Syreeta McFadden

If there was a camera on me I'd look directly into it.

Scott Bessent says 15% global tariff ‘likely’ to be imposed this week US Treasury secretary says duty is set to increase from 10% rate introduced after last month’s Supreme Court defeat

And here's the link:
www.ft.com/content/8f1b...

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

He does seem to get targeted way more than the white NYT writers on this site

My memory is longer than yours

I dunno Pat. There was a big old scandal when I was in middle school about a general selling arms to Iran to support regime change in Nicaragua and they held hearings about all summer and then it was the topic for debate team competitions so how did I miss this??

The fact that the U.S. has been so successfully brainwashed into thinking that sunburned white guys with cheeky Nazi tattoos Define the Working Class when the ACTUAL working class is non-white women (many of them immigrants) - yeah, that’s one of the great madness runes of our time.

Goddamn nonsense.

Nietzsche's eternal recurrence is just Bluesky discourse.

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

won't you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other hand; come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed.

Missed a week with my 8th graders due to the storm, so one last Black History Month poem as a bridge into Women's History Month.

This one is by Lucille Clifton, which has a line I think about often:

"come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed."

He rolls out "the campus left" like composition students roll out the ubiquitous "they".

The War on Terror Paved the Way for Trump's Rise—Now He's Making It His Own Only the total abolition of the DHS can restore freedom.

NEW @thenation.com: The tools of the War on Terror must be destroyed before Trump uses them to finish building his world order, at home and abroad. What we did at home yesterday is what we do in Iran today is what we will do at home tomorrow. The way we break the cycle is straightforward: abolition.

Iran Live Updates: More US Troops on Way to Middle East; Three USAF F-15 Jet Fighters Mistakenly Shot Down Israel launches dozens of strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon, while U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran continue. Follow along for live updates, news and analysis as the conflict in the Middle East unfolds...

Gift link: www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

I watched Ken Burns’ Vietnam a couple of weeks ago and this headline/announcement is strikingly familiar… especially considering the earlier frame/announcement that this will be a brief “it’ll be 4 days”

I would like Third Way to go door knocking in working class communities of color to listen to those voters but it’s clear they won’t understand them at all and say that those communities want a middle of the road moderate.

The grotesque.

Is ‘America First’ Over? Trump promised to stop wars. His grip on his base is being questioned now that he’s started one.

America First was always about bigoted and belligerent unilateralism. Pacifism never had anything to do with it, so could journalists please stop repeating Trump’s framing as if it was real? www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

At WUWM, nobody owns us but you.

WUWM.com/YoursTruly/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social

that they have kept their relationship intensely private to the point that this is how we find out is probably the best sign they might actually make it

anyway, rules are rules, here is the exact moment she fell in love

‘SINNERS’ has won Best Cast Ensemble at The Actor Awards.

See the full winners list: bit.ly/ActorWins26

What’s wild is while I was offline for most of the day, a guy in a documentary I watched, an American and ex policy/intelligence guy said and I paraphrase here, “History matters to the rest of the world while Americans treat it like a pejorative.” And seeing some posts now and just wow.

There’s a pretty robust case to make that the Iran Hostage crisis of 1979, the revolution itself, and the policies of the Iranian government towards the US
since, was all blowback from the CIA’s decision to overthrow Mossadegh in 1953. www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/p...

For even more context, check out the 2022 HBO doc Hostages or read in the New Yorker archives, Ryszard Kapuscinski’s Shah of Shahs book excerpt.

DRIED CHERRIES! That's what set me off before the butchered pronunciations.

!!! That’s a deep and nuanced cut and i wish all the nonBrooklyn folk understanding on a soul level of its truth

The person who posted this video is an embodiment of a kind of american whiteness that embarrassingly flaunts ignorance. The pronunciations and the smug mocking. Never been inside a Sahadis or Penzeys and singular familiarity with iodized salt.

I’ll add that I had to do some social media triage or triangulation to understand the Morrison discussion yesterday AM to figure out it was partially triggered by a podcast. I searched this platform then went to threads then IG.