Deborah McDowell

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

YouTube video by The LOOPcast How College Board Quietly Became the "Cartel of Education" | The Deep

i don’t know how to say it so that more people understand and care: the right wing is really going after the college board and if everyone else pretends the organization is great, we’re in big trouble m.youtube.com/watch?v=ASY8...

Sally Rooney: "By standing in solidarity with Palestine, we are learning how to fight for life on earth"

This is ambitious, beautiful, and essential.

Can't wait to read this.

I read your book in portuguese

Memoirs, fam. The social media of books.

would read!

And there is a fascinating, subversive, microeconomic reason why the second person is the focus of text-centered, narrative digital games.

there is a macroeconomic reason novels are not written in the third person anymore and it is not good

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I'm more hopeful than ever after visiting the National Civil Rights Museum.

Those people, including the recently passed Reverend Jackson, understood the long game of using the levers of democracy.

I wrote my thoughts from today so far here:
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“What are we pretending not to know today?”
—Toni Cade Bambara

People with no track record of turning Black voters out should have no sway in the 2028 campaign. You have to have a strategy that leverages community connections and engagement. Period.

The orange felon seen saluting the US soldiers he sent to death in an illegal war that no-one wanted and that Congress did not approve. In act of entirely expected disrespect, he is wearing a white baseball cap with USA in gold lettering on it. In the foreground soldiers carry a coffin. To the right is JD Vance (who has said virtually nothing since Trump started slaughtering schoolgirls). Cunts both.

Take the hat off you disrespectful bastard.

(📸 AP, Dover Air Force Base)

It shouldn’t be necessary to be the actual parent of a daughter in order to have the capacity to understand and then condemn the utter depravity of bombing a school and killing children.

#OTD: Today marks the 61st anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," the day in 1965 when #VotingRights marchers led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams were beaten by white lawmen in #Selma, #Alabama, as they attempted to march to the state Capitol in #Montgomery.

Today, #TheMarchContinues.

Mar. 7, 1965 | AL Law Enforcement Attacks Civil Rights Activists on 'Bloody Sunday' in Selma Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 1965, police brutally attacked hundreds of civil rights activists during a march in Selma, Alabama, now known as Bloody Sunday.

Cannot tell you how depressing it is to read that people are simply refusing to read nonfiction after you’ve worked really hard to write a nonfiction book you believe in, in case anyone is wondering why I’m posting so much about my book which comes out in a few weeks #BookSky

Indeed!!

Ghouls.

“We’re punching them while they’re down.” Who raised these goons?

YES!!

Was listening to Al Sharpton - a call out to our time! Geeta

A war is a war is a war!!

BEAUTIFUL!!

please admire my garlic cheesy bread.

this was my first attempt at making bread from scratch. i’m so happy with it lmao.

@propublica.org ’s series on vouchers in southern states has been a particular object of McMahon, DeVos & above all Heritage hatred.

Here’s an example of that reporting on former segregation academies getting taxpayer cash, with a couple comments from yours truly
www.propublica.org/article/segr...

Now this is a stomp down particular bit Black funeral and I’m here for it, every bit of it.

All of our living presidents who still have a sense of decency gathered to honor Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Respect recognizes respect.

Thank you so, so much for your kindness.