Tony Pennino

“We are all one—and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way.”
Bayard Rustin

Happy Societally Mandated Corporately Sanctioned Artificially Determined Overpriced Stress Inducing Aesthetically Questionable Love Day to all who celebrate.

“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”
― Ida B. Wells

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Rewatching Deliver Me from Nowhere. Already bawling. #FilmSky

“I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.”
― Ralph Ellison

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I’m sorry, Dave, but the Dow is at 50,000 points.

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“The Dow is over 50,000 points.”

“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”
― James Baldwin
#BlackHistoryMonth

“The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.”
― Frederick Douglass

“History is time that won't quit.”
― Suzan-Lori Parks

“If not us, then who? If not now, then when?”
John Lewis

The Batman and The Iceman Cometh

This week in teaching. It’s going to be a weird one. #AcademicSky #FilmSky

"I felt a great disturbance in MAGA, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.”

What is it with this superbowl and urine?

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This halftime show is great.

I wish this concert had more music because it’s great.

Marked Safe from the Kid Rock Halftime Show

Whew.

I was promised owls.

“All literature is protest.”
― Richard Wright
#BlackHistoryMonth

Silence of the Lambs

And, as a footnote, no Uhura.

Just saw Peter Hujar’s Day. Perfect piece of filmmaking: simple and beautiful. #FilmSky

Dear Europe,
You didn’t boo JD Vance enough.

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”
bell hooks
#BlackHistoryMonth

What football teams are playing at the Bad Bunny/Green Day concert?

“Truth is on the side of the oppressed.”
― Malcolm X

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I’m no longer giving Fs.
I’m giving out tickets to Melania.
#AcademicSky

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue