we value the life of those who invisibly survive and thrive in the u.s. in ways that aren’t considered excellence…”
still get scared of the weight 🏋🏽♂️
November 13, 2025 at 4:12 AM
still get scared of the weight 🏋🏽♂️
if you don't go outside, well nothing's gonna happen
November 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
if you don't go outside, well nothing's gonna happen
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I am from Chicago. Friends are regularly telling us how abhorrent ICE/CBP tactics are and that it’s obvious their goal is to make everyone afraid.
I’m proud of Chicagoans for standing up to them every day.
I’m proud of Chicagoans for standing up to them every day.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I am from Chicago. Friends are regularly telling us how abhorrent ICE/CBP tactics are and that it’s obvious their goal is to make everyone afraid.
I’m proud of Chicagoans for standing up to them every day.
I’m proud of Chicagoans for standing up to them every day.
“I see a lot of students in Black Studies really bringing disciplines to bear on having to be accountable to Black Studies in a way that I think is really important
really great to see them carving their own lanes & developing a language of engagement that is specific to their desires & concerns”
really great to see them carving their own lanes & developing a language of engagement that is specific to their desires & concerns”
Patrice D. Douglass - Department of Gender and Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Podcast Episode · The Black Studies Podcast · 07/30/2025 · 1h 1m
podcasts.apple.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“I see a lot of students in Black Studies really bringing disciplines to bear on having to be accountable to Black Studies in a way that I think is really important
really great to see them carving their own lanes & developing a language of engagement that is specific to their desires & concerns”
really great to see them carving their own lanes & developing a language of engagement that is specific to their desires & concerns”
"the sixties’ movements were really the first opening phase of the dynamic in which the series of “isms” (initiated by the black antiapartheid struggle for civil rights, women’s rights/feminism, indigenous & other of-color rights, gay & lesbian rights) erupted to challenge Man’s episteme, its truth"
November 6, 2025 at 4:24 AM
"the sixties’ movements were really the first opening phase of the dynamic in which the series of “isms” (initiated by the black antiapartheid struggle for civil rights, women’s rights/feminism, indigenous & other of-color rights, gay & lesbian rights) erupted to challenge Man’s episteme, its truth"
“Mexico, the only country where he held a passport. It was a place that, to him, had ‘always felt like both a wound and a possibility’”
ditto, the thought of return has only grown sweeter
love seeing us refuse illegalization, flex our agency, to build a life on our own terms
ditto, the thought of return has only grown sweeter
love seeing us refuse illegalization, flex our agency, to build a life on our own terms
For this undocumented activist, returning to Mexico wasn't exile. It was liberation
For this undocumented activist, returning to Mexico wasn’t exile. It was liberation
Hector Alessandro Negrete was brought to the U.S. from Mexico as an infant. When President Trump began his second term, Negrete decided to leave L.A. for Mexico.
www.latimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
“Mexico, the only country where he held a passport. It was a place that, to him, had ‘always felt like both a wound and a possibility’”
ditto, the thought of return has only grown sweeter
love seeing us refuse illegalization, flex our agency, to build a life on our own terms
ditto, the thought of return has only grown sweeter
love seeing us refuse illegalization, flex our agency, to build a life on our own terms
“Is Black history American history — or does it offer a challenge to the very idea of the U.S. and the way it’s been constructed?
invitation to allow students to think bigger —not just stop at the nationalism that textbooks promote, but investigate areas of Black history that point beyond borders”
invitation to allow students to think bigger —not just stop at the nationalism that textbooks promote, but investigate areas of Black history that point beyond borders”
Black History Is for Everyone
Check out this conversation between @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social and @jessehagopian.bsky.social, from the new issue of @rethinkingschools.bsky.social
Check out this conversation between @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social and @jessehagopian.bsky.social, from the new issue of @rethinkingschools.bsky.social
Black History Is for Everyone
Jesse Hagopian interviews author Brian Jones about his new book Black History Is for Everyone.
rethinkingschools.org
October 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“Is Black history American history — or does it offer a challenge to the very idea of the U.S. and the way it’s been constructed?
invitation to allow students to think bigger —not just stop at the nationalism that textbooks promote, but investigate areas of Black history that point beyond borders”
invitation to allow students to think bigger —not just stop at the nationalism that textbooks promote, but investigate areas of Black history that point beyond borders”
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As Ruth Wilson Gilmore noted, "[Karl] Marx observed that tax struggle is the oldest form of class struggle."
Given the "Big Beautiful Bill," it might be useful for some of us to become more familiar with tax policy.
Here's a thread about U.S. tax policy and politics.
Given the "Big Beautiful Bill," it might be useful for some of us to become more familiar with tax policy.
Here's a thread about U.S. tax policy and politics.
July 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
As Ruth Wilson Gilmore noted, "[Karl] Marx observed that tax struggle is the oldest form of class struggle."
Given the "Big Beautiful Bill," it might be useful for some of us to become more familiar with tax policy.
Here's a thread about U.S. tax policy and politics.
Given the "Big Beautiful Bill," it might be useful for some of us to become more familiar with tax policy.
Here's a thread about U.S. tax policy and politics.
