Michael Paul Vine

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

🎯We know [enough].

DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE

I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

😳🎯

teaching ≠ trolling

Practice walking (habitual thinking) & chewing gum (confronting relevant fact).

Only due shade:

1. USian exceptionalism is a myth, e.g. your (rather puerile) self-satisfaction at being unConfederate.

2. The South = USian Black pop.

3. Today, gather an [entire] clue & let it become the final battle of the USian Revolution.

(Since you're harkening back, remember, too, that MA gave us Jim Crow, separate-and-unequal.)

(Since you're harkening back, remember, too, that MA gave us Jim Crow, separate-and-unequal.)

😳Baybeh...

"LA attracts people who believe they exist only if other people are watching them."

☄️💥🔥

i.e. "You don't have to be a John Brown, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, or Viola Liuzzo to become a Renee Good."

- inclusion = assimilation

i.e. "IFF you don't adopt-accept the PRESCRIPTIONS of Whiteness, the White racial frame, we'll treat you like we treat Black people."

In/As practice, Whiteness = anti-Blackness. Indivisibly.

Ergo, "junior partners"...

Shocking indeed:

For centuries, White supremacists & junior partners have (mis)construed themselves as beneficent world rulers.

Thus, they still do.

For generations, [they/you] celebrated only their riddance of certain competition.

Alas, they/you still do.

Probably helpful to read what you're sharing on the new TikTok and consider how the new owners might handle that data.

[This is good practice for any app.]

Link to new Terms of Service: www.tiktok.com/legal/page/u...

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

The lesson that the systemically oppressed already know: if embodying excellence, goodness, and light were enough to grant you full humanity and equality under the law you'd be free already.

Consider that the hippies of yesteryear were 99% White...

Pew Research Institute (2023):

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants

• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants

• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.

And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."

It's *not* about immigration.

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.

You could be next.

Most US media is downplaying this by talking about how few soldiers were sent to Greenland yesterday by the Nordic countries, but omits the fact that they’re all planning officers, preparing first for a large exercise followed by long term stay by a larger force.

GERMAN PRESIDENT STEINMEIER:

“.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish ..

“.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”

Can you accept - even w/o agreeing with all our positions - that Black people know profound truths about this country that are not on Schoolhouse Rock?

Now that the tactics they’ve used in our communities are becoming national policy, are you ready to concede that you need our “expertise” as well?

Make it viral.

The Atari 2600 gaming console came into the world in 1977 powered by an eight-bit processor that ran at 1.19MhZ, and just 128 bytes of RAM – but that’s apparently enough power to beat ChatGPT at chess. So says infrastructure architect Robert Caruso, who over the weekend posted the results of an experiment he conducted to “pit ChatGPT against the Atari 2600’s chess engine (via Stella emulator) and see what happens.” ChatGPT confused rooks for bishops, and repeatedly lost track of pieces

"GenAI is the futu--

Ensures that all the diseases covered by the previous immunization schedule will still be available to anyone who wants them through Affordable Care Act insurance plans and federal insurance programs, including Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Vaccines for Children program. Families will not have to purchase them out of pocket. Among peer nations, the U.S. will continue to offer the most childhood vaccines for free to those who want them.

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

What's fascinating is how some humans don't know that our species is yet [genetically] collective.

All they did was to impose their limited vantage---to make a slovenly specious accusation.

And still ignored is that, for the Global Majority, these tropes are not specific to [Jewish] Whitefolks...

Pardon my interjection:

1. Argued [for] or [that]?
2. What is "under under"?