“High wealth owners hide behind high income earners. High income earners do pay higher taxes, but wealthy are not necessarily ppl w high taxable income/ have low tax liabilities by avoiding taxes, borrowing against assets (only taxed if sold instead), & inherited wealth not subject to income taxes”
October 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“High wealth owners hide behind high income earners. High income earners do pay higher taxes, but wealthy are not necessarily ppl w high taxable income/ have low tax liabilities by avoiding taxes, borrowing against assets (only taxed if sold instead), & inherited wealth not subject to income taxes”
“Data & information science have been & continue to be resistant to theories like libidinal economy/critical race theory, bc they are resistant to things which are not of them/ don’t want to engage with question of how they benefit from certain structures, how to fix the problems they’ve created”
This interview with @docdre.distributedblackness.net is really good and I need more social media makers, especially #atproto / #atdev folks to take 10 minutes away from Claude/Zed/VS Code and try reading it
(dis)Info Studies: André Brock, Jr. on Why People Do What They Do on the Internet
A conversation about the unholy trinity of whiteness, modernity, and capitalism.
logicmag.io
October 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
“Data & information science have been & continue to be resistant to theories like libidinal economy/critical race theory, bc they are resistant to things which are not of them/ don’t want to engage with question of how they benefit from certain structures, how to fix the problems they’ve created”
“What does it mean to find a way when the essential coordinates are unknown? Is human existence itself an open question – are we only a platform or threshold for other forms of creaturely life?”
Saidiya Hartman's latest work, Minor Music at the End of the World (2025), is a collaboration with Sarah Benson inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois science fiction short story, ‘The Comet’ (1920), about the last Black man left on Earth after the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.
It asks… 1/🧵
#BlackSky #Lit #Art
It asks… 1/🧵
#BlackSky #Lit #Art
The Interview: Saidiya Hartman
“For centuries, we have named the vice in which we are held captive. The question is whether others are willing to know what we know.”
artreview.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
“What does it mean to find a way when the essential coordinates are unknown? Is human existence itself an open question – are we only a platform or threshold for other forms of creaturely life?”
These are exactly the unmet needs we found in our study of 10K US adults: people need local news/community/events + investigative journalism.
We’ve been helping public media pivot to fill this market failure of commercial media
https://citysquareassociates.com/run/
We’ve been helping public media pivot to fill this market failure of commercial media
https://citysquareassociates.com/run/
October 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
These are exactly the unmet needs we found in our study of 10K US adults: people need local news/community/events + investigative journalism.
We’ve been helping public media pivot to fill this market failure of commercial media
https://citysquareassociates.com/run/
We’ve been helping public media pivot to fill this market failure of commercial media
https://citysquareassociates.com/run/
“US advertising industry’s goals of consumer insight & control normalize an understanding of race — not as a political mechanism of social division rooted in structural racism, but as an inherent, measurable trait believed to directly influence culture, psychology, temperament, purchasing behavior”
In "Total Market American," Marcel Rosa-Salas examines the US advertising industry to uncover how marketing strategies reinforce racial categorizations to serve profit motives. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/DBPdHMB #Anthropology
October 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
“US advertising industry’s goals of consumer insight & control normalize an understanding of race — not as a political mechanism of social division rooted in structural racism, but as an inherent, measurable trait believed to directly influence culture, psychology, temperament, purchasing behavior”
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An open-access download of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Peasants and Capital: Dominica in the World Economy is now available. This new edition features an introduction by yours truly and an afterword by Schuyler Esprit.
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October 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
An open-access download of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Peasants and Capital: Dominica in the World Economy is now available. This new edition features an introduction by yours truly and an afterword by Schuyler Esprit.
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“Oh, you're worried about health care?
about wages and jobs?
We'll deport people
That's not going to solve any of that. they know it and we know it, a case of dominance without hegemony”
The central Q: “why does this ruling class feel so empowered/unconcerned to pursue dominance without hegemony?”
about wages and jobs?
We'll deport people
That's not going to solve any of that. they know it and we know it, a case of dominance without hegemony”
The central Q: “why does this ruling class feel so empowered/unconcerned to pursue dominance without hegemony?”
Notes on the New Regime w/ Aslı Bâli & Gabriel Winant
Podcast Episode · The Dig · 07/11/2025 · 1h 33m
podcasts.apple.com
October 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
“Oh, you're worried about health care?
about wages and jobs?
We'll deport people
That's not going to solve any of that. they know it and we know it, a case of dominance without hegemony”
The central Q: “why does this ruling class feel so empowered/unconcerned to pursue dominance without hegemony?”
about wages and jobs?
We'll deport people
That's not going to solve any of that. they know it and we know it, a case of dominance without hegemony”
The central Q: “why does this ruling class feel so empowered/unconcerned to pursue dominance without hegemony?”
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I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.
Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods
This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.
organizingmythoughts.org
October 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.
"What emerged in Chicago wasnt merely a segregated population, it was a regime of racialized logistical capture. The city became a lab of Black captivity: not a redux of enslavement, but a structural condition in which Black life was administered as surplus within circuits of accumulation & control"
From Relay to Remainder — solutionsforpostmodernliving
The City of Chicago did not emerge organically. It was engineered as a logistical node within a settler-colonial Empire — deliberately situated and scaled to serve as the inland hinge of U.S. imperial...
www.solutionsforpostmodernliving.org
October 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"What emerged in Chicago wasnt merely a segregated population, it was a regime of racialized logistical capture. The city became a lab of Black captivity: not a redux of enslavement, but a structural condition in which Black life was administered as surplus within circuits of accumulation & control"
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2a) Apart from featuring his definition of fascism (which he offers reluctantly), Paxton observes how the fascist relation to ideas is merely tactical and not grounded in intellectual consistency.
Useful for today's world to remember how fascists dont feel the need to "justify" changes in position.
Useful for today's world to remember how fascists dont feel the need to "justify" changes in position.
October 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
2a) Apart from featuring his definition of fascism (which he offers reluctantly), Paxton observes how the fascist relation to ideas is merely tactical and not grounded in intellectual consistency.
Useful for today's world to remember how fascists dont feel the need to "justify" changes in position.
Useful for today's world to remember how fascists dont feel the need to "justify" changes in position